Slip- No stun and 2 boxes of physical damage, IIRC, but i could be wrong and it could just be wrong. Either way, yes, you are correct about getting 8 hours of sleep straight. No more GM nastiness planned. At least not for the next 8 hours.

Everyone else- Bah! What's a little snow here and there? I remember driving home on the highway with visibility about 10 feet and a good 8 or so inches on the ground. They shut down the ENTIRE 90/94 highway in Indiana, from end to end, that's how bad it was. Unfortunately, live in those conditions long enough and you get used to it.

It was wacked driving home for Thanksgiving too, every 100 meters or so you'd see cars off the road in ditches cause they skidded right off. Felt like I was in a semi-post-apocalyptic snow covered wasteland.

EDIT: And I just realized, what does it say about us that we've been posting about the WEATHER on the thread?

In my case, it says that I got really sick when I noticed there's warnings out today for lake effect snow. Enough, already!

(For my players, I'll do a twofold karma this weekend.)

For the Combat Inc duo plus one, that takes everyone up to Dragon's current time (~:43). Feel free to fast-forward (Next on-line: Friday.)

how far can/should we fast forward? I realize that you might not be able to answer that before move ahead, so we'll do what we plan on doing, and if there's a problem, we'll do what we always do and fix it.

You should be clear through at least tomorrow afternoon, within the provisos mentioned earlier.

Ronin- Write yourself into the dinner and discussion, unless you have something else you'll be posting before arriving. May as well actually have a conversation among the three of us to kill some time instead of just having Dragon and Virgil talk, and then saying, 'and then they fill in Daedalus'. Besides, in the discussion some stuff might come up we didn't think of before or saw differently. Plus, since Sedna's sporadic, it'll give us something to post so she can read something entertaining (we hope) when she gets back.

You might have noticed that the standard storyline links haven't been updated in about a month. That's because I'm transferring the site (I've discovered Mp limits to Geocities, and I did have other files I'm developing there ) and at the same time I'm overhauling the LitS coding.

In the meantime, both of these are stopgap links to the most up-to-date versions currently available that aren't in the thread itself:
Run Index
Storyline Index

I'm behind in these too, but not as badly.

WinterRat-
I assume this means that Keira doesn't have a computer to find?

She does. You just didn't find anything useful on it. What you do from there's up to you.

Ugh, that sounded much less stupid in my head. Ah well, neither of us--me nor my character--are very good speakers, so I guess it'll have to do.

WinterRat-
Can John see any security personnel, or measures? Anything? I want to drive around the building if possible, though I doubt there is an alley or anything behind it. Noting the number of exits, cars in the lot, etc. You know, case the joint.

Give me a stealth roll, but only if you choose to drive around the building. Basically you're outside the whole 'office park' complex. You can choose to drive around the clinic itself for a closer look if you like (in other words, the road allows it and there's no visible security stopping you) but if you do, give me a stealth roll. Otherwise, you can't see much more than the front entrance through all the trees and other buildings. It isn't a very linear office park, set up to be aesthetically pleasing more than easy to navigate, as most such office parks are.

And in case that wasn't clear, there's no visible security personnel or measures. It's a quiet, peaceful, happy little office park.

Here you go:

All righty, as of right now I'm not sure what my net access is going to look like until the beginning of next week. I'll be on steady after Tuesday, though, and I should be able to check in a few times between now and then.

Be safe, everyone, and I'll do my best to keep you updated.

I know the feeling

Looks like not one of my players left me anything yet to do. Should I feel unwanted?

ronin, Daedalus knows that cell number is only a message drop. If you're planning on using it again, don't write in an answer or even no answer: that one has to wait for me.

Heh, that just means I have time to catch up on my reading.

(Edit): Oh, and for the record, I don't know about my character, but that little business card has done more to intimidate *me* than any and all of the death threats, dire warnings, or the dead guy with an tungsten-core round taken through his chest through an armored wall. Well okay maybe not that last one, but still !

WinterRat1 -

Well, I probably won't be giving you to much until Scrapheap makes it to 8:00pm in his posting...unless I throw in a dream sequence of some sort, but you wouldn't have to reply to that unless you wanted to, so that is one less person to worry about for a bit.

I am leary about jumping ahead to the meet right now, in case I get a call from Scrap before 8:00pm rolls around.

Slip

Just as a note on that thought- Even if he did call you for help, you'd still be going in with quite a few injury mods, and seeing as how Max isn't exactly built for long, sustained combats while shrugging off injury, it isn't a bad thing to go right to the meet.

Since he'll be calling you after the meet anyway, unless Scrapheap wants to do something between checking the place out and the later meeting with you (and especially if he does!) you probably want to keep the pace moving forward.

It's up to you, though I recommend discussing with Scrapheap. That would help keep us all on approximately the same pace and remove the 'one player on, one player off' thing. Still, however you two want to work it is fine with me.

Well, from our conversation Scrap seems to want to avoid doing anything until after my meet, so I will move on to that and hope he doesn't get himself into to much trouble, though I am guessing he is much better prepared for it than Max is.

Slip

Sunday karma

bandit: 1 (+1 GM bonus) (May 16-22) + 1 (+1 GM bonus) (May 23-29) = 4
Tiredronin: 1 (May 16-22) + 1 (May 23-29) = 2
WinterRat: 1 (+1 GM bonus) (May 16-22) + 1 (+1 GM bonus) May 23-29) = 4

Sunday Karma Awards

Cedric: [May 23-May 29] 1pt
Moirdryd: [May 23-May 29] 1pt

Just wanted to wish everyone a happy Memorial Day (now that it's over half done)

General fyi: after today, I'm not on-line again before Friday.

paul: whatever you write, I'll coordinate to it on Friday/Saturday. I think I'm a few hours ahead of you still (even after time reconciliation you'd still be at 20:20:29), but I can easily fill them (or not) as needed.

WinterRat: it's possible the Melissa thought might require some feedback from you. Basically, it's just hit Alleycat that maybe someone in the area might have seen something, so she'll go to that building and area after she finishes her session with Tarq and basically start looking for squatters and asking questions. (Longcoat + ultravest. Predator (shoulder holster) + taser in pocket.) Write it up if you feel it appropriate.

Anticipatory rolls (probably at TN +1 or +2, after the Tarq session):

Perception (to spot locals in the area who might have a vested interest in remaining hidden): 3, 3, 2, 2, 2, 1, 1, 1
Yikes. Maybe she does end up with a black eye. Karma reroll: 8, 8, 4, 3, 3, 2, 1, 1 (better)

Etiquette: 3, 2, 2
I'm part-defaulting off CH for the Leadership roll: 7, 5, 4, 4, 3, 1, 1, 1
Karma reroll: 10, 5, 5, 5, 3, 3, 3, 2 (that leaves one karma pool point until it refreshes at dawn)
Full-default off CH for Interrogation: 17, 13, 7, 5, 3, 2, 1, 1
And of course the Psychology secondary skill: 10, 10, 9, 5, 2, 2, 2

All of which doesn't help one bit if there's no one around.

Ah. So that's why it's so slow. Wishing everyone who has the holiday nice weather, then

that's fine, he's going to go to sleep after setting up an alarm to wake him if the watcher returns and then get ready for the meeting the next day/ the plan for the next day.

Karma awards for my players:

Shadowrunner13: 1 pt (May 25th - May 31st)
Ecclesiastes: 1 pt (May 25th - May 31st)
Bastard: 2 pts (May 25th - May 31st)
Bclements: 2 pts (May 25th - May 31st)
The Eyes: 2 pts (May 25th - May 31st)
Morgannah: 1 pt (May 25th - May 31st)

WinterRat/Slipshade-
Whoa. Sorry for the long delay in posts. I'm putting a tile floor in my kitchen IRL, and it's only taking about 3 times as long as expected. I'm glad to be back to work today so I can rest!

Slip-
As far as contacting Max, John is waiting to hear from him. From what he could see, Max needs all the rest he can get.

WinterRat-
I'll send you a PM with some info.

Hope all LitS players had a great weekend.

Yep Sedna, Memorial Day was likely the reason for the recent lull in posting. I know that in my family it is a highly important holiday because my family has a history of military service. Which reminds me, to any LiTS players who are currently serving or are veterans . . .Thank you so much for all that you sacrifice, you truly are the life-blood of this country.

Now back to work . . .

Moirdryd: Nothing is going to happen to Knight for the moment so you may post freely until about 22:00, you will not here back from Portia until then. Since her plan was to bring you to a trendy club, you may want to consider a change of clothes, seeing as I believe Knight is still wearing the outfit that he came to Seattle wearing

Perception for Eyes, please, as he scans the building.

My people

I believe that currently no one is waiting on me?

Paul- Sleeping
Sedna- Training
Scrapheap- Making a phone call
Digital- Away on leave
Slip- You're the only one who might be? I wasn't sure by your post if you were waiting on me or not, I was under the impression I was waiting on you.

If any of these perceptions are wrong and you're waiting me, just let me know and I'll post for you. Thanks!

The only thing I'm waiting on is any sort of response from my watcher. If that's not going to happen until the morning I'll go ahead and post Blaze going to sleep. If it will happen before then let me know so I can post apropriately for that event.

Sure thing



Oh, and I think you mean the 5 freeway. The 405 doesn't go through downtown Seattle; it actually goes through Bellvue (Google Maps == God. ). The coordinates are actually right off the 5.

Paul- No response from the watcher, I apologize if you were waiting on that, I probably should have told you OOC.

Everyone- I've been informed that 'online' I have the feel of being 'suddenly very busy'. I apologize for that, there are two main reasons, one obvious, the other not so obvious. I unexpectedly went out of town for Memorial Day weekend, so that is the obvious one, since I think most people were busy the last couple days.

The not so obvious one is that I've been hit with some unexpected medical problems, and I've been pretty sick. I had to go to the doctor's office twice and I just got back from an upper endoscopy procedure (did I spell that right medical people?) today. So I've been pretty messed up physically, and running around making sure my insurance information and all that is in order while trying to get work done and go to the doctor's and what not.

I apologize if it's caused me to be a bit slow on Dumpshock. I didn't think the problem was that bad and was trying to 'tough it out' and it has since ended up costing me in the long run. So I'm working myself out of it, trying to get healthy and then getting caught back up, since I'll be really slow if I'm in the hospital.

Like I posted a little bit ago, if you're waiting on me for something, it's probably got lost in the shuffle, just let me know what you're waiting on and I'll get back to you ASAP. Thanks!

Jeez, man! I hope that isn't as bad as it sounds? Don't worry about us or seeming busy, just take care.

Dude, get well (and yes, that is how you spell endoscopy. Hopefully, it wasn't too bad...). This is just a game, your health (and everyone else's) is far more important.

WinterRat1 - Your health is paramount man. Take care of yourself. As for me, yes I was waiting on you to describe what I see when I pull up to the club, but I guess I did leave it somewhat open for interpretation. Just post something when you get around to it.

Thanks and get well,

Slip

Winterrat - Thanks, and don't worry about me waiting, it wasn't a big ting. Beyond that make sure you get healthy again, kinda hard for you to do anything (SR related or otherwise) while sick.

Karma Awards (5/18-6/2; 2 weeks worth)

Sedna- 2 + 1(quality) + 2(GM) = 5
Paul- 2 = 2
Scrapheap- 2 + 1(quality) = 3
Slipshade- 2 + 1(quality) = 3

Paul- You're clear to sleep and wake up tomorrow. However, you get a feeling, and the knowledge, that the watcher you sent out has been banished/destroyed. You may choose to not sleep as a result of this knowledge, or to sleep anyway. Just let me know what you'll be doing and go ahead and post.

If I get that feeling I'm going to spend 3 hours (Hlaf the possible time) searching the barrens in the astral. I'll go ahead and make an astral perception test now, and post starting the search shortly.

Perception(Astral): 08 05 05 04 02 01

let me know if that actually gets me anything (Although I suspect it does not.)

Roll me some computer skill for Eyes, please, as he attempts to dissect the code on the chip.

Right.

First, foremost, and maybe only: try to feel better soon, WinterRat? I think it just seemed amplified since in your absence, not one of the Combat Inc duo plus one had posted IC own-character ... so the feeling of general busy-ness wasn't just you. Whatever else, don't get stressed out over this: we'll muddle along somehow until you sort things out with your body/mind/spirit/social/emotional. (Hey, that seems somehow familiar )

ok, First things first, Assensing test. Main focus is on his reletive magic rating and his emotional state. That should be only 2 or three successes needed (can't remember which)

Assencing: 10 05 04 04 02 01

I don't know what TN modifiers there are but that should be enough to get at least general emotional state and most likely his reletive power.

If it's hostile he'll ready for combat if not he'll let him go by and then follow from a slight distance, trying to be reletively unobtrusive about it.

Of course we all know the *real* reason he kept the chip was because I don't want grendel hitting me with an orbital cow.

Today turned out to be a few minutes only, not enough to get anything here done or any further e-mails answered. Off-line until Tuesday, which should be a better day. Karma will be another two-week combination, given out on the 12th.