Amazingly enough, you have heard of him. He's a rising star in the Yakuza. Last you heard, he was just a leader of a small crew under a lieutenant, but he's been making some noises lately and it's possible he might be moving up soon.

There are no tattoos on this goon anywhere on his upper body.

Slipshade, understood, very much so. E-mail or PM me if you find you need a sounding board.

I'm also getting slowly back on track again. Sorry for delays for those affected. As noted on the group calendar, the mostly no on-line access days for me have shifted to Saturday/Sunday: hence regular karma begins again this Monday. (Another reason -- besides life -- that I've been falling behind is that with the return of the school year seems to have come a huge faculty/resident/student/staff rush for the three available on-line computers ... and I no longer have my nice, quiet Sundays to try to catch things up while everyone is away.)

Good to have you back, Moirdryd! and Eyes See you on the flip side of your trial, Cedric. And welcome to the new player (I'm still reading btw. I've webbed in sheer self defence!)

General Announcement

Let's all welcome an old GM but a new player, Grendel to the player side of things! Glad to see you as a player Grendel, I'm looking forward to watching you!

Scrap- Going to let you finish your discussion with Rosa before continuing. Sedna will be playing Rosa, so you're going to be working with her. Obviously the goon won't be answering anything while you're outside the room, so until you get back in there, you and Sedna are free to post.

Also, my stupid freaking cat knocked my computer tower over and now my computer at home is not functioning. I have a friend coming to look at it this weekend, and in a worse case scenario, he should be able to have it fully functioning again by Monday night. However, anything could happen. My internet access could be sporadic until I can get that resolved. Just letting you all know.

I feel like I'm standing next to a copy of War and Peace as well. Good writing!

Dude...did you guys ever read Sedna's early introduction? Between her and Grendel alone...yeesh.

Wait Eyes, are you extremely free on Thursday? I put it to Friday so you aren't frozen in place while I try to catch everyone up. At least this way you could advance to sometime on Friday while everyone's being moved along.

As for the 'no pressure' part, well, now all you have to do is live up to your hype.

Sedna- Need a little help translating your city speak (which is good city speak, btw!)

Mostly it's throwing you because she's also talking so as not to convey all the information to Grifter So she's also referencing discussions during their earlier meets, without being specific: and what's in the brackets indicate the direction of some of those earlier discussions. Because she -- as that mix of Alleycat and Sedna/Anne -- is trying to bring across condensed information about a future operation, it's also a variant of cityspeak that's flirting with milspeak.

Translation:

"We're data-short"

You remember we never got the data we were looking for from our previous decker, that we'd specified during the earlier meets? (Things such as everything we could find out about Alexander and his sister? and all the other stuff we talked about [back in the Salvation thread, beyond what Alleycat had been able to pull up]? Surely someone must have dealt with Mr Fan before: does he have a rep?)

"sic the early guy on it"

You mentioned two possibilities, maybe you could try to get a lead on someone less reliable earlier in the week ("the early guy"), with the more likely person available Friday or Saturday ("Man Friday"). (Like I'd said during the meets, we need as much data as possible asap.) If you do manage to get someone earlier on, set them on the data trail.

"one-off only."

But that's the only job we'll give them, since you'd just said anyone you could get earlier on would probably be less reliable. We just want the information from that one, nothing else.

"That one's all yours."

You know the scene better than I do. If you think you can get someone earlier to do the info searches, go for it, negotiate it directly, don't need to clear it through me.

And from there it goes to the meet set-up, as you'd already caught.

Eyes- Yeah, that would work. I also left myself some leeway because I wasn't sure how fast you'd be moving, so I didn't want to schedule something that doesn't jell with your character's timetable. You want to post something, maybe a 'flashback' style post, of getting a call and the meet set up for Friday/Saturday?

I can give you the information and you can post Eyes 'reflecting' on it, maybe even do a little digging if you want. This will also give you something to post on for a while to keep you occupied while the others catch up without freezing you. If that sounds all right to you, we'll talk to Grendel and work out the details.

Sedna- Great job playing Rosa. In three posts, you've already done a much better job bringing her to life than I was. Now I'm curious to see how this relationship dynamic plays itself out.

Sounds great to me. Look forward to hearing from you.

Ok, I am back to posting again. I will update soon. Hopefully today. Does anyone know if Blaze's player is still around or is Blaze now a NPC?

Slip

Slip-
Welcome back. AFAIK, Blaze is an NPC for now.

-S

Slip- Go ahead and write some flavor post if you want, but do NOT write past 15:00:00. If you don’t have anything you plan on writing, let me know and I’ll bump you to 15:00:00 and write the post that occurs then.

Sedna, Scrap- Think that post for Sedna catches me up with the two of you for the time being, let me know if there’s anything you need.

Eyes- Email to Grendel will be en route later this afternoon, once he responds to me, I’ll take you over/send you info/work with you as he and I work out.

"Yes."

Grendel, wow! Dude, I love the intro, the writing is outstanding. It feels very much like much of the Shadowrun novels. I can't wait to see your next post.

WR1 - I posted to approx: 14:30:00, go ahead and update

Thanks for the kudos, guys.

WR1 - I just recieved SR4 in the mail last week, I may attempt to transfer Max over to the new rules, to see how he turns out. Do you want me to send you a copy of him when I am done?

Slip

Slip- Post is up, you're up.

As far as SR 4, we are in the process of finalizing our conversion procedures, I just sent out an email to the GM staff a couple days ago with the draft versions of the conversion procedure. I'd hold off serious conversion right now, in the next few days the announcement and procedures should be up, so may as well save yourself some work for now at least.

Sedna- I felt that was what she'd say, it was the best I could think of.

Eyes- I talked to Grendel and we worked out the details. I'll be taking over as your GM for the time being. I'll post something later today when I get a chance for James.

WR1 - Wow that was fast. I didn't expect to here anything for a couple months. Good job.

Ok, I will wait.

Wait on the conversion, not the post! And yeah, ever since SR 4 was released at GenCon, we've been working on it. Took us about this long too, so it's a good thing we didn't delay.

WR1 - I understood. I will have the post up a little later. I will likely write it during my lunch hour. I did notice that they added SINner as a flaw, so I will be adding that to Max's character.

Sedna - You had Rosie tell Scrap that Max wouldn't need a shaman specifically for the ritual he is planning, but from what I understand even a spotter has to be of the same tradition as the other members of the ritual in order for it to work. Did I miss something?

Slip- I knew you understood. I just couldn't resist cracking a bad joke. I need something to make me laugh, and we've had some pretty good ongoing jokes in the LITS universe. Ya gotta take some falls if you try to be a comedian.

Kind of like the old joke.

Stooge 1: I heard something interesting on the radio.

Stooge 2: Really what is it?

Stooge 1: A thing with with nobs and dials that you listen too, but that's not important right now.

Ba-dum-dum.

or


Stooge 1: Surely your not serious.

Stooge 2: Of course I'm serious and don't call me Shirley.

Striker was the squadron leader, but he couldn't handle it.

Buddy couldn't handle it? Was Buddy one of the crew?

Right. Buddy was the bombardier. But it was Striker who couldn't handle it, and he went to pieces.

Andy went to pieces?

No. Andy was the navigator. He was all right. Buddy went to pieces. It was awful how he came unglued.

Howie came unglued?

Oh, no. Howie was a rock, the best tailgunner in the outfit. Buddy came unglued.

And he bailed out?

No. Andy hung tough. Buddy bailed out. How he survived, it was a miracle.

Then Howie survived?

No, 'fraid not. We lost Howie the next day.

Over Macho Grande?

No. I don't think I'll ever get over Macho Grande. Those wounds run pretty deep.

"Excuse me stewardess, I speak Jive"

Grendel - Very Impressive

"Hang loose blood she gonna catcha on the rebound, with da Medici."

"Yo yo mama, I dug her rap."

"Cut me some slack jack."

**fast Jive talk ensues**

"Chump don't want no help, chump don't get no help. Jive @$$ fool ain't got no brains anyhow."

Man that movie was hilarious.


"Roger over. Over done."

"Give me a vector Victor."

Oh my goodness…I’ve started an epidemic!

On a more business-like note, Slip and Scrap- It’s pretty obvious Scrap might take a while longer to catch up in RL, since he has to finish his conversation with Rosa and then his interrogation of the goon.

Why don’t you two decide OOC if you want to let Scrap/John play through his stuff IC and then catch up with Max to meet the Wongs, or if you want to say that Max goes to meet the Wongs without John (although he can of course call to tell Max to go on without him). After you two decide, we’ll proceed, since I don’t want to post Max forward if we’re going to say he waits for John before leaving.

I’ll tell you both as a GM I’m perfectly fine with either of those options, it’s entirely up to you two and the posting pace you want to set.

Slip-
PM sent.

WR1-
Would you say that I have a contact number for my Mr. Ueda contact? Or is that someone I would have to contact in person?

WR1 - I am ok with waiting. Work is still very busy right now. I will just keep watching and maybe work on a few other things until Scrap catches up.

Scrap- You have a contact number, but it's not direct to him, it's one of his flunkies, sorta like a secretary.

No, Slipshade, you didn't miss anything

Sunday karma (three weeks! sorry about that):

bandit: 1 (+1 GM bonus) [September 26 - October 02] + 1 (+1 GM bonus) [October 03 - 09] +1 (+1 GM bonus) [October 10 - 17] = 6
grendel: 1 (+1 GM bonus) (+2 quality bonus) [October 10 - 17] = 4
ronin: 1 [September 26 - October 02] + 1 [October 03 - 09] +1 [October 10 - 17] = 3
WinterRat: 1 (+1 GM bonus) [September 26 - October 02] + 1 (+1 GM bonus) [October 03 - 09] +1 (+1 GM bonus) [October 10 - 17] = 6


* Taking it through the 17th (Monday), because that will be the usual day for assigning karma from now on.

And now, to see if I can manage to get a post up yet tonight -- but first, to finish the editing. Need ... physad power ... Multitasking ...

Opps Sedna. . . either I really earned 12 karma . . . or one of those "bandit's" should read "winterrat".

(Please oh please let me have earned 12 karma )

(Edited it appropriately.)

Sedna- You're free to post btw, since I didn't explicitly state that.

And ya know, not to be sexist or anything, but sometimes you just need a woman to play a woman. I swear, I feel like I have a better picture of Rosa in Sedna's last couple of posts than all the time I've spent thinking about and trying to develop her character in my mind. And I like Sedna's picture of Rosa a lot better than mine too. I just have to take my hat off to you.

Grendel- I reread your posts...you know, Vedic just oozes 'dark'. Not necessarily bad, or evil, but DARK. Those +2 quality points were well earned. And did anyone else find it slightly...disturbing that 'Toy' was in bold, because that's Vedic's name for Lilith? At least sometimes, it seems. A very good touch though Grendel, it definitely drove the nature of their relationship home.

PS- Hope I didn't offend any RL Ashlee Simpson fans out there (if we even have any in LITS) Anyone? Anyone? *looks around to see if anyone's raising their hand*

Karma awards for my players:

Shadowrunner13: 1 pt (Oct 12th - Oct 18th)
Bastard: 1 pt (Oct 12th - Oct 18th)
Bclements: 2 pts (Oct 12th - Oct 18th)
The Eyes: 1 pt (Oct 12th - Oct 18th)

And that's the scary part. I don't doubt that for a second.

Karma (3 weeks: Sep 29 - Oct 20)

Sedna: 3 + 1 GM + 1 quality = 5
Scrap: 3 + 2 quality = 5
Slip: 3 + 1 quality = 4

Eyes- You're up, in case you didn't see the post buried between Grendel and BC's posts.

Writing now, incidentally.

This is about the only time I get during the day to do any writing at all, at least on weekdays. We don't actually get web access at work ( )--not that I have time for it there anyway--and various other issues keep me busy during the day. (Looking for a better job is one of them )

I'll get a response up before going to bed.

(Edit): Heh, and then later that same day I end up waking early and writing again, at a completely different time. Guess fate's being funny with me.

Don't use the word pinchecabra around anyone from Mexico or Belize. It's an invictive, but not one used in polite company.

Moirdryd: Let me know your actions. Neither of the two gangers makes any move towards Knight at the moment.

Karma awards for my players

Two weeks worth:
Cedric: 2 (Oct 3rd - Oct 16th)
Moirdryd: Your karma count begins again this week, with plenty of time for some posting fun!

WR1-
I left it there in case said flunky has anything to add. If not, I'll continue tomorrow.