Understood, paul.

Is it sufficient, WinterRat, or will I be forced to stamp on his instep with my heel? And if no meeting materialises in that amount of time (and if you're okay with it, paul), can you write us that far forward? Of course we're both still looking for any trace of the signatures we spotted

sounds fine to me, but if the ork doens't leave from the stepping on him Blaze will intervene, and that won't be pleasent, for anyone involved..

Sunday Karma:

bandit: 1 (+1 GM bonus) = 2
Sentinel: 1 (+1 for the floorplans) = 2
WinterRat: 1 (+1 quality; +1 GM bonus) = 3

I'm sorry -- yesterday ended up being webbing catch-up day. I'll try to get that one post properly edited today. Fortunately it's not immediately in play.

You know, I'd think about giving up and just calling it "Monday karma" ... but then we'd probably start giving it out on Tuesdays.

Cybered, bio'ed, Awakened (even if that last doesn't show)? And do I recognise anything about him/his aura? (I'm in a good position to gaze at him.)

Karma awards for my players:

Shev: 1 pt (Jan. 17th-24th)

Shadowrunner13: 1 pt (Jan. 17th-24th)

Morgannah: 1 pt (Jan. 17th-24th)

I got called for jury duty today (Tuesday). I will be gone most of the day and will probably spend most of the night catching up on the course work that I was forced to miss. I wanted to let you know since I do not think I will be able to post until Wed. morning.

Fun, Fun, Fun.

Sunday Karma

Paul: 1 (+1 quality) = 2
Sedna: 1 (+1 quality; +1 GM bonus) = 3

Sedna- Should I post the decontamination scene in a similar manner to bandit's, or are you going to do it for me? Also, please let me know the feedback of the biomonitor and self-diagnosis processor.

Give me a sec, I'm just writing it

Sedna- will you be posting the decontamination scene or should I?

Whoops -- I'm sorry, go ahead and write it. (I'd confused it with the info you asked for.)

Sedna and Paul- I'm letting you two take it from here for now.

Did the elf assense as moderately or more cybered, WinterRat? There is a slight difference in movement between wired/bio/physad: was any of that noticeable? For that matter, anyone else who "doesn't fit" in and around the dancefloor and/or tables?

Oh, and the card's getting put away in a side pocket inside the purse, so as to preserve fingerprints.

Sedna- Many of the crowd doesn't 'fit in' with the party sect. It's rather odd, but there's a disproportionally large amount of 'unusual' characters in here. And no, he does not assense as having moderate or more cyber. And he does not assense as magical to you either.

That last, we've all got a possible explanation for

I've fast-forwarded a bit -- hope that's okay with both of you? If not, I'll edit. paul, Alleycat's not responding outside "Alianna" for the foreseeable future. If Blaze is confused or frustrated by this, she'll show him the card, with a sharp shake of her head.

wait, just for clarification, Alleycat is only going to respond with a normal response if Blaze calls her Alianna for a while, in case the card is bugged I presume, ok, got it. Just curious, how far did you fast forward us, to the exit, or just into the backroom/stage?

At least until after the groupie-ism, unless you really wanted to see Alianna fawning over the band leader. Beyond that, take it as you see fit

WinterRat: I'm scanning in the front and back of the card (straight number recognition). Flushing a toilet is almost cliché, and maybe about as effective ... but is there anything environmental and/or quick Alleycat can think of that might:

1) temp-disrupt a listening device enough to allow talk,
2) confuse a homing beacon?

IN (partial default electronics): 11, 8, 5, 5, 4, 4, 4, 2
Security procedures: 1, 1 (okay, for sure I've never heard of anything like that in that context; at least it's only a complementary skill ...?)

(Hmm ... needing a missing KN skill here, but don't know how it should be worded: "environmental improvisation" maybe? With your approval, about to spend karma to open it.)

And now to e-mail

just so long as I know where I'm writing from, well, starting writing from.

It's pretty loud in the club. If they're relying on that card (assuming they, whoever 'they' are are actually using said card...) then it would be pretty dicey for them to assume they'd hear clearly. And you find nothing electronical about the card. And you can't think of anything that would impair a homing beacon.

I figured that I'd post this hear so that Sedna can correct me if need be. Winterrat, in your last post you stated that both Virgil and Tiffany are in exam #2, but it should be only Virgil there because Tiffany went off to tape the girl we just brought to the clinic.

Please set me straight if I have goofed

Hey, it's only unfounded paranoia if you don't have Enemies

bandit, you're right, Tiffany's gone taping; but the way it's worded, it could be that only half the question was answered. And in the exam room itself, Dragon only found Virgil and a very tired Galina, not Tiffany.

I didn't screw it up guys. I knew Tiffany went somewhere else, but the guy Dragon talked to didn't. Just a bit of role-playing there of some confusion, but Dragon doesn't really care, he's looking for Virgil anyway. Sorry for the mixup, it's my bad.

grendel, has the cab Tenmou called arrived yet?

The cab will be late, arriving around 1535.

I've saved a few other items out of the purse. For now, they're tucked into the pockets of the ultravest I've retrieved from under the motorcycle seat (along with the Predator).

Re the Dragon/Virgil storyline: I'm waiting on the two of you?

Sunday karma:

bandit: 1 (+1 GM bonus) = 2
Sentinel: 1
WinterRat: 1 (+1 GM bonus) = 2

Karma awards for my players:

Shev: 1 pt (Jan. 25th-Feb. 1st)

Shadowrunner13: 2 pt (Jan. 25th-Feb. 1st)

Morgannah: 1 pt (Jan. 25th-Feb. 1st)

Two questions for Winterrat:

First, do you want me to make the drain test for that spell?

Second, what time was the meet supposed to be, and would you like us to post it in the Salvation thread?

To my players: karma tomorrow, last two days had to review some characters, sorry. (behind...)

Paul, your questions.

1. I'm assuming you threw a very low force spell (like 1 or 2) since it was more of a 'for effect' spell than a 'to accomplish something spell' in which case you could easily blow all your spell pool and willpower on a TN of 2 and get no drain...so don't waste your time, unless it was a high powered spell.

2. Did you really just throw a fireball into the air in a random direction?

3. Which particular meet are you referring to? The meet with the rest of the Salvation crew? If that's the one, it's whenever you all set it for, I didn't really have a hand in (nor do I particularly care) what time it is, so whatever you feel is approrpiate, although I'd discuss it with Sedna, as the only other currently active Salvation player.

4. Yes, post the meet in the Salvation thread please.

in order,

1. ok

2. yes, although more of a shooting is straight into the air than in a random direction, to pretty much anyone watching it would be like seeing a firework going off without as much sound. Blaze lives in a low area, C at the top, it's not something that's going to become a major scene, even where I live, (B for Shadowrun equvilent) a firework going off will cause a few raised heads, but no real "investigation".

long story short, yes, yes He did just throw a Fireball up into the air.

3. the Salvation one, I know we had already set a time, now I just have to find what time it was.

4. and coming full circle, ok.

Karma

Paul-2
Sedna- 2 +1 GM bonus = 3

Good quality guys, Paul, thanks for taking our discussion to heart, I liked the insights Blaze has offered us into his soul this week.

Welcome to the shadows, Knight

Thanks Senda, looking forwards to a long and enjoyable stay.

Sedna,

In regards to your previous instructions not to rush through the clinic, will you be posting the lead-in for Virgil and Dragon interviewing the woman we brought in earlier, or should we?

Oh, and just for communication's sake, I'll let you make your pitch to Hobbes regarding the purse and everything in it, since she doesn't know about it yet, it would be difficult for her to bring it up.

Is that enough of a lead-in? I'll try to get the pitch written up next, don't know if I'll be able to get it done now though.

Sunday karma

bandit: 1 (+1 GM bonus) = 2
Sentinel: 1
WinterRat: 1 (+1 GM bonus) = 2

Sunday Karma

Paul-1
Sedna- 2+1 GM bonus = 3

Alleycat is going to tell more about the envelope and Blaze and cousin etc etc, given the slightest prompting. In fact, she's probably going to tell everything. I just couldn't figure out how to work it in there.

Karma awards for my players:

Shadowrunner13: 1 pt (Feb 2nd - Feb 8th)

I probably should've posted this before my last post, but merely forgot . . .sorry. Here is Virgil's aura reading rolls on the women. I'm sure there is a background count of 1 or 2 at this clinic.

aura reading (comp.): 05 05 03 02
astral perception: 07 05 04 04 04 03 02

They're not amazingly great, but then again she's a very uncomplicated person. Oh, and there's actually a positive background count in this clinic (+1).

"Johnson" here refers to Legoran (contact). (It seems to have been an "ah --" day.)

my aplolgies for not having responded recently, I haven't dropped off, just been busy, I'm going to go ahead and write up Blaze's morning some time tomorrow, and after that we need to find the salvation thread so that I can post ariving at the meet.

WinterRat's linked everything into the first post of the LitS IC thread (and all the OOC threads into the LitS OOC thread), so finding anything is easy.

As soon as I'm finished whatever WinterRat has in mind for this section, I'll cut forward to the meet as well.

"her" refers to Mara.

Btw what's our standard color coding? I'd thought yellow referred only to transducer telephone calls but that might have been the context of its introduction, but now it's referring to all calls? I've been using Courier for Matrix/PMs/answering machines?

Good question actually, because I only used yellow because it was easy to read. I was using it for 'mental thought/telepathy' type communications (which using a transducer radio basically is). But since you bring it up, any suggestions for various situations like this which may arise?

Oh, and feel free to cut to the meet with Blaze at any time. You can't really force dealing with the voice, so you may as well go about life...with a MUCH larger dose of paranoia, of course.

Sedna - Would Andie have known what force strength the wards were for the shop and the immediate work area??

Also, are there any other provisions in this "rental agreement" that I need to be aware of??

Is the mana surge still occurring in the immediate area of the shop or is it over??

Thanks.

You're just getting the last ripples and "echo effect" of whatever passed through last night, although even this is enough to make a circulation cranky. Of course, there's nothing guaranteeing that something else of the sort might not pass through at any time: prediction of these things is less certain than weather forecasts.

Unless Andie was cutting corners (something he was usually caught at and made to do right -- "mind like a steel trap" ), the wards were usually as strong as was possible for the person making them. Sometimes there just wasn't the time at one point, and then the temporary wards were only as strong as time then allowed, to be reinforced with stronger ones as soon as possible.

There isn't anything official saying that wards have to be maintained separately around the workshop area. After all, you two don't have a written contract, just a verbal request and agreement.

However, Sara always has maintained such doubled wards in the past, has always simply expected Andie to do it whenever she asked before; and has made it clear that she expected Andie to do the same while he was still using her facilities. She would have been surprised had he seriously objected: she sees it as a common sense thing and ultimately in his own self-interest. It wouldn't even have been a big issue if Andie had followed up at all, within the limits of what was possible at the time.

Other common sense things which wouldn't have been explicitly stated would be that Andie doesn't disturb anything else in the room, that he keep an eye out for the shop in case Sara has to step away for a few minutes (although apparently she's made different arrangements when there's an extended absence), that he put out fires or fix plumbing where he spots something that could endanger the shop, etc etc.

Short form: she's probably assuming that as her former student and current sponsored would-be business owner, Andie has the least bit of self-interest-based loyalty toward her, and consequently toward her facilities / the shop.

I know everyone always has mixed opinions about this day, but that doesn't change the fact that I would like to wish all of you in LiTS a . . .

Happy Valentine's Day

Sunday Karma

Moirdryd: 1 pt (Feb 4th - Feb 13th)