Oh and Sedna and Bandit- No impatience or irritation or anything remotely negative with either of you. That's just Dragon's thoughts, not his player. Just a friendly clarification so no misinterpretations.

Behold the typical North American low-Cha gamer. Notice how he flounders about while attempting to emulate the decently high Cha of his chosen persona, in a way that few other player/persona matches can emulate.

(Edit) Now observe as he natters blithely on about his own incompetence, defacing himself for no good reason.

Of course, much of that floundering about is because I've currently got the understanding and comprehension abilities of a gnat ... and I'm his GM, he's got to write it to my level

Grendel- Here are my rolls for adding the Smartlink to the Pistol

Again, nothing towards you Bandit, I know you've been out of town and are catching up. But come one, Dragon doing all the talking in a tense spot? You just knew he was gonna be thinking that.

Sorry Winterrat and Sedna, your posts moved too fast for me to catch up at the moment. Virgil is in the game now! I also have more conversation to do based on Kiki's next move.

Karma awards for my players:

Cedric: 1pt (March 27th - April 3rd)
Moirdryd: 1pt (March 27th - April 3rd)

*psst* Zeyda's a he.

Sunday karma

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

Fyi only Dragon had the italicised perception. All Virgil saw in the Matrix was that single twitch.

A general ultra-teensy pet peeve, please don't anyone take it personally

I know "smirk" seems to be the Word du Jour ... but do those of you using it so frequently actually know what it means? Because it's not just another synonym for "smile" ... and at least for my players, if I took it at its actual connotation, you guys would be in a heck of a lot more trouble than you already are (Look it up on Dictionary.com.)

This post brought to you by the background webmistress, who's only mentioning it because she's been seeing it an average of once in every 3-4 posts (which seems rather a lot), and because there's an awful lot of NPCs out there who have at least some skill in reading others!

Well, I believe that I used it correctly? Scrapheap was self-satisfied with the lame joke he internalized. Though I didn't do a thorough search I can only find it in one or two other posts in both IC threads, so it must be some pet-peeve! Kind of like my own for people who say "supposeBly." Man, I hate that! Grrr!

Ps-WinterRat, I'll have a reply up soon.

Oops, link didn't work -- fixing it now. Yours is one of the more accurate uses, Scrapheap. However, the connotation is not only self-satisfaction, but (much more powerfully) "affectedness" -- hautiness, conceitedness.

Seeing your post, I got curious. Since I'm actively webbing and debugging for this part of today, I did a quick wordsearch count across the five random player pages I've currently got open. I came up with twenty-odd mentions. (So I over-estimated the frequency, previous post.) I'll also reinforce that yes, it is a personal pet peeve (I work heavily within connotation); and I'm a writer and editor, so these things tend to jump off the page at me.

Mentioned. Eased the gritting of teeth on my end. Over. Okay?

I'm pretty sure my use of the term wasn't wrong either, but I could be wrong (it was a *friendly* condescending self-assured smile! ). Like I said, I'm coming into this *looking* for criticism of my writing style, since I already know it's bad, so if you have anything to rant about in that regard please don't hesitate to rant to your heart's content; we'll all end up the better for it.

And I completely understand about the pet-peeves thing. Mine is "axe", as in "Can I axe you a question?" I've got a tutoring student who uses that all the time--a sixth-grader--and it grits my teeth each and every time I hear it, which is quite a lot considering I tutor him and he has lots of questions to "axe". My other little pet-peeve, mostly coming up in that other game, is over the difference between magical "enchantment" and "enhancement." It always irks me that people try to "enchant" their swords; how the hell do you cast a love spell over a sword? I don't give a damn what the book says, if you tell me you're enchanting your sword instead of enhancing it I'll have you waste a day casting Charm Person on it five times and wondering why it doesn't like you better.

Etiquette 4


How much do these things cost me then?

Heh. I feel like I'm re-enacting a Princess Bride routine: "I do not think that word means what you think it means". (Actually, in the subjective sense that word does: it describes a concept he literally can't conceive of. It's only when that's extrapolated into an objective "truth" that it breaks down and turns ironic.)

Ehn -- most of us aren't about to be Nobel Literature Prize laureates, but I've not encountered any bad writing in this thread yet, and I've seen quite a bit of good writing: and trust me, I've seen a lot of bad writing in "real" life, so I have a basis for comparison. I've said here before, and you guys will have noticed by now, that I'm quietly editing typos and things like "its/it's" as I'm translating thread to webpage; but I think I mentioned this here mostly because I can't change a word that's tone-important, not if it's to be a true translation. Also bear in mind that I'm reading each of your posts at least three or four times as I'm back- and cross-linking; so everything that's there becomes automatically magnified out of all proportion.

Interestingly enough, the pronunciation 'aks (an example of metathesis: two consonants next to each other switching places) has been considered a legitimate -- if "substandard" -- dialectic variant for quite some time now ... so long as it doesn't translate into spelling in "formal" English. (An interesting link) I'll venture a guess that your student is either mid/deep South American (call it a rectangle due south from Kentucky/Arkansas), or with strong Black inner city influences (and those seem to be cross-Atlantic!).

Ares Predator has an availability of 3/24 hours, a cost of 450 and a street index of .5. With 3 successes to acquire, it will be available in eight hours and cost you 225 .

The parts of an internal smartlink II have an availability of (weapon), a cost of (+150%) and a street index of (weapon). With 3 successes to acquire, they will be available in 8 hours and cost you 335 .

Karma guidelines are up in the Guidelines thread. I will fix it for more clarity tonight or tomorrow.

Paul, Sedna, Bandit, and myself- discuss with your GM retraoactively applying your training times for karma expenditure, since we're the only ones with enough karma and longevity to need to be 'grandfathered' in, such as it were. Paul, shoot me a PM if you have any questions. I have a lot of work to do today so I may not be able to really post or reply to people until tomorrow, just fyi.

Bclements, Ecclesiastes: Post as desired until reaching/entering the cemetary. I'll put up a setting post at that time so you know what the area is like and can decide on your entry tactics.

Ecclesiastes: if your looking for info on the gangs in the area, give me a computer roll for the search.

General Announcement

Hey Everyone! In case you haven't noticed, LITS has hit the 1000 post mark! In honor of our longevity, every player is awarded a congratulatory 1 karma point from the GM staff. Congratulations everyone, and may we hit 2000 soon!

WooHoo! Way to go everyone!

Heh, I have no idea if a snake bite is an appropriate drink for a raver bar. IRL I don't drink, can't actually, being allergic to the stuff (which really sucked when an old roommate was practicing to be a bartender , but I looked it up, saw the name "Snakebite" and was intrigued.

I don't know if its approporate or not, but ice in a beer? Dude

EDIT: Yay for everyone! Good job GM staff! (and other players!)

yay free karma, and it's just cause a campiagn like this is so much fun.

Info Search on stuff around the cemetery: 11 10 05 05 05 05 03 02

If the search is gunna take more than a few minutes, let me know and I'll edit my post that I go home to do the search.

Free karma never hurts.

WinterRat-
Negotiation roll to get that 50 down?

Clarification: She meant 50 total, which would include the 20 you already gave. Go ahead and post your negotiations in the IC thread as well, you can include that clarification I just put into the discussion as well if you feel the need/desire/appropriateness.

While I have some time, may as well do my Karma Awards as well:

Sedna: 2
Paul: 1
Digital: 1
Scrapheap: 1
Slipshade: 1

Note that that was for last week, not this week. I know I missed this sunday, so I figured I have time, i'll catch up. So especially for you Salvation players, fear not, your sudden revival of the thread (whew!) will not go unnoticed.

Karma awards for my players:

Shadowrunner13: 2 pts (Mar. 30th - Apr. 5th)
Ecclesiastes: 2 pts (Mar. 30th - Apr. 5th)
Bastard: 1 pt (Mar. 30th - Apr. 5th)
Bclements: 2 pts (Mar. 30th - Apr. 5th)
The Eyes: 2 pts (Mar. 30th - Apr. 5th)
Morgannah: 1 pt (Mar. 30th - Apr. 5th)

Negotiation 4 (Good Rep and Friendly Face)

Who are you negotiating with and what for?

Sedna and Winterrat:

I will be posting a response by Virgil to Kiki's latest statements, however I had bunch of meetings yesterday and a few more today so it may not be till the late afternoon that I have the time to put together something. Just FYI . . .not that I don't have any faith in Dragon's people skills

Given our current workload, 2-3 days turnaround, for us, is nothing

If something hasn't been mentioned at all in IC-post, in a sense it can't exist

Well he was asked for and made an Ettiquite roll a page back; I just presumed it's related to that.

*Temporary Absence Notice*

This absence will be so brief that I doubt it will be a bother, but it is a good habit to notify the LiTS community about even slight unavailabilites

From tomorrow evening (Friday April 8th) until Saturday night (April 9th) I will be out of town at a social obligation. Not work related, but an obligation just the same. Have a good weekend everyone!

P.S. One final round of congratulations to all of us LiTS members for eclipsing the 1000 post mark!

WinterRat1,

Hopefully I didn't push to far ahead with that post.

Here is my perception test when I get to the roof.

Perception 5: 08,05,03,03,01

I`d like to apologise for my slow posting over the past week or so. Mix of work, lack of time, brief lack of Internet connection and trying to catch up on all the other posts (i like to read whats going on around me as to have the feel of world consistency in my own posts). Fortunately I`m back (still catching up on story lines but hey) and posting will be returning to the more regular schedule.

for Bandit.

Astral perception on Cao Jaan

Aura Reading check; 4, 5, 1, 1

Astral percept (Int); 5, 6, 2, 1, 1

hopefully thats good for a total of 3 suxx.

Jon / Knight

grendel if you need it (and I don't know if you do):

Slipshade- Quickness (6) roll please.

Quickness (6)

3 Dice = 11, 03, 03

Slipshade- Dodge (4) test if you like. Or you can save them and use them on a body test to resist.

Dodge test: TN 4, limit of 50% of your Combat Pool (for each attacker, there are 2; see below), since you’re climbing a ladder and can pretty much only climb faster.

Body test: TN = 9-Impact Armor, Damage level S

Enemy attacker success rolls:
-Attacker 1: 3 successes
-Attacker 2: 2 successes

Let me know if you have any questions, I think that’s all the information you’ll need.