Bloodmoon's still dozing away in the van . . .

Fu-Man Chu - Just so you know, you were on watch outside the hanger when the leader of your magical group, Spectre, materialized in front of you. Your group had used ritual tracking to track you down, and Spectre was shouting something about one of the group members being dead, and the other eaten, and whoever it was wanted information about you. Then the world goes black.

Everyone remembers the part of the plan where we bring the bad guys inside, question them and dispose of the bodies in whatever manner the Johnson agrees to, right?

Oh.. yes.. er.. um.. that plan. Yes, it sounds familiar.

And everyone remembers the part earlier in the van where Joli healed Bloodmoon and she came back into consciousness, right? ;D

She jerked up, and then we had Evans sedate her because she was screaming about something...

Oh right! Whoops, my bad. Thanks for reminding me

NO worries, I figured it'd be my job to carry her since I ordered her to be sedated...

I suppose you'll let me know when Bloodmooon awakens?

Absolutely!

Consider yourself awake

Are any of the goons wearing something that Joli could fit in? I'm picturing one piece jumpsuits....they'd probably be a lot more concealing than the trench coat.

Great! Thanks! I'm jumping back in now. . .

Poof! Gear List:

4 sets form-fitting armor
4 sets light security armor (All helmets have the thermographic, ultrasound, tracking signal, signal locator, transceiver with encrytption options.) Armor is generic.
4 Securetech longcoats
4 sets of forearm guards
4 Survival knives
3 Custom heavy pistols, all with biometric safeties, safe target systems, and no triggers.
12(15 rds each) clips of heavy pistol ammo ( 1 clip glazer, 1 ex explosive, 1 clip incindiary rounds)
4 sets of hardliner gloves
4 load bearing harnesses
4 Ascent/descent kits
4 spools of stealth line (50m each)
8 catalyst sticks
1 clip(6 rounds) mini-grenades ( 1 Neurostun X, 1 white phospherus, 2 dual charge IPE Defensive HE/Flash)
4 Docwagon Superplatinum contract wristbands

Fenris--Did you want us to play through the torture, gloss over it? I ask because we're supposed to keep this fairly clean and PG-13 I believe... While I have personally pressed that boundary once, I'm not sure if you wanted to do it again...

Personally I'm more inclined to skip over it, so we'll do so. Do you have any applicable skills or specializations, like interrogation or torture? Or are you just winging it?

You can default to Etiquette at a +2, +3 for the specialization.

So it depends on my final social modifiers.

The plan is basically to attach a biomonitor, then have Joli cook some of the softer flesh exposed, Evans cut out cyberware primarily the smartlink, and have Tombstone break fingers.

Any time he gets too close to the edge have evans put him back together for a little more, while I ask questions.

And Joli and Tombstone are okay with this? I can tell you right now that Evans is going to be extremely uncomfortable just being in the same room, and will flat out refuse to cut cyberware out of somebody that's alive and un-anesthesiatized.

Now would be the time to speak up if anyone has a better plan, not having interrogation I simply have to rely on the fact that I'm going to completely break the man's will before he wants to cooperate.

If they won't participate, I'm going to be forced to fall back onto Plan B which is going to be a lot louder...

Blackjack has Charisma 7 and Etiquette(Matrix) 3(5).

Tombstone has Intimidation: 3, as well as Biotech/First Aid: 3/5 if the doc wants nothing to do with this. He won't have a problem with the torture per se, but would consider it the last, not first, resort, and dangerously close to being "unprofessional". He would rather talk to this guy first, lean on him a bit, and only do the torture if all else fails. He still would, though, because the level of gear and professionalism of these guys scares him a bit. His own survival depends on them learning the score. He definitely doesn't want any of them left alive at the end, so whether they suffer a bit more first is academic.

Joli is not into torture but she knows something things can't be avoided in the shadows (as they say). She'd leave Sebastian to handle the pain inflicting part, he's much more of a predator than she is.

Well enough then. I will excercise my GM caveat to gloss over those sections I find personally distasteful, and say that a solid 20 minutes of torture will get you the name of a fixer, Abrams, that works out of Denver that hired them for this particular job, and that much only after you've taken him up past an S wound and brought him back down twice. The fixer handled the details, so the runner has no information on the Johnson, and no personal information on the runners. He was given a general group description, as well as a location, and paid quite a bit of nuyen to move at the drop of a hat. That is, he was expected to wrap things up no more then 4-5 hours after receiving the location. I will pause real world time for this brief moment to find out if there is any other information you are looking for.

Just to clarify, so I'm not assuming things, this team did hit both sites...

Somewhere along the way, Bloodmoon will arrive into the interrogation room to "lend a hand." But rather than using the more obvious force, she'll ask to take over.

Specific skills/abilities to use as necessary:
Negotiation 6
Etiquette 6
Influence spell Force 1
and most importantly, when needed, Mind Probe Force 6

That should pretty much get us anything we need.

Unfortunately, by the time Bloodmoon gets in, the mangled body is unconcsious, for the most part, and the information has been extracted.

And yes, this was the team that hit the other team.

Does Jester radio in with any insight as to what is going on outside?

Ok, that's cool

Let's just kill them, take pictures, and move...that will have to suffice for the Johnson...If he still isn't convinced, he can pop into DocWagon to find out that six of their platinum contracts where untimely terminated.

I am so running for the exit sign when these guys are dead...

Shotgun 5 + CP 5 (Walking, TN3)
09 08 05 05 04 04 03 03 02 01 (8 Successes)

Guess what? He's not dodging! And naked!

I didn't know if he had a ton of cyberware/bioware and a gi-normous body....

I appreciate the rolls, don't get me wrong. I just sort of bumped things along for cinematic reasons.

Yay Cinematics....runners are always so much cooler in cinematic mode...Thanks for the bump!

No problem. Just trying to keep things interesting after almost a year

I've got Local Neighborhood: Tacoma...trying to find a rundown hotel without questions asked...

05 05 04 01

Anyone else have a skill base to aid in this?

My internet connection goes POOF today and I will be out for a few days until the DSL at the new house gets set up. Please feel free to NPC me to keep things moving forward. See ya in a few!

Um.. what's the skill?

Tombstone has Seattle Night Life: 3

Rolls: 05 01 01

He might know a hotel or two in the area with... hourly rates... but your rolls probably netted something closer to what we're looking for.

Relevant skills could be anything from Safehouse Locations to Rundown Motels in Seattle...look over your knowledge and background skills and see if anything pops up...

I went looking for Bloodmoon's knowledge skills, and I realized I don't have them listed! Do you have a copy of her character sheet Fenris? Are they listed on the one I sent you?

Have no fear, Fenris has not forsaken us. He is actually in the process of moving, shifting internet connections and unpacking. We hope to have his connectivity restored by the end of the week.

Maybe the end of this week Sorry guys, I should be back up to full connection at the beginning of next week, and we'll try to move things along at that point.

I'm up, and the workmen say we shouldn't loose power again, so I should be full-time now. w00t!

Fu-Man Chu: Sorry, just realized that although there is a section for knowledge skills on the sheet that I have, the only thing listed under it is languages. Neither of the sheets I have have knowledge skills, so I'll ask that you pick some and send me an updated character sheet: quantumthoughts@gmail.com

Hey Fenris, CS updated and mailed!

Also, Bloodmoon is looking to stop at a vending machine to pick up a disposable handset cellphone. A cheapo 38 yen one (50 * 0.75 SI)

Thanks for the stop Fen!

Bloodmoon's calling Shen and going to be using his for to aid her conjuring up some Watchers - all Force 3. Using Shen's Aid Power dice to resist drain on each one (cast over 5 turns)



5 Watchers summoned, 2 hours each: Their task is to find Spectre and deliver the message to call Bloodmoon at the disposable cell's number, then they are freed to go.

Total drain of 3 boxes Stun

What's the plan team?

As I see it, we need to turn over the bits that Sebastian collected and hit the mansion. Look back over the thread to refresh yourselves on what the recon turned up and let's re-examine our entry plan. The Chopper is probably still our best way in with Joli, Sebastian and one other providing a distraction while the intrusion team rolls the house, gets the box and we all beat feet out of there.

I think the original plan is probably our best. Who was going to help Joli make all the noise and keep the security force busy?

No McQuillan is not having a conversation with himself. He was over at my place last night and appears to have hopped on my computer to check the boards. I was unaware of this so did some posting as him, sorry about the confusion.

Sorry!

Sorry guys, I'm going to be going on a vacation to Japan for the next two weeks with limited net access. Please NPC Bloodmoon for me Fenris, thanks!