Mickle, the cameras trace back to nothing. Each wanders off to somewhere in the matrix, as if through a normal (or in one case more sophisticated) feed route, then dead end. Again, it seems to fit with tech that has outlived it's usefulness and just doesn't know it yet. The cameras get hacked eventually, some easier than others, and the loop is set.

Everyone good and ready to get a car and move on?

Tally ho!

Yeppers.

Rock and roll.

How many vehicles, and what types, are you looking to rent? Anything else you are planning to do in the short tie before meeting up with the fixer?

Caliph will do a map recon of the house, preparing for his physical recon once he gets his stuff off the boat. He suggests two cars. BTW, I broke my shoulder last night, so I will be few and far between on posts.

I was suggesting our hacker hack the rental car company and sign out two cars, list them out for maintenance, disable the call home/tracking/GPS/whatever and we working it like that...

Dingo would likely add a motorcycle to the "rental" list...

Hope it was doing something fun. Or worth it. Take it easy if you can man.

how much time do we have before the meeting?

Your arrival is in the afternoon, appx 1500. The meet is at 2200.

Hacking an authorized rental should be cake for a serious hacker, so no need to roll for that unless you want to do something beyond a rental that looks legit, buthas fake info and costs you nothing.

works for me. I'll get a post up soon-ish.

So rob, how're you holding up man? How's the shoulder?

It's gotten much better since the weekend. I had surgery on Friday, and it's finally getting to where I actually do stuff. It'll still be at least 3 months before I can do a push up, but that's life.

Make good use of the down time then.There will always be more push ups ahead.

I'll put up my post on Caliph on London tomorrow, so others have a chance to chime in on what they're doing, and if anyone needs Caliph to get anything.

Sorry guys, had some family issues that had to come first. I'll have that post up tomorrow.

sorry as well. All of my teachers decided that they wanted to schedule tests, papers, projects, and programs, one right after the other, to the point where i'd get one done and immediately start on the next because it was due within 24 hours. Blech.

I'll read through and get a post up soon.

gah. good luck.

Color me a sucker, for playing right into that one . I was even saying to myself, Rob, if this is a setup, why are you only looking at the fish, and not for the other guy?

Ok, I'm going to delay making the post at the moment so that the exciting combat sequence isn't interrupted by a cut scene to the other guys.

"So, I arranged a sedan and a van for you two and a bike for me. They'll be waiting just outside the neighborhood. And now, I'm bored."

"yup."

"Think Caliph wanted me to keep an eye on him as I could?"

"Nah, I'm sure he's fine."

"yup... wanna watch some tv?"

"yup"

Double

Sorry for being sparse. Work has made life suck. I either see a light at the end of the tunnel ahead or me taking a short retirement. Getting caught up with my posts tonight.

Not a problem. Believe me, I know how it is. Which reminds me, I'll be away on Tuesday. The wife is having surgery. Fun.

Take what time you need man, just keep us informed. I'm have a little fun with Handsome Rob to give you guys a bit of time.

Gah! I wish her a quick recovery. I just got out of the sling from mine this morning.

It's a mixed bag. It's heart surgery, but it's also out patient. Go fig. Should be just fine though. I'll pass on the well wishings. Thanks.

Does Caliph have cyber eyes? If so, if he feeding to TeamNet?

Caliph does have cybereyes, but since we're not up on a TACSOFT and since we're running kinda paranoid right now I don't think he'd have an open matrix connection yet. His next free action (esp. if the situation gets hotter) would be to call for help.

Well it's your action ATM. You're lucking out a bit here, because of the cyber. In Seattle, you could count on a couple of the common gangers maybe having some second hand boosted reflexes or wires. These guys are all meat.

Yeah, but the cyber doesn't let me run faster. At least the way Caliph's thinking right now (he is, after all, arrogant) he could tear them apart if he goes weapons free, but he's not confident in two-on-one melee and having people show up in the morgue with a faceful of flechettes is probably bad for discretion. He ain't in the squeeze no more (and would still be cautious even if he was.

Oh, BTW, Redjack, that character sheet format is really cool.

Tsktsk. That's just the attitude that made that place the winning real estate it is today.

Nan. Despair, hopelessness, murder. Those make it such a charming place.

Well they look good on the walls. But there's still a lot of floor space to cover, or the place is just gonna feel empty. Gotta get some good ol' fashion mayhem in there to take up some space.

Nix
Magic(6) + Summoning(3) + Specialization: Man(2)+Background(-2) [3,5,4,1,1,4,5,1,4,2,1] = 2 hits
Spirit resists: [6,1,1,2,3,2] = 1 hit
Drain = DV2; Buy hits
Force 6 spirit of man; 1 Service

Caliph could spend some time talking with this guy, since it looks like he's running smack dab into some more potential culture shock than he'd accounted for. However, I don't want to derail the rest of the folks. UP to yall.

Do we have a vehicle yet?

sonuva... Sorry! So very sorry!

ok, so that annoying week was immediately built upon by everyone throwing everything right back onto the pile. Plus it may or may not have included a complete meltdown of my brain. Cardiology tests were involved.

But! I freed myself of the sanity-sapping mess and have returned to DS after far too much time away.

Regarding cars. Unless you two have preferences otherwise, I'm assuming that Dingo arranged for an average car, a bulldog van, and a bike for himself to make themselves available.

Once again, I apologize for my absence. But I'm back now. And I'm even ready and willing to contribute!

Good to have you. We've all been a bit slow this week, on top of our usual, so no harm done. Dingo's enough of a hack (*snicker*) that he can manage that under a faked rental. So yes, you have rides, assuming you can get to them. They don't "deliver" to the Squeeze, although they could drive themselves nearby.

Hey guys, sorry for the absence. THigns are really returning to any kind of normal here, but at least we're getting accustmed to the new pace.

OK, where we're at:
Rental ars acquired, one currently in use. Nyx is picking up Caliph. To confirm - the hacker's with them as well, yes?

Headed for the sit down with the Fixer, and possibly a few words with the team that went before.

Questions, comments, concerns?
Moving on?

Moving works for me.

With holidays, RL is pretty crazy. Posting in as I can. Bear with me.

I guess for now, we're all on hiatus until everyone can find the time to come back together. That's the good thing about PbP I suppose; it's easy to pick back up.
Let's try this again after the holidays.

just as well on my end... my laptop just died, leaving me reliant upon my parents' fossil of a computer until I can get back to school and my desktop.

Ok, coming through the current gauntlet and catching up all my games. Visiting family this week so I'm posting around that, but its nice to have time to post. RL and work should both be easing up a bit and I should be able to post regular going forward.

F5 Physical Mask: [1,1,2,1,5,1,2,2,5,2,3] = 2 hits
Resist DV3 Drain: [1,5,5,2,3,4,5,2,1,5] = 4 hits
No Drain

F5 Physical Mask: [6,2,5,4,1,5,5,1,3,3,6] = 5 hits
Resist DV3 Drain: [2,4,4,1,6,3,6,3,4,6] = 3 hits
No Drain

woo! Dingo made the right choice!

Invisible Castle is down:
Intuition(5) + Perception(2) + Visual(2) + Vision Enhancement(3) + Penalty(-2) + Sustaining(-2): [4,6,6,6,5,1,1,2] = 4 hits

Hey, sometimes good things happen to bad people.

RJ- waiting , post will be in spoiler box IC for you perception test.

Perception test for Caliph - Intuition 5 + Perception 4 + Visual 2 + Attention Coprocessor 3 + Visual Enhancement 3 - Penalty 2 = 15 dice; [2,5,1,1,1,5,2,4,4,4,6,4,1,5,5] = 5 hits

Perception test for Dingo, just in case you were asking for mine, too. - Intuition 5 + Perception 4 + Visual 2 + Visual Enhancement 3 - Penalty 2 = 12 dice; [6,2,5,6,2,3,5,2,1,1,2,4] = 4 hits

Invisible castle's still down, so I used random.org. unfortunately, the URL randomizes the numbers every time you visit... *sadness*