Most likely the keys then -- it's a prank, not intended seriously or to harm as such, Steve knows from (annoyed) experience that the item will be returned when it's missed. We can probably work this out ourselves, see if the theft is noticed: opposed roll Perception vs. Stealth, nothing to lower TN on my side?
(And we wonder why I gave Kai a minor "Bad Reputation" (thief) )

Good news real life is allowing me a little more time and seeing that this game moves along at a bit of a slower pace I will be able to join again if everyone thinks that would be ok. Let me know how you guys feel about it.

Slip

OK, if I understand the rules correctly (maybe) I roll three die for Steve's Intelligence, against a base TN of 4. I also would give a +2 for being distracted. (swarmed)
Unmodified die rolls:
1, 1, 4.
Gak, one of my 'death dice' from that other game.
I guess Kai gets the keys.
BUT NOT MY PERMISSION TO DRIVE!!!

He doesn't even know where you parked your car! (Let's hope this gets all the bad rolls out of the way before it gets serious.)

(Slipshade, I'm okay with it, if you don't mind a little chaos )

Not to worry, THAT die is now back with its oddly-shaped brethern, in the former Crown Royal bag. I've borrowed one from the backgammon set - not the white ones, those are best reserved for Acey-Deucey.
FYI - IC post - car is two blocks west, green Honda-GM 3220 Turbo, Kai's seen it before.

@Slipshade
Please do join us if you can. Steve will need someone to hold Kai down.

Besides, what would he want with your car? He's got a very reliable and probably expensive skateboard -- and he's off towards your restaurant, just as soon as he can get the word to the others clear of The Suit

Come to think of it, your signature is suddenly very (uncomfortably) apt.

Then you should know that one of MY favorite lines from “Heavy Metal” is:

But that’s just me, and in fun – Steve’s not me, and I’ll try to play him the way he is. (But, I don’t carry anything in my back pants pockets either)

Now that we've both clarified that this is just in fun, I guess we're just waiting for Viper and Johnson, and we can start planning this thing

(Huh -- I just discovered that I had one more die I could have rolled. Forgot to add in a physad power. Future reference, for the important stuff.)

I hope DH will give us the 411 on the job, everything the charming and eloquent Mr. J could squeeze out of the contact, in one lump sum.
I'll post a flavor message tomorrow, but nobody needs to wait on me.
The kitchen and tables at Seoul Food are a public secret. It's not licenced by the board of health.
Unless DH wants to take over Seoul Food I'll play it - you guys can cue off of me. It's dingy-looking, smells funny to westerners, and Korean is the primary language. Unless your char can read Hangul don't ask for a menu.

I'll wait for a reply from DH before I start posting again.

Slip

Just re-read through the OOC thread fully, so I won't wait for DH to answer. I will post something on Monday to get me back into the team. If he wants me out later DH can kill me off.

Slip

@Slip
I hope Johnson's got call waiting/forwarding/voicemail on that thing.

@Bastard
Come on, pick up... (ring, ring)

Heh, true, though my call can come in at anytime before or after yours.

Or I can get the answering machine and leave a nasty message for him.


Slip

I thought you were done with the negotiations Bastard.

Glide would have dialed someone else if she thought the meet was still on.

oh well..

Im just waiting on mr. johnson to say youre hired

We'll work around it.

thats what im doin

I will be on vacation from May 30-June 6. I am not sure how much internet time I will have.

Slip

@Slip
I hope you have a great time, enjoy.
I'm sure that with DH being at sea and the game moving slowly there should be no problems. I'd guess that you'd want to make the planning session at Seoul Food?
(Assuming that the others even want to?) I nominate Sedna to write you in during your absence. (Kai could use a friend )

Any one else have opinions/options?

That works for me...but does my opinion matter?

Ring, ring
Hello, is your refrigerator running? ... Well you'd better go catch it! <click>
Bastard?

Sorry Thomas...I didnt see your ring ring too.

As for my refrigerator, I will have to check...

oh yes it is, as is my dishwasher as well, and my AC.

Groan

I'm okay with the choices made. I'm a bit sporadic myself, these days until mid-June (every two or three days), but on this thread it doesn't seem to show.

I'd thought you were done with the negotiations too, Bastard. Oh well, just figure that Kai wouldn't have approached him until after he's clear of the negotiations, work it from there. We seem to be flexible, and DH will hopefully give us all the details in a single major post when he's next at an on-line computer.

No Sedna, I trust ya. Post for Glide if you think it is needed when I am gone next week. Besides I think Kai and Glide probably have a lot in common. She is starting to think of him as the little brother she never had.

Slip

Oh, dear

Yah, I know. Scary isn't it.

I have to be gone for another day or two. Slipshade, when I'm not here and since we're in active interaction, could you NPC Kai as you see fit?

@Slip & Sedna – a few clarifications; I base my view of Seoul Food on my RL favorite place to eat genuine Korean food – a little Korean grocery that just happens to have a kitchen in the back. I’m the only round-eye that I’ve ever seen in the place, and if I hadn’t learned a little Korean I probably wouldn’t get any kind of service. That said, some info for your characters – Kai would have gotten steamed rice, a generous portion, some Kim-Chee, possibly some rice cake (not the type we think of in America) and other side vegetables. Glide, depending on how well she was understood, would have received Dac-Go-Gi (grilled chicken, mild to moderately spicy) or Tang Soo Yok. (a sweet and sour chicken type dish, although the sauce is a clear, light-orange) For Kai – the Kim-Chee is most likely the spiciest thing on the table, and the tea would be hot, green tea. Hangul is the Korean alphabet. Although he didn’t order it, if he had he probably would have received Jun-Gol (soup), of whatever they had ready as the ‘soup of the day’.
Which would be very funny if there were a Korean equivalent of alphabet soup – but that’s not the point right now.

For all: Our characters are rather spread-out now, both in place and time. One thought is to skip ahead to the planning phase at Seoul Food, although that might require DH to post so we know more about what we are planning. Another thought is to continue playing where and when our characters are, until DH pulls us together.

Votes for either of these; or other opinions/suggestions/options?

Thomas - I have a little Korean BBQ place near my work so what I was describing was Tang Soo Yok. Just a little spicy, but I thought I would just play off of Sedna's reaction. It was fun so I went with it.

Sedna - I am heading out on vacation so our characters may just have to eat quietly until everyone else arrives.

Thomas, I say just RP the arrivals for a bit until Sedna, DH and Myself can get back to posting.

Slip

Thomas: exactly It's all generic "Korean" to him -- and it's Korean only because it's been identified as such by Steve. After all, it's not like Kai actually knows the difference between bul-go-gi, jap-chae, or gal-bi; or would have discovered before now that there are several different types of kim chee. (Since he obviously hasn't discovered the hot varieties yet, I leave that in your capable hands ) He knows steamed rice (pretty universal and universally cheap), noodles, veggies of various denominations, and meat that's similarly various -- but it's all food.

(My local Korean restaurant-with-high-loyalty-factor just had a fire yesterday, fortunately minor enough not to close the business for more than a couple of days ... we hope.)

I promise you he didn't order the rice as "Hangul". That was an attempt at multiculturalising Cityspeak, using a single label to describe all things of that ethnicity, that obviously fell flat.

Eating quietly, with NPCing by all and sundry as necessary. Probably said/done too much already

Enjoy your vacation, Slipshade

< bump >

@Sedna - sorry, didn't mean to be thick-headed - that is a good use of CitySpeak.

Steve, being a security type of guy, will be most interested in the security set-up of the warehouse. Questions he would want answered are; is the security handled in-house or contracted; if contracted, to whom; are there any security personnel or does the warehouse rely strictly on sensors; if manned, are the guards armed or un-armed, or perhaps both; does the warehouse store goods from only one company or several?

DH will give us a rundown (I hope), so these questions might be answered then.

Of course, since we’ve done so much without GM interference, we could just declare our first run a smashing success – netting us a big bonus and the lead for the next job!

Tempting

Am I the only one in RL that only speaks "round-eye"? Shit, I have a hard time ordering at Taco Bell.

No Bastard I only speak english, with a smattering of spanish and german from way back in my high school days.

I am catching up with all of the games this week, so I will be able to post more if DH can get the time to update us.

Slip

My internet will be down for a week, I will try to post here and there from work. I have a new reason to hate moving. Bastards!

Sorry for the long delays...again...my computer is hurting, my brakes went out on the Chevy, the Ford wont start, and my bank card was "comprimised" so they say-aka no atm access till my new card comes.

Tonight I should reformat my computer, then I might be able to reset my internet account tomorrow or Friday. Then I shall catch up...I hope.



Looks like this game may be dead... I liked this group too. Does anyone know where DH is? Once my com is up...if he doesnt return, maybe someone else could take over. I would do it, if know one else wants to, assuming you all want to continue.

I'd liked this group too. The premise was fun, the players even more so. And I'm up for continuing, if not for running the game. (Do games here often fall apart due to lack of GM interest?)

Well once my home PC is up, I can take over for DH. Johnsons job has been done, and trust me, if it comes to a fire fight, you dont want him around. He is more likely to shoot himself than an enemy.

If it comes to a full-out firefight, I suspect most of us are toast. Besides which, we'll have broken the requirement for the run.

Okay, I'm in, it sounds like Thomas is in (?). Anyone else?

Thomas is definitely in…

I'll stay in with Viper if we switch GMs and keep it going. Bummer about your having to run Johnson as an NPC, but as the middleman of the group, it won't be as jarring as it would be if one of the other characters became an NPC.

I'm suspecting Thomas is in it only because there's this need for closure with Kai
And we've now got Viper, so that's the good-looking quarter of the group.
Three out of four? Slipshade?

Thanks greatly for this offer, Bastard Looking forward.

Thomas has nothing against Kai, and Steve has no IC knowledge (yet) - Steve won't be able to know anything until he gets back to his locker and finds his keys.
I figure he'll be pissed because he's spent 500 - 600 (10% of alarm cost to rekey, sounds about right.) but what's he gonna do? He's really not a violent person.

Oops, rephrasing, should have said

I'm in for continuing. I like the characters and players, so I say lets do it. Thanks for offering to take over Johnson. Let me know if you need Glide's character sheet.

Slip

Well Bastard, it seems all the players have weighed-in.
In the interests of continuity perhaps Mr. Johnson could tell Kai and Glide what the J said at Ming’s. That should bring all the players up to speed and allow you to set-up the conditions for the run – then we can get on with the planning/legwork.

Will do, com is up, but no net. Im going to buy a new network card and see if I can connect that way. Then I will be up and running. You can email me your character sheets to:

walrath@raidersfan.net

Its....ALIVE!!! From the ashes of despair, my computer rises again, in a fury of fire, like the reborn pheonix, to post once again upon the forums of dumpshock!

I got two character sheets so far

Steve
Kai