Sedna - Will post my rolls tomorrow. I want to verify cyberskates first.

Slip

If it's a problem I'll tone it down, Thomas. Kai's a streeter through and through and maybe knows too much about the facts of life, but if it's a problem I can play up other aspects of his personality instead.

I'm curious if I'm rolling the right number of dice myself, Slipshade -- but at least if I'm erring, it's toward the low side. It's later that the higher numbers will be needed more.

Oh, no! Please don't misunderstand - Steve's straight-laced, obsessive-compulsive, and has dreams of elfin nobility - but he is male and has similar thoughts, just enough taste not to voice them.
As for the klepto thought - well, he IS an ex-security guard, and kids that don't outgrow that sort of thing typically end up in a life of crime. Like shadowrunning. Still, his thoughts are molded by a career of working security.
Please, please play your character to the hilt - I enjoy it.

We're cool, then Just wanted to make sure -- sometimes the only early signals come through in the roleplaying, and I didn't want to go into areas anyone wasn't comfortable with.

And the ex-security guard aspect is definitely going to clash -- and I'll hope we both have fun in the clashing

Sedna,

As I am reading the cyber skates it says running equals Quickness*6 so for a person with 3 quickness gets 18 dice!!! That just doesn't seem right, very cool, but not right.

If that is the case, I would have....

Is this a multiplier one, then? Because I have no idea what the canon multiplier would be for skateboard. One easy way around that, though

DH - a ruling please?

I have done a little in line and a little Skateboarding in my life and I would think the Skateboard would have less of a modifier than the rollerblades. I used to get a bigger head of steam going on the skates than I did on the board. Just speaking from experience. I really doesn't matter to me who wins the race. We just need some style points.

Wanna come up with a few difficulty ratings for tricks.

or should we just call out the difficulty ourselves then see if we pull it off or crash and burn.

Slip

That post okay by you, Slipshade? I'm just trying to get the plot moved forward, against the off-chance that that's what's keeping our GM away.

That's fine with me Sedna, besides it not always about who gets there first, its about who looks the best doing it, right.

It's all about Style over Substance.

DH

Would you give Sedna and I the general layout of the place from the outside. I will put something up after that.

Thanks,

Slip

I'd give the skateboard a modifier of 5 myself, simply because there's that intermittant period where you have to shift balance to pump up some extra speed. Bikes, for reference, I'd give a 7 or 8, depending on the quality, but skates and boards still have advantages, since you don't have to lock them up, or hump them up really large hills.

Now, for Mings... *gestures to the post* Sorry if it seemed I was gone, shift cycle gets odd at the end...

Understandable. I've had the all-over-the-place kinds of shifts myself.

Thanks for the skateboard modifiers -- and sometime when you have a chance, I'd really like to know the stat details of Kai's bicycle as well ...?

Back in-story: if there's a way up to the roof (probably in back, if there's an alleyway? fire escape ladder?), or finding an accessible (and listenable or seeable-through) window, Kai's going to scale it. Rooftops are a common place for street kids to find shelter anyway, so it shouldn't raise any alarms if he gets caught (although of course he'll try not to be).

Good thinking Sedna, I'll cover everything on the ground.

Added a few more specifics, hope they're okay -- but can't really go past this point without you, DH

Ming's is one of the only buildings in the market to have a permanent roof structure... aside from the buildings it's nestled between... the rest are either poorly constructed, or canvas.

Sedna,

I say we just run a standard check on everything and get the hell to The Shore so we can get everyone back in this game. Sound good?

Slip

Agreed, Slipshade. I've tried to write in a general intro to The Rest.

DH: could you give us the summary on what's noticeable from above and below, front and "back", including layout of the street itself and what buildings/booths/other structures can potentially be used for cover/concealment -- Athletics/Perception rolls for Kai below -- and then I'll trust you, Slipshade, to write both of us over to the Shore? That should hopefully speed things up.

OK I will update tomorrow.

Slip

Everyone,

Do to more time constraints at work I am being forced to drop a number of my games. Unfortunatly Emerald City Nights is going to be one of them. Good luck with the run I am sure things are going to pick up now that the meet is near.

My appologies to everyone,

Slippshade

I'll miss you, but I understand. Hopefully we'll still IC run into each other sooner or later on LitS

Hate to see you go Slipshade, but RL coming first is understandable. If ever you want back in, I'll find a way to work it out.

Ok... basic outline of Ming's (the meet wasn't supposed to take long, as is my usual thing). The restaurant itself if open concept, seating being in a semi-indoors area on a porch, with the kitchen being further inside, as well as the facilities. Despite the nature of the market, it's a clean place, and the clientele seem calm. There's an apartment above the kitchen, and most of the roof is given over to a balcony for it.

Of the rest of the market, nothing is permanent. Some of the structures seem to last, but most of them actually look like they're taken down at night, or at least collapsed for more secure storage. There's no obvious cover, at least none that'd make for decent surveillence.

The closest buildings are secured or abandoned, and look like they may have decent vantage points, but anyone watching from them would be hard pressed to track someone through the ever-moving crowds.

do you all want to cut to the meet?

That would be fine with me. I just did one little flavor post for Viper. We can assume that we all get briefed on what little there is to know about Ming's, unless Sedna wants to do a quick IC post.

Go for it

*cackles* I just found my copy of Magic in the Shadows... ph3ar...

Sorry, did I screw everyone up? Hadn't meant to. Was trying to cut to the chase, since DH mentioned he doesn't usually spend much time on meet issues.

The discussion seemed to be that at least Viper and Johnson would go into the meet. Steve was okay with everyone going in, so long as at least one person stayed outside. Kai volunteered to stay outside, thinking that would make things easy. When communications questions were raised, Kai immediately thought he could ask one of his reliable "friends" to deliver messages. Glyph, if you haven't read the spoiler yet, if Viper assenses Liddy she'll get a surprise.

Yeah, I clicked on the spoiler, read enough to realize it was information for the GM, then decided it would be using OOC knowledge to have Viper suddenly decide to use astral perception. I'll go ahead and do that now, though, since we need to move the IC thread along, and it would be the logical thing for her to do if Kai pointed out someone like that.

Assensing test: 11 05 05 04 04 03 (5 Successes).

Steve's one of those mundanes who knows drek about magic - except for what he's seen on the trid.

Slipshade, DH, hope it's okay I wrote Glide (lightly) out, but in such a way that she can readily be slipped in again if RL decides to cooperate ...?

Umm...
I guess that we are all going to the meet with Kai doing watch and Liddy running messages.
Should we skip ahead?
I'd go for it.

Does silence indicate consent? I'll write a skip-ahead in for Kai, anyway.

Silence was due to a few factors (Cher, the Village People, hangovers)... but it works. To the meet we go, and get things rolling...

Perception Test, Scanning the room for anything suspicious, another suit, what have you.


Etiquette Test, for intro, if needed.

Assensing tests:

Mr. Johnson: 04 04 04 03 03 02 (3 successes)
Bodyguard #1: 09 04 02 02 01 01 (2 successes)
Bodyguard #2: 04 04 03 02 02 02 (2 successes)

Johnson: There doesn't seem to be anything amiss with the room, though in a place where you find all sorts, from all around the city, it's hard to tell for sure. There aren't any more overt bodyguards, though, at the guy looks like someone who would keep them close to him.

Glyph: Neither of the bodyguards are packing heavy cyberware, smartlinks at best, no full body mods. They're both a bit frustrated at the moment.

The Suit is releived that the meet is getting underway; he's in good health, and aside from a datajack and headware memory is cyber clean.


Alright everyone... good news first. I am no longer a shiftworker. Bad news is there's a chunk of May where I'm going to be outright gone (though I may be able to snake late night access). I'll be sailing for the better part of two weeks, but there is net access on ship, it just depends how freely my bosses let me use it.

And an administrative request. Could everyone toss me a copy of their character sheet, with any Karma you were awarded for character creation noted on it. My filing system until this point has been woeful, and to facilitate gaming, I've created a new addy: dhshadowrun(at)hotmail.com

Also, for those of you who wish it, my AIM is: Enigmatic Chicken

At least it's a better time of year for that sail, this time

You know where to find my character sheet, DH. I'm seriously overhauling things, but that address won't change. Hadn't assigned karma yet, pending your answer to that earlier PM.

Basically, Kai's just keeping the lookout, along with Liddy; and they're catching up on the city gossip while they're at it. In case you need it and I get hung up on something again

< Bump >
While waiting for DH to post.

Negotiation 6 (-2 TN Good Rep, -1 TN Friendly Face)
Does "The Suit" have any ethnic background (i.e. Italian or Japanese, or is he an elf)?
Perception 7 (-1 TN Perceptive edge)

All hail the 14 hour workday!

The Suit is human, and doesn't bear a discernable accent, nor any real distinguishing characteristics. He's the type who serves well as a grey man, going unnoticed unless he wishes to.

sounds like me...and my character

Negotiation 6 (-2 TN Good Rep, -1 TN Friendly Face)

14 hours for a job that at the most should have taken 3... much annoyance... especially since I was on ship at 0500, after dropping my roommate off early on his ship (so he didn't have to leave his car in general parking while sailing). On the plus side, my bunk on ship is hella comfortable, and I got to exercise it for a few hours...

Negotiation 6 hehe(-2 TN Good Rep, -1 TN Friendly Face)

Ok, I new this would be coming, but I didn't expect the scope of length of time of it. I'll be heading to sea Monday, and apparently I'll be out all but a few weekends for about a month... this won't mean I'm completely gone, but my access may be spotty as all hell (not that I'm on so often anyway, eh)... I don't know that I'll be so active I'll be...

@DH
RL comes first, and I'm cool with that. I'll play when you can, and not bitch the rest of the time.

The good news out of it is I know for sure I'm not sailing for two months after that... plus I'll have net access at sea... I'm just not sure how cool with me bringing books into the CCR my bosses'll be...

we got books

Okay, this was just too tempting: anything small and irritating Kai can "lift" from Steve, maybe a credstick or wristphone? (I'll make the roll after you decide on the object.)

Humm... Well, the pocket sec is in the left shirt pocket, the encrypted memory is in the left front pants pocket, along with a passcase containing 2 swipe cards, 30-80 nuyen in scrip and a Trauma slap patch. Right front pants pocket has some keys on a ring with the car remote and two credsticks, one certified and one gold. On his belt is a pouch with a pocket flashlight, pager, and cellphone. If you went low there's the hold-out pistol in an ankle holster above the left shoe, inner side.
Let me know what, if anything, Kai grabs - so Steve can react at the proper time.
(Not that he notices the theft, just for example Kai grabs keys - Steve notices when he approaches the car - no keys.)
GM call on success.