With the remainder of my actions during the combat round I will drag the man outside the blast radius of car bomb. With my strength that shouldn't be a problem.

Then I will grab the dart out of his neck and dash off into the night as per my original IC post.

If that is ok, tell me so I can post it IC again. If any tests are needed do you want me to reroll, instead of using what I originally posted?

Edit:

Post away!

Edit: A pinch of advice for you, and everyone else in the game: remember everything.

Edit: Error-double posted

The explosion was implied to have occurred in between the landlady's two lines.

Let me know if you're going to try to shake off the kids or what.

Edit: Why the freak is Dumpshock eating up my posts? 0.o

Yeah, I am having problems with dumpshock eating posts too, that was why i accidentally double-posted.

I will try to shake off the teenagers pursuit of me. What kind of roll do you want me to make for it? I would have thought it was covered when I posted OOC the stealth, athletics, and perception rolls (both the ones i edited out of my IC post and a new set).

That depends on what you want to do. Do you want to scare them off, outrun them, knock them out, or something else?

First I will try to out run them.
If that didn't work I would try to destract them somehow and quickly hide while they glance away.
Failing that I would try to scare them away with a fake attack.
If all else fails I will shoot one to try to scare the others off.
Tell me what I need to roll if other rolls are needed. Or you can just roll for me. I am about to be shutting down my computer for the night, so probably won't post any more 'till the morning.

Okay, after a minute or so of running around the neighborhood (*snickers*), you manage to lose them. Tack on an IC post whenever you're ready.

You know, one on one sessions like the one we just did would be handled far more quickly over a messenger service. If any of you want to give that a shot in the future, my AIM screenname is kackling kactuar.

I'll keep that in mind if I have to do any more stupid stunts on my own. Hopefully there won't be too many of those though.

Until DH comes back, you guys can just assume that Warden shows up at all the group meetings.

Check it out, I'm a Moving Target. Sexy.

So what's the plan now that we are all together? Do you need more time for legwork? Or will we going down into the Underground after this meet? Or what?

Slacker is ready for whatever. Besides his contacts not likeing having any info on down there, he doesn't have anyway to reach them after his home got torched.

Winchy is ready to go. He'd let you guys know what he's got from his contact in the meet, but I guess all the characters share their info so we could skip that. I think we don't need to actually repeat what happened in posts where other players' characters weren't present, right?

Basically I'd skip to discussing our plan and talk about that in IC. Glyph should probably speak first IMO, and maybe tie all the info quickly in the post... or maybe scoundrel could do that for us

Edit --

Scoundrel, I took it that since you were only posting in response to Caitlin's actions that nothing was happening to the rest of us. So I just posted what Slacker will be doing in the morning leading up to the group meeting at the entrance to the Underground.

Just tell me if those actions were interrupted by something else and I will edit as needed.

All Slacker is doing right now is watching for any surprises.
Heres a Stealth (Alertness) Roll to that end:

End of week karma: +1 for this week, +1 for last week.

Extra point to Slacker for exceptional posting speed and frequency.

Slacker is smarter than Winchy it seems... Wonder what got stolen if anything, most of what's useful is in the backpack at least.

Damn pickpocket kids.

Either posting your expenditures here or PMing them to me is fine with me.

Ah yes, I need an itemized list from everyone of everything you're taking with you into the Ork Underground. This might be important in the future, so don't leave anything out, regardless of how minor or insignificant you might think it is.

Ok, I did mention pretty much everything in IC, but I'll give you a complete list here for reference's sake.

Winchy's underground stuff:

on himself:
- Ordinary clothing (jeans and t-shirt)
- Secure Jacket
- 5 throwing knives
- 1 defensive grenade
- 500 nuyen

in his backpack:
- AK-97 with gas vent equipped, 4 spare clips, security on
- Pole arm ending in a battle ax, unscrewed into two parts
- a folded secure long coat
- 2 respirators
- food for one day
- extra underwear (!!!)

For Caitlin:

Gear -

Armor/Clothing: Secure Jacket, Ordinary Clothing.

In Duffel Bag: Medkit (Rating: 6) with spare Supplies, 1 Antidote Slap Patch (Rating: 6), Cell Phone, Pager, Wire Clippers, Pocket Flashlight, Survival Kit, Ration Bars (several days' worth), packet of sani-wipes, a few other basic toiletries, and spare underwear (1 set).

She's close to her encumbrance limit (some of the items don't have a weight, so I can't be sure), so let me know if she's a bit over - she would have checked to be sure she could carry it all without getting fatigued, and dropped something if she needed to.

*EDIT* She would also have the underground pass, a copy of the contact information, and a three certified credsticks - one with about a hundred Nuyen on it, and two very well-hidden ones; one with the rest of her starting money, and one with 3,000 Nuyen from the advance for the job.

Winchy can easily take a lot of extra weight if someone wants to bring more stuff...

Slacker is carrying most everything he has except the explosives. Here is the exact list of equipment:

I don't use the encumbrance rules. Just use your own judgement, and don't get too ridiculous.

Cool. I too rarely use them since the weights are so messed up.

Just to clarify, nothing was stolen from Winchy.

Alrighty... it was sort of implied so I fell for it... let me edit the post

Cool beans.

Alright... while I'm at it, here's an Intimidation roll to show that nobody wants to mess with him and especially not Happy.

Intimidation, physical: 1, 1, 5 (ouch! thank god for that 5 )

*gives thread a good kick in the rear*

I'm thinking about mixing up the ol' gamemastering style a little. Up until this point, I haven't really incorporated your characters into my writing very much, and gave you almost complete control over their activities. What I'm curious to know is whether or not you guys want me to use your characters during those times when I fast forward the game to the next scene.

For example, right now, if your team decides to go to a gun shop, I might describe the trip there, anything you saw or heard, and any people you met on the way. If I go down this new road, I might toss in some banter between your characters, make them interact with NPCs, and just have them do stuff in general. All decision making would still be left entirely up to you - I would just use your characters for flavor.

What do you guys think? Yea/nay? I don't have a preference either way, so just let me know what you think would be more fun. I'm still new to this whole play-by-post thingamajig, and I'm just bouncing around ideas to see if something that works pops out.

The GM did some of that in the Cage Fight game that I was in, and it seemed to work out pretty well. I don't think it would really be stepping on anyone's toes to toss in a bit of banter or other characterization for flavor. For example, you could describe something like Slacker dropping back a ways while they are walking in the tunnels, because Caitlin and Warden are having a grisly conversation about the various cave-in type accidents/injuries that they have seen. Stuff like that. I can't speak for the others, but it would be fine with me.

I agree, it would be fine by me too.

Is it just me or has this game really slowed down? I mean its been a week since anything has happened.

If by slowing down you mean that we have seen no sign of life from our GM then yes.

It's too bad cause what he suggested for flavor seemed like a good idea and I was starting to like our bunch. I hope this is not dead forever.

I wouldn't worry too much - it's probably just a case of real life getting hectic for a while for the GM, and it should get back to normal later.