I would like you guys to discuss your 'Exit' strategy OOC before you all go posting that you leave.

Great...here's where it really gets ugly. Lunch now, I'll look to post when I get back.

EDIT: Argh behind at work, cannot get it up now, I'll have to get to this when I can.

For now, I would suggest that Daedalus's drones and/or Virgil give us a scan of the outside before we head out of the building.

yeah, Daedalus will scan the outside (he should still have a good view of all approaches) give the all clear then move out. Should be a simple action to jump into a drone right? (probably Talos, better sensors).

exit? well I dunno how the other two got here but D&D have a car... It would seem to me that the 4 of these guys need to sit down somewhere and plan out their next steps.

Meanwhile, Daedalus is going to try to remain on high alert as much as possible... don't want to be surprised by any more of those missiles coming out of nowhere.

Wonder how much Virgil was about to discern of what happened... you can't hear voices in astral space right? : P

Exit strategy:

Open door. Walk through doorway. Close door.

Really, I figure I'm covering the exit from the lounge area from entry foyer. I recognize that my exit was a little precipitous but I had no desire to stand around and jabber at Vinnie anymore when my next action was likely to involve placing several hot-lead souvenirs into Vinnie's chest cavity for being an ass.

It's my sincere hope that someone else will go out the door first while I cover the team's exit. I'm also planning on suggesting a alternate rally point where we can all gather for a initial meeting and 'get-to-know-you' session, but my plan was to wait until Dragon is walking past me to talk to him since he was the talker among the other runners.

Shadow, Erebus has exited the lounge already and is now standing by the front door. According to previous posts, this puts me within a couple of feet of the entrance/exit of the lounge. Can I still see what is happening in the lounge area near SR13 and D&D( )?

Tenmou is going to leave carefully... he's already taken a nasty gunshot, he'd rather not take a second. He's going to watch his back as he leaves and make sure he's out of line of sight from the restaurant before he gives any indication as to where he parked his wheels.

Erebus and Tenmou are a partnership in the same way Larry, Moe, and Curly were a partnership, mobile disaster looking for a place to land.

WinterRat1, so you're aware, Tenmou and I already arranged a rally point, the food court at the Auburn Mall in case something went bad and we had to separate. When Dragon approaches, Erebus is going to allow Dragon to exit first to secure the outside, and as he leaves I'm planning on suggesting a similar rally point and a time for another meeting.

This would seem like relatively secure exit scenario, you cover us out of the lounge while I move ahead and secure the next area, then cover you as you stair-step through to the next area and secure that etc. etc. as needed.

This would let us clear the area immediately and separately, we meet in a public place where it would be difficult to cause a ruckus and all of us can watch for trailers, then at THAT meeting we can establish a more secured meeting point where we can sit down and get to know each other.

I've got a meeting place for us, once I feel comfortable enough with knowing this isn't a trap, I'm going to suggest we gather at my apartment in Milton(Tacoma), and use that as a base of operations until something better comes along.

Shadow, I hope I'm not going beyond what you said you wanted us to discuss. What I'm thinking is that, as long as you don't plan it otherwise, we can exit the immediate area and then skip quickly past the meeting at whatever location (bar, park, whatever) with a simple Stealth roll to check for people tracking, and then move directly to meeting at my apartment in Tacoma if that's okay with you.

OK give me some time to write up the exit.

That is never a good sign. (think of it as looking around)

Geez you guys are so paranoid. You know you don't spring the trap till after your out in the open, not before.

Ok everyone . . . my excuses for not posting have long run out and it's time that I got back into the swing of things. Virgil is going to move to the astral space outside of the place and scan the area before returning to his physical body.

aura reading: 11 07 05 03
perception: 11 08 04 03 02 01

Shadow can Erebus and Dragon now converse? I'm going to suggest to him that we meet in Tacoma at a bar near the docks. I'm going to make up the name of the bar since its irrelevant in the grand scheme of things if that's okay. Just let me know when I'm free to post.

You are free to post. I just didn't want you all piling out of there without communicating to each other OOC what you wanted to do.

Remember, feel free to communicate OOC as much as you want. In a table top setting I would say differently, but I am learning that in a PbP game it is critical.

Shadow: Virgil is returning to his physial body where he will remain astrally percieving. He will report to Dragon after giving the watchers a chance to look around.

Lazarius: 05 04 03
Danagrath: 08 04 02

*Both have a force (and thus intelligence) of 3. I believe that they both get a -1 to their TN to search because they are both searching together but I won't have MiTS in front of me for a few hours.

Uhhh, Bandit/Shadow? I noticed a problem with my character sheet that I need a ruling on.

When I put together Erebus' char. sheet I added some Neurostun IV grenades. The sheet got OK'd.

I was looking at joining the Abyss post and put a character sheet together for that and when I was doing so I noticed that the Neurostun grenade is avail 8. How do you want me to handle this?

I don't see the problem.

Take it up with your world GM, if something needs ajusting I will go with whatever he decides.

Cedric: Winterrat is correct, your sheet was OK'd by me because you indeed had everything correct . . . play on my friend

Shadow: Just let me know if you plan on having the watchers report anything; be it positive, negative, or nill. This is so I know how to respond to Dragon.

Thank you, I thought I'd screwed up.

Heads Up....

The helpdesk I work at is rolling in a new Dept. this week, so posting from me will be sporadic at best. This should be complete by Friday.

No worries Shadow. As soon as I get a report from Virgil, I'll have Dragon move out.

And just so I don't start to hold up the process again . . . I am waiting for the results of the watchers to post the all clear. Of course this can be negated if Shadow says the point is moot.

Out of curiousity...

Tenmou has a cybernetic transducer as well... can he pick up on anything that Dragon and Daedalus are discussing (in the off chance, we're on the same frequency...)?

I don't figure he can, but I thought I'd check.

We're on an encrypted frequency, so if you wanted to listen in you'd have to locate our frequency first, and then try to crack our encryption, which would lead to an electronic warfare test. I'm thinking we'd know about it too if you tried to crack us, but I have to check the rules for how exactly it works, since it's way too complicated to remember offhand.

Under any circumstances however, I'd view that as a pretty hostile action, which may not be a good thing, given the circumstances we just left. Just in case you're thinking seriously of trying to listen in on us.

Of course, that's assuming you'd have a way of even knowing in the first place that we're communicating via radio.

He wouldn't, unless he accidently stumbled across it, which is why I asked.

"I hear voices... hey, it's you guys..."

No worries. Carry on.

haha.... that would be funny, especially if we were talking about you behind your back.

Very cool though is that we can have another member in our transducer telepathy circle : D
mwa haha..

ahm ok so quick flow chart:

Watchers say all clear --> Virgil says all clear --> Dragon moves... and...

Daedalus will also jump back to his body and walk out the door AFTER Dragon and before Tenmou if he gets back in time. The two of them, (according to Daedalus's assumption) will make sure to secure the street before the other two come out.

Otherwise Daedalus will be waiting in Talos to blast away anything that needs blasting.

Yeah, in all liklihood we are being a bit overdetailed here... ... but ... : P

We could include him, since there's literally thousands of channels/frequencies out there. We just need a separate channel. And as far as being overdetailed, we haven't been paying enough attention to detail lately (me especially! ) and look where that's gotten us!

You guys go ahead and post, I'm rear guard.

We're waiting on Shadow to let us know the results of Virgil's astral scan before we move anywhere Cedric, just in case you missed it.

Out of curiosity, do you have a radio/transducer combo as well?

Nope, no radio gear or anything inside this brainbox. It'll have to be an external setup for me.

Sorry for my absence, I was abruptly tasked out to do a Win2k to Win Xp migration. Professionally it is a lot of fun but I have little to no access to my games. I will try to catch up and post today. But I suspect this will go on through Friday. Sorry

Daed the watcher give you the all clear. But they 'feel' a presence that they cannot locate.

Also, I wanted to do a story post for this but I don't have the time. When you go back into your body you take 3 boxes of stun damagge.

Feel free to move on without me through the week. Nothing bad will happen till you are at the warehouse... at least

Shadow, maybe I'm not tracking, what warehouse? Are we skipping the meeting at the bar in Tacoma and moving ahead a week? I'm very lost now.

Yeah, and what's with Daedalus taking the three boxes of stun damage? Are you talking about Virgil? I'm really confused here as well. Maybe if you could clarify or even write the story post when you have time, that would help clear things up?

Thats what I get for posting in a hurry.

I meant the bar, I have warehouse on the brain. PLease yes skip ahead to that, or RP your way to that. I think I will get more posting time tomorrow but I am not sure. I had to rebuild 4 computers from scratch today all the way through NAV, and Office and all patches. I may have to do the same tomorrow.

As for the stun damage I think it was fairly obvious I meant Virgil OKay maybe it wasn't, but I did! Virgil takes 3 boxes of stun upon returning to his body.

Heh ok that makes more sense. I was confused because riggers CAN take stun damage from being jacked into their drones, right (?) so it wasn't impossible that Daedalus could have taken stun damage, but I sure as heck would have had no ideas why (unless you'd handled it via PM or something) so it was worth the time to clarify.

And yeah, I empathize with the posting in a hurry. Especially at work. I get in trouble ALL the time for doing that. (Just ask Sedna. Am I right Sedna? ) Ugh.

Bandit- you wanna post your report? if I get a chance to post I'll do it since virgil won't really be saying much, but if you can get a post up by all means, go ahead first.

OK everyone, I'm going to move us outside, unless anyone has any objections, following that post, should we just agree to meet at the bar Erebus mentioned and bump ourselves there?

Cedric, I realize that Erebus planned to take a detour to the florist shop, but for the sake of keeping the action going for now (since it sounds like Shadow is very busy) would you be ok with just meeting up at the bar and discussing? Give Shadow a chance to get himself settled and keep our storyline going?

If not it's fine, but it's a thought I decided to at least toss out. Let's figure out if we're all meeting directly at the bar or not in the OOC thread before anyone posts after I move us outside, for continuity's sake.

Because if we aren't all meeting at the bar, we're probably going to go our separate ways for a while, and it's worth setting figuring that out OOC at least.

We can just meet at the bar.

What I'd planned to do was run by the florists and break in to see if there was a computer or telecom which might contain the order that was made. I also considered torturing the florist to death for information and as an object lesson in betrayal, but we can skip that until later.

I am going to make a phone call to Max my fixer who set up the job, he might be in danger and is probably our best lead as to who hired me to do this job. I don't want my fixer contact to end up dead because I forgot to call and warn him. I can do that via an aside in the post where we end up at the bar though.

What I suggest is we move outside, and rendevous with Virgil so Tenmou can get fixed up. From there we head directly over to the bar for our meeting.

Works for me. Bandit was planning to heal Tenmou once we were clear, so perhaps he could ride with us, or we could do it at an alternative location. The bar or somewhere else. SR13, it's your character, what do you think? (Everyone else feel free to chime in though)