Shadow- I'll post a response/ongoing intimidation while you're gone.

Sorry for the delay. It has been less than a stellar new year.

Give me some initiative tests, Erebus and Dragon only. Plus any other test like (un)armed combat, you might find useful.

Shadow- Let me see if I understand, the guy sort of spasms in his chair, we can see his hands and feet the whole time, and suddenly he lunges out of the chair at Dragon, the handcuffs no longer attached to him. Do I have that correct?

The implication being that he just sort of slipped himself out of the handcuffs, since there’s no way he could’ve picked the locks on his hands unless both Dragon and Erebus failed their perception rolls miserably (and even more miserably for his feet). Is that right?

Initiative: 21

Unarmed Combat (using 6 combat pool): 11 09 07 07 05 05 05 05 04 02 01 01

Assuming Erebus is a ‘friend in melee’ for –1TN and no other modifiers, that translates to a TN of 3, and 9 successes. Otherwise it’s a TN of 4 and 8 successes.

Base Damage: See Below

Question: He has 9M physical thanks to his titanium bone lacing, but he’s also wearing hardliner gloves, which would make it a base 7M Stun (not counting the power increase due to bone lacing, in which case it would be 10M Stun). How are you going to rule on this? Is it a:

a) 9M Physical AND a 10M Stun
b) 9M Physical AND a 7M Stun
c) 9M Physical OR a 10M Stun
d) 10M Physical

I’m going to assume it’s obvious it couldn’t possibly be only a 7M Stun. If I failed my unarmed roll, let me know if I need a resistance test and resisting what power.

Oh, and I hope your 2006 starts looking up for you soon. 9 Days in, only 356 to go until 2007!

Your best guess would be that he dislocated his thumbs and slipped his hands out of the cuffs. It happened very quickly.

Erebus Init

14 + 9 = 24 (not my best roll)

Engage in Unarmed combat 5 dice plus +1 Enhanced Art. + 2 combat pool.

01, 01, 01, 03, 04, 04, 05, 15

Look at it this way Dragon, with the bones in his hands all busted up it'll make for easier cutting.

Except now I'm mad and I'm going deep into the bag of evil thoughts for something really nasty.

Shadow, are we going with the reply from Grendel and thus choice C then?

Yes.

Erebus your up.

Err, okay, made a IC post to reflect me attacking the prisoner per prior roll two OOC posts previous. Don't know what results are.

Are we still waiting on me? I posted the combat rolls previously, and the IC post, did I miss something?

Shadow I think we're all waiting on you. Um, if you were waiting on what kind of damage I'm doing, I'm going with the 10M Stun.

graaaagh!

shouldn't click on things that say "don't click me" : P

just a note, Daedalus scanned the area from Icarus at high altitude (zoomed in) and Talos is stationed on the roof.

Shadow, polite reminder that Dragon and I are still awaiting the outcome of our combat rolls from Jan 13.

Results for the unarmed combat (I'll say that Dragon and Erebus are close enough for Friends in Melee to come into play)

Mr. Suddenly Unopposable Thumbs rolls 4 Unarmed combat against Erebus: 3, 4, 11, 1. TN is 7 (4+1 for the enemy in melee+2 stun damage). Bad news for our would-be escape artist.

Rolling to soak: TN is 6-3 impact armor=3: rolling 10, 7, 5, 2. He gets 3 hits, but is out cold. Again.

Ah geez Cedric, way to go ya jerk. You knocked him out before Dragon could unload about 3 missiles worth of frustration into this guy's face.

Oh well, that's what the torture part is for I guess.

Oh, Bandit: Feel free to converse with the Doc when you want. Keep the timestamp the same as before, we'll get everyone caught up shortly.

*smacks head* Knew I was forgetting something: SR13, give me an (unaugmented if necessary) body roll. The good news is that you're not dead

The bad news is that we're past the time where a medkit and biotech skill or magical healing can be used.

Body roll: 5, 5, 5, 2, 1, 1

I guess, I'm going to be out of commission for a while....

Not really, though you are going to need a real doctor to patch you up; this guy's not going to really be able to help you. You also won't heal in the meantime with that roll (TN is 6 for moderate wounds).

You can always do a karma re-roll if you don't want to see a doc for a bit (the success will divide the base time). Up to you, and you can always see a doctor later. Assuming no more rockets, that is.

BC - You waiting on us guys who are writing the torture scene here? Are we still up, is it your turn, or do you need a roll of some kind from us? Uncertain, cause any of the three is a legit possibility right now. Just let us know. Thanks!

It's actually my turn, sorry about that. Unless you want to try to question an passed out guy (I suppose with a high enough Torture roll you could scare him back awake )

Also Bandit: feel free to chime in with Virgil talking to the doc.

Nah, we'll wait till he wakes up. He's not going anywhere...this time!

Sorry BC. I really meant to post Virgil talking to the Doc this morning, at the same time that I posted for Scapheap, but I was already running late and just did not have enough time. I will post in ASVW on my next coffee break today.

Thanks for the reminders.

No problem at all. Enjoy the soycaf. I've just got to come up with how exactly I'm going to do this

Okay, hopefully we have started down the road of making Virgil useful again . . .for something other than a decoy.

BC: Is that a reference to 'Dire Straites' that I see in your location?

Hey, being a decoy isn't bad, as long as you've got a lot of armor, and no-one is shooting missiles at you.

Oh, wait...

And yeah, I've been cycling thru 'Sultans of Swing'. Always did like that song. I'll have a post up for you this afternoon.

WR1 and Cedric: you can post if you want (referencing the main OOC thread), but don't move up the time too much for a few days. Trying to get Virgil sync'ed. Thumbalina isn't going to wake up for another half hour, so you've got that to play with as well.

hey bc,

lets see if I can get some other stuff done here too..

1. how far is the lone star impound that has Daedalus' stuff? is it out of range for his drones? (Daedalus has a signal amplifier giving him an effective range of 12 km minimum)

2. He will also want to send a message/email/phone call to Shifty (can I just post this as a voice mail message or something?)

cheers.

edit:

oh yeah, the stats are SR3 rules.. still workin on that SR4 conversion. are we all going to shift over together?

I believe that our goal is to shift all of the ASVW crew over to SR4 together. I know that I submitted Virgil and I am almost done reviewing Erebus. I believe that the character stats that SR13 sent me for Tenmou are a completed conversion as well.

Anyway . . .we'll all move over together, with any luck before the next time we are ambushed :-P

Ronin: The garage is at 1277 Stewart downtown; just a bit farther than 12 Km away by air. You'll probably need to get closer to downtown if you want to be able to get a read on the building.

Also, go ahead with that conversation if you want. Bandit: I'll get back to your conversation this afternoon.

Sounds great BC. I guess I should have never thought that curing Virgil would be as easy as an astral perception test . . .

Ronin: Aren't enough different (and powerful) parties already after us? Or do we really need to steal directly from Lonestar as well

nm the phone call, Shifty is not a night person.

bandit: true... but maybe it can be like that simpsons episode where Mr. Burns has so many diseases they all can't fit through the door.. ... yeah.. perhaps not.

Even if we were so lucky that they couldn't all fit through the door, someone (probably multiple someones) would just take a rocket launcher and blow open a new door or three.

Mr. Burns: "I'm invincible"
Dr. Hibert: "No Mr. Burns, you are actually a very sick man, and could die at any moment."
Mr. Burns: "invincible"

Hehehe, I have always considered that to be one of my favorite Simpsons moments. Now back to your regurlar scheduled Dumpshock-related posting.

WR1 and Cedric: Y'all are free to post now that Virgil is mostly caught up. Rocketman will wake up at 1:35.

Bandit: you need anything from me?

SR13: you can feel free to call a doctor if you want.

Ronin: Talos doesn't see anything yet. Icarus is close by, right?

How about an instant cure for Virgil's problem?

Barring that, I don't think I am waiting on anything now. I'll take whatever information that Doc can give me about his friends, otherwise I will hang around.

I asked Erebus to find me a blender. Has he had any luck?

I actually thought that you were joking when I first read that, but re-reading it I can see you're not.

Cedric:

Oh MY GOD! I don't even want to know what you need a blender for, I think perhaps you may need some professional help WinterRat1.

I'll look into it. Your last post requested a battery, I double checked.

I can just imagine Dragon in some Tony Soprano-esque psychiatrist's office.

Paging Dr. Melfi!

You guys thought I was joking about the blender eh? And Cedric, your reaction was absolutely priceless. Just wait until you see what I actually have in mind for it...

(You are not the first, and almost assuredly won't be the last to suggest I may need professonal help)

We still don't have an answer to the million nuyen question: Can Erebus find a blender (or functional substitute) or not?

That's one hell of a blender for that amount of money

Erebus can ask around though...

Cedric: Roll me some negotiation.

Negotiations roll: