He was on yesterday in our other game here.

site is running clean again for a bit.

It might be the settings. But Dumpshock works much better on chrome the IE.

I use Firefox. Mixed bag, but pretty good right now.

The IPS Driver errors have been savage. I get through when I can.

Yes, Paul would love to sniff out nodes and not only provide Angel with a list, but if there were any identifiable markers or network identifiers, see whether he could figure out whether it was a coherent network or several ones.

Lately it just seems to either let me in clean (on Chrome) or not work at all, not so many of the IPS for some reason. Lately very clean here, and on my phone too. That probably makes it hard to keep track of stuff. I might just have Paul do a lot.

Yes, Bongo ensures that the apartment is secured before the team moves to another floor.

Do we want to speed up the pawn shop encounter, or are we happy to roll some dice? Either way works for me.

Well, rolling dice is how one can speed up an encounter by abstracting it.

But if thinking about it slows you down, just engaging in dialogue would be fine (though I suppose that can and probably should involve more dice rolls. That's always a tricky thing to balance. At a minimum, I do the thing where dice rolls can be used to prevent your characters from messing up.

You can also use a dice roll for ideas, which sometimes I've used to feed a char a tidbit they can work with. Anybody ever watch "Burn Notice" Most of his "face" stuff as I recall hinged on noticing details he could work with.




Also I'm somewhat struck with how limited Sprites are compared to agents. They undoubtedly can far exceed any agents capabilities and without a few of the agent's drawbacks. But they deplete so rapidly. Maybe I'm being too narrow with what a "remote task" can be scoped to. I guess there isn't anything actually preventing a Technomancer from buying agents like anybody else, though. So Sprits would be for when you need to pull out the big guns in the matrix. So maybe they should also get the -2 per active registered Sprite like magicians do for spirits.

Ah, Burn Notice. So many good ideas for SR. I wish I could get the episodes here to watch it all again.

It's on a few streaming services. They probably should have gone for a movie instead of the last few seasons.

But it does have some decent face work.

While there are time considerations, you could also help out in the clinic. That's a new of the advantages of this format over a video game.

If Willie wanted to hurry over, Paul and his van aren't built for chases or combat. Bongo could take over security for Lenny.

At a minimum, it could be an excuse for Willie to go fast on his motorcycle. Though now I'm forgetting exactly where he left it.

I had to go back to 4 May, 2025 to find the post! Willie sent his bike back to the garage. He would have to summon it. I'm not sure how long that would take.

Can you give a ballpark figure of how long it would take for the auto pilot to get the bike back to the tower, sunnyside?

You mean the safehouse? Google maps says 12 minutes, so let's go with that. Less if he'll let it override grid guide to speed or split lanes.

I don't think bikes can run on autopilot alone. Don't you need some kind of gyro-stabilization upgrade for that?

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Thanee

Can the Pilot (admittedly only Rating 1 for a Suzuki Mirage) take care of that?

If not, then he was unable to send it home to the garage in the first place.

When I read this, I thought you were right. However, looking at the books, the motorcycle gyro stabilization mod doesn't make any mention of this, nor am I seeing anything about it in the pilot or vehicle sections. As far as I can tell, RAW, you don't need it. It seems it just works by turning the front wheel, and perhaps some very dynamic kickstands.

Paul will try to identify the bourbon drinker by visual search alone. It could easily be someone whose main squeeze is a secretary for the union, which would make a search tougher, but it gives the impression of a man on his day off.

Data Search on visual: 8d6t5 4

Actually, I think Willie and Paul can have some good conversations and interactions. I'm looking forward to it. And Willie hopes there will be more action out there than in the tower.

You know, back when I was fist playing Shadowrun in the late 90s I don't know that I'd have let that fly.

However, given the direction of things, that sounds entirely plausible, especially with some location metadata that Paul could sprinkle in.

Found it on page 103 "Note that motorcycles are not capable of driving themselves unless they have the gyro stabilization modification (p. 140)."

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Thanee

OK. Well, then Willie simply left his machine parked nearby, hoping the theft prevention system is good enough.

Ugh. That is a dirty place to stick a rule like that. I'm particularly bothered because I have the anniversary edition. Which means they had already produced all the source books and, if they felt like they left that out of the main rulebook, they had a prime opportunity to put it in along with the other errata. It's tempting to ignore it.

How about half off (so 900) out of cash on hand, and it's retconned in. It gives a useful bonus even when Willie is driving, and I'll throw in one edge regenerated because you did have to spend one (granted in the last adventure) for staying on the bike.

That is where the PDFs come in handy... as you can search them.

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Thanee

OK! Thanks, for the retcon and the EDG point. I'll update his stats. DONE.