[RHat]

Vehicle/drone armour behaves as though hardened due to Stun immunity.

[Mirikon]

Indeed. I don't take stun damage, so it is kindof like hardened armor. But instead of posting it again and again, I've just been editing the sheet on page 6 as I go. In most situtations, I'll have 19/19 armor, and Reaction equals Response, so my defenses are good. Something like 8 dice to avoid ranged attacks, 12 with Gymnastics Dodge, 16 to parry with my sword, 25 to full parry with the sword. My only real concern is magic and (to a lesser extent) hackers. Hackers aren't as much a problem, since they can't take control of a drone that a rigger's jumped into without first evicting the rigger, and I can at least make things hard on them.

[Aryeonos]

Let's just hope no one has budgeted for HERF guns, otherwise, I should be able to protect some of use with counter spelling and the deflect spell. Should I spot the other mage though... well, I think I'll collect them.

[Sichr]

OK Contacts one by one:
Ex-LoneStar officers: Group of ex policemen who for some reason didn apply for possitions in KE Seattle after the change. Working for various minor security companies, as guards in malls or in the field of theis specialization in case of detectives...Forensic Laboratories etc. Lot of them just switched sides, becomming active in shadows or underground. Some of them went out of controll, becoming gang members or lieutenents for various syndicates.
I get this idea from one of my teammates in some previous PbP, well I cannot find it for better reference, even IDN if there is something in cannon for such group

Hun Skaar, on the other side, is cannon NPC, Seattle 2072 shows him as an owner and bartender of:
The Aurora
304th Street E &132nd Avenue E
The Aurora is just a collection of sad stories. The original owner, an ork named Gar Skaar, thought the place was haunted based on strange lights seen in the back alley. Turns out the lights were just luminous phosphorescence from a combination of decaying garbage and trace chemicals in the air on bad smog nights. Gar’s oldest kid, Hun Skaar, runs the place these days, but it’s still like a rest home for down-and-out squatters and street-types looking to drink and forget. That includes a few former shadowrunners, in fact, so some Johnsons see the Aurora as a recruiting hall for suicide missions. Some of the patrons are willing to take them, hoping to score big or go out in a blaze of glory.
>  Traveler Jones

Archangel
Bounty hunters group contact. The organization is mentioned in Dawn of the artifacts: Midnight adventure, their Chicago branch. No thing more known about them AFAIK, well, at least they do exist...

Ramirez:
Mechanic working for Chulos
http://forums.shadowrun4.com/index.php?topic=2772.msg24765#msg24765
Steam`s testimony helped Ramirez to get some compensation after he was crippled during car accident. Steam asked for the case since it was hit-and-run, and as victim was dwarf nobody really cared. He found the guy who did this and brought him to justice. Ramirez contacted him some time after, as he settled back in Puyallup, found his new home working for the Chulos gang as a mechanic. Drinking buddy.

NoIC
Hacker/Blogger
As Andreas is a bit media junkie, noIC is his favourite blogger adressing almost everything that goes on in the city in pretty hilarrious way. Steam commented a few of his post, being able to provide further informations and leads that noIC used by himself. They made mutual contact, and know each other to the extent, that noIC knows Steam is an excop with gritty moods and lives somewhere in Auburn, and Steam knows that noIC works as a courrier, driving his bike across the city here and there. And he suspects noIC from being hacker, maybe even active in shadows, since his informations are surprisingly accurate and fresh from time to time.

Street Doc.
Simply doc. Martyr amongst living. Saved Steam`s life. Replaced his rotten arm with a new one, shining piece of metal junk... Put Cranial bomb into his cortex. Like said before. Renton based Martyr...

[mtfeeney = Baron]

As much as that makes sense, I never realized that the vehicle armor worked like "hardened" due to stun immunity.  In combat, if I've had time to prepare and need to, I can have 21/12 armor and 6 for all physical stats.  6 vs ranged, no gymnastics dodge at the moment, 10 to block unarmed, 14 for full defense.  Not even close to as impressive, but I don't think it's too shabby for a pretty mage.

It might be better if I counterspell when possible, since I have 6 compared to your 3.  How do you plan to collect enemy mages?  I saw you say something earlier about doing that, but I don't understand.  Are you just talking about your extensive manipulation spell selection?

[Mirikon]

Let's just hope no one has budgeted for HERF guns, otherwise, I should be able to protect some of use with counter spelling and the deflect spell. Should I spot the other mage though... well, I think I'll collect them.

It is unclear what effect a HERF gun or EMP grenade would have on the drone, other than making it lose some signal until it can be repaired. Newer devices, including cyberware and the like, aren't typically affected, afterall, since they're optically based.

[mtfeeney = Baron]

Would there be ANY old school electronics in a top-of-the-line droid that looks completely human?

[Aryeonos]

It might be better if I counterspell when possible, since I have 6 compared to your 3.  How do you plan to collect enemy mages?  I saw you say something earlier about doing that, but I don't understand.  Are you just talking about your extensive manipulation spell selection?

I can ... shall we say, invite myself into someone's mind through clever implantation of dozens of memories, I just need somewhere to detain them for about 24-48 hours, and rest every hour. It's a bit of a complicated process and I could only effectively do it to one person at a time, over a period of time.

Let's just hope no one has budgeted for HERF guns, otherwise, I should be able to protect some of use with counter spelling and the deflect spell. Should I spot the other mage though... well, I think I'll collect them.

It is unclear what effect a HERF gun or EMP grenade would have on the drone, other than making it lose some signal until it can be repaired. Newer devices, including cyberware and the like, aren't typically affected, afterall, since they're optically based.

I don't think a HERF gun would really be a huge threat to optical memory, but as far as I know, computers would still have much of the same components. Lot's of gold and copper closely bunched together on PCBs, as well as the PSU and transistors, those would be susceptible to an electromagnetic pulse. It'd be something to watch out for, if say, you see a corpsec group with a guy carrying what appears to be a jumble of home appliances in a rough gun shape, maybe a hair dryer with a scope on it.

post script; I wonder, do any of us actually sleep?

[Sichr]

Let's just hope no one has budgeted for HERF guns, otherwise, I should be able to protect some of use with counter spelling and the deflect spell. Should I spot the other mage though... well, I think I'll collect them.

It is unclear what effect a HERF gun or EMP grenade would have on the drone, other than making it lose some signal until it can be repaired. Newer devices, including cyberware and the like, aren't typically affected, afterall, since they're optically based.

Hm...as far as almost everything is WIFI able, My guess is that things get fried. But rules stats that most cyberware would be unaffected. I kind of dislike this, since it was the only weapon again full cyborgs and otherwise damage-imune characters/NPCs. Well its RAW, I`ll have to live with that. Cyberware with removed wifi capability would be immune IMHO

[Aryeonos]

I think it might make the high gauss motors in the arms (if it uses those, I assume it would) do funny things, and possibly burn out the wifi, but I doubt it would break the cyberware. I could have sworn there were rules for attacking cyberware directly, but I cannot for the life of me locate them.

[Mirikon]

Actually, in the 2070s most high tech devices are completely optical, except for antennae and the like. EMPs are great for dealing with old tech and RFIDs, and for possibly reducing the signal of a drone, but most modern devices wouldn't be affected by the whole destroying thing. RAW, the antennae could get fried, but the actual internals would be fine, unless it was old tech.

[Aryeonos]

Absolutely everything is optical? I'd be interested in seeing how that works. I know how holographic memory works, and I know of light based RAM, but the whole rig, I've never heard of that.

[Mirikon]

That's what's in the books. The stuff that's vulnerable to EMPs and HERF guns are the stuff that's old or cheap. Check Arsenal, pg 57. DM's call on what is or is not affected, but it would be reasonable to say that high end drones and vehicles wouldn't be. Other things, like a Bust-a-move, or the disposable commlink? That's another story.

[Sichr]

Actually, in the 2070s most high tech devices are completely optical, except for antennae and the like. EMPs are great for dealing with old tech and RFIDs, and for possibly reducing the signal of a drone, but most modern devices wouldn't be affected by the whole destroying thing. RAW, the antennae could get fried, but the actual internals would be fine, unless it was old tech.

RAW antenaes and anything linked to power source IMO...

[mtfeeney = Baron]

What happens to an AI if it's jumped into a droid that loses power?  Does he come back when it gets power again, or does he "die"?