[All4BigGuns]

Ok, in this deafening silence, I'll make the decision.  We know each other.  Shidhe knew of Baron's family back in Tir Tairngire, so that was a talking point when they met in the shadows of Seattle.  They've done a run or two together when their respective talents were required.  Chikage and Nitro run in the same crowds.  They've got more experience together than Baron and Shidhe, so Nitro is in on her/its secret.  Adrean and Nidhogg are drinking buddies.  We all have minor reputations in the correct crowds of shadowy Seattle.  We're all in Seattle currently.

I'd think a better 'talking point' would be discussing their respective homelands--and more easily justified than one knowing of the other's family.

[Aryeonos]

Well, that's worth knowing, but so far, I think the only two nations outside the americas are Tir Ta Nog, and Russia. I don't think they have much foreign negotiations with each other, though they are still their own nations instead of plots of land for the corps.

Though I can only really speak for myself, as my knowledge is limited when it comes to the elves. I can justify being in seattle as laying low from some event. Cover story, "I'm just out on the town, vacationing."

[All4BigGuns]

Well, that's worth knowing, but so far, I think the only two nations outside the americas are Tir Ta Nog, and Russia. I don't think they have much foreign negotiations with each other, though they are still their own nations instead of plots of land for the corps.

Though I can only really speak for myself, as my knowledge is limited when it comes to the elves. I can justify being in seattle as laying low from some event. Cover story, "I'm just out on the town, vacationing."

 

[Aryeonos]

You don't think that's gonna work?

[All4BigGuns]

Highly confused about where that came from since I was only talking about a revision to his idea for Baron and Sidhe knowing each other...

[Aryeonos]

ah, I thought you were talking about the group as a whole. Yeah I don't know jack about either Tir.

[Mithlas]

Okay, we're all one unhappy band of runners in Seattle.

I think that should be okay, I'll bet that this will be the first time for a number of things for us - definitely the first for the Matrix to be such a large part of the cast for me, so I'll review the matrix chapter a bit and try to keep from forgetting anything. I still might, so if something slips through I'll definitely take a veteran's points.

I believe that it's on to the out of character and the in-character thread.

[Sichr]

What I took offense at was the blanket assumption that he would know the Nadeshiko was a drone, or would go through that much effort to poke into her node, unless he was going to do it to EVERYONE in the group. And I stand by my point that when the hacker in the group starts poking into people's nodes without permission, it is no different from the mage using mental manipulation on the group or the infiltrator stealing from other party members, the face using social skills against other players, and so on. Doing those kinds of things can legitimately get you shot.

IMO RHat said that right, when he said that the node would be discovered sooner or later, and I can understand that from this moment he would be currious what are you trying to hide...like what...MCT spy drone or something (as we know that there are such things as traitors and Judases, and being paranoid is something that"keeps you alive"), than, also...when we spend lot of time together, and as he rolls matrix perception every time he enters matrix, it is highly possible that sooner or later he would notice the node even accidentaly. And also...Im not sure how you would recognize that he is looking at the node, since there is no way to detect you are being perceived.
The rest of your logic I understand and I feel that to some extent the mutual trust is basics of teamwork...well IMO in this business it is quite standard to do some check on guys that you are working with (and so such qualities as Bad Rep, Deep cover, Judas etc has its meaning). And like I said...I dont mind to have a tank in the team

If the node I am present in is physically destroyed, then yes, I die, unless I burn Edge to cheat death, like any other PC.

As for this, I thought you first would have to be catched in the node and imprisoned there to be killed this way, otherwise you are free to jump anywhere you have access to...so the only way to keep you locked is to keep you away from signal by some powerfull ECM.

I would be currious how AI character would be recognizable in social interaction...Im looking fwd to your roleplay, since this can be quite lot of fun...

Drinking buddies at the Aurora, I like it! Sorry I didn't post for the last few days, I was away with my husband for the weekend.

Yaaaaarp! Another one! So, my scally buddy...to me it seems your mother had some really kinky jungle experience! Hail to that good woman!

[RHat]

And are you going to give that same level of scrutiny to every player's commlink, RHat? Again, what reason do you have to go to the extra effort of threading and creating widgets just to try and check on a teammate's commlink? And you do realize that investigating other team members' commlinks without their permission is considered rude, yes? The kind of rude that can get a street samurai twitchy with their trigger finger?

A strange wireless signal (say, something that normal analysis cannot yield any information on) is exactly the sort of thing that a matrix specialist is SUPPOSED to be looking into, because it could be something that would kill you/get you killed.  And she's not likely to assume that the signal coming from inside a person (as opposed to from something they're carrying) is a commlink - though she did herself use the "internal commlink" line for a while, but that's also going to make any technomancer with enough of a healthy sense of paranoia to have made it in the shadows through the events surrounding the Emergence do some further looking (especially since the internal versions dramatically lost popularity due to the Emergence).

I'm good either way - but if they don't know each other, it's not going to be that long before she notices something's up; one Extended version of Detect Hidden Node is all it would take to get that started.  I'll leave the decision to you, though.

[Mirikon]

Oh, she's got a perfect way to deal with that. She tells people who ask about why she'd have an internal commlink that she used to belong to the Yakuza, and though she bought her freedom, she doesn't have the money to replace it. Implication being she was a bunraku girl. Considering that she is a dead ringer for Nadja Daviar, and has a couple personality programs she can activate such as 'Maid' or 'Schoolgirl', that's well within the realm of plausibility (especially since it isn't that far from the truth).

[RHat]

I'm just saying, Nitro's entire interaction with implanted comms is, well, basically the same as Chikage's.  That, and she's not the charismatic sort - doesn't begin looking into things by asking; just isn't her style.

But just so we have it settled:  Yay or nay on knowing each other from before?

[Mirikon]

Chikage is relatively new, so probably not, unless you have Yakuza ties or are into the club scene.

[Aryeonos]

Who is being proposed as knowing who, are we still going with the tag team that Mtfeeny brought up earlier? Do I even need to ring in on this one?

Side note, who among us has been on the international scene?

[Mirikon]

Chikage is strictly UCAS, though she's spent time in both DeeCee and Seattle.

[All4BigGuns]

I wouldn't doubt if Sidhe were the most international (considering where she hails from).