[Raiden]

I am off and on, wish I could be on more often, maybe get into a game haha. I am aight, though. How goes the game?

[Csjarrat]

We're at a potential action point at the moment, will let you know shortly :-)

[Lumen]

Yo Raiden!  Hope things are going well for ya man.

@CS: Scouting and thinking rolls.
Perception 4 + Intuition 3 + Enhancements 3 + Actively Looking 3 = 13d6
13d6.hits(5)=4

Security Design 2 + Intuition 3 = 5d6
5d6.hits(5)=3

Man i really hope we don't have another restaurant incident.   

[Csjarrat]

lol, that was pretty funny. totally ridiculous, but funny.

[Lumen]

lol, that was pretty funny. totally ridiculous, but funny.

Yea I was highly amused by the mental image lol

[Csjarrat]

ok mate, gonna need your rolls for defeating the locks please.
Scawire, if there is anything you want to do, i'd do it now ;-)

[Lumen]

Ok... Don't know what else to do but just take this super super slow, Knives is paranoid as fuck.  He has no idea what to expect and last time he tried breaking into something it went very very poorly...

First off we gotta take care of the padlock.  I had to look up the rules so I figured I'd just lay em out too.
20thA corebook p262: Defeating a key lock requires a Locksmith + Agility (variable, 1 Combat Turn) Extended Test, with threshold determined by the quality of the lock. Autopickers (p.335) add their rating in dice to this test; their rating may also be used in place of Lockpicking skill.

Knives will be using his Rating 5 Autopicker in place of the skill as he has no ranks.  I'll go ahead and lay out rolls taking the -1 repeating.
Autopicker 5 + Agility 6 = 11d6
11d6.hits(5)=3, 10d6.hits(5)=4, 9d6.hits(5)=2, 8d6.hits(5)=1, 7d6.hits(5)=2, 6d6.hits(5)=3, 5d6.hits(5)=1, 4d6.hits(5)=1, 3d6.hits(5)=0, 2d6.hits(5)=2 Double 6s!, and 1d6.hits(5)=0 and a one just to rub it in... Hopefully I got done before that.  19 successes and a glitch at the end.

[Csjarrat]

shit, that's some good rolling!
it was a rating 6 device which you'd hit by 2nd roll.

[Lumen]

Let's just hope I didn't use up all my luck on the padlock 

[Csjarrat]

sometimes as a GM i wish device ratings went past 6 :-) lol

[Lumen]

Magical Threats 2 + Logic 2 = 4d6. 4d6.hits(5)=0... I knew it! At least it wasn't a botch.  That was the only chance I could think of that Knives might know what that means

[Lumen]

sometimes as a GM i wish device ratings went past 6 :-) lol

In the campaign I ran IRL I usually house ruled that it was 2x device rating, or in some cases got a bonus based on a roll made to install the device... stuff like that.  Though my group essentially started as "Prime Runners" and then we played for about a year.  Not to mention a bunch of min-maxers.

[Csjarrat]

ooc, the spirit finally found you after mantis gave it bum instructions to find you on the physical. i'm being a bit generous as really it should have said, "sorry, can't find him" knives doesn't know that though so please don't play him as if he does.

[Lumen]

Gotcha, no problem.  He will chalk it up to being super nervous and being startled when the lock popped.

[Csjarrat]

sometimes as a GM i wish device ratings went past 6 :-) lol

In the campaign I ran IRL I usually house ruled that it was 2x device rating, or in some cases got a bonus based on a roll made to install the device... stuff like that.  Though my group essentially started as "Prime Runners" and then we played for about a year.  Not to mention a bunch of min-maxers.

yeah, you still hit it fairly easily even at 2xR. can be quite difficult as a GM getting the right level of balance, especially with mages on board. I enjoy it though!