[Crunch]

And here's mine. Survival 6 + Will 3 [5] (9d6.hits(5)=5) I assume the three of us can hash out a gear list.

[Crunch]

We're survivaly. 

[JackVII]

Just not subterfugery without a white noise generator. LOL

[Csjarrat]

jesus, have you heard white noise? nothing subterfugey about that (like listening to radio/tv static on full blast). i think they used white noise as a torture technique on POW's too! :-)

[JackVII]

Depends on the volume/rating. But yeah, I've heard it, although now a days they tend to use a lot more sensory dep/overstimulation than anything else. Loud rock/rap music has a bonus psychological effect.

More clandestine than covert.

[Csjarrat]

so i guess we've got two days bumming around mombasa waiting for this kid to arrive then eh? anyone know any decent local bars? :-)

[Crunch]

Route scouting planning and gear acquistion is my guess. But beer could probably happen too.

[JackVII]

I guess we probably should square away gear, hit up contacts to determine information about the area we're possibly traveling to, check out the docks so we aren't going in blind when we pick-up the researcher, maybe someone wants to give a shot a doing a matrix search on Alzmer (who knows, maybe it's his real name) or on the image of Johnson (probably a dead end, but who knows).

Should we try to develop a cover story? Field research seems like it would require little effort to pull off given that it's what we're doing. The biggest challenge would appear to be returning with whatever samples are being collected depending on the nature of the samples and passing that off as legit.

I guess we can go over all of this in IC when we figure out wherever we're going. In the absence of anyone who has knowledge of a better location, I would suggest we stay where we are for the time being until we iron out our plans. Just not sure about wandering about at night trying to find another meeting site.

[Reminder]

Ill make the survival rolls, but you should probably discuss where you are going first. What you need likely depends on the terrain and what you are likely to encounter out there, who controls the area, etc.

You've also got time to discuss at least somewhat what you might all bring to the table, so you aren't going in entirely blind (delayed arrival is nice in that way).

You are probably going to have to hit up your fixer at some point as well since you wrote her out of the scene before she could transfer your advance to one/some of you... unless you still want her there. "Crunch waited for her to leave before speaking." Part of the reason I'm delaying answering your question ic to her. It seems like people are progressing as though she's gone though, so I am not sure she can address your question as asked Csjarret. You are either going to have to write her back in, or call her to ask.

[JackVII]

Can Crunch and the rest of us edit our responses to allow her to be there? I guess we should establish a default wait period for those who can't post as frequently. 24 hours sound good to everyone?

It seems like Ultra and Hunter both wanted her involved in this step.

[Reminder]

It's up to you guys if you still want her there or not. She might be more helpful than the Johnson, but then again, she might not.

I just need to know how you want to play it, which is why she asked rather than just right off leaving after the call. Otherwise, she does have a commlink.

[Bewilderbeast]

RE: languages... for future reference, your Face is pretty useless unless we're speaking English or (maybe) Japanese. I couldn't really justify a high Kiswahili skill, considering his background. So... yeah. That could definitely make things interesting.

Regarding downtime/equipment... I just realized I completely forgot to buy ammo for my character! If I can retcon that a little, I'd appreciate it, but otherwise if we really have two days of sitting around waiting fo Alzmer I guess I could just buy some regular ammo. But just a major gap in building the character I forgot about.

[Reminder]

It happens. As long as you had the funds for it before rolling for starting nuyen, you can add a reasonable amount of ammo.

[JackVII]

If we can wait for Crunch to respond, maybe he'd be willing to excise the bit about the fixer and we can pretend like she never left so everyone can get their questions squared away?

[Csjarrat]

Yeah that'd be good!