[JackVII]

Not that far north (depending on how directly west he was intending). The closest easily searchable landmark (present day) that will get you close is Lake Ambussel, but that is farther than 200km in. You may need one of the others with more applicable knowledge skills or a mapsoft to narrow the area down after the Johnson's call.

Man... I sure as Hell hope we're not heading here: Nightmare Fuel in the General Vicinity Indicated

[Csjarrat]

i've got a mapsoft!

[Crunch]

Post edited.

A 24 hour wait period between any two posts is going to slow the game down a lot...

[JackVII]

Sorry, should have clarified. I wasn't suggesting waiting for any two posts, but if Reminder leaves a hanging question out there that a PC could respond to, I think it's fair that we allow time for people to respond to it before moving the action forward. In this situation, it was a 5 hour window between 3AM and 8AM my time before we wrote Asha out of the scene.

We could also probably handle some of that in OOC by just saying we don't have any further questions so it isn't a mandated 24-hour window. Just my thoughts.

[JackVII]

Not sure what kind of roll that would be. Here's an Etiquette test if needed (Feel free to subtract dice if it is something else like Negotiation).

Etiquette Test [9]: Charisma ( + Etiquette (1) (9d6.hits(5)=4)

[JackVII]

If anyone wanted another beer, just let me know over here and I'll deduct the amounts OOC.

Damnit, I was actually typing out my texting post and my wife of course interrupted me with a totally unnecessary phone call.

[Reminder]

Not trying to push you in one direction, but some of you do have assorted tribal knowledge skills.

[JackVII]

I had thought about using mine, but I think it is specific to the Nairobi area. I figure the area was a bit far away to be covered underneath that skill. Not sure what everyone else has.

In the off chance it helps:
Knowledge Check: Logic (2) + Nairobi Area Tribes (2) (4d6.hits(5)=1) + Street Knowledge Check Actually (+2 Dice Intuition) (2d6.hits(5)=1)

...and I forgot that was taken as a Street Knowledge skill. So 2 hits.

[Bewilderbeast]

I'm starting to suspect I'm out-of-sync with most other player's posting times (for the record, I can really only read/post during the late evenings EST). For the time being, I really don't mind getting a bit left behind if other don't mind me inserting actions a bit after the "moment has passed."

[Reminder]

Yeah I am not sure Nairobi area will cut it, let me think on it a little. There is information you need, which shouldn't be that obscure to know, but because there is no Kenya 2072 book you can pick up you might not know where to start. You guys do have the skills to find the info, but you may not know how to use them well enough in coordination with the setting yet to get the answers you are looking for. Let me think it over slightly, since I can't justify Asha knowing. Even if you can't get exact up to the minute information, finding out what tribes are in the area shouldn't be a massive obstacle ic.

[Reminder]

Minor piece of info Jack, unrelated to the previous post. I updated your char sheet changing the contact you are talking to at the moment from tribal chief to tribal elder. The Kikuyu are guided by a group of elders, without a formal chief position (There may be a lead elder, but they get replaced if the others don't like what they are doing).

[JackVII]

Noted and thanks, I'll change my char sheet with the info. I picked "Nairobi Area Tribes" as it seemed the closest thing to Seattle Street Gangs and Seattle Organized Crime which are the knowledge skills with which I am familiar. It makes sense for her in any event due to where she typically hangs her hat.

@Bewilderbeast: No problem. I'm fortunate that I can pretty much keep the website up at work all day and no one will say anything as long as the work gets done. I'm going to try to keep my party interaction stuff to where it is easy to address anything you or others may post who don't have the same flexibility. Definitely been there before.

[Reminder]

That should be enough to get you started. Some general info you don't have to roll for because it is fairly commonly known (Some of this was addressed in the recruitment thread but I know not everyone will remember:)

Three of the tribes located around Mt.K became the most actively opposed to the corps following the spirit incident. Of the three, the Maasai are thought by many to be the most violent of the three groups (or at least they seem (Some of the targets they are blamed for may be less directly linked to corporate interests or something befalls a more remote group and allows for stories, accurate or not, to spread (less tangible evidence to say what exactly happened - and it very well may be as severe as the stories make it out to be, or worse. You can't say for sure)). Being more remote (seperated from the cities by more distance) so how accurate this assesment is, is a matter that may be open to some debate.




You are going to have to find someone with a lot more information though if you want to know exactly where their lands begin, or how they protect them, as the area in question doesn't get a whole lot of travel these days, other than by those who live in the area.

[Reminder]

Does anyone still want your fixer there at this point? You will still be able to reach her by coms if you need assistance with something, but if you are going to get more into datasearch/planning her presence may no longer be required. She may have other business to attend to.

[JackVII]

Other than having her transfer our advance to someone, I'm of the opinion she can get on to her other biz.

ETA: Now that we have a few keywords can someone start running some Matrix searches? I have no capability with the Matrix but there's no "I" in team, right? 

Possible Search Terms:
Alzmer research
Maasai
[The names of the three lakes on the map that Asha indicated]
Corp research projects in Africa

Hmmm.... does Ultra want to do some hacking, csjarrat? If you could break into the Mombasa port host, maybe you could get the shipping schedule for Thursday and we could figure out what boat Alzmer is coming in on. From there, another hack might be able to help us figure out who we're working for based on the manifest. Knowing who are employer is may help us figure out what we're actually going to be doing out there. Thoughts?