[Csjarrat]

Your first search is completed; the second one will take slightly longer in terms of game time so I will turn that one out in a bit.

Hopefully that is a fun list to chew over.

pg 246 sr5
"Agents also have the Computer, Hacking, and Cybercombat
skills at a rating equal to their own. An agent
runs as a program and can use programs running on
the same device as them."

the browse software that is running in the virtual machine should be available to the agent so should take 1/2 time just like ultra's if that is what the delay is from?

IC - Well, based on the thresholds, some of the information is less available so it's not going to run in a minute
OOC - I am working and can't quite find the time to put together another post with that much info until I get home probably, ergo its taking a little longer

hehe, no worries mate. this is looking to be a good run, thanks for putting in the time + graft to GM!

[JackVII]

Crunch, maybe your Customs guy could focus his search on ships arriving in Mombasa on Tuesday. If he only has to focus on one day, it would probably be easier. Maybe that way we can zero in on a name and develop further information like area of focus of his research. Might help us pinpoint what we're going to be looking for.

Just need to figure out how to clarify tribal boundaries and figure out what kind of threat we're facing here from the Maasai (and any others in the area).

[Reminder]

Actually Jack I take that back, I'll throw you a bit of a bone on the one you least expected since you rolled 2 hits.


Achilles Alzmer represents everything a lot of the native population hates about foreigners. Brash and brazen, he is less "gentleman hunter" than his novellas would make him out to be. Though he masquerades as a naturalist, he really is just a trophy hunter.

[JackVII]

Thanks. I'll edit my IC post a bit to reflect it.

[Reminder]

//To:Team//<< First batch of results are in for our "alzmer". I'm thinking top three/four could be interesting.>>

What, you don't want to be abducting natives for the anthropologist to do "tests" on? 

[Csjarrat]

//To:Team//<< First batch of results are in for our "alzmer". I'm thinking top three/four could be interesting.>>

What, you don't want to be abducting natives for the anthropologist to do "tests" on? 

so long as they don't make a mess of my pickup i'm ok with it :-)

[JackVII]

//To:Team//<< First batch of results are in for our "alzmer". I'm thinking top three/four could be interesting.>>

What, you don't want to be abducting natives for the anthropologist to do "tests" on? 

...or the High Energy Physicist, for that matter.

[Reminder]

//To:Team//<< First batch of results are in for our "alzmer". I'm thinking top three/four could be interesting.>>

What, you don't want to be abducting natives for the anthropologist to do "tests" on? 

...or the High Energy Physicist, for that matter.

Yes, you are right there. Using natives for studies in high energy physics might be more disturbing than genetic testing.

Using them as a fuel source would be downright wrong.

[Reminder]

Assume the longitude reported for your search CS, puts the beginning puts the outer edge of the Maasai's estimated territory slightly short of the area indicated by the Johnson. So the target area, at least as specified by the Johnson, would not have you cross into Maasai territory, but it puts you very very close.

Also, since you are looking for some pretty obscure results, the image search is going to take a half hour of game time to run, but FYI so you can start planning what to do next, it is not going to yield any results.

[Reminder]

Jack, am I correct in assuming Des is Desmond Ngei?

Also, since it would have likely come up in his search, CS would have found out incredibly basic info about UO (it's a AA corp) given his search parameters. If you just want general info, that would be easily accessable on the matrix.



Also, for everyone, game time is now 7:20.

[JackVII]

Reminder: Yes, that would be Desmond. I was pretty much looking for general info, although I was also trying to see if UO was linked to anything of significance that would put them in the crosshairs of Desmond's group. While Desmond's information is probably not all that trustworthy, I hoped there might be a few grains of truth in them.

ETA: Oh Crap, just an FYI, but I had intended my Knowledge Check to be applied to Francis Alzmer rather than James Alzmer. Still a 0 hit roll, I just wanted to make sure it was noted as such.

Also, if Ultra pulled one of the listed Alzmer's published papers, could we try to figure out what the focus of their research might be? I wasn't sure if that was included in the earlier knowledge checks.

[Reminder]

Well, you failed your knowledge checks due to low rolls vs researchers who were conducting rather specialized/advanced research. With the low rolls you didn't know much.

Also, realize that while they may be published, if they are doing work for a corp, that isn't necessarily information that they would publish until the corp already had a monopoly or something of the sort. If you found out that the adrenal glands of wuwanti treerats had effects better than kamakaze with no side effects, you wouldn't want to lose profits by sharing.

[JackVII]

I did think it was odd that they would be published as corporate-backed researchers, so I wasn't sure if their publications came from a period of work in academia. I would imagine the rule in the Corp world would be more "Publish AND Perish" rather than the other way around, LOL. But their public research might give a hint as to what they are doing for a corp as they would presumably be hired based on their past work.

The main idea behind paging through any published work was to try and get an idea of what their specialization was: genetics, sentience assessment, product derivation, innate magic capabilities, etc.

[Csjarrat]

Yeah, I can't imagine that "academia" even exists as a field in a corporate controlled world. Knowledge is profit in the sixth world!

[Reminder]

Well universities still exist, but what their actual goals are...