[Crunch]

I'm wondering how much Mutumbo and Frenchy overlap. It sounds like for vehicle/outdoor/mechanic checks we might have some good teamwork possibilities.

[JackVII]

Oh great, now I remember. It was our Street Sam/Ganger who never showed up for the meet. So much for firepower, LOL.

[Reminder]

I figured at times you might be wanting more than one driver.... and the overlap is partial, but not that huge. Just that you both decided you needed other stuff more than a vehicle

[Ren]

Actually, Mutumbo's main talents are outdoors and hunting. I just spent a few skill points so that he can drive a car if needed. As for mechanics: he's more cut out to provide help than to make the repairs himself.

[Crunch]

Frenchy's an above average mechanic and a really good outdoorsman, but driving is his focus and he's really really really good at it.

[Reminder]

Do we think a trip west for the rest of us to get the lie of the land would be fruitful?

If you mean to go scout out the area the Johnson described, if you left right this second, you might be able to go and return in the time alotted if you did nothing else. Adding things like scouting or any occurances you had to deal with would likely make you miss the pickup time. You know enough that the round trip travel time is no less than 12 hours, at best and probably more than that even in near ideal conditions.

[Crunch]

I was thinking more the roads out of town to the west for 5 or 6 hours. It wouldn't be as good as actually getting to look at the destination, but it would at least give us the opportunity to check for any obvious snags and develop a working relationship before we're "on stage" for Alzmer.

[Reminder]

I wasn't saying you can't go, just letting you know what you would know ic since you are the one with transpo experience.

[Crunch]

Thanks! 

[JackVII]

I'm down for a quick trip. Just wondering if our aliases are going to hold up out there or if we need to develop a zany cover story.

[Crunch]

My alias is super crappy But Frenchy is broke, and for a quick pleasure trip it might be enough.

I'm wondering what Reminder thinks an appropriate cost for a forged hunting permit would be?

[JackVII]

Given the street restrictions, I got the best I could get (Rating 3). But, uh... her cover is a game warden. LOL. I guess it isn't a far cry for the government to contract with a hunter to cull a nuisance animal or, even worse, a man-killer.

[Reminder]

A fake hunting permit is a fake license. Granted you have to take into account who is enforcing the law and where as well. Not everyone cares what the government says.

[Crunch]

Of course. But having the permit at least gives us somewhere to bullshit from. Between Alexander and Frenchy we ought to be able to run at least a reasonable hustle given some evidence.

[JackVII]

I guess the biggest point of uncertainty is that we don't really know OOC how heavily surveilled transiting the country is likely to be in 2070s Africa.
As I see it, we have two main obstacles to overcome.

The first is the government, which we should be able to overcome through an appropriate application of fake documents and Alexander. The effort that we have to go to in order to overcome this obstacle is something we really can't gauge OOC. Are there checkpoints on the road? Mainly just at the entrance and exits of cities? Only at highly urbanized areas?

The second consideration is all of the non-government entities (tribes, slum gangs, critters, etc). Most of that looks like we're going to have to overcome it through avoidance or force. Our docs won't really do much for us there.