[joe15552]

Lol, crossbow! I'm such a sucker for double meanings. That was funny.

[Kontact]

Infiltration mode definitely, oh and I put my boots back on.

Also, all these doors we are passing by, are these offices or living quarters or what?  Just curious, because if there is untouched salvage up here I might be making a return trip sometime in the near future, if we don't burn the joint down.

Should I take that to mean you're... peaking out?  No matter.  You just get to find out a little early.

Let's get some paracritter or seattle history knowledge rolls here.  Anything to do with BUGS.

[Crossbow]

Logic 2 + Chicago 4

6d6.hits(5) → [4,3,3,2,1,2] = (0)

http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/2838291/

Yeah that is appropriate considering that I am the one asking the question.

By the by Kontact, I am Digger in that thread, I am doing my best to get the hell out of the Chicago WITHOUT any bugs, sure as hell wouldn't be wandering around the Shadowrun Chicago

[Kontact]

Haha, sorry!

I'm DRUNK!

Wow, I couldn't even keep my tenses straight.. 

[joe15552]

lol, well, I'm not gonna try to roll for it. I'd critical glitch and have a brain aneurysm.

[Kontact]

Anyone...

[joe15552]

Well, I guess Devoted will attempt to be the most knowledgeable one in the group:

Gonna make a survival check to determine what the odd crust is.
Willpower 5 + Survival 2 = 7 dice, 7d6.hits(5) → [5,2,5,3,4,6,5] = 4 hits. Yay I didn't crit fail.

[Kontact]

Pieces of the stuff peel off like flakes of pastry dough... not that Devoted would know much about pastries.

It seems to be layered, and the texture and smell of the stuff is strongly reminiscent of a wasp's nest.
That was the easy part.

Judging how old it is is the difficult step.  Wasp's nests can be preserved for decades with little change.
It certainly isn't fresh though.

[inca1980]

I'm gonna roll my Chicago Insect Spirits knowledge skill.  Chicago Insect Spirits 2 + Logic 3 + PuSHeD 1= (6d6.hits(5)=2)→ [3,4,3,1,5,5] = (2).  I purposely made it a quite specific knowledge skill so hopefully I'll get some insightful info   Maybe even about possible uses for the material as bait for some critter or other.  Whatever info would be useful.

I guess i'll roll Chicago Paracritter's as well.

Chicago Para-critters 2 + Logic 3 + PuSHeD 1= (6d6.hits(5)=3)→ [1,3,4,5,5,6] = (3)

[joe15552]

Fire anyone?

[Kontact]

I'm gonna roll my Chicago Insect Spirits knowledge skill.

Yay!  Okay.  You're certain that this is a Wasp spirit nest.  It fits their modus operandi perfectly.  High building, open-air access.  All of that.  You can confirm that this nest was started after the fire based on that knowledge.. and the lack of soot and such on it.  However, you can tell that this stuff on the walls wasn't finished.  The whole icky wall thing is prep for a queen, but the prep was never completed.

As to what you know about wasps, they are territorial, venomous and can fly.  Unlike their bee cousins, there are only three classes, Soldier, Queen and Nymph.  Nests are small, but spread quickly.

[Kontact]

Since there's no stated DV for damaging barriers with elemental effect weapons, I'll just do it straight up DV = base + hits.

[inca1980]

But with fire elemental effects there's the whole section on things igniting and just taking damage every combat turn and the duration depends on the flamability of the material to be determined by the GM.  See the 2nd paragraph on pg. 165 SR4A.  I'd just want to ignite it, once and not blow all my fuel tank on it.  Maybe give it a little touch up now and then if the flames seem to be dying.

[Kontact]

Yeah, I was going to get into the continuing to burn thing...

[AJBuwalda]

We'll let machete burn that sucker down, if it fails ruckus will feel inclined to help