[Xzylvador]

Can't believe I'm playing a Magic 4 mage without casting foci, stuck in a city with the highest BC of the continent...
A 4 on his (racially boosted!) drain stat, 2 agility (again, with racial boost). This will be... interesting.

Seems Devoted has 1 hand instead of 2, but no neg. qualities or anything, this is just fluff without any game-mechanic drawbacks?
(Also, he's 17 years old, not 16!)

Edit: Also... I can't seem to find what this group's actually hired for.

[inca1980]

Dude, devoted rocks!  he has a secret move that makes it all super worthit! 

[Kontact]

Edit: Also... I can't seem to find what this group's actually hired for.

Not hired for anything.  Just a salvage crew working on a tip that there's a large cache of high-end goods abandoned in the top of the tower.  Their fence clued them in to this in return for a cut of the take.  There is no boss and no job.  Just an open world to freelance in and a guy who will buy anything of value, like art, antiques, or even information.

And, I'll say it again, you're free to tweak the characters you're taking over.  Just remember avail 8 - 350bp total.

[Sentinemodo]

Etherial made a decent rigger.  The only thing he really skimped on was upgrading his drone's sensors.  Spending a little scratch to get a R6 camera and some lowlight/thermal stuff is 700-800 yen per drone for 3-6 more dice on attacks, depending on the light.  Other than that, he's pretty solid.

Code's situation is this:  He has two walker drones, Dobermans, with Ingram Smartgun X SMGs in their weapon mounts.  One is with the group, the other is with the van.  His van is downstairs with a couple of mafia guys sitting it in to make sure no scavs try and strip it.  He has a slow-moving aerial recon drone, the Renraku Stormcloud, circling the building.  In his pocket, he has a crawler microdrone, the Shiawase Kanmushi, which is ready to be leveraged for snooping.  Losing code early, (or never really having him to begin with,) was a major blow for the exploratory parts of the game.

I'm in
I just need to reread the story so far - have been lurking but not very active at that

And you need to know - that's my first attempt at rigger, I haven't even NPCed one in any of my games yet

[Xzylvador]

Dude, devoted rocks!  he has a secret move that makes it all super worthit!

... care to share what it is? :p

Never played a mage before... now I get to start with a low-budget mage in a BC area; any advice is more than welcome

Thinking of changing one of the Sustaning Foci for a Spellcasting one; Manip or Combat I'm not sure. Bad idea? I don't really like Armor spell... I suppose he wanted to sustain two of Armor, Invis  and Levitate originally? While useful, I think I'd rather pack some punch... Chicago should have more than enough rubble lying around to levitate and drop on heads, right?

Gimme some time to read, halfway through OOC, need to re-read IC and cross-reference key moments... Reading one without the other is really confusing if it's not progressing at the same time.
@work now so it'll be a bit slower than @home, hope to post something IC maybe tonight or at worst case tomorrow night.

[Kontact]

I'm in
I just need to reread the story so far - have been lurking but not very active at that

And you need to know - that's my first attempt at rigger, I haven't even NPCed one in any of my games yet

If you have any questions as to what you can do or need to roll, just ask.
Code is currently in VR, sitting on the floor of the upstairs hallway leading to the set, but he is mentally jumped into the doberman on the set's balcony.

BTW, being in VR means that he is not moving.  It has a built in paralysis feature to keep you from spazzing out in simsense.
...and, uh, could you keep OOC stuff in the OOC thread.  I just like to keep the story from getting cluttered with player talk.

[Kontact]

Never played a mage before... now I get to start with a low-budget mage in a BC area; any advice is more than welcome

Oh man, yikes..  Rigger who's never played a rigger and a mage who's never played a mage.. in a low power creep through one of the top five most dangerous places on the planet...

Here's what's up with background count.
BC is currently at 2.
It lowers your magic rating by 2, for all purposes.
It adds 2 to the effective force of any spell for drain purposes.  (so, +1 DV)
It lowers your foci's rating by 2, for all purposes.
It lowers any spirit's force by 2 for all purposes.
It counts as a -2 dp modifier to any assensing test.
Bonus Chicago problem!
It is filled with FAB-III bacteria which, will attach to any astral form and begin to eat away its magic until it is mundane/dead.

Welcome to the happy place!   

[Sentinemodo]

...and, uh, could you keep OOC stuff in the OOC thread.  I just like to keep the story from getting cluttered with player talk.

sure, I've removed the post.

Did the team destroyed any floors on the way up beyound accesibility via the route we used? I recall some fires from the lurking. I think we need that second doberman up here.
also, can you get me the status of the first doberman's ammo, there is a mention about empty clicks. but I haven't found anything in IC/OOC threads

[inca1980]

@Xylvador:

He can levitate the whole team by attaching a rope to a small solid object and then he levitates that object and we all just hang on.  It's a cool move.

[Xzylvador]

Ah, yeah, I read that...
(Q: Can spirits counterspell? If so, that might not be the best of ideas to try again... Devoted's helped the group pretty well so far, will try to keep it up.)

Done reading... Not sure I can copy the style completely though.


Edit: Change in Devo's character... not going to touch much, I'll play with the hand I'm dealt. I am buying him a Helmet (50), 1 more Medkit supply (50), Analyze 5+Opti1 (600), Geiger Counter (50) and adding Flare Compensation on his Thermal Vision glasses (50). That's the money he had unspent from his BPs.

I suppose a shift in character can be explained by his sudden realization that the world isn't nearly the same as the sheltered, almost monastic life he led so far. (He got freaked out by the argument between Machette and Ruckus... the stuff that's happened just now is of a whole different level.)
I love the challenge of combining his code of honor with his childlike naivety. Kind of like a kid who's read about knights in shining armor or do-good superheroes all the time and now gets to be one.. in the real world that kind of behavior would lead to situations like in Kick-Ass though, in SR it'll probably be even more painful... but it'll be fun while it lasts!
(Having some trouble figuring out why Devoted's Finnish accent is heavier at some moments; if there's a reason for it I haven't found it...)
Edit: Also, reeaaaly wondering what a mage without any even halfway decent physical stats or skills would want to do in a Void. "Gather magic stuff", I get it... but you'd think he'd like to survive to play with those items... Guess I'll chalk that up to childlike naivety too, but he'll snap out of that illusion pretty soon.

Joe, if you're still around and would like to provide some deeper insight so I don't spoil the character, always more than welcome.





Kontact, you described the situation, the focus sustaining that sterilize spell which is keeping the spirits alive but trapped nearby, unable to leave without dying. (If I got that right anyway.) Do the characters realize this situation too? (Heck, I'm still not sure I understand it.)

Edit: How did Ruckus die? Did I miss that somewhere? (Is "thread inactivity" a known medical condition?)
Edit: Am I right when I think Devo's uninjured (0P and 0S) at the moment?
Edit: Who is injured? If the fight's over I'm guessing that after finding Ruckus dead, Devo'll try to help the next guy...


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[Kontact]

Ah, yeah, I read that...
(Q: Can spirits counterspell? If so, that might not be the best of ideas to try again... Devoted's helped the group pretty well so far, will try to keep it up.)

Some can, but not many.

Edit: Also, reeaaaly wondering what a mage without any even halfway decent physical stats or skills would want to do in a Void. "Gather magic stuff", I get it... but you'd think he'd like to survive to play with those items... Guess I'll chalk that up to childlike naivety too, but he'll snap out of that illusion pretty soon.

I'm pretty sure he means Astral Warp.  That's areas of extremely high BC.  Astal void is extremely low BC, which is like outer space.  Outer space is pretty easy to find..

Kontact, you described the situation, the focus sustaining that sterilize spell which is keeping the spirits alive but trapped nearby, unable to leave without dying. (If I got that right anyway.) Do the characters realize this situation too? (Heck, I'm still not sure I understand it.)

They understand it as well as they can understand Holland's rantings and the nature of spirits/ FAB III.  Machete knows a lot about bugs and is a pretty smart guy.  He's the most likely to piece together the how and why happening in the background of the current situation.

Edit: How did Ruckus die? Did I miss that somewhere? (Is "thread inactivity" a known medical condition?)
Edit: Am I right when I think Devo's uninjured (0P and 0S) at the moment?
Edit: Who is injured? If the fight's over I'm guessing that after finding Ruckus dead, Devo'll try to help the next guy...

Ruckus died from wasp's venom during the unseen fight in the hallway.
Devo is currently uninjured.
Machete has one P, one S and has already applied first aid.
Digger is uninjured.
Code is uninjured.  (Ruckus made himself a high-priority target.)

[Xzylvador]

So, guess I'm in.

Is the fire they/we started still burning a couple of floors down and if so, is it possible to get there without too many problems?
Devo finds being turned into ashes is preferable to ending up as a ghoul's midnight snack...

[inca1980]

Welcome on board Xzy with your first post!  You stepped in at a super cool part.  I mean wasp spirits and an elf trapped in a translucent barrier....all bumping against it....that's some COOL shit   I hate in the summer time when a wasp gets trapped in between the pains of glass of my window.  It's like you feel sorry for it, but you also wanna kill it at the same time cuz they look super menacing.....a small thing like that manacing, funny how genetic instincts work. 

[inca1980]

Oh, I also have 1S.

[Kontact]

Is the fire they/we started still burning a couple of floors down?

No one has checked to see, and you can't smell smoke through a gas mask/hazmat suit.