[martinchaen]

Moto is particular about his vehicles. Also, his backstory gives the reason for why he dislikes water. So yeah, calling his pride and glory a "boat" did not go over well :-)

[JackVII]

Resting doesn't mean sleeping though. And as a veteran I would challenge anyone claiming that you can't rest in a moving vehicle; if I can sleep while strapped into the back of a C-130 Hercules, most people can rest in a car :-)

Sure, I fell asleep on the C-130 during jump school.  The engines actually give off a nice bit of white noise that makes falling asleep particularly easy. That doesn't necessarily mean it was high quality rest though, IMO. So yeah, I'm waiting for a GM opinion on this one.

[martinchaen]

Fair point

Though given the fact that there is a whole table of Healing modifiers, I'm sure the back of a car will count as one of the following:
Good conditions (sterilized med facility) +0
Average conditions (indoors) –1
Poor conditions (street or wilderness) –2
Bad conditions (combat, bad weather, swamp) –3
Terrible conditions (fire, severe storm) –4

To my mind, it'd be either average or poor conditions, with my money on average (you're indoors, comfortably seated and secured, and just like on the C-130 the engine makes a nice rumble ).

Moto also has a Rating 6 medkit in the back of the Roadmaster; if Mojo talks about recuperating at all, Moto would likely offer assistance.

Scratch that, silly magicians and their Drain. Only Medicine can help in that case, right?

[Celtibero]

OK, I was going to summon a spirit to watch me while I napped, but realized that it didn't really take us all that long to get here, so it might not take us that long to get back. I am going to save the summoning roll since I end up taking a box of stun damage from it, but will apply it at a point where the Baron can reasonably expect to get at least an hour's worth of rest, if that is okay with you Celtibero. If not, not a big deal, I'll have the spirit with me for when I do take a nap. Just let me know.

Here's the roll for the summoning:
Summoning a F2 Spirit of Man to basically serve as a watcher.

Summon F2 Spirit of Man: Summoning (6) + Magic (7) - Wounds (1): 12d6t5 6 2d6t5 1 11d6t5 1

Can't catch a break on drain resistance tests. Jeez...

If possible, I am going to try to rest in the vehicle and recover some of my stun damage. Not sure how long it is going to take until we get to our destination. If we know it isn't going to take more than 15-20 minutes, he would wait to summon the spirit for when he would expect to get a chance to rest.

Keeping the IC post text here if I need to update my post

Feeling that a nap might help his headache, but not entirely trusting the folks around him, Mojo slipped his senses into the Astral. Focusing himself, he  a weak spirit of man whose sole purpose was to watch over him and wake him up if anything untoward happened. Given their surroundings, it wasn't entirely unusual that the spirit took the form of a miniature version of Moto's truck, albeit with a giant rack of KC flood lights along the grill and on top of the roof... all pointed in Cormack's direction at the moment. Summoning the little spirit winded the mage further, but he hoped to get some rest immediately.

as long as the other members don't start pulling practicall jokes on you and you guys dont enter a war zone nor find yourselves engulfed by a dragons flame i see no reason why you should not rest

[JackVII]

as long as the other members don't start pulling practicall jokes on you and you guys dont enter a war zone nor find yourselves engulfed by a dragons flame i see no reason why you should not rest

Awesome, this is the exact reason I conjured up that spirit. So, if we're allowed an hour to rest, I'll conjure that spirit and make a healing test.

Healing Check: Body (3) + Willpower (6) + Quick Healer (2): 11d6t5 3

Down to one box of stun and no penalties to track.

[Bewilderbeast]

as long as the other members don't start pulling practicall jokes on you and you guys dont enter a war zone nor find yourselves engulfed by a dragons flame i see no reason why you should not rest

As funny as it would be to draw dicks on Mojo's face like he's a passed out college freshman, the fact is over half our team makes frequent use of hostim or astral projection. It'd probably look bad if half the team shows up to a meet with Sharpie mustaches.

[martinchaen]

And that is why Moto has his own part of the vehicle all to himself

[EDIT]
Hey guys, should we be worried? Vandarl hasn't been online since May 27th, and he hasn't responnded to a PM I sent him. How long do we wait before moving the action on?

I didn't want to post anything until he'd had a chance to examine the commlinks...

Also, with Stolen Souls released, Celtibero, will you allow things like spoof chips, morphing license plates, and the various emergency light equipment described in the book? When I created Moto for SR4, I had all those upgrades on the Roadmaster, but left them out in SR5 as they obviously didn't exist. With the upcoming payday, Moto is going to ask Valkyrie to acquire some of them and install them himself.

[Celtibero]

ok, 6h to vandarl, i pmed him, 6h and ill be npcing the char

illget back to u on the stolen souls martin.

[Bewilderbeast]

Sigh... I still haven't picked up Run and Gun. I'm too broke! Stolen Souls sounds awesome and frankly interests me more.

[martinchaen]

Whoops, I knew I'd left something out.; must have decided to hold off on a jammer until I could get a high rating one. And it doesn't look like I can provide jamming at all, as the Jam Signals Matrix action requires an Attack action (which I think is weird; filling the airwaves with Static should be a Data Processing action to my mind, but it looks like the developers really screwed Riggers over in this edition, seeing as how Riggers can't really do much on the Matrix at all except rigging...).

One more thing on the shopping list, then... I'll be contacting Valkyrie to get me;

1x Morphing License Plates (availability 8F, 1000¥, base delivery time of 1 day)
1x Rating 6 Area Jammer (availability 18F, 1200¥, base delivery time of 2 days)
1x Spoof Chips (availability 8F, 500¥, base delivery time of 1 day)

Valkyrie's avail rolls:
Valkyrie Swag Roll [7]: 17d6t5 5 17d6t5 6 17d6t5 6

Valkyrie's opposed rolls:
Valkyrie's Opposed Swag Roll: 8d6t5 4 18d6t5 6 8d6t5 2

All right, so the Morphing License Plates takes 1 day, the Rating 6 Area Jammer takes 4 days (booo), while she can get the Spoof Chips in just 6 hours (1 day = 24 hours / 4 net hits).

Presuming we're using the Run & Gun modification rules for weapons for automotive gear as well (the rules port over nicely enough), I'll roll to see if Moto knows how to install the mods himself. If not, he's going to key off a couple Matrix Searches for some plans to install the Spoof Chips and the Morphing License Plates while on the road/during whatever comes next.

Automotive Mechanic + Logic (4): Knowledge test for Spoof Chips and Morphing License Plate installs: 12d6t5 6 12d6t5 5
So Moto already knows how to install the mods.

I'll leave it up to you Celtibero to give me a threshold for the Build/Repair test; for reference, in SR4 Spoof Chips required a Hardware + Logic (2) test, while Morphing License plates required no test at all to install.

If you go with the Hardware + Logic test, Moto will succeed.
Hardware + Logic (2): Spoof Chip install (+1 Superiour Working Conditions (Workshop with Tool Shop), +1 for AR): 11d6t5 4

These are all future actions, though, just rolling for my own sake as I looked all of this up before starting work

Carry on.

[EDIT]
Sooo... how are we getting further, Celtibero? I think we're waiting for Vandarl to actually take a look at the links while en-route to the Banshee, no?

Moto would park somewhere else this time around, something like an alley behind the main entrance of the Banshee instead of out front. Feel free to move the action along, as Moto has done all he needed to until we arrive.

[Bewilderbeast]

It's the stupid but more fun option. I'm in favor of cracking open the commlinks. Bad Johnny Juju will do nothing to stop it.

[JackVII]

Baron Mojo would argue that it wasn't professional, but he's resting/sleeping at the moment so his opinion isn't really relevant.

[martinchaen]

Just realized Vandarl posted earlier about a health scare; hope he's ok...

Are we waiting for something? If not, it's up to you Celtibero; Count Zorro can jam the airwaves with his deck, and I can take a look at the links using my RCC with inherent noise reduction + Signal Scrubber + the ability to Compensate On The Fly.

Just in case he rolls well:
Compensate on the Fly [6]: 17d6t5 4
So, with my Proteus Poseidon RCC (Device Rating 5) using one program slot for Virtual Machine (Signal Scrub, Toolbox) and 4 slots for noise reduction, and Compensating on the Fly with 4 net hits, I'm up to 2+4+4=10 Noise Reduction. I'm confident he doesn't have the capability to exceed that (unless he uses edge, and even then that's a long shot), so I'll be able to take a long, hard look at each link as he powers them up.

Matrix Perception Test [6]: First commlink: 12d6t5 6
1 hit to spot the icon I'm looking for
1 hit to check for it's commcode
1 hit to check for data bombs
1 hit to check the last Matrix action it performed
1 hit to check for the most recent edit date of any file
1 hit to check for file protections

Matrix Perception Test [6]: Second commlink: 12d6t5 2
1 hit to spot the icon I'm looking for
1 hit to check for it's commcode
1 hit to check for data bombs

Matrix Perception Test [6]: Second commlink, later on: 12d6t5 3
1 hit to check the last Matrix action it performed
1 hit to check for the most recent edit date of any file

[JackVII]

How much Noise is there? Barrens is usually 2 or 3, IIRC.

[Celtibero]

should be correct, 2 or 3 at most.

I´ll be doing a post later tonight, lots of work so you'll have to excuse me for the slow rate gentleman