[Bewilderbeast]

Johnny's rolling his Drug Dealers knowledge skill to see if he's heard of this clown before. 1 hit: http://orokos.com/roll/186176

He'll likely hit up contacts later, once we get on the road. But yeah, he definitely wants to know the make/model of the commlink. If the Johnson doesn't know, I saw we just pick up a Meta-Link from the Stuffer Shack and hope Johnny's Con roll is high! Heh.

No, seriously, that'd be a bad idea. Ballsy and funny but no way it'd work out in our favor.

[JackVII]

@Bewilderbeast: LOL.

Us: "Here you go, Mr. J. Just like promised!"
Mr. J: "This commlink is still in the package?!?"
Us: "Of course! We're professionals!"

@Martin: Not that it matters, but I believe Bad Johnny Juju may have asked the follow-up question you were thinking about.

[martinchaen]

Good catch, JackVII; still tired, apparently

Hehehe, and that's an awesome plan, Bewilderbeast! Let's do that and put a bunch of garbage files on there, say that this is how we found it. Johnson doesn't know squat, we earn 8000 smackaroos, job's a good'n!

[Vandarl]

Matrix searches: In the order to be done as time permits.
Oxycode = Results   11d6: 41 [11d6=1, 4, 1, 3, 4, 3, 4, 6, 5, 5, 5] 4 successes
Novelty Hills Sleep & Eat = Results   11d6: 30 [11d6=1, 1, 4, 2, 4, 2, 4, 2, 3, 6, 1] 1 success
Captian "Lucky Dog" Corma = Results   11d6: 39 [11d6=2, 3, 4, 3, 3, 5, 5, 5, 5, 2, 2]4 successes
Baron Mojo = Results   11d6: 43 [11d6=4, 1, 6, 5, 6, 3, 4, 4, 4, 2, 4] 3 successes
Bad Johnny Juju = Results   11d6: 39 [11d6=2, 1, 6, 3, 6, 4, 3, 4, 5, 1, 4] 3 successes
Mr Johnson = Results   11d6: 38 [11d6=1, 2, 3, 5, 4, 3, 1, 6, 5, 2, 6] 4 sussesses

[Celtibero]

ok looking deep at the RCC issue... post coming up asap gents

[Celtibero]

ok so here is the thing, i tend to agree with Aaron that the gunnery entry is a typo. Logic can still be used to fire a weapon according with the "Sensor Targeting" entry, i believe its a good compromise.

as far as the hot-sim, i dont see any reason to think it does not come embedded into the RCC so the +2 +1 apply imo.

as far as using spotter drones to reduce the penalty i dont have any problem with that.

[martinchaen]

Cool as cool, Celtibero, I'll make sure to keep that in mind.

[JackVII]

Are we done in the bar IC? I think we're waiting for one more response from Johnson, maybe? After that we can clamber into the Roadmaster and head to the target location. I can do Astral Recon, Moto can cover Physical Recon, Count Zorro can cover Matrix Recon?

[martinchaen]

Sounds about right to me, JackVII, unless the pirate decides to pick a fight with the ghouls or the gangers for being ninjas or something...

Roadmaster is ready and able to transport any and all willing passengers, and I'll send the drones ahead of me to scout the place out.

Reposting my previous activities:

Moto will performs some Matrix Searches over the next couple of minutes/hours, looking for more than just general information (i.e. Threshold 3, Limited Interest or Not Publicized, if applicable)
Matrix Search w/Browse [6]: "Oxycode" "Oxycode, Redmond Barrens" "Oxycode street alias": 12d6t5 6

Matrix Search w/Browse [6]: "Novelty Hills Sleep & Eat" "Novelty Hills Sleep & Eat directions": 12d6t5 6

He'll then try to research Mr. Johnson, probably while on the way to Novelty Hills unless the meeting drags out;
Matrix Search w/Browse [6]: [image of Mr. Johnson]: 12d6t5 8
Holy hell, the dice gods are kind today; first two rolls with 6 hits, then 8 hits on 12 dice? Whaaaaaat? Shame I'm limited to 6 hits.
Same as above, looking for information of limited interest or that might not have been publicized, so Threshold 3.

Since all searches are done with a Browse program, the base time to search is halved from 30 to 15 minutes.  Additional hits beyond the threshold of 3 is used to reduce the time spent searching the Matrix. With 3 net hits on all tests, that means 5 minutes spent on each topic.

[Celtibero]

Dry for the delay, trial actually told me so today, the fact was that I was a bit thrown off by the rigging rules and had to change some things, post coming today gents

[martinchaen]

All right, in terms of Matrix Security, Vandarl, how are you (out of character) statted?

I'm currently taking up 9 of a possible 15 subscriptions on my own Proteus Poseidon, which has Firewall 7 plus my Willpower or Intuition of 6 for defending against Matrix Attacks; with Full Matrix Defense, I'd add my Willpower of 6 to devices slaved to my gear (as per Aaron's reading allowing for both mental attributes and Matrix attributes of the Master to be used when defending), for a total of 19 dice on the defense.

However, and this is a big one, I am useless beyond the initial defense (well, and resisting Matrix/Biofeedback damage, which I do with 15 and 17 dice, respectively). If an enemy decker fails a Sleaze action on one of my devices (most likely a drone) I don't really have anything I can do (the Trace Icon action requiring two MARKs is ridiculous; deckers are never going to be able to do that unless they branch out and try being a small-time decker as well, or the enemy decker fails TWO consecutive Sleaze actions.

So, with that in mind, it might be better if we ask the team to run their devices on the public grid (if they aren't already) and then slave their devices to your deck; enemy hackers would be getting a -2 to all Matrix actions against them, and the team would gain the benefit of your Firewall and Intuition (unless theirs is higher, which is unlikely, perhaps except in the case of one of the players who has a DR5 commlink).

Thoughts?

[JackVII]

FYI: If we're going with Aaron's rulings, there is one major issue with Matrix Defense, namely that in order to add something to your PAN, you have to be the owner of it.

[martinchaen]

OK, I see what Aaron is saying, but that isn't stated anywhere in the rules that I can find; I've just read the "PANs and WANs" section on page 233 and the "Recognition Keys" on pages 236 and 237, and there's nothing in there about a requirement for devices to be owned to be included in a PAN.

Thoughts?

[EDIT]:
The only reference to owner in the PANs and WANs section is this:

There are risks to slaving devices. Because of the tight connections between the devices, if you get a mark on a slave you also get a mark on the master. This happens even if the slave was marked through a direct connection, so be careful about who you give your slaved devices to. This doesn’t work both ways; if you fail a Sleaze action against a slaved device, only the device’s owner gets the mark on you, not the master too.

[EDIT2]:
I'm going to protect all of my files
Edit File [6]: Protect files on commlink: 13d6t5 3
Nope, not satisfied (1 complex action); I'll keep trying once in a while (checking on comms, driving around, etc, before trying again)

Edit File [6]: Protect files on commlink: 13d6t5 5
Close, but not quite...

Edit File [6]: Protect files on commlink: 13d6t5 2
Sighs...

Edit File [6]: Protect files on commlink: 13d6t5 6
There we go

Probably won't get this done until we arrive at the frakkin' motel thing.

Celtibero, no rush, but I'd prefer to get some results on the Matrix searches we've all been running before we get to the place (unless it takes us less than 10 minutes to get there; my searches all would have taken 15 minutes or so).

[JackVII]

I don't think it's a good ruling, just that it is one of Aaron's rulings.

Because there is a bit of a disconnect between the PAN/WAN rules and the Device Defense rules in the Matrix Actions section (which caused multi-page arguments), the way I personally decided to run it was that slaving a device that you don't own only grants the Firewall attribute, rather than the Mental Attribute as well.

Regardless of which way we go on the deal, Full Matrix Defense can only be taken by the Owner of a device.

[martinchaen]

Fair point. I guess one option would be to hand over Ownership of devices, then, takes about a minute per device if anyone's interested, and would allow for substantially higher defense pools. Nothing stops an owner from inviting three marks on a device so that others can use said device, after all...