[8-bit]

Actually, Urban Brawl doesn't allow foci

Just because they don't allow foci doesn't mean someone with a high initiate grade and masking hasn't done it ...

[The Wyrm Ouroboros]

As I understand it, you can't mask what isn't in your possession - only the magical link to you.  Plus, high-initiate-grade + Masking mages/adepts don't typically play Urban Brawl.  Besides, would YOU want your team's victories to be taken away because you carried illegal gear onto the field?

[8-bit]

As I understand it, you can't mask what isn't in your possession - only the magical link to you.  Plus, high-initiate-grade + Masking mages/adepts don't typically play Urban Brawl.  Besides, would YOU want your team's victories to be taken away because you carried illegal gear onto the field?

True, true. Just thinking it's a possibility, since their screening is not that high (I seem to recall some sort of fiasco with smuggling technomancers in, as it's damn near impossible to assense them properly). You're right though.

[The Wyrm Ouroboros]

Actually, if there is (or was) a fiasco with technomancers, you should - or, rather, I would - take that as being their screening is quite good indeed; just that technomancers were so very difficult to examine, and perhaps at the time it was more a matter of 'we don't even know what to look for'.

Of course, falling 7.5 stories is still going to take a good second and a half, so it's up to the GM whether or not there's going to be paranoid enough people in the opposition to shoot you as you drop.