[SquirrelDude]

The two items that I've been waiting for.

Yamaha Raiden w/Grenade Launcher
Base Yamaha Raiden (Smartlink + Sound supressor) . . . . . 2,600¥
Advanced Safety System (Biometric, Electroshock) . . . . . 950¥
Rating 3 Gas Vent System (Barrel) . . . . . 600¥
Folding Stock (Stock) . . . . . 30¥
Sling . . . . . 15¥
Underbarrel Grenade Launcher (Under) . . . . . 3,500¥
*Tripod (Under) . . . . . 500¥
Low Light Flashlight (side) . . . . . 200¥
Infrared Flashlight (side) . . . . . 400¥
Imaging Scope (+Image link) (Top) . . . . . 325¥
Slide Mounts (Bottom and both sides) . . . . . 1,500¥
Personalized Grip (Accessory) . . . . . 100¥
9x spare box magazines . . . . . 45¥

300 Rounds APDS . . . . . 3,600¥
540 Rounds Stick n Shock . . . . . 4,320¥

Ammo for the Grenade Launcher
12 High Explosive Grenades . . . . . 1,200¥
12 Smoke Grenades . . . . . 480¥
12 Flash Bang Grenades . . . . . 1,200¥

Total Value brought to 21,565¥ Rating "only" 14F

Full Body Armor


Full Body Armor . . . . . 2,000*2 = 4,000¥
* Nonconductivity 4 . . . . . 1,000¥
* Fire Resistance 4 . . . . . 1,000¥
* Shock Weave . . . . . 1,000¥
* Thermal Damping 4 . . . . 2,000¥
Capacity Used/Total = 14/21

Helmet . . . . . 500*2 = 1,000¥
* Trode Net . . . . . 20 ¥
* Thermographic Vision . . . . . 500¥
* Smartlink . . . . . 2,000¥
* Image Link/HUD . . . . . 25¥
* Flare Compensator . . . . . 250¥
* Repirator 6 . . . . . 300¥
* Micro-transceiver . . . . . 100¥
Capacity Used/Total = 9/9

*Price doubled for YNT Softweave.

Original Armor Setup
Mentioning of change to Fresnel Fabric

Total value brought to 13,875¥ Rating 14R

*The price on the Ruhrmetal HMG I list up there is actually wrong. I forgot that it has extra attachments that need to be accounted for.

[Jack_Spade]

You get all your pretty toys. Although Torrent might want to invest into a ruthenium polymer poncho from Hard Targets.

[Volker]

All right, I thought about it and I guess I can't quit anyway. I'm totally addicted to my addicted psycho. Sometimes, I can't post for a couple of days, as you might have seen. If that's okay for everybody, I'll join when we go for Panzerknacker

Until then, I'll read the rigging rules, buy a control rig and totally freak out. And bnc will do some pretty embarassing things for Scary Spice only a teenage girl in need for sex would do

[Sabato Kuroi]

You get all your pretty toys. Although Torrent might want to invest into a ruthenium polymer poncho from Hard Targets.

I'll check it out.Is it better than a Chameleon Suit coated with ruthenium polymer?

[SquirrelDude]

Question about that Ruhrmetal HMG we have. You mentioned that the weapon had some extra modifications on it, but I can't find where you posted those in either the IC or OOC threads for Deep Black Sea.

links for convenience
http://forums.shadowruntabletop.com/index.php?topic=19532.400 - Deep Black Sea OOC
http://forums.shadowruntabletop.com/index.php?topic=19532.350 - Deep Black Sea IC

If no one is interested in keeping the spare weapons, Slob will approach Scary Spice about fencing and smuggling some fancy and prototype weapons for the team.

Do we want both vans (our current and the triad), or just one van?

I need some GM adjudication on the prices for
 - Those prototype laser weapons that we have
 - The Ares Alphas minus the grenade launchers
 - The prototype hardened full-body armor (I don't think we intend to sell this, but I'm curious)

[Jack_Spade]

The Ares Alphas are easy: Those go for 75% of the original price (before the blackmarket adjustment)
The Lasers are really hard to flog without getting heat from Ares. They are worth each 50.000, but you'll need to search long and hard for a discreet buyer. If you want quick cash you'll have to contend with half the normal black market price (usually 5%*Loyalty of your contact).
The HMG Ruhrmetal is worth 22.000 with all accessories - but you might want to keep that for when bnc becomes a kick-ass rigger
I'll look for the details later.

The Fullbody armor is currently worth about 25.000 but also not easy to sell.

[SquirrelDude]

Yeah, I'm not in any real rush to get rid of the Ruhrmetal. It's a good weapon. I just wasn't sure if anyone actually going to use it.

So unless there is any objection, K or someone else's preferred contact will be fencing the following equipment for the team. No rush to get money in, so they can take the time they need to get a good deal on that stuff, and to do it without getting noticed by Ares or SK.

Slob's Ares Alpha w/out grenade launcher - 1987¥
11 Ares Alpha clips - 55¥ Total
2 AA-16 Shotgun (2/external smartlink, personalized grip, gas vent III, foregrip, ammo skip)- 3000¥ each
2 Colt TZ-120 SMGs - 660¥ each
1 Crocket EBR - 10,300¥
2 Experimental Laser Weapons (Ares Lancer MP Laser Rating 3) Detailed here - 50,000¥ each
4 FN AAL Gyrojet Pistols - 2000¥ each

Magic Equipment
Force 6 Sustaining Spell Foci (Healing) - 24,000¥
Force 6 Sustaining Spell Foci (Manipulation) - 24,000¥

Commlinks
Slob's Sony Emperor (Rating 2) - 700¥ : Might as well use the Rating 5 ones that the Triads left us as the new backup.

Electronics
2 modified Glasses -3,150¥ each
2 Trodes - 70¥ each
2 Biomontors - 300¥ each

Clothing
2 "well used" Executive Suites - 2,000¥ each
4 Diving Armor - 1750¥ each

Vehicles
GMC Bulldog Stepvan - 35,000¥

That's only 194,457¥ 229,457¥ worth of goods that need to be moved

Major items that are being kept

Krestov's Ares Alpha w/out grenade launcher +11 spare magazines 1988¥+55¥
Ruhrmetal SF-20 HMG - 22,000¥
Hardened Milspec Armor - 50,000¥
Rating 3 Weapon Foci (Knucks) - 21,000¥
2 Spare Rating 5 Commlinks

Stuff the team needs to decide on
- The spare Rating 5 commlink: Does anyone need a spare? I think we all have better commlinks at this point.
- The vans: Do we need two? If not, which one are we selling.

Question for the GM
 - What kind of Animal Handling check are we looking at to train/retrain the new team member? It's 3 years old, so I imagine it's already got a bit of training, but it's also somewhat imprinted on its previous owners and will be wary (to say the least) of the new team.

Oh, and important ground rule with the new pup. Until it's trained and friendly with the team, it is not to be left alone with bnc. It's a Tibetan Mastiff, and I'm pretty sure it at least weighs more than her.

[Volker]

Stuff the team needs to decide on
 - The spare Rating 5 commlink: Does anyone need a spare? I think we all have better commlinks at this point.
 - The vans: Do we need two? If not, which one are we selling.

I'd keep the commlink. At some point or another a spare commlink comes in handy. You need to make an anonymous phone call or something. You wanna go to a meeting without carrying your personal data with you. Stuff like that.
I don't think we can keep the second van. I assume there's only on parking space at our flat
No, seriously, I can see no reason to keep the second van.

Question for the GM
Oh, and important ground rule with the new pup. Until it's trained and friendly with the team, it is not to be left alone with bnc. It's a Tibetan Mastiff, and I'm pretty sure it at least weighs more than her.

No problem, she doesn't like dogs anyway. But if it's peaceful (and it looks very friendly), they should come along. I don't think, they would train a Tibetain Mastiff to tear apart youg girls.

[SquirrelDude]

So with our Rigger's approval, I'll also have the team's preferred contact move to sell our GMC Bulldog (valued at 35,000¥) and we can  keep the Triad's fancy Black Rover 2072.

[Jack_Spade]

The dog won't have any problems to adapt to you if you treat it right. You can be sure that they did not enjoy being made into a puppet.
So it's an easy test with a time interval of days to gain its trust per animal handling.
Animal Handling + Charisma [Social] (6, 1 day) Extended Test

[SquirrelDude]

21 Kharma to Spend
I'll go ahead and devote two points getting a rank in Animal Handling. Boosts my dice pool from 2 to 4.
I'll put down seven Points for Automatics specialization (Assault Rifle)
I'll put down two points for a rank in Heavy Weapons for the new grenade launcher.

That's 11/21 spent

A Qi focus of Astral Perception (since we want assensing) should be...

Forcex2 Kharma, Force = ppcost x4, Forcex3000 Nuyen, Force x3R.

Force = 1x4 = 4.
Eight Kharma
12,000 Nuyen
12R Availability

And then finally two points for a rank in Assensing.

I can afford that, but I'm not sure who between Torrent and Slob have the better intuition or if you aren't already planning on doing that Sabuto. It might make more sense for you since you've been doing all the scouting. If Slob doesn't get it, I'll probably be sitting on the rest of the points for either initiation 2 (Adept Centering) or Adept Way of the Warrior


It's been a really slow workweek folks.

[SquirrelDude]

Merry Christmas everyone

We've somehow all been doing this for almost a year now.

[Sabato Kuroi]

Merry Christmas guys!


I haven't decided yet about my Karma and how to spend it

[Jack_Spade]

Merry Christmas and frohe Weihnacht to all of you too.

Maybe you should recruit a third mage slinger into your group - that way you could found a circle to discount your initiations 

The side quest "Sins of the fathers" will start some time after next monday. Until than I'd ask you, SquirrelDude to send me per PM a summary of all relevant Details you want to have included about your parents. Everything else I'll make up.

[Volker]

So with our Rigger's approval, I'll also have the team's preferred contact move to sell our GMC Bulldog (valued at 35,000¥) and we can  keep the Triad's fancy Black Rover 2072.

Sure, I'm fine with that.

I haven't decided yet about my Karma and how to spend it

Me neither, but I'm gonna find time the next couple of days. If I recall correctly, I haven't even used my Karma from Deep Black Sea

Maybe you should recruit a third mage slinger into your group - that way you could found a circle to discount your initiations 

I have a shaman I'd love to play ... But I don't think it's wise to play to characters when I was thinking about quitting the first one due to lack of time ^^

The side quest "Sins of the fathers" will start some time after next monday. Until than I'd ask you, SquirrelDude to send me per PM a summary of all relevant Details you want to have included about your parents. Everything else I'll make up.

I'm not sure whether or not bnc is directly involved. That depends strongly on Slobbertooth. If he asks for help, she will help him, and if the whole party joings, so will she. But I'm not sure how she'd react if they just start doing something. I'll decide this during the first posts. I'd love if we can roleplay the social interactions how the whole thing starts. This helps me to decide whether or not and to what degree bnc joins in.

And last but not least:

Merry Christmas everyone! Enjoy the festival! You're great, guys, and I enjoy this group a lot. I would have long wanted to quit, but I just can't. Thanks for this game!