[Beta]

OK, dispelling drain is equal to the drain of the spell.  So not sure what Alf is in for....I'll roll the dice, you tell me what the drain is!

     Intuition boost is still on Derren, so Alf just has his basic 10 dice for drain resist.
     drain resist: 10d6t5 6

Wow, great roll -- if that isn't enough to handle the drain, I'm scared of whoever cast that illusion.

Also -- any background count here?

Alf speaks into his throat mike
"Illusion back there isn't going down easily, we'll have to deal with going in blind.  I can silence us for more surprise value if you want, but then communication isn't that great.  Why not let me come around the back and I'll come in with you."

[biotech66]

You huff, you puff, and you blow away the illusion.  As the illusion leaves you see a hole in the floor leading to the sewers for all to see. 

With the illusion gone, you begin to see the stink of death on the area background count 2

[Beta]

Color me confused.  Alf did not try to dispell the illusion a second time, instead Derren and Alf were getting ready to enter the building.  Granted, they may have eventually gotten around to taking the spell down, but there seems to be a jump there?  That said, I'll roll with it

Alf looks at the dark and foul smelling hole.  "You know, I think I know what to do with places like that:  not go down them.  At least, not without a troll in full military armor, carrying a mini-gun, to lead the way.  But I guess that doesn't mean I can't take an astral look see.  I don't know how well you could talk to your drones down there, but might be worth it to try, for the ability to record?  But no matter what we see, I'm suddenly feeling guilty for not checking out the clinic, I think they are expecting us?"  His final sentence is said in a tone of self-mockery for his lack of bravery, but by his nervous tugging at his collar it is clear that his nervousness about the hole is real.

He adds "Now might be a good time to remind you that I'm better at supporting heroes and patching them up than I am at being[/b] the hero!"

[biotech66]

Magic
1-oops!  I thought the second roll was for the dispel.  I see it was just the drain.  So free dispel for you!

2-Want to go astral and walk in?

[Csjarrat]

Derren laughed. I ain't going in there without knowing what i'm looking at anymore than you would mate. Unless you've got some invisibility mojo and something to deal with the stench, It'll be drones first.
Any chance you can use your mojo to get a message to those gangers? I don't really wanna see the "muscle" they referred to. Yeah, I know. but there's too many fucking places we need to be. We needed to find the kid and we're on a really hot lead. I think this needs to be our priority. We can always call them after here and reschedule for later or some shit like that.
He unbuckled the Fly-Spy from his belt puch and synced it to his AR feed and set the wings buzzing before commiting it to the sewers.
He toggled the sensor feed to Low-light and parsed the Sensor feed through to Alf's commlink so he could view it as well.
Ain't no heroes here mate. I just wanna find the kid, get paid.

[Beta]

Alf looks at the hole a moment longer, sighs, and says "Can't help with invis or the smell.  Silence I can do, but not invis, and I don't know anything that would block that smell!  What I can do is some astral scouting.  Umm, I'll want to get back inside the vehicle because my body is going to be the next thing to dead meat, and I'd like it to stay 'next' not actual.  I guess I'm not looking for anything too subtle, so I'll leave you with the intuition boost instead of recasting it on myself.  I'll only go so far, then come back and report."


I don't know if assensing is needed for this first leg or not, but I guess it didn't hurt to look carefully.  Astral form down the sewer hole, check about 25 metres in each direction that tunnels go, taking time to assense.

     Assensing: 8d6t5 1

Ugh, maybe I should have taken the intuition back after all!  Well, still, people and spells in the open should still be apparent, I just won't know a lot about them.

[biotech66]

Both ways

You both send out your feelers-one magic and one tech.  Going down the hole is like descending into hell.  First there is darkness, earth, and cold.  Then you enter the sewers and then logic leaves.  What you both see is horror, impure and simple.  The place you find is at the intersection of a few sewers, in a non-wet patch of filth.  It's as if someone decorated the place with people.  You find a small table covered in...pieces.  The walls quite literally painted red.  Twisted garland hands from pipes that ends in organs.  If either of you were in meat, you're not sure you wouldn't have puked on your shoes.  As you both take in the scene that will never leave you, someone is coming.

Tech-Roll stealth

Magic-Roll edge

[Beta]

Is that raw edge, or a luck roll (edge + intuition)?

[biotech66]

Honestly, I've always just rolled edge for luck, but intuition sounds good enough to add.  Go for it!

[Csjarrat]

The view popping up on Derren's AR feed was enough to give him nightmares. He did his best to concentrate and get his game-face on, but the sensor feed recording to his Comm wasn't going to make for easy viewing back.
The motion detector on the sensor suite pinged up incoming motion and Derren piloted the little drone into what appeared to be a dark crevice
: 9d6t5 3. Its a micro drone so will impose a -2 modifier on anyone looking for it on top of other mods iirc

[Beta]

Honestly, I've always just rolled edge for luck, but intuition sounds good enough to add.  Go for it!

That is actually the "luck roll" as defined in the SR5 core rules .... somewhere.  (I don't have the book in front of me, but quite confident I read that before using it the game I run)

Luck roll: 7d6t5 3

Three successes on 7 dice[/spoiler]

[biotech66]

Both of you see a mist enter the room, astral it's a magical being with a dark stink to it.  After it enters the room, the mist coalesces into a solid form it's still a magical being, but in the physical it's an extremely pale human with stained, grimed clothing.  You've never seen this person before, at least not looking like this.  It looks a home in the abattoir like sewer room.

[Csjarrat]

Derren double checked that the recording was saving to his commlink and thought through his options....
He could fire up the Bumblebee and unleash holyhellfire on the damned thing, but flying it in the tight confines would easily open him up to issues.
He had no confidence in taking it on on his own however. He was a reasonable shot, but that scene in front of him looked hideous.
Given the drone was in place already, he killed the drive motors and left the sensor feed running on record, minimising the AR feed into the top right corner of his display.
He looked over at his colleague, body slumped as its consciousness had vacated it.
He realised just how vulnerable they were here, a powerful and twisted awakened force used this route as a thoroughfare and they were poking about in its lair, relatively unarmed and not geared for a fight. Setting the drone to alarm on any changes in the presence of the new target, he grabbed the meat-sack body and dragged it back to the van, hauling him up into the back seats as best he could.
 Sweating with the effort, he wiped his brow and checked the AR feed from the drone as he released the Bumblebee from the storage racks in his van for protection.
The large calibre machinegun was potent, but he didn't want to pick an active fight, not here anyway.

[Beta]

Alf froze at first site of the apparition -- a rabbit at the site of a wolf.  Eventually it hits him "I'm astral, he's meat -- get out of here while I can!"

He races up the sewer entrance, only to find both Derren and his body misses.  He feels like he'd throw up from panic if he was only in his body, but he wasn't, that was the whole problem.  His training finally kicks in, and he starts going through possibilities -- the most likely is that Derren and his body are together.  They both could have been taken, but if Derren chose where to go, it was probably to his vehicle.

In the blink of a thought he's raced through the wall, into the vehicle, and  -- praise the great spirits -- into his body. He opens his mouth to babble about what he saw, shuts it to hold back his rising bile, and by the time he can safely talk he has looked at Derren's eyes and simply says "You saw."

[biotech66]

Both of you are upstairs in the quiet street.  Nothing coming as far as you know.