[Tecumseh]

5 karma.

Knucks is too socially awkward/unaware to introduce himself. I presume Expo will take the lead on that, just so we don't spend Week 2 of the game standing on the sidewalk staring at each other.

[badneighbor]

If we'd been around the table it might've been fun to keep going with that for a while longer. As it stands, I'm just glad everyone's met now.

I'm just waiting on the results of that second Negotiate roll before pushing on. I'm out of town starting tomorrow morning until late Sunday, just FYI.

[Tecumseh]

I'll be away from my computer most of the day tomorrow as well.

[Zweiblumen]

Sorry folks, been ridiculously busy with GaryCon stuff yesterday and today.  I vastly underestimated how much crap I was gonna have to do.  I'll get a solid post up tomorrow.

This is on me.  I should have done a better job of managing my time.

[Zweiblumen]

Yeah, GC completely crushed me.  I'm *really* sorry for dropping the ball last week.  I'm finally home, need to get caught up at work today but tonight I can get that post I owe you all up.

Again, I'm *really* sorry about disappearing like that.

[Tecumseh]

So how much did you have to pay to transport and lodge yourself so that you could "volunteer"? How expensive was that t-shirt?

[rednblack]

Yeah, GC completely crushed me.  I'm *really* sorry for dropping the ball last week.  I'm finally home, need to get caught up at work today but tonight I can get that post I owe you all up.

Again, I'm *really* sorry about disappearing like that.

Drek happens, omae. You've been a solid poster. I wasn't worried. Glad you're back and hope it was a good time.

[Zweiblumen]

So how much did you have to pay to transport and lodge yourself so that you could "volunteer"? How expensive was that t-shirt?

They actually flew me out and paid for my lodging (well, I actually just ended up crashing on a couch in one of the suites), and food/beverage as well as I'm actually on staff.  I just wasn't going to be going to the Con this year until about 2 weeks before hand.  My total $$ outlay for the trip was about $100 that I spent on a couple of bottles of scotch I gave to a few folks as gifts.

I don't wear t-shirts and am getting ready to move, so I didn't actually grab much in the way of swag.

Drek happens, omae. You've been a solid poster. I wasn't worried. Glad you're back and hope it was a good time.

Thanks for the vote of confidence

[Tecumseh]

Welcome back, Z. I'm glad that the convention wasn't a huge financial outlay. It would have sucked to pay for the privilege of working yourself to the bone. Did you get to participate in the Shadowrun Missions sessions?

I have a good friend who lives on Potrero Hill. She and her husband just had a baby three weeks ago. I'll always think of it as gangland now.

I'm extremely proud of my 80s reference in that last post.

[badneighbor]

Hey no worries about the delay. Sounds like everyone was pretty busy last weekend anyway.

[Tecumseh]

A couple OOC questions. I can make the first one IC if Zweiblumen prefers:

1) What's the definition of success for this mission? It was described to us in subtly different ways:

@Expo: "help to keep things quiet" ... "we don't want any of these clients to feel threatened here"
@Uffington: "they are paying good money just to show up and keep any eye on things.  And better money to keep folks safe" ... "another 500 if you keep the trouble off their front porch"
@Knucks: "keep the gangs off that block for the night" ... "keep any outside problems outside"

2) Related to the above, how involved did you want this to be? Is this a simple shake-out encounter for the PCs to meet and get to know each other, no big deal? Or did you want us to approach it like it's a significant encounter? I'm sure that we can spend two weeks doing social recon and laying the ground work, but if you had a different pacing in mind (e.g. "just wing it so we can get on to what's next") then I'm not opposed to taking some GM direction/hints.

[Zweiblumen]

A couple OOC questions. I can make the first one IC if Zweiblumen prefers:

1) What's the definition of success for this mission? It was described to us in subtly different ways:

@Expo: "help to keep things quiet" ... "we don't want any of these clients to feel threatened here"
@Uffington: "they are paying good money just to show up and keep any eye on things.  And better money to keep folks safe" ... "another 500 if you keep the trouble off their front porch"
@Knucks: "keep the gangs off that block for the night" ... "keep any outside problems outside"

Priority is to keep the Gallery and the people in there safe.  If you can make it so that the people visiting the Gallery don't even know there's any trouble to be afraid of you get the bonus.  How you accomplish that is up to you.

2) Related to the above, how involved did you want this to be? Is this a simple shake-out encounter for the PCs to meet and get to know each other, no big deal? Or did you want us to approach it like it's a significant encounter? I'm sure that we can spend two weeks doing social recon and laying the ground work, but if you had a different pacing in mind (e.g. "just wing it so we can get on to what's next") then I'm not opposed to taking some GM direction/hints.

Honestly I'm fine either way.  I've got details worked out if you want to go in-depth on this, or we can more jump to it.  To this point either way, I'd like everyone to give me an area knowledge and/or gang knowledge check from the conversation with the street kid.

[Tecumseh]

Going the social route favors Expo and Uffington, so I'm fine letting them shine.

Knucks doesn't have Area Knowledge but he does know Gangs. I'll roll that:

Intuition 5 + Gangs 4: 9d6t5 5 hits, seems, uh, comprehensive

The roll was all 2s and 5s, which are both lucky numbers for me. Not sure what that means.

[Zweiblumen]

That's a hell of a roll.

With the extra input from the street kid, and the fact that Knucks is pretty damn smart, he can put together bits of rumors he's heard over the last couple of weeks to get a better picture of the Technoids (sorry for the horrible name, but I *suck* at naming things and had that as a place holder that never got made better).  Once I get everyone else's roll I'll get an IC up for you guys.

[rednblack]

Area Knowledge: San Francisco: 8d6t5 1
So, there's this gang, and they're called The Chulos.  And there's this other gang, and what was I saying?