[Tecumseh]

badneighbor, what have you got for me? Give me something to work with while rednblack is catching up.

[Zweiblumen]

On the topic of lack of posts, I'm traveling Wednesday and Thursday.  I'll be in Berlin for 10 days so my posts will be on off hours for the rest of you, but I expect to still be posting.  The weekend I'm going to the Out of Line Weekender, so not much, but we don't really post much on weekends.  Monday through Friday I should be updating as usual.

[Zweiblumen]

Thanks for the post BN!

As a little direction to help things along, both negotiation or confrontation are possible avenues to explore.  I don't want to railroad you guys, so please hash it out.  And feel free to chat it out OOC also if that helps (though I love seeing it hashed out IC).

I owe BN a response from his contacts still.  Gotta admit, I'd forgotten about that until I re-read the IC.  I'll get that posted RSN, but some useful info is that Mickey has a weak Chulos connection from back in the day.  Just want to add that data point.

[rednblack]

@Zwei, whenever you get a chance can I get the results for my assensing test?  I'd like to roll it into the next IC.

[Zweiblumen]

Crap, that got lost in the shuffle. I'm just getting settled in Berlin, and about to crash. I'll get you the results in the morning.  Sorry for the delay.

[Zweiblumen]

@RnB: "checking out territory"
This is where my lack of GMing comes into play.  Based purely on your rolls, I don't think you'd necessarily get all of this info.  But between the mystical premise of Assensing and Tec's amazing rolls, for the sake of story, I'm giving you guys this:
As you go through the old Portrero Hill neighborhood the sense of history is strong.  In the Astral you can feel how this neighborhood has gone from being a refuge from the destruction of the Fire in the early 1900's to a vibrant upper-middle class neighborhood in the late 1900's early 2000's and becoming a place for the Japanese elite to call home on the other side of town from the Presidio where the Occupation was headquartered.  During the Resistance the gangs did a lot of damage in this part of town.  Afterwards it was mostly abandoned.  Literally the opposite of what's happening down in the Dogpatch.  Where the Dogpatch is attempting to gentrify, PH is slowly being swallowed up by the Barrens.

Zeroing in on the old Rec Center, the astral is quite tumultuous.  There's a lot of fear and anger and hatred here.  You can sense at about a dozen metas in the building.  One aura seems to shine a bit brighter than the others.  It beams with confidence where everyone else is some where on the scale of afraid to angry.

Didn't get into too much detail of the building as I didn't get the impression you were doing a recon run, just a cursory "hey what's going on over there" sort of thing.
@all: chime in if you think I didn't handle this correctly.

[badneighbor]

@Zwei, I'm jealous about the Berlin thing. I've always wanted to go to Germany. I had a chance to get there this summer to meet some friends but it fell through.

Anyway, before he heads back to the gallery, Expo's gonna go find someplace to buy a quick set of cheap clothes. The suit's probably not gonna cut it, and he doesn't want to ruin the clothes he wore earlier while he was prepping his gallery space. Not sure what's in the area, but he'll settle for a vending machine if there's no shops.

[rednblack]

@Zwei, it's really no rush, dude.  Hope you're getting a chance to see Berlin.  Like BN I've always wanted to go to Germany, but haven't had the chance yet.

Today is going to be a little crazy, but I'll try to get my IC up soon.

[Zweiblumen]

Ah, this is my third trip to Berlin.  We are actually moving here in August, but we had this trip planned before the chance to move here materialized.  So along with a bit of vacation, we are taking care of some of the bureaucratic BS involved in living in another country.

I *highly* recommend Berlin for tourists though.  If you pick up some tour-guide german that'll be more than enough to make folks here smile at you for putting in the effort and then they'll switch to english.  Most love the chance to practice.  It's much better than Munich in that regard.  Not the most beautiful of old European cities, but it stole my heart about 6 years ago and never gave it back.  Don't get me wrong, I love SF, but I'm ready to try someplace new for a little while.
Anyway, back to the topic at hand. 
@BN, There's plenty of vends and of course drone delivery for almost everything.  I'd say you can get anything under Availability 10 delivered within the hour, anything under a 6 in 10 min.  I've got no RAW for that, just going by the seat of my pants and that makes sense to me.

@RnB, no worries.  I wanted to get you the info you asked for.  You shouldn't have to wait a week for results of a roll.

[Tecumseh]

Knucks will be switching from a Down state to an Up state. After half an hour, Logic will be 3, Reaction 9.

[Zweiblumen]

Are you guys ready to head up to Potrero, or are we waiting for a post from BN and RnB?

[Tecumseh]

I am ready to roll.

[badneighbor]

Sorry (again) for being slow. I should be able to stay on top of this better from here on out.

Anyway, armored jackets are availability 2 so I didn't think it was a stretch that he'd be able to find one at a thrift shop or something. If you want to reduce its armor rating based on it being used, I'm cool with that. Also, let me know what I should be paying for all that. Essentially, I want to use Disguise to attempt to look just as "street" as the other two. If you like, I can roll twice: once for what he picks out when shopping, and once for when he gears up. Well, in an effort to move us along, I'll roll twice and you can let me know which one matters (if either does):

Disguise (shopping): 8d6t5 3

Disguise (gearing up): 8d6t5 4

My complete loadout is gonna be:

Ballistic Mask                      2
   +Flare Compensation
   +Gas Mask
   +Respirator Rating 2
   +Smartlink
Cheap Pants
Cheap Shirt
Cheap Shoes
Forearm Guards                      1
Armored Jacket                       12

Ares Predator V, loaded with APDS
   +Concealable Holster
   +Gas-Vent 2 System
   +Smartgun System, Internal

Knife

Streetline Special, loaded with Stick'n'shock
   +Hidden Gun Arm Slide

Renraku Sensei (ATT: 0, SLZ: 0, DP: 3, FWL: 3)
   +Sim Module

Bliss x5
Certified Credstick, Standard x10
Datachip x10
Fake SIN (Émeric Martel) Rating 3
   +Fake License (Firearms License) Rating 3
   +Fake License (Concealed Carry Permit) Rating 3
Flashlight
Jazz x5
Restraint, Metal
Restraint, Plastic x10
Security Tags x10
Stealth Tags x10
Subvocal Mic
Zen x5

[rednblack]

This week's gonna be a little rough on me.  Fair warning.

I have some questions about Control Thoughts.  Is this a spell where I can set the Force low, say 2 and spend Reagents for the Opposed test so that he's facing a higher threshold on perceiving the magic?  The flip-side, is that it looks like on future rolls to resist the spell, the low Force would give him more dice to play with.  How often should I expect the spell to be actively resisted, if he doesn't know that it was cast?

[Zweiblumen]

@BN: go ahead and pay list price for all of that.  Those rolls are fine for finding what you are looking for (threshold 1), and making it look the way you want (threshold 2).  Your load out looks good.

@RnB: I'm away from my books right now, I'll have to confirm when I get back to my flat in a few hours, but off of memory you can use reagents, but it'll be easier to resist down the road.  @Tec, you have any insight on that?

Let's decide on how you want to go about things and head up the hill In the next day or two?  Don't wanna get TOO bogged down.