[Bewilderbeast]

Sorry I didn't post for a couple days, RL snuck up on me, and I missed all the action! I wasn't clear on if the MARK was ever placed on Marcus or not, but if it was Pepperface takes the time to get rid of it.

[biotech66]

Oh don't worry about being a bit absent.  As for the MARK, I think I got two, but whoever did it back right off when the troll was threatened.

[Herr Brackhaus]

They actually spotted me, as in got 7 hits on their Matrix Perception test against my 6? Impressive.

Also, what plane are we getting back to? I'm confused.

Also, also, do we know who the message about extra work is from? I've got some underworld knowledge I could use to recognize the voice or something like that. Wait, the message I get from Dr. Tate, is he saying he's the one who contacted the team about the side job? If that's the case, Marcus will accept whatever it is he wants us to do, but I'd like to know for sure that that's what's happening before I post IC about it.

[Beta]

I think at this point Alf has all the gear on his character sheet except the items marked as being in his apartment.  I don't think he'll need those, so he's good on gear for now.

[Herr Brackhaus]

Are we parked in view of the target site? My impression was that once again, we found a spot close enough for the rigger and mage to do some recon and still stay out of sight.

[biotech66]

You can easily drive out there, but driving a quarter mile down the road is probably bad.  Getting close enough for your rigger to do his/her thing is easy though....probably.....

[Raiderjoseph]

Guess Thermographic vision didnt help. Crap.

[CraterShip]

Are there pipelines? I got the impression we're going to have to break in to the dome, couple guards shouldn't be too much hassle, but that tracked drone and GOD only knows what else is inside. Speaking of GOD any chance our resident Decker can access any internal feeds to see what's behind door #1?

[biotech66]

There are water pipes and all kinds of other pipes leading to the dome.  Its a fully functioning future farm.  You can monkey with it however you see fit.

[CraterShip]

Forgive my new newbness, first time playing sr5, for the stealth check, I roll my pilot aircraft or my sneaking skill pool? And modified with +2 for rating 2 vcr? Or no? Any other mods I'm missing? :\

[biotech66]

It's cool we are all learning!

If you're in the drone, you roll Stealth + Intuition [Handling].  That is your stealth skill + your intuition ability and the limit is the handling on the drone.  You're in hot (sim), so you get +2 on the roll. 

Good luck!

[Herr Brackhaus]

CraterShip
You do indeed get the Rating of the VCR as a positive dice pool modifier if you're jumped in, which you likely would be if a single drone was sent to investigate.

[CraterShip]

Ok, so that's sneaking (3) + intuition (5) + hotsim (2) + rating 2 VCR (2) = 12, limited by handling of the fly spy (4) and iirc there's something about the VCR adding it's rating to the threshold (so limit of 6?) and lowering the difficulty of the handling test by rating. (so -2 if appropriate, but this isn't a handling thing, so might not apply) if that's right,

9d6 =3
3d6 =0

Sorry had to split roll cause out was over 10 dice... I'll play with it to see if that's something that can be bypassed.

Overall, looks like 3 successes?

[Bewilderbeast]

Hey guys, I'm sorry and I should have posted this earlier, but RL is really impacting my Shadowrun time. I've decided to focus on GMing the game I'm running on these boards instead of continuing to try balancing that with playing Pepperface. It was fun though, thanks for GMing biotech.

[Herr Brackhaus]

Damn, sorry to hear that Bewilderbeast. Mind if we co-opt your character for the rest of the game? I suspect a decker might be useful in the lead-up here.

Alternatively, how do we do this without a decker? There must be cameras here, surely...

Also, I don't really feel like I have a good idea of this farm. How big are we talking (you've mentioned acres), and there are drones and guards, but we really don't have much detail. How well armed are we talking, what kind of drones, is there any perimeter security, what kind of patrols are we seeing. How did the drone get inside; can we use the same way to get in? If not, how are staff moving in and out of the building, and are the alternates we can use? How well lit is the area, would it be feasible to sneak in or is that unlikely?