[Chrona]

"It's a bit different between adepts and mages but the way to get stronger is simple:You've trained your mind and body but now you need to train your magic. There's a huge load of Mana around, you need to think of how to train it yourself though. Some personal, spirititual epiphany or burst of inspiration or greater understanding of magic knowledge, it's different for everyone.
I think for you, stop thinking so much. Like you said, your mind sharp all ready. So is your physical body. Now you train your soul."

A healthy Soul resides in a healthy Mind and a healthy Body

[Artighur]

"Right, I guess. Maybe I need some people to guide me through this. Know anyone that could give a hand"

I just got my hands on Way of the Adept, and I realized that getting in an Adept Group (and grab a way like Warrior Way) could be pretty good for Hank, not mention he would probably be able to get a discount on a future Initiation. Hank is a cerebral one, overthinking is his specialty so maybe if he could find a coupe of like-minded adept he could get a clue !

Of course that depend on if you allow Adept ways and if you allow retroactive refund of PP if we buy a way with Karma instead of BP (otherwise at Magic 6 there would be no point of getting that for Hank).

[Kontact]

Angela is Initiated in the Way of the Warrior.   Doesn't have any Way qualities though, since she's older than that book...

[Kouryuu]

Angela is Initiated in the Way of the Warrior.   Doesn't have any Way qualities though, since she's older than that book...

But she could, just need to take the positive quality.

[farothel]

Time between:

Kitten was back home.  It had been a strange, but productive evening.  Now she only had to investigate whatthe strange thing was she had felt.  The aura that felt like Jean-Jacques.  First of all she had asked her talismonger if he had seen him, or any other talismonger in the city.  While she was waiting for that to yield results, she would go back to the location where her watcher had been banished.  Sitting in her magical lodge, so he body would be protected by wards, she projected her consciousness on the astral and flew off.

Arriving at the location, she started looking around, for wards, spirits and magically active people, in that order.  She also went into the houses next to the street to see if he might be living there.  She thought not, but she had to find out what was going on and if there was one thing Jean-Jacques had taught her, it was to be thorough.  It had been too long since the watcher had been banished, so she wouldn't find that trace anymore, but maybe she could find something else that would give her a lead.

One of the following days she went back to her talismonger, a guy named McCallahan, who had a shop in Tacoma, not far from where she lived.
"Say, I have a question," she said after the customary introductions, "do you know of any mages following the Egyptian tradition like myself."
"Not like that," Jack McCallahan said, "I follow the hermitic tradition myself, but I can ask around. Why?"
"I would like to initiate, but I've heard it's easier in group, so I would like to find either a group I can join, or other people who are willing to join me in creating one."
"I'll check with some people," he promised, "and I'll let you know as soon as I know more."
"Thanks," Kitten said, "I owe you one.  Anything from the photo I showed you?"
"Not yet," Jack said, "but I've got some feelers out."
"Okay, see you around," she said before leaving the shop.  Now she had to wait for the results and in the mean time reading those issues of the magical journal she had subscribed to.

OOC: I'm not going to spend the karma but wait for initiation.  Either with a group or if I don't find any, I'll write something with my mentor spirit as soon as I have the karma to spend.
For the rest she's not going to do a lot that week, unless there's a lead on any of the questions she has asked, in which case I'm going to follow up on those.  So Chrona: if there's anything, let me know and I'll add to this.  Normally she will either send in a watcher or do astral recon before going in in the meat.

You find a tiny amount of the aura  at the top of a building, if you go there physically roll visual perception

Finding something small, she did go back, but prepared.  On the top building where she had found the aura, she walked around, searching for more clues in meatspace.  Something that could would give her more information.

intuition 5 + perception 1 + visual 2 + vision enhancement 2 =10 (10d6.hits(5)=1)
Man, my rolls in this PbP suck big time. 

Also, she will have her increased reflexes in her focus and a spirit (fire) on standby to defend her.  If you want I roll them, but if there's no combat I'll just assume that I managed to get them cast in my home (I have a magic lodge there).

I assume I won't get any reply from my contact on a possible initiatory group within one week, so I'll let that one run in the background.

[Chrona]

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intuition 5 + perception 1 + visual 2 + vision enhancement 2 =10 (10d6.hits(5)=1)
Man, my rolls in this PbP suck big time. 

Yes unfortunately you find nothing

[GrimWulf]

note post in progress when i was forced to hit submit, may be edited for sanity/content later

Monday
Sleep came easily to Noise as she'd been up for 24 hours, she awakens again some time around supper and prepares herself some breakfast on the small stovetop of her bachelor pad. Real bacon sizzled as she tiredly pushed it around the pan. Ah, how the small things in life are the most rewarding, and isn't it wonderful how a few nuyen help buy those small things?

Between bites she caught up on the day she'd missed, checking news emails and messages. She sent off an apology to Stasya for snapping at her and asked if she'd have time to meet later in the week.

She then laid back on the ratty old couch that dominated the low rent pad, smoke stains from countless tenants overs countless years soiled the walls and ceiling.  The place was an organized chaos as usual, discarded pizza boxes littered the floor in amongst empty grocery bags and food wrappers too numerous to bother with.  The couch was clean though, with an unobstructed view to the trid, there'd been news of what had happened at the club, but as per usual the cops hadn't said anything to the public besides the "this is an isolated incident of gang violence, there is abosolutely no concern for the public in general.'

Breakfast done, she went back to sleep.

Thursday
She met up with Shelby after her shift was done and spent the evening hours shopping and catching the latest movie release, some remake of the classic Cowboys and Aliens from 2011, it had nothing on the original. (500¥ spent on shopping and maintaining contact. yay new shoes!)

Friday
A late night out with Stasya and her friends, flashing lights, bouncing beats and a bar tab that could buy her a month of living. (2000¥ spent on maintaining contact and just plain having fun)

Saturday
More clubbing and a meeting with Sniff, she hadn't expected it, but the fucker actually came through for her.

He approached her, walking with his usual limp, head tilted to the side like the idiot he was.  He then produced a small package plastic box and handed it to her.
"Don't underestimate me," he'd said 5 days ago, and now here he was "One Sideways for the Lady. Hur hur."

She scowled at him and his words,  but had to admit she had underestimated him.  "Cut ze crap Sniff." She tossed him a credstick with 1250¥ on it. "That talk doesn't suit you... or me."

He sniffed, whether at the comment or just because it's what he did all the time was lost on her. "Heeey, I got what ya wanted. Chiiiillllll." He threw his hands up defensively, though she'd shown no signs of violence towards him.

She nodded quickly taking a step back for his convenience. "If you keep getting, maybe I keep buying. This is good of you."

Sunday
A Vory courier arrives with a package from Stasya, Noise giggled like a school girl receiving her first kiss and sent the courier on his way.  Now this new toy was going to be fun!

[Chrona]

gimme an Essence+Edge Test when you use Sniff's gift

[GrimWulf]

Oh, won't be using it yet  

Besides I believe the test is made after duration expires.

[Artighur]

Essence+Edge ? That can only be good you know

[Chrona]

Besides I believe the test is made after duration expires.

Yes but I want it to be your essence + edge from beforehand so I want the result before hand

[Larzarus]

It was my first SR GM's birthday yesterday, BBQ started at 4pm. It's now 8am the next day. Will post/reply when recovered.

gratulations

You'll get a call next monday night  for a meet tuesday. so a week

If it's the Johnson from Messy Biz I: He doesn't have Space's commcode yet, but fortunatly, Space is working with Andromeda in Habu's workshop, right when the message comes in.

And another small detail: Space has a little bit more time, so when anybody from the team looking at the nexus in VR on monday morning, they will see that all of the small subroutins, maintenance programs look like pirat-bookkeeper now *Arrrr*. There are also two agents around, one is a old, fat lady with some tea bags on her large featherheat, who reading through some newspapers and looking out of the window from time to time. You don't know exatly where the other one is, but it seems that one of the filing cabinets is following your steps very closely as you enter the nexus, ready to shot you with some file folders (?) or at least you have a virtual feeling about this.


Upper left: the suspicious filing cabinet,
Lower left: the same filing cabinet if you doing something bad!
Lower right, two of the maintenance programs icons.

Didn't find a picture of the tea lady, though. You have to watch my youtube-post, if you want to see her.
 

[Xzylvador]

Anything Python deserves +1.

[Kouryuu]

Anything Python deserves +1.

Nope, not +1, at least +10.

[Kontact]

before hand

DUN DUN DUUUUUN      ?