[Netzgeist]

StarManta, I sent you my character sheet via PM. I'm thinking about answering the Runner's Companion twenty questions as soon as I have the time (which I hope, but do not expect, to be soon).

EDIT: Oh, I was just forgetting. If you give us all a free fixer contact, I would like to swap the points I gave to mine fixer and use to improve one other contact, which story-wise should be higher.

[lwcoyote]

StarManta> I'm sending you my character sheet and character background via PM

[StarManta]

Some character sheets received; if I have notes I've sent them. First post updated with the details I have.

We didn't yet specify a year for the setting. It looks like you guys have been assuming 2072, which is fine by me.

[Chrona]

Some character sheets received; if I have notes I've sent them. First post updated with the details I have.

We didn't yet specify a year for the setting. It looks like you guys have been assuming 2072, which is fine by me.

Just checking in
I'm still tying to decide what direction to take the mage in

[StarManta]

Just a heads up, Deliverator's character will have a Tacsoft (R2), so everyone check out what sensor channels you can contribute to it.

Also, let's go ahead and set Sunday 9/18 as the deadline for character submission. We'll aim to start the first mission by Tuesday or Wednesday (9/20 or 9/21).

[Netzgeist]

Mine also has a Rating 2 TacSoft.

[Kylen]

The character, and appropiately I, knows nothing about tacsoft. >.>

Also, I take it answering the 20 questions to help others get to know our characters? If so, I'll run through them here real soon.

[Thermo]

heh.. that's good news, since Blackjack has MRCY software for his sniper bow and can use the Tacnet for indirect fire..

[Kylen]

heh.. that's good news, since Blackjack has MRCY software for his sniper bow and can use the Tacnet for indirect fire..

What's MRCY?

[Netzgeist]

StarManta, can I still change my character contacts? Now that I look at the sheet, there's no way Danielle Loyalty to be so low. It must be 6.

[IrregularS]

heh.. that's good news, since Blackjack has MRCY software for his sniper bow and can use the Tacnet for indirect fire..

What's MRCY?

You mean MRSI, right? It allows you to fire two shots, delaying the hit of the first, to insure that both strike at the same time and stack damage. It's from WAR! page 162.

[Kylen]

And you can apply that to a bow? Like as in bow and arrow?

[Thermo]

ack, yes, it's spelled "MRSI".. that's what I get for trying to post from memory

and yeah, it works with a smartlinked bow, it adds the damages of the two shots together and the opponent gets a single roll to dodge (if applicable) and a single roll to resist the combined damage

MRSI Software: MRSI (pronounced “mercy”) stands for Multiple-Round-Simultaneous-Impact. It is designed for indirect- fire explosive weapons like mortars and other artillery, but it can also be used with grenade launchers and even bows and other slow-moving projectile weapons. It works by calculating the high and low trajectories to a target within a weapon’s medium or long ranges, and firing along them in that order so the rounds arrive at the target at the same time.
This system only works if the program on a node subscribed to a smartgun-enabled indirect-fire or projectile weapon that either fires twice in the same Combat Turn or fires with a flight time (p. 138). Make only one test for both shots and only one roll for scatter (if applicable). If the target is entitled to a defense test, he makes only one test against the second shot, which applies
for both shots. Both rounds (or whatever is fired) strike within centimeters of one another at the same time when the second attack strikes. Add the Damage Values of both rounds together to determine the total damage taken in the single MRSI attack; the Armor Penetration and blast radius do not change. The MRSI program is Rating 5 and stops working if its rating is reduced.

[TheCommanders]

That seems quite powerful...

[Thermo]

It does massive damage, but it works best against either an unsuspecting target or a vehicle.. won't work nearly as well in a firefight where everyone is scrambling around. Great for first strikes, though. If anyone on the tacnet needs some fire support, Blackjack is your guy.