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« Reply #165 on: <07-22-12/1610:19> »
"Not really," Panther said, "I've been out hunting drones.  I'll have to look into them later, as they had firewalls like the Zurich-Orbital.  I wonder who is paying so much money for just a movie?  We're talking probably the same budget as this movie."

Well, that sounds a bit strange... Somebody has to have an extraordinary interest about this film, or maybe it's not the film they are interested in, but some person... Freya was wondering as the situation was getting stranger with each single moment.
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« Reply #166 on: <07-23-12/0816:18> »
Caretaker and Rafa

When Caretaker and Rafe get back up to ground level, they see that the injury of the guard had been taken care of and he and the construction workers are looking with interest at the two who join them.  They notice the Rat blood on Rafa, especially the one foot the crushed the last surviving Rats skull into paste.
"Does it hurt? BRING THE MEDICS BACK!"
it seems they think the blood is Rafa's

Freya and Panther

you are free to continue that discussion wile you are on the way to the set, we can edit it in :)

All the conversation is are ceased when The girls with Pandora at the helm arrive on the set, it seems everyone else was just waiting for it, even Big Ben was sitting in his Troll size chair with a expression of extreme boredom.

"everyone on the set" Ben Stated when he noticed Pandora arriving "All set to go, take your positions"

The shooting started.

Basically it's finish up on this one you have a few hours to do something else and then when the shooting has ended we will move on, Freya make a etiquette roll please :)

Also just a side not to the Boys, if the rat stays in the cellar, please warn the workers :D

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« Reply #167 on: <07-23-12/1324:20> »
Rafa looked around, checking to see who this wounded person is. Finding no one, he replied "Medic? Hm, thought you wanted those rats dead. Not sure there's much for a medic to do. Someone working cleanup however... And one of you better show me to a friggin' shower."

On his way to the shower, he talked over the comms: "So, rats taken care of. Devil rats... Pft. You'd think these rich people get better pest control. Anyways, I really need a shower. If one of you girls wants to join, I'll save you some hot water; if not, can someone check up on the stuff we're supposed to be watching?"
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« Reply #168 on: <07-23-12/1401:05> »
"As far as I can see on my cam, everything is still there," Panther said, "But I'll have a quick look in the flesh."
She left Freya and Pandora for a while to go to the armours and check on them.
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« Reply #169 on: <07-27-12/0956:09> »
Rafa looked around, checking to see who this wounded person is. Finding no one, he replied "Medic? Hm, thought you wanted those rats dead. Not sure there's much for a medic to do. Someone working cleanup however... And one of you better show me to a friggin' shower."

On his way to the shower, he talked over the comms: "So, rats taken care of. Devil rats... Pft. You'd think these rich people get better pest control. Anyways, I really need a shower. If one of you girls wants to join, I'll save you some hot water; if not, can someone check up on the stuff we're supposed to be watching?"

A young human female, maybe a assistant of some sort shows Rafa to the showers, the whole way she does not look at him at all and keeps her nose closed. her face is full of disgust, guess in these parts bloody Orks are uncommon.
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« Reply #170 on: <07-27-12/1044:27> »
After  a while in Studio 8,

you see Big Ben setting up another scene, some where up in the mountains. You missed his dialogue on the scene, because as you step in, Big Ben calls quiet on the set. The lights dim. Nothing happens for some time, but you feel the temperature rapidly drop to a brisk eight degrees Celsius when the action starts. You are a bit surprised by the sudden chill and occasional flake of snow. The ARO red light comes on and you see something happening.

Jenny Freelance is climbing up the green mountain shapes with a Sherpa.

She starts a conversation with the Sherpa. Apparently she’s speaking Sherpa based on your link, but you don’t have the software to understand it. Luckily, the AR has a CC channel:

<wind howling>

Jenny: How much farther is it to the temple of the four winds?

Sherpa: Not much farther. Another day or so.

Jenny: Great, I should have brought more chapstick. Have you heard of the Sextant of Worlds?

Sherpa: I have heard of a legendary device at the temple of the four winds. It is said that it can locate objects of power from a forgotten age, but only with the aid of a special map that was lost long ago.

<Jenny smirks>

Jenny: Look! Is that a light?

Sherpa: It appears someone has made camp.

<Jenny pulls out her binoculars>

Jenny: I don’t see anyone there.

<Distant howl>

then a dozen frozen undead pop up. This leads to several takes of more martial-arts combat, as the zombies keep falling apart in the cold. Two hours later, Ben calls out “Cut! Lunch break.”

As people head to the cafeteria for lunch, Pandora’s manager walks over to you. “Your reputation precedes you,” he says, handing over an invitation to a private party. You can see there’s an RFID signal coming from the invitation. He continues, “I’ll level with you—one of my co-workers wants to hire you. I don’t know the details, but if Pandora believes it’s important enough to get you invites to The End of the World Club, then that’s good enough for me. Party starts at 9 p.m. Take tomorrow off to do what you need to do; I’ll take care of things here.” He walks off out of the studio.

After lunch, Ben continues to shoot the scene.

Now at the edge of an icy mountain cliff, Jenny battles the undead alone over the body of her fallen Sherpa  Companion. Even though it’s a movie, the adrenaline kicks in with the suspense.

Suddenly, some elf comes snowboarding down the mountain, swinging a sword. Pyrotechnics blast zombies over the cliff, apparently simulating combat magic. Your attention fades as the story focuses briefly on this guy, who tells Jenny that he’s a mystic knight and he’s here to help her. Ben ends filming for the day at four.

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This party has formal dress code, so anyone not having formal wear now would be a good moment to get one :D

Also anything bigger them Lpistol will be considered a reason not to let you in.

Freya, this is one of the occasions where you can use the Limo :D

You have a day time to prepare, but this day is not on the studio lot so you have to take the drones with you if you want to work on them. :S

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« Reply #171 on: <07-27-12/1439:32> »
After he'd gotten cleaned up, Rafa went back to the storage room, standing near the door. The movie didn't interest him that much but with little else to do, he watched it from a distance.
To combat the boredom from what was bound to be a long and boring "oh, this climbing is so hard" scene, he tried chatting with some of the crew. "Temple of the four winds? Hah, there's a great Chinese joint in Puyallup Central, corner of South Meridian and Seventeenth. Cheap, ork-size portions and if you're lucky you can find some actual meat in your cha siu soup... Well, lucky as long as you're not too choosy what animal you're eating anyhow." But when most  pretended not to have heard him and a few threw an annoyed glare his way, he decided to give up on being social. He even managed not to snap the fingers of the snobby guy who shushed him.
He was relieved when the talking turned out to be just an intro for a combat scene; but quickly learned that fights are a lot less fun to watch when interrupted by "Cut" and "Action" every couple of seconds, only to repeat the same stupid punch-duck-spin-kick move against the same two zombies for what seemed like the fiftieth time. The fireworks were pretty nice -too bad those weren't repeated 10 times- but Rafa felt like cracking the nauseating 'mystic' elf's skull from the second he walked on set.

Joining together with the rest after the filming, Rafa had gotten tired of Hollywood. "Oh great, a party! Not only do we have to spend all day babysitting some crates, now we get to spend the evenings with these obnoxiously pretentious fake people too! What fun."

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« Reply #172 on: <07-28-12/0619:14> »
I hope they aren't prejudiced against luas, Tipsy. That would be most unwise, but people aren't known for tolerance, never been...
Still you got a suit, don't you? There should be no problem.


Caretaker checked again his own suit and went with others to the meeting. I miss my hounfour...

While on the road.... Rafa, todays events got me thinking... I think that you try to throughoutly enjoy the life and you're honest like grim reaper on the day of judgement ... You probably didn't know that but both are attributes necessary and sufficient to achieve salvation and to not bore yourself to death after your death...
Sorry for a small delay ;)

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« Reply #173 on: <07-28-12/1505:06> »
"You're probably right that they are fake and obnoxious," Panther said to Rafa, "But those people can get you very high paying jobs.  I hope everybody has at least a nice suit for this."

She knew that Freya had the correct clothes for these kind of events and she had as well, but she wasn't sure the two men had.  Well, they could always pretend to be bodyguards if necessary.  For now she had to do some work, first of all was the check what kind of club the End of the World Club actually was.  Loading the knowsoft on the higher society of LA she had bought, she checked it to see if that had a list of clubs on it and if that particular club was on it.  Otherwise she would have to look it up on the matrix.  She was however quite sure she would find the public node, as all clubs in this town would have one, probably even with a virtual tour.

The following day she got up early and after a quick breakfast started to work on one of the drones in her hotel room.  She had send a message to everybody in the team to let them know she would stay in to work on the drones and after putting up the 'don't disturb' sign, she started her work.  First she made sure the drone couldn't move and then she slipped into full VR.  It was the only way to do this in a reasonable time, especially since she needed admin access to find out anything.  Her defensive programs were all loaded and were modified so they didn't take many resources to leave extra space for other programs.  For offensive programs she had loaded her Exploit program and an attack program.  She also had her agent on standby with a medic program, ready to use it on her should she trigger any response.  Normally drones didn't have attack programs, relying on the rigger to use those, but in this case she didn't take any chances.  After setting an alarm to warn her so she didn't miss the party, she put the drone on and went in.


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analyse 6 + computer 4 + VR 2 =12
analyse 6 + computer 4 + VR 2 =12 (12d6.hits(5) =3)
I want to know system rating, response rating and if an attack or black IC program is loaded

exploit 6 + hacking 4 + VR 2 + optimization 1 =13
need treshold 26 (probably), maximum 12 rolls (let's say I start at 07.00 and I want to stop at the latest at 19.00 to have time to prepare for the party)
exploit 6 + hacking 4 + VR 2 + optimization 1 =13 (13d6.hits(5)=4, 13d6.hits(5)=2, 13d6.hits(5)=5, 13d6.hits(5)=3, 13d6.hits(5)=3, 13d6.hits(5)=5, 13d6.hits(5)=2, 13d6.hits(5)=3, 13d6.hits(5)=7, 13d6.hits(5)=6, 13d6.hits(5)=6, 13d6.hits(5)=3)
If a treshold of 26 (firewall 10, system 10 and admin account +6), I'm in after 8 hours.  If I need more hits, I have 12 hours worth of hits, so I can make treshold 49 on the 12 hours.  If I need less, it can be calculated after how many hours I'm in.

@Kour, can you do one firewall+analyse roll for the drone.  Treshold 5 (my stealth).  If you beat the treshold, There is an alert, but I'm still inside.  As the drone is in a faraday cage, it can only defend with it's own programs.

I'll do another post as soon as I know the result of the firewall+analyse roll.



After 8 hours, she found a little crack in the system, allowing her inside.  It had been very difficult and she still wasn't sure why there was such a firewall on a simple drone.  In fact, these were firewalls she had only heard about in rumours.  The Zurich-Orbital was rumoured to have a firewall like this, so it wasn't something that you saw on a regular drone.
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« Reply #174 on: <07-28-12/1534:52> »
Rafa looked at his own Victory: Globetrotter Jumpsuit. "Nice suit!? This thing here set me back almost a thousand nuyen! And that's before all the other crap I've had crammed in it! Don't tell me that ain't fancy enough, chica. The other guy's got a pet rat!"
Sure, fine, whatever! I'm sure the girls manage to convince Rafa :)
We got any more money up until now? Would Auctioneer Business Clothes be better and could Rafa get them in time (maybe with some help of our high-society girls?)? If so, I'll scratch off 1500Y.


On the road: "After death? Que diablos you talking'bout? Ain't ever gonna be lots of fun to be had when I'm a pile of ashes or under 10 feet of dirt, so I just figure I try having as much as I can now... Comprende?" Philosophy and religion tended to be simple and straightforward for Rafa.
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« Reply #175 on: <07-28-12/1620:18> »
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On the road: "After death? Que diablos you talking'bout? Ain't ever gonna be lots of fun to be had when I'm a pile of ashes or under 10 feet of dirt, so I just figure I try having as much as I can now... Comprende?" Philosophy and religion tended to be simple and straightforward for Rafa.

And ... wouldn't you like to have more instead of just to try? Here and now before the death. And save your soul on top of that?
Sorry for a small delay ;)

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« Reply #176 on: <07-28-12/1620:34> »
"What you are wearing are nice work clothes," Panther said, "What you need is formal wear, like Mortimers Berwick line, or Zoé's executive suite or herritaga line, maybe Vashon's Steampunk line if you want to stand out.  Here, check out these sites."

She sent him the nodes for the lines she just mentioned.

"And the pet rat will have to stay at home when we go to a formal party," she added.

Before arriving at the hotel, she also went over a couple of still pictures she had taken of the set and the filming, selecting three to add to her P2 blog.  She wouldn't post footage of the filming on the P2 blog, but a couple of still pics would be nice as well.  It would mark her as 'in the known', it wouldn't reveal much and it would bring the people back for more.


@Kour: what's our C-rating at the moment.  I guess mine comes from Pandora, while Freya's can also come from her exec contact.
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« Reply #177 on: <07-28-12/1801:47> »
"And the pet rat will have to stay at home when we go to a formal party," she added.

He is not a pet. Lua Tipsy is probably much older than you, and judging by the arrogance and ignorance of your dismissal of the greater powers much wiser. Lua Ghede sent his incarnation here not without reason, and I won't question it. AND he is properly dressed for the party. We would be good even for funeral in those suits. We'll certainly wear them on yours.
Sorry for a small delay ;)

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« Reply #178 on: <07-28-12/1825:58> »
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And ... wouldn't you like to have more instead of just to try? Here and now before the death. And save your soul on top of that?
Rafa seemed completely confounded. "Huh? What?" He seemed to think for a few seconds, then looked at Caretaker with eyes full of suspicion. "You tryin' to push some magical drugs on me or sumthin'? 'cuz I don't care for Flipside or whatever you're sellin', esse! Lost way to many of mis hombres 'cuz of that drek."
He looked away and muttered something quietly to himself, suddenly in a sullen mood.

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« Reply #179 on: <07-29-12/0842:31> »
Rafa seemed completely confounded. "Huh? What?" He seemed to think for a few seconds, then looked at Caretaker with eyes full of suspicion. "You tryin' to push some magical drugs on me or sumthin'? 'cuz I don't care for Flipside or whatever you're sellin', esse! Lost way to many of mis hombres 'cuz of that drek."
He looked away and muttered something quietly to himself, suddenly in a sullen mood.

Everybody dies. Dwarf agreed. There is no need to sadden yourself about it. It helps to believe, they aren't completely gone and that their luas are taken care of. .... I think we're nearing our destination.
Sorry for a small delay ;)

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