[Mirikon]

Actually, I thought Tach was trying to block the distress call, not to rescue you from the black IC...

Tachikoma was trying to block the distress call. Unfortunately, since I don't have area jammers on my drones, for what should be obvious reasons, I had to improvise. And this kind of trick has side effects.

[Marak1972]

No worries TAch it saved our hackers skin right sooo all is good mon...right?? <itches trigger finger> <twitch twitch> 

[Crossbow]

Evil GM side of Crossbow's brain:  "Be Evil, TPK, TPK!  Go EVIL!!!"

Evil PC side of Crossbow's brain:  "Shut up, dumbass!!!  YOU ARE IN THAT PARTY!"

EGMS:"Oh..._{go evil!!!}"

EPCS: *facepalms*

 

[Marak1972]

Psst hey Crossbow you forgot your meds ....prozak and Lithium I think open wide  lol

[Marak1972]

"I forgot which one was I aiming at" .....

[Crossbow]

We would really like to get the one with the smart armor and the guy with th commlink in it.

[Marak1972]

Right so Alpha with ex explosive ammo and Frag mini grenades

[Crossbow]

Sure I'm cool with that   

[Marak1972]

Then let us let loose the big boomba mon. We the dog of war and they are our milk bones 

[Crossbow]

uh, you know they like, miles from us at the moment right?

[Marak1972]

<itches trigger finger> "Yes" <chomps protien bar like a cigar munching quietly>

[Crossbow]

Yeah, you are having a serious allergic reaction to a dermal digital reflex recorder, put some lanocaine on that dude.   

[SeriousOne338]

Dude Rybka is taking a real beating in is hack, sorry I will update the post this weekend for some reason I have writers block and can't describe what happens next with any grace.

[SeriousOne338]

OK Right now I have to deal with some minor business, Lethe has been banned from the forum for a 2 weeks, that was I think last thursday or so. That meaning He'll not be able to post for another week/week and a half. I see two options:

One we can wait for his to become unbanned.

Two we can proceed with him being a silent NPC.

He has e-mails other members about posting via e-mail then being copied onto the forum but that basically violates the ban, and I don't want to incur the wrath of the Moderators, so I will not allow that kind of posting in my games.

So what do we do?

[Thvor]

Personally, I'd say we do what a normal (face-to-face) group would do if a player can't make it to a session: move forward, GM's decision on whether to a) ignore the missing player's character; b) tweak the immediate scenario to make up for the missing player's character not acting; c) control the PC directly; or d) give control of the PC to another player.

All work, though my preference as GM tends towards B or C.