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[OOC] The Road to Redmond

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« Reply #270 on: <12-17-10/0909:34> »
Okay, after tonight, I will probably be incommunicado for the next four-five days as I pack the U-Haul and drive all my worldly possessions a thousand miles back home. Inca, I think we're along enough that you can get the general idea of how Mercedes "runs", so if anything comes up, I trust your judgement on the matter. The only changes to the character sheet is her Initiation, giving her the Masking ability and her armor is now stacked with FFBA giving her 6 Ballistic/3 Impact. And if in combat, she'll use the Cavalier Safeguard as her primary weapon, using the Élan only on vampires and only if she has the silver bullets. IC, she believes silver bullets will hurt a vampire (joys of basing her knowledge on old Tri-D movies).

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« Reply #271 on: <12-18-10/0424:06> »
I just realized how useless I am against Spirits.  Can I tack 50 rounds Stick-n-Shock for the SMG into that Armament order?

Also, if you're looking for spell formulas, getting a Heal formula would probably be a logical purchase for down the line..
Speaking of healing, I might be able to try a Medicine roll remotely.
I could default on the test with:
Kit rating 6 + 6 Command + 3 NANs +1 PuSHeD -2 remote operation -2 awakened -1 indoors for 11 dice.  13 if I used hotsim.
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« Reply #272 on: <12-19-10/1526:42> »
A heal spell could be useful, but it would be very limited in its ability with Walks Through Walls. I only have a 2 magic for spellcasting so my max force I can cast at is 4 which in turn means that the most successes I can have is 4. So any serious wounds it won't do much to help with. I can look at picking it up for down the line. The other issue is that to learn a new spell is 5 karma points which means I don't have them to initiate or raise skills raise my magic or something else.
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« Reply #273 on: <12-20-10/1743:11> »
Just so everyone knows, this holiday season i've been gone every weekend and i'll also be gone next weekend.  So if the posting is not as regular as it usually is it's just cuz it's the holidays.  Basically after Jan 4th i'll be back in action and posting on the regular schedule.  Besides, we're at a short rest stop in the adventure so it coincided perfectly with the holidays. 

It seems that based on the rolls so far, the current min. amount of time needed to get the gear that people want is 2 days.  The Fake SIN's are gonna arrive in 8 days it seems.  Just keep on working on your characters however you guys want.

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« Reply #274 on: <12-20-10/1809:08> »
A heal spell could be useful, but it would be very limited in its ability with Walks Through Walls. I only have a 2 magic for spellcasting so my max force I can cast at is 4 which in turn means that the most successes I can have is 4. So any serious wounds it won't do much to help with. I can look at picking it up for down the line. The other issue is that to learn a new spell is 5 karma points which means I don't have them to initiate or raise skills raise my magic or something else.

Well, the most that First Aid can heal is 6 (or 7 with aptitude,) which isn't much more.  Still, combining the two we can, in a single IP, potentially heal 10 boxes of health.  I understand that it's not a priority, per se, but it is a standard that you'll want eventually, so why not get all the spell formulas you'll eventually want now?  At least, that's my thinking.  The 500 yen a spell costs isn't going to put much of a dent in the huge pile of money you'll be saving to get that Power Focus you so desperately need. ;)

By the way, I was thinking about a Tacnet.

Rating 2 would work fine with 4 members and would only require each person to provide 4 sensor channels.

So, audio, video, smartlink and a fourth like lowlight or spatial recognition should be enough.
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« Reply #275 on: <12-20-10/1833:29> »
Also, 1 box of damage healed can be the difference between having a wound modifier or not having a wound modifier :)

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« Reply #276 on: <12-21-10/0024:24> »
Also, 1 box of damage healed can be the difference between having a wound modifier or not having a wound modifier :)
<cough>currently at three boxes<cough>

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« Reply #277 on: <12-22-10/1234:40> »
@Sludig:

If there's any information you DON'T want to tell him make sure to let me know, otherwise i'll just assume Germaine knows almost everything you know.

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« Reply #278 on: <12-22-10/1309:56> »
Only information he doesn't need to know is the firefight.  During his briefing, Woofer will make it clear that the lack of information is tying their hands. (He's done this too many times in actual investigations to really care about Germaine's feelings atm)

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« Reply #279 on: <12-22-10/1337:08> »
I'd say that we might NOT want to mention the vampire angle yet either. No need to worry him about a 'theory'.

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« Reply #280 on: <12-22-10/1502:52> »
More like use vampire wanna-bes than actual vampires.

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« Reply #281 on: <12-22-10/1714:53> »
He said to bring him back dead or alive, but he never mentioned what to do if the boy were undead...

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« Reply #282 on: <12-27-10/1800:56> »
Ah, Christmas was very, very good to me. Friends & family got me lots of gifts cards to spend on glorious tech and entertainment and my best friend picked me up a copy of High Tech and Low Life to "give me ideas for the SR campaign".

So, when are we moving forward here? ;D

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« Reply #283 on: <12-27-10/2055:17> »
I just got back from the christmas hubub and it won't pick up again until like thursday or friday so we can get a few good days of movement in.  How about everyone finalize what you plan to do with karma and with buying gear in your next post and then we'll get going again.  Tonight if i'm not too wasted i'll post the next IC post where Germaine responds to Woofer and then i'll wait until people have gotten what they need.  It seems to me, correct me if i'm wrong, that obtaining the gear people want is gonna take 2 days and then the fake SIN's will come in 8 days.  That means you have 2 free days.  From the role playing you've done so far with teaching the ork kid i'll say you have completed half the teaching time i.e. the threshold for the extended test is now half.

Hope the holidays were good!
-Inca

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« Reply #284 on: <12-27-10/2131:09> »
They were good, and Woofer is planning on holding on to both, nothing he really needs, and can't upgrade anything with karma that he'd like too.

 

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