[FastJack]

Interesting... Okay, I use Edge Reroll twice (once for the Influence Skill Group, once for the Assensing improvement), so my total training time is now ~23 weeks or 6 months total. Also, if I adjust the Lifestyle using the Advanced Lifestyle rules before paying out for the four months after my pre-paid is up, I don't have to make any lifestyle rolls at all and I'm 2,425¥ in the black.

With that, Woofer's only got to make six composure tests.

Base cost for initiating from Grade 1 to Grade to is 16 Karma. With a Group (20%) and Ordeal (20%), then the cost for Initiating would be 16 - (40%, rounded up = 7) = 9 Karma total.

[FastJack]

Per our (inca/sludig/myself) PMs:

Woofer's First Composure test: Leadership test (15d6.hits(5)=4) +2 Dice
2nd test: Leadership test - Charisma [8] + Leadership [4] + Kinesics [3] (15d6.hits(5)=6) +3 Dice
3rd test: Leadership test - Charisma [8] + Leadership [4] + Kinesics [3] (15d6.hits(5)=2) +1 Die
4th test: Leadership test - Charisma [8] + Leadership [5] + Kinesics [3] (16d6.hits(5)=5) +2 Dice
5th test: Leadership test - Charisma [8] + Leadership [5] + Kinesics [3] (16d6.hits(5)=4) +2 Dice
6th test: Leadership test - Charisma [8] + Leadership [5] + Kinesics [3] (16d6.hits(5)=6) +3 Dice

[Sludig]

Okay, here's the ones after the first.

8d6.hits(5)=4
6d6.hits(5)=1
6d6.hits(5)=1
7d6.hits(5)=1
8d6.hits(5)=1

[inca1980]

@Woofer

Ok so you managed to resist during that whole period.  But now that you have gone so long without a fix for this magical addiction, the threshold for future composure tests is now raised to 2.

[Walks Through Walls]

I figured out my advanced lifestyle and am flat broke at month 7, but haven't missed any payments and am not in debt so that is a good thing.

Oh wait we are only waiting 6 months now since the use of edge by Mercedes. Ill have 3100 nuyen then. 

[inca1980]

So just to organize your thoughts a little, when we start the sequel i'll start it up with all of you narrating what you did in the training period so be thinking what you wanna write and how you wanna translate stuff you rolled up....or narrate up things like intiation....or Woofer's struggle and Mercedes help with that struggle etc.....its up to you.

So don't do this in OOC.  We'll do this when we start up the sequel's IC thread.

[Kontact]

Hey, Inca, I've got a question about coding programs.  Can I code something along with its options, or code optimization first so that I can build a program that exceeds my current system but will run when compiled with its optimization option?  I'd like to try and code a rating 8 stealth program with 3 levels of optimization.  Barring that, I'd go with programming a score of options and a data bomb.

[inca1980]

Since above rating 6 is milspec I would say that you would need to learn how to code that stuff.  I don't have my books right now, so i can't really speak too authoritatively, but i would say the rating 6 cap is pretty important.  Nodes with systems that high are basically UV nodes.  when i get back to the US i'll check the books to make a final ruling but right now I would say that first you would need to build the program, then optimize.  Maybe that could be done on a nexus or a system that's high enough.  I could have you hack a rating 8 system to use it to program....but you would then need months on that system to do the coding.  Then after that optimization can be coded into the program.  But at some point, there has to be a system 8 node involved. 

[Kontact]

Well, the books don't say anything about it really.  Using the rules in place, one could write an optimization option, by itself, irrespective of program or system, and then proceed to install that option on any program which a user has source-code access.

Seems pretty janky to me.  By that logic, every program in existence should come with Opt 10 by default.

[inca1980]

Ok guys, well i'll be back in the US in less than a week so I thought that it would be cool to just start up the IC thread now.

So its been 6 months (im pretty sure, correct me if i'm wrong) of training for all of you, so I thought we should all just start off with every player narrating what they did in that time period.  It's totally up to you.  You can even say you had a few fluff jobs which we just kind of fold into the concept that you guys are shadowrunners, but the idea is that the last run was pretty emotionally taxing and you did make some good bread so try to stick to the idea that you guys are training, coding, self improving etc. to explain a lot of the Karma spent. 

From my end there is no special events until after I read what you guys did during that time period and then i'll set up the next adventure.

[inca1980]

Ok I also included a House Rules section at the beginning of the OOC thread so that we have these things written down. 

[FastJack]

I've got a game tonight and tomorrow afternoon, but I'll try to get Mercedes' part written up this weekend at the latest.

[Walks Through Walls]

OK I updated my character sheet at the beginning of the post.

To recap my karma expenditure it is as follows:

learn heal    5 karma
learn mindnet  5 karma
learn thought recognition 5 karma
initiate to level 2  w/ group w/ ordeal (oath) 9 karma
raise edge to 3  15 karma

[Kontact]

So its been 6 months (im pretty sure, correct me if i'm wrong) of training for all of you, so I thought we should all just start off with every player narrating what they did in that time period.  It's totally up to you.  You can even say you had a few fluff jobs which we just kind of fold into the concept that you guys are shadowrunners, but the idea is that the last run was pretty emotionally taxing and you did make some good bread so try to stick to the idea that you guys are training, coding, self improving etc. to explain a lot of the Karma spent. 

From my end there is no special events until after I read what you guys did during that time period and then i'll set up the next adventure.

B.B. is currently taking a side job in the Out of the Frying Pan game during this downtime period.  I doubt it will have significant effects on anything.  Just assuming that it goes however it goes.  Any karma/awards are going to be stored.

[inca1980]

@Kontact:

Cool, just don't die or we'll have to retcon lol

@Walks:

Congrats on being the first post!
So are you going to take a metamagic with that grade of initiation?