[inca1980]

@Kontact:

You were right about the whole way you handle restricted alerts where it's Hacking + Exploit vs. Firewall + System to exercise any of your account privileges.  So scrap what i said about the opposed test. 

 I also know that Agents have the same access ID as the persona they're loaded on.  Sprites however are sentient matrix beings and Neither technomancer's nor Sprites have Access ID's, nor is a Sprite loaded to a Technomancer's biological PAN.  From what i've read all Resonance using constructs and technomancers do this thing where they automatically spoof their access IDs.  The only thing it does say is that  Sprite's datatrail can be Traced to the technomancer that summoned it.  If you can find a specific reference to how a Sprites access ID works then I'd like to see it and reconsider, but I feel that in the case of Sprites, since they aren't "loaded" to a Technomancer's "persona" ....(technomancer's don't even have a program load pg. 135 Unwired)  and they are essentially summoned sentient beings with Edge, I'm gonna say that they have a different access ID and thus the restricted Alert which was issued against the Technomancer's Access ID does not get extended to the Sprite.  A separate alert would have to be issued against the Sprite by a someone with Security or Admin privileges once they were found.  That's what makes TM's and Sprites so pesky IMO.  The balance to this is the limit on how many Sprites a TM can have on hand.  Good thing a bot-net of sprites is not feasible.

[Walks Through Walls]

OK Inca it seems like we need some more detail on what was heard. You wrote it was a clatter of porcelain in the kitchen. I took that to mean the clinking and clattering of dishes that are normal as someone prepares tea, coffee or whatever. B.B. is interpreting it as a crash of porcelain falling to the ground. He does know something else is going on since he is being attacked in cyberspace, but I would like a better description of what we heard originally. 

[Kontact]

Forgot to do the rolls for coding that data bomb since we never really hashed out the coding rules too much before your vacation.  Anyway, should have 5 months to get it done after the 1st month for training.
First off, buying a R5 Programming suite.  5,000¥ unrestricted availability, so using legal channels.

Rushing the job on a R5 databomb Threshold 10 interval 1/2 a month.
18d6.hits(5) → [4,2,3,2,6,1,4,3,5,6,4,5,1,6,2,3,4,2] = (5)
18d6.hits(5) → [3,5,3,1,1,3,5,4,4,6,6,1,5,2,2,3,2,5] = (6)
Time = one month

Programming pavlov option threshold 3, rushing the job, interval 1/2 month
Buying 3 hits.

Programming A R5 Agent: Threshold 15 Rushing the job, interval 6 weeks
18d6.hits(5) → [6,2,1,3,6,6,3,2,3,5,6,1,3,4,3,3,4,1] = (5)
edge reroll 13d6.hits(5) → [6,2,4,3,4,4,3,5,2,5,6,3,5] = (5)
18d6.hits(5) → [2,6,2,6,1,1,1,5,5,1,2,4,4,1,6,4,4,6] = (6) phew.. 1 shy of a glitch.
Time = 3 months.

15 days remaining. minus 2 for OotFP run.
Spoofing medium lifestyle: Threshold 12 interval 1 day
13d6.hits(5) → [3,4,2,5,5,4,6,1,3,5,1,6,3] = (5)
13d6.hits(5) → [1,3,2,4,3,3,3,1,5,4,1,4,2] = (1)
13d6.hits(5) → [1,4,5,3,1,5,1,6,2,3,4,2,5] = (4)
13d6.hits(5) → [2,2,6,2,4,3,1,1,1,6,4,4,1] = (2) one month
13d6.hits(5) → [2,2,3,5,2,5,3,6,2,1,6,5,3] = (5)
13d6.hits(5) → [5,6,2,6,6,3,3,1,3,6,3,2,2] = (5)
13d6.hits(5) → [6,3,1,4,2,5,5,1,2,6,5,6,2] = (6) two months
13d6.hits(5) → [3,4,2,6,5,5,5,4,6,1,6,3,3] = (6)
13d6.hits(5) → [1,6,1,3,3,4,4,6,6,4,4,2,3] = (3)
13d6.hits(5) → [3,3,6,2,5,6,3,6,6,5,4,3,5] = (7) three months
13d6.hits(5) → [4,3,6,4,1,5,2,1,2,4,4,3,3] = (2)
13d6.hits(5) → [1,5,5,2,2,6,6,3,4,2,4,5,4] = (5)
13d6.hits(5) → [5,3,3,5,6,1,1,1,1,5,6,4,3] = (5)four months

Paying for last month of lifestyle out of pocket.  5,000¥ yen.

Buying Cascading autosoft R3 for 1,500¥  unrestricted availability.
Buying Homeground autosoft R4 for 4,000¥ unrestricted availability.

Total cost 15,500¥
Time taken 6 months (inc month for stats and skills)




Current commlink load. 
Analyze R6 - opt 1 - ergo
Encrypt R 6 - opt 1 - ergo
Scan R6 - opt 1 - Ergo
Stealth R5 - opt 2 - ergo
Armor R3 - ergo
Attack R5 - Area 2 - targeting
Agent R5
+Analyze R6 - ergo - opt 1
+Attack R5 - Area 2 - targeting
+Armor R3 - ergo
+Stealth R5 - opt 2 - ergo
+Exploit R5 - mute
Homeground Autosoft R4
Cascade Autosoft R3

Effective load 9 programs 5 ergonomic programs
Effective Response 4


Does all of this sound okay?

[inca1980]

@BB:
Rolls look good man! 

The one thing i'm confused about is your current commlink load.  If your Agent is running from your PAN, then it can use any of the programs you have running but it's load also counts against yours.  The one program it has running on it's load that you don't have is Exploit 5.  This would be a total of 5 non-ergo programs and your response would degrade.  So let me know what you want to do.   

Also remember that of it to have it's own copy of a program for when it gets loaded to run on other nodes which it has access to, then it has to be either another purchased copy, or you from a program that has it's copy protection cracked.  I'll assume any programs which you want to have cracked that they're cracked, but then they would degrade.  All these rolls get a little complicated and having to do them for each program for 6 months of degredation is a bitch.  So say you want to patch up 7 hacking programs that over 6 months have degraded while you were focused on other things.  That's 3 rating points degredation, so it's a Software + Hacking (  3x2=6, 1 week) test.  So just do one roll, and then see how long that takes, and multiply that by 7.  Since there's no time left in the interim, your other alternative is to buy the updated versions.  We'll say at half price from a warez site. 

[Kontact]

Cool beans.

I guess I'll have to figure out how to load it up with programs in time.  That's really only something to worry about once I get the Replicate autosoft and start making botnets    For now, I'll just keep it loaded on my link and use it for tandem stuff.

By the way, I'm a bit confused about agent autosofts.  Do they need to be put in an agent's payload or just loaded on the node?  Some of them, like homeground are supposed to be tailored to only one node, so I'm not even sure how that would work...

[inca1980]

@Kontact:

From what I'm reading it seems that Homeground applies to the node in which the agent is running from.  So if you have Homeground autosoft running on your PAN, then any agent also running on your PAN gets the advantage when in your PAN.  Now if you copied the agent to some other node if the agents copy protection is cracked, then it can run on some other node, you give it it's own program load and if Homeground is one of those programs (autosoft) then it will get the advantage in that node. 

[inca1980]

@Walks:

Let me know at what force you cast mindnet because that determines the radius.  Also roll drain resist.

[Sludig]

I forget, did we provide a body for Jeshua, or just the fact we found him dead?

[FastJack]

I believe it was just the fact and some tissue samples...

[Kontact]

I forget, did we provide a body for Jeshua, or just the fact we found him dead?

We told Germaine what happened and sent him trid of his son.  He told us to kill the boy, and B.B. gave him the 3,2,1 disconnect.
Wasn't Mercedes going to visit the kid every now and then?  Could call the ghoul refuge for info.  Might want to route comms though BB though.

[Walks Through Walls]

Ooops I knew I was forgetting something. Sorry about that my life has been a whirlwind again this last week.

Casting the spell at force 4
so drain is 5DV
wil of 4 chr of 5 = 9d6
9d6.hits(5) → [3,6,1,3,5,6,5,2,5] = (5)
wow no drain that is a pleasant surprise

[inca1980]

@BB:

Well a rating 4 radar could see through cumulative 20 structure.  So say the wall to the kitchen is 12, then the fridge is minimum 10 i'd say, that would obscure objects from your radar....at least that was my logic. 

@Everyone:

Sorry for the slower pace so far this summer, i've been going to my office a lot less and that's always been where i do my best PbP'ing!!  But i'll try my best to pick up the pace because I personally enjoy a faster pace so here we go!

[Kontact]

@BB:

Well a rating 4 radar could see through cumulative 20 structure.  So say the wall to the kitchen is 12, then the fridge is minimum 10 i'd say, that would obscure objects from your radar....at least that was my logic. 

I suppose if the kitchen wall was brick instead of plastiboard or drywall, but i meant that question more in regards to the guy having backup.  Like, is there a team at the front door or a charge on the windows ready to let a swat team swing through.

[inca1980]

@B.B.:
Also roll you're initiative again because it would be a new CT for you.

[inca1980]

I do the rule where direct spells do base damage and the caster can choose to add net hits to the damage but each one added raises the DV by 1.  This balances the insane power of direct combat spells in my opinion.  Yancy chose not to add hits because of the added drain.