[Kontact]

Initiative and Damage
When making the Initiative Test, wound modifiers from damage affect
the Initiative Score. In addition, if a character takes damage that in-
flicts wound modifiers during a Combat Turn, apply those (additional)
modifiers to his Initiative Score immediately. This means that a char-
acter’s Initiative Score may be affected in the middle of an Initiative
Pass (though if he has already acted in that pass, it won’t matter until
the next one).
If damage modifiers reduce a character’s Initiative Score to zero or
less, that character does not get any actions during that Combat Turn.

Lucky for Cottonmouth, one of his quicker friends shoots the ganger with a taser
before he can act. The ganger takes 6 boxes of Stun damage and suffers a wound
modifier of –2. That immediately drops his Initiative Score from 13 to 11, meaning
that Cottonmouth will get to act before the ganger after all.

So, it straight up hits your stat.  Because it's unique in this regard, it's easy to not realize.

[Walks Through Walls]

OK I always reduced initiative by wound modifiers in the middle of a round, but I guess I never thought about the fact that it was lowering the stat to do it. I guess I thought it was from fewer dice in the roll or something.

[FastJack]

Are we waiting on anything from me? Mercedes is pretty much a non-issue in this combat at this point, but figured I'd check to see what's up.

[Walks Through Walls]

Yancy has the next initiative. I'm waiting to see if he submits like B.B. ordered him to or if he fights on.

[Kontact]

Yancy has the next initiative. I'm waiting to see if he submits like B.B. ordered him to or if he fights on.

Technically, Woofer never took his 2nd IP action.  I guess we assume he stood up and helped Mercedes up?

[inca1980]

Sorry guys, messed up week, if i don't post today then tomorrow for sure! sorrryy!!

[inca1980]

These are 5 floors above a massive mall/lobby.  On that picture of the building, start counting from where those little windows start above the bass of the building and that'll give you an idea. 

[Walks Through Walls]

Who are we waiting on at this point? I'm not sure where we are in the initiative order.

[inca1980]

Woops i totally thought we were waiting for Woofer but he actually did post an action, sorry!  Cops act now!

[Kontact]

Did woofer use his whole action phase, or does he have a simple left?  I guess he took a Take Aim action on the unconscious guy?

[Walks Through Walls]

Inca did you roll the spell resist test for the cops who move into the doorway? It is an area effect spell and once they present themselves in the door they become targets since it is sustained. I think this will change things considerably. I'm going to wait on my action until we get a ruling because I think we are going to have to back things up as it is.

[Kontact]

Phew.  Good save.

[FastJack]

Well, I'm not sure I'd be dead per Kontact's post anyway. SnS is a flat DV, unless we're playing that the extra hits can raise it. If we are, AND if he's right about the dodge, I'm not going to spend that Edge on the roll, but probably burn Edge to make sure I don't die.

[inca1980]

Second cop fired at Walks, not again at Mercedes.

@Walks:

Area spell means that anyone who is in the area at the time of casting that is also LOS is affected.  Only indirect combat spells affect people not LOS and in area.  At the time of casting you form the mystic link, then once it's sustained it keeps affecting those that were affected as long as they stay in the area.  You didn't form a mystic link with the 2nd group of cops. 

[FastJack]

S'okay... Nobody fired at me then? Just confirming since it'd be my turn then.