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Thematrian1 (9:17:59 PM): ISTR you have Dark Secret. Gem hasn't got anything destiny-related, I don't think
MilesMk1 (9:18:19 PM): Hey! How come you know what flaws I have? :P
Thematrian1 (9:18:28 PM): 'cause you posted them on dumpshock, that's why
MilesMk1 (9:18:35 PM): Doh.
MilesMk1 (9:18:47 PM): Good paranoid fantasy ruined... :)
MilesMk1 (9:19:13 PM): I knew I ought to have edited that, but I was too lazy.
Thematrian1 (9:19:26 PM): I wouldn't worry. We know all about IC vs. OOC
Thematrian1 (9:19:27 PM): anyway
Thematrian1 (9:19:36 PM): when we left the team, it was dithering outside of Home Despot
MilesMk1 (9:19:46 PM): (I'm just joking, I don't mind one way or the other.)
MilesMk1 (9:20:03 PM): Hey, Jon.
Umbrafer (9:20:13 PM): D4?
MilesMk1 (9:23:05 PM): The Mighty Ducks: College Years?
Thematrian1 (9:23:07 PM): no one had left the HD that you've seen
Thematrian1 (9:23:18 PM): no
Thematrian1 (9:24:01 PM): The Kimji saw a few armed men at the ends of the aisles
Thematrian1 (9:24:10 PM): Rock wasn't around
Umbrafer (9:24:16 PM): Indeed.
Umbrafer (9:24:25 PM): Rock: *Meditate meditate meditate*
MilesMk1 (9:26:23 PM): #So, partner... What's the situation inside?#
Thematrian1 (9:27:51 PM): The silence is a little ominous.
Umbrafer (9:28:13 PM): #It's… there are armed guards, but they don't look like they're doing anything…#
Dragcrell (9:28:14 PM): much goings on the astral?
Umbrafer (9:28:25 PM): Wait!
Umbrafer (9:28:37 PM): When we left off, I was just scooting inside following an Ork
Umbrafer (9:28:46 PM): And this was the point at which fire decided to invite itself in
MilesMk1 (9:28:58 PM): You did scoot inside... Fire?
Thematrian1 (9:29:01 PM): ah yes
Thematrian1 (9:29:09 PM): (That's why I had to leave last week. There was fire)
MilesMk1 (9:29:23 PM): (Oh.)
Thematrian1 (9:29:47 PM): (Fortunately not very much)
MilesMk1 (9:29:50 PM): (Man, you people live in wild and dangerous places. Goats, badgers, storm winds, fires...)
Thematrian1 (9:30:00 PM): (badgers?)
MilesMk1 (9:30:34 PM): (That was Jon. "Hold on, a bader just came in.")
MilesMk1 (9:30:40 PM): badger
Umbrafer (9:30:57 PM): Not badger, raccoon.
Thematrian1 (9:30:58 PM): (Jon, feel free to elaborate on that)
MilesMk1 (9:31:08 PM): (Oh, right.)
Umbrafer (9:31:12 PM): (It was eating out of the cat's food bowl.)
Umbrafer (9:31:22 PM): (Cats', I should say)
Dragcrell (9:31:31 PM): (oh hey we have a skunks that do that here ^_^)
Thematrian1 (9:32:07 PM): The Kimji follows the ork on in. There are a dozen or twenty armed men, mostly sub-machine guns of various descriptions. There's a large crowd of people in one of the lumber aisles
Umbrafer (9:32:30 PM): *Discreetly going for the rafters and scooting about*
Umbrafer (9:32:45 PM): #There's a lot of firepower inside.#
Thematrian1 (9:32:46 PM): Thematrian1 rolled 15 6-sided dice: 6 5 5 2 6 3 1 2 5 1 5 3 2 6 5
Umbrafer (9:32:52 PM): #Nothing heavy that I can see…#
MilesMk1 (9:33:51 PM): #Armor? Visible cyber?#
Umbrafer (9:34:35 PM): (The answer to that?)
MilesMk1 (9:34:38 PM): (BTW, I know I'm not the one seeing it, but is the crowd in the lumber isle separate from the men with guns, or is there just more of them there?)
Thematrian1 (9:34:43 PM): Armors is slight. The heavies fall into two categories: ganger types, with light coats or no armor at all, and guys wearing what looks like armanti
Thematrian1 (9:35:12 PM): The crowd is unarmed, and mostly dressed in business casual
Thematrian1 (9:36:01 PM): There are four guys watching them in the opening closest to the door.
Umbrafer (9:36:20 PM): *Relay*
Thematrian1 (9:36:26 PM): There's a guard or two on each end of each aisle. A small crowd of heavies is engaged in ferrying things from the store proper, through the doors into the loading docks
MilesMk1 (9:37:50 PM): #What do you think - corporate pukes setting themselves up with gear? The mob grabbing stuff to hoard?#
Umbrafer (9:38:31 PM): #I've got no idea… they look like they're loading the trucks, though…#
Umbrafer (9:38:43 PM): Is the crowd talking at all?
Thematrian1 (9:38:53 PM): No
MilesMk1 (9:39:05 PM): #We might be able to bust them up and good, but if there are two or three guys with decent cyber in that crowd... Is anyone saying anything?#
Thematrian1 (9:39:06 PM): Trickster and Blake, roll perception
MilesMk1 (9:39:13 PM): MilesMk1 rolled 6 6-sided dice: 3 1 2 4 6 3
MilesMk1 (9:39:17 PM): MilesMk1 rolled 1 6-sided die: 2
Dragcrell (9:39:19 PM): Dragcrell rolled 7 6-sided dice: 6 1 4 5 5 3 1
Dragcrell (9:39:31 PM): Dragcrell rolled 1 6-sided die: 4
Thematrian1 (9:40:06 PM): Thematrian1 rolled 15 6-sided dice: 5 1 6 4 2 5 1 3 4 5 5 3 6 1 1
Thematrian1 (9:40:11 PM): nothing is amiss
Umbrafer (9:41:44 PM): #It's all quiet…#
MilesMk1 (9:41:57 PM): #I wish I had concussion grenades.# *digs through the gear*
Thematrian1 (9:42:00 PM): Even the carries are working with grim, silent efficiency.
Umbrafer (9:42:02 PM): The trucks are likely to be drone-adapted, right?
Thematrian1 (9:42:20 PM): It seems likely to you
MilesMk1 (9:43:02 PM): #Hey, look at that. I do have concussion grenades.#
Umbrafer (9:44:22 PM): #The trucks are going to be drone-adapted…#
Umbrafer (9:44:47 PM): #I don't have the gear to steal a network with me, but if we gave them the wrong codes to follow…#
MilesMk1 (9:45:26 PM): #How would that need to be done? Physical hacking, decking, electronic warfare?#
Umbrafer (9:45:26 PM): What would be involved in that? I'd imagine it would vary by security level…
Umbrafer (9:45:47 PM): (Physical access, of course, probably being requirement A)
Thematrian1 (9:46:03 PM): (What exactly are you trying to accomplish?)
Thematrian1 (9:46:19 PM): (Yes, you'll need physical access, but I need details)
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Umbrafer (9:48:43 PM): Specifically what I'm trying to do is get it so that the trucks will join my network and follow my orders
Umbrafer (9:48:52 PM): Rather than joining some other network or going on manual
Thematrian1 (9:50:06 PM): hm. It wouldn't be too hard to completely prevent a drone from following anyone's orders, or to cut it out of a given network given physical access, but to then make contact with it is probably impossible
Umbrafer (9:50:55 PM): Well, presumably the drone has to be given a network to join in the first place
Umbrafer (9:51:00 PM): I'm just looking to override that
Umbrafer (9:51:04 PM): (Or alter)
Thematrian1 (9:52:20 PM): again, preventing it from joining any network isn't too hard. Screening it from specific networks is hard. If it's presently not part of any network, you could probably turn it on, then grab it
Umbrafer (9:52:53 PM): I guess that's the thing—I want to do that or, if it's presently part of a network, turn it off, then on, then grab it.
Umbrafer (9:53:45 PM): Checking the airwaves now to make sure they didn't do something stupid like leave the drone interface on and unassigned.
Thematrian1 (9:53:51 PM): fascinating plan. You're not sure whether it will work.
Thematrian1 (9:54:10 PM): you check. No roll required; they didn't
Umbrafer (9:54:17 PM): What are my projected possible difficulties?
Thematrian1 (9:54:55 PM): (#1, your GM killing you to death)
Thematrian1 (9:54:56 PM): #1, physical access
Thematrian1 (9:55:15 PM): (Trickster, roll perception)
Thematrian1 (9:55:27 PM): #2, the security protecting the drone modifications if any
Umbrafer (9:55:43 PM): (Hehehe)
Thematrian1 (9:56:07 PM): #3, doing the above quickly enough to avoid investigation when the drone drops off their network
Thematrian1 (9:56:12 PM): #4, bringing it up again
Thematrian1 (9:56:21 PM): #5, doing so without handing the drone back to them
Umbrafer (9:56:31 PM): Well, there's a question as to whether or not they have a network.
Umbrafer (9:56:41 PM): Home Despot definitely will
Umbrafer (9:56:48 PM): We don't know how organized these people are, though
MilesMk1 (9:57:03 PM): (Does it always seem like we need one of our PCs from the *other* game half the time, no matter which one we're playing?)
Umbrafer (9:57:20 PM): (Yes.)
Thematrian1 (9:58:06 PM): that's tue. If they have no network, all you have to do is get them open for connections, whereupon you can have your way with them
Thematrian1 (9:58:08 PM): that would be far easier
Umbrafer (9:58:24 PM): What do they look like they're gathering, inside?
Dragcrell (9:58:46 PM): Dragcrell rolled 7 6-sided dice: 1 3 2 2 1 2 4
Dragcrell (9:58:53 PM): (sorry was snaging some food)
Thematrian1 (9:59:32 PM): Trickster sees nothing special at first, then spots the aura of a man-sized thing vanishing over the top of the Home Despot roof.
Thematrian1 (10:00:06 PM): They look like they're systematically emptying the store. Lumber metal of various kinds, then fuels of all sorts
Thematrian1 (10:00:10 PM): they're leaving the fertilizer alone
Dragcrell (10:00:35 PM): *moves to wipering distence of Blake and Alex then relays the info to them*
MilesMk1 (10:00:55 PM): *tries to see if we have someone watching us from the top*
Umbrafer (10:01:08 PM): Have they grabbed the refrigerators?
MilesMk1 (10:01:12 PM): #Trickster says there's someone on the roof.#
Thematrian1 (10:01:21 PM): they haven't reached the appliances section yet
Thematrian1 (10:01:26 PM): Blake, roll perception
Thematrian1 (10:01:41 PM): (This would be right up Glitch's alley, it's true. But Blake has incredible luck on his side)
Umbrafer (10:01:45 PM): If they touch those refrigerators, they're going /down/.
Thematrian1 (10:03:22 PM): They have not yet touched the refridgerators
MilesMk1 (10:03:48 PM): MilesMk1 rolled 6 6-sided dice: 3 1 4 6 6 2
MilesMk1 (10:03:52 PM): MilesMk1 rolled 2 6-sided dice: 2 6
MilesMk1 (10:03:56 PM): MilesMk1 rolled 1 6-sided die: 6
MilesMk1 (10:04:00 PM): MilesMk1 rolled 1 6-sided die: 1
MilesMk1 (10:04:08 PM): 19, 8, 4
Thematrian1 (10:04:16 PM): Thematrian1 rolled 15 6-sided dice: 1 6 4 2 4 4 4 1 3 2 4 2 3 5 3
Thematrian1 (10:04:52 PM): You're quite confident that no one is watching you from above
Thematrian1 (10:07:08 PM): actions?
MilesMk1 (10:07:39 PM): I dither.
Dragcrell (10:07:43 PM): *keeps taps on the Astral for now*
Umbrafer (10:08:05 PM): #Say… think you might be able to get to the cab of one of those trucks without being seen?#
Umbrafer (10:08:14 PM): What was my count on armed individuals inside?
Thematrian1 (10:08:25 PM): A shot is fired inside the HD. Two more follow quickly, then silence.
Thematrian1 (10:08:30 PM): Maybe 40 all told.
Thematrian1 (10:09:07 PM): that's including the guys now toting things
Thematrian1 (10:10:22 PM): The toting guys continue to tote. Two of them are eying a refridgerator
Umbrafer (10:10:45 PM): Hm. Looking for the area where the shots came from.
Thematrian1 (10:11:40 PM): It's easy to find. A guy in a dressy shirt and slacks is lying face-down, bleeding, a few feet away from the big mob in the lumber aisle. Said mob looks pretty terrorized
MilesMk1 (10:12:06 PM): #Depends on how careful they're being. Maybe. Trickster thought he saw someone on the roof, and we know they have someone awakened - we might be watched magically...#
Umbrafer (10:12:24 PM): #There's some dissention in the ranks…#
MilesMk1 (10:12:35 PM): #What happened?#
Umbrafer (10:12:56 PM): #No idea. Some suit got out of line and got himself shot.#
Thematrian1 (10:12:57 PM): An ork with a heavy pistol is standing over the guy, looking annoyed
Umbrafer (10:13:19 PM): #Ork did it.#
Umbrafer (10:13:33 PM): #Heavy pistol, [no?] obvious cyber
Umbrafer (10:13:35 PM): *#
Thematrian1 (10:14:03 PM): No obvious cyber. His arms are huge, though. Maybe augmented?
Umbrafer (10:15:22 PM): #Muscle aug or a steroid freak.#
MilesMk1 (10:15:36 PM): #Hmm... Maybe the people inside were here when these new "shoppers" arrived?#
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Umbrafer (10:16:48 PM): What do you think? I'd say storm the place, but I'm still working at +something huge, so dodging's going to be essentially a no-go
Umbrafer (10:16:59 PM): And I'm not sure we've got space enough for me to use my range advantage
MilesMk1 (10:17:55 PM): I'm worried about the mage - or whoever it is that they have awakened.
Umbrafer (10:18:00 PM): Indeed.
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MilesMk1 (10:18:25 PM): Though unless he's uber, he might very well go the way of most mages who try to use mana spells on Blake...
MilesMk1 (10:18:38 PM): Then again, I might roll like shit and go down to the first spell.
Umbrafer (10:18:39 PM): Heh. So true.
MilesMk1 (10:19:26 PM): The twenty guys... Well, unless they work really well together, or have grenades - I should be able to pick them off from behind my drone.
Umbrafer (10:19:59 PM): And the Strato is a lead hose
MilesMk1 (10:20:09 PM): No armor on it, though, right?
Thematrian1 (10:20:29 PM): none
MilesMk1 (10:20:52 PM): Is Trickster fully recovered, and will he join the fight?
Thematrian1 (10:21:03 PM): yes, and I don't know
MilesMk1 (10:21:08 PM): (If he will, he should probably stick to shooting from good cover.)
Umbrafer (10:21:28 PM): No armor, no. I'd be trying to stay at a hundred meters or so.
Umbrafer (10:21:39 PM): If they aren't spread out across the place, that shouldn't be hard.
Thematrian1 (10:21:50 PM): There's the guy or two per aisle
Umbrafer (10:21:58 PM): Bah. Throughout the entire place?
Thematrian1 (10:22:10 PM): yeah
Dragcrell (10:22:14 PM): (ya tho how well his aim well be eh..............)
MilesMk1 (10:22:22 PM): BTW, does the ~20 armed men include the guys in the aisles, or not?
Thematrian1 (10:23:08 PM): it does, yes. There are maybe six in direct view of the doors
MilesMk1 (10:24:39 PM): Do we really need this stuff badly enough to shoot it out with 20 people?
MilesMk1 (10:24:57 PM): I guess we can't count on staying at Sigrun's place forver, so that's probably a "yes".
Umbrafer (10:26:14 PM): Well, we need it more if we are staying there forever
Umbrafer (10:26:24 PM): But we'll need this stuff wherever to improve our survival odds
Umbrafer (10:26:29 PM): And it isn't going to get easier to find.
Umbrafer (10:26:35 PM): We seriously lucked out with the soysteaks.
MilesMk1 (10:26:55 PM): (I'm trying to decide whether my ego is about to get me killed. If I have cover, and keep moving, I should be able to chew these guys up. I don't think they're really going to stand up to 13S bursts that well.)
Dragcrell (10:27:11 PM): ^_- debends on your out look of what is food and whats not
Umbrafer (10:27:21 PM): Do any of them look heavily armored?
Thematrian1 (10:27:46 PM): There's one guy by the door in a long coat and what might be an FFBA shirt. The others are as I described
MilesMk1 (10:28:01 PM): (And I have 8 points of ballistic armor, so return fire is not a huge concern, but then again, who knows when you run into a guys with Ex-Ex?)
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Umbrafer (10:29:08 PM): If they clump, go with suppressive fire.
MilesMk1 (10:29:22 PM): If they clump, I'll use a concussion grenade.
Umbrafer (10:29:27 PM): That too.
Umbrafer (10:29:38 PM): If they clump far away.
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MilesMk1 (10:30:09 PM): I have concussion mini-grenades for my grenade launcher, actually.
Umbrafer (10:30:26 PM): True. Still, grenades are likely to be rarer than AR ammo.
MilesMk1 (10:30:29 PM): As well as some non-aerodynamic IPE ones...
MilesMk1 (10:30:37 PM): Yeah - I'd rather not use them.
MilesMk1 (10:31:07 PM): If they have any sense, they'll just get the hell out once we chunky-salsa some of them.
Umbrafer (10:31:35 PM): We don't know if they have backup… any way you slice it, though, we're going to want to wait for them to finish loading for us.
Umbrafer (10:32:05 PM): (Argh, I forgot to write down time to stun recovery. Any idea what it was?)
MilesMk1 (10:32:08 PM): Yeah - though if we do that, we definitely need the van in a less-conspicuous place.
Umbrafer (10:32:12 PM): Indeed.
MilesMk1 (10:32:19 PM): 15 minutes, I thought.
Thematrian1 (10:32:28 PM): (15 minutes, yes)
Umbrafer (10:32:31 PM): That was it, yeah. I finally got a decent number of successes.
Umbrafer (10:32:49 PM): I'm going to scan for signatures inside the cab of one of the trucks.
Umbrafer (10:32:53 PM): Umbrafer rolled 5 6-sided dice: 2 5 1 2 1
Thematrian1 (10:33:09 PM): you detect no signatures
MilesMk1 (10:33:46 PM): *to Sigrun's people* "You guys feel up to backing us up against twenty people?"
MilesMk1 (10:34:01 PM): "And, potentiall, a mage?"
MilesMk1 (10:34:06 PM): potentially
Thematrian1 (10:34:22 PM): The orks look worried and excited. Serlin just looks worried
MilesMk1 (10:35:15 PM): "If nothing goes terribly wrong, I should be able to do most of it with long-range backup from Alex. If they don't get smart and lucky and manage to mob me."
MilesMk1 (10:35:38 PM): "But if shit hits the fan, I might need help to get out of there in one piece."
Thematrian1 (10:35:50 PM): Storyteller!Ork speaks. "What exactly would we be doing?"
Dragcrell (10:36:20 PM): *nods* "any way I can slip in from another way then you might confuse em a tad more."
MilesMk1 (10:37:00 PM): "Make sure no one gets up to the van and throws a grenade inside or circles behind me. Fire from cover if any targets present themselves. Provide suppressive fire if I need to get the hell out."
Umbrafer (10:37:17 PM): "We're waiting for them to finish loading. After that, we take the trucks away from them.""
Umbrafer (10:37:19 PM): *-"
Thematrian1 (10:37:33 PM): The orks look baffled, Serlin cautiously impressed
Dragcrell (10:37:58 PM): *chucles* "mmmm sounds like fun."
MilesMk1 (10:38:22 PM): "Any of you know how to use an assault rifle?"
MilesMk1 (10:38:46 PM): *looking hopefully at Serlin*
Thematrian1 (10:38:55 PM): one Ork lifts a few fingers. Serlin looks embarassed
Umbrafer (10:39:43 PM): "Hey Serlin, ever worked a remote turret?"
Umbrafer (10:39:52 PM): (He's got a datajack, right?)
MilesMk1 (10:39:57 PM): "I have a spare you can use, then." (I'll give it to him loaded with regular rounds if we end up doing this.)
MilesMk1 (10:40:23 PM): (This is the AK-97 with 3 points of recoil comp)
Thematrian1 (10:40:25 PM): "Never been any need." (He sure does)
Umbrafer (10:41:48 PM): "Damn, I need a better brain for this thing…"
Thematrian1 (10:43:40 PM): The party waits. Two heavies at a time are carting refrigerators
MilesMk1 (10:44:07 PM): So, we're watching the loading dock and the doors next to it, right?
Umbrafer (10:44:17 PM): They are dead.
MilesMk1 (10:44:17 PM): How does one get to those doors? Is there a ramp, stairs?
MilesMk1 (10:44:54 PM): Also, how is the place set up for cover if I was going to engage them as they were getting ready to leave?
Thematrian1 (10:45:09 PM): Externally there's a door. There's a ramp inside but the door is the only access point from the outside. You're kinda far away to see much more.
MilesMk1 (10:45:39 PM): Ah, so the door is street-level on our side?
Thematrian1 (10:45:58 PM): yes
MilesMk1 (10:46:29 PM): What separates us from the building? The length of a street, a parking lot?
Thematrian1 (10:46:53 PM): A lot of parking lot and a corner. I'm describing things as you saw them when you entered
Thematrian1 (10:47:17 PM): The truck's cab is out in the open; a metal fence descends from the ceiling around the truck
MilesMk1 (10:48:20 PM): Ah, so it's like a partial fence cage around each truck?
Thematrian1 (10:48:44 PM): pretty much
MilesMk1 (10:49:29 PM): And there's no cover in the parking lot, I assume. So running over behind the shield drone would be kind of obvious...
Thematrian1 (10:50:25 PM): Pretty much. The parking lot has a great many cards in it, that could cover you for a while, but the last fifty meters or so is totally bare
Thematrian1 (10:50:32 PM): you'd need a closer look to be sure of anything though
MilesMk1 (10:50:39 PM): cards? cars?
Thematrian1 (10:50:51 PM): cars, yeah
Thematrian1 (10:50:55 PM): well, and vans
Umbrafer (10:51:43 PM): *Thinks about how much the terrain would work to her advantage if she weren't injured*
Umbrafer (10:51:53 PM): *Rests while waiting*
MilesMk1 (10:52:32 PM): #So, do I push in through the door before they all leave, or do we try to catch as many outside as possible?#
Thematrian1 (10:52:47 PM): Load load load. Fifteen minutes have passed.
Umbrafer (10:52:59 PM): #I think we need to get them before they start to leave.#
MilesMk1 (10:53:30 PM): #Either way, we need to find a way to get me close to the door and ready to go. Do you plan on driving me in, or should I look for a way to sneak closer?#
Umbrafer (10:53:39 PM): (Looking for sevens still)
Umbrafer (10:53:43 PM): Umbrafer rolled 6 6-sided dice: 4 3 1 4 3 3
Umbrafer (10:53:51 PM): (Bugger. An hour without recovery.)
Umbrafer (10:54:09 PM): #It's your call. Advantages and disadvantages.#
Umbrafer (10:54:17 PM): #Might want to sneak, give them less time.#
Thematrian1 (10:54:19 PM): Trickster: what if anything are you doing?
Dragcrell (10:55:04 PM): lissing and watching out the windows
MilesMk1 (10:55:30 PM): #Can you use the Shattenauge or one of your stratos to see if there are any other entrances? If I hit somewhere other than this door, I'll be less likely to get shot by several of them, and if they try to leave through the door,
MilesMk1 (10:55:42 PM): facing us, you can use the turret...#
Umbrafer (10:56:12 PM): The Kimji's going to search for exit signs.
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MilesMk1 (10:57:20 PM): Funny thing is, he didn't lose connection once before you came in.
MilesMk1 (10:57:30 PM): Some sort of law of conservation of GMs, or something.
MilesMk1 (10:57:50 PM): Or complete coincidence.
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Thematrian1 (10:58:17 PM): You find a single fire door, and the entry to the loading docks
Umbrafer (10:58:36 PM): *Relays* What's the guard like on them?
Umbrafer (10:58:46 PM): There've got to be other exits, the occupancy of this place must be huge
Thematrian1 (10:59:16 PM): None. There are two guys who can see it from their aisles, but they're not paying close attention
Thematrian1 (10:59:36 PM): ok, roll Intelligence for a detailed search. Was anyone going to go check out the loading docks?
MilesMk1 (10:59:59 PM): You mean, go and look from the outside?
Umbrafer (11:00:05 PM): Umbrafer rolled 8 6-sided dice: 1 6 3 6 6 4 2 2
Umbrafer (11:00:09 PM): Umbrafer rolled 3 6-sided dice: 2 2 5
Thematrian1 (11:00:25 PM): right
MilesMk1 (11:01:55 PM): I was hoping Alex could do a fly-by from the outside, but is she's busy with the drone inside, I could take a quick look around the corner...
MilesMk1 (11:02:04 PM): if she's
Umbrafer (11:02:13 PM): (I'll try that after I've finished the inside search)
Thematrian1 (11:02:52 PM): The Orks are playing what looks like a complicated version of rock-paper-scissors
Thematrian1 (11:05:01 PM): You find five more fire exits, all with large objects in front of them
Umbrafer (11:05:54 PM): #They've blocked the exits.#
Thematrian1 (11:05:55 PM): refrigerator, huge metal thing you're not sure of, two stoves stacked atop one another, and in two cases just a big pile of lumber
MilesMk1 (11:06:50 PM): #All except the one?#
MilesMk1 (11:07:13 PM): #You did say one fire exit was accessible.#
Umbrafer (11:07:31 PM): #Yeah, that one's open.#
MilesMk1 (11:08:50 PM): #Might be the place for me to go in.#
MilesMk1 (11:09:02 PM): #Provided I can open it from the outside.#
Umbrafer (11:09:11 PM): #It looks like it… it just feels too open for some reason.#
Thematrian1 (11:09:51 PM): (gosh, you guys are paranoid)
Dragcrell (11:10:11 PM): (can't imagen WHY that is)
Thematrian1 (11:10:13 PM): (Even the guy who can hardly die is hiding in the van ;-))
Thematrian1 (11:10:18 PM): (Yeah, it's a mystery)
MilesMk1 (11:11:08 PM): #Booby trapped? Maybe they just wanted to have one other way out of there?#
Dragcrell (11:11:11 PM): ( *snorts* ya its fun being shot do it every satnight)
Dragcrell (11:11:47 PM): "Well any thaing of use?"
MilesMk1 (11:11:59 PM): #But you saw nothing strange by the door, right?#
Umbrafer (11:12:13 PM): *Taking another look*
MilesMk1 (11:12:39 PM): "There's a side fire door I could probably use to get in there. It'd let me attack without being too exposed, maybe herd them towards the main doors..."
Thematrian1 (11:12:44 PM): There are two guys, but they're not looking all that hard. Both Sensors.
Umbrafer (11:12:57 PM): Umbrafer rolled 5 6-sided dice: 5 3 1 1 6
Umbrafer (11:13:05 PM): Umbrafer rolled 8 6-sided dice: 4 4 4 6 3 3 3 3
Umbrafer (11:13:13 PM): Umbrafer rolled 1 6-sided die: 3
Thematrian1 (11:13:19 PM): nope, nothing whatsoever out of the ordinary
Umbrafer (11:13:22 PM): Umbrafer rolled 1 6-sided die: 1
Dragcrell (11:14:02 PM): "mmm why is it your going in again with just the............drones?"
MilesMk1 (11:14:48 PM): "Because you guys aren't really equipped for a major firefight? I'd definitely welcome your help, though."
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MilesMk1 (11:15:38 PM): "I'm not telling you not to come - just not trying to force you to."
Dragcrell (11:15:53 PM): you know he keeps that up we should superglue his ass down
MilesMk1 (11:16:41 PM): "Shit, if this is what getting building supplies is like, I don't want to even think of what getting guns and armor will be like. Once this is done, I really need to find my weapons guy..."
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MilesMk1 (11:17:04 PM): "So, are you coming, Trickster?"
Dragcrell (11:18:07 PM): "I'll come hell what life with out some exsitment cant be any worse then the last time I entered a building with you guys guarding it." *readys the snapblades and a manhunter with reg. ammo*
MilesMk1 (11:18:46 PM): "Just make sure to stay behind cover at all times."
MilesMk1 (11:19:27 PM): "Last time you entered a building with us, you got stuck on the stairs and didn't have to go deeper in."
Dragcrell (11:19:34 PM): "any thaing near the door that can be use?" *puts on a lined coat* "and how meny is at the door?"
MilesMk1 (11:20:09 PM): "Two with line of sight to the door... And doorways usually are good cover until you can move inside and find something better."
Dragcrell (11:20:12 PM): "No the last one I entered with you guys near it like this was blown up rember."
MilesMk1 (11:20:44 PM): "I'm not sure a truck stop really qualifies as a building."
MilesMk1 (11:20:57 PM): "Technically, I guess."
Dragcrell (11:21:26 PM): *shurges* "it had four walls and a roof I call that a building."
MilesMk1 (11:21:35 PM): "Well, you made it out ok."
MilesMk1 (11:22:15 PM): "I guess now we wait for more recon info from Alex."
Dragcrell (11:22:55 PM): *only looks at Blake then rechecks there gear snaging 3 extra clips*
MilesMk1 (11:23:14 PM): #All right, I think Trickster and I will make a move on that fire door. Perhaps it'd be good if you dropped us off a little closer when it's time, then circled to the loading dock.#
Thematrian1 (11:23:17 PM): The one ork cradles his loaned AK-97
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MilesMk1 (11:24:08 PM): (And I don't mean to nag, but you remember about the outside check, right?)
Umbrafer (11:24:14 PM): (Yep)
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Dragcrell (11:26:14 PM): (sooo do we use logging chains or just good old SUPERGLUE to keep you in the room?)
Thematrian1 (11:26:16 PM): further actions?
Umbrafer (11:26:57 PM): Deploying the Shadow Eye.
Thematrian1 (11:27:10 PM): (once school starts I'll just go there on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Then the problem will go away)
Dragcrell (11:27:24 PM): *looks at the ork* "Oh dont worry I dout a another van well pull up and shoot a missle at this place."
Thematrian1 (11:27:48 PM): The Ork, to the universe at large: "Another?"
MilesMk1 (11:28:08 PM): "All you guys will need to do is back up Alex if necessary, but you should be able to just watch."
MilesMk1 (11:28:19 PM): "It's a long story." *shoots Trickster A Look*
Thematrian1 (11:28:41 PM): Serlin likes the idea of just watching, it's clear. The orks are uncertain.
Dragcrell (11:28:57 PM): *trys to look incent* "what?"
MilesMk1 (11:29:15 PM): "Stay alert, make sure no one gets a jump on us - we need our Rigger protected."
Thematrian1 (11:29:26 PM): They nod.
MilesMk1 (11:29:52 PM): "Unless you feel up to coming along. I'm not going to push you, you ought to know best what you can handle."
MilesMk1 (11:30:15 PM): "And we *do* need someone here just in case anyway."
MilesMk1 (11:30:28 PM): *settles in to wait for info on the outside of the building*
Thematrian1 (11:31:23 PM): So, neither Blake nor Trickster was going to go gather it?
Umbrafer (11:32:01 PM): Schattenauge is going to stay somewhere inconspicuous to whatever degree possible and survey the outside.
MilesMk1 (11:32:22 PM): (Hmm... Alex gets her wound penalties to all her perception checks, right?)
Thematrian1 (11:32:28 PM): (She sure does!)
MilesMk1 (11:32:35 PM): (Doh.)
MilesMk1 (11:32:50 PM): Ok, I think I'll best survey the place, then.
Thematrian1 (11:32:55 PM): (+5, at this point)
MilesMk1 (11:33:13 PM): How long would it take me to actually walk around the building?
Umbrafer (11:33:17 PM): (Indeed. Not on the active sensor tests, as that's the drone at work)
Dragcrell (11:33:19 PM): *takes a look out the windows again*
Umbrafer (11:33:24 PM): (But on my perception tests… I get +pain.)
Thematrian1 (11:33:37 PM): 10 or 15 minutes, especially if you were trying to stay concealed
MilesMk1 (11:33:43 PM): Keeping my distance, of course - from the other side of the street, and not getting too close to the loading dock on the parking lot side...
MilesMk1 (11:33:50 PM): I'll be trying to be subtle.
Thematrian1 (11:34:05 PM): easily 15 minutes, then
MilesMk1 (11:34:34 PM): "Probably best if I check the place out as well - get an idea of the best approach on foot. Be back in twenty."
Dragcrell (11:34:55 PM): "right"
MilesMk1 (11:35:03 PM): I go - obviously, without the assault rifle, or equipment webbing, or helment...
MilesMk1 (11:35:08 PM): helmet
Thematrian1 (11:35:12 PM): what are you going with?
Thematrian1 (11:35:18 PM): And what if anything is trickster doing
Thematrian1 (11:35:52 PM): any weapons?
MilesMk1 (11:36:09 PM): Well, secure jacked over my usual duds - FFBA, forearm guards, street clothes, a predator, shock gloves, knife, and so on.
MilesMk1 (11:36:13 PM): jacket
Dragcrell (11:36:15 PM): "Wouldn't it be better if some one goes that can be harder to see then you?"
MilesMk1 (11:36:57 PM): "You think you should go? I'm sure you can sneak well, but this isn't exactly the woods, and you'll be out of radio contact..."
MilesMk1 (11:37:06 PM): "If you're confident in it, go for it."
MilesMk1 (11:37:35 PM): "I'll just go out far enough to get a good look at the loading dock, and come back."
Dragcrell (11:38:46 PM): "ya but then I can run faster then you as well." *moves to a area hiden from view on as meny sides as can and shift then scout out the building*
Thematrian1 (11:39:00 PM): So Blake (and Trickster?) set off on their glorious adventure to spy on the mob or whoever at the Home Despot
MilesMk1 (11:39:07 PM): Basically.
Umbrafer (11:39:24 PM): How goes packing progress?
MilesMk1 (11:39:25 PM): Though I'll just scope out the loading dock from across the parking lot.
Umbrafer (11:39:41 PM): Finishing survey, then reclaiming Schattenauge.
Thematrian1 (11:39:44 PM): They've packed up most of the refrigerators
Dragcrell (11:39:53 PM): yep useing stealth and smaller size to get a good look
Thematrian1 (11:40:03 PM): the section with the cable is very desolate
Thematrian1 (11:40:46 PM): the nails and screws and so forth are just plain gone
Thematrian1 (11:41:04 PM): And here we must break. I'll see you all next week at the latest
Thematrian1 (11:41:12 PM): Jon: do you know when we're going to get Adam back?
Umbrafer (11:42:07 PM): Next week seems likely.
Umbrafer (11:42:22 PM): He's on campus now, but not connected to the network yet.
Thematrian1 (11:42:34 PM): That timing works out niftily
MilesMk1 (11:42:37 PM): Are you not going to be here Thursday, then?
Thematrian1 (11:42:49 PM): I'll be here Thursday.
MilesMk1 (11:42:58 PM): Oh, right, you said "at latest".
MilesMk1 (11:43:20 PM): All cylinders not firing here.
Dragcrell (11:43:23 PM): mmmmmm sounds like fun :P
MilesMk1 (11:43:40 PM): Well, Trickster finally gets to do something. That is good
MilesMk1 (11:44:02 PM): He'd have loved parts of our Thursday adventure.
MilesMk1 (11:44:07 PM): Sneaking through the woods...
Umbrafer (11:44:18 PM): He might have eaten a bird ;)
MilesMk1 (11:44:21 PM): Shit, he could have been the missing dog! ;)
Dragcrell (11:44:24 PM): ya should be intresting to see if he getts his ass shot off or not with my shitty rolling
Thematrian1 (11:44:37 PM): (dammit, again the wrong character in the wrong game)
Umbrafer (11:44:49 PM): (Mated pair. I was going to be sad if you killed one but not both.)
Dragcrell (11:44:52 PM): lol ^_^
Thematrian1 (11:45:08 PM): (I was sad because we killed neither)
Thematrian1 (11:45:12 PM): (I guess it balances out)
Thematrian1 (11:45:15 PM): sleep well everyone
MilesMk1 (11:45:27 PM): (Heh... I hate killing animals, but when they turn vicious like that...)
Dragcrell (11:45:39 PM): mmmmmm sleep ya that would be nice to get >_>
Thematrian1 (11:45:53 PM): (Gem has leftover bird issues from the seagulls. She was fine with it, she just lacked the means...)
MilesMk1 (11:45:56 PM): ...but there's too much FFXII to play? :p
Thematrian1 (11:46:15 PM): FFXI, I think
MilesMk1 (11:46:23 PM): (Seagulls, like pigeons, are a species of rat, not bird.)
Thematrian1 (11:46:25 PM): They're all for consoles I don't own at this point anyway
Thematrian1 (11:46:34 PM): (You'd win Gem's heart with lines like that)
Thematrian1 (11:46:44 PM): (And Blood Kites are the devil rats of the tribe)
Thematrian1 (11:46:52 PM): dammit. Good night
Dragcrell (11:46:54 PM): lol not FF 11 is PC and soon the 360
Umbrafer (11:47:04 PM): (Just wait until you meet the demon rats of the tribe.)
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MilesMk1 (11:47:43 PM): Did he seem upset just now?
Umbrafer (11:48:00 PM): Knowing Seiler, my guess:
MilesMk1 (11:48:16 PM): Or maybe just trying to be sensible and not get drawn into the talk for the next 45 minutes...
Umbrafer (11:48:23 PM): He'd been trying to pull himself away from the conversation, but kept getting sucked back in and was somewhat an… yeah
Umbrafer (11:48:32 PM): It was more of a "this time it's gonna stick"
MilesMk1 (11:49:00 PM): So, annoyed at himself, not us. Hopefully.
Dragcrell (11:49:03 PM): *shurgs* all I know been up sence 11 am yesterday with next to no sleep and only 6 hours the night befor -_-
MilesMk1 (11:49:06 PM): :p
MilesMk1 (11:49:15 PM): Umm... Why?
Umbrafer (11:49:25 PM): You know the answer to that ;)
Dragcrell (11:50:16 PM): Eh finly got some testing over and done with and takeing some meds to help me not nod off at work with out knowing it bodys not use to them yet or somthing
MilesMk1 (11:51:15 PM): Ahh...
Dragcrell (11:51:44 PM): eh sleeping disorders joy to have >_< well ether way I'm off to see if I can manage to get some sleep anyway
MilesMk1 (11:51:47 PM): So, basically, you're on speed? :p
MilesMk1 (11:51:56 PM): All right - sleep well.
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MilesMk1 (11:52:11 PM): Mhmm.
MilesMk1 (11:52:22 PM): So, you weren't around on DS much.
Umbrafer (11:52:41 PM): Today? Nah, spent time with a friend from Ireland.
Umbrafer (11:53:02 PM): Some heads remained unbitten because of it.
MilesMk1 (11:53:11 PM): I ended up getting sucked into some SR4 discussion - some people with the books were helpfully pointing out ways to break the system, and I helped as much as I could/
Umbrafer (11:53:15 PM): Others just had their bitings delayed.
Umbrafer (11:54:02 PM): When I mentioned mounting frustrations with some Dumpshockers over SR4, Seiler's immediate response was that we needed to stop responding to blakkie so much.
MilesMk1 (11:54:24 PM): Hehe.
MilesMk1 (11:54:34 PM): I actually don't respond to him very much.
MilesMk1 (11:54:54 PM): Did a couple of times today, but that was it.
Umbrafer (11:55:17 PM): One that really got me recently was someone with the unmitigated gall to claim that Riggers aren't integrated with the team.
Umbrafer (11:55:24 PM): I mean, it depends on how well the team is organized.
Umbrafer (11:55:34 PM): If we didn't have the whole transducer thing going, it would be harder.
MilesMk1 (11:56:41 PM): You can do pretty well with just radio and subvocal mikes, though.
MilesMk1 (11:56:49 PM): But once you start using transducers...
Umbrafer (11:57:02 PM): It's true. Transducers are just that much better, though
Umbrafer (11:57:10 PM): For anyone who can have them, it's usually the call.
MilesMk1 (11:57:15 PM): I don't envision ever making a non-shifter or ghoul character that won't have one, though.
Umbrafer (11:58:06 PM): Why wouldn't you take one with a ghoul?
MilesMk1 (11:58:07 PM): And since I don't envision making a ghoul character unless someone makes the race worth -10 points, and shifters ain't my thing... ;P
MilesMk1 (11:58:19 PM): Background issues...
Umbrafer (11:58:25 PM): They're bad for heavy cyber, but for light stuff like that…
Umbrafer (11:58:28 PM): Ah
MilesMk1 (11:58:38 PM): If I rolled badly enough on the virus resistance, it might make no sense.
Umbrafer (11:59:01 PM): Depends on what you did beforehand
MilesMk1 (11:59:16 PM): Though I'd never play one anyway unless I could come to an agreement with the GM on some set number of successes on that Willpower test I would just get...
Umbrafer (11:59:43 PM): Yeah, it's a nasty one.
MilesMk1 (11:59:44 PM): I don't see how they expect people to play them, you can get an animal character, and then, what? You force the player to run something unplayable until it dies?
Umbrafer (12:02:56 AM): Like the systems where you can die in chargen.
MilesMk1 (12:03:13 AM): Well, that's not quite as bad... Then you just make another character...
MilesMk1 (12:03:44 AM): Damn, that reminds me - I never got an answer from Seiler on how he'd handle it if one of our characters died. Do we start from zero, or start with some Karma already?
MilesMk1 (12:03:53 AM): How do you handle it in your game?
Umbrafer (12:04:18 AM): Er… well, it hasn't happened yet.
MilesMk1 (12:04:30 AM): Hehe.
Umbrafer (12:04:39 AM): Rather, not with just one person.
MilesMk1 (12:04:45 AM): Right.
MilesMk1 (12:05:06 AM): Never, in all the various RL and OL games?
Umbrafer (12:05:24 AM): Well, that's not true.
Umbrafer (12:05:44 AM): There have been a few deaths, but all very near the start of campaigns
MilesMk1 (12:05:51 AM): Ah.
Umbrafer (12:06:22 AM): When everyone else has fifteen karma, it isn't such an issue.
MilesMk1 (12:07:18 AM): I was thinking about it, because we *are* in Bug City... And we're getting close to the 100 karma mark. Coming in with zero when someone in the group has that much... Though Trickster apparently never even got enough Karma
MilesMk1 (12:07:24 AM): to have a Karma pool of 2.
MilesMk1 (12:09:09 AM): I wonder about these things, because I like to experience higher "level" characters as well, and it seems like in some of the more deadly SR games, people are just forever starting from scratch. It'd drive me nuts, that.
MilesMk1 (12:09:56 AM): ... but I'm starting to ramble and probably should go get some of that "sleep" thing the others were talking about.
Umbrafer (12:10:03 AM): Indeed.
MilesMk1 (12:10:10 AM): See you Thursday.
Umbrafer (12:10:40 AM): *Waves* Sleep well.
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