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Thematrian1 (9:26:15 PM): Sorry about all the bullshit I put you through, guys.
CirclMastr (9:26:17 PM): w00t and such
Thematrian1 (9:26:19 PM): In my defense, I had no computer.
MilesMk1 (9:26:57 PM): You could have used a mobile phone if you really cared,
MilesMk1 (9:27:05 PM): ;)
Thematrian1 (9:27:15 PM): hah
Thematrian1 (9:27:18 PM): so
Umbrafer (9:27:18 PM): I think that would have had to involve him dying.
Thematrian1 (9:27:23 PM): what did we find in that notebook?
MilesMk1 (9:27:51 PM): Did anything crucial happen, BTW? Last thing I remember was Gem with a drone stuck to her tongue.
Thematrian1 (9:28:03 PM): that's where I left off too.
CirclMastr (9:28:20 PM): I thought we closed the session with going our separate ways (and Hound getting the drone)
Umbrafer (9:28:26 PM): Gem eventually spit out the drone and Hound looked at it.
Thematrian1 (9:29:49 PM): ::ptui::
Umbrafer (9:30:11 PM): While I dig for my notes, Hound can (if desired) fill the others in on what he found.
Thematrian1 (9:30:52 PM): I'd say he owes Gem an explanation, at least.
CirclMastr (9:31:24 PM): The only stuff I remember offhand is: advanced shit, power plant self-destructed, no apparent antenna
Umbrafer (9:32:13 PM): As far as Hound can tell, the materials involved probably go for more than gold does by weight as raw materials.
Umbrafer (9:32:36 PM): That said, the bug accounts for maybe an ounce of the stuff.
CirclMastr (9:33:16 PM): Hey, gold today is around 500 dollars an ounce...
Umbrafer (9:33:22 PM): As for the notebook, it's fairly damaged. Punctured in a few places, but mostly bloodstained to illegibility. The writing inside is neat and very small, and every so often there will be a page of what looks like shorthand.
Umbrafer (9:35:21 PM): Inside the front cover, it proclaims itself the property of one Samuel Wilcox, and gives a number to contact in case it should be found.
Umbrafer (9:35:53 PM): Starting at the beginning? Somewhere in the middle? Towards the end?
Thematrian1 (9:36:13 PM): hm. Take my first pass towards the end, then a slow pass through the whole thing
Umbrafer (9:37:55 PM): There's one interesting half-legible page filled with names and numbers towards the end of the filled-in portion (the last fifth or so of the notebook is empty)
Thematrian1 (9:38:30 PM): good times, good times, good times
CirclMastr (9:39:01 PM): Time to harass people over the phone?
Umbrafer (9:40:01 PM): The first parts you read through seem to be primarily focused around something to do with Renraku, the Arcology, local government corruption, and a small magic shop that burned down sometime last year.
Umbrafer (9:41:25 PM): He also has some scrawled notes about something to do with Seattle University, a failed expedition into Southeast Asia, and the football team.
Thematrian1 (9:42:06 PM): It's not harassment when Gem does it.
Umbrafer (9:42:08 PM): He mentions staying at a hotel in Tacoma to wait for someone he wants to talk to.
Thematrian1 (9:42:26 PM): Check. Back at home, I call up every news article the guy's ever written.
Umbrafer (9:42:52 PM): The next day, he talks about not being able to find anyone, and the streets having totally changed.
Umbrafer (9:44:19 PM): Over the next week or so his handwriting becomes steadily messier. He mentions running away from things, but never getting a good look at them.
Umbrafer (9:44:46 PM): He also spends a few pages debating about whether or not he's dead, based on the fact that he isn't getting hungry.
Thematrian1 (9:45:53 PM): I share this information with both Glitch and Hound as opportunity warrants
Umbrafer (9:45:59 PM): He then talks about meeting a young girl, a man in a coat, and wandering through a door onto a rooftop.
Thematrian1 (9:46:03 PM): sigh
CirclMastr (9:46:26 PM): (Kitsune and Snoog? No wait, man in a coat, not troll...)
Thematrian1 (9:46:27 PM): I mean, sure, I knew it was all of a piece, but...dammit.
Umbrafer (9:47:11 PM): He wanders back onto the street after a while and spends some more time debating what exactly is going on.
Umbrafer (9:47:48 PM): His chief guesses are magic, hallucinations (possibly due to LSD flashbacks, though he doubts it), and him being dead already.
Umbrafer (9:48:50 PM): After that, there are a few pages of strange symbols. The ink is almost solid on these pages.
CirclMastr (9:50:13 PM): (As a completely random aside, I just thought of a rules issue)
CirclMastr (9:50:28 PM): (Can a magical adept spend starting resources on spell points?)
Umbrafer (9:51:29 PM): In the middle of one of them, there's a white space. Inside, it says "TRAIN: LA->VANCOUVER BRIDGE NORTH OF PORTLAND 7/2 1:05 AM"
Umbrafer (9:51:36 PM): (Yes)
Umbrafer (9:51:50 PM): This is circled and underlined several times.
Thematrian1 (9:52:46 PM): let me guess. The bridge where the kid was found...
Umbrafer (9:53:08 PM): Portland is quite some distance south. The kid was found in Tacoma.
Thematrian1 (9:53:15 PM): oh
Thematrian1 (9:53:17 PM): good, I guess
Thematrian1 (9:53:19 PM): when was 7/2?
Umbrafer (9:54:00 PM): In just under two weeks, or about fifty weeks ago
Thematrian1 (9:54:21 PM): aha
Thematrian1 (9:54:22 PM): A Clue
CirclMastr (9:54:38 PM): (Two plus one plus one plus two... *crash*)
Thematrian1 (9:54:59 PM): ::turns to Glitch or Hound, as appropriate:: "Feel like taking a little trip with me in two weeks' time?"
CirclMastr (9:55:10 PM): "Where to?"
Thematrian1 (9:55:20 PM): (I'm using my godforsaken imagelink to put these pictures up on the monitor, so it's not out of the clear blue)
MilesMk1 (9:55:22 PM): "Well, I was thinking of getting out of town anyway."
Thematrian1 (9:55:31 PM): (I bought it and never used it once, and this is its moment!)
CirclMastr (9:55:45 PM): (I have no idea what you're talking about)
Umbrafer (9:55:54 PM): (Wait, you've really never used your imagelink?)
Umbrafer (9:56:48 PM): As for articles, he's primarily an investigative journalist. There are several exposes of minor corporate and city government figures, as well as an accusation that Stuffer Shacks are bad for the local economy.
MilesMk1 (9:56:52 PM): (BTW, if I'm incommunicative, just carry on. I'll be periodically away from the keyboard.)
Thematrian1 (9:56:56 PM): (Or whatever it's called that lets me display stuff from my internal memory on the external monitors)
Umbrafer (9:57:34 PM): (That's just a datajack. The imagelink is for displaying stuff from whatever source into your field of vision.)
Thematrian1 (9:58:51 PM): (Oh. Yeah, I've used that once or twice)
Umbrafer (9:59:42 PM): In your second scan of the earlier parts of the notebook, you find some of the notes from his more recent articles.
CirclMastr (9:59:44 PM): "So, where to?"
Umbrafer (10:00:14 PM): It all leaves you somewhat uncertain whether he had a permanent residence in the first place.
Umbrafer (10:00:35 PM): (Anytime he mentions going somewhere or staying somewhere, it's always a hotel somewhere in the city, and he never talks about "going home")
Thematrian1 (10:01:05 PM): I display the aforementioned information
Umbrafer (10:01:45 PM): *Displayed*
CirclMastr (10:02:35 PM): "So, Vancouver?"
Thematrian1 (10:04:23 PM): "Looks that way."
CirclMastr (10:04:41 PM): "Remind me what Vancouver's like."
CirclMastr (10:04:56 PM): (Which is really more like, remind ME what it's like in SR. >_> )
Thematrian1 (10:05:57 PM): "I don't know, I've never been."
Thematrian1 (10:06:04 PM): ::loads up basic info on her deck::
Umbrafer (10:06:07 PM): Let's get an INT?
Thematrian1 (10:06:17 PM): Thematrian1 rolled 6 6-sided dice: 4 4 6 4 1 1
Umbrafer (10:06:20 PM): It's in the Salish-Shidhe, very similar to Seattle but with more heavy industry and fewer Shadowrunners.
Thematrian1 (10:06:25 PM): ...oh come the fuck on
Umbrafer (10:06:30 PM): ?
Thematrian1 (10:06:42 PM): the new version of AIM doesn't display die rolls
Umbrafer (10:06:48 PM): …
Umbrafer (10:06:49 PM): ………
Thematrian1 (10:06:59 PM): The new version. Of AIM.
CirclMastr (10:07:16 PM): .....
Thematrian1 (10:07:20 PM): fewer Shadowrunners, eh? That's all to the good.
Umbrafer (10:08:46 PM): Also less that 'Runners are usually interested in.
Umbrafer (10:08:49 PM): FYI, you got one 6.
Thematrian1 (10:09:28 PM): thanks
Thematrian1 (10:09:30 PM): Thematrian1 rolled 1 6-sided die: 4
Umbrafer (10:11:08 PM): Hm. Something about the note nags at you, put it that way.
Thematrian1 (10:11:50 PM): (Well, 7/2 is my RL birthday, but I doubt Gem would pick up on that)
CirclMastr (10:12:05 PM): (Can Hound take a look?)
Thematrian1 (10:12:16 PM): (Yes. I put it up on the monitors)
Umbrafer (10:12:18 PM): (Go for it, the note's right up there :) )
CirclMastr (10:12:30 PM): CirclMastr rolled 6 6-sided dice: 1 1 1 2 1 2
CirclMastr (10:12:38 PM): ....Okay, I officially win the bad roll contest.
Umbrafer (10:13:37 PM): Anyway. Actions or ponderings?
CirclMastr (10:13:48 PM): (brb, dinner)
CirclMastr (10:14:02 PM): (Don't take the last roll as an indication of all of Hound's actions :P )
Thematrian1 (10:14:21 PM): ok...something, but I don't get anything more precise?
Umbrafer (10:16:49 PM): Hm.
Umbrafer (10:16:56 PM): No, not this time.
Thematrian1 (10:18:08 PM): hm. Ponder. Mutter.
Umbrafer (10:19:59 PM): Gem mutters and ponders
Umbrafer (10:20:03 PM): Not necessarily in that order.
CirclMastr (10:23:33 PM): Back
Umbrafer (10:23:42 PM): Wb
MilesMk1 (10:23:49 PM): Glitch will also take a look.
MilesMk1 (10:23:54 PM): MilesMk1 rolled 8 6-sided dice: 2 4 6 1 2 4 6 5
MilesMk1 (10:24:00 PM): MilesMk1 rolled 2 6-sided dice: 5 6
CirclMastr (10:24:00 PM): "Well, uh, this is all well and good, but we still have a run to do first."
MilesMk1 (10:24:04 PM): MilesMk1 rolled 1 6-sided die: 5
MilesMk1 (10:24:10 PM): 17,11
MilesMk1 (10:24:30 PM): (Oh, right, the book burning. Or was it stealing, now? Stealing, right?)
CirclMastr (10:24:35 PM): (Stealing)
Thematrian1 (10:24:41 PM): "Right, the thieving. I guess we'd better get on that."
CirclMastr (10:25:05 PM): "We've got lots of surveillance photos of the target building by now."
MilesMk1 (10:25:07 PM): (And, away I go again... I'll be back to check in. Feel free to bask in the wisdom Glitch has gleaned from the note. ;))
MilesMk1 (10:25:29 PM): (Sorry, I'm juggling a couple of things right now.)
Umbrafer (10:27:06 PM): Vernjonal (10:25:34 PM): As far as you [Glitch] can tell, the note's talking about the train that runs from LA to Vancouver (it's a big train line) rather than referring to Vancouver as the location that goes with the time.
Umbrafer (10:27:12 PM): Glitch gleans wisdom.
CirclMastr (10:27:40 PM): (Must be a huge train line)
Thematrian1 (10:28:19 PM): That's some good wisdom
Thematrian1 (10:28:33 PM): Of course, the one place Gem didn't want to visit this year is LA.
Thematrian1 (10:28:40 PM): That disguise kit is going to pay off, I can already tell.
CirclMastr (10:29:55 PM): Any chance it can go to the part of LA which is basically the Barrens?
Umbrafer (10:30:20 PM): You suspect not, though it may go /over/ it.
Umbrafer (10:31:39 PM): But yeah, the train line runs all the way up the West coast, from LA to San Jose, San Fran, Orkland, through the disputed area and through a heavily-guarded section in Tir Tairngire, Portland, Seattle, and then finally Vancouver.
Umbrafer (10:32:01 PM): It sees a great deal of use, though a lot of trains don't go the whole way and merely pass people off at one of the mid-stations.
MilesMk1 (10:32:04 PM): So, we need to go riding on the choo-choo?
CirclMastr (10:32:28 PM): Trains make riggers sad. No vehicle toys.
Umbrafer (10:35:32 PM): Where is the team during all this?
CirclMastr (10:36:03 PM): Good question
Thematrian1 (10:38:24 PM): I say we all three of us met at Glitch's after the police station encounter. Who's with me?
CirclMastr (10:38:25 PM): Having dinner?
CirclMastr (10:38:29 PM): Sure
Thematrian1 (10:38:33 PM): ooh, dinner
CirclMastr (10:38:46 PM): Glitch buys dinner again!
CirclMastr (10:38:57 PM): *raids his fridge for junk food and meat*
Umbrafer (10:39:27 PM): You find an extra-large bag of krill flakes and a soyshake.
CirclMastr (10:39:43 PM): "...Fuck."
Umbrafer (10:40:17 PM): The soyshake proudly advertises "real milk substitute!"
CirclMastr (10:41:26 PM): *gives it the finger and closes the fridge*
Umbrafer (10:41:55 PM): The nightly news has the story of the violence at the Tacoma police station. The stations whose staff were caught up in it are screaming bloody murder and demanding the entire police force be fired, all the other stations and the
Umbrafer (10:42:03 PM): Police comissioner are telling them to suck it up.
Umbrafer (10:43:16 PM): There's some footage of a block merrily burning away and an overturned firetruck nearby.
Thematrian1 (10:44:14 PM): woo
CirclMastr (10:44:23 PM): "I wouldn't mind having a fire truck..."
Thematrian1 (10:44:33 PM): "I see one nobody's using."
Umbrafer (10:44:50 PM): Remind me, how long has Hound been in Seattle?
CirclMastr (10:44:54 PM): "I wouldn't mind having a fire truck that worked."
CirclMastr (10:45:22 PM): (I'm inclined to say "All his life", why?)
Umbrafer (10:45:28 PM): Roll INT.
Umbrafer (10:45:33 PM): TN 12.
CirclMastr (10:46:09 PM): CirclMastr rolled 6 6-sided dice: 1 5 4 3 3 6
CirclMastr (10:46:11 PM): CirclMastr rolled 1 6-sided die: 6
CirclMastr (10:46:13 PM): (HAH!)
CirclMastr (10:46:20 PM): (OH SNAPZ)
CirclMastr (10:46:21 PM): CirclMastr rolled 1 6-sided die: 1
CirclMastr (10:46:27 PM): (Whatever, I hit 12)
Umbrafer (10:46:46 PM): They show another burning block. It seems naggingly familiar, as if you've seen it before. Not just the block, the burning too.
CirclMastr (10:47:27 PM): "This seems eerily familiar..."
CirclMastr (10:48:10 PM): *tries to remember where he's seen this before*
Umbrafer (10:48:28 PM): One more roll. What's Gem doing?
CirclMastr (10:48:37 PM): CirclMastr rolled 6 6-sided dice: 3 1 6 3 5 1
CirclMastr (10:48:39 PM): CirclMastr rolled 1 6-sided die: 3
CirclMastr (10:48:43 PM): (Is 9 enough?)
Thematrian1 (10:48:48 PM): Nothing in particular, now that the scanning's over and done with.
Umbrafer (10:49:25 PM): You dig and dig through your memory, but you can't quite put your finger on it. Maybe some sleep will bring the answer, or something like that.
CirclMastr (10:50:04 PM): (Sleep, yeah, that's exactly what you WANT Hound to do! So you can inflict a goddamn nightmare on him!)
Umbrafer (10:52:46 PM): The team eats all of Glitch's food. Anyone have actions, or are we come to an inevitable end to the evening?
CirclMastr (10:53:08 PM): I think Hound can't do anything but turn in.
Thematrian1 (10:54:05 PM): (Gem still needs to rest, honestly)
Thematrian1 (10:54:16 PM): (Sooner or later we have to plan and execute the book theft, but...)
MilesMk1 (10:54:32 PM): (sorry I was so out of it tonight)
CirclMastr (10:54:59 PM): *sleeps the sleep of the sleepy*
Umbrafer (10:55:29 PM): (No problem)
CirclMastr (10:55:38 PM): (Oh, are we ending the session?)
Umbrafer (10:56:17 PM): Anyone who stays up another two hours and watches the news will catch a breaking report that Channel 438 News misrepresented as live footage from a 2051 riot.
CirclMastr (10:57:39 PM): *gasp*
Thematrian1 (10:58:07 PM): heh
MilesMk1 (10:58:21 PM): (Well, I unfortunately have to run. Though I will point out, before I do, that Glitch wouldn't be caught dead with krill in his fridge. He's used to a certain standard of quality... So Gem and Hound probably gorge on 300-400 nuyen
MilesMk1 (10:58:25 PM): of real food)
Thematrian1 (10:58:54 PM): ::munch, chew, snarf::
Umbrafer (10:58:56 PM): (Here I thought you kept that behind the false back in the fridge ;) )
CirclMastr (10:59:05 PM): (Heh)
MilesMk1 (10:59:09 PM): (There's an idea...)
CirclMastr (10:59:24 PM): ("Magic fridge! Magic fridge!" God I loved that commercial)
Thematrian1 (10:59:32 PM): ("Other peoples' food is the best food, don't you agree, Hound?")
CirclMastr (10:59:50 PM): ("Mmdghmffmmhgh")
MilesMk1 (10:59:51 PM): (Goodnight, guys. Sorry, but I need to run. See you... well, not Tuesday, since it's the 4th, right? Next Thursday, I guess.)
Thematrian1 (11:00:10 PM): (Yeah, no game on the 4th of July)
Umbrafer (11:00:14 PM): (Wait, no ga… aww.)
Umbrafer (11:00:16 PM): (Ah well.)
MilesMk1 (11:00:20 PM): (Later. Have a good weekend.)
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CirclMastr (11:03:13 PM): (So, any continuing, or not?)
Umbrafer (11:03:39 PM): (If you have actions)
CirclMastr (11:04:01 PM): (No dream freakiness?)
Thematrian1 (11:04:18 PM): ::sleeps::
Thematrian1 (11:04:22 PM): (OOC and IC)
CirclMastr (11:04:58 PM): (Crap)
CirclMastr (11:05:02 PM): (You all abandon me. :( )
Umbrafer (11:05:49 PM): *Zzzznx*
CirclMastr (11:07:35 PM): :(
CirclMastr (11:07:37 PM): ;_;
CirclMastr (11:07:41 PM): *sob*
Umbrafer (11:07:51 PM): That really does look like a Juggernaut.
CirclMastr (11:08:11 PM): What, ;_; ?
Umbrafer (11:08:17 PM): Yep
CirclMastr (11:08:25 PM): I can see that
CirclMastr (11:08:44 PM): I also have a suggestion
CirclMastr (11:09:43 PM): I suggest we have a backup game for when Seiler/Matt fails to show and/or stay
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Thematrian1 (11:24:41 PM): sleep well, Jon. I'm about to
Umbrafer (11:49:22 PM): You too.
Umbrafer (11:49:25 PM): *Waves*
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