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Umbrafer (9:29:52 PM): Yar.
Dragcrell (9:29:55 PM): *nods* good idea
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Umbrafer (9:32:28 PM): Umbrafer rolled 2 6-sided dice: 4 3
Dragcrell (9:32:30 PM): from what I can rember SC is still naping in the Van Blake and to a exstent Alex was doing there best to talk with a person in control of a small spider drone with a small cutting laser and blake was about to head to the 18th floor
Thematrian1 (9:32:53 PM): do you recall who he claimed to be?
Dragcrell (9:33:51 PM): where the drones controler sated was safe so they could have the drone cut a hole to the 19th floor. No I dont think that came up just a guy in a lab in the 19th floor that was dealing with "fireflys"
Thematrian1 (9:34:38 PM): ah yes
Dragcrell (9:36:06 PM): I think Ailes was looking at SC with some intrests as she was sleeping but Todd, the Spithral speeking fellow, and the boy wasn't doing much at that time ether
Umbrafer (9:36:24 PM): The controller claimed to be a Dan.
Dragcrell (9:36:34 PM): *nods*
Dragcrell (9:37:00 PM): well I have a farly good memory but I do lose detales all the same
Thematrian1 (9:37:00 PM): yep. Todd was still in the van?
CirclMastr (9:37:02 PM): Yeah
CirclMastr (9:37:31 PM): Because he is wounded and unhappy, IIRC.
Thematrian1 (9:38:12 PM): do you recall how he was wounded?
CirclMastr (9:38:30 PM): First the giant bug thing, and the second thing was the fire IIRC
CirclMastr (9:38:57 PM): Rescuing Mr. English-Motherfucker-Do-You-Speak-It from the burning bus
Umbrafer (9:39:04 PM): Yep. Lacerations on the arm, IIRC, and minor burns.
Thematrian1 (9:39:11 PM): that's right. Attacked by giant ants, then set on fire.
Thematrian1 (9:39:19 PM): the life of a shadowrunner, man
CirclMastr (9:39:22 PM): I think it was more like a major impalement wound on the arm and minor burns
Umbrafer (9:39:44 PM): They may have been bone-deep lacerations, but they were lacerations nonetheless.
CirclMastr (9:39:54 PM): They were partially treated, at least.
Thematrian1 (9:44:01 PM): by Blake, yes
Thematrian1 (9:44:05 PM): ok
Thematrian1 (9:44:14 PM): Do you guys remember Shadowfire and the building AI?
Umbrafer (9:44:17 PM): The medical staff.
Umbrafer (9:44:20 PM): Well
CirclMastr (9:44:23 PM): I still don't know what sort of, like, objective or anything we have in mind here.
Umbrafer (9:44:28 PM): We'd not established that it was an AI, IIRC
Umbrafer (9:44:34 PM): The building something
Umbrafer (9:44:59 PM): Shadowfire got to a security station somewhere, jacked into it, and had a conversation with an Elven baby in the Matrix or something
Umbrafer (9:45:27 PM): IIRC, one that was on the other side of a bathroom wall somewhere on the… 30-somethingth floor? Something like that.
Dragcrell (9:45:45 PM): only that S.Fire was in contact with something that was loged in to the matrix full time and only seen stuff in the matrix as being real and every thaing else as not real and a game
Umbrafer (9:46:04 PM): 38th?
Thematrian1 (9:46:17 PM): ok. Something else happened, too: he got it to reveal its physical location, passed that location on to you, and you guys agreed to seek it out.
Dragcrell (9:46:19 PM): I belive that was the floor
Thematrian1 (9:47:00 PM): By the power invested in me as the GM, that didn't happen. He got its location, and then his radio went silent. When you reached the lobby, he was missing. He does not respond to radio signals.
CirclMastr (9:47:21 PM): RETCON!
Thematrian1 (9:47:26 PM): You don't know what he made contact with or where it is,.
Thematrian1 (9:47:26 PM): Yep.
Umbrafer (9:47:32 PM): :D
Dragcrell (9:47:38 PM): *nods*
CirclMastr (9:47:38 PM): Who? What are we talking about? Nothing happened!
Umbrafer (9:47:39 PM): Do we change artists, too?
Thematrian1 (9:47:56 PM): If you wish. I seem to recall that Blake is satisfied with his.
Umbrafer (9:47:57 PM): Ok, so just to go over this again:
Umbrafer (9:48:08 PM): What do we know about this?
Umbrafer (9:48:11 PM): Now?
Umbrafer (9:48:16 PM): Ever, in our current ever?
Thematrian1 (9:48:47 PM): one sec
CirclMastr (9:49:08 PM): "If you're a girl under the age of 12, and you're high on marijuana, don't ride your bike."
Dragcrell (9:50:05 PM): *thinks* by resions of logic that there may or may not be sothing other then Dan in controle of other parts of the security and that something got/killed/and/or caryed off S.fire and is jaming his radio
CirclMastr (9:50:34 PM): Hmm..
Thematrian1 (9:50:51 PM): hmph
Thematrian1 (9:51:01 PM): I was going to show you the relevant bits from the log, but I can't find it now
Thematrian1 (9:51:04 PM): anyway
Umbrafer (9:51:13 PM): Oh, yes, that's another question for our new continuity: I assume the disappearance occurred before Dan-ant burned his way through the floor?
Thematrian1 (9:51:23 PM): yes
Thematrian1 (9:51:26 PM): long before; it took place when he was alone on the first floor
Thematrian1 (9:51:28 PM): or, more precisely
Thematrian1 (9:51:38 PM): when no other team members were in the lobby
Umbrafer (9:52:51 PM): *Nods*
Umbrafer (9:53:35 PM): And the Strato was off watching the door, so by the time it got there there was nothing. Got it.
Thematrian1 (9:53:58 PM): exactly
Dragcrell (9:56:22 PM): mmm more fun and missing ppl now :P
CirclMastr (9:56:33 PM): ?
Umbrafer (9:56:54 PM): We come from a long line of vanishing people. Rock, Gedeon… :)
Dragcrell (9:57:06 PM): Tricksters body
Thematrian1 (9:57:21 PM): Hey, I know exactly where Rock and Gedeon are
CirclMastr (9:57:26 PM): I miss knowing what's going on.
CirclMastr (9:57:44 PM): Remember way back in the first session, when I knew what was going on? Those were good times.
Thematrian1 (9:57:47 PM): well, this is the best opportunity you'll ever have to ask questions
Umbrafer (9:58:18 PM): True. You presumably also know exactly where Essef is, or at least will once you get twenty minutes of time to think up an explanation.
Thematrian1 (9:58:58 PM): I know in very broad terms what happened but, yeah, that does not yet extend to his location.
Thematrian1 (9:59:19 PM): I wouldn't have run the retcon if I hadn't been able to think of a way for it to happen.
Umbrafer (9:59:38 PM): Oh, I know.
Dragcrell (9:59:55 PM): hehehehe well lest you never run out of ways to make bad thaings happen to ppl that *cough*vanish*cough*
Umbrafer (10:00:00 PM): Though there's a difference between "a way for him to disappear" and "a current location" (well, as you know right now)
Thematrian1 (10:00:30 PM): eeeeyep
Dragcrell (10:02:19 PM): Tho both don't show what kind of condishion he is in at said location ^_^
Umbrafer (10:02:31 PM): Dave, any questions?
CirclMastr (10:02:57 PM): I honestly have no idea what's trying to be accomplished in the tower anymore.
Thematrian1 (10:03:59 PM): Do you guys want to field this one, or shall I?
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Umbrafer (10:07:33 PM): Did someone already answer the question?
CirclMastr (10:07:45 PM): More or less, but I find it less than satisfying.
Umbrafer (10:07:55 PM): What was the answer given?
CirclMastr (10:08:18 PM): Yours + "maybe find a sub in R&D vehicles"
CirclMastr (10:08:41 PM): I find those unsatisfactory because a ton of shit has happened inside that I'm not clear on and no one is actually working toward those objective.
Umbrafer (10:08:46 PM): Ah, so mine did get through.
CirclMastr (10:08:49 PM): *objectives
Umbrafer (10:08:57 PM): Well, we're trying to subvert security
Umbrafer (10:09:22 PM): The big part of that is "find everything not automated controlling security and eliminate or befriend it"
Dragcrell (10:09:24 PM): and acualy we have only been in the tower for some what short amount of time
Umbrafer (10:12:17 PM): Other questions? Refinements of that question? Suggestions for how we could better work towards those goals?
CirclMastr (10:12:34 PM): Insert helpless shrug here
Umbrafer (10:13:02 PM): This is a helplessness-free zone.
CirclMastr (10:13:11 PM): And yet here I am
Thematrian1 (10:13:37 PM): well, when you have questions instead of vague unease, by all means pose them.
CirclMastr (10:14:05 PM): Can I kill Mr. Sperethial and eat his heart for a few free PP?
Dragcrell (10:14:13 PM): LOL
Umbrafer (10:14:30 PM): You could try to learn the secrets of blood magic, but that might be difficult
Dragcrell (10:14:48 PM): no if there is to be any eatting of NPC's it well more then likely be done my chere when hungry lol
Thematrian1 (10:15:29 PM): You may kill him and eat his heart, assuming he possesses one.
Umbrafer (10:15:41 PM): Plus you'd have to learn that blood magic exists in the first place
CirclMastr (10:17:51 PM): Me sad.
Umbrafer (10:18:14 PM): Bah. There will be other hearts you can eat.
CirclMastr (10:18:33 PM): Eh, it's a more general malaise.
Umbrafer (10:18:43 PM): Did we ever get a clear answer on what parts of the former mystery of the Elven Baby we know?
Thematrian1 (10:19:47 PM): It exists. It's a kid, it attacked Blake with Halon because it thought it was playing a game.
Thematrian1 (10:20:00 PM): It ambushed some researcher in the level below B2 for the same reason.
CirclMastr (10:20:05 PM): Wargames much?
Thematrian1 (10:20:20 PM): never seen it. It's got "The only way to win is to not play", right?
Umbrafer (10:20:27 PM): Let's find its modem bank.
Thematrian1 (10:20:35 PM): Shadow Fire thought he could talk it into giving up its meatbody location.
Thematrian1 (10:20:37 PM): End transmission.
Umbrafer (10:20:56 PM): Ah. So /before/ we found the location, he vanished?
Thematrian1 (10:21:56 PM): correct
Umbrafer (10:22:34 PM): Got it.
CirclMastr (10:23:53 PM): Shadowfire vanished?
Umbrafer (10:24:25 PM): Yes, as of about forty minutes ago.
Thematrian1 (10:28:35 PM): ok, the last bus out of town runs at 10:40, so I'm out of here. Feel free to e-mail me at dseiler@andrew.cmu.edu if you have any questions or comments
CirclMastr (10:28:46 PM): Alright
Thematrian1 (10:29:14 PM): thank you all for coming, I'll be at Jon's game on Thursday, and next week we'll have a session
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Umbrafer (10:29:23 PM): Got it. See some of you Thursday, the rest Tuesday.
Umbrafer (10:29:24 PM): *Waves*
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