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Thematrian1 (8:58:55 PM): ok, let's kill some folk
umbrafer (9:00:03 PM): Wootage.
umbrafer (9:00:10 PM): Also, some advice:
umbrafer (9:01:16 PM): If you break the set of non-negative divisors of a number into the multiset of prime factors of the number to help you count some unknown portion of the divisors
umbrafer (9:01:38 PM): Don't forget to turn the multiset back into the original set when answering questions about the size of the set.
Thematrian1 (9:01:47 PM): that would seem sensible, yes
MilesMk1 (9:01:57 PM): That's funny, I could swear most of that was in English...
umbrafer (9:02:09 PM): That one lost me two bonus points :(
umbrafer (9:02:42 PM): Anyway.
umbrafer (9:05:11 PM): When we last left our anti-heroes, they were plotting the demise of an innocent group of do-gooders.
umbrafer (9:07:47 PM): You'd also gotten ¥100. And by "you" I mean "Hound", who is of course not here yet.
MilesMk1 (9:08:06 PM): How'd... oh, they gave him some money as an advance?
Thematrian1 (9:08:15 PM): yep
umbrafer (9:10:24 PM): They just handed it to him and looked awkward.
MilesMk1 (9:10:54 PM): I hate it when you make us feel bad about slaughtering our victims.
MilesMk1 (9:11:12 PM): Well, make me, anyway.
Thematrian1 (9:11:21 PM): isn't your character the assassin?
MilesMk1 (9:11:23 PM): So, did he agree to meet them? When and where?
MilesMk1 (9:11:56 PM): Well, yes, but I have a well-developed sense of empathy.
MilesMk1 (9:12:43 PM): It's actually a problem I've been having with SR, the smart way to do business makes me feel bad. :)
umbrafer (9:14:12 PM): Eh, happens. Hey, think about what I was going through--if there hadn't been a strafing run coming in the Tuesday game, I'd have had to gun down the people who didn't make it onto the busses.
MilesMk1 (9:14:38 PM): Eh? Why?
MilesMk1 (9:14:45 PM): To keep the bugs from getting them?
umbrafer (9:15:08 PM): No, the bugs are fine (I mean, I'd feel bad about them, but I wouldn't shoot them). To keep the UCAS or Ares from getting them.
MilesMk1 (9:15:17 PM): Oh, yeah.
MilesMk1 (9:15:47 PM): Kind of begs the question of what you're planning to do with Alice and Duncan. It's not like we can keep them.
MilesMk1 (9:15:54 PM): If we send them home...
umbrafer (9:16:04 PM): Trying not to think about that.
Thematrian1 (9:16:27 PM): I'm looking forward to that sequence, I admit.
Thematrian1 (9:16:31 PM): And it's coming up any week now
MilesMk1 (9:16:37 PM): Neither my character nor I have a problem with that, but I figured Alex might have issues.
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umbrafer (9:16:51 PM): Oh, really? I'm surprised.
umbrafer (9:17:06 PM): Alex would feel very bad about it, but my impression is that that probably wouldn't stop her.
umbrafer (9:17:33 PM): Meanwhile, though, Gem was listening to bug-talk (other kind. We need to come up with a new name for small concealed microphones.)
Thematrian1 (9:18:06 PM): I was spying
circlmastr (9:18:18 PM): What about Alex?
umbrafer (9:18:22 PM): You spy, you.
MilesMk1 (9:18:32 PM): Wait, you thought Blake would actually hurt children? What about the last three years gave you that impression?
umbrafer (9:18:53 PM): Oh
umbrafer (9:18:55 PM): /Oh/
umbrafer (9:19:01 PM): Have a problem with /sending them home/
umbrafer (9:19:06 PM): I thought you meant with shooting them.
umbrafer (9:20:24 PM): Anyway.
Thematrian1 (9:20:44 PM): Ok, time for some synchronized murder.
MilesMk1 (9:20:47 PM): Right, since we're all here...
MilesMk1 (9:21:12 PM): So what has Hound arranged, and how do we hit them?
umbrafer (9:21:20 PM): There's a lot of quiet, and then eventually some talk comes in over the gub.
umbrafer (9:22:00 PM): It's the one in the meeting room.
umbrafer (9:22:17 PM): Sounds like E and someone you don't know.
umbrafer (9:22:44 PM): E: "And what do we do if he doesn't? You should have just brought him here."
circlmastr (9:23:36 PM): What, Hound is supposed to be doing something?
umbrafer (9:23:38 PM): SYDK: "But he, I mean…"
MilesMk1 (9:24:05 PM): I wasn't here for the end of last session, so I was wondering what arrangement Hound made with the people who approached him.
Thematrian1 (9:24:12 PM): You're supposed to meet with them at some appointed time, I think.
Thematrian1 (9:24:16 PM): Or call them?
circlmastr (9:25:11 PM): I gave them MY number
Thematrian1 (9:25:41 PM): ah
circlmastr (9:25:41 PM): Unless Hound got a call between sessions and Hound's player wasn't informed, he hasn't made plans yet.
circlmastr (9:25:50 PM): (Damn self-aware player characters can be sneaky bastards.)
umbrafer (9:27:53 PM): E: "No buts. If he's not just some beetle-headed madman, we need to talk to him, and soon. We can't be the only people looking by now."
umbrafer (9:28:31 PM): SYDK: "I have his number."
circlmastr (9:28:33 PM): Remind me, does Gem have an RCD?
umbrafer (9:28:36 PM): E: "Then call it!"
umbrafer (9:28:51 PM): E: "No, wait."
Thematrian1 (9:28:54 PM): She doesn't.
Thematrian1 (9:29:07 PM): #Hound, you listening?#
circlmastr (9:29:07 PM): Crap in a hat. So Glitch gets to do all the killing.
circlmastr (9:29:18 PM): #Yeah.#
Thematrian1 (9:29:20 PM): What, you can't kill folk?
umbrafer (9:29:22 PM): E: "Give me the number."
Thematrian1 (9:29:29 PM): #You're about to get a call.#
circlmastr (9:29:32 PM): I can with a Strato, but not while I'm playing nice.
circlmastr (9:29:52 PM): #From our pointy-eared bounty heads, I presume?#
Thematrian1 (9:29:56 PM): I can use your deck to send it a 'kill people' command.
Thematrian1 (9:30:06 PM): #They're real excited about whatever you told them. Nice work.#
circlmastr (9:30:13 PM): My deck is in my cyberleg.
umbrafer (9:30:22 PM): You can leave your cyberleg with Gem
circlmastr (9:30:25 PM): #Anytime, dear.#
umbrafer (9:30:45 PM): Give me a perception roll, everyone listening to the gub.
Thematrian1 (9:30:51 PM): Thematrian1 rolled 6 6-sided dice: 5 3 3 2 3 5
circlmastr (9:30:54 PM): (Oh I got a big picture of that. "Something's different about you..." "Uh, I got a haircut.")
Thematrian1 (9:31:05 PM): (brb)

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umbrafer (9:33:55 PM): Let me see. Gem and Hound both hear some muttering and something about "not back yet", and Glitch gets a catchy tune stuck in his head.
Thematrian1 (9:34:46 PM): #Also, somebody's not back yet.#
circlmastr (9:35:19 PM): #Uh, I'm back yet, so it's not me. Fierelle?#
MilesMk1 (9:37:05 PM): #She's there giving orders.#
circlmastr (9:37:23 PM): #Then I'm out of guesses.#
umbrafer (9:40:12 PM): umbrafer rolled 5 6-sided dice: 1 3 2 4 1
umbrafer (9:40:55 PM): There comes a period of silence. They're probably left the room. Actions?
circlmastr (9:41:12 PM): Hound waits by the phone, which is easy since it's in his pocket.
umbrafer (9:41:30 PM): In such a situation, it may be more accurate to say that the phone waits by Hound.
MilesMk1 (9:41:32 PM): #We need to think of a good place to ask them to meet us.#
MilesMk1 (9:41:49 PM): #Meet Hound, I mean.#
Thematrian1 (9:42:11 PM): #Yeah. Pick a place you don't much care for, would be my vote.#
MilesMk1 (9:42:18 PM): #Also, since she's a magician, do we need to worry about her checking up on us beforehand? Is there any way she could track Hound down?#
circlmastr (9:42:44 PM): #Don't they need DNA or something to do that?#
Thematrian1 (9:42:50 PM): #Has she met him?#
Thematrian1 (9:42:57 PM): #If not, it should be fine.#
circlmastr (9:43:02 PM): #I just met some guy and some other guy with him.#
MilesMk1 (9:43:55 PM): #Ok... We need to pick a spot that's not going to raise suspicion, but out of the way enough we can kill her and take the ears without the cops crawling all over the place.#
circlmastr (9:44:18 PM): #...Stuffer Shack in a middling part of town?#
circlmastr (9:44:56 PM): Oh, is there any sort of restaurant somewhere near the industrial district where Hound has his Mech-In-Progress?
MilesMk1 (9:45:55 PM): #Some not-too-run down park? You're playing the paranoid, so you can ask to meet "out in the open".#
MilesMk1 (9:46:24 PM): #To be honest, though, you'd probably know better than me, I'm new to Seattle.#
circlmastr (9:46:40 PM): #Parks are good.#
umbrafer (9:47:21 PM): Gem should roll an appropriate magical background, theory, or practice knowledge skill if she wants to be more definitive.
umbrafer (9:47:29 PM): (Other people can too, if they have them)
Thematrian1 (9:47:32 PM): About what?
Thematrian1 (9:47:45 PM): Sprits:
Thematrian1 (9:47:45 PM): Thematrian1 rolled 6 6-sided dice: 4 6 1 3 3 3
circlmastr (9:47:47 PM): Any park near the industrial district?
MilesMk1 (9:48:07 PM): #Also, what kind of firepower, if any, do you guys plan to bring to this? Should I assume I'll need to do all the killing myself? I seem to recall Hound never did, uh...#
umbrafer (9:48:09 PM): The "could track Hound down" bit.
circlmastr (9:48:48 PM): #I can't talk to these people and pilot my Strato at the same time.#
MilesMk1 (9:49:14 PM): #Mhmm. Gem?#
MilesMk1 (9:49:41 PM): *sounds like squeamishness to Glitch, but he's letting it drop*
Thematrian1 (9:49:47 PM): #If they see me, we can't run the other half of this rig. I can send a few spirits in.
umbrafer (9:50:32 PM): As for pars near the industrial district, there are abandoned lots. That's almost the same thing, right?
MilesMk1 (9:50:48 PM): #Sigh.#
circlmastr (9:51:15 PM): Nothing hospitable?
umbrafer (9:51:50 PM): Define hospitable?
MilesMk1 (9:51:56 PM): #All right, then. Should be ok, unless they bring a ton of people, but I'm worried about the mage seeing through my stealth.#
circlmastr (9:52:09 PM): Someplace reasonable for people to want to be.
MilesMk1 (9:52:11 PM): #Anything you can do on that end, with your spirits?#
MilesMk1 (9:52:29 PM): Someplace that doesn't scream "ambush"!
Thematrian1 (9:52:32 PM): (Does Camouflage impede astal senses?)
umbrafer (9:53:46 PM): (Aw man.)
umbrafer (9:53:52 PM): (You just had to ask, didn't you.)
Thematrian1 (9:53:57 PM): (Yeah, I know. Sorry)
circlmastr (9:54:45 PM): (How about I just bust out my Greater Seattle knowledge skill and you tell me the best place to meet? heh)
umbrafer (9:54:50 PM): (Wait, did you mean Concealment, or whichever the spirit power is?)
umbrafer (9:55:51 PM): (Well, you'll need to be clearer on what kind of place you're looking for. There are restaurants in the area, even the lower-class have to eat and occasionally pay to have someone else cook their soy.)
Thematrian1 (9:55:59 PM): (Um. Right, that)
umbrafer (9:56:08 PM): (Also, you can find a McHughes almost any place. There are rumors of one still operating somewhere in the Puyallup barrens.)
circlmastr (9:56:41 PM): (Local restaurant is preferable to McHughes, which might incur strange extraterritoriality.)
umbrafer (9:58:10 PM): (Mercifully, the answer is actually implicit but clear--it applies to any perception test. That includes an Astral Perception Test.)
Thematrian1 (9:58:21 PM): (sweet)
umbrafer (9:58:42 PM): (I can't think of any non-contrived reasons why it would happen despite an unsuccessful Perception Test, but if for some reason you get Assensed while Concealed, as a non-Astral Perception test, it would be just as easy as without)
Thematrian1 (9:58:43 PM): #Yes, I can have one of my spirits help hide you. That'll shield you from astral watchers, and probably even from the lady herself)
MilesMk1 (9:59:22 PM): #Good deal. Ok, so let's wait for the call.#
umbrafer (10:00:00 PM): (Ok, actually, I can think of a few which might qualify. Don't cast any spells on Glitch while he's concealed, or I may need to actually figure out if they do qualify, which may drive me insane.
umbrafer (10:01:11 PM): (But yeah, there are a few local restaurants. You can pick one at random, or give me more criteria, or something)
umbrafer (10:01:40 PM): (One claims to specialize in "traditional Ork cuisine", whatever that is.)
circlmastr (10:02:04 PM): (Sit down, privacy is good, one Hound has never patronized before.)
umbrafer (10:02:36 PM): (I may be getting the wrong idea about Hound's habits, but that doesn't really narrow things down.
circlmastr (10:02:56 PM): (Then random.)
umbrafer (10:03:07 PM): Larry's Krill Shack it is!
circlmastr (10:03:33 PM): ...
circlmastr (10:04:41 PM): Something with food that isn't foul.
umbrafer (10:06:03 PM): That'll take some doing in the part of town you're looking at, or some relatively deep local knowledge
circlmastr (10:06:29 PM): brb, dinner (IRL, even) And Hound has Greater Seattle at 6, which I was perfectly happy to roll and abstract this whole damn process.
umbrafer (10:06:36 PM): Though Larry's apparently won many local awards for his krill flakes, krillburgers, and fried krill.
umbrafer (10:07:04 PM): Well, you know, I did offer you that choice once you specified what sort of place you were looking for. You can still use it now, for example.
umbrafer (10:08:19 PM): While Hound is reading restaurant reviews, he gets a call to set up the meet. Is anyone else doing anything while he's on that?
Thematrian1 (10:11:39 PM): I'm manning the listening post
MilesMk1 (10:12:36 PM): Same here, I guess.
Thematrian1 (10:13:00 PM): (brb again)
circlmastr (10:20:29 PM): (Back)
circlmastr (10:21:00 PM): circlmastr rolled 6 6-sided dice: 4 5 2 6 6 3
circlmastr (10:21:02 PM): circlmastr rolled 2 6-sided dice: 3 1
umbrafer (10:23:58 PM): That was GS knowledge?
umbrafer (10:24:24 PM): *Ring ring*
circlmastr (10:25:18 PM): Yes
circlmastr (10:25:26 PM): Hound answers the phone. "Hello?"
umbrafer (10:26:36 PM): "Yes, hello. I believe you spoke with a friend of mine at the hospital?"
circlmastr (10:27:00 PM): "Yeah, about the train derailment and all, right?"
umbrafer (10:27:31 PM): "Yes, that. I'm afraid in the excitement he didn't catch your name, Mr. …"
circlmastr (10:29:50 PM): (Now I have to make up the name on his fake SIN, I suppose)
circlmastr (10:30:17 PM): "Murdoch, John Murdoch."
umbrafer (10:32:27 PM): "Mr. Murdoch. I was wondering if you'd mind dropping by and describing what you saw? We'll compensate you for time and transportation, of course. We're right near the monorail stop, or we can send someone to pick you up if you'd…"
umbrafer (10:32:30 PM): "…prefer."
umbrafer (10:33:04 PM): What's your Charisma?
circlmastr (10:33:17 PM): (4)
circlmastr (10:33:24 PM): (This can't be good)
umbrafer (10:34:12 PM): The person on the other end sounds like a very trustworthy, amicable fellow.
circlmastr (10:37:18 PM): "Well, uh, I hate to sound paranoid and all, I mean I really appreciate you all taking an interest in what happened, but would it be alright if we met on neutral ground?
circlmastr (10:37:20 PM): There's this restaurant that's not bad, and offers privacy..."
umbrafer (10:40:01 PM): "Oh, you don't have to worry about us. But if you're sure, I know just the place--Forest Heart Cafe, ever been there? It'll be our treat."
circlmastr (10:40:15 PM): (Knows he anything about it?)
umbrafer (10:40:26 PM): (Roll them bones)
circlmastr (10:40:39 PM): circlmastr rolled 6 6-sided dice: 3 5 1 2 4 3
circlmastr (10:40:47 PM): (All I got were two ribs.)
umbrafer (10:42:13 PM): You know that a while back it was a Mafia place, back before it got the new name and menu, but the Yaks took out the owner and it was sold to some back-to-nature guy who for some reason decided to set up shop in the middle of Renton
umbrafer (10:42:34 PM): You don't think you've been there since the change.
circlmastr (10:43:40 PM): (Renton, IIRC, is fairly slummy, right?)
umbrafer (10:45:01 PM): Renton's a pretty mixed bag. There's some nice neighborhoods near Bellevue and Downtown, then some more gang-controlled areas, and a big Humanis presence in some of the neighborhoods further in.
circlmastr (10:45:59 PM): "Uh, sure, sounds okay..."
umbrafer (10:46:08 PM): It also has an absurd number of malls, though the Heart isn't in the shopping district.
umbrafer (10:47:15 PM): "Wonderful! Is 8:30 tonight too soon, and can we give you a lift?"
circlmastr (10:47:54 PM): "That works, I got a ride..."
umbrafer (10:49:12 PM): "Wonderful. Ask for Wise when you get there."
circlmastr (10:50:21 PM): "Alright. 8:30, yeah?"
Thematrian1 (10:50:53 PM): (I'm sorry guys, but I have to go. Go on without me; other than Concealing Glitch I don't have a role in this assassination.)
circlmastr (10:51:12 PM): (Doh.)
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MilesMk1 (10:53:19 PM): (I don't quite have to go yet, but are we likely to pull this off tonight, anyway? It's almost 11:00 here.)
umbrafer (10:54:21 PM): (Hm. Yeah, it is getting late. I'm sorry, guys, I'll try to be in better shape next week. Of course, that's what I said last week…)
circlmastr (10:55:08 PM): (Yeah. *glare* )
umbrafer (10:56:02 PM): (Anyway, next week necessitates stuff happening. Sleep well, all!)
MilesMk1 (10:57:32 PM): (Ok... Later, guys.)
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