Shadowrun Pub
Shadowrun RPG Play-By-Post Games => Welcome to the Shadows => Topic started by: Ruski on October 12, 2004, 04:50:37 PM
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So, i'm thinking to myself; "Self, you should find some way to get the rest of the pubbers involved in this run."
and so, useing my limited facilities i figured that i would let everyone do what they do best.
take potshots at people.
so, with no further adu, i give you the Peanut Gallery, a place for you to comment on, question the sanity of, and generally laugh at the poor souls that have decided to risk their lives for a few precious newyen.
any comments will be welcome. theories, conjectures, and tripple guesses at double crosses are more than welcome.
enjoy.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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nothing? how sad.
no comments about the chances of a corp suit takeing on three could be shadowrunners in full force?
no comments about how hard it is to track a synth-weed dealer in the ghetto?
no comments about how mercy ended up inside a stuffershack, and he isn't wearing heavy armor?
*shrug* oh well. perhaps everyone is enthralled by the run?
or do the intrests just lie elsewhere?
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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Maybe later.
Today is not the time.
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no?
how come?
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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Just got back from being ill for 3 weeks, which means I'm trying to catch up.
that includes being just about braindead to anything that doesn't involve strained silicium somehow.
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oooh, sory.
hope ya' feel better soon.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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Kid's gonna get eaten!!
Hey, how come is the programmer the first one into battle anyway?
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*shrug* it's not my fault that your story line progressed faster!
LOL
but at least you won't get eaten.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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Yeah but I got 3 mean guys wanting to beat me up! In most games I'm the guy chasing after the random corp employee. Now I AM the employee! How ironic!
But at least I won't get eaten... ;)
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yea, i thought that bit of irony would be a fitting begining to a good run.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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where should I start rading on this so I'll know what the hell is goin on?
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just christmas in seattle. it's only a couple of pages, and it's light reading at best. we only started last week. if you like i could just sum up what's going on so far, or any one else could as well, and you could just go back and read the interesting parts.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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Uhhh... i can't remember...do ghouls regenerate?
-Kid Vid
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*smiles* yea, i thought you might forget that.
and to answer your question yes they do. i would worry about this affecting your charichter's actions, but he's about to find this out too.
oh well, live and learn.
(on deadly dammage, roll a 1D6, on a 1 or 2, it dies. each death gives -1 to the die roll)
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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is all this I read gonna tie in at any time?
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Yeah... I'm assuming that Ruski is going to set this up so as we wrap up our indiividual storylines, that Mr. Fix It, or Mr. Johnson or someone will call us so we can go work...
-Kid Vid
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Yeah its gonna get really interesting really quick
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sweet, I'll keep reading :)
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tie into what? life in general? probibly not. shadowrun only has a couple of points in reality, and if you find one, it's best to laugh at it and enjoy the similariaties with some other neard buddies.
tie into the pub? well, it is a run, and all runs have the chance to change the world right?
-RuskiFace the Pirate
or at least some bank statements.
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uh, dude, you read waaaay too much into my question or you're smokin somethin. I just wanted to know if all the stories goin on are gonna eventually tie together
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uh... perhaps a little of bouth.
yea, i like to let the charichters start off on their own, see what they are like in real life, and then put them together.
then no one has to ask 'what's my motavation again?'
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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lol, sweet. I think Kid's about to get eatin
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No way. I got an extra clip behind my belt. So unless the ghoul takes off my pants while eating me, I got plenty of ammo.
(And I don't let nice girls take off my pants on the first date... much less ghouls ;D)
-Kid Vid
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*grin* well, that assumes you got fingers left to pull the trigger...
LOL
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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Ooooh... called shot fingers!
Kid: "No Bob, NO!!!! AARRRRGGGGHHHHHOLKHOGHTOU *gurgle gurgle*"
Bob: :bob:
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Luckily I got an extra hand just in case something like that happens.
Lucky!
-Kid Vid
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where ya keepin that?
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in a pocket?
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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Your gun is probibly starting to feel light right about now. you counting your ammo?
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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When the adrenaline is pumping your body is in 'fight or flee' mode. I think Kid should do the later.
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BAH, he's only at Light +1 physical dammage, and he still has like... four rounds left in his gun.
plus running on hardpacked snow / ice isn't easy.
*shrug* perhaps they'll stop regenerateing sometime soon?
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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HOLY CRAP RUSKI!
Deng, I knew Killian was behind it but that's crazy. I knew I should have gotten an optical cam thingy in my eye!
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yea. he's pretty bad-@$$
good twist though no?
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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Deng man, I couldn't think if what to do. So I'm just running away. I could stay and try to play the innocent party, but seeing what he's done already all that would happen is me=dead or me=jail. I'll get him back though..
Hey, do you think I would have written a program called 'taksexit.exe' that would scramble the security system so I could escape?
hehe
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sure. but you'll have to get to your computer to activate it.
that's the sort of thing that you'd have written in your spare time and put in your 'mydocuments' folder, or hidden somewhere on the server.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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so, any bets on who takes dammage next?
-RuskiFace the Pirate
how about the next person to get double crossed?
the next person who's going to have to buy new clothes?
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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I hope that Ingo takes damage next... but if I was a betting man, I'd put money on me. ;D :(
Maybe Mercy will start posting again, and we can make him just through the fighting hoops and stuff.
-Kid Vid
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yea, poor guy is haveing computer trouble.
*shrug* oh well, true to my word i'll just have to continue without him. i'll arc your stories together and let the real run begin.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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That sucks... I got a moderate wound trying to get to the run? This is going to be a very long day.
-Kid Vid
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well Mercy knows a good doc, if he ever shows up.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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sounds like you're screwed there Kid. Might wanna bend over and take it like a man <snickers>
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OMG, kid's gonna get all chopped up into tiny little bite size pieces. Making it easier for the ghouls to eat you :)
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Maybe I can be friends with him and he'll treat me and not cut me into tiny bite-sized chunks!
-Kid Vid
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you wanna eat the troll on the table?
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Troll burgers and an order of....what the hell is this? Oh well, order up.
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i dunno, haveing seen the kitchen, i'd be worried about getting something from there... some wierd desease.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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yea, maybe your head will explode or somethin. That'd be cool
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<role vs. head explosion> <Critical Falure>
ouch.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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Brain scanners all over again.
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what's that? brain scanners?
cranial nuke?
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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What if Kid is in some kind of morgue or something? Or some actual legitimate place of business? What if he just ripped two gaping holes into a doctor of some kind?
Probably not considering that the dumpster outside is full of body parts..but it'd be funny ;)
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*grin* Oops, I just busted into a legitimate organ donation clinic and shot the doctor on duty! Boy, is my face red?
Of course, he did run at me with a buzz saw and a happy look on his face... that might not be the best indicator of mental stability. ;D
-Kid Vid
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From what I read he was going to work on a corpse on the table with the saw, then you burst in and he looked up at you (saw still in hand). I don't remember any running with saws.
Hey, if running with scissors is considered 'bad' what is running with a buzz saw considered?
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umm from what i read he didnt charge til you fired on him
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It's that Shoot First, Ask Questions later policy ;D
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well, perhaps if you put him on a table and strap him down, no one will notice.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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i think his docwagon contract just expired... what with the being shot in the head with AV ammo and all.
oh, and he was happy to see you, normally he has to go out and find some local drug dealer to get parts from.
so, now that you found you orc, what are you going to do with him? see if the doctor has some extra feet in stock and stich one on? what was your guy's grade in home ec? think he's good with a needle and thread? suppose that would default to quickness? or perhaps intelegence?
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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I'll find the poor fragger some morphine so he doesn't feel so drekky, then I'm going to try and get him to the ER. I'm not a doctor. I don't know drek about this stuff.
Yeah, the fragger tried to cut ME with the buzzsaw. Even if he was a "good guy", he tried to cut me with a fragging BUZZSAW!
Yeah, I hold grudges too. (Aims at the head) BOOM!
-Kid Vid
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LOL yea. but was it worth the cost of an AV round?
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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AV is Anti-vehicle ammo right? Isn't it supposed to pierce armor? So like it should pass through a body quickly and not do much damage other than the small hole through it? I thought hollow-points went in small and came out big because they expand? Or am I confusing everything? I don't know much about firearms and ballistics, I'm just curious ;)
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AV is Anti-vehicle ammo right? Isn't it supposed to pierce armor? So like it should pass through a body quickly and not do much damage other than the small hole through it? I thought hollow-points went in small and came out big because they expand? Or am I confusing everything? I don't know much about firearms and ballistics, I'm just curious ;)
That would seem to be correct.
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yea that's right. *shrug* but it's cooler if it makes a big hole.
so it hit a metal plate inside his body, and pulled that through his back... twice.
i rolled for it. trust me.
LOL
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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imagine if that had been a minni grenade
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that also would have been messy.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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Who on earth would use mini-grenades for close combat?
Oh... a troll. Gotcha.
Actually, the problem with A rounds is that they're heavier, carrying more kinetic force. So when it enters the body, it impacts bones and stff without changing direction (as your normal 9mm or 357 round does.) So in effect, it is a "stronger" hit.
Since it's designed to be used against cars, it's meant to punch holes in vehicle armor, and damage the people inside or the vehicle engine. (Or in really cool cases, the fuel storage!! MUAHAHAHAH BOOM!!!)
-Kid Vid
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only in the A-team, or when the GM is feeling destructive.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
or if your buddies drop a armload of gernades (all missing their pins) into the back seat with their recently deceased friend inorder to create a distraction for lonestar so they can get away.
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or if your trying to take down trolls and gouls
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or if your buddies drop a armload of gernades (all missing their pins) into the back seat with their recently deceased friend inorder to create a distraction for lonestar so they can get away.
Voice of experience?
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I was GM, Kid was the guy in the back seat of the car.
thease are the same guys that we play DnD with ocasionally, Chaotic Evil PC's to the core.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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Yeah.. one of them was the guy who kept screwing teammates in order to survive, and the other one was the Drizzt fan...
Actually, earlier in the run, the asshat had dropped a white phosporous grenade to try and get the security guards off his tail. Oh, did I forget to mention that WE were also behind him?
Nothing quite like dropping a White-P Grenade in front of your friends to throw off the Security.
-Kid Vid (the burned)
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and that was one of the nicer things he did.
he didn't shorten the fuse on that one to give you guys time to get away from it... well, a little bit away anyways.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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Still wasn't as bad as the time he shot up the Rigger's Ride to keep the element of "Suprise" against an empty limosine.
Then he pushed me into the firefight to get the payment..
What the hell was that about? That was even the time I was playing a decker!
-Kid Vid
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well, it's because deckers are well known for their abilitys in a firefight!
or was it duckhunt?
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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real nice player
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sam didnt think it would be smart to get into a fire fight in the pharmacy better to wait
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intelegence is probibly the better part of valor.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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I thought that was discretion?
Bender: "No way! I'm not fighting!"
Leela: "What? Why not? You love to fight!"
Bender: "No, this time I'm a contientious objector..."
Leela: "A what?"
Bender: "You know, a coward?"
;D ;D ;D
-Kid Vid
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LOL that's a good quote.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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I thought that was discretion?
It usually is.
Bender: "You know, a coward?"
Wouldn't that be a "consentious objector"?
One who consents, but reserves the right to object even so?
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*shrug* spelling isn't my strong point, i didn't even notice.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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I try to spell right myself but mistakes happen.
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um just because someone is a contuious objecter dont mean they are a coward
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It was a quote from Futurama... and I would agree, in some cases.
In other cases, it's cowardice covered up with political idealism.
-Kid Vid
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reminds me of a french play about death that i saw...
but it wasn't very good, so i won't make you guys hear about it.
so, anyone else have any ideas about the run? what should Ingo do? what would you do in his posisition? how about poor Mercy, stuck in a stuffer shack robbery?
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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LOL ;D
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not stuck but not wiling to risk innocents either
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Maybe he should do the "unload that entire bandoleer of incendary grenades do the windpipe"-thing to whomever's doing the hold-up?
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um not a wise move considering there are a couple of modified uzis on me and in burst mode to many ppl could get hurt and i doubt i can get a spell off
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LOL i swear, that's an idea that dan would have with the gernades, but then at the last second, he would switch it to throwing ninja stars (that he bought at the other stuffer shack, and don't know how to use) because it's more 'ninja-like'
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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This "Dan"-fellow has rather extensive braindamage, yes?
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hmm... yes. yes, i believe he does.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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I don't know if he did to start with- I mean, we kept him around at first because he was smart enough to get all the jokes we were laughing at (despite the age difference of like seven years)...
but then he got dumber... well, not stupid, dumb, but like no judgement dumb... like he wouldn't think about looking both ways before crossing the freeway, because a freeway is like a street, and you don't have to look EVERY time you cross the street. ;D
Intersting guy, in any case. Makes for good stories at game time. ;D
-Kid Vid
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Ah, that sort of person. Yes, I've played werewolf with atleast one.
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Sorry for the lack of posting, I had to go out of town for the weekend and didn't have access to any PCs. Not having a computer around sucks, I should get a laptop... or at least a PDA. I don't feal right without some piece of technology near me.
Hehe, anyway I had to go to SoCal for the weekend to take care of some things. If I had time I would have tried to look some of you guys up (namely Kid & Ruski), but unfortunately I didn't. Next time ;)
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Next time for sure!
Where did you go when you visited?
-Kid Vid
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Long Beach
I had no idea the Queen Mary is a hotel!
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yea, we defenitly could have taken a trip out to longbeach. only like... oh i dunno... an hour from here... with traffic.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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hey Mercy, for your 'new actions' just put them in a new post, so i can keep the thread flowing, and don't have to go back to your last post to see if anything changed. please.
-RuskiFace the GM
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ok
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Sweet. So, any other peanut gallery comments for our would-be heros?
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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Dude, I think I just barely made it this side of no profit at all, but the cred from Mr. Fix It and the dead doc put me (close) to green.
I hope this run includes a month of prep time. ;D
-Kid Vid
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You are at the hospital, you going to pay to have them patch you up?
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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Hell yeah I am! The Doc is paying for it, too!
-Kid Vid
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but not the ghouls.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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Their dissappating corpses didn't seem to have credsticks... and since I was already bleeding and freezing, I didn't want to stand around digging in the snow.
-Kid Vid
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perhaps some of the legs they were chewing on in the dumpster had pants on them, and something in the pockets?
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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Hmmm... I might go back and check.
We'll see how I do at the doctor's office first, though... maybe I'll have some cool drugs to help with tha pain and a pretty nurses' LTG number to help with the lonliness. ;D
-Kid Vid
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well, one out of two ain't bad.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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That was nice of Ingo to not run over the security guard. i think that'll earn an extra Karma for him come run's end. (i would have just hit em' and let the corperate guys get him new legs.)
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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I admire that... I mean, I would've honked and kept driving, but that was nice of him.
-Kid Vid
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LOL i think most of my gamers would have stepped on the gas to see if they could get him to fly through the air and hit the roof just for laughs.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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Geezus! There's no way this van should keep up with me, my car is faster than a stock Westwind turbo!
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No combat pool for driving, as I recall. Though mybe Ruski would be nice and let you dodge with the car...
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it's all about the controll pool.
you are being chaced by a rigger, he has three times as many dice to out drive you, even if your car is faster. (and the van isn't stock, rigger's vehicles never are) but, you do have the lead, and you are gaining some breathing room. just pray that lonestar dosn't respond with a T-Bird, because then your speed advantage gets slimmer...
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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Ingo's gettin a ticket ;D
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Ticket, pfft. If I get caught I'm going to jail or worse, all cuz some jackass is on a power trip. I hate frame-ups.
Aww, how come a t-bird? That's just mean :(
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the you goin to jail sucka! UH!
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oh, i'm sure that your corperation will give you the best assasian er... lawyer they can to get you out of trouble!
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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No, I think they'll save money on an assassin, and just hire some dumb runners with a suitcase.
"This is a milkrun- I could do it myself, but I have to leave the country on business. Just take this ticking briefcase to a meeting with your new," *stops to make finger quotation marks* "'client', and talk with him for a while. He'll use the contents of the briefcase to escape once you leave."
-Kid Vid
(Price of 5 kg of Semtex: $45.99)
(Look on the runner's face: Priceless.)
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yea...
that could happen too...
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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"Uh... a bunch of scruffy looking guys with a metal breifcase are here to see you... they say they're your lawyers?"
-Kid Vid
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Heh heh :)
I like the having to go pee part Ruski, random stuff like that makes me laugh. ;)
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Hey, no one does random better than my brother.
;D ;D ;D
-Kid Vid
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Random use to be my nickname before 'RuskiFace'
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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Really?
And I thought it was a pretty girl's name...
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I knew a guy called Random once...
...no twice.
He was a publisher from Oz. Shame about those pesky incediary devices...
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Lucky guy... wait, what?
;D
-Kid Vid
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*shrug* it was pretty anonimous as far as nicknames go.
didn't work well for commenting code though, so i went with
'RF-(changes or removed line)
for comments.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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umm I think that thunderclap worked to well
altho I dont think the star was affected outside tho
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*shrug* that's what you get for putting half your dice into a spell like that inside an enclosed area.
it's the 'chunky salsa' effect, simmilar to gernades, but instead with the kenetic force of a cuncussive blast of compressed atmosphere.
plus, it's much cooler that way.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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oh well
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Could be worse...
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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yep good thing it was only conncusive fore
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ZACTLY! imagine if it was a fireball with all of thoes flamable soy products everywhere...
-RuskiFac the Pirate
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yeppers and its non leathal
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and at least it's not raining... oh... it's snowing.
is that worse or better?
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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Rain is wet, snow is cold and wet.
I'd give it "Worse" by .05
-Kid Vid
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but much more fun
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Only for Santa.
-Kid Vid
(probably going to get a lump of coal like last year)
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Nah, i got you some cool stuff for christmas already, so you are bound to get at least that.
well, at least it's not a snow-storm, it's just snowing.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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Thanks... I think David just did the coal as a joke, but still... I got coal for Christmas... and looking at last year, I probably deserved it. ;D
And by "probably", I mean definitely.
-Kid Vid
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HAHAHA this club is next to the 'gravity inferno'
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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kid you got to rember I grew up around snow
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but is it 10 miles to your school, uphill, and do you have to walk there every day?
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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backwards and on broken glass?
-Kid Vid
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through 40' of snow?
-RuskiFace the Pirate
(and that was on the warm months!)
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now sonny I aint quite that old
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You'd have to be pretty damn old to remember the ice ages... I don't know if even THEY walked backwards through the snow, though.
-Kid Vid ;D
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Only on the really windy days.
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Is it easier to walk backwards on windy days?
Kinda like how you can walk faster in water by walking backwards?
How does that work anyway?
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well, if it's raining or snowing heavily, with strong wind comming in from the front, it's usually "easier" to walk backwards, because you don't have to worry so much about your eyes and (often) exposed face.
Ofcourse, you still have to worry about walking into things, or getting run over, if there's car around, and things like that.
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well, if you are walking backwards in water, it's easye because your musles are better at pushing than pulling. (so it's easyer to jump up, walk backwards through resistance, and do pushups than it is to lift something heavy, walk forward through water, or the like.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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That would explain some of the ease of walking backwards agains the wind too, I guess. And I alwas just thought it was more pleasant and thus seemed easier.
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also has a bit to do with leverage.
when walking forward, your one calf mussle is pulling forward the entire weight of your body.
when walking backwards, your weight is being distributed more evenly, and you can use all of the muscles allong your backside, even if the steps are going to be quite a bit shorter.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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Damn, Mercy...
If you're waiting for the gunfire to let up, you'll probably be around until the shift change!
;D
-Kid Vid
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And since muscles working are contracting, that makes plenty of sense. Ofcourse.
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perhaps Mercy should walk backwards out of the stuffer shack?
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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I think he should grab a body that's cut in half, walk outside and shout "Everyone freeze or this guy gets it!"
;D
-Kid Vid
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History would show that ideas of that nature typically don't go over well.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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Hmmm... this is true. Of course, Shadowrun has taught me that it's important to run away whenever you see the chance, because if you don't run now, there might not be a chance later. ;D
Blane and Zach taught me that. ;D
-Kid Vid
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i would have thought that they taught you to run faster than your team-mates, because they are likely to lock the door behind them as they run away, not waiting for you to be through it first.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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Oh, sensible people...
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and thoes are the guys on your side!
LOL
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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poor kid sounds like his team mates would have him hold the warm nitro on the bumper cars
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Hey, they bombed a car with my unconscious body in it, to throw off Lone Star when they tried to investigate.
*sigh* And that run turned out well!
-Kid Vid
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Interesting.
You sure do have a way for picking shadowteams Kid.
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well when you are hard up for cred, you don't alwies get to pick your team-mates.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
Oh, and Ingo, you may want to get your car looked at, the resale is probibly going down on it.
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mental note dont run with teams you dont know when possible
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*grin* Mental Note: Shadowrunning is hard. get a day job.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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Mental Note: Day Jobs suck. ;D
(for more reference, see Ingo's predicament)
-Kid Vid
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Yeah!
Err it was kewl until...
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*grin*
Well, it could be worse. Your TPS reports could be later again.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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Did you get the memo?
-Kid Vid
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Three coppies?
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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TPS is that toliet paper shooter
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just out of curiousty how many charters have flash lights and survial kits
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I'll make sure you get another copy of that memo.
-Kid Vid
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shame cant shape change in to a bird
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then you could sing: "I am like a bird! I want to fly away! but I don't know where my home is..."
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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Then he could shape change into Nelly Furtado and... !
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he could shapechange into a ladder, or rope, and climb over the edge.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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Okay, so who would have guessed that an inflateable tent cut into strips wouldn't work well as a ladder?
-ruskiface the pirate
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guess I should have used the sleeping bag
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*grin* perhaps i'll give you a chance to use it later.
LOL
you gotta be carefull with thoes vinyl tents... ever slept in one IRL? you'd be lucky if a single 3" streach of that could carry much more than 80 lbs without streaching beyond it's breaking point. and i know from personal experience that makeing a rope out of streachey material is a bad idea. (home made bungie jumping, with multiple bungie chords tied together) the streacheyness of the material pulls the knots apart at the first sign of resistance. *grin*
Looks good on paper, dosn't work so good in practice.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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Wow... that experience actually came in handy? Who knew?
-Kid Vid
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well... not real handy... mercy would be better off if i hadden't had it.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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It's probably better that they broke anyways... I mean, I don't think we left enough vertical clearance for your head not to hit the pavement anyway...
So I'm glad they broke... but also because I attempted it too (I thought it might be different because I weighed less... it doesn't, by the way ;D), and I know EXACTLY what that scene looks like.
-Kid Vid
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yea... that streachey stuff just dosn't tie together well.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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Ruski, is there a reason that I've been in as many fights as both of my companions combined?
>:(
Just kidding. More play for me.
-Kid Vid
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*SHRUG* would you rather that i had you fall off of a roof, or had a megacorp hunting your hoop?
post more, play more. just trying to keep the story lines going, interesting, and more or less in the same time-table. right now, i need to give you something to do while mercy catches up to your posisition... perhaps he'll take a nap soon and help you out. LOL
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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Damn you Mercy! You need to sleep off that headache!!!
;D ;D ;D
-Kid Vid
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Or drink it off ;D
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what head ache
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Maybe it's a hint ;D
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LOL just you wait. he'll pop up soon enough.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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I'm sure he will ;D
Also, it's nice to see the story moving really well. Hopefully, the next run will be like this one. I'll join that one.
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I'm glad you approve Apoc. and i would be happy to write you into the next one.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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Sweet....I'm looking forward to it. The previous runs started out great but end up dying after a while. It happens ;D
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How long did it take the previous run to die?
i should try to see if i can wrap it up in about that time before people start looseing intrest.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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cavelry is on the way (charge)
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The last one took about two years to die... but that was more my fault than anything. Keeping up with people and thier posting duties was supposed to be my responsibility. Of course, we went through quite a parade of people before we settled down. (I was originially just one of the players, and then Tobias went off the sand flea territory, and I was left as GM, player, and planner.)
Yeah, so ROOTless stepped in as me, and I introduced another character, and APOC couldn't continue, and Zone stuck around... and then I had Ingo, Apoc, Mercy, and Gabe all doing duty as NPCs. It was actually kind of cool.
Well, I thought that, anyways.
I'm still wanting to ressurrect it, but we'll see how that goes. I think the drive I had the files on got scragged. So I'll have to do some hunting.
-Kid Vid
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Yeah, it was Kid's fault ;) and since you guys keep this one going by posting it and usually updating it every couple days if not everyday then it won't die....when people get busy and the story gets held up then it starts to die. Also, Zone is an awesome runner and get with the stories but she gets busy and the story got held up. But still it was Kid's fault ;)
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interesting... so... gotta wrap it up before two years is over.
got it.
and now, after only three months, two runners are about to see eachother!
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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Then we can only hope they don't shoot eachother on sight.
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LOL kid won't have that problem. he's out of ammo.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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I copuld throw my gun at him! Well... if I'm still alive by the time he gets out the FRAGGING DOOR!
;D
-Kid Vid
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OMG! EPIC MOMENT! 2 players are finally gonna see each other! WOWOWOWOWOWOWOOOOWWWOOOEEEEIEIEIEII~!!!
err hehe
I like the story so far. It's kinda funny I'm now doing stuff I would never do before...but when you're desperate anything goes.
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LOL...I think you got a better limit than two years for this one..but I want to join the next one.
*Having anticipation of the first meeting* ;D
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LOL it's that good huh? well, i'll try to keep it up to par.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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Yeah, you're doing fine.
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so, thoes of you who are following allong at home can probibly see where the story is going from here. any guesses from the peanut gallery as to some twists?
-RuskiFace the Pirate
(oh, and sory about not updateing the PBP thread today, work was super buisy for the technical department today. *sigh* if they didn't give me so much money i would sooo find a better job. LOL i'll spend most of tomorow goofing off to make up for actually doing something today, i promise!)
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kid next time dont let them park in front of the door
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If I had any control over what they were doing, they would've left me the hell alone to begin with!
-Kid Vid
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HAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!
I just had a Harley Davidson and the Marlbro Man moment!
"Guns aren't made to be thrown, Harley!"
-Kid Vid
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LOL good job kid. let's see how it goes.
-RuskiFace the Pirate.
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well both Me and kid have updated our posts
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Yes. i notice you are disregarding the GM's advice to not shoot at the guy who is entangled with your future team-mate.
i'm sure this will go over quite well, and make the two of you fast friends.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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not shooting that one shooting one on snowboblie
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Yes. I agree. He should be shooting the other guy, not the one I'm on top of and pummelling.
;D Maybe that's just wistful thinking.
-Kid Vid
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please reread my kast post
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This'll get fun...
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I certainly hope not!
Fun is a code word for Ruski; it means "Kid gets screwed!"
-Kid Vid
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Well, in that cas, I think we should all lean back and "let the fun commence"... ;)
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I thought so, that's why i posted here to let you clarify before going off and killing Kid.
*grin*
and Kid dosn't alwies get screwed... sometimes it's just a sideswipe!
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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Ooh! And one time I got away even though I crashed my friend's car into a telecom pole!
-Kid Vid
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ey i dont leave My team mates out to dry
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well, that'll be a welcome change for kid.
oh, and sory about the lack of an update yesterday. i took the day off of work to go shopping for my wife's christmas present. (and took kid allong with me) *sigh* eight hours worth of shopping. i don't know how women do it and enjoy it.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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lol
frist Mistake you took the kid with you
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*grin* nah, he was the only thing that was cool about that day.
shopping for furniture is reeeeaaaaallllyyyy dull unless you have someone to joke with there with you.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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I think shopping for furniture was dull anyways, but I had fun. At least I got to spend time with my brother.
-Kid Vid
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oh I didnt relize he ment you I thought he ment his kid
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Uhhh... I'm pretty sure Ruski doesn't have kids. Of course, if he talked about his brother Matt, I'm sure you all would think he was talking about someone else.
I mean, he calls me Kid on here, and apparently someone mistook him.
;D
Nullsweat- It's okay.
-Kid Vid
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well, seeing as how i'm the oldest kid in our family, i guess that all of my siblings could be my 'kid brother' or 'kid sister'
but, i was refering more to 'kid-vid' than anything else.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
so, how long do you think it'll take kid and mercy to track down ingo?
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whoa! this is the first time that the run is running without me! LOL
perhaps i'll just let kid and mercy talk for awhile untill they decide to do something.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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after all that hard work be a shame if the dog smelled the food
after you know how good a sense of smell dogs have especialy for ppl food
altho dont know if I would classify a protien bar as food
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Yuck. i certanly wouldn't.
although i'm wondering if Ingo is going to jump the wall with the energy bar in his hand, eat it, or put it away.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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If the dog came out I was gonna try to feed it to him. You know, last ditch effort and all ;)
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LOL yea, i gathered that. but the dog is safely inside the house, where its warm. *grin* but why waste perfectly good paranoia?
plus, i thought it would be fun to let you think about how much a dog would like to eat a ginsing power bar instead of the meat on your leg.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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Especially if it were a huge rotweiler! :o
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perhaps it's a sleepey rotwiler... who needs an energy bar?
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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I will after all this. ;)
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LOL, well you do have one.
now... if only you got out more than 20Y cash back when you were in the stuffer shack, you wouldn't be in this posisition now.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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well I modifed my last post Ruski putting that scroungeing to use
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Okay, i'll look at it.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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dam. what a pack-rat you are.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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hey he has a sqautter lifestyle
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did you get a shopping cart with that lifestyle to take this junk everywhere? LOL
first thing you gotta buy... a low-lifestyle appartment, three months pre-paid.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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only took the duds
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okay, perhaps i'll reduce your packrat rateing to packmouse instead.
but seriously... who carrys a tent with them?
LOL well, not you any more, although you could probibly still have half a streachey rope if you wanted it.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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So, what do you guys think of the run now that it's developing a little more? any thoughts? anything you'd like to see more of? less of? am i being a good / bad / average / awsome / so-so GM? anything you guys normally do diffrently? anything you'd do diffrently if you were GMing it?
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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I think you're a pretty good GM! :-D
I just want to hurry up a little through this part so I can meet up with the other guys ;)
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Okay, well i'll see if i can get them to you quick.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
(Speed is the one thing that's hard to do in play by post.)
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hey now going as fast as I can
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well, the very nature of the play by post system is that once a day or so you do something. in a gameing session, that'll last a couple of hours, you do stuff constantly. so something that normally takes fifteen minutes to decide, like a gunbattle with fifteen rounds in three second incraments, instead takes fifteen days, the better part of three weeks. so, going fast, is tough to do. not so much that you are moveing slow mercy, just the very system we are working with is slow.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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true its more your bother slowing us down lol
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Yeah, it's workable though.
Hey, how about doing fights in IRC? When a battle occurs we could all work out a day/time we could meet in an IRC channel and run the fight. Put in a bot as a dice roller, and away we go.
Know of any good bots I could use to admin a channel in IRC? I have an extra box I could wipe and put Linux on if need be (I hear linux has better bots for IRC than Windows, but it's been a while).
Input?
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didn't one of us have a IRC site with SR bots on it already to do battles?... i went to it a couple of times, but was overall unimpressed with the quality of gameing that went on there. hmmm... well, i think for now we should stick with how it is. i'm online enough that if someone is in an exciteing battle, and they are online too, we can still do a slightly faster blow by blow accounting, and everyone else here can enjoy it too.
because even though everyone isn't in the run, most people are at least following it.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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That's true, it was just a thought ;)
That's how most other online gaming people do it. I remember reading about a Play-By-E-Mail group that would schedule dates to do battles in IRC, and everything else was by e-mail.
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well, if our group was any larger i would consider it, but as it is, with just three people, it's not THAT slow.
also, this is more a source of daily enjoyment than a super-serious-high-profile shadowrun.
i look forward to throwing little twists at you all, and i'm sure that you guys look forward to thinking up cool ways to get out of trouble every day... kinda like an interactive online comic. almost as good as shadowrun, but not so serious. trying to up it to the next level seems kinda like a waste of effort. if we wanted to step it up, it would probibly be better to just schedule a seperate run, with whoever could make it, and play for a couple of hours that way.
that's just my thoughts though.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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Yeah, you're right. With just us 3 we're probably doing just fine. Probably keep it in mind for a larger number of players though, cuz it might get a tiny big hectic.
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Yup. perhaps with the next run.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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common! use the target arrows on the Dire-Dog!
STR-1 L !!! and defaulting to athletics!... that's only plus what? four?
-RuskiFace the Pirate
or you could try the energy bar on it...
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did you get a shopping cart with that lifestyle to take this junk everywhere? LOL
first thing you gotta buy... a low-lifestyle appartment, three months pre-paid.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
turns out i do have a squat Lifestyle
(6) Lo:change this 0 14 0 6 0 :01/50
Perm Sq:change this 0 7 1 1 0 :01/50
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so you aren't quite so ghetto as you thought.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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never claimed to be perfect plus if forget cant tell others where i squat
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Uhhh... I promise not to bring friends over to your refridgerator box, Mercy.
Cross my heart and hope to die!
;D
-Kid Vid
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hey apooc you didnt think it was going to be a cake walk did you
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Didn't think so but you never know ;)
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and hope its not a hell hound or balsilck
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LOL...
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hmm... that could be in the dog house that ingo is sneaking past...
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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I would bust up if that happened...I can picture it so well.
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he really wanted to use that energy bar didn't he?
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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woo hoo i get to be a part of the peanut gallery now i love this cuz im always told we dont wanna hear nothing from the peanut gallery and now i get to speak yeaaaaaaaaaaaaa its about time we r heard from god cant wait to start on this one now
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Yes, welcome to the peanut gallery Luna. this is mostly comments about the ongoing PBP run going on in this same thread, and i invite any and all coments, jests, jeers, accolades, and ideas to be posted here. read up on the run, and tell us what you think.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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then i will have to get my lazy ass to read it then hmm shouldnt be soo difficult then ::)
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so, have you read it yet? what do you think?
-RuskiFace the Pirate
any advice for our runners?
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that bouncer could prove a prob
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yes, for that is what happens when you get your own body weight in mussle modifications added to your system.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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so how long are the batterys in thoose boots good for
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*grin* that's a good question! you should have asked the guy!
i'll just tell you though, they got a 2-hour use, and a 1/2 hour recharge time.
you may want to look into buying a recharge-station to go with the boots though.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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i will as soon as get cash
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have to use your mad negeotation skilz to get some upfront newyen at this meet.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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um what negotionation skills lol
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well, then, you'll have to learn to do without.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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hey, I'm heavy on the mad negotiation skillz, so I should do okay.
I've had enough runs going without. ;D
-KidVid
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well guess jazz is the mouth piece especialy since he knows the fixer
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you know I think sam is the heaviest armed char of the runners and he is the healer
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It doesn't take a lot to carry more firepower than a car thief.
Even a sexy smooth-talking jazz-loving car thief like me. ;D
-Kid Vid
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Yea... that's what his momma says.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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ut oh ingo
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perhaps thoes moveing patches of grass are just... a hidden tennis set that comes up whenever anyone wants to play!
or, how about this, that mechanical whirring sound, instead of being a minigun turrit spinning up to speed, could be the winding of a musical carasoule!
get ready to dance Ingo!
or play tennis...
or...
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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that poor sap
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well, he got away from that okay...
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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Poor pantless man.. that's what happens when you have conflicting personalities. Made me laugh out loud though! ;)
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Entertainment accrost the whole spectrum... that's what i provide here. *grin*
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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ohhh... finally a backyard with a mean doggie for ingo.
and sory about the confuseing timeline,... it's hard to keep track of ingo, who is where he is a day ago for the other two runners...
-RuskiFace the Pirate
who knows... he could be dead already?
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... :-\
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well, at least you got to use your energy bar for something!
(and you didn't have to eat it, you should be greatfull for that)
LOL
although somehow i don't see a lot of thanks comeing my way for that...
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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... >:(
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HAHAHAHAHAHA... that's not the face for "thanks"!
-Kid Vid
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Yes... I would be wary Ruski. When the entire group gives you that silent treatment, it means they're about to rise up as one and SLAY you.
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Yes... i'm sure that God is in constant fear of the people of earth killing him....
oh wait.
where did i put that metor shower....
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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poor puppy being thrown threw the glass
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it's okay. god can save him.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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Yes... i'm sure that God is in constant fear of the people of earth killing him....
Depends if you believe what Nietzsche said or not...
A GM with a god complex? I've been there myself... it takes a group of about three rules lawyers before you're BEGGING the heavens to be on the other side of that screen.
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Ohhh... i have my own special way of dealing with rule-nazies.
"It clearly states on page 453 of the optimal munchkin compendium, volume 14 (that can be found in this copy of a dragon magazene) that my guy is entitled to ..."
"are you the GM?"
"no, but i want to let you know that"
"so, you aren't running this game?"
"but the rules state that.."
"do you see a Fasa or wizzards of the cost, or a WizKids logo anywhere on my shirt?"
"uh... no, but with this gun..."
"listen. honest, i'm not trying to screw you out of anything here, but i'm the GM. when you are the GM, you can screw over my guys, min max everone else, and bluff dice rolls all you want, but for right now, right here, we are trying to PLAY, and by Play, i mean, not read a book. for the sake of fluid forward motion PLEASE just roll the dice i give you. if i make a call, just go with it. you can argue, that's okay, we are all friends here (for now) but when it comes down to a decision, i don't care if you all vote me off the island. next time, don't have me GM if you don't like it. but for right now, this very moment, we are refering to house rule number 1. it's always there. when you are the GM, it's there, when Kid Vid is the GM, it's there, when EvilDave is the GM, it's there. and rule number one clearly states, 'That the GM is always right.' the GM can change his mind if presented a valad argument from the players, and he feels like it. however, the GM is always right. so, please, just listen to me, and roll the dice."
"er... okay."
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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I certainly do not agree or subscribe to that theory that the GM is 'always right'. He or she is there to act as a referee in many respects, and how many times have you watched a sporting event where the ref/umpire made an idiotic call? If there are house rules, or rules you're going to ignore whilst running YOUR game, then you should clarify all that with your players beforehand. There should be no need for 'revenge' when it's the PC's turn to run the game...
I'm not trying to start an arguement, just giving you my point of view on GMing.
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Well, I do agree with the "Golden Rule".
Mind you, the GM has to strive for fairness and self-consistancy, but the Golden Rule always hold.
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There's a lot of reasons that we use that as House Rule #1. Mostly because we did have rules lawyers pass through our groups on more than one occaison, and that's how it works.
For fluidity of play, we usually come up with a temp solution, and then research and find something more permanant before we play the next time.
Of couse, when it comes to Munchkin characters, we usually just err on the side of what's satifsying.
-Kid Vid
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the qoute rule books are onle ment to be a guide to playing the game the GM/DM/storyteller can always over rule the book
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i think that the number one goal of the game is for everyone to have fun. where the rules start takeing away from the fun, as the GM it's a standing house rule to be able to override it.
like if i'm the GM, and we have an UBER decker, with every trick in the book designed into his deck, about to embark on a datarun (see the section on mini-mid-run-runs) and i have a couple of other players that are the 'impaitent' type, i may cut the mini-run down quite a bit. i'll give the player a chance to be usefull some extra times in the run, but the solo action i'll almost compleatly cut out. it's not because i'm aghinst the individual rules for IC combat, i play a decker myself, and love that aspect of the game, but for the sake of fun, i ocasionally find it necessary to make the mini-mid-run-run come down to one computer (decking) skill roll VS. the system. i try to be honest and ballance everything out, but if it's going to kill the fun for everyone else, i'm going to eliminate it for group participation. now before i get a ton of hatemail about how i would be ruining the fun for that one player, expecially if it's a PC who's entire skillset is based in the matrix, i'll give him other chances to shine, i've even gone as far as makeing time after the game to let them do the legwork or whatever ahead of time go in, and install a back door, or whatever, in the normal play by play style. then he can just be cockey for the rest of the players bragging about how his part is compleated ahead of schedule... i try to balance it out, and i don't get many complaints on the style. i've found though (from 20 years gameing experience) that if the game degrades into a lookup the rule contest, you might as well stop playing, because no one is going to enjoy the run.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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if the game degrades into a lookup the rule contest, you might as well stop playing, because no one is going to enjoy the run.
Totally agree.
From my experience, I've had a couple of GM's who seem to go on some sort of ridiculous 'power trip' and attempt to boss and push players around, which is absolutely zero fun and leads to the group ultimately abandoning said GM. Yes, the GM is there to run the game, but he/she doesn't CONTROL the game if you understand my meaning. All of you are playing the game, and you're playing for fun!
I've GMed WAAAAAY more than I've participated as a player, so these are just my theories on the 'art' of gamemastering if you like...
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well, in our groups it moves arround a lot who GM's. i do it a fair ammount, kid does a little, another brother of mine does a little, and we've had a couple of 'guest star GM's' who are normally players try their hand at it. and with the musical chair GM'ing all the time, that rule works for the best.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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Ohhh... i have my own special way of dealing with rule-nazies.
"listen. honest, i'm not trying to screw you out of anything here, but i'm the GM. when you are the GM, you can screw over my guys, min max everone else, and bluff dice rolls all you want, but for right now, right here, we are trying to PLAY, and by Play, i mean, not read a book. for the sake of fluid forward motion PLEASE just roll the dice i give you. if i make a call, just go with it. you can argue, that's okay, we are all friends here (for now) but when it comes down to a decision, i don't care if you all vote me off the island. next time, don't have me GM if you don't like it. but for right now, this very moment, we are refering to house rule number 1. it's always there. when you are the GM, it's there, when Kid Vid is the GM, it's there, when EvilDave is the GM, it's there. and rule number one clearly states, 'That the GM is always right.' the GM can change his mind if presented a valad argument from the players, and he feels like it. however, the GM is always right. so, please, just listen to me, and roll the dice."
"er... okay."
-RuskiFace the Pirate
Heh, otherwise known as the "Shut the frag up" speech
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yea, i should record it and just play it. i've given that same speach many times.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
(but you have to do it, because if you say 'shut the frag up' little girl's feelings get hurt.)
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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Anyone seen Mercy in a while? I don't know enough about Spirits in real life, so... I was waiting for him to reply, but no dice. And thinking of it, I haven't seen him online in a while either.
Anyone know the tox? Luna?
-Kid Vid
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I haven't seen Luna for longer than i haven't seen mercy...
perhaps they ran off together to get married?
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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Uhh... maybe... but I don't know.
I thought Mercy and Luna didn't live in the same state or something... I seem to remember him saying something about having to take a bus to visit her...
-Kid Vid
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i must have missed that conversation.
*shrug*
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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we be back luna's computer went belly up on us 2 days ago
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ahh... mystery explained.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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if only the runs were that easyily accomplished
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and we r from different states soon to be in same state cuz im moving in with him next month :P and no marriage talk yet :P
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well, congrats!
-Ruskiface the Pirate
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So, how's the run going now for you guys? everyone enjoying themselves?
any thoughts/suggestions?
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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so how many yards left for indgo
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Yeah, I know I'm not participating in it, but your other two players have been taken out of it. Hopefully you can get it back on track soon.
So I guess from a neutral perspective, it's been enjoyable reading about your guys and your actions, but it's hit a bit of a lull for the moment.
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Lull? I'm battling for my life here!!! ;)
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not out of the action yet
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well, it's only one person battling for their life...
Kid has picked up some more hours at work, and started going back to school, so IRL he's a bit buisy, and Mercy is stuck waiting for him (which is why it's a good idea to split up in a play by post, for thoes of you who can use such advice)
Ingo's got about three yards left to the target, and then the whole way out.
although if he gets in without people looking for him, perhaps he can just drive quietly out?
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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So, who thinks the Gazibo is going to collapse under Ingo if he moves arround too much?
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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thats a given ruski
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well, what would you do in that situation?
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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How heavy is Ingo's character, anyways?
And I'm not quite clear on what sort of gazibo it is... I thought it was just some trellace stuck to the wall... :-\
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it's a freestandsing laticework over a spa. ingo's guy is a standard computer nerd, 140 lbs, but he's got a good sense of ballance (he is into the martial arts)
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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So he's going to leap from the top of the gazibo over the fence and into the next yard? How far away from the fence is this gazibo?
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Why is he on top of the Gazebo again?
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it's next to a 12 foot wall, that's hard to just hop over, and by standing on top of the gazibo he can reach the edge of it,... almost, it's like two feet away so he has to lean out a bit to get to it....
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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Uhm... Empty the Register? Aztech Corp Scrip or something? Or is it paper UCAS dollars? Thought all these places had cred-readers only to prevent this sort of thing.
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*shrug* some places still use cash. it's rarer, but not totally out of style.
if it makes you feel better, they are only starting there.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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and in the slums cash is easyer to deal with
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Indeed it does... ::)
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You also have a feeling that they will be cashing in on the 'two tacos for zero bucks.' deal. repeatidly.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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Wee! This is gonna be fun... Nice move, btw, Six.
I had one character that had his body rigged with explosives a number of times. So when someone would hold him up, he'd threaten to blow himself up.
There's also some people who link up a Biomonitor to an explosive device... Particularly a high explosive device :vampire:
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By the way... isn't Body attribute relative to your weight? Maybe it's body+strength/2 you know, since high muscle mass is heavy along with bulk and bone structure... doesn't cover the nebulous structure of Body and constitution though...
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i usually play with too much electricity and fire to do that sort of thing... i'd end up sparking it off while hotwireing a car or playing with a zippo lighter, or getting shot, that could set it off too.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHA... that just reminded me of a story where we crashed a van into an electrified fence, trying to knock it down. (as a distraction, if I remember)
The fence was reinforced, so we didn't exactly manage to knock it down. So we had some platique, and while the van was sitting on its side against the electrified fence, we threw the block of explosives into it, planning to retreat to a safe distance before blowing it.
Problem was, the electrified fence cooked the detonator, triggering the explosion when we had moved about 5 meters away, if that far. Which picked our sorry hoops up and tossed us a good 20m, much to the unconsciousness of my compatriot.
We finished the run, but Damn. That'll stop me from doing that again any time soon. ;D
Give me a couple days, and I'll tell you about the time at Luigi's.
-Kid Vid
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LOL i forgot about that one!
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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That was a good one.
At least the explosion took out the base security force sent to deal with us. Most of them, anyway.
-Kid Vid
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mostly out of pitty i believe.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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Ahhh... pure bastard pity. The best kind. ;D
-Kid Vid
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Sounds like those are some stupid security goons. Wouldn't they be using long rifles to cover the area before moving in?
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Yeah, we did something similar.
We needed to get into a place, and back out.
Getting in we figured would be easy enough, but getting out...
Since none of us had demolitions skill, and my character was a sort of almost-fixer type, the others just told me to get some explosives and plant the stuff.
My character then bought 2 satchels of C12, with detonators rigged up by someone who knew how, and put one at the base of each of 2 pillars, holding up the fence.
I'd expected reinforced concrete pillars mind you, so I'd maybe overdosed the amount of C12, just a tad...
What we got included 2 holes in the ground, large enough to present sever difficulties to jeeps. But atleast the fence went away, and we put a bit of a distraction of the sec.goons.
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Seems like it would've been easier to hire out a mage with an Earth elemental to dig under the fence...
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but explosives are so much flasheyer!
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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Er...
I believe that was the point I was trying to make :P
Stealth + Flash = Bad Thing©
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Ooh! Bad Thing(C)?!?!?
We should put THAT on a shirt!
Actually... that's not a bad idea...
:hyper:
-Kid Vid
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draw up an outline and i'll do some art for you.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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Can't just copyright Bad Thing© because the name covers too many situations. Now if it were the wholes statement: Stealth + Explosions = Bad Thing© then that'd be copyrightable.
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perhaps it's the copyrighted version of the generic 'bad things' that happen to people. there are bad things, and there are BadThings(c)
it's all in the presentation.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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I did some studying (looked at some cereal boxes) and noticed that it should be Bad Things® not Bad Things©. Names have the Rights Reserved and the words themselves cannot be copyrighted... Which is why commercials can't bash another cereal because the rights to the name are Reserved and aren't subject to Free Use policy like copyrighted material.
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Ahhh...
so we should be using a (r) then.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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That would explain why the commercials always have a miscellaneous white box labeled 'Other Brand', even when it's perfectly obvious which brand they're referring to...
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Brand X is clearly better...
Poison, I hope you know, not all distilled spirits are flammable...
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sure they are if you apply enough heat to them
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Well, as Ruski said that there were some distilled spirits in reference to my question as to whether there was anything explosive... I presume that these ones are ;D
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and distilled spirts useally indcates hard liquors
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Or Metho, which is not uncommon to find near fireworks and household fire devices ;D
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Right...
Mercy, anything under 100 proof is not flammable, but X_x has a point about him asking for explosives...
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Well, seeing as how he wasn't asking me what was on sale, i just assumed that he was getting the 200 proof good-stuff (r)
that's quite flamable.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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200 Proof?! Doesn't the UCAS have laws for that sort of thing?!
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it says for external use only, right next to the picture of the guy drinking it.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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just get some home made moonshine from the hills of tennesee and lite it up guarentee youll have fire :P
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LOL
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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I think we should print a shirt with "Bad Thing(C)" on it, just because it would be funnier.
(The Stealth + Explosives = Bad Thing(C) is also humorous.)
-Kid Vid
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Yeah, but see using that symbol is against the law, I believe or you could get sued for copryright fraud... unless of course, that is you weren't selling it. Then it's parody and legal...
The Chromed Accountant
"It's all about Dollars and Sense."
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Hey, of course I'd use 200 proof stuff. Why would I lower myself to the crappy stuff? ;D
Besides, it's not like I'm paying for it... :P
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You can make people pay for Parody. Dr Demento did it for years, and Weird Al does it all the time now. I hear he's rich and famous or something. ;D
Mostly I was going to put the phrase on a shirt, with the copyright symbol, so people would notice and remember it.
-Kid Vid
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You could make a whole line:
Liquor + Drama = Bad Things®
$1000 / 10 Hookers = Bad Things®
Bull + China Shop = Bad Things®
Could probably come up with some funnier ones... but I haven't really woken up yet :P
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I dunno. 'Geek the Mage'
would be a good one for me.
and of course, the old classic:
"I'm not Fat, I just have Titanium Bone Lacing"
-Ruski
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I would love to put most of these on shirts...
Hell, I would love to make t-shirts for a living, period.
-Kid Vid
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better sign up for a silk screening shop class.
-RuskIFace the Pirate
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Well, you could make a T-shirt out of anything...
"Wisconsin, where da' dairy at?"
"Is it Ketchup or Catsup?"
"I'm machine washable!"
"Less Grapes more Wrath!"
"Call me Catalyst, because I make people REACT!"
et al
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Hi! My name is Mr. Right. I heard you were looking for me.
My Name is: Milk. I'll do your body good.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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I could make the "Mr Right" one, but the other one is the sucks.
hmmm... a shirt with
"you = the sucks" printed on it... ;D
-Kid Vid
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How about:
"I'll tell you a secret...
Under all these clothes, I'm completely NAKED!"
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HAHAHAHAHA... we'll see.
-Kid Vid
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I dont want to see kid
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Hey, of course I'd use 200 proof stuff. Why would I lower myself to the crappy stuff?
Now you'll just have to forgive a simple european, but what exactly is implied by "proof" here?
because I always assumed it was a weight-percentage of ethanol compared to water, but then 200% doesn't make sense, and thi9ngs will burn alot before 100%.
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Proof is .5% so 200 proof is 100% 100 proof is 50% etc.
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in the states proof is aproxmantly trwice the precentage of achol content
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Ah.
I see.
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Strange, huh?
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I could make the "Mr Right" one, but the other one is the sucks.
hmmm... a shirt with
"you = the sucks" printed on it... ;D
-Kid Vid
If you do make a Mr. Right one, I'd love to have one - or two! :D
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proof is half a percent.
so 200 proof is 100% alkie.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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Like I said before, I'm more acidic, alkie would make me basic :P
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So if you're acidic, then drinking alkie would neutralize you ;D
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hope you don't lean on the marble countertop, or have any 'tums' the disolved calcium would render your potential hydrogen to an almost nutrel level of 7.2~!!!
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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Yeah, I always think of myself as volatile. Tums make me explode, mind you.
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so, do you store yourself in a glass jar? or just disolve the bed you sleep in every night?
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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Ceramic jar, actually.
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Ohh... i see. so what is your PH then? i thought that certan acids would eat through even ceramic... perhaps i just expected too much of you...
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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Nah, actually I sleep in Pandora's box, you know, I'm that retarded "Black Acid" from Lara Croft: The Cradle of Life...
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never saw it. *shrug*
black acid? what's that about?
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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I remember that movie! Her boobs jiggled at that part!
And then she jumped up and down... and there was talking... but mostly heavy breathing on her part-- to better make bosoms heave, you know... and then more jumping...
Black acid? What is this strange story you speak of? There was a plot to that movie? I thought it was a two-hour miracle bra commercial. ;D
-Kdi Vid
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hmm... they aparently know their target audiance well...
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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As if they weren't the fakest of the fake...
While we're seemingly moving on to movies highlighting the famale anatomy, riddle me this (well it's not a riddle, just more of a question): What is the name of a movie released at least 10 years ago in which, towards the end, a group of 20-somethings (or late teens) take refuge in a building in the country/away from civilization, and one of them goes to have a shower before someone (who she thinks is her boyfriend, but isn't) starts making out with her in the shower before electrocuting her. Apparently the guy is an android or a robot or something.
I can't remember the name and it's been bugging me for years...
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HAHAHA
i think gabe will have to be the one to know that movie.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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I bet he'll get all angry that we accused him, and then defend the fact that he has it on VHS. ;D
Gotta love Gabe. Nerdy in a way most of us are ashamed to be.
-Kid VId
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let's wait and see...
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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and a secret its all legal too :P
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There's no confusing legality with morality...
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I don't know that legality or morality cover having sex with a robot. I mean... seriously.
Showering with a robot? Even less so. Maybe they'd give him the "paper-clip" sentence of death, but what would the legal ramifications be?
-Kid Vid
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Destruction of company property, and lewed acts with an office appliance.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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Impersonation of a clerick of the church of England.
-Kid Vid
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Oh yes... i forgot about that.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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Sweeet, Ruski - where do you come up with these ideas? A metahuman arm on the wall like a trophy? Classic ;D
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thinks he just might sit back and takes it all in contemplates all then wamms us all with his words of wisdom :-\
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Yeah man, what the hell is with the arm?
I don't want to be a whiney cry-baby..but can't I meet up with the rest of the group already? I'm sure you love throwing things at me but can't we get the story moving along? Don't get me wrong, the twists are great and all, but it took me 4 months to get into the house..how long is it gonna take to get out?
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Who said you're getting out alive... bwahahahahahaha :vampire:
:P
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Well, there's not much security on the inside, so you should be able to meet up with your runners as soon as they can find a way to track you down.
(you wouldn't be planning on visiting the starbux cosest to your old company stomping grounds anytime soon would you? LOL)
and as for the arm, well, i just look at the random things that shadowrunners pick up, and sometimes wonder what it would look like to an outside perspective.
(the arm actually has some deltaware cybertech in it (a delta grade VCR remote signal booster with ECCM) that the runners you are stealing the truck from were going to sell / get installed in their own rigger, but you can't tell that from the shoulder.)
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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Oh... I was just thinking this guy was a militant freak... the kind who cuts off a fragger's arm, ears, and whatnot, and keeps them around to show everyone who isn't terrified of him yet.
But the deltaware thing works too. ;D
I just thought it was cool as hell to include something like that, Ruski.
-kid vid
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Haha kewl, deltaware VCR that's sweet. hehehe
Deng though, so this truck belongs to a group of runners? Aww man, something tells me that I'm not gonna see the end of this...
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LOL, well, if you like you could make a break for the 'back to the shack' play by post, it's a little more simple... not so many twists...
of course, i don't know how well a corperate suit/programming genious would work out with gangers everywhere... but hey, *shrug* if you really want it i'll see what i can do for you...
... the runner is always right!
"So, i'm going to dismantle the power converter with my axe..."
... if you say so... (rolling dice) *whince*
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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The arm has a VCR? Or a signal booster? I didn't think a Vehicle Control Rig was implanted in your arm but right at the base of your skull.
Come to think of it... The Matrix doesn't use a a datajack, it uses a vehicle rig. They jack right into the middle brain, which is why "dying" in the Matrix kills you, right? Not so sure about the "wounds manifesting on my body" part, but whatever :P
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it was a signal amplification unit for a remote VCR. so, you have your VCR installed in your head, this AMP in your arm (giving your drones extra range) and your controll deck in your meat hands... or whatever. the special thing about this arm is that the amp has ECCM built into it. (about $200,000.00 in the value department, with a street index of about 2.5 or so)
so it's just an AMP with ECCM.
but, it's still cool, and worth some cred.
and as far as wounds showing up on the body? i've never seen that (except for the ocasional full body bruse, or broken capalaries giving them a bloody nose, and the really rare dumpshock that results in broken capalaries in your eyes (crying blood is never a pretty sight)
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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Now imagine Rigging an Ultraviolet system... you know, if that were possible.
I've always figured the Matrix (the Movie, I mean) was an Ultraviolet system, in terms of scale.
So what is it? Rigged or ultraviolet? Hrm....
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UV.
rigged implies that you are actually controlling something, not just sitting in a simulation.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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Yeah, you're probably right. I still wonder how SR4 works with the Otaku.
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They are either A) Jacked into the Trix when it goes down and they die
or B) were living that 5% of their life outside of the Trix, and die from withdrawls in like... a day. or C) get older and it goes away, as pr. the normal Otaku Rules.
no more matrix, no more otaku being created, older otaku loose their magic powers, everyone is happy.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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'specially Gabe. ;D
-Kid Vid
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So, what do you think of this latest 'twist' for poor Ingo's char?
any guesses as to how it happened?
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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I'm betting one of three things:
1.) The Runners got tired of waiting, and waxed him.
2.) Whoever was chasing the runners caught up to them, and the firefight burned down the place
3.) Whoever is still chasing Ingo burned it down.
-Kid Vid
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any other theories?
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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Someone was smoking in bed?
Too many plugs mickey-moused into an outlet?
;D
-Kid Vid
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Someone was cleaning their gun and it misfired?
Svan didn't follow proper fire-safety procedures?
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LOL
I like the misfireing gun idea.
-RuskiFace the pirate
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svan was behind on his payments
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loves how Mercy does things :o
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HAHAHAHA... yeah, the misfiring gun is cool. It could be all Sin-City-style, with the gun firing backwards into his face!
-Kid Vid
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Haven't seen it yet.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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The Lone Ranger and Tonto went camping in the desert. After they got their tent all set up, both men fell sound asleep. Some hours later, Tonto wakes the Lone Ranger and says,
"Kemo Sabe, look towards sky, what you see?"
The Lone Ranger replies, "I see millions of stars."
"What that tell you?" asked Tonto.
The Lone Ranger ponders for a minute then says, "Astronomically speaking, it tells me there are millions of galaxies and potentially billions of planets. Astrologically, it tells me that Saturn is in Leo. Time wise, it appears to be approximately a quarter past three in the morning. Theologically, it's evident the Lord is all-powerful and we are small and insignificant. Meteorologically, it seems we will have a beautiful day tomorrow. What's it tell you, Tonto?"
Tonto is silent for a moment, then says, "Kemo Sabe, you dumber then buffalo shit. Someone has stolen tent."
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hahahaha ;D way to go baby
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I was always a fan of the Far Side where the Lone Ranger finds an Apache dictionary and finds out that "Kemo Sabe" means "horses' ass".
;D ;D ;D
-Kid Vid
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lol ;D
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I wonder if my car is still in one piece?
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Don't tempt him!
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Hehe I know I know ;)
Well I guess you could say it did serve it's purpose, I got away in that initial escape. And I got pulled over too!
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*grin* I can't say.
-RuskIFace the Pirate
(actually, saying that i can't say is probibly saying too much... but oh well. part of the fun is teasing.)
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calls ruski a tease 8)
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wouldn't have it any other way.
conspiracy theories anyone?
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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Haha, magic gas..somebody's cheating at the races! ;)
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but is it really cheating if it works?
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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I dunno... maybe, maybe not. Probably would have to go on a case-by-case basis.
Then again if those stealth helos are there to blow up anybody who beats the magic-gas powered car, that would be cheating.
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LOL i figured, if rice boys all use giggle-juce, and one of them found something they could burn that worked even better, then that would be a nice edge for them... of course if it gets hit by chaingun fire from the helo... well, let's hope i don't have to write up specs on highly combustable astrally active bacteria that thrive in a oil based enviroment, and react explosivly to electrical stimulus...
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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So are you going let me know when I wake up or should I just post like the alarm clock just went off?
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You'll be waking up to machinegun fire in just a bit. not to worry!
(mercy get's to do something first, although if he dosn't act quick, the thing he's going to do is stand there with a dumb look on his face...)
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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very intresting very intresting indeed
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there's that look i told you about...
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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Hrm... Astral Gas... Better get a ritual sample...
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And better do it quick. (the cars seem to be dissapearing very fast at this point.)
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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Hey, this is a momentous ocasion... the two groups actually met!
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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OMG Finally! Wowowowoow! :o
*cheer* *cheer*
*thunderous applause*
;D
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Awww... common... it's only been like a year in the making...
LOL
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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waits for the great explosion and build up of over a year in the makin now :D
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Okay. Now, here's a thought kids...
Huge Chromed out monsters with miniguns... deep water...
I have to ask my self "Hrm... 22kg Titanium bone lacing makes you sink really fast, don't it?"
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Mercy can hold them off down at the bottom, he's sinking right now too...
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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just ditched some wieght
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If you wanted to argue it, which I highly recommend against in a PbPost game, you could use the rules in SR Companion to do your swimming/treading water:
Base Target Number is: 2
+1 Per Cyber Section: Each Arm/Leg, Torso, or CyberSkull
+2 for Aluminum/Titanium Bone Lacing
+1 for Clothing
+1 per 2 kilos of weight
Elves get -1 for some weird reason
0 for humans and dwarves
+1 for Orks and Trolls
-2 if you're obese
0 for physically fit
+1 For out of shape
+1 for Highly developed muslces/ low body fat
-1 for flotsam
-2 for a life-jacket
+2 to 4 for rough water
+Wound modifiers
Test is initial and then every Strength Minutes
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Not that a Sleeping bag isn't a fashion statement, but wouldn't said sleeping bag float to some extent?
Also, if that respirator has a tank, the tank would float, very well, I might add. Other than that. Why the frag are you carrying a survival kit with you in the middle of the city?
"I'll use my tent to fashion us a boat!"
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i dont think that a sleeping bag could keep you afloat its water resisitant and flame resistant but i think if you add weight to it ...it will sink like everything else maybe use it for cushion ;D
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I've fallen into a river with a 'water resistant' sleeping bag... it did not float. infact, i think it soaked up part of the river, and promptly almost dround me.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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Yes, but one might think that 50 years afterward they would make it water-PROOF. But who's to say he didn't get it from an army surplus store circa 1964?
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with his charichter's priority of money, he'd be lucky to have one that new...
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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lol i did ditch it lol
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if only still had the tent could make a raft lol
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You could go back and get your tent... I think part of it is still stuck on the top of that stuffer shack... cut into little strips... oh, FYI, I tend to be a little hard on equipment in my runs. LOL
(Specially if you carry it arround with you all the time)
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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so i guessed lol thing is most of my equip I acturaly do need
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well, equipment is all usefull, and most of it is nice to have in a pinch. but typically, being unencumbered is more valuable than being able to camp wherever you may suddenly feel the need to. (a length of rope would have worked just as good as your tent, and would have weighed a fraction of what your pavalion did, and a sleeping bag? in seattle? you'd be better off carrying an extra cred stick with 25Y on it for a coffin motel. they'd be easyer to find than a place to pitch a tent and camp anyways)
but that's just me.
your guy is quite the boyscout, so perhaps it's in his nature to be ready to go on a week long camping trip into the Tir at the drop of a hat...
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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Just look out for those Y-E-Ts
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-Is
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Nope! Y-E-Ts are Young Elven Technologists. The group of premiere rich kids in a special club created by Ehran the scribe. They often go "border patrolling" for fun and often the results are not good for the people they catch. Not good at all.
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Hey, I heard about a group of Old-Americans who tried that with the Aztlan border... they did pretty good, and got decent publicity until a group of drug runners came through with AR-15s and shot them all to death.
Oh, wait... I heard that about Erhan's kids too...
Honestly, I'm more afraid of Yetis. Like trolls, only scarier.
-kiD VId
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Let me rephrase...
The Young Elven Technologists are RICH. They have all the best cyber, weapons, and years of youthful boredom to train with said cyber and weapons. Let's see those AR-15s shoot through hardened military-grade armor.
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Hmm... I bet they have a weakness...
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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Yeah. I'm gonna CQC them and throw em in the water. Let's see how good their chrome is when they're over their head in drek.
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that's assuming they get close enough to the drek to get thrown in... they don't seem the type to go walking through drek in the first place...
-RuskiFace the pIrate
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Agreed, not that you can even lift them to throw them :P
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well, I was assuming that you'd use some leverage to 'use their own weight aghinst them' or some such drek...
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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Like pull them over the overhang and let them drop into the water?
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yea. something like that.
or, they could dramaticly chase you over the edge of the overhang... and then look down, and not seeing your body swimming, they'll chuckle with malicious glee at your aparent demise, then you can reach back over the overhang from your pacarious pearch on a small unseen branch, and have THEM fall into the quagmire below! wouldn't THAT be an unlikely turn of events?!?!!
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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or that earth elemental you have on call seperate the ovehang
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LOL that takes a little too much planning... and if you are hanging on the overhang too, it won't do you a lot of good...
-RuskIFace the Pirate
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That was one of the most disgusting escapes I've ever heard of...
No wonder the Pub has been vacated... ;D
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Think that's it? I'll have the next excape take place on a leer jet with naked bikini models.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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I was just about to point out that the company is called Lear, so that it would be a Lear jet.
Then I read the rest of what you'd written. 'Leer jet' is probably right, yeah.
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Puns are FUN!
LOL
-RuskiFace the Pirate
(and thanks, when writing it, i couldn't remember the spelling, so i figured i'd go for the joke instead)
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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Right.
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well, perhaps next time they won't look for exits in the sewers...
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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Just out of curiosity, which alternative exit(s) did you have in mind?
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well, they could have hidden and taken over one of the helos when it landed, bounded rooftop to rooftop like some toon from 'city of heros', waited untill some of the ground troops landed, and then jumped them, taken their armor and walked out. created a diversion (the astrally active fuel in the tank of one of the race cars would have done some amazing stuff if they set it on fire) and would have had the added benefit of blinding the mages in the choppers. they could have used their stealth skills to try to stay out of sight and sneak away. they could have created some sort of armor shield and ran with that untill they found some cover or a place where they could loose them.
pretty much, the only solutions that wouldn't work were the plainly straightforward ones.
"Stand my ground and FIGHT!"
or
"Run like a lemming with the rest of the crowd"
thoes were the two responces that the assault team was well prepaird for.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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Well, it's kinda hard to want to stick around when the helo's are firing miniguns with such a large caliber that there's not much to hide behind. I mean, we weren't even safe inside the building from the hail of bullets, where were we supposed to hide? At least where we're at no one's shooting at us, for now at least. *shrug*
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It's not like we couldstop and call our contacts, either- there was this dreadful hil of bullets that was keeping the more easily panicked elements screaming, so it would've been hard to get the blueprints to escape that way.
I like the sewer. if you have your shots, it's just a bad memory!
-Kid Vid
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If you have Laes, it isn't even that! ;D
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"I climb out of the sewer and put every tranque patch in my advanced medkit on my body!!"
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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dont you mean my med kit lol lost internet for awhile
we will be back on regularly in about a mounth
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I have you in suspended stasis, healing off the worst part of your ordeal. whenever you get back up and running, let me know, and i'll write you back in.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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consider Me back
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Will do. and it's good to have you back.
just as an FYI you may want to go back and re-read the last couple of pages that you were 'out' for, so that we don't have to spend a lot of time playing catchup.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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he already did thats how he knows he wasent dead and he assumed hes not with jas talking to mr. fixer 8)
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well there goes my doc wagon vist for the year
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Could be worse...
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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yeah he could be dead lmao
:P
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or worse.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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hmmm whats worse :o
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I'm curious too? What could be worse than that?
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aww... ya'll have no imagination.
ever heard of 'a fate worse than death'
typically it's reserved for like quadrapelegic like dismemberment, and living a useless life of pitty afterwards, or having everything you've ever dared to care about destroyed, and left with nothing to rebuild it... but, ... mostly it comes down to there are much worse things that can happen to you than just dieing.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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well i guess that losing something you need like arms legs tongue your family stuff like that could be worse then death if you wanna feel sorry for yourself....lol but who hasent lost something or someone they cared about or needed and survived it .. ;D
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Well, surviving is a relative term.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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LoL, for some reason when reading about the security on the server room I sooo thought about Ruski doing that kind of thing in his server room at work.
;)
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Everyone needs lightning and lasers to protect the server.
or IRL, mine is in a hallway. looks like every other system in the building. in fact, if they grabbed the cool looking one, they'd be getting one of the older crappyer system on the network. LOL
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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Ruski the mean one lmao :o
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Well, there is more than one way to protect your server.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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me and mercy know this guy who uses his server for all of us in swg to chat on when we are on the game and off the game his server keeps acting up so he got a new one that they guarentee no mess ups lol dont ya like that word guarentee lol makes me want to just go out and get it....NOT ;)
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*shrug* they should have someone that knows what they are doing maintain it.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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not on his lol his server sucks :P
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you k nnow its a good thing sam has a high chrisma score running around in that striipper outfit
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Yea, it'll get him more repeat buisness.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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you know... if it's too tough, there's always the 'easy' way out.
(http://fatcat.ftj.agh.edu.pl/~czarnecki/shoot.gif)
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omg Ruski i love that one hahahahahhaha :P
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So, Everyone happy with how things are progressing at this point? Any questions? comments? concerns?
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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so far so good
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It should pick up a bit now; hopefully we'll be able to polish everything off before christmas.
LOL christmas in seattle... only took a year!
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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6 months to get the group together, a few months to get the run in order.. then a few more months to complete the run! ;)
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Not Bad. I'm impressed that we were able to hold it together for so long... the other group didn't really keep up...
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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Yeah, they did, but once I got busy with school, I couldn't post the necessary amount to keep the run moving. Which is a shame, because Ingo and Gabe and others were getting involved as NPCs, which was cool.
-kv
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oh that's right, you guys tryed once before i started posting again... no i was refering to my other attempt with 'back to the shack'
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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Oh yeah... that one got seriously derailed.
Mine went okay for the better part of a year, through a girlfriend and a couple of new jobs, but petered out around the time I went back to school full time.
Shame too... fun stuff was coming up. Actually, you might recognize it, because I ran our group through part of it... you got about as far as the group did in the PBP.
-kv
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There. I fixed it.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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So, what Programs should Ingo work on getting?
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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how long would it take a dwcker to write the programs figure sleeze
a attack program some relocate programs with a good decepton program and anylize programs probly wont need attack programs
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well, you still have to have a server to write the programs on. and it takes a number of hours; times a multiplyer, times the level of the program, (+/- Modifiers) to write a program, and an equal amount of time to compile them. You can write programs 'on the fly', but they are one shot deals, and you have to re-write them every time you need them.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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I never did Matrix stuff in SR3 so I have no idea. The Matrix stuff in SR4 is really interesting though..
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Well, I don't have SR4 yet, but I wouldn't want to kill the run by forcing you to do the exact stuff required by SR3, i'll just put you at a disadvantage when you are trying to do stuff.
if you can think up a clever way to get some utilities, i'll lessen that disadvantage.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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shame none of us have a decker/deckmister contact
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I have one, but I don't know anything about decks... and he didn't ask me.
kv
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Did MFI give us any upfront capital?
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He gave your two companions 5K between the two of them. they've spent some of that already though.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
(I had to go back and re-read a dozen pages of the run to find that... it's actually pretty cool to go back and look at.)
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Yeah I tried going back but I couldn't find it.
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Page 13 or so.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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http://ingomonk.bullhonkie.com/forums/index.php?board=10;action=display;threadid=483;start=210 (http://ingomonk.bullhonkie.com/forums/index.php?board=10;action=display;threadid=483;start=210)
Page 15. We got 7.5K out of MFI, spent 2K paying Ruski to look up his info, and then kept the rest. If we spend another 2K on programs, we still will have 3.5K to play with for supplies.
Oh, and I owe Ruski a convertible BMW, pink slip optional.
-kv
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Ok, we'll get the programs now and we'll work on the car later.
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Dude... where did everyone go?
-kv
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I got Buisy. but as GM I generally only post things that happen when people do stuff. if you just stand arround and chat, I don't normally try to hit you with stuff.
-RuskiFace
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Anyone know what happened to Mercy?
-kv
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I contacted me the other day on MSN Messenger. He said he was playing SWG a lot, but told me how it's going to hell in a handbasket.
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I've been hearing that a lot.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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its gone to a frist person shooter have acturaly stoped playing swg switched to coh
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been there, done that.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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I had a character named "Shanks McNasty" on there at one point. He was a lot of fun to play.
-kv
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my main is a defnder electron7
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Yes. City of heros is wonderfull; but out of all the threads to discuss it in; Perhaps one of the many 'general' ones would be more... on track?
let's try to keep this spot for discussion of OOC ideas for the PBP run. please?
at least a little bit?
-RuskiFace the GM
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gotcha
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Thanks.
also, I think it's nice of Jazzman to let Tac talk to the guard he said hello to every day for who knows how long, the same guy he almost ran over on his way out... what was that? two days ago?
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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Hey, I had to go back and read that again before I remembered that this guy knows Tak- so I can BS and cover with the gate guard, and then once we're inside, and I'm just a lowly metahuman, we can switch and he can talk to the oh-so-powerful Japanese Busnessmen Masters.
-kv
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I think sam may be in trouble not very tech oriented
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you got other skills that may be important.
not everyone needs to be a cyber ninja to be usefull.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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Okay, after all this time; the footwork portion of the run is done, everyone has got their gear together, and you have penitrated the perimiter (always the first step.) from here, I'll be going on a room by room basis. (once you are all ready) I think if I wait the three day limit (or when everyone has posted that they are moving on, whatever comes first) before automaticly advancing everyone to the next area. there will be lots to do for everyone inside, but let me know if it starts to bog down too much, and I'll try to speed things up (relativly speaking, it did take about a year to get here.)
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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So, who wants to bet that Good ol' Tack is already in the system? any chances his fingerprints could cause problems?
-RuskiFace the Evil GM.
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Good save Kid. but it's only half way.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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thats a sucker bet
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Hey, I thought it was a good save. Especially because I (hope) the secretary didn't see it, doesn't notice, or doesn't care.
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tach is going to have to wipe the security logs but probly should put a delay in it when he does so we can get out
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Awww... but what about all the fun I'd have making you run backwards through all the security after your tags expired from being wiped?
-RuskiFace the Evil GM
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Well, it's not like he doesn't have System Familiarity or anything. ;D
I have reason to believe that he's seriously going to frag this system on his way out.
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OK ANSWER ALL MY QUESTIONS IMMEDIATELY!!!!!!! DREK! I CAN'T THINK OF ALL OF THEM!!!!!
Joking aside has any of you guys looked at SR$ and if so you think you like the new system? I know this probably be under the general board but since I been talking to Ruski of getting in a game thought it might help if we both had a consensus who would be interested in playing? Then there is the obvious question Since they introduced monofilament chainsaw in fourth which one of you going to be the shetim hunter Ash with a boomstickin one hand and that chainsaw in the other?
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hahaha... boomstick.
The peoples seem to be pretty divided about whether SR4 sucks or not. Some, like Ruski, are happy that they changed all that stuff that bothered them. Some, like... well, a few people that I've talked to, have decided that Fasa really is dead, and they're going to keep playing 3rd edition until they're shown a reason not to.
Me? I haven't read enough to know one way or the other, but I'm happy to try just about anything. I had escargot last weekend. Chewy, but not as bad as advertised.
If you want to start a 4th Edition PBP, I'll post in it.
-kv
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As resident loudmouth; I'll take the spot of GM.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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Ok so far so good that three a gm and two players. I was planning on a Physical adept for this game here a question do you have SR4 Kid? Just curious lets hope we get lots more fascinating people (and loudmouths lol) to join :D
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He's got a digital version, but hasn't made a PC yet.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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I just need some quality 'me' time to sit down with the book and actually read it cover to cover. Maybe that's something I'll try to finish this week after my last final today.
We could play some real life nerd games this weekend!
(oh, and my girlfriend is awesome- she couldn't wait until Christmas, so she made me take her out and we found and bought dice and a dicebag and a couple pewter figurines. I love my nerd girlfriend)
-kv
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Good for you!
this weekend... *shrug* can always try I suppose.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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Have plans?
David I think wants to do something too- and I'll ditch everything except Sara's family Christmas party Saturday. That I kinda have to go to.
-kv
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*shrug* what time is the party?
nerd games don't schedule well arround other things.
if something else has that prime 3pm-10pm spot... we might as well not even try.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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Saturday night. I'm not sure of the tim, but I'm pretty sure it's probably that 7pm timeslot.
I would like to try, though- even if we just sit around and figure out the rules and roll up characters.
Uhh... but we can talk about that elsewhere. Peanuts and stuff.
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Kind of sad now doesn't seem like the other guys are all that interested in a 4th edition game.
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For the most part, traffic has been a little down here in general- I know a bunch of us are still in school, and this would be exam time. (I know I just finished up my semester)
Leave this up for about a week, give everyone a chance to see it, and then we can see who's interested.
-kv
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Woohoo! I'm out of school for the semester! Done with finals! Horrah!
but yea, this is a buisy time for most everyone; so don't expect a lot of blither-blather from anyone but the most die-hard SR fanatics.
-RuskIFace the Pirate
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Well I got my Character done as well as history I wrote a little background and even dug up the old third edition twenty questions in the SC. So now what am I supposed to do with this? (You forgot to cover that lol.)
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Well, post a short Bio here, and E-mail the long copy to me.
Ruskiface@(nospam)gmail.com
just delete the no spam, and send it off.
I'll revew it, and add it to the actively approved cast.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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Name/Alias: Ken Isamu / Yoshi Kamiwa
Matatype: Elf
Age: 21
Sex: Male
Yoshi is a very attractive Elf with red hair and silver eyes and a medium build. He still has a nasty scar on his entire back from the burns he recieved from the explosion. He generally carries his pistols,batons, and Katana on him at all times (though usually the cane version for the aid of a walking stick) and he will carry the rifle on certain jobs. He is physically recovered from the injuries but mentally however he is barely holding it together. His whole life has been thrown into disarray and chaos and to top it off all he has known is almost entirely cut off from him. He went down and been hanging out in the local bar around the corner from his condo and got introduced to a fixer there by the bartender. His false SIN is pretty clean so there no reason for the Fixer not to trust him.
Sent
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Got the Bio... looks decent. I'll go over it more carefully this coming weekend.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
any advice for our players currently running?
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Is this AI the software I was working on?
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Is it named Deus? Should I frag myself and save it some time?
Well, if it was Megara, I could live with that- I could introduce her to Dodger! ;D
-kv
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This is part of the software you were working on Ingo.
your function was a database query routine, but it's all merged into one great big comglomerate. your code is in there somewhere. this may be an earlyer version though, they were 'testing' the database for awhile... probibly with the service people.
-RuskiFace the GM
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and if we had thought of something else, they would be testing it with someone else. ;D
-kv
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Actually; seeing as how I've had what, a YEAR to think this stuff up; I'll have you know that the run, and your demise...er... it's compleation, have OODLES of thought put into them, and it's not a random occurance that you've run into a bit of your own code.
(there was a reason they needed you for this run)
-RuskiFace the Pirate
(and it's hard to ignore the dirrectional AI that pretty much runs the company. you may have ran into it if you took a diffrent route; but you certanly picked one of the faster methods to come face to face with it)
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We'll just go to the basement and have Takashi hack it before continuing.
"Oh dear- it appears that at one or more of my temperature gauges are malfunctioning- even though they're reading that it's cool enough in there, those should be replaced!"[/b]
-kv
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Is there a way for me to connect to the matrix while inside the elevator? Is there a camera in the elevator?
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Probably, but I'd prefer to wait until we get to a section that isn't a metal box suspended fifteen stories above ground, with cameras. I figure we'll get to the basement, you can deck this place, and we'll walk into the server rooms. Make one of the temp gauges malfunction or something simple like that.
-kv
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you can build a jackpoint out of most anything that's connected to the mainline hardware with a B/R electronics 4 test.
there is a camera, but you happen to know that most systems are monitered automoniously.
-Ruski
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Alright- if no one is watching (they might watch us, because we're a work crew, or because we're not all japanese, or just because security might be a little bit higher this week) then we can go for it.
The computer system might notice if we're screwing around with a jackpoint in the elevator, and notify a security decker, though...
-kv
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Paranoia thy name is Kid Vid.....
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and with good reason, he's gamed with me before.
'just because you are paranoid, dosn't mean that they aren't out to get you.'
-RuskiFace the GM
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Is it really paranoia if they ARE out to get you? ;D
-kv
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depends on how you deal with it.
if you use it, it isn't.
if it uses you, it is.
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so what is it if you use it? being defensive?
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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or being reasonable. Pick your favorite.
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any thoughts on how the run is progressing?
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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Um Slow it only taken you a year to get to it lol. Honestly I have no idea I am seeing signs of common sense then i see signs of big booboos. Honestly seems like a balanced run. Considering my characters generally have teammates whose idea of subtle is just using a pound of c4 or a force 4 powerball to blow off that door insead of 4 lbs or force 6. That saying something when I see booboos.
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What boo-boos have you noticed?
-kv
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i would be intrested in that as well
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Well the most obvious one is the lack of disguising your identities for a run. I admit that this is a nitpic but the way our runs always went off we always tried to get as much information as we could on who we were impersonating. That way we had there fingerprints mannerisms even their voice at times. This made it easier for us to infiltrate the place and get access to what we wanted. We were also big fans of invisibility spells enabling us to bypass certain securities. As I said it just a nitpic. The other goof I saw was the fact that you guys didn't went to more trouble disguising the most wanted of you. A disguise kit even applied by an amateur still works. Or you could go with the old classic pummel him until his face's shape is nowhere near its old one. Another I observed was during the chopper raid you actually concerned yourselves with the safety of others. Admiriable to say nothing of heroic toward the end but honestly a waste of time and resources. I know that sounds cold and heartless but you are runners you can have that golden streak of good in you but in that situation it wasn't a good thing. My character once instigated the second night of rage just to cover an extraction of a high level criminal boss. It worked so good that everyone thought he died in the rioting. Now I admit I wasn't aiming for that end result I just wanted a riot in the area not the city. But honestly my character doesn't feel too bad about it because it led to a different outcome for Seattle than what is in the cannon 4th edition now. Another goof I noticed was the Shiawase escape you did good avoiiding surveillance on the ground but considering the fact that you probably bought your car from them did it not occur to you that they might have it lowjacked and alll your regular contacts under a little surveillance?
As I said nitpics and what not trust me everybody has major goofs I once blew up a mall to prevent lonestar to get a hold of a drone that traced back to me. Unfortunately the mall while in a bad part of town was full of squatters. Four hundred and seventeen killed and one of my friends managed to get LoneStar blamed but it was still my mistake. I am truly enoying the game guys have fun.
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LOL actually; the Car was traced. it's what lead to his auto-shop contact being burned down.
-RuskiFace the GM
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Suq!
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It's alright. at least they didn't get you right?
and, if it makes you feel a little better, your buddy was surrounded by paranoid runners when your 'parrent' company came a-callin, so he got out alright; but the runners are none-too-happy, and you may owe your friend a favor for having his shop burned down. (then again, who's to say that he would know it was your fault? for all he knows it could have been the runners own heat that got called down on them)
-RuskiFace the GM
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Haha, kewl.
..is my car 'sploded too?
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Yea. But I gave you a nice Hummvee in exchange.
-RuskiFace the GM
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thats a sweet ride
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He ditched it though.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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Yeah, I know that trying to save people almost got us killed, but honestly, I like to think that some Shadowrunners are heroes in thier own way. Now, Jazzman, the guy I'm playing now, isn't a bad guy. He's not hardcore, and he's not what most people would consider a 'serious runner.'
I don't think I could start a riot and get people killed to cover my own ass... I'm just not that cold, no matter what it meant. I'd rather do a run super-quiet, than loud enough that I have to cover my tracks.
(as in "Hey, have you seen the briefcase that was here yesterday? I thought I left it here...")
-kv
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where as sam dosnt belive in unnessary killing and treats the sick and injured on a regular bases he will kill if nessary
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Takashi is a vengeful prick ;)
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but without a high 'gun' skill, he's going to be hard pressed to find himself in a killing situation. even his martial arts background won't make it easy to kill someone. he'd have to beat the crap out of them, and then TRY to kill them, once they were incapacitated.
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Pin 'em down and break their neck, hollywood style!!!
hehe, he's vengeful, but not a killer ;)
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A lot of the people that I run with tend to make PC's that work allong thoes same lines. although there are a handfull of A-Moral SOB's in the mix; they don't tend to be the masterminds. but they do add flavor to the runs, that's for sure.
heheheh bobby 'the cammel' jones.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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hahhahaah... yes, Bobby "The Camel" Jones. Also... what was Nick's character?
-kv
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Nick "the Hoop-Head" shotoutyourbackwindow.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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Blane... Blane something... Sharan or something like that.
Although that name would be pretty accurate. His middle name would be "getyourfriendskilledto saveyoursorryhoop"
-kv
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and that's what happens when Jerks play shadowrun. LOL
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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This is true. Although he did survive longer than anyone else... actually, Dusty may have passed him up with the last few runs... although I don't know if we can count the 'congo run' as a survival just yet. :-/
-kv
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Yea... You guys gotta get out first.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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I thought you decided that we weren't going to play 3rd Edition again... which would mean all those characters would be in Congo-Limbo forever.
I'd just like to assume that they assed it somehow and got out.
-kv
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*shrug* i think they are stuck there untill we got THE group together anyways.
so far, we haven't played anything 3rd edition or otherwise sence then.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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hEY KID 3AM IS THAT 3RD OR 4TH cs?
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I was planning on making it 3rd Edition, because I haven't actually learned 4th Edition yet (I'm old fashioned- I like to learn character creation first, and then the combat system with a 'back to the shack' kind of scenario, and then actually jump in to getting double crossed.)
If you want to play, feel free to jump in. If you want to wait for a 4th Edition thread, give me a while to learn the system, and I'll start in on it. (Ruski would probably be the better GM for it, though)
-kv
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Just out of curiosity, define cold. (ie, around freezing, below freezing...and the higher humidity of Seattle will make it seem much worse.)
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cold enough to snow?
too cold to snow?
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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IRL, I live in one of the colder regions of the US (Not counting Alaska). I've worn t-shirts when it get up to 32 F.
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Haven't been to alaska, but I have been out and about in negative weather.
(Wyoming)
it sucks.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
the windchill is what really gets you there though. bites through anything.
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Yeah, really. Personally, I'd prefer cooler climates. You can always add another layer. There's only so much a person can take off when it's hot.
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Hmm... but it's much funner to look at people when they aren't wearing fourteen layers of nomex.
hmm... bikini....
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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I was thinking too cold to snow, but with me being from California (and my only other real living experience being Australia), I honestly have to say that I don't really know cold.
Just think cold- really damn cold.
-kv
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so, that's like what? -40 C?
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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Depends, was there any wind?
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well, -40c with no wind would do it.
it actually needs to be quite a bit colder if there is wind, because 'moving' the crystal structures is what actually makes it snow.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
even still, at -40c, the cances of it snowing are pretty low, even if there is wind and clouds
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Does it even get to -40 in Seattle? Even in North Dakota, those temps aren't that common without windchill.
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well, no.
but; -40 is the magic number.
when it gets any colder than -32, for each degree, it cuts in half the likelyhood of actuall snowfall.
once you hit -40, you are down to less than a fraction of a percent.
as far as it actually factually being too cold to snow, anyways.
most people don't take into acount that snow can actually fall at thoes tempatures, if the wind is right. you need three things to make snow:
air cold enough to form ice crystals in water (al-la 0 degrees)
wind, to move the cristals, so they fall out of formation (hello wind chill!)
and moisture in the air.
with enough wind, you can knock crystals out of formation even at -40.
(but it's not very likely)
somewhere arround -32 (with calculated wind-chill) people start to say "it's too cold to snow!" and, for some part, they are right. however, it's still possible to snow, just unlikely.
once you hit -40 with windchill, it's even less likely; but, if you have 0 degree weather, and winds that reduce it to -40, you actually have the perfect combination for snow.
the real tempature has to be less than about -15, and then, if the windchill dosn't acount for much, it won't snow.
make sense?
-RuskiFace the Pirate
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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Yep, it does. It's more likely to happen someplace like Eastern Montana/Western North Dakota. Those areas don't get much snow because the Rockies catch most of the moisture. You can drive for miles without seeing snow.
Seattle, one the other hand, has a much higher humidity and its proximity to the ocean causes warmer winters and cooler summers.
Although high humidity makes cool temperatures feel much colder.
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as far as i kown it doesnt snpw in seattl,e
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it snows. and it's acid snow.
gotta love polution.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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So...Ruski
Megatokyo Fan? The guy you're playing is sounding an awful lot like Largo.
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LOL i'm glad you noticed the similarities.
I was going for a cross between Largo, and the great-cornholio
"I need some TP for my Bungholeo!"
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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My boyfriend got me hooked. He's got the 3vil Minion (Beware the Darkly Cute) T-shirt and gave me the "Darkly Cute" t-shirt.
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Actually, I'm wearing the 'Practice static safety hack naked' shirt right now.
it's pretty awsome.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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I'm wearing an 8-bit Theater T-Shirt. Red Mage. I've also got Thief.
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hehehe I'm at work. i'm suppose to be wearing a shirt and tie.
that makes it even more funny.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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Niice. 8)
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luckily, I'm the only person in the world who would work for the price they pay to fix the computers. so they have to put up with me, or pay someone else more money.
I'm the wal-mart of tech-repair guys!
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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How close am I standing to the ork covering me?
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Just walk over and hand them your pants... they never excect resistance!
LOL
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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Maybe they're hungry, too...
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I hope they don't eat my pants... It's cold outside.
-RuskiFace the Priate
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...now there's a scary thought.
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I just hope I can get the guy infront of my punch drunk enough that he'll drop his shotgun and run, or not be able to hit anything with it... *shrug* here's to hoping anyways!
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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Ruski...I hope you get lucky and don't get shot. being naked in a Shack fight can't be good.
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No... in fact... I'm guessing that being naked in a stuffershack is pretty much the worst way that a shadowrunner could be.
it'll be an awsome story if he lives through it though.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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No kidding. I can't wait to tell my boyfriend about this, though. He's a big Megatokyo fan.
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LOL
"So, honey; I went to the stuffer shack, and there was a naked guy doing something, i'm not sure what, to the caf-pow machine, and he started running arround and it was so exciting!"
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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"There was a guy at the stuffer shack practicing static safety while messing with the C@FPOW machine" (He should get it since he's the one who introduced me to Megatokyo in the first place)
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is he a fan of Largo, or should I expect to be getting an angry letter soon for being naked in the same room as his chica?
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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He's got the Static Safety T-shirt, too. I think
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okay, good.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
Please H4X0R R35P0NC1BLY
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Well, I told my boyfriend. He laughed hysterically and couldn't say anything for about five minutes.
I just wish I'd told him in person instead of over the phone so I could have seen his reaction.
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being shot while naked= the sux.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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I agree. While static saftey is important, it's probably not the best idea to practice it at the Shack.
Do I have delayed action messed up? Is a delayed action one that take away your next initiative pass?
-kv
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I can't remember, is it just combat pool to dodge or combat pool plus something else (Reaction? Quickness?)
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Delayed actions are suppose to make it so that you take your action at that point.
so, at the pants, we start duking it out, then we'd bouth get another action at 1
unless he got hit, then he looses -2 to his pass... putting him at -1 (next turn)
it's alright though. I can live with it.
He'd probibly just shoot me at that point (I think he's faster than me) although it would have been nice to have some combat pool, for being naked at the shack, I really can't complain. LOL
-Ruski
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You could always soak a Quickness Stress point to get an extra dodge die.
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wouldn't have helped much. I'm lucky to have been able to dodge it as it was.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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Uh, I was just looking at some of the numbers, and shouldn't the Ork I'm fighting have a higher TN# to shoot than 3? I did give him a serious wound at the beginning of the fight (four successes with Killing Hands M stepping up to Deadly, he had three successes to resist, bringing it to Serious). Unless he's got some major pain tolerence...
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Ahhh... good point. I forgots about that.
-kv
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Hey Ruski, if you can keep from dying, I do have some first aid training.
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awsome! I could use that when I'm done.
it's hard to play dance-dance revolution with a shotgun wound to the chest.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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Although, that's not to say I won't get in trouble for fragging that ork
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you are in luck. a mage showed up. and it's all about 'geek the mage'
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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*shrugs* At least there's one less guy trying to shoot us.
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this is true... but mostly, I'm worried about the guy trying to shoot 'me'
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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Don't worry, I'll help you out next round.
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hahahaha... actually, if my calculations are correct, he's at serious +3 stun dammage... one box from deadly. All I gotta do is land one more punch... and to do that, I only have to live through one more round...
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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Well, the more that drop, the fewer attacks you gotta worry about dodging.
Developed that philosophy playing KotOR.
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And it's not a bad one, especially in games that don't take wound penalties into account.
Unlike SR.
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It's also a lot easier to just set the character to attack and just keep an eye on the hp. Especially since I'm not very good at fast-paced, real-time combat. In KotOR, I generally set it to pause everytime I use the menu or switch targets during combat so I actually have time to find the item/attack option/Force power I want to use.
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Yea. pause is a great feature... to bad it dosn't work in real life.
-RuskiFace teh Irate
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In real life, I have better reactions. I've always been decent at sports (Liked too many of them to get really good at any one, though) but I can't seem to get the little people on the screen to do what I want them to, and I lose interest too quickly to get better.
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*shrug* well, having good reactions from sports dosn't really help in combat situations. being in a generally good shape dosn't hurt... but really, it's not so much being able to react, as knowing how to react.
same thing with video games. you want to duck. you see the punch coming, you see a low punch, and want to counter with a high kick... or whatever.
training and repatition is really the only good way to get any level of skill with either. take a martial arts cource to train your meat body to react to someone coming at you with a punch. being in good shape will let you recover from actually being hit... but if you just freeze up and think "OMG i'm about to be hit!" when you first realise the punch is coming... then it's going to land on your face before you realise that you should be moving instead.
-RuskiFace the Ninja Pirate
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Well, I am currently taking martial arts, and really, there are skills I learned in non-combat sports that do help.
For example, in tennis, I liked to rush the net. You learn really quick to either block the ball back into the other side of the court...or dodge. The body motions are different, but you still learn timing and how to avoid getting hit.
Then there's the footwork. Stances change between 'normal' sports and martial arts, but you still need good balance and to be able to move any direction almost instantly.
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I agree. they do over lap quite a bit, but without the martial-arts training, I think it would just be frustrating to be in a fight.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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Now, that, I'll agree to.
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Fighting tip: People who are fat and out of shape don't like heavy body blows. At all.
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I also imagine that they don't like being kicked in the face. that's a funny thing about fat pepople... *shrug*
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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Yeah, but if you pay attention to the way their body is shaped, they can't defend their lower body as well as someone who's limber.
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mostly, people of any size don't like getting hit or kicked.
*shrug*
and if I was going to fight a fat guy, I wouldn't be hitting him where he had lots of padding.
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You'd think, but that "padding" isn't exactly nice for him. Assuming that it's not muscle, that fat becomes a widespread pressure that inhibits your opponent's stamina. You're much more likely to knock the wind out of a fat person than a healthy one, most especially since all that fat isn't doing anything for them except weigh them down.
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It's also less dense than muscle. Higher mass has greater inertia. Easier to move or stop someone with a lot of fat than a lot of muscle.
It's also why looking at the scales isn't the best way to gauge health. You also need to know the ratio of fat to muscle.
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well, yea.
beating up fat people is fun and easy. LOL
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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Yeah, but you've gotta be certain about their fatness. Ever see those World's Strongest Man competitions? Those guys look fat, but that belly is ALL muscle.
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Or, as they refer to it 'girth'
That "girth" is all muscle. And beer-belly.
-kv
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Knew someone in High school who was rather large, and I know it wasn't muscle.
I could hit her with a snowball at ~50ft
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that's pretty good, but it could just be your throwing skill.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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*EG* probably. I could hit a tree of half the diameter at about the same distance. Buuut they also don't move.
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I thought we just agreed that fat people didn't move much?
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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Oh, they move a lot, just not with their legs, but rather when all the fat starts rolling around when they do anything else.
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ahh... the truffle-shuffle.
-RuskiFace teh Pirate
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...I thought the tape Ruski took *was* from the camera in the back.
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aparently there was a backup camera system.
i got two tapes, the primary and the backup from the primary system.
*shrug* that's what I get for being cockey
LOL
oh well. at least they are just looking to offer us a job, and not just trying to kill us outright.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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Yeah, no kidding.
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all and all though, at least we've met, and you know what I look like naked... so there should be a lot of trust between us!
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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oughtta be be fun
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Ive been to a lot of Scifi Conventions and Fantasy Conventions and there is one truth I have learned. Never trust the naked guy in the corner lol.
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In my defence, I wasn't in the corner. I was up on the front counter.
-RuskiFace the Raymond
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Like the nekkid guy juiced up on C@FP0W dancing naked on the counter has a lot of room to talk. ;D
-kv
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What defense? All the nekkid guy gets is dodge and dermal plating/mystic armor
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and the only dermal plating i've got is the plastic skin that covers my cyberarm.
but that's good for a total of '0' points of ballistic and impact armor.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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*winces* ouch. You got really lucky in the shack.
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well, I knew I was taking a risk in getting naked on the counter durring a 'back to the shack' run.
LOL I was kinda hoping that they'd leave me alone... seeing as how I didn't even have any pants to steal.
didn't work out that way though.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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Ah, well. Throwing the pants into the guy's face was a good idea. Maybe you could've sprayed the nicotine C@F-POW into his face, too?
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and give him the allpowerfull aid of caffeen? Never! It's MINE! ALL MINE!
-RuskiFace the Junkie
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Ok, then how about the beer dispenser? The alcohol can slow his reactions.
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After 1.5 fluid ounces per kilogram? I'm not sure he would have let you spray him in the face for that long. ;D
Ruski did good in Back to the Shack- sometimes players who end up in a 'back to the shack' run have a tendency to bring all of thier heaviest guns and armor while they're going to pick up some groceries. Ruski did the exact opposite- he took off his pants so he would have even LESS armor! Just kidding- he played like he didn't know what was coming.
For that, I give him +1 Karma.
-kv
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all Hail the king of no-pants!
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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*looks around for Storm to start the hail*
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Well, it's good to be some kind of king.
-RuskiFace the King of No-Pants
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Congrats, Ruski! A post without typos!! ;)
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Ouch. okay, well; Zing to you.
-RuskiFace the Pirate of Typos
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*eg* hehehe
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hahahaha Raymond dosn't know anything is up, because everyone knows his name, specially at the arcade.
he's even got a real SIN.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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lol, He wouldn't happen to have the Oblivious flaw, would he?
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If he doesn't, he probably should. ;D
I was a little suprised that he threw his pants at the muggers, but willingly goes with men in dark suits who don't answer his questions and put him in a car. ;D
-kv
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well, he just won a tournament... he was expecting to get showered by gifts and praise. a limo fits right in line with that.
the guys in suits wren't asking him to give up his pants. they just said they wanted him to go in the nice car.
actually, raymond isn't much of a shadowrunner. he got in the biz by accident. it turns out hacking a video game is a lot like hacking security devices. most people only work with him once, and although he dosn't have the 'pasifist' or 'oblivious' or 'addicted to caffeen' flaws... I add them in because it fits his personality.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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Lol. I'm sure my character'll have flaws that weren't listed on her character sheet.
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Hey look at me I am being cocky and stupid probably lol. Hope I don't die lol.
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As long as you don't type, "I shoot it." Every paragraph, I'm sure you'll be fine.
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wow, that's a good idea! I should use the shotgun I got earlyer!
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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lol, where did you put the shotgun?
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They got art work up for on the run the new 4th edition adventures book. I was rather dissappointed I didn't see a naked guy assaulting an ork with pants. SO disappointed......
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perhaps they'll make tribute to this ocasion in the next version?
LOL
oh, and the shotgun is in with my tools.
I dont' know if it works... it's a little discolored and melted looking... and I think it's only got one shot left.
-RuskIFace the Pirate
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A shadowrunner who can't find and/or steal a decent weapon isn't really a shadowrunner :P
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Hey he stole that weapon fair and square I am very sure it was decent before the lightning bolt incident.
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That's why I like unarmed combat. You are a weapon.
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he's got unarmed combat. mostly from playing violent video games.
LOL
although, I should point out, that even though he HAS that shotgun, he dosn't actually know how to use it, so he'll be defaulting to reaction or something if he ever trys to use it's one remaining shot.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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so, how much trouble do you think he'll cause when he does try to use it?
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well, he's got a decent reaction... he'll probibly hit something if he takes a half second to try and aim...
mostly, it'll be for effect.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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heh, considering we have a lightning-throwing mage and a decker with a shotgun, I'm thinking it's probably a good thing I took Flash Compensation and Sound Dampening as adept powers.
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I think Rayman's most awsome ability is to consume a near infinite amount of cafeen.
-Ruski
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lol and turn everything into a video game or webcomic?
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quote obscure 20th centruy matrix pop-culture... Yea, I guess that's a skill too. LOL
-RuskiFace the Pirate
perhaps i'll have him 'burninate' something soon?
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You know, AJ's knows about old sci-fi. I'm guessing there's gonna be some overlapping knowledge there.
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probibly. if she can get over him being ocasionally naked in public, they'll probibly get allong famously well.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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Yeah, well, I'm sure he's not the only guy she's seen naked in public. Just the first in a Stuffer Shack modifying a C@FPOW machine.
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LOL hmm... good point. it is Seattle.
-Ruski
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And her sister is in a band. There's a good bet some of the concert-goers get...rowdy.
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hmm... I think raymond would like to meet this roudy sister of yours...
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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Yeah, well, then you'd have to deal with AJ. She can be rather protective of her sister.
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*shrug* Raymond wouldn't do well with AJ. shadowrunning chicks are too controlling. but a band chick... that could be fun.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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Hmmm I am an adept too I wonder two adepts getting together be like.
Spectator A: Are they fighting or necking?
Spectator B: Looks like a little of both I got ten bucks on the girl.
Spectator A: To which beat his butt or get him off?
Spectator B: Both and another five saying the guy in the corner going to fall out of his pants before it is all done.
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lol. Yeah, this is going to be an interesting run. This'll be the first time I'll have played this and not been the only adept. Most people seem to like either mages or chrome.
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I just don't like the combat system for Shadowrun in regards to chromers an adepts. I mean we use magic and they use machine to make them better than human yet we can only hit three times in a combat turn (four if you have move by wire) while you can shoot a gun technically 9 times (twelve with move by wire). So they are saying that we enhanced humans aren't better than a Predator. I just don't agree with it at least as far as melee is concerned. But that just my gripe.
I meant an Ares Predator by the way and someone on the other end of it.
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But... the combat system takes place in a 3 second period. So firing seperate times, at seperate targets (9 times in 3 seconds? 12 times? Holy drek that's fast!)
Most shadowrun combats don't last into the 30 second range. Which means that a Predator would have to be pretty on his toes to get a group of runners armed with anything but fondue forks.
-kv
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Although I much prefer Shadowrun combat to D20. D20 doesn't acknowledge a fast character should be able to get more hits in. (A quick rogue armed with a knife or rapier should be fast enough to get in more attacks, not fewer, than a powerful fighter of equal level with a greatsword. It's all physics.)
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Well, there isn't really much good to say about D20 combat, now is there?
It's not realistic, it's not simple, and it's not particularly fast paced or flashy, so...
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Well, think of it this way: what drawback does an adept have for all their powers?
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the in-ability to get cyberware... that's more of a competitive thing than a draw back. like ford vs toyota.
they still get full benefit from healing spells, their abilitys can get better over time,
drawback of an equil amount of chrome to keep up with an adept:
Cybermancy, you loose your soul and become a robot.
all your friends leave you because you can't relate to them.
no healing spells work on you, and you corrupt the astral space you occupy.
you get cancer twice a month.
any time you look at something too closely, you could die.
now, on a game ballance scale, who should get more benifits?
the guy with no drawbacks, or the guy with a list so long that it takes several books to occupy.
*shrug* and really, if an adept wanted to go the cybermancy route, they could burn out their soul with chrome, just takes a big paycheck.
if a cyberzombie wanted to become an adept... hmm... well, he could hope for reincarnation...
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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well, we usually had more adepts than street sams in our groups, but that was mostly because an adept could be a more powerful character (seeing as how a street sam can pump 1 million into his body and still not be the best, but an adept can pump $0 into thier body, and spend the last $20K on weapons, and be pretty damn competitive.)
What's the average life expectancy of a street sam? How are physical adepts balanced? Wouldn't being magically active make them a target for spirits or other nasties?
-kv
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*shrug* in some small way there's a risk with being magical... but really; it's a biger risk to be un-magical in the world, and be unable to combat some things (like bug spirits)
-Ruski
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I thought bug spirits attacked adepts and mages first, and that they had a hard time 'seeing' street sams. Or am I remembering that wrong?
-kv
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Well, they'll attack mages and adepts for the same reason everyone else attacks them. they are the biggest threat.
but other than that; there's no special prefrence.
a essence draining monster may target them out from a blind fight, because they've actually got essence to loose, as opposed to the soul-less cyberzombie... but I think that's the exception.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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I seem to remember something like that, though... a note that said adepts were a bigger target to spirits and stuff than your average street sam. Does anyone else remember anything like that?
-kv
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I liked opening my own door to the limo. hehehehehe
magnetic arms are fun. or well... arm. there's just one of them.
-Ruski
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I must say that I like playing Raymond.
he's a funny guy.
-Ruski
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I did get that feeling. I'm glad you're having fun.
-kv
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I wonder what the job is going to be?
I hope someone else has a higher negeotions than I did. I couldn't even talk the security guard to let be bring a fangirl in with me.
-Ruski
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Uh, *checks character sheet* looks like I'll have to default to Etiquette.
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hahahahahaha you have to let raymond negotiate your wages.
"I think we'll all do this for free!"
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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Unless someone clears my head up we might being go south.
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I tryed talking to you... It didn't seem to help.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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So, do you think I bid it too low? I tryed to get a nice number that would make the shack almost a moot point... and I kept in the share for people no longer involved. *shrug* I'll try to talk it up once he tells us what the job is. listing every extinuating circumstance, and it's cost to try to get more money out of him.
and if we get all $15K upfront, I'll be happy.
oh! and a Nerps-T-Shirt.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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HA I finally figured you out your name Swoop isn't it lol. Your from that Wesley Snipes movie Drop Zone hehe. He just wanted a Tshirt too lol. SOrry about my last Peanut Gallery post I was kind of playing up the drugged up a bit much (I was slightly tired). And I do hope I don't offend by fixating on the cute elven girl in only a tight tshirt hehe.
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I never said that was all I was wearing. Unless that's what your drugged brain is seeing. ::)
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*shrug* with a 'text' adventure, you gotta use all the imagination you can muster.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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Hey, I like text games. You don't need lightning quick reflexes to play.
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go Zork, and leather goddess of phobos huh?
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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...huh?
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Heh Zork is the greatest. I haven't beat any of them, having only recently discovered them, but I could see myself spending a lot of time with them.
Monkey Island is great too. Yeah, it's graphical, but it's too great to not include. And talk about imagination. This game could give Ben-Stein-in-a-coma an imagination to rival Walter Mitty.
Wow, obscure references abound!
Also, can't Adepts possibly lose Magic or Essence from taking serious wounds, like mages and shamans? Chromers can take the licks, and if they survive, have no other worries. . . If I'm right.
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Actually I'll imagine you in no clothes but I definantly need a better visual reference for my mind. Description pretty please oh mighty AJ hehe. And actually i thought if anyone took a serious wound they lose essence. The reason Chromers might lose less is because they are taking the hit to the chrome not the meatbody itself.
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and as far as essence loss goes, sammies can loose it to. (and with less room to spare before they go into the great cyber junkyard)
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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Doesn't thier essense loss come from the chrome first, anyway? So if you lose a point of essence, and you have three points of essence loss from cyberwear, don't you just take it out of the "buffer"?
-kv
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Hey, Ruski, I think Raymond's about to pick up a new nickname if he keeps shooting his mouth off.
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Heh, Raymond.
I kidnapped a scientist, defended a stuffer shack, and bargained for more money, and all I got was this lousy T-shirt. . . .
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hahahahaha. that's great. I hope it's a nerps color T-Shirt at least.
and essence loss is essence loss. if you've got a 'hole' with chrome in it, it comes afterwards. you can fill that new hole with more chrome if you liike... but... if you've only got 0.32 essence remaining in the first place...
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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Here is a funny hting that happened in a game I was playing.. My team and I were sent to go get someone and bring them to a meeting. This person was aware of two things one there were people looking for him to prevent him from going to the meeting. The second was that there were people trying to help him get to the meeting (us). So we drive down to his apartment complex (this is in Denver by the way after Ghostwalker stomped on it) so we had the fun of sector jumping. Anyway I stand outside with my ic girlfriend the street sam and i was a weapon specialist. The sniper was on a building across the way keeping watch out. Our mage was in the car keeping astral watch and her sister (another street sam) and our heavy weapon specialist went to collect the person. Well this is the funny part as the specialist gets there he knocks on the door and his exact words are, "We've come to getcha." Well you can guess the guy on the insides reaction was time to get out. He rigged up a grenade to the door and got out through the fire escape. SO we are standing outside seeing this guy come flying down the fire escape. Well the guy who knocked got impatient and yanks open the door. Luckily for him the partner in the hall yanked him out of the way as the pin flew by. The room went boom and my reaction was. "Ok what the hell did he say to the guy?" We caught the guy convinced him we were the good guys and got him to the meeting without incident after that.
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Hmmm... this won't be simple like that. Or mabye it will. AJ just wanted some practice dealing with Mr. Johnson, because she hasn't had a lot of chances to lock horns with him thus far.
-kv
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that would be a nice change of pace for a run... a milk run that actually was...
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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Hopefully we'll be able to pull it off. At least this character doesn't have the Impulsive flaw.
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and if nothing else... perhaps it'll be fun!
at least with 20K upfront we'll be able to do a good bit of legwork, and have a little bit of throw-arround money left over. either to keep for a rainy day and pay the electric bills, or to help hide ourselves from Aztechnology.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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lol, it's always fun to get new toys.
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I'm going to want to put about half of that into legwork. I have some contacts to dump it into (decker-wise) to get layouts bouth on our target, and employeer. (it's best to spread the money bouth ways, just in case)
if we need specalty gear for the run, or to hire a T-Bird or something, I don't have contacts for that; but if we want to pay the $5K finder's fee, I know a guy who'll give us a contact.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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So, since the actual research is arbitrary, what do you guys think it should be? What should Dr. January be working on? Would he have a prototype? Or is the smoker's corp extracting him before it gets that far?
Ooh, also vote on who you guess the Smoker is working for!
-kv
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well, January's working for a food corp, so maybe a new soy formula or a more efficient processor?
As for the Smoker...I dunno, maybe an Ares subsidiary?
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When I think food industry, I think Aztechnology. They have the best in "natural" foods *cough*, so it would make sense that they would like to try to stay on top. Not to mention, they stand to lose the most, if whatever January's project turns out to be a success for his corp.
Perhaps January is developing a soy-food that tastes better than true food.
That or a foodstuff that can grow in desert sand, gravel, or otherwise solve a global food crisis. . .
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Food, yeah, a translation of a small bit a wrote for a campaign that nevergot to fly:
"The primary industry in the neighbourhood is the Nutritex Wholesome Meals-complex, where mycoprotein is grown and harvested, as well as refined and prepared before synthetic tastes are added and the whole deal is pre-packaged. The pre-packaged mycoprotein meals are then taken to a storage space in Tacoma, from which it is distributed to dealers and stores all over Seattle. Thus the workers there are an important part of a fundamental industry which keeps the whole city going, as without Nutritex Wholesome Meals an average family in Seattle would have to pay almost and entire newyen more per week for food. Impressive, neh?"
They were owned (at arms length) by Aztechnology.
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Hmm.. how about smoker works for the azzies, seeing as how he got our tape from the stuffer shack. or he just planned on hijacking the next set of runners that got hit in a bad area of town, and hid the camera there. it's rude to ask though, so i'm just going to take it as a blind, but I'm still going to make a mental image of him and put some dough into researching who he is and who he works for.
as for what the scientest is working on... *shrug* something with caffeine? he was interested in my caffeine distilling abilities.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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you never know.
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well, ASKING is generally a bad idea too.
if he did give you an answer, it would probibly be wrong.
and, at that point, he would know that you were interested in his employeer, and worry about you double-crossing him.
and that seldome helps the run go better.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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That's why I didn't ask...despite really, really wanting to.
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good plan.
we can put a couple thousand into legwork in finding out some info on him.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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Hmm... so a DeadlyX2 concussive blast in a small confined space...
anyone else see that as a bad idea? LOL
oh well. live and learn.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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Thanks, ROOTless. I totally stole you idea for the run.
I'll make sure you warrant mention later as thanks. :D
-kv
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Did the guards stick around or did they leave when the meeting started?
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They left before the meeting started. You guys are alone in the club with the cleaning crew and teh DJs setting up for the night.
There are three credsticks and a PDA on the table.
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so now we are running aghinst aztechnology?
greeeaaaaat.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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I was thinking a nice safe place to go discuss things. Since having a planning session in the same place as the meet is considered poor form.
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Okay. *shrug* the PDA is probibly bugged at any rate, so I never bother to move locations.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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Oh, yeah. Enjoy your shirt. Probably not loaded up with the best listening devices money can buy. Although I would hate to be the guy who had to listen to that audiofeed.
"It sounds like he's playing video games... how many hours have we been at this?"
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Aztech a bunch of ninnies anyway no worries man.
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hahahahaha. i'd be impressed if ANYONE had the gumption to listen to that news feed from raymond's shirt for any length of time.
for as long as he stays awake, blathering on about nothing, while playing video-games and listening to troll thrash... it would take a whole team of shadowrunners to take shifts to stay awake listening to it... and a team of psychologists to keep them sane.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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Ouchie well the run just got a little noisy just out of curisty do the guards in front of us count as as impact armoutrr
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Ouchie well the run just got a little noisy just out of curisty do the guards in front of us count as as impact armoutrr
Curris nominates that for a best quote of the day award!
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Is it for the day, considering he said it a month ago? ;D
Just teasing, man.
-kv
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Touche'
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Any who where the heck are we in a game I don't even know which thread I am still apart of lol. Sorry I had some personal stuff come up that I had to settle. Anyway I am back and ready to get pummeled pulverized and just tormented painfully by the GM. Did I miss anything? lol
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probably not. that games been on hiatus for months.
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Yeah, but the third player (Ruski) is also on hiatus... although we could continue without him.
I'm all for it- I already wrote up and figured out the entire run, so unless you guys want to wait and recruit someone else (Jester or Gabe or Tobias), we can pick up where we left off- minus the weird Ruski "Oh no, they're here!" and running off thing...
-kv
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Actually that still works if he comes back he just runs back in and says I lost em and we move on lol.
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Uhhh... I was going to go with a "he had a paranoid delusional break from lack of actual nutrients and a bad batch of C@F P0W! and is running around seeing things," and calmly write him out of the run. On with it! The January Run is awaiting!
-kv
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hey all sorry been away playing wow bc
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No, it's cool, man. I think we;re kind of done with both attempts at PBP runs-although we are going to try to recruit for at least one or two more games, just to keep things fresh.
As it appears, we'll be starting a small 4th edition game for some of us to learn the rules, and then we'll be starting a slightly larger 3rd Edition run to go along with it. Well, as much as they can, taking place 10 years apart. ;D
-kv
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Well I'm down with the 3rd edition game. Drek I'd be down with the 4th edition...but I still don't have the sourcebook :(