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[kv]

Yogi is shooting, Ingo is hacking, but I still need first pass actions for Ruski, Bull, and BulletSponge. If you guys could have those up by tonight, I'll post the actions and responses, and then we can move on to Init Pass #2!

I can use the rest of the 'dash for cover' for Ruski, and write up as Bull checking on Springbok (she dead), but I at least need an action for BS.

  - kv

[Yogi]

Kv, Bullet posted this earlier.   

Initiative pass 1: complex action-don & clear my gas mask.

Unless it takes more than a complex action. If I need to correct this please let me know.

[kv]

Yeah, I didn't notice that until after I had already posted, and my lunch break was up. With Ruski's action, I'll try and get something up tonight.

  - kv

[Bullet Sponge]

The all k(NO)wing KV has pointed out to me that do to Tin Man's areas of expertise he may realize something about the happy happy joy joy situation in which our intrepid (anti?)heroes currently find themselves that I had "read" a certain way that might have been not so correct. So with only a little more rambling.....I'm gonna' post to the main thread and we'll see what happens.

[kv]

I was going to post last night, but I realized I had a few rules questions for Ingo, so I posed those to him, and we've been discussing stuff pertinent to the game; mostly drone rules and stuff.

As soon as he and I come to a consensus, I'll post the rules and rulings here, and I'll put together my posts. Tonight, hopefully, but I'll let you know if there are going to be delays.

  - kv

[bull30548]

Drones! IT HAD TO BE DRONES! Lol

So yeah if you want help with running a drone I have the experience from 3rd edition to do it.  I was a rigger for like 3 years or so.  Though I was never allowed to bring all my drones to bear like ever.  If I ever did it would of taken a para/military force to slow or bring me back under control.  The closest I ever came was remote controlling a bunch of cheap wheeled drones loaded with C4 into key positions around Seattle and then set them off.  I crippled the Yakuza organization for like a week maybe.  I got the point across though, that they had pissed someone off royally.  You want to hurt a rigger shoot him or his drone, you want an enemy for life hurt his mechanic.  Those guys killed mine, in my opinion they got off light.

[Ingo Monk]

Yeah, drones are awesome.  Riggers are my favorite kind of characters, right behind Faces

Unfortunately a lot has changed for rigging from 3rd to 4th.  Essentially now drones, when not being actively controlled (i.e. a rigger has "jumped in") function like both a traditional drone and a matrix node.  Since I was going to wirelessly "hack" the drone (something unique to 4th ed) we had to hash that out.  I think KV should be able to post something now that we both know what my character can and cannot do in regards to this drone.  I also found out some things I should change as well.

[Yogi]

Yeah hacking on the fly can be tough and time consuming, especially in combat. 

Do and EW test to find the drones node.   
Hack on the fly.  (exploit)
Go for an admin account.  (successes needed will be firewall + 6 (admin account))  and its an extended test so it may take multiple passes.  Which sucks when you are getting shot at while your body is lying on the floor
Start spoofing commands to the node and or lock out the rigger from the drones node
And pray to god that the rigger isn't "jumped" in.  If he is you aren't getting control of it.   

Hackers and riggers are fun. 

[kv]

It's hitting above 115 in Phoenix, and my brain is a little cooked when I get home from work, so I'll try and put up something tonight, but you'll have to bear with me if I don't make it.
 
  - kv

[Yogi]

At least its a dry heat.   

[Ingo Monk]

Getting baked in an oven is better than being boiled in a pot?  hehehehe

[Yogi]

Getting baked in an oven is better than being boiled in a pot?  hehehehe

Agreed.  I'll take 100+ degree heat with no humidity than 90 with hellish humidity. 

[bull30548]

Welcome to my world.

[Ruski]

according to 1972, everyone's preferance is to be "baked"...

[kv]

Despite rumors of Phoenix, PCC being a 'dry heat,' it's really not.

During the height of summer, temperatures regularly reach the 115s, with the hottest I've seen it get around 120. My least favorite part of that is that it never seems to cool off- at 3am, before the sun comes up, it's 90+ outside, and gets hotter from there.

In mid-July and August, monsoon season begins, and there's enough rainfall to crank the humidity up, then it bakes off, and then rains again, and the cycle continues. Around October-November, it will cool off to the 70s, and it will be like that all winter. Summer is pretty miserable.

  - kv