You are military? I'm in the Air National Guard myself.
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Did my tour in the Army reserve. Eight years. Pharmacy Tech. Drugs Are Our Business And Business Is Good. =)
Due to reasons I'm not entirely aware of, I'm playing my mods as if they have that Shadowrun thing that I need to eat more than usual. I don't know why, but I was always fascinated with this in SR, and it seems have carried over into this RP.
Also that the enhanced Vigor makes me not need to worry about random diseases. ^_^
Haha, I'm ANG as well, Comm squadron. Just hit my four year mark a couple weeks back. Gonna start gunning for a contractor position though. I liked the part where they got paid more money to do less work than me. :P
Worked a lot with the army on this deployment, and they seemed like great guys. I'm forever going to hate exactly how much your older Specialists look exactly like my Lt. Col wearing multicam in direct sunlight though.
It's a good thing to RP! I'm not going to enforce penalties on you if none are written into the books, but it does make sense you'd need to eat more if your prosthetics are running off glucose or some other biological component. Also I like that despite being the richest person in our campaign, Alanna is completely fine with eating floor food in the ghetto. :P
I'm just finishing up a long work week doing 12 hour days at two jobs. I've read the posts but I'm too tired to post tonight. I'll get something up first thing in the morning. Should be back to more normal schedule going forward.
I'll be on a road trip to the Martimes from the 3rd to the 10th, posting will be there but might be intermittently slower.
Aloha, how long does a power-down/power-up on a TAP take to reboot to normal operation? All the manual says is that a quick-and-dirty power-down takes a melee action.
N30N: Thanks for letting us know. :) (and no worries, I've been a bit slow in my post-deployment funk anyway)
Kitsune: I'll double check this if it becomes relevant, but I believe a graceful shutdown is approximately 30 seconds and I would assume that value for a startup as well. Turning off your TAP as an emergency measure when dealing with a hacker is a full action, but that's kind of like yanking the plug out of your desktop computer.
Alanna: I'll get a map up tonight and then you can take range penalties and stuff into account as well.
It's a pretty nondescript office/small business building that's largely empty, especially at this time of day. Hmmmm, we'll say the roofs are about the same height and uh... Something something something agility check, I'll get back to you on that.
Hey guys bear with me. We are currently experiencing a major flood event here in Louisiana.
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Good luck.
Hey no worries Niles, take care of yourself. Stay safe.
I'll respond to inquiries and stuff (like 1dr0meda's investigation rolls) but at this point we'll probably wait for Ghiv's player to be safe and Alanna to be really back before we advance the plot. :)
Hey guys, I just got off the phone with my First Sergeant and I’m getting activated to respond to the flood in my home state of Louisiana. I don’t really know how long I’ll be out, I hope not too long. I’ll have my phone so I *might* be able to post. I’m really sorry for the delay and I’ll get back into posting asap. Thanks, Niles
Apologies for all the delays and stutter stops. Getting settled back in over here has been a lot harder than I've expected, and everything's still up in the air.
Take care of yourself Niles, disaster relief activations suck. Let us know when you get off orders and take a day or two for yourself when it's all done with. I'll bot your character as needed for now.
Sorry for using the wrong alias in my last post. It was late and I wasn't proofing my post as well as I usually do.
In case it's not immediately clear: As a team effort between everybody, including persuasion, dummied messages, excellent notice checks and a lot of lead and blade being aimed downrange, you all turned what would have been a mass combat focused on the party into almost everybody dogpiling on Vernon. gg/wp :P
I will be away from computers until Saturday afternoon. Camping trip.
I will likely be spotty until the end of the weekend as I'll be at a con. Wi-fi is available but I'm volunteering every day so my time is limited
I'm not saying that passing out on the hotel lawn and getting woken up by the sprinkler system was one of the highlights of my con experience, but it sure was a thing that happened >_>
Also, I'm trying to post in the gameplay thread, but I don't think Paizo likes the fifteen different sets rolls I kept refreshing and previewing to figure out what happened to Royce's car. I don't know if it will keep my rolls by the time it finally lets me post. Would you guys prefer I kept the first set of rolls or rewrite the post with new rolls if that's the case?
Do what you think best. I trust that you to record and use the dice rolls that were initially presented, even if they can't be pushed to publication intact.
I know as GM I've had posts with lots of rolls and it doesn't seem to cause problems due to sheer numbers. Maybe copy and paste the text that produces the rolls and save that text in a side doc to allow you to update the non-dice part of the post until it is as you want it, and then reinsert the dice.
Currently, when I click on the gameplay link, I get a Paizo site error message. Only happens when I try to access this thread's gameplay link.
I was getting the same site error when I tried uploading it. I guess I'll get in touch with a mod if it's still breaking tomorrow?
Seems to be working now.
And now it's not working again. I'll check in the morning.
It's in and out for me too. I'll try and get a post through--if somebody else makes a post we'll be onto a new page and hopefully that will do away with whatever issue is going on.
I can't access the previous full-page either, and have no idea what was said or done based on our searching...
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I'll post him here, just in case:
he hybrid, another fox, looks bewildered and barely resists. "This isn't what he said would happen," he says earnestly as Emily thumps into him, . "But he's never wrong." He sounds more confused than anything else.
The interior of the car is spartan aside from a nice soundsystem and an orb in the backseat much like the one from the alley. It doesn't look like Royce was here either. Another distraction, or more defense in depth, depending on your perspective.
The rest of you are able to see that Emily's TAP is back on, and you remember Ten-Speed's earlier warning. "The cop needs to keep hers off. There's an APB out and everybody's looking for her. One stray signal and the cops knock the door down." The sirens continue to whine, growing closer.
I can access and read the gameplay page (both current and previous), but when I try to post, it gives me the error message.
1dr0meda heads for the cruiser and says, "I'll try to throw the cops off your location if I can," speaking to Emily.
1dr0meda sits in the car and begins to concentrate on spooking the GDN to make it look like Emily's TAP signature is heading away from this location at the speed of a fast moving car, going the opposite direction as Eleanor's place.
I'll save the text to post when the system allows.
Picking up Driving (Motorcycles) at d4.
Still getting the error message, but I copied the text of the post before submitting and kept backing up and trying again and after two or three tries it worked. If the Paizo IT folks can't fix this, it might be good to start a new thread so we don't keep having this issue.
I've not ever had this issue...on this or any other thread.
It happened again for me, this time using my laptop, for what it's worth.
@ GM: I know you said hold off on processing income. I just wanted to put out there, for when we do get our income, that 1dr0meda has an opportunity for a bonus each time she hacks into a corporate system, per the Hacker edge: "Also, each time you successfully hack into a Corporate, Government, or Military Access Network, make a Smarts roll. If the roll is successful, you download 1d10 × 1,000 credits worth of information you can sell on the black market."
I made the roll for the hack into the corporation connected to Royce earlier: here
Should I make a roll for the night club?
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It sound like the momentum is for a new thread. =)
GM, can I have a request? For this new thread, would you be able to make a different GM alias? The GM alias is called Ten-Speed, and there's an NPC in the game called Ten Speed, and I'm having Suspension of Disbelief issues with the overlap. (Apologies if this was intended, but I've never had this before.)
Yeah, I'm waiting to hear back from the webmaster. If they haven't gotten in touch with me by tomorrow, I'll go ahead and kick us over to a new thread.
@Alanna: It was a *little* intentional :) But yeah, if it's getting confusing for anyone else, I'll make a new GM avatar
@1dr0meda: Hold off on it for now--you might be able to make a roll, but it will be lower grade than a corporate network. I'll go see if there's a provision for that, if not I'll fudge some numbers for you. :)
Personally, I only have a problem accessing page 8 of Gameplay, FWIW.
...And trying to access it just now, I had no problem! Maybe the Paizo IT guys got the problem fixed???
Hey everyone. Sorry about the delay. I got cast in Rocky Horror Picture Show at a local theater and the rehearsals are taking up most of my nights. If its all the same, I'll have Emily keep her TAP on and lure the cops away while the rest of the team gets away. Em can be held up by her team for the time being and come back when I'm not so busy... If that is kosher with you Aloha.
Sorry to see you go, Emily, but enjoy the show!
That's fine, yeah. If you're ready to come back at some point let me know and we can figure out when and how to bring Emily back into the campaign--it may take some doing if we make it all the way to Phoenix first.
Have fun with Rocky Horror! :D
So Emily takes a step to the left ...
Have fun and we'll look forward to you returning.
1dr0meda will be adding a die to her Programming Skill and upping the die on one other skill. What is the rule for adding to skills that have specializations? Normal rules say you can add a die to two skills provided you are not exceeding the die type of the base attribute. If you want to up a specialty of a skill, how does that work?
I might want to purchase some equipment, so let me know if she got anything extra from hacking Nexxon or the Night Owl.
Finally, she might want to do some programming to have some skill engrams or something else, so how much time are we likely to have before we move on?
So feel free to ask any more questions of Ten-Speed in character, but what's basically going to happen is this:
Once you're all comfortable with what awaits you in Phoenix, you're going to take about a week or two in game to get ready for the journey. During this time you can also do some extra work so you'll be able to take your occupation money if it's still available to you (it should be for everyone still in the campaign for now except Kitsune, to my count). If you want to get in touch with any contacts as well, or do any stocking up, that would be the time to do it.
For the most part, I'm going to let you guys plan your approach. 1dr0meda's smuggler friends might have tips but you're largely going in blind as very little info is actually leaking out of Phoenix at this point.
@1dr0meda: Make a smarts roll for the Night Owl as well if you haven't already. Once we're done with this scene, make your 1d10 x 1000 roll for Nexxon corp and roll 1d8 x 100 for the Night Owl info assuming you make the smarts roll (it's significantly lower grade).
Upgrading a skill upgrades it for all specializations. If you purchase a new skill, you get one specialization automatically. You can purchase two specializations for an advance, or one skill that doesn't exceed an attribute cap and one specialization.
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Do you want/need us to do any RP for our Occupations?
I've been thinking about this and I like Kisune's idea, where we don't really have "9-5 jobs" but are somehow able to do our work remotely.
Like, I'm a Smuggler, but that doesn't necessarily mean that I stuff packages under my skirt and sneak them into/out of places.
For all intents, I could just be a smuggler-fixer, some kind of central hub that coordinates a bunch of floozies that do the actual footwork, combined with my gathering data to see what people need and where.
Like, most of the "normal" smuggling might be drugs and guns, but who's to say that with Phoenix shaping up how it is, I don't start "smuggling" water/food/medical supplies there (along with the guns and drugs. I mean, let's not talk crazy and think that I wouldn't be also smuggling that now. =)
Night Owl Smarts roll
x 100 = 400
I already made the rolls for the Nexxon hack: see here under the spoiler at the end.
She got a 5 on the smarts roll and an 8 on the 1d10 roll, for 8000.
So with 5000 for her normal programming income that 13,400. How much of the two weeks will that leave her for her own programming projects?
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Ten-Speed, do you want us to actually list out how much food we're taking? The rulebook lists Trail Rations, 5 meals, as costing 10.
Does anyone have a problem buying 5 of those? (We should be good since we just got paid, yeah?) If we're here longer than 20 days, we'll drive the 12 hours back here and load up some more.
I'm -just- short of the cyber that I wanna get next, so I'll just bank most of it for next level.
I think I'll get more grenades and explosives for the trip. Some AOE for massed mooks is probably a good idea. =)