If you want to, by all means (don't know how to give GMship, but if it's possible, i will, assuming the others are cool with it.)
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I think I've reached a point where continuing is impractical... I think I don't really know how to run cyberpunk/mission-based. sorry guys, this was a test run and I discovered I'm not as great at this as I thought.
Lance he's on the floor, bleeding from a gutwound. he'll be septic in 8, dead in a little over 20, but they probably have a medcentre here. Probably out for at least a week.
Elan well, the expected news is you got hosed down with lead [2 harm] the worse news is that one of them is a specialized radio-tracer. they'll be able to concentrate fire on you, and even track you. that needs to come out f!%%in' yesterday. Sahale good news: 3-harm messy takes out a [/s]kill[/s]secbot. bad news: a bullet catches him, sending a lot of feedback through the neural channels and Ganzorig takes a wild shot from your drone. what's he harm on that?
Sahale You duck and cover as the wall explodes. you have the stuff. what do you do? Elan the first one gets a bullet, right in the data-processor. it isn't a threat. the other one, on the other hand, is opening fire. What do you do? Lance he reaches for his keyboard, gun still pointed at you, until tapper distracts him momentarily. you can eithe rgrab him, but let him hit the key and raise another alarm, or you can shoot him, maybe wounding, maybe more. what do you do?[/b] Ganzorig Tapper is out for now, two leg yoints gave out. no a hard repair, but not a field repair either. what do you do?
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Elan the first sec-bots show themselves, announcing "Intruder, Be Notified, Lethal Countermeasures Have Been Authorized" as they bring their weapons around to face the group. what do you do? Ganzorig Paris' Guns break through the server room, sending debis flying throughout the room, and destroying four racks you guys have an out. what do you do? Lance Vaedekar has a flechette pistol in his hand, aimed at you. Drop your weapon. he says haltingly. his safety is off. you suspect this is more to slow you down than stop you though. what do you do?
Lance "In that office!" one Guy says as you level the gun at him. the office he indicates is not reinforced, a simple bullet to the lock should deal with it. Elan as you pass by the server farm room, you notice a few infrared laser-tripwires at the door, below normal eye level. if you had tripped them, you would have raised the alarm again, and probably got their home-office's attention. Ganzorig Fifth floor, there's a balcony sturdy enough to drop Paris. or you could crash it through the server-farms wall, risking damaging it, but bypassing the killbots.
The door pops open. There's only a few rooms on this floor. the majority of the space taken up by a server farm. there are also three offices. from the stairs up above, you hear the rhythmic Thunk, Thunk, Thunk of heavy Sec-bots coming down. What do you do?
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The guard who had his gin on Elan shouts in pain, clutching his damaged gun-hand
Unfortunately for you, Elan, one of them had augmented hearing, and pulled a gun before you could get in stabbery-range. His buddy is going for their comm, raising the alarm. what do you do.
Sahale a quick sweep of the floor above you shows everyone in their proper places. the hallways are clear... but someone is investigatig the sound of the rotors. You can either continue using the drone, but raise suspicions, or quickly set it somewhere inconspicuous, and try to retrieve it without drawing attention to it. What do you do?
Sahale you guys your stealh drone through the facility, getting a good idea of the layout of the second and third floor. . the stairs up to the fourth floor (home of the server room, which I've just realized I never explicitly said, my B) are guarded by an magna-locked door and two guards, who you'll have to deal with to get where you're going. Ganzorig You trace a different route than Sahale, but quickly realize that none of the people on floors 2 or 3 match the image you were given. probably he's up in his server rooms. unfortunately, Flit gets a tiny bit too close to the Genuitech magna-seal 752, and briefly the drone loses power, dipping into the security guards field of vision. you pull up almost immediately, and manuever away from his eyes, but you hear him radio out Hey guys, probably nothing, but I might have seem something moving on the third floor. eyes peeled. What do you do?
Lance/Elan you two immediately know where you are. the sound of Hawk employees making calls turns into a drone. This floor is a call centre. Getting up into the next floor won't be possible from the vents. what do you do?
Lance Nearly 10 meters up, you quietly lever open the grate, and get yourself and the team inside. however, you aren't very far in when you hear the telltale clicking of the spider-arms they equip the facilities repairbots with. that could be a problem. Sahale
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Ganzorig The noise to info rate here is really bad. so much crap on the wireless. you find a few "maybe"'s in terms of entryway, nothing fantastic, but better than the door (a window into a disused office 3 floors from where you need to be, an exterior ventilation grate, but you would have to quietly disable a few of the repair-bots in there, or a roof door that a few guards who smoke keep open with a bit of Padilla super-stick kevlar adhesive strip!.) Before you can get to the real goodies, some computer security guy notices a stranger on the wireless, and starts trying to kick you off. good news: you have time to get Flit out of there, and your encryption held. bad news: Any further robotic incursions into the building are likely to draw a lot more attention. Sahale A little bit of digging, past the high-profile tech releases, and you find a decent candidate for the cause of this mission, a sat over a few lithium-mine towns in Mozambique. Hawk wants it for... well obvious applications, and Basilisk wants it for targeting chips. You'd have to see the data in the server you're stealing to be sue, but you'd guess this is either industrial espionage/sabotage, or a ransom thing.
Permanent removal is not necessary, but at least 72 hours unable to do his job would be a good lower bound. he says. He seems somewhat irritated by The Source's question, perhaps insulted by a quasi-imagined insult enough for you to recoup any expenses, and maintain your lifestyle for some time.
The Vale is a dive bar, right into a pool that hasn't been cleaned in a decade. Most of the clientele are down-on-their-luck ex-blue collar workers, their livelihoods taken by one corporate merger or another. that's why you contact needs no signal for you to recognize him. A synthsilk-suit worth more than the bar, and a flechette pistol at his hip, with another suspicious bulge on his left ankle, denote a mid-30's man at the bar as your contact. As he spots you, he turns to the woman next to him, and hands her a crisp note, saying Why do you get another round, on me, at that booth over there. And motions for you to take her place. The source, I presume. My employer has heard a not-inconsiderable amount about you. We would like to give your team incentive to conduct one of your typical jobs against Hawk DataSystems. Specifically, their satellite office, on the west end of the city. My employer would pay a good bit for the data-storage from server number 148635239. In addition, if their on-site admin, one Sahadeva Vadekar, were to get in an accident that prevented him from assisting them in dealing with the breach... well, it ould certainly be tragic, but rather serendipitous. aside from setting him apart, his watch, suit, compensating and targeting sunglasses, and gun are all Basilisk standard issue. if you were to wager who his employer was, that'd be a pretty safe bet.
Guess we're starting with a 4-person party should we tap someone from the wait list? or are we cool being a 4-person band?
An anonymous message came through to your crew. simple The vale, 1900, casual. So, Who got the message? By what channels? who goes? Who's rolling to Get The Job?
we're gonna start when I get out of my last class, with or without Elan
Elan, you still with us?
Ganzorig and Elan haven't proposed their missions. also, for the record, you can have helped as many missions as the mission hoder allows. it will advance corporate clocks, but that's just part of the fun!
You guys are doing very well I have updated my header with the Corporate clocks (they won't normally live there, they'll be in my profile normally, but this is what we're doing now, normally, it will house the legwork and mission clocks.)
Links! the steps are, listed in the book (paraphrased) 1.) Everyone introduces their characters 2.) Everyone describes an operation they conducted/played a central role in against one of the Corps. 3.) I do GMly things in the background (set up corporate clocks. the more missions/the more of you were on a mission agaist a particular corp, the more cheesed off they are fill one enough, the Corp might be active out to get you. 4.) Everyone says If and how they were involved, and take +1 links with the Character who made it in step two (at least one assistant per mission)
okay, so you crew has -Between, Paris, Tapper, The Basilisk Peacemaker, and Elan, A not inconsiderable amount of firepower.
what sort of jobs does your crew run? also, to give a convienient Corp list Valdize Combine- Aggressive petrochemical/mineral conglomerate that goes to war with and annexes impoverished countries Padilla Service Aeon Wholesale- major player in Cybernetics, also sells cleaning products Hawk DataSystems- what google renames themselves to in ten years. Finchetti Biomedical- a more Bespoke Cyberwear company, high-end. Maker Elite- corp of the proletariat, disseminated, decentralized Onyx - determined to hack corporations,a nd disseminate the data to everyone... cause there's no way THAT could go wrong.
May I suggest we take this over to the Discussion Thread?
so, Char Creation/first sesh has some steps, I'll post them,a nd see how far we are. 0.) Define Corps
then there'll be some worldbuilding For my corp: The Valdize combine, a mineral/Petrochem company, well known for agressively "Protecting their interests" in nations that won't sign over the deeds to any reserves they have. widely believed to conduct Massive industrial espionage, and make liberal use of "Deniable Assets"
Whelp... As I haven't really played this game before, I'm only comfortable running for 5... Sorry KHT and Inexpiter, I'll keep you in mind if we suffer attrition. I'm going to put a big here, for now.
Two notes 1.) Soldiers are more organization and discipline than combat 2.) you guys only ned muscle if you want to take missions that need muscle. Take a playbooks that interests you, not one it looks like the group needs other than that, welcome aboard
You guys seem, right now, like an "Augmented Aquisitions" team at the moment (Get in, Get the stuff, Get out) right now. I'll wait a little while to see if we have any more takers, but this team seems pretty well balanced as is.
Meetch & Bastian Yep... At this point I consider asking more a formality than anything Umbungo Cool, which edition? Because If you played first, the fixer plays a lot like a streamlined Operator, If that helps. Bastian (Again) As a GM, I can't comment, but as an occasional player, I was never really into the (AW, but the two share a lot of commonality) driver because it felt like half the time what made you special didn't come into play. my point in that being that, personally, I would do the drones, if that matters to/resonates with you at all
looking for interest in a game of The Sprawl, A PbtA game designed to tell a Cyberpunk story. (On he off chance you don't know what cyberpunk is, here's a page that should help get you oriented)
Rolls:
The PbtA system works on a 2d6+stat rolling system.
stats will go from -2, to +3, and when you roll, your roll will fall into one of 3 categories: a success (10+), where you get what you wanted, and maybe a little more, a partial success (7-9) where you get what you want, but maybe not all of it, or maybe at a cost. Both of these are classified as "Hits", so when a move says"on a hit..." read that as "on a 7+". then there are misses (6-),
Moves:
Moves are the mechanics that come into play when your characters decide to do something. every move has a "trigger",
and the move comes into play, and you follow its directions (usually, you roll + a stat, and then make some choices, or I offer you choices). there are basic moves, which everyone has, and playbook moves, which are unique to certain characters. Playbooks:
In the simplest Terms, Playbooks are classes.
A playbook is a collection of moves, choices, and advancements, all within the confines of a central theme. everyone chooses a playbook (except The GM).
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