#[Sterling] OOC

[phatgdog69]

Attributes

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Body: 3
Agility: 3
Reaction: 3 (4)
Strength: 3
Charisma: 5
Intuition: 5
Logic: 4
Willpower: 5

Edge: 3
Magic: 5
Initiative: 9
Essence: 6
Current Karma: 0
Total Karma: 0

Active Skills

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Con : 4 (8)
Etiquette (Corporate) : 3 (7)
Intimidation (Mental) : 3 (7)
Negotiation : 3 (7)
Pistols : 2
Pilot Ground Craft (wheeled) : 1
Dodge : 2
Perception : 3 (6)

Knowledge Skills

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English : N
Sperethiel : 3
Japanese : 3
French : 1
Spanish : 3
Business (Megacorp) : 4 (5)
Law (Corporate) : 4 (5)
Area Knowledge: 1
Fine Restaurants : 3
Corporate Politics: 1
Sports : 1
Club Circuit: 2

Qualities

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Adept
College Education
Big Regret
Day Job 2
SINner
Thrill Seeker

Cyberware

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None.

Weapons & Armor

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Ares Predator IV
5P
AP -1
capacity 15 rounds
integrated smartgun
+custom look (level 1) (+1 for social tests)
+skinlink
4 spare magazines
60 rounds regular ammo

Armor vest (6/4)

Actioneer Businnes Clothes (5/3)
+quick draw holster
Clothing (Chic)

Vehicles

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BMW 400GT (sedan)
handling +2
Accel 20/45
Speed 160
Pilot 1
Body 10
Armor 5
Sensor 1
mod slots: 14 (-2 -2 -1= 9 remaining)
+Ameneties(High)
+Anti-Theft
+manual control override

Commlinks

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Commlink : Transys Avalon
OS : Iris Orb
Commlink : Meta Link
OS : Renraku Ichi
AR Gloves
skinlink

Software

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Encrypt (Rating 6(3))
Browse (Rating 3)
Edit (Rating 3)
Analyze (Rating 3)
Empathy Sensor (Rating 1)

Equipment

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Subvocal Microphone
White Noise Generator (Rating 6)
Glasses
+Image Link
+Smartlink
+Vision Enhancement (Rating 3)
Earbud
+Spatial Recognizer
+Audio Enhancement (Rating 3)
Certified Credstick (Platinum)
Micro Sensor
+ Radio Signal Scanner (Rating 6)
Tag Eraser
Fake Sin (Rating 1)
Fake Sin (Rating 4)
Fake License (Rating 4)
Medkit (Rating 3) biomonitor
flashlight

Lifestyle

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1st Ave. Watermark Tower Condos
central node: Evo LifeManagement Series: response 3, signal 3, system 4, firewall 5
Home management Software suite: rating 4, IC rating 3
comforts: high (-4)
entertainment: high (-4)
Necessities: high (-4) [300 m^2 condo]
neighborhood: high (-4)
security: high (-4) [device rating 4, professional rating 4]

Qualities:
rad pad +1 (+1 for social tests)
trigger-happy landlord -1

Powers

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Kinesics (level 4) (+4 social tests, +4 resisting truth/emotion)
Three-Dimensional Memory (memorize and recall 25m^3 cube w/ magic+perception)
Improved Reflexes (level 1) (+1 reaction, +1 init pass)
Multi-Tasking (2 free actions/init pass out of combat, observe in detail is free, no modifiers for distraction)

Contacts

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Alfred Baker, Lawyer (L:1 C:4)
Lily Sterling, Medtech Manager/sister/etc (L:6 C:2)
Henricus Athanasi, Shaman/Talismonger (L:1 C:2)
Torin Lowell, Fixer/scum (L:1 C:2)
Nils Lucas, Reporter/scum (L:1 C:3)

Funds

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Funds: 4500
monthly income: +2500
car rental+ equipment: -650
bar tab: -150
Droid Rage payment: +625
payment to Henri: -250
=6575

Variable Stats

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Physical damage: 0/10
Stun damage: 0/11
Vehicle damage: 0/13

Current DP penalty: -5 (social) / -0 (other)

Current Edge: 0/3
-2 edge during Droid Rage
+1 gained over subsequent week
-1 spent to keep Costone cooled off
-1 wasted to improve the negotiation

[NoOnesShowMonkey]

Henricus networks with people he knows. (5d6.hits(5)=2, 5d6.hits(5)=3)

He spends two hours and comes up with a bit of information.

[NoOnesShowMonkey]

Sterling transfers 250 nuyen to Henricus.
The Dark Horse wouldn't happen to show up under 'fine restaurants', would it?

Go ahead and make a Fine Restaurants check.

[phatgdog69]

Just straight "fine restaurants", right?
Fine restaurants check (3d10.hits(6)=1)
LOL, 1.

[phatgdog69]

I'm...an idiot. Correct dice this time;
Lets try that again.. (3d6.hits(5)=3)

[phatgdog69]

Does Sterling have a picture of Costone? If so, I'm going to move ahead to the evening

[NoOnesShowMonkey]

Armed with the information that your contacts have given you, you can find one even if they don't give you one.

[NoOnesShowMonkey]

Feel free to make a social check to talk up the patrons and see if you can't find anything out.

[phatgdog69]

Social check: charisma 5 + negotiation 3 + kinesics 4 + empathy sensor 1 = 13
Social check for chatting with patrons (13d6.hits(5)=6)

[NoOnesShowMonkey]

resistance vs sterling (6d6.hits(5)=3)

You net 3 total hits and are able to learn the following:

Costone is a regular, but usually uses the back room.

Costone often has guests.

Costone is rumored to be in organized crime.

Costone loves veal.

feel free to post anything in IC about how you squeeze this information out - from overhearing to questioning to whatever.

[NoOnesShowMonkey]

Sterling can figure by now that he won't really be able to converse with Costone directly unless he just stops him in the restaurant or outside.

Sterling can plan some kind of more complex method of meeting Costone, even tonight, but will need to make several skill checks to make it happen.

[phatgdog69]

Note from IC: Barring me coming up with a better plan, Sterling just wants to be close enough to introduce himself. At that time, he can show Costone via AR his business card and a short message - he knows about Costone's recent "trouble" with Lowell and his goons and offering to provide his services to Costone to negotiate the problem, before Lowell sends someone more...troublesome. If this turns out to be a stupid plan that Sterling would know better than to pull, please let me know.

[NoOnesShowMonkey]

Lovely plan, actually.

[phatgdog69]

Fine restaurants roll to remember a nice place to discuss matters - thats not his Cadillac. And has better veal than The Dark Horse

3d6.hits(5)=3

...good lord. Can I spend that unspent contacts BP for reputation?

[phatgdog69]

During the preceeding conversation, Sterling places a call to Lowell, to see if he can get him there in AR at least. Preferably before Sterling gets dropped off god-knows-where. That ratfucker.

[NoOnesShowMonkey]

Let's get a Cha + Negotiations check for your dealings with Costone thus far so that I have a mechanical basis for how well he will receive these shinanigans.

You have a -3 DP due to conditions.

[phatgdog69]

Social check: charisma 5 + negotiation 3 + kinesics 4 + empathy sensor 1 + penalty -3 = 10
10d6.hits(5)=2
3 hits on 3 dice, 2 hits on 10 dice - I hate SR statistics sometimes...

[phatgdog69]

Spending an edge to reroll failures:
Spending 1 edge - Rerolling failures (8d6.hits(5)=2)
*sigh*

[NoOnesShowMonkey]

Costone resists Sterling's charms. (8d6.hits(5)=5)

Jesus.

I need to stop rolling well.

Effect: Sterling is on neutral ground with Costone.

[NoOnesShowMonkey]

Sterling should make a Negotiations check with a -5 DP due to circumstances. (Belligerents are... belligerent.) Success will indicate that he has cooled people down some.

Note the social mods table and make an argument for any positive bonuses that Sterling might have.

Once you make a test, post IC.

[phatgdog69]

Negotiating: charisma 5 + negotiation 3 + kinesics 4 + empathy sensor 1 + penalty -5 = 8
Negotiating desperately... (8d6.hits(5)=3)
Well, its better than last time...

[phatgdog69]

Spending one edge to reroll failures (0/3 remaining):
1 edge - Rerolling failures (5d10.hits(6)=0)
Seriously, fuck this roller.

[NoOnesShowMonkey]

Costone is cold to Sterling's attempts to smooth things over.

16d6.hits(5)=6

Sterling judges Costone's intentions. +2 due to Costone acting flakey. (11d6.hits(5)=3)

Sterling notes that Costone is colding him, shutting down his diplomacy not because his arguments are ineffective, but because the two are playing a different game, as it were. Sterling is talking about resolving a debt that Costone refuses to acknowledge.

Costone goes totally ballistic when the exact nuyen amount is discussed - especially in front of his underlings. Further, he has staunchly denied that he even owes a single nuyen. This, on top of the idea that Lowell is the one that owes him money.

Curious.

[phatgdog69]

Yep, theory that Costone can't/won't for an embarassing/dangerous reason stands. Mentioning it was poorly played, ok. Still can't seem to read enough into it for my health.... Any roll for getting by bearings - and a cab?

[NoOnesShowMonkey]

You are downtown. Sterling works downtown. No rolls needed for anything but recovering your dignity. Thats a Balls (∞) test.

PS: that is an infinite threshold.

[phatgdog69]

Yeah, but its an extended test, as it were, right?

...but I just remembered that Sterling has a white noise generator which would have been kind of a good call earlier.
<---- idiot, right here

[phatgdog69]

3D Memory test to recall the restaurant - Magic 5 + Perception 3 (8d6.hits(5)=2)Less than 24 hr has passed, so no threshold modifier. I want to take a look for anything that I had missed the first time, and to take a good look at that scanner. See what type it is - standard MAD, or something higher-end. Sterling will look for typical brand naming, model numbers and the like to identify the type.
Also, I made a decent fine restaurants at reply #13 here - any useful success? I'm looking for a veal restaurant that Sterling would get a table at and a made-but-cash-strapped man might have trouble to.

[NoOnesShowMonkey]

With 3 hits, Sterling knows just the place. With a few phone calls, he can have a reservation setup in no time. Prices per plate are prohibitively high, the atmosphere so refined that you'd swear that anyone there could shit a diamond, and they may well need to, just to cover the bill!

Sterling decides on The Moore Hen, an upscale downtown eatery specializing in traditional Old World cuisine. Only real meat and produce, only the finest chefs, and a three hundred nuyen per plate starting price.