[Jack_Spade]

How large is the radius of the BC and does it get weaker the farther you get away from it?

Also does it have a specific aspect to it (Violence, Sickness, Death etc.)?

And: Woohoo, the dog's going to live. 

[Aria]

Rating x 5m radius, ish, it doesn't reduce as such

It's more like static than anything more sinister...

[adamu]

Cure disease or nice strong antibiotics will knock it flat though!

So we have like a zillion R6 medkits floating around here - why have we not done this?
We can all be cured with an injection - let's put that at the top of our list!

As for the animal, I will not even pretend to understand how you guys did that, but glad it worked out.

[Jack_Spade]

We already got our antibiotics. That was the +6 dice in our resistance tests.
Doesn't mean we won't feel like shit later on...

[adamu]

Hmmmm - well, I just want to make sure we're on the same page with Aria about this.

I am not much of a rules lawyer, so I could very well be wrong.

But the statement "nice strong antibiotics will knock it flat" sounds different than just the added dice we got from our medkit ratings. It was something the GM said after we'd all made our rolls.

I mean, we have SOTA kits, but six extra dice against a virulence that takes, on average, 36 dice to beat, does not sound like "knock it flat."

Or is the message that we need specialized antibiotics only available from medical institutions, or tailored antibiotic cocktails prepared by a virologist?

Again, I could be all wrong - maybe we are now doomed to get hammered by this thing in a few hours...but just thought I'd double check how we're interpreting Aria's rulings.

[Aria]

I'm not that nice really 

+6 for the kits you have, you'll need spells or a full blown hospital for better / to get cured!  This is ecoli mixed with meningitis! Nasty sh*t!!!

[adamu]

All good, thanks!

[adamu]

Sooooo - we have a doctor on the team, and one who's already spent a post or two declaring she was trolling the matrix for deeper info on treatment...and with hospital contacts apparently....what's stopping her from getting the meds we need...?

[pistolgrip]

Resist Disease 18d6t5: 7 [18d6t5=3, 1, 3, 5, 1, 6, 6, 6, 1, 3, 1, 6, 2, 1, 5, 3, 1, 6]
So 6 Stun.

Oh yeah, I'm back. Started a new job & can't read/post from work. I guess I have to work at work now.

[Aria]

Sooooo - we have a doctor on the team, and one who's already spent a post or two declaring she was trolling the matrix for deeper info on treatment...and with hospital contacts apparently....what's stopping her from getting the meds we need...?

Paranoia?!? 

[Mercy Merchant]

Hmmmm.  I think I tried to contact the hospital on my own once and the team lead smacked me down.  That was all part of my trying to get information from my hospital contact, my Below doctor contacts and the mages in the Market.  I asked again and was told not yet.

[Jack_Spade]

Correct. Now is the right time after we have left the bar and aren't under immediate threat of a strike team 

[Aria]

@CoF: Options

Hospital: Go for it, hope your fake SINs are good!

Delivery: Nope, highly restricted Very Strong ^TM antibiotics aren't going to be loaded on a drone for delivery to an unknown location...at least not without a very bent pharmacist / doctor and even then it's dodgy!  The precautions against drugs walking off, particularly in the 2076 UK are fairly draconian (no dragons need be involved!)

Mages: The cure disease spell gives bonus D to resist effects, and whilst they can probably safely cast it at high force it will take a toll and they won't want to cast it too often...and I don't want to make your time too easy

Where the hell are you going to stash a 'dangerous' artefact?  Detonator or no?!?

[Jack_Spade]

In a toxic zone 

Actually, I was thinking to deliver it to an old cemetery where few people are around but the background count is elevated.

[Aria]

And because nothing ever goes wrong in either of those places