[Malevolence]

Thanks, Doc! I think all I needed was 3. I'm assuming that can be split to get both the 1P and the 2S. Updating character sheet now, and I guess that wakes Ohanzee up since his stun track is no longer filled.

[Tecumseh]

Yes, the three hits can be split between P and S. That brings Ohanzee to 10S + 4P. He will wake up once Doc is done.

I am still working on the IC post for what's on the glasses. I got caught up in the karma stuff yesterday.

Current in-game time is approximately 4pm, Friday, February 1st, 2075. Technically, sunset is around 6pm, although it gets dark/colder sooner than that due to the surrounding mountains.

[Zweiblumen]

I'll get an IC up of the actual medkit use after lunch today.  Gonna have a lot of time to kill taking a friend to get surgery on his broken finger (who knew?)

[Malevolence]

Do we have any idea who Hotel is? I'm guessing Rigger, but could be a remote party.

[Tecumseh]

Rolling for Doc: 6 hits

Doc thinks that Hotel is the decker he bricked.

[Malevolence]

Huh. I would have thought that was Delta. Which means the next question is who Delta was. From the order of the messages, it must be the first person Doc hit with an Attack action. Which would have been the enemy decker. I'm at a loss as to who else might have detected Matrix contact before the decker.

[Tecumseh]

I didn't say Doc was right. People are free to draw their own conclusions.

[rednblack]

Huh. I would have thought that was Delta. Which means the next question is who Delta was. From the order of the messages, it must be the first person Doc hit with an Attack action. Which would have been the enemy decker. I'm at a loss as to who else might have detected Matrix contact before the decker.

Since the chatter kept up well into the fight, we can probably use process of elimination to figure out who is who. 

As for the new info:

Very interesting.  Somebody tell me if I'm off-base here.

Looks like 2 "runners" came in looking for local support, which means they had a bead on our approximate location prior to the contact with the spirits.  These guys are independent enough to have negotiated and formed their own team, which tells me that HQ 1. has deep pockets (no surprise there) and 2. allows operatives to act semi-independently from management.  They seem surprised at the level of resistance they encountered -- strange since we'd already taken out a helicopter -- but since they came themselves this leads me to believe that we have taken out 1 cell, which may buy us a little time.  If multiple cells of the same organization are on our tail, they're most likely working independently of one another, which is a mixed bag as far as we're concerned.  The downsides are that we have no head to cut off, but on the upside, they are incapable of sharing information, unless it goes through a central intermediary.  Think Treadstone from The Bourne Identity or Anton Chigurh and Carson Wells from No Country for Old Men.  If we are dealing with multiple cells from 1 parent organization, there is a chance that the strike force assembled to investigate the Natelys could end up at odds with them, as I doubt our kidnapping looks like amateur hour and what the cells will be doing to hide their tracks are exactly the strategies such a strike force would be looking for.  Still, I wouldn't count on any in-game benefit as far as that goes. 

I'd like to roll some Security Tactics to see if Ace would agree with my thoughts here -- minus the pop culture references, of course.

Security Tactics: 9d6t5 2
Security Tactics (Corporate) Specialization: 2d6t5 0
Security Tactics (Rapid Response): 11d6t5 3

Not sure what all would apply, so I rolled the gamut.  I'll post Ace's thoughts IC once I hear the results.

When we get a working deck, we should check out the picture of the gunslinger that Ace took, see if anyone pops up.   

[Tecumseh]

Matrix Search can be done with a commlink. It does not require a deck.

Ace thinks he's onto something the with theory about operatives acting semi-autonomously / in cells.

The surprise about the level of opposition could suggest that:
1) these guys are a different cell than whoever was in the helicopter, although this theory has some gaps (the radically different approaches of the two teams, as well as their outward appearances), or
2) these guys are completely unrelated, and are some other bogeymen from the long list that Mal/Ohanzee has compiled.

[rednblack]

Oh yeah, and I forgot to mention, the phrasing of the "awakened target" + the surprise at the level of opposition lead me to believe that this cell is only aware of 1 team.  Either Katsina or Ohanzee was their main target. 

I'm assuming there was nothing in the chatter relating to the number, or nature, of opponents -- us -- that they were engaging, so I don't know which is more likely for Ace to assume IC, but OOC, things aren't much clearer.  Katsina has been trying to protect the obelisk since we got it, but it seems more likely that Ohanzee and his team were the ones orchestrating its extraction at the beginning.  Things are still fuzzy there for me.

[Poindexter]

Oh yeah, and I forgot to mention, the phrasing of the "awakened target" + the surprise at the level of opposition lead me to believe that this cell is only aware of 1 team.  Either Katsina or Ohanzee was their main target. 

I'm assuming there was nothing in the chatter relating to the number, or nature, of opponents -- us -- that they were engaging, so I don't know which is more likely for Ace to assume IC, but OOC, things aren't much clearer.  Katsina has been trying to protect the obelisk since we got it, but it seems more likely that Ohanzee and his team were the ones orchestrating its extraction at the beginning.  Things are still fuzzy there for me.

I feel like if they had been after Katsina, they'd have come heavier.

[Malevolence]

They were definitely coming after Kat since her detect enemies spell pinged them.

[Poindexter]

They were definitely coming after Kat since her detect enemies spell pinged them.

Oh yeah, good point.
I'm not sure though. If their intent had been to attack the vehicle she was in, even though they didnt know she was in there, would that still set it off?

[Tecumseh]

Oh yeah, and I forgot to mention, the phrasing of the "awakened target" + the surprise at the level of opposition lead me to believe that this cell is only aware of 1 team.

This would be an intelligent conclusion.

If their intent had been to attack the vehicle she was in, even though they didnt know she was in there, would that still set it off?

OOCly, no, it would not. Malevolence is correct. Now, does Ohanzee know that ICly? He doesn't have any knowledge skills relating to spells, but he does have Arcana 3, which is probably relevant. Can he piece this together in his current addled state??
Logic 3 + Arcana 3 - 4 wounds: 1 hit!

Ohanzee comes to the correct conclusion, which is that Katsina's spell would not have detected them unless they were hostile to her specifically.

I feel like if they had been after Katsina, they'd have come heavier.

Geez, man, how much heavier do you want? Okay, next time it'll be 8 fire spirits instead of 4.

[rednblack]

Geez, man, how much heavier do you want? Okay, next time it'll be 8 fire spirits instead of 4.

Oh Ghost, please no. 

Ace would not at all be aware of the intricacies of Detect Enemy spells, so sticking with my IC as written.