Mission 2b - The Party Explosion Job

[Bold Vote Scientist]

Stuffer Shack Demolitions

PeregrineV is the lieutentant for this mission. House and Daenerys and Dragons are accompanying him.

PeregrineV was given details to blow up the StufferShack data factory to greatly damage the financial capabilities of Aztechnology. StufferShack charges criminally high prices to citizenry that have to buy their food to live. By blowing up their headquarters, the company would be vulnerable to social justice hackers that would attack the mainframe in the matrix. This would prevent Aztechnology from charging rates that turn a profit. That group is ready to charge the moment they see the facility in smoke.

The elementalist, ganger, and explosives expert began making preparations when PeregrineV gets a phone call. He relays the conversation to the group. "There's beefed up security tonight, because there's a gala of all the big wigs tonight. Any physical violence can send someone to prison. The guards are on watch for that. It will be very difficult to pull of physical combat."

The group dons their tuxedos to head into the mission. Then, they find there's a guard practically stalking them. They cannot do anything with the guard breathing down their neck. This extra guard is acting as if he was specifically told to be on the lookout for you three.

Setbacks

The scum have triggered that this mission takes place at a gala, meaning that physical acts of violence include a severe risk of going to prison if not done stealthily. The scum also have included an extra guard that must be dealt with before the mission can proceed.

Adventure Time

PeregrineV, House and Daenerys and Dragons are on this adventure.
On an adventure, you'll see a narrative and tasks. At the end of most every narrative, you'll have a group vote as to the decision to be made. This works like lynching. The mod will then roll the corresponding dice as explained in the introductory posts to the game. Succeed on all three challenges and you'll win the setting. Those are the general rules. Things may change if scum get involved.
The choice works with a majority vote. PeregrineV, the leader, counts as 1.5 votes (essentially a tiebreaker).
It takes 1.5 to hammer a choice.
Vote by typing either

Vote: Choice 1

or VOTE: Choice 2. As long as your intent is clear, the vote counts.

Choice 0

Do you have someone spend the mission chatting up the guard thus removing them from the mission or try to take out the guard by physical combat?

Minor Edit for typo: I said that it took 2.5 to hammer. Obviously, only 1.5 needed to hammer.

[Daenerys and Dragons]

Yo
We want to avoid taking this guy out obviously, but our overall Charisma (I assume that's what attribute we'd use for talking) isn't that good :/

@mods can you update the game OP please?

[Bold Vote Scientist]

Yo
We want to avoid taking this guy out obviously, but our overall Charisma (I assume that's what attribute we'd use for talking) isn't that good :/

@mods can you update the game OP please?

Doing now.

Done now

[lilith2013]

Yeah our charisma is like 10?

[lilith2013]

Wait no that was last mission sorry

[lilith2013]

It's 8 between the 3 of us.

[lilith2013]

Is it normal for scum to keep sabotaging our missions like this?

[PeregrineV]

@mod- do we use combined charisma or just one?

Im on phone but will look at stats tomorrow.

What is our physical combat total? Our stealth total?

[Bold Vote Scientist]

@mod- do we use combined charisma or just one?

Im on phone but will look at stats tomorrow.

What is our physical combat total? Our stealth total?

Usually, challenges are combined. This charisma will be an individual selection (meaning you pick one player to sweet talk the guard).

[Daenerys and Dragons]

House and us have 3 charisma each.
We can go try it?

[PeregrineV]

Chart Data:

Characters	Charisma	Combat	Demolitions	Logic	Magical	Matrix	Medical	Perception	Stealth	Default Access to Posting in Astral PT	Can Use Magic/Gain Posting Access to Astral PT	Default Access to Matrix PT	Can Use Technological Items/Gain Matrix PT Access	Drafted By
Elementalist	2	6	6	5	6	2	5	2	2	Yes	Yes	No	No	PeregrineV
Explosives Expert	3	5	6	4	5	3	5	5	2	No	Yes	No	Yes	Daenerys and Dragons
Ganger	3	6	6	5	2	3	5	5	2	No	Yes	No	Yes	Vedith

[PeregrineV]

House and us have 3 charisma each.
We can go try it?

Let's assume that is removes you from a secondary part of the mission. Who is needed to increase the odds of completing the mission, and who can we afford to leave behind to distract the guard?

[PeregrineV]

Looking at this, and given the scum interference, we are possibly the worst set of three to send on this mission. Our charisma sucks and our stealth sucks, and both impedances are designed to our weakest stats.

[PeregrineV]

House and us have 3 charisma each.
We can go try it?

Fuck it, go for it.

[PeregrineV]

Although our physical combat scores could mean we take the guard out so fast that he doesn;t have time to raise the alarm. We are almost maxxed at that stat.

[lilith2013]

do you want to try that then?

[PeregrineV]

do you want to try that then?

No clue. It seems that the whole party thing is meant to prevent the combat.

If one of us does combat, but goes to jail, allowing the other 2 to finish, then I'd be OK with that. If combat causes us all to fail, then rather take the 50/50 chance.

Would also like House to weigh in.

[Bold Vote Scientist]

is there a question?

[PeregrineV]

@Schrod- if we choose combat, is that also only one person?

[PeregrineV]

Barebones Structure
Town adventures have 3 challenges to pass in order to win an adventure and get the reward behind it. If town fails three times, then the run fails. A challenge is a task, such as breaking a safe, combat, stealth, matrix hack, etc. Challenges in the Matrix will be simplified as implementing all the ICE rules would be too complex. Combat is also simplified. Stats are changed from Shadowrun as well. Essence is implemented by item restrictions. (For instance, mages can't get cyberware pumped into them).

Passing a challenge
To pass a challenge, a group of runners must get a certain number of "hits" when rolling six sided dice. These dice are rolled in private (but in a mod PT for record keeping) so that any hidden modifiers by scum may be applied. A "hit" is any time a player rolls a 5 or a 6. A "miss" is any time a player rolls a 1, 2, 3, or 4. The challenge will have a predetermined success point.

Failure
A failed challenge may be reattempted with an additional success required to succeed.

Glitch
If at any point a group rolls half or more dice as 1s, a glitch occurs. The challenge will fail (can be reattempted) and some minor penalty will occur. This may include a glitching player being removed from the mission for instance.

Critical Glitch
A critical glitch is the same as a glitch but less likely to occur and has more severe consequences. A critical glitch occurs when more than half or more of the dice rolled are 1s and a player rolls no successes. Failures on a critical glitch can result in automatic mission failure, death of the glitcher, loss of powers, etc, as the narrative and game balance deem fit. Critical glitches are predetermined prior to the start.

Example
Adam, Brian and Clarissa are attempting to lift information from the Matrix. Adam and Brian are standing guard while Clarissa is doing the searching. The longer they stand guard, the more time she has for her search. A Matrix search requires all the players to roll their Matrix stats. Adam, being a Street Samurai, only has two dice for a Matrix check. Brian has 4 dice as a shaman. Clarissa the riggger has 6 dice. Together, the group has 12 dice. They need to roll 3 successes on the mission in order to pass. So that means if they roll 5 or 6 at least 3 times on 12 dice, they pass the mission. The number of successes on each challenge is predetermined.

Notice
While adventures are fun, the game is designed to where winning or losing adventures should be helpful to each side but not mandatory.

[PeregrineV]

is there a question?

Is the guard a 4th challenge, or one of the three that has been selected by scum?

[PeregrineV]

is there a question?

Does our stat indicate the number of dice we roll to try to succeed?

[Bold Vote Scientist]

is there a question?

Is the guard a 4th challenge, or one of the three that has been selected by scum?

4th

[Bold Vote Scientist]

@Schrod- if we choose combat, is that also only one person?

Yes for this only.

[Bold Vote Scientist]

is there a question?

Does our stat indicate the number of dice we roll to try to succeed?

Yes.