When You Need Something Done Right... DIY's Blog (A Shadowrun Campaign Blog)

[Maybe or not]

Hey people out there this is Wheelz reporting the current situation since the boss lady seems indisposed for the moment or the day (I told her to watch the sake). So far everything went well the job got done with out a hitch, made a little extra, got two new runners who so far have not screwed us up or over (unlike a certain decker who best not ever think to cross my path again), and we made good with some of the local powers in Yaks and Ancients. More surprising boss showed off her generous side and bought the whole team cover masks both for armor and disguise. We even had nice wind down party with liberal amounts of Sake via Carl, the boss and Kikyo got into argument(Honestly those two are eventually either going to kill each other or screw like no tomorrow), genius hid the corner for most the party, most of us took turns poking at the boss(it's a bonding thing, but I think her reactions are feeding Kikyo's "hair pulling syndrome"). In the end we had to carry the boss back to her room (it's a miracle she posted at all),Carl walked off drunk as skunk (Just know I will have to find him again passed out some where), and the ladies went back to their room with Kikyo(in other words normal drinking session for this group). All in all a good day the only problem is the 18k triad, sure we stopped the shipment this time, but there will be others if the info we got is accurate. Honestly, this is why some idiots with more ambition than brains in seat of influence should be shot and killed it saves everyone from worst trouble down the road. I been through gang and turf wars their not pretty or clean often in end it was all about ego for of these guys. The weapons for the most part were okay and fairly low power, except the Alphas WHERE THE F*@! did the get these from? If they start bringing more hardware like this into Yokohama it's going to turn into a fr!#%&@ war zone. (Sigh)Well that is all for now I hope we survive this after all I just starting to get used to these guys. Wheelz signing off.

[Wolfknight777]

>>>>>[2075/05/08, XX:XX PST]

Congratulations on a successful run DIY. You handled your team well, you were efficient and clean, and most of all, you relied on the power of intel. Information is the Runner's God. Enjoy your success for now, just don't let it go to your head like too much sake. An unprepared runner is a dead runner after all. But seriously, good work and good luck.

Cheers,

No One of Consequence.

[Telasi]

>>>>>[2075/05/24, 14:09 JST]

Okay, chummers, it's been a mostly quiet couple of weeks. I'm just checking in so you know I'm not dead. I've been spending most of my time lately living up to my new nickname; I've been teaching Alex a bit of aikido and Karl a bit of kenjutsu, plus getting him up to speed on survival Japanese. I'm hoping my Kansai-ben isn't going to bleed over to him. It's not a heavy accent, but my parents were from Osaka and Kyoto, respectively, so it's there. Sometimes it's a little effort to make sure I teach him the standard Japanese forms of things. Kikyo graciously volunteered to help me demonstrate throws for Alex, which was fun. ^_^ Me? I spent the rest of my working time with bandages and detonators. I'm apparently the only one who knows drek about first aid or explosives, so I'm brushing up on those so we've got 'em covered.

After the heat had some time to die down a bit, we all met up for our customary post-run dinner. This time, sushi. Fortunately, we didn't have any rude interruptions at dinner, so it was actually kinda nice. I mostly made peace with Kikyo, I think, but we'll see if it keeps. After the celebration, we did a little business talk. Our new buddy Doc Suzuki, the yaks, and the Ancients, who apparently really want to get into Neo-Tokyo, all had possible jobs they dropped on us all at once. Most of us aren't liking this situation with the 18ks shaking things up in Yokohama, either, so we put doing some hooding against them on the table. Hurts us too if the Marines torch the place, after all. The people you'd expect argued the way you'd probably expect: Alex was pro-Ancients, and Wheelz put up a fight over going against the 18k again. Other than that, though, everybody is on board with gunning for the triad before things get worse in this town. I can't share details, but we decided we'd better go big or go home. Should be real wiz if it works, chummers.

Things got fun after dinner. Karl and Kikyo have had this magic ****-waving thing going, so they finally just decided to have it out. Being nice, supportive teammates, we naturally all rocked up to watch the fireworks. I also brought my rifle and first-aid kit to keep it low-key and patch them up after, respectively. Just to make sure. I gotta admit, I was a little disappointed by the whole thing. Neither one of the two did anything really cool; Karl just pulled out his mind control thingy and that was pretty much it. I was expecting more Karl Kombatmage from a magic duel. Of course, Karl may have won the duel, but he put his foot in his mouth doing it. Piece of advice: don't call half your fragging team "harlots" when you're talking smack, even by implication. *******.

Anyhow, after that, things wound down into company drinking time. I'm not sure how this became a thing, but it's apparently now our policy to make the newbies drink themselves stupid. Yo-yo's a good sport, I'll give him that. Drinks like a proper salaryman. He actually managed to be almost witty, even. Kikyo was all over me again, but she spent half her time trying to pair up Alex and Yo-yo. They were kinda cute together, I've got to admit. Alex seemed okay with it, so that part was okay. Me, though... I've kinda been guessing that she's coming on to me, but I'm sure now. She was really, really blatant about it tonight. I don't know how to feel about that. I mean, I've never had another woman coming after me. Frag, I haven't even really thought about it. I mean, I know that's a thing, but it's never something I thought would happen to me, you know? What the hell am I supposed to do? I have no fragging idea. The rest of this fragging team seems to think this is funny. Frag 'em.

[Telasi]

>>>>>[2075/05/24, 14:15 JST]

Frag, I'm really flustered over this thing. We're looking for a good callsign for Kikyo, chummers. It needs to be short, easy to say, and ideally snappy. Suggestions are open.

[Wolfknight777]

>>>>>[2075/05/24, XX:XX PST]

I find that Relationships are like Running. Be open to new experiences, always have the upper hand, and always have protection.

As far as Kikyo? I suppose Geisha would be too forward? Maybe Mistress? She's a tough one.

Sincerely,

No One of Concern.

[Telasi]

Special OOC update! Nothing much, just some fanart I felt like sharing.

A couple DIY sketches:

A Kikyo:

And a Karl:

Oh, and the current favorite option for Kikyo's new callsign, suggested by Karl's player, is Wiggles. The most suggested is Mistress, but it's been pretty much agreed that that's not snappy enough.

[Shivawa]

Oh, and the current favorite option for Kikyo's new callsign, suggested by Karl's player, is Wiggles. The most suggested is Mistress, but it's been pretty much agreed that that's not snappy enough.

NO, NYET, NEGATIVE, DENIED. Kikyo refuses to be called Wiggles. We will riot.

[Telasi]

My group really wants me to run the Dresden Files RPG again, so we're taking a few weeks off of Shadowrun for that to give the GM a break. DIY will return after I've run my group through this casefile.

[Wolfknight777]

>>>>>[2075/XX/XX, XX:XX PST]

Hey Chummers! Due to unforeseen circumstances, I'm coming out of retirement! And once again, Knight Errant proves to be full of Drek, and now I'm on some chump-change job for another shady Johnson who probably wants to screw my team. Again. The difference is that this time I saw it coming and brought an extra hundred rounds. Fool me twice, shame on me.

Sincerely,
No One of Concern

P.S. I hope to hear back from DIY soon!

[Telasi]

Finally got a game together, did you?

And relax, DIY will be back. It's just taking a little while to get done with Dresden Files.

[Wolfknight777]

Yep, finally got one. Mostly the same group, but using 5th ed. (And on a personal note, I like the priorities system.) A Decker (Myself), two Samis (Rob and Ben), a wizard, and Kieran's running it. I hope your having fun with Dresden!

[Telasi]

>>>>>[2075/05/29, 02:53 JST]

Hoi, chummers. It's been another lovely spring week in smoggy Yokohama, and of course we've been up to our usual tricks. We spent the week improving our wardrobe's fashion, accessorizing, and reading quietly followed by a fireworks display. Well, okay, we did do some shopping, but it was for full-body armor and ammo. Oh, and a car. The reading was for work, too; we (by which I mean Genius) were busy looking up the shadowtalk on the 18k Triad's business dealings in our town. They apparently do three things: porn, drugs, and guns. Can you guess which one we're getting involved in? If you guessed drugs, you're right. If you guessed Kikyo was pushing having us get in on porn sims, you're also right. Genius and I vetoed that as soon as we heard about it; I'll do a lot of things for the right price, but everybody has to draw their lines somewhere. One of mine is sex for money. The other big ones are slavery and targeting kids, for the record.

Anyway, once we knew a bit more about the 18k, we started hatching a plan. I need to keep some of the details quiet for now, but trust me, we do have a plan. The part I can tell you about so far is that we staked out one of the regular meet sites for the 18k's bigger drug deals and waited for them to rock up with the cash and goods. This is where the armor upgrades and ammo came up; Karl and I ambushed the meeting and geeked everyone there. Two people in full body armor and angry tiki masks, loaded for bear; fraggers never knew what hit 'em. To get the point across, we left a calling card, then we grabbed their commlinks, swords, and cred, torched the van full of novacoke, and got out. Maybe two minutes, tops. On a side note, vans full of novacoke and gasoline blow up real good. ^_^ Cracking the commlinks gave us the data we wanted, so we're good to go for the next part of the plan. More on that next time.

Since it looks like my life is turning into a fragging soap opera anyway, might as well just keep you all up to date on the home side of the week. Might make up for the sketchy details a little. While the combat folks were out, it turns out that Yoyo managed to get both Alex and Kikyo to go to dinner with him. Nobody's been willing to tell me much in the way of details, but I'm betting that was interesting. Alex was seeming pretty friendly with him afterwards, for sure. On a more personal front, Kikyo has been pretty quiet lately. Other than a few comments when we were going over the porn angle of the 18k business model, she's barely said a non-business related word to me for the last couple of days. She didn't even take any of the bait my ever-so-helpful teammates were throwing out. The worst part about it is, well, frag me if I'm not a little disappointed about it. As much as I've been freaking out over not knowing how to take her advances, I guess I kinda like being chased. None of how I feel about the whole thing makes sense, so I guess why the hell should it start now?

Oh, one last thing before I go, chummers. My twenty-second birthday is a week from tomorrow. ^_^ I'm thinking about doing a special post with a little bit more about me then.

[Wolfknight777]

Happy Birthday.

[Telasi]

>>>>>[2075/06/01, 04:16 JST]

It worked! Remember that plan I mentioned last time, chummers? Now that it's over, I can talk about it some more without getting anybody killed. The basic idea was simple: hit the 18k hard and often to draw out their security teams, then have Yo-yo and Genius infiltrate their headquarters. Tailchase and datasteal, null sheen. Amazingly, it actually went pretty much as planned.

Stage one was getting the triad's attention. That basically meant a series of hits on their drug deals over the last few days. Three people rocking up in full body armor and tiki masks to shoot up your runners is pretty distracting. The details are a little tedious, though, so I'll just skim over it, since none of them ever knew what hit 'em. We made sure to leave calling cards, just to make sure they got the hint.

Stage two happened last night. Genius and Yo-yo got in position to watch the 18k HQ, and the rest of us kitted up for the next hit. At this point, we were expecting an ambush, so we were pretty careful getting into position. The deal was going down on the docks, in a section that had been closed down for subsidence. I climbed a crane for overwatch, while Karl and Wheelz sneaked up on the dealers. Wheelz almost fragged it up by kicking a can, but we managed to take 'em out before they could do much. The infiltration team reported loaded vans rolling out within a few seconds of the hit, though, so we knew we were on for the next part. The infiltration team moved in and went silent from the anti-wireless paint in the HQ, while the rest of us reloaded and settled in for a firefight with the 18k hitters. It took 'em a bit under five minutes to show up, but that was plenty of time to be ready. They lost a quarter of their team in the first couple seconds - Karl and Wheelz are a couple of real grenade fiends. I provided overwatch, but I only got a few good shots in before the 18k assault teams got inside and out of my line of sight. By that point, though, I had other things to worry about; one of the 18k goons had the same idea I did and was climbing up my crane. The look on his face when he got up there and I showed him to the express way down was pretty priceless. I can honestly say that I'd never killed anyone by throwing 'em off a crane before. I say again: I love aikido. The ground fight was pretty much done by the time I got back there. Wheelz was shot up pretty bad when he got cornered by one of the 18k teams, but between Karl and me, we managed to keep him stable. Doc Suzuki is working on him now, but he should pull through. Orks are tough.

From what I've heard, the infiltration team had a pretty easy time of it. They managed to copy the entire fragging server, emptied their accounts, and then slagged the things for good measure. Apparently Yo-yo joined in on the grenade mania by throwing a flash-bang into an elevator full of security guards on the way out. The whole description was kind of an excited babble, so I'm not quite sure on all the details. Genius is working on sorting the paydata now.

Right, chummers, I'm tired. I'm gonna get some more soykaf to keep me awake until Karl gets back, then sleep.

[HollowSeth]

>>>>>[2075/06/01, 04:36 JST]

Hello people of the matrix! Everyone's favorite combat mage here reporting a little on our recent exploits. Just got out from doing business with Oni who is as of yet our best weapons dealer. He was a bit pissy about being woken up so early in the morning but i wanted to get the business done quickly and he cheered up pretty quick when i showed him what i brought to sell, A half dozen of each alphas and predators in good condition. A bit of explanation may be needed we were recently running a series of hits on some 18K drug deals to get them pissed at us though teach already mentioned all this she neglected to mention that the assault team was Armed and armored just as well as us but with the advantage of numbers. Though we went to work clearing up that little problem pretty quickly some HE grenades and a few sniper shots helped to even the playing field a little. Though once they got smart and got behind cover the fight became a little troubling i got hit a couple minutes after the fight started and would have been all but useless but for some quick magic, You have got to love healing magic my friends, but towards the end Wheelz got hit pretty rough himself but after we cleared up the mess we were able to patch him up enough to get him to our favorite doc. And frankly we were able to get a pretty penny for what we stripped off the bastards who shot him up so I feel that makes up for it a little.

I am feeling an odd sense of worry though there were two wounded men in the parking lot and i took it upon myself to finish them off with a bullet to each of their heads and felt nothing. I have noticed as of yet recently that actual killing is having little effect on me in my younger days i would have felt a sense of sadness but now it makes the feel the same as making a cup of soykaf would. Ah well i am sure i am over thinking things. On a lighter note i am quite proud of Genius and Yo-Yo they were actually able to do an infiltration mission to the heart of enemy territory and come out of it unscathed i believe i will take the two out to a nice celebration meal though i may just have to leave the crazy kids to themselves.

Well people of the matrix i must be heading off i have to meet up with Teach at Doc Suzukis place so i can drive us all back after Wheelz gets treated. I do hope you all have a wonderful day. I hope to walk withing your world again some time.

[Maybe or not]

Hello People, Wheelz here just fresh out of the block from the Doc, can't really move yet still settling in waiting for Carl and the Boss lady is talking with the doc. I'm mostly doing this now due to boredom, Doc says to stay down until I burn through the painkillers(bless the miracle that is modern drugs) don't get me wrong I’m fully lucid but I do have a pleasant high going(and yes it is possible to do both no matter what the others say). So here I am content but feeling a bit bored and I would love to get up and join the boss and doc, but while it is questionable as to how legal Docs practice is, his skills are still what brought me back to health so better to trust his judgment on this. Posting this update gives me something to do. So yeah so far operation Giant killer has progressed well enough (despite my resent experience of the hot lead kind, oh well at least it was just me), like the Carl and the Boss posted earlier the drug buster plan continued with the second target taking place in a warehouse and ending via HE grenade, started off by the boss and me blowing away the 18k dealers, and then Carl finishing off their clients, along with all money that they were going to pay the 18k with, The drugs I might resent for personal reasons(I admit I have problem, but with this group's issues with alcohol and nicotine, what's one more addiction) but the money loss did hurt at first. Now the third hit was a the docks, but this job was special we needed to not just bust up the deal we had to let the 18k know what had happened, so we had to let one live long enough to call for help, and then me and Carl would be the distraction by keeping the 18k focused on us while the Boss in a sniper position would keep an eye out and help us keep them busy. Thus giving Genius and Yo-Yo time and hopefully less security to deal with on their end to do hacking job on the front company the 18k's were using as their local headquarters. Well the first bit of trouble happened when a knocked over can gave away the element of surprise, still after a quick firefight and Carl doing a little hide and seek with the one that ran the first step was done, and with reinforcements on the way it was time for step two. This is where the second little misfortune kicked in, we were expecting some guns and guys but mostly mooks or low level thugs, and at first it seemed ok since they sent four trucks with eight guys. Sure they were equipped with same kind of Ares alphas we stole from them when we hijacked their shipment last time and that made them dangerous but nothing special. Me and Carl Decided to give them our new custom greeting of HE grenades and a little sniping help from the boss lady that made eight become 5 and a half, the half was one guy who was only wounded, but alive (if you can call crippled and slowly bleeding to death alive) and then they moved and that was when it all came together, they were chromes. Before you ask how I can tell trust me you can tell in how they moved. They were way too fast, tough, and accurate to be normal thugs, I recognized this as a chrome myself. These were chromed out elites with orders to kill. But then again I, boss, and Carl were ready for a gun fight. Carl took a hit but was able to magic himself better (thank goodness), so I decided to repay them with another HE grenade only wounding this time but in this kind of fight every little bit helps, and that is when I saw what looked like a man falling off the crane that was the boss's sniper nest, nearly #$% myself fearing it was the boss until I got good look at him (got to love cyber eyes). Turns out the 18k had the same idea we had for a sniper just that we got there first(stinks to be him, but I am sure boss had fun since this is the first time she got to toss a guy off a building). That is when the third piece of %^$# hit the fan. I was taking aim and had missed the shot when it hit me. Let me tell I have been shot before but not bad as then, it seemed my luck nearly ran out today because this one burst fire came close to finishing me(Hurt like a mother^#$%^@ too). As I fought to stay conscious I could hear boss yelling at me asking if I was ok, I said no but told Carl to finish them first. The fight ended with Carl mowing down the rest no problem, Boss did some emergency care and then Carl used the same spell he used to heal himself to patch me up (never more thankful for magic in my life). I was not top shape mind you but I was alive after a quick sweep and looting of corpses I was off to Doctor Suzuki's for medical care and here I am. Well I hear the boss and doc so that's it for now later(losing buzz now, need more pain killers).

[Telasi]

>>>>>[2075/06/06, 00:01 JST]

Happy birthday to me! Yes, chummers, I am officially twenty-two today. As promised, here's a little about me. Obviously, I was born June 6, 2053 in the Fuchi Industrial Electronics Americas Seattle complex. Yes, I was a corp brat once upon a time. Bite me. My parents were Matsumoto Noriko and Matsumoto Hirosumi, respectively a lawyer from Kyoto and a company man from Osaka. No points for guessing who I take after. There's a simple explanation for that one. So anybody who hasn't been under a rock for the last couple decades knows that Fuchi was having problems even that far back. One part of that was a copyright infringement case going on with Windy City Nanosolutions. Never heard of it? That's probably because it was going down mid-2055. Short version, Mom was there when the Chicago Containment Zone came down. I was two, so I don't even fragging remember her. Frag, I don't even know what exactly happened.

Right, moving on before I get too introspective. Things sort of stabilized for a while after that. I was just Matsumoto-chan, the little elf girl with no mom and a Kansai accent for a while. Dad drank, but so did everyone else's parents, so I didn't know it was a problem then. It didn't last; Fuchi went under in 2060 and we were out on our own. We bounced around from place to place for a while after that. Nothing exciting, really. Crash 2.0 was rock bottom; we lost our SINs when the Matrix went down. Give the old man credit, he tried hard to fix it. This was still the Yomi era, though; the Empire of Japan was still busy trying to pretend metahumans didn't exist, never mind issuing SINs to them, and I trust most of you know how bad the UCAS SIN registry situation is even after a decade. So, SINless in Seattle. We ended up in Russiantown in Redmond. Dad got worse every year, pretty much; the stress was getting to him pretty hard over the years. Meanwhile, I ran with a couple of gangs as a teenager, mostly boosting cars in Tacoma. A couple people who know me have asked me about the cyberarm; I got the original after a fight when I was sixteen. Super Warhawk, ex-ex, catastrophic nerve damage from the shoulder down. Could have been worse; I walked away. Dad finally broke down completely the same year, which left me completely on my own. One last tragedy in the series, I guess. Frag, my life story is depressing. I've got a couple of years after that, but that's next best thing to current. I'll save my first run story for another day.

Okay, chummers, that's my story. Sorry for dragging you all into this depressing drek. It sounds pretty bad now that I've actually written it out. To make it up to you, I'll answer any non-depressing questions you've got for me, within reason.

[Telasi]

>>>>>[2075/06/07, 01:13 JST]

Hoi, chummers. Actual live update after the automated one yesterday. Sorry about that; I thought it'd be pretty wiz, but then I wrote it out and realized my life has pretty much sucked. Yesterday, however, was an exception, I'm pleased to report. So I was thinking it was pretty much another day, and then I came home. Lights off, people hiding in the dark, little banners, cake, everything. Trust me, it was really cute. They even brought presents! It doesn't hurt anything, so I might as well share. Yo-yo gave me a very ornate katana scabbard. Karl presented me with an Ares One monosword, which is pretty wiz. Wheelz gave me an Ace of Diamonds jacket. Alex went with simplicity and gave me a good maintenance set for a katana. All nice gifts, but points go to Alex for the most thoughtful. I really do obsess over that katana. I confess to being a little amused by how... phallic... the overall tone was. Humor aside, it was really very sweet of them. After the initial little party, we headed out for dinner. That turned into a side trip to Osaka! High speed rail made that practical, thankfully, so we spent the rest of the day and into the night seeing the city and eating the obligatory takoyaki. (^-^) Good day, all in all.

Oh, before I forget, we did get some actual work done. The 18k accounts netted us 750 grand, plus some paydata about some high-level meetings in the next few months. I, personally, also did some legwork on one of Doc Suzuki's competitors, figured out their security. Nothing too exciting, just some recon and data searching. Man has heavy security, so the Tikis will be paying him a visit next time we have a business day. Should be back to the usual excitement then.

[LokiRagnarok]

Welcome back, chummers (aka thanks for the update!)

[Telasi]

Thanks, LokiRagnarok. I do apologize for the delays; we had some pretty hardcore scheduling issues to overcome to keep the game alive. Should be pretty stable now, though. Glad to see people are still reading. :)

[Telasi]

>>>>>[2075/06/21, 09:13 JST]

This is weird. So, I got a sleep regulator added to my 'ware suite, and it's kind of surreal. Like, I'm just not tired anymore. A nap every day, tops, and I'm good to go. I've done two days a couple of times just because. I'm starting to run out of books on my reading list. And video games. Soooo many video games with Alex. I think I may need a real hobby.

Right, before I get further off on a tangent, it's been a pretty tame couple of weeks. Most of the time was taken up by Wheelz and I using some of our recent gains to finally get some upgrades to our chrome. Karl and Alex mostly just worked on personal side projects, and I can't say that I heard from Yo-yo outside of business at all. I still haven't seen Kikyo, for that matter. I'm going to have to track her down and see what the frag she's been up to one of these days. Said business mostly consisted of continuing with the legwork on Doc Suzuki's competitor, a guy called Amagi. We scoped out the layout of his place and determined he was augmented, with five security thugs on premises, courtesy of the 18k. We also determined that Amagi lived on site and basically never left. Given the fact that it was a nicer part of town, the security, and the high likelihood of civilians in the clinic, we opted to go for a stealth raid. Our best point of entry ended up being the next building over's fire escape, so we opted to carry our gear in bags and stage out of that building. The other issue that presented itself was the regular police presence at a coffee shop down the street. Once we planned for that, it was execution time.

Stage one was distraction. To that end, we set up a throwaway commlink with a recorded tip about a bomb in the Genji Pharmaceuticals building (the 18k HQ front). As you might expect, that got immediate response. Next, Genius and I hacked the Amagi clinic and the offices next door while the assault team, myself included, plus Yo-yo was en route. After Yo-yo and Genius cleared our entry and blinded security, we suited up and headed across to the Amagi building's roof. The three of us basically cleared the stairway down to Amagi's apartment, stacked up, and, based on Genius indicating he was inside, opted to flash and clear. Given the extent of his combat augments, we were actually a little surprised to find that the flash-bangs actually disabled him. Karl finished the job, then we pulled out before security could pin us down. Left them a bit of a surprise on the way out, just to be safe. The whole thing took less than two minutes from initial entry to the van, with only three (suppressed) shots fired and no collateral damage. All things considered, a resounding success. We even got paid, surprisingly enough, given the job happened entirely as a favor to Doc Suzuki. Not a lot, but we got free medical care and a bit of augmentation access with it, so I'm not at all complaining.

[HollowSeth]

>>>>>[2075/06/22, 02:13 JST]

Hello people of the matrix! Your favorite mage Karl here again. Just got back home from a quick hop to the store to pick up some smokes and snacks. Its been a pretty relaxing few weeks got work done at the safe house, took out a drug selling wanna be pretty boy, and got a hold of a fun new toy. Well it was mostly relaxing, i got a hold of a very nice piece of equipment an Ares Thunderstruck now it was costly to high heaven but man was it worth it, i even dubbed it Maria. Now this is where the not so relaxing part comes in it seems Genius got it in her head that she should get ahold of a program to annoy me and put it into my mask. Also she didn't bother to tell me this i didn't find out till we were about to hop buildings over to Amagis place and put on my mask. Now i will say it came as a shock to me but jokes on her because all in all i like the little thing helps me switch settings on my mask quickly and provides suggestions for combat as of yet she (who genius decided to name Maria after my new gun) has been very useful even if the whole team did think i was crazy while talking to her at first. Well then i must be off seems like i need to go to a school meeting tomorrow and i wanna get plenty of sleep that way i can go in fresh. So i shall be off people of the matrix i hope to walk through your strange lands again soon!

[TheJudicator]

>>>>>[6.24.2075...18:30 PST]

:/MATRIX SIGNATURE VERIFIED...

:/PROCESSING...

:/BEGIN ENCRYPTED TRANSMISSION...

Okay, so I will start this off by saying you guys fragging rock. 'Nuff said. Reading through all this and cross-referencing news and 'corp coverage of those incidences have made for quite an entertaining read here in sunny Seattle. If you chummers ever find yourself UCAS-side again, send me a holler. First round's on me.

And in case your "Genius" starts freaking about me being traceD, don't worry. I sent this encrypted in a way that those pencil-pushers over in S͓̼̒ͬͬ̃̄a̮̅͊̈͗ͨͯ̀̕e͈͔̘͒͢d̛̦͚̣̘̞͍ͭͅe̘̯̭͖̣̞͋rͯ̾-̹͖̹̬̘̈̈́ͨ͑͋̎K̪̲͔̙̝ͧ̚͢r̓ͮ̔üp̓̄̅ͣ҉͇p̃̈͏̜͙̞̤̱̟ won't even identify much more than random Matrix noise. I could probably even scrub some of their remote files if I felt so inclined, but eh, there would be toes to step on, no?

Either way, I am personally enjoying your efforts in Ṋ̥̘͓͕̮̝͐̀ͬͣ̋ͥ͂e͈͕͚̬͇̮̝ͯo͎̍̊͂̍͊͝-̯̭̯͈̰͊̂͑̈́T̖̘͇̙̼ͤ͂o̎̇̀͌̄̑̿k̛͔̙̮͉ͨͮ̒̍ͩ̈ͅyó͇͎̎ͧ̓ͨ̆͂ ̣, particularly in the methods you get drek done. Very original, professional, and effective indeed. And real, too. I can see your group dynamic is flourishing beyond the dreary mercenary mentality one comes to expect running. It brings a genuine smile to my face, and I gotta say, that's rare. Over here, I'm starting to see a bunch of scrub runners looking for a break. Perhaps some pointers are in order? Keke.

Oh, before I end this...DIY, I discovered something for you. Y'see, I was trawling through a bunch of N͖̩̙͗e̸̤̼͈͕̯̮̿̚ö̂́͑͏̺̳N̴̖̬̥͌̈́̉ͧ̽e̿͋ͤt̶͓̝̘̽̔͋ͬ̈́ Matrix logs scoping out potential runners for a job, and I stumbled across some uploaded camera images from April. Now, don't freak out, I scrubbed the tags so no connection will be made, no trace to be had. A little postcard for the scrapbook, or perhaps something to give to a crush -wink- up to you. Cleaned it up best I could do to isolate the image.

Consider it my gift in thanks for such a fun time sharing in your experiences.

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Well, that totally wasn't stalker material. Ah well. From my city to your current home, I (and likely my team) wish you a fraggin' good time causing drek all.

Wishing the best,

NAME REDACTED, callsign "Judge"

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[Telasi]

>>>>>[2075/06/25, 01:49 JST]

Wiz! I feel a little like I'm fragging famous, now. ...Come to think of it, that's probably not a great thing in this line of work. Hope you meant that about buying the first round, though, omae, 'cause this team might just take you up on it if we're ever in Seattle. Thanks, Judge. (^_^)/

Right, while I'm on, if anyone out there knows a local (that is, Kantou or Kansai area) Johnson with something short-term in the pipe, let me know. We've had a bit of a break and the intel we've got on the 18k isn't immediately actionable, so we're looking for a side job to keep us in the game until we can move again. Extractions or hardware steals preferred, but we're flexible.

OOC: No SR session today; I just got told that our GM can't make it, so no proper blog this week. Sorry, folks. In theory, we'll pick up next week as normal. As mentioned above, we're planning to try to do something other than hitting the 18k for a breather. After that, it'll be time for the big job. The 18k execs and their bodyguards are having a meeting somewhere in Neo-Tokyo, and we're going to hit 'em. Bonus points for being in a nice part of town, for extra challenge. If it works out, we should be done with the 18k plot.

[Broken Twin]

Man, you chummers are making me want get a crew together. Too bad the drek around my parts are too scared to run something other than their precious d20. -_-

Loving the recaps, y'all really getting me into the feel of the game.

[Lexson]

>>>>>[2075/06/25, 01:55 JST]

Wow, we have a fan. HI Judge, are you going to talk all fancy and the like the cat from the Super fragging Old Matrix game? Sorry I'm done, just that is what your call sign makes me think of. though if you are a cat man i would hop on a plane right now to meet you. Anywhosies Its been a while since i have updated its just nothing has happened that i felt overly needing to talk about. I mean Kykio has been busy with her hostess club so its not like I get to report that ship. other then that its been shifting though endless amounts of files and data stolen from the 18k. those gang wannabees had no consent of organization, nor apparently server protection.

I guess that is one thing to talk about how that infiltration went on our end a few weeks back. Well to start off Yo-yo is a sweet heart <3 he got me a parfait while we camped outside the 18k headquarters waiting on the place to clean out a bit. the whole misdirection thing worked rather well as soon as we saw people leave and took Yo-yo's arm and we just walked in. I'm mean seriously no one seemed to notice. Yo-yo did a mook impression and I just stayed calm and acted like an IT girl. We basically followed the signs to the offices on the sixth floor, and it was all going rather smoothly for the most part till the third floor. the doors on the elevator opened and a man got in, dressed all kinds of fancy and higher up. He asked for the second to top floor I pushed the button and we waited. I got nervous at that point, I'm Slavic in decent, young, and elvish, I can't imagine I look much like I belonged there. The man looked me over and Asked if I was new, clearly thinking something was up. I said i was acted cute and innocent saying I was recently Hired on to do IT that the servers needed a security check. He nodded and say that they did just recently had to "get rid of a guy", with all the villainous undertone I would expect from a Gang thug, before he directed me to a room on the sixth floor. The FRAGGING IDIOT LITERALLY TOLD ME WHERE THE SERVER ROOM WAS LOCATED. The world has no shortage of fools. Yo-yo accompanied me there and knocked out the two poor Dataslaves who had been server maintenance. It didn't take long for me to datasteal everything on those Fragging servers, and set them to format in two minuets. Then once again locked arms with Yo-yo and we started out the same way we came in.

Remember that guy in the elevator? yeah well he remembered me and must had checked me out with the employ list or something cause as we were getting ready to head back down he was waiting for us with guns leveled at our heads. I rabbited for the stairs and Yo-yo trows a flash bang at them. I had memorized the layout of the building before all this mess so getting to the stairs wasn't an issue, the true issue was that stairs take a long time and when the servers reset the building was thrown into lock down. Suits were taken to "safe zones" in the building and all the doors were sealed up. Its at this point Yo-yo showed me why we keep him round aside from just his sweet personality. The adept made me invisible and got us to the front door unnoticed. He then used an electronic lock pick to open it and boom home free.

Now for the most recent job. I'm just going to say some things and leave it at that. I don't like doctor Suzuki. I don't like Wet work. I understand sometimes killing is needed I just don't like it being the main focus of what we do. and something about the good doctor just makes me sick. I will do may part to make sure my team is safe even If I'm not a fan of what it is, all of them are the closest thing to real family I've ever known. That is really all I have to say on that, is I don't approve. Granted it did end up a bit good. Yo-yo once again was sweet on me, when I was getting bitter over the job he actually tried to calm me down. it was kinda cute.

Anywhosies I've talked everyone's ear off now. Have a good one.

((hey since everyone is doing art figured i would post my drawing of Alex. Its a bit rough but it works ^^))

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[HollowSeth]

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Hello people of the matrix. If you are reading this i have either been killed or worse i had my new friend Maria set this up for me. In case of my death or extended disappearance she is to post this and then wipe the data from my commlink.If im lucky this will never get used but i have no belief that i am immortal.

So a little bit of history here. My real name is Manuel not going to give the last name lest my sister is still well i hope you understand. I was born in good old sunny Seattle to SINless parents. At first life wasnt so bad there was work only people like us were good for and for the first twelve years of my life i lived mostly free of too many problems eat, sleep, run some packages for the local gangs, like clockwork. Then my sister was born, by this time my parents had started their decline Novacoke led to BTL's and well you know how that goes. Pretty soon i found myself having to do more and more trying to scavenge money to keep my sister clothed and fed. It was then that a man appeared his name was Vox. He took me and my sister under his wing for what i thought was nothing at first ,me and a few other kids he had adopted,Eight in total, would just need to train under him, learn how to shoot and do whatever he said, i was even lucky enough he had a good friend who was awakened like me. It was a few years of training and learning my combat magic. Even started dating another trainee named Terra, a nice Aztlaner elf girl, before things took a turn.

Turns out he wanted to train up some easy to manipulate kids and make sure they had everything to lose by not doing what he said so he could hire us out for some wet work jobs. It actually makes more sense to me now. It's easier to brainwash kids and people are generally less likely to immediately peg them as killers, it all makes a sick kind of fragging sense doesn't it? I would like to say i refused that i valiantly stood up and told him to go to hell, but no i went right along with it. I still remember the first job i ever did, it wasnt anything extravagant just a puggy man who had skipped paying protection one too many times. It went smoothly, i did as i was told and pounded on his apartment door acting frightened and he let me right in, at the time i just thought he was kind of a fool now...well now i wish to god there were more people like him around, after he let me in i pulled my predator V from my pocket, shut my eyes and pulled the trigger twice. I don't know how it was for anyone else but when i scored my first kill i felt sick and scared.I never even got his name but sometimes i still see his face when i close my eyes.

Fast forward to when i was sixteen and it still hit me every time. I finally decided enough was enough i had saved up money and Sarah was old enough to move so i watched and waited and planned. The one thing i did wrong was tell Terra my plan. At first she seemed great with it, even helped me etch out a better plan. I wont bore you with all the details it would take too long. But heres the short and sweet Terra ratted me out and when i tried to leave my old buddies and Vox were waiting for me with full clips. It wasn't a hard fight i was better than them and i had magic. I think it was after that, after i put a burst into Terras head that i stopped feeling much of anything other than the need to protect my little sister.

Well i've taken up enough of your time im tired and i could really use a drink. I just want to leave you with this it was a long time before i felt much and if your like me you may not have had much hope you ever would again . But sometimes happiness comes from the weirdest places sometimes its a nice day and sometimes only sometimes its a new family. Even if that family is really only a grumpy boss, a soft computer geek, an idiot ork, a wanna be ninja and an annoying hostess.I swear to god if Maria ever leaks this before its time im never going to be able to live it down. This is your favorite mage Karl signing out.

[Telasi]

>>>>>[2075/06/26, 21:44 JST]

Uh, what the frag? Karl, you're fine. I literally saw you like five minutes ago. Also, I'm grumpy because I'm tired and I have to deal with every fragging thing, so frag you.

Right, on to the regular blog. It's been a fragging looooong day, chummers. I got a job, survived an ambush, and built a car bomb! Sometimes life is really fragging interesting, all at once.

So first things first, jobs. We've been going pretty solidly against the 18k for a while, now, which gets old. We've got some time before we can hit them where we want to, but we didn't feel like just sitting around for that, so we went looking for a job. Yo-yo's fixer set us up with one; straight datasteal from a secure lab, with the catch that we have to be done before the weekend. Pretty standard stuff, really. Ordinarily, that would be a blog post on its, own, but not this time. We actually haven't gotten to doing the run, mostly because of the next thing on the list.

Yeah, ambush. Remember those tablets we stole back in Seattle? Well, Genius has really been wanting to get them translated, so she put in a request with Yo-yo's fixer to track down somebody who could do it. He found one, unfortunately. Problem is, the fragging slitch talked about the meeting. So, the meeting was held in a museum. Slitch didn't show up on time, so we almost left without meeting. Then, an hour later, the fragging kill squads showed up. The museum was closed at that point, so we were basically the only ones there. Wheelz and Karl, on lookout, fortunately saw them coming, so we didn't get caught by surprise, just barely armed. Seriously, among the five of us, we had four tasers, three swords, two pairs of shock gloves, a machine pistol, and a flash-bang. Well, and magic. Karl's exit was less watched, so we picked that for our breakout point. Karl wasted most of them with magic while we regrouped there, then we grabbed the one survivor and the fragging museum slitch and jumped in their van. That turned into a car chase when their other van pulled out after us. The chase ended about ten seconds later, courtesy of Karl turning their tires into melted rubber. MVP of the night: Karl fragging Kombatmage, chummers. Given him a fragging hand; he earned it hardcore.

After making a clean getaway and ditching the trackers, we dragged the museum slitch (name: Ayumi) and the surviving gunman off to our favorite abandoned warehouse to find out what the frag was going on. Long story short, museum slitch was probably our security leak; she told her boss, and outgoing call logs show him making contact with our gunmen. Loose ends, fun. The gunman was more helpful; apparently there's a full cell of highly augmented fraggers gunning for us. Like two dozen, after the ones we geeked are subtracted. He was kind enough to give us a breakdown on their assets and base, so we're going to deal with them the Seattle way before they come at us again. That would be the reason for the car bomb mentioned above. Twenty-five fragging kilograms of explosives, one commlink, one van, one base soon to be gone. I love my job sometimes. (^_^) Oh, we added up what the cyberware of the guys we geeked cost (we had a body from the gunman we interrogated to check, and Doc Suzuki was kind enough to help us out) and did some math; apparently, somebody has six million nuyen to waste on geeking us, before gear and the building. I feel special.

In random miscellany, Genius apparently liked my sleep regulator, so she got one installed. Some other augments, too. Given her insomnia issues, I think it was a good call.

[Lexson]

>>>>>[2075/06/26, 16:28 JST]


Life is Fragging beautiful <3
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>>>>>[2075/06/26, 22:35 JST]

Hello my lovely Matrix. As Teacher has pointed out, I have actually gotten bio-wear for the first time. To sleep for once truly sleep deeply has just been heaven. I actually dreamed I have never dreamed before. It was strange yet wonderful and for once my body feels very relaxed and just..
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Life is wonderful I slept and i still have lots of time to do things. I dyed my hair violet since I have been wanted to get rid of this black, and learned how to drive. I feel amazing, I'm sure that this good feeling will fall into a normality but for right now,
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the Warmth and numbness that just wraps around you, it is near orgasmic.

A thing i do have to say is that I didn't like going under the knife. the Idea of someone poking about my brain. I have already stated my thoughts on Susuki but i had never met him in person till recently. I met him and he still gives me a bad feeling. I know this is childish but i did ask for company. I wanted someone to keep an eye on the good doctor as he poked around my head. DIY, Karl (despite his exhaustion), and wheels all came to support me. <3. Wheels spent some of the time trying to get pain meds off the good doc, and was shot down, and the others just stayed close. I can only imagine what would have happened if the doctor had messed up the operation. Eather way it went well and i got to experience true sleep.

Anyway my thoughts on our new work. Meh, though i do have a vested interest in the data to be stolen. We will have to see. As for the tablet etchings, I am sorry. I'm so sorry everyone i didn't think they would cause this much trouble. I was curious as to why a corp would want it them so bad, plus maybe selling them on the sides. I thought the lady was rather helpful, just fro someone with such education doesn't seem to be that street smart. I bet the woman has had a very soft life. Anywhoies, I think things may go quite well.

[HollowSeth]

>>>>>[2075/06/26, 23:00 JST]

.... God damn it maria you thrice damned program i gave that to you in confidence. To hell with it. Hello people of the matrix as you can tell i am still alive and kicking even after our little dance with the gunmen at the museum. First off the boss lady forgot to mention a few things first off i got a good view of these guys on the astral plane and they had more chrome on them than a wanna be yaks compensation muscle car. She was also wrong in saying that i really took them out i mean to be fair a little gripping of their minds and all i had to do was sit back,give an order, and let them unload their ares alphas into each other. Oh and finish off all but one of the survivors with a swift stab to the throat with my katana. I have to admit I'm actually really happy teach gave me lessons on how to use one effectively. Also lets be fair it isn't hard to slag some tires with a quick fire spell though I will gladly take the MVP trophy for the night which in our group means an extra beer and bragging rights for the next couple of hours.

Also just as a note genius has,if you couldn't already tell by her post, really been enjoying that fancy new sleep regulator she got i just hope we can actually get her awake when we need her. And as per genius's musings on what would have happened had the Doc botched the operation i can say pretty much exactly what would have happened. I mean a clip of ex-ex, a fire blast and having whats left over be pounded on by an orc usually adds up to a painful death. Lucky for us the surgery was not botched we have a happy, if slightly creepily so, Genius and we got to keep one our favorite street doc. Well I've taken up enough of your time if you'll excuse me I'm going to go try to discover a way to somehow beat a certain unnamed program who likes to post peoples personal things without permission with a baseball bat.