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[shadowrun] [Later, to check Thurgun's healing, Emvee's sword, and Thorn's body.]
[shadowrun] katre says, "basically, first you make a Body(6) check, to see if you need a doctor"
GM has arrived.
GM says, "Okay, roll Body, TN 6"
Thurgun asks, "No pool dice?"
GM says, "nope"
GM says, "but use your body 7"
[shadowrun] Thurgun rolls 7t6: 6+4 6+1 4 3 3 2 1 | 2
GM says, "since trolls are big and craggy and whatnot"
Thurgun says, "Wahoo."
GM says, "Cool. you will heal naturally"
[shadowrun] Jota says, "Oh, speaking of rolling, I forgot to roll for the sword."
GM says, "Now we figure how long it takes"
GM says, "Basically, you have to heal in stages, S to M, M to L, L to fine"
Thurgun says, "Alrighty."
[shadowrun] Thurgun says (to Jota), "Join us ;-)"
[shadowrun] GM says, "so for the S to M stage, roll Body, TN 8. the number of successes are used to reduce the base time, 20 days, to the minimum possible, 2"
GM says, "what I said on channel"
Emvee has arrived.
Thurgun says, "TN 8? Wow. OK."
GM says, "yeah"
Thurgun asks, "Again, no pool dice? Karma dice?"
[shadowrun] Gunther says, "you know, it doesn't help that I think of S M L as Small Medium Large"
[shadowrun] Thurgun rolls 7t8: 1 2 6+5 1 6+4 3 4 | 2
GM says, "no pool, you could use the karma die if you wanted but it won't refresh until the next run"
Thurgun says, "Hey, sweet."
GM says, "so it takes you 10 days"
GM says, "and then you are M"
[shadowrun] Emvee asks, "Am I the only one who remembers Diminutive?"
GM says, "same thing M to L, except TN 6, base time 10 days, minimum time 1 day"
[shadowrun] Thurgun says (to Gunther), "That always always gets me."
GM says, "it gets easier the further you heal"
Thurgun asks, "Is it divided by the # of successes, or is there a table?"
GM says, "it's divided. so 20 / 2 = 10"
[shadowrun] Thurgun rolls 7t6: 3 4 6+1 4 5 5 2 | 1
GM says, "Another 10 days and you are at L"
Thurgun asks, "And now TN 4?"
GM says, "last stage, L to fully healed, TN 4, 24 hours"
Thurgun says, "Heh."
[shadowrun] Thurgun rolls 7t4: 6+4 5 1 6+2 3 2 6+2 | 4
Thurgun asks (of dice), "Why couldn't you have reversed those last two?"
GM says, "okay, so after 20 days and 6 hours, you are one fine troll"
[shadowrun] inky says (to Emvee), "ha ha"
Eolo has arrived.
Thurgun says, "Hey, I'm *always* one fine troll."
GM says, "hee hee"
Emvee asks, "I take it our next run will take place three weeks later?"
Thurgun asks, "Can I have examined Thorn's body before it decomposed?"
[shadowrun] GM asks, "since we have decent number of people here, how are people for the afternoon of the 10th?"
Emvee says, "For the sword:"
GM asks (of Thurgun), "examined how?"
[shadowrun] Emvee rolls 9t4: 6+6+5 3 6+3 3 5 5 6+4 3 3 | 5
[shadowrun] Gunther says, "can't say yet"
[shadowrun] Emvee asks, "I think I'm OK. That's two weeks from today?"
[shadowrun] GM says, "my basic idea is that I will put up a description of the meet with Johnson on a web forum on my site, people do all sorts of planning and questioning there for a week, and then we execute the run on the 10th, two weeks from today"
Thurgun says, "I was imagining taking the body to my shamanic lodge and doing observation and magical stuff. But I dunno exactly what."
GM says, "It's dead. there's not much magical left to examine"
[shadowrun] Thurgun says, "Hey, that's an idea."
[shadowrun] Gunther says, "oh, I absolutely refuse to see it"
[shadowrun] GM says, "so I'd get that up by next sunday and there'd be a week to futz with it"
[shadowrun] Emvee asks, "Posting IC on the forum?"
[shadowrun] Gunther says, "ilac"
[shadowrun] GM says (to Emvee), "yeah"
[shadowrun] Eolo says, "cool"
[shadowrun] Thurgun says, "The 10th is the day my in-laws leave town, at least theoretically."
[shadowrun] GM says (to thurgun), "hmm"
[shadowrun] GM says, "I'll be out from the 14th to the 17th, which is why I was hoping for that weekend"
[shadowrun] Emvee asks, "How many karma points does it take to increase your karma pool?"
[shadowrun] GM says, "every 10th karma you earn goes into your pool automatically"
[shadowrun] GM says, "I'll write up the karma rules soon"
[shadowrun] Thurgun says, "And, checking with Sara, she's not sure if they'll actually head out that day or in the next day or two."
[shadowrun] Thurgun says, "So, basically, I'm pretty iffy then."
[shadowrun] Thurgun asks, "Does the karma pool refresh every run?"
[shadowrun] GM says, "basically, yes"
[shadowrun] GM says, "it refreshes every long-down-time"
[shadowrun] GM says, "so if you did two runs back to back it wouldn't refresh"
[shadowrun] GM says, "but if you have a week to kick up and relax, it does"
[shadowrun] Thurgun asks, "If I was to use my karma for healing, would it count for the run that just ended, or the next run? Or does it not really matter, since the next run won't be for another 20+ days in any event?"
[shadowrun] GM says, "the run that just ended"
[shadowrun] GM asks, "want to add the karma to one of the healing stages?"
[shadowrun] Thurgun says, "Might as well use it, then."
[shadowrun] GM says, "sure, do it"
[shadowrun] Thurgun asks, "I read somewhere that I can use it to re-roll failures--is that the case here, or is it just another die?"
[shadowrun] GM says, "basically it acts like a drama in 7th sea"
[shadowrun] GM says, "just add a die to any roll, even retroactively"
[shadowrun] Thurgun says, "OK, lemme see if I can up the second stage, where I only had one success."
[shadowrun] Thurgun rolls 1t6: 1 | FRAGGIN' CRITICAL FAILURE
[shadowrun] GM says, "aww"
Thurgun says (to die), "You are not a very good karma die."
[shadowrun] GM says, "sargent is so mean"
[shadowrun] Emvee says, "GM says, "the critical failure doubles your recovery time, though""
[shadowrun] Thurgun says, "Hee hee"
[shadowrun] Thurgun says, "It's *added*"
Thurgun asks, "Hmm. How much would it be to have a surgeon do an autopsy on Thorn?"
Asher says, "it'd have to be a rush job, since he's decaying"
Thurgun says, "Yeah."
Emvee says, "We could possibly find someone to do it for free, just for the chance to see soemthing like this."
GM says, "You'd need to get Jim to rush it, you'd be looking at at least a thousand nuyen"
Thurgun says, "Anyone want to go in with me on this? I'm thinking Saeder-Krupp might pay for the info."
Thurgun says, "But it's a risk, of course."
Thurgun says, "On the other hand, we'd know ourselves, too."
Emvee asks (of GM), "If I called DuMont, is there a chance he'd know anyone in the biology department who'd be interested in getting to take apart something as weird as this, without charge?"
GM asks, "who is DuMont again?"
Emvee says, "Magic instructor at Reifler Tech."
GM says, "he could call somebody, but he'd have trouble getting them to rush"
Emvee says (to Thurgun), "Anyway, I can chip in my last 200nY if you really want."
Thurgun says (to Emvee), "It's an investment--totally up to you."
Thurgun says, "O'i have enough to risk."
[shadowrun] Thurgun says, "Also, you spent that $$ really fast ;-)"
Emvee says, "If y'get th'rest o' th'nen, y'can 'ave mine too."
[shadowrun] Emvee says, "Foci are pricey."
[shadowrun] Thurgun says, "Oooooh."
Asher says, "sure, I'll chip in"
[shadowrun] Thurgun says, "Hey, I can help with that."
[shadowrun] Emvee says, "Oh, hey, that's right."
[shadowrun] Thurgun asks, "Say, 500/500/200?"
[shadowrun] GM says, "okay, for that and Emvee's contacts, you get a guy rushing to take a look at the body"
DrSilenia has arrived.
DrSilenia says, "Hmm, an interesting if atypical specimen."
DrSilenia says, "Let's take a look at the eyes, first."
Emvee says, "S'ry 'bout th'oles in't."
DrSilenia says, "Clearly biological. Incision shows little differentiation of the organ."
DrSilenia says, "If it wasn't for the size, and the fact that this is mostly a human, I'd say it was a compound eye."
[shadowrun] Asher says, "oh crap"
DrSilenia asks, "Let's look at the...what did you say? Extra arms?"
[shadowrun] GM says, "mwha ha ha"
Thurgun asks, "Compound eye would be <grunt> bigger?"
Thurgun nods, pulls open Thorn's jacket.
DrSilenia says (to Thurgun), "No, no, all the examples I've seen were smaller. Insects, spiders, etc."
DrSilenia says, "Although this does seem to be proportional to the body."
Thurgun says, "Ah, roight."
DrSilenia says, "Hmm, veeeery interesting."
DrSilenia says, "Let's take a look, I wonder what this hooks into."
DrSilenia says, "Hmm, while there are clearly bones in the little arms, they don't really connect into the larger bone system."
DrSilenia says, "Clearly stunted, I wonder what they were supposed to be."
DrSilenia asks, "This is some sort of forced-cloning system?"
DrSilenia says, "Who did this work, it's very advanced medically."
Asher says, "I don't think we know"
Asher asks, "could magical assistance have been involved?"
Thurgun says, "Cloning? O'i dunno. Guy's chummer said he went off one day to get 'cyberware', came back like this with the eyes. Didn't see the arms, 'course."
DrSilenia says (to Asher), "Magic, really? Magic is fine for simple tricks and stunts, but is useless for fine work like this."
Thurgun swallows back a comment.
Emvee frowns.
Thurgun asks, "So, what's a forced cloning system?"
[shadowrun] * NewsBoy hollers, "Extra! Extra! katre has posted message 20, about 'Forum', to the bulletin board! How come PollBoy is more popular?"
[shadowrun] Asher says, "hee hee"
[shadowrun] Gunther says, "there, all registered"
DrSilenia says (to Thurgun), "It's a type of technology commonly used to regrow lost limbs, that sort of thing. They pick the spot, apply some nasty chemicals, biologicals, radiation, and the limb starts regrowing."
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DrSilenia says, "In theory, you could use it to grow entirely different limbs. Presumably even from different species."
DrSilenia says, "Although I hadn't heard the art was this advanced."
DrSilenia asks, "Some megacorp's research lab, hmmm?"
[shadowrun] Emvee says, "Crap. I'm not 13 yet, so I can't register."
[shadowrun] katre says (to gunther), "you're activated!"
[shadowrun] Gunther says, "hoorah"
[shadowrun] * NewsBoy hollers, "Extra! Extra! katre has posted message 21, about 'Forum-wide RSS', to the bulletin board! This is something completely new, really just part of your randomness."
Emvee asks, "What species'd th'arms look like?"
DrSilenia says, "The arms look human."
[shadowrun] Gunther says, "OOOH"
[shadowrun] Emvee says, "Registered."
[shadowrun] Gunther asks, "does *that* require registration?"
[shadowrun] katre says, "nope"
DrSilenia says, "I'd need to do some tests to be sure."
[shadowrun] Gunther asks, "not even if you htpasswd?"
DrSilenia says, "Why don't I start those, but it'll be a while before I know for sure."
[shadowrun] katre says, "I don't have htpasswd yet"
[shadowrun] katre says, "when I do, I'll probably let the RSS through unless it looks totally unsafe"
[shadowrun] Gunther subs
[shadowrun] DrSilenia says, "ie, I won't tell you for another run or two :)"
[shadowrun] Thurgun says, "Hee hee"
[shadowrun] GM says, "any other questions? I have dinner at my in-laws to go do"
Thurgun says (to Dr), "Anything else unusual about the guy? He was...unusually strong."
Emvee says, "'K. Any other diff'rent b-- yeah."
DrSilenia says, "I'll run some tests on the muscles, see if it's a vat job or what."
Emvee says, "We di'n't strip 'im, so I dunno if 'e's got like wings or somethin'."
DrSilenia says, "I'll do a full body check."
[shadowrun] Emvee says, "I'm set."
[shadowrun] Emvee asks, "Should Thurgun and I try out focus-creation without you?"
[shadowrun] Emvee says, "(If he wants to do it, that is.)"
Thurgun nods. "Thank you for coming out on such short notice."
[shadowrun] Thurgun says, "(I'm afk a bit, but when I come back; sure.)"
DrSilenia says, "No worries, this is one interesting beastie."
Emvee nods. "Yeah, thanks."
[shadowrun] DrSilenia says, "go ahead"
npc1 has disconnected.
npc1 goes home.
[shadowrun] Gunther says, "DrSilenia, eh? A... clue!"
[shadowrun] GM asks, "I posted the rules, right?"
[shadowrun] Emvee asks, "http://www.henchmonkey.org/shadowrun/mits-enchanting.html ?"
[shadowrun] GM says, "focus creation is lower in karma but more expensive in times and materials"
[shadowrun] [Edit: Except it turns out that it's higher in karma and time, and less expensive. Further bulletins as events warrant.]