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There's loud, wet crunching in everyone's ears. Big Mac Sexy is eating. His chewing stops momentarily. He's considering what to say to Herald. "Reduce the chit-chat, sparky" is what he goes with. Crunch crunch crunch. "Mr. Johnson wants to handle the drop personally. I'm sending you an address...

The Black IC will launch at the start of round five. We are currently at the end of round three.

The junction is a few hundred meters up, just beyond the terminal the train is about to pass. There are two other tracks the car can jump to when it reaches the junction: One track heads generally north and eventually winds through Newark's North Ward, a much poorer area of the borough you're...

Death Otter - The Matrix, NYNet, NYS Transit Train 213 Host Death Otter continues to make good progress. One by one the train's systems are yielding themselves to her. She tries to shake the feeling that it's all about to fall apart. At the back of the car her crack sprite's corruption is...

Faust, Herald, and Lum - New York, Newark, Subway Train 213 There's a squeal of brakes and the runners watch as the tail half of the train recedes away. The fire spirit, getting smaller as it pulls into the distance, POPs and explodes. The concussive force from the blast extinguishes the flames...

Herald tries to aim through the pain of his injuries. When he fires the bullet buries itself into a plastic seat behind balaclava's head. Agility 5 + Pistols 3 + Holdout spec 2 + Take Aim 1 - Wound Penalty 3 = 1 success link No net successes Attack missed Balaclava shrinks into his cover as...

The Getaway Van - New York, Newark, Alleyway Newark's East Ward is busier than anywhere else in the borough and there are two levels of streets in most places here: The ground-level and the upstreet about 10 meters above. The busiest corners have parking garages above them - entire five or six...

Yeah, without owner permissions she's always going to need to make the appropriate spoofing rolls. And another apology to GlassEye: It was while reading through the book just a little earlier I was reminded of GridGuide and the RCC's ability to split noise reduction with autosoft mounting. So...

All four of those are doable, it just takes successful spoofs from Otter. Signalling the track change is high priority because if you miss the next station's junction you'll have to wait another four or five rounds for a route switch. It means that it's best if Lum uses remote control with the...

A rigger interface doesn't impart on a vehicle the ability to drive itself (I'd have to do some reading on the subject if you'd like to implement this in the future - it shouldn't be hard to do as the vehicle is already capable of being controlled remotely. But it's not standard). So there are...

A note about how I handle cover: I'll let you benefit from cover even if you haven't reused the Take Cover action at the end of a pass. If you haven't exposed yourself since last taking cover (for example, you've been reloading or taking a drug) you get all the cover's bonus. If you have exposed...

It's hard for Lum to aim when he's been shot to pieces. He's seeing two Lunchmeats so he picks one and opens fire. BAM! There's a fresh hole between her eyes. She exhales a plume of red smoke and crumples dead. Her body falls through the fire spirit and explodes into flame. Rolling 7 dice...

Accuracy is a limit on your shooting rolls. A limit is a hard cap on how many successes you can score. So if you have a limit of 7 it means any successes above 7 are ignored. Think of it as max damage. Only when you start to get truly monstrous dice pools does the accuracy limit start coming...

No, you're not missing anything - I screwed up. Go ahead and take your turn now and I'll resolve it before Death Otter's (it would have resolved prior to Faust's, as well).

Balaclava's shooting comes to an abrupt end as molten shards erupt from the æther around him. The interior of the car is ablaze and wageslaves are running toward the tail of the train. "Shi-i-it!" Though clearly terrified, balaclava keeps it together. It's somewhat impressive, really - he's been...

When - on your next turn? That depends if balaclava has another 20 rounds he can spend on suppressing fire. It's unlikely. Chances are he'll have to spend his entire turn reloading.

No, Rubberneck, you will not be going again before balaclava. Your initiative won't drop until the end of the pass and you've already taken your turn this pass.

Yeah, changes will take a while to have an effect in meatspace just by the nature of how little time is actually passing in combat. That entire first round only took three seconds, during which the train only traveled about 159 meters.

Yup! Just like today's New York subway cars. They're different models in 2078 of course, but they still have that feature. A car dedicated to pulling the rest of the train would be too wasteful of space so instead there's distributed power beneath the floors of each car. Edit: In any case, note...

GlassEye, The way recoil works is that it grows by 1 for every bullet you fire and it accumulates over turns. Simply spending a pass not shooting (as it has just done) will totally reset recoil. The Roto-Drone will be back to slaughtering meatsacks on its next pass. Mosier, it's Herald's...