For the one year anniversary of Edgerunners, we thought we’d let those following the story see behind the curtain. In play, we run a “game chat” on skype which is where the dialogue and description happens – and where the adventure logs come from. We also run a back-stage “Out of character” chat for dice rolls, non-PC interaction and general chat. Here it is in all its unedited glory…

[4/10/2013 7:53:24 PM] Langy: Gaming getting started. Posted that a little earlier, so wait one while I outline WTF you are;)
[4/10/2013 7:55:39 PM] Mac: Awesome, Steve – I have so many tabs open for this bloody character…
[4/10/2013 7:57:47 PM] Langy: Oh, you can post now:)
[4/10/2013 7:57:50 PM] Pacoy: (If you want to see a geeky older guy impress the hell out of you, google Remy Presas)
[4/10/2013 7:59:53 PM] Wormwood: Area knowledge for an alternate, Langy? What’s the modifier from A.K. (Night City)?
[4/10/2013 8:01:24 PM] Langy: 2 – it’s still pretty close to NC.
[4/10/2013 8:01:55 PM] Mac: Sav-Faire police to see if they’d care if we scooted out?
[4/10/2013 8:02:11 PM] Langy: Good choice, Mac.
[4/10/2013 8:02:16 PM] Langy: Go ahead and roll.
[4/10/2013 8:02:38 PM] Wormwood: //m13 A.K.-2
[4/10/2013 8:02:39 PM] Langy: steve.hynd rolled 3d 6; result:
1, 2, 3 = 6 vs 13 -2 = 11
Margin of Success: 5
[4/10/2013 8:02:47 PM] Mac: //m15
[4/10/2013 8:02:48 PM] Langy: rase.cidraen rolled 3d 6; result:
1, 6, 3 = 10 vs 15
Margin of Success: 5
[4/10/2013 8:03:44 PM] Pitbull: Any fucks given if we leave?
[4/10/2013 8:04:41 PM] Langy: It’s going to be pretty hard to avoid the border checkpoint – sure, people can walk across the border pretty easily, but it’s not so porous for great honkin’ SUVs unless you want to offroad it in a mostly-urban environment.
[4/10/2013 8:04:53 PM] Wormwood: Hmmm, that was actually an MoS7 btw – base skill is 15
[4/10/2013 8:05:58 PM] Langy: At this point, you’ve got one chance of getting out of the line, but to do so would require maneuvering yoru big honkin’ SUV to the outside lane – and doing so at this stage could conceivably make fucks be given.
[4/10/2013 8:06:37 PM] Langy: Unless, of course, you want to make a u-turn, which has its own share of problems.
[4/10/2013 8:07:15 PM] Mac: Any cares from the Police?
[4/10/2013 8:07:18 PM] Langy: Yes
[4/10/2013 8:07:28 PM] Langy: Read my directly previous message.
[4/10/2013 8:07:37 PM] Mac: Oh, sorry
[4/10/2013 8:07:41 PM] Langy: (remember – you’re at the border crossing between countries)
[4/10/2013 8:07:47 PM] Mac: Wasn’t sure if that was directed at W
[4/10/2013 8:07:58 PM] Pacoy: 2050 road-rage laws: what if we open fire with a chaingun to clear some traffic? :)
[4/10/2013 8:08:17 PM] Wormwood: I think the cops would then give a chain-cannon fuck :)
[4/10/2013 8:08:20 PM] Langy: You’d probably just cause a massive accident scene;)
[4/10/2013 8:08:24 PM] Langy: That too:D
[4/10/2013 8:09:05 PM] Mac: And then we’d be going nowhere at all.
[4/10/2013 8:10:01 PM] Pacoy: This close to LA? Can’t we yell “Black Rage” and the road-rage gets dismissed? :|
[4/10/2013 8:11:38 PM] Langy: (to be clear, the ‘fucks given’ were mostly of the ‘go over there and talk to that guy and maybe do a search of his vehicle’ kind rather than the ‘shoot first, ask questions later’ kind)
[4/10/2013 8:11:48 PM] Mac: Ah, right.
[4/10/2013 8:11:56 PM] Wormwood: Acting
[4/10/2013 8:12:11 PM] Wormwood: //m16
[4/10/2013 8:12:21 PM] Wormwood: to look like a bodyguard for the news anchor.
[4/10/2013 8:12:39 PM] Pitbull: But I have a LC 1 weapon in cargo. They will flip their shit something fierce if they catch that.
[4/10/2013 8:12:39 PM] Wormwood: throw in some silent Intimidation (I have the perk for that)
[4/10/2013 8:12:52 PM] Mac: Oh, oh dear.
[4/10/2013 8:12:52 PM] Wormwood: //m14
[4/10/2013 8:13:33 PM] Pitbull: So does Pits, but they’ll be more afraid of the Reaper that no civilian is supposed to own.
[4/10/2013 8:13:46 PM] Langy: steve.hynd rolled 3d 6; result:
6, 3, 4 = 13 vs 16
Margin of Success: 3
[4/10/2013 8:13:46 PM] Langy: steve.hynd rolled 3d 6; result:
2, 4, 6 = 12 vs 14
Margin of Success: 2
[4/10/2013 8:15:05 PM] Langy: You may have considered that prior to planning an international trip. Then again, I can’t really fault you for forgetting that it was international up until now when I forgot about border checkpoints myself until recently. Still, there needs to be consequences for low-LC gear – and here’s some:D
[4/10/2013 8:15:22 PM] Mac: Indeed indeed…
[4/10/2013 8:15:24 PM | Edited 8:15:38 PM] Wormwood: Holdout roll at least? Or Smuggling?
[4/10/2013 8:15:39 PM] Langy: Smuggling
[4/10/2013 8:16:47 PM] Mac: Not much I got that can help with that…
[4/10/2013 8:17:07 PM] Wormwood: Stet, smuggling or IQ-5 if you ain’t got it.
[4/10/2013 8:17:44 PM] Pitbull: Shit. I just found holdout, but no smuggling. :(
[4/10/2013 8:18:10 PM] Mac: I can do IQ-5 if Pitbull lets Mac know he needs help.
[4/10/2013 8:18:13 PM] Mac: IQ 14
[4/10/2013 8:18:31 PM] Mac: Holdout 14 as well, if there’s any synergy
[4/10/2013 8:19:04 PM] Pitbull: He would be in the position to. It’s not like I can just Stretch Armstrong my ass back there from the driver’s seat. :P
[4/10/2013 8:20:06 PM] Mac: Hahaha
[4/10/2013 8:20:19 PM] Langy: Roll at 4 due to the size of the vehicle, if you’re hiding it within the vehicle itself, or at +0 if you’re hiding it within a bag that’s in the trunk.
[4/10/2013 8:20:38 PM] Wormwood: take the +4 mac!
[4/10/2013 8:20:48 PM] Mac: I will take the +4
[4/10/2013 8:20:48 PM] Mac: :)
[4/10/2013 8:20:50 PM] Wormwood: we’ll get the damn thing out later
[4/10/2013 8:21:09 PM] Mac: //m14-54 (untrained, size)
[4/10/2013 8:21:09 PM] Langy: rase.cidraen rolled 3d 6; result:
3, 1, 1 = 5 vs 14 2 = 12
Margin of Success: 7
[4/10/2013 8:21:52 PM] Mac: …that looks like it did the math wrong – should be 14 – 1, right?
[4/10/2013 8:22:32 PM] Wormwood: yep
[4/10/2013 8:23:19 PM] Wormwood: amazingly, Wormie’s valk rifle is LC3.
[4/10/2013 8:23:23 PM] Langy: Very lucky, nice:)
[4/10/2013 8:23:34 PM] Langy: And yes, that should be 14-1. Wierd.
[4/10/2013 8:23:43 PM] Langy: The valk isn’t automatic.
[4/10/2013 8:24:02 PM] Langy: Anyways, I gotta take a bio break – we’ll do with that roll in a moment.
[4/10/2013 8:24:19 PM] Pitbull: ???
[4/10/2013 8:24:56 PM] Wormwood: did you leave your brain behind tonight, Pits. biological break…
[4/10/2013 8:25:03 PM] Wormwood: :)
[4/10/2013 8:25:31 PM] Wormwood: I don’t wanna take the piss, but that’s an obvious one lol
[4/10/2013 8:25:37 PM] Pitbull: As in “piss break”? And yeah, I probably did… :P
[4/10/2013 8:26:04 PM] Mac: Hahahaha
[4/10/2013 8:27:29 PM | Edited 8:27:43 PM] Pitbull: I think it’s because I’m in character. Pits isn’t book smart, but he has an almost common sense-like understanding. :P
[4/10/2013 8:27:55 PM] Mac: hahaha
[4/10/2013 8:27:56 PM] Pacoy: Here I thought he was going to talk to his biographer… ;)
[4/10/2013 8:28:06 PM] Wormwood: that’s a good excuse, dude, stick to it!
[4/10/2013 8:28:12 PM] Mac: He could be – maybe his biographer is in the bathroom?
[4/10/2013 8:28:22 PM] Mac: Odd place to have a conversation like that, but maybe it’s very in-depth.
[4/10/2013 8:28:23 PM] Pitbull: Here I thought he was going to feed his tank of snakes. :P
[4/10/2013 8:28:38 PM] Wormwood: lol
[4/10/2013 8:28:59 PM] Wormwood: Or he’s off to play Bioshock Infinite and left us hanging here
[4/10/2013 8:29:14 PM] Langy: and I’m back.
[4/10/2013 8:29:31 PM] Mac: Wb!
[4/10/2013 8:29:36 PM | Edited 8:30:10 PM] Pitbull: And all the hilarity you can catch up on. :P
[4/10/2013 8:29:57 PM] Langy: We got rid of the tanks of snakes a while back.
[4/10/2013 8:30:07 PM] Langy: (that’s tanks with an ‘s’ as in multiple)
[4/10/2013 8:30:15 PM] Pacoy: Had to write a background story for an NPC != bio break?
[4/10/2013 8:30:19 PM] Wormwood: I thought we only had those in Texas
[4/10/2013 8:30:29 PM] Langy: I think at max we had something like 35 snakes?
[4/10/2013 8:30:46 PM] Mac: Snakes? Why did it have to be snakes.
[4/10/2013 8:30:47 PM] Langy: In several different tanks, of course.
[4/10/2013 8:30:58 PM] Pitbull: No. We’re just the only state that carries the incredibly venomous ones.
[4/10/2013 8:31:05 PM] Wormwood: Jesh, Langy, did you join one of those texas snake cults?
[4/10/2013 8:31:08 PM] Mac: OK to find a decent hiding spot in the car, L?
[4/10/2013 8:31:40 PM] Langy: Yeah. Ours were more of the ‘strangle and swallow’ kind. My sister actually got on an ‘animal psychic’ show with our 7-foot long python.
[4/10/2013 8:31:58 PM] Wormwood: I’m fairly sure they;re a cover for Elder Thing worship. There’s a cthonian lives under Big Spring and they all secretly worship him, ‘cept for me and Pits.
[4/10/2013 8:32:01 PM] Langy: Anyways. Back to gridlock.
[4/10/2013 8:32:09 PM] Wormwood: yeah.
[4/10/2013 8:33:32 PM] Pitbull: And all because we were the visitors who didn’t trust the tap water… tainted mercury and all…
[4/10/2013 8:34:16 PM] Pitbull: Not just any mercury, but mercury that whispers four dimensional lies as you digest it. :)
[4/10/2013 8:34:30 PM] Mac: …that’s… some pungent stuff.
[4/10/2013 8:34:52 PM] Pacoy: They all secretly worship the Old Ones, except for Steve and Pit: they’re very upfront about it. So, does Mac expect me to pretend to be a reporter? My Acting isn’t that great, but my bot will act as cam for anyone.
[4/10/2013 8:35:15 PM] Mac: Well, I’m in the back hiding an illegal firearm
[4/10/2013 8:35:29 PM] Mac: I though Mac and W are under the impression that you’re the one to go to :)
[4/10/2013 8:35:32 PM] Wormwood: S’ok – Wormie has a plan, sorta
[4/10/2013 8:35:39 PM] Mac: I have no acting skill at all.
[4/10/2013 8:35:42 PM] Pitbull: Admittedly, I’ve gulped down my fair share of the awful stuff. I just think my mind wasn’t a target.
[4/10/2013 8:35:58 PM] Mac: Just an Honest Face and Body language.
[4/10/2013 8:36:27 PM] Mac: You’ve got a subversive intelligence, Stet, that’s why. The Cthonian would have had it’s mind taken over if it had tried.
[4/10/2013 8:36:40 PM] Wormwood: Shoulda called her Lucy. “The girl with the cybercam eyeeeeesssss.”
[4/10/2013 8:37:25 PM] Wormwood: I think she’s making a pass at Mac. It’s always him she’s asking if he does this often.
[4/10/2013 8:37:51 PM] Langy: You’re right. Your body was the target, Stet.
[4/10/2013 8:38:19 PM] Pitbull: Truth… Or I was already mad when the water hit me. Or scarier yet, I might be a sleeper agent. D: Just waiting for a certain four dimensional phrase to be spoken before I snap and murder people. :)
[4/10/2013 8:38:38 PM] Wormwood: that’s a mighty thin target, L. In real life, If Pits turns sideways he disappears.
[4/10/2013 8:39:35 PM] Mac: Hahaha
[4/10/2013 8:40:09 PM] Mac: I don’t get the impression that Mac gets to do anything repetitive often.
[4/10/2013 8:41:19 PM] Pacoy: Well, you better not be if we have to share a tent, that’s all I’m saying!
[4/10/2013 8:41:29 PM] Wormwood: roflmao
[4/10/2013 8:41:39 PM] Wormwood: do andriods…? nevermind.
[4/10/2013 8:41:52 PM] Mac: Hahahaha
[4/10/2013 8:42:17 PM] Pacoy: do redneck androids bugger electronic sheep…
[4/10/2013 8:42:18 PM] Wormwood: is mac putting this convo on the general team channel?
[4/10/2013 8:43:09 PM] Pitbull: Mac – This a mission, not E Harmony! Keep your android-ass booty calls out of the business! :P
[4/10/2013 8:43:43 PM] Pitbull: No. They just bugger three times the ammount of real sheep. :D
[4/10/2013 8:43:57 PM] Wormwood: hahaha.
[4/10/2013 8:44:43 PM] Mac: LoL
[4/10/2013 8:45:00 PM] Mac: Yeah, he’d be speaking out loud, so if he was on comms earlier
[4/10/2013 8:45:05 PM] Mac: he wouldnt have stopped them
[4/10/2013 8:45:49 PM] Mac: Although would they have been on in the confines of the SUV? At the volume Pitbull plays his music at, probably.
[4/10/2013 8:46:02 PM] Pacoy: There’s a line Mac: “I can’t find decent sleep anywhere, maybe you could help?” (y)
[4/10/2013 8:46:29 PM] Pitbull: He did turn down the music just for you, brah. :)
[4/10/2013 8:46:53 PM] Mac: True, true.
[4/10/2013 8:46:54 PM] Mac: Hahahahaha
[4/10/2013 8:46:58 PM] Mac: I like it, P.
[4/10/2013 8:47:22 PM] Wormwood: what’s the main squeeze4’s name again, mac?
[4/10/2013 8:47:26 PM | Edited 8:48:24 PM] Pacoy: Wormwood = official cockblock!
[4/10/2013 8:47:35 PM] Mac: Anita
[4/10/2013 8:47:55 PM] Wormwood: Yep, that’s Wormie!
[4/10/2013 8:48:02 PM] Mac: Borokov
[4/10/2013 8:48:28 PM] Pitbull: Last I checked, the actual Wormwood plant is poisonous. Nothing screams “No booty tonight” like a bed-ridden sickness. :)
[4/10/2013 8:48:52 PM] Mac: Hahahaha
[4/10/2013 8:49:54 PM] Wormwood: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artemisia_absinthium
[4/10/2013 8:50:15 PM] Wormwood: actually, its what makes Absinthe make the heart grow fonder :-P
[4/10/2013 8:51:45 PM] Pacoy: http://mwanamishale.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/cockblock-army_display.gif
[4/10/2013 8:52:10 PM] Wormwood: LOL, Pac!
[4/10/2013 8:52:52 PM] Mac: Absolutely awesome, P
[4/10/2013 8:53:30 PM] Pacoy: Pac is buying Worm a T-Shirt when we hit a truckstop!
[4/10/2013 8:53:47 PM] Pitbull: " Pure wormwood oil is very poisonous, but with proper dosage poses little or no danger."
[4/10/2013 8:54:10 PM] Pitbull: Hopefully, he’s just the right dosage. ;)
[4/10/2013 8:54:18 PM] Wormwood: Always wink
[4/10/2013 8:55:23 PM] Pacoy: Too much Wormwood will get you killed, a small amount leads to a very interesting night… sounds about right.
[4/10/2013 8:57:00 PM | Edited 8:57:58 PM] Pitbull: So our team is comprised of a dog with some unfortunately negative spotlight, a poisonus plant, a "pac"kaged t"oy", and a McDonald’s special. :)
[4/10/2013 8:58:53 PM] Mac: ….I like it.
[4/10/2013 8:59:34 PM] Langy: A caged Pacoy? What isn’t to like?
[4/10/2013 8:59:41 PM] Pitbull: Combined, we make the ultimate psychotic hobo!
[4/10/2013 9:00:48 PM] Pacoy: psychotic hobos? let’s buy a small suburban home and cook meth!
[4/10/2013 9:01:07 PM] Mac: Slick, Worm
[4/10/2013 9:01:17 PM] Mac: Also, yes, P.
[4/10/2013 9:01:17 PM] Langy: Who did you think was buying the one next door to you, Pac?:D
[4/10/2013 9:04:36 PM] Pitbull: Ummmm… Veracity?
[4/10/2013 9:04:40 PM] Wormwood: Veracity.
[4/10/2013 9:04:54 PM] Pitbull: Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu-
[4/10/2013 9:05:55 PM] Langy: Truth.
[4/10/2013 9:07:55 PM] Wormwood: I’ll switch those lines around to make sense in timeline when i do the log, L
[4/10/2013 9:08:06 PM] Wormwood: sorry i spoke over you, so to speak
[4/10/2013 9:09:09 PM] Langy: Hoho, 101 fans now:D
[4/10/2013 9:09:39 PM] Mac: awesoem!
[4/10/2013 9:10:09 PM] Mac: We’re in the era of airborne emergency services, aren’t we?
[4/10/2013 9:10:16 PM] Langy: Yes
[4/10/2013 9:10:19 PM] Langy: Why?
[4/10/2013 9:10:48 PM] Pacoy: gotta love the new fan’s avatar!
[4/10/2013 9:10:56 PM] Mac: Oh, just trying to think of an alternate way off the highway, and it only works with conventional type services.
[4/10/2013 9:11:05 PM] Mac: I.E. setting someone’s tires on fire.
[4/10/2013 9:11:24 PM] Langy: Ah
[4/10/2013 9:12:19 PM] Mac: But with aerial firetrucks, they dont have to clear lanes of traffic…
[4/10/2013 9:13:02 PM] Langy: Almost forgot that everyone looks down at Wormwood.
[4/10/2013 9:13:34 PM] Langy: (even when they’re sticking their heads out of a sunroof of a low-built sports car)
[4/10/2013 9:14:15 PM] Pitbull: Wow. You make Wormwood sound Hank Diggler sized. :P
[4/10/2013 9:14:17 PM] Pacoy: not just size-wise, most people just look down on him in general… :P
[4/10/2013 9:14:17 PM] Wormwood: roflmao
[4/10/2013 9:14:44 PM] Wormwood: Five one, langy, not two one!
[4/10/2013 9:15:11 PM] Pitbull: Maybe Wormy would go MasterBlaster with Pits…
[4/10/2013 9:15:20 PM] Langy: Oh, right, this is the chat log we were going to post along with the mission log, isn’t it?
[4/10/2013 9:15:27 PM] Pitbull: That kinda sounds dirty…
[4/10/2013 9:15:34 PM | Edited 9:15:43 PM] Pitbull: shutting up now…
[4/10/2013 9:15:40 PM] Langy: We should probably excise the link to the cheap property near Pacoy, then:p
[4/10/2013 9:16:12 PM] Pacoy: yeah, I don’t need stalkers!
[4/10/2013 9:16:35 PM] Wormwood: yep.
[4/10/2013 9:17:13 PM] Wormwood: S’ok, that was before game-start chat.
[4/10/2013 9:19:11 PM] Mac: Hahahaha
[4/10/2013 9:19:39 PM] Mac: Have someone go Real Life Wormwood on Pacoy? No thank you.
[4/10/2013 9:20:46 PM] Pitbull: I don’t know. I’d love to see if we could ever get psychotic fangirls. :) Though I’d rather NOT be sent a placenta and some used tampons in the mail though…
[4/10/2013 9:21:26 PM] Mac: That’s the problem with psychotic fangirls. It’s either placenta or panties – there is no middle ground.
[4/10/2013 9:22:27 PM] Pitbull: And bringing back the previous joke: I gotta go bio break and drop the snakes off at the pool. Back soon.
[4/10/2013 9:26:21 PM] Mac: Now that is a tortured metaphor.
[4/10/2013 9:28:35 PM] Wormwood: does anyone think I’m paranoid if I suspect someone snafud the traffic tolls just to delay us?
[4/10/2013 9:28:59 PM] Pacoy: I was thinking it
[4/10/2013 9:29:17 PM] Pacoy: but then again, I’m fairly paranoid…
[4/10/2013 9:29:50 PM] Mac: Nah
[4/10/2013 9:29:56 PM] Mac: It’s probably intentional.
[4/10/2013 9:29:59 PM] Mac: Could be the mob.
[4/10/2013 9:30:03 PM] Mac: Could be an ambush.
[4/10/2013 9:34:39 PM] Langy: Gotta say, I’m enjoying the ‘random encounter table’ I got set up. We just had the Wandering Adventurer encounter, and the traffic situation is the Difficult Terrain encounter. Now for the Wandering “Monster” (I’m interpreting that loosely) encounter.
[4/10/2013 9:34:49 PM] Pitbull: Bach!
[4/10/2013 9:34:53 PM] Langy: (technically, they should all have occured at once, but meh)
[4/10/2013 9:36:07 PM] Wormwood: meh, close enough, right?
[4/10/2013 9:36:25 PM] Langy: Pretty mcuh. I’m considering this all as part of a single encounter.
[4/10/2013 9:36:37 PM] Mac: Hahaha
[4/10/2013 9:37:47 PM] Langy: I think Mac likes Wormwood’s new nickname:D
[4/10/2013 9:38:05 PM] Mac: Hahahaa – oh yes he does. :P
[4/10/2013 9:39:04 PM] Wormwood: Because that sociopath Emmy wouldn’t hestitate to drop Wormie in deep cop-cop if she thought he was wandering…
[4/10/2013 9:39:17 PM] Pitbull: If it’s the Sarge, “Monster” would still be correct, Langy!
[4/10/2013 9:40:02 PM] Pacoy: If she sticks with the truth, rumors couldn’t be that scary… ;)
[4/10/2013 9:42:00 PM] Mac: Now I want to half see an interlude with the two of them. Hm.
[4/10/2013 9:42:43 PM] Langy: Damnit, I keep calling the SUV a ‘Ural’:/
[4/10/2013 9:43:04 PM] Wormwood: Amur. river, not mountains :-)\
[4/10/2013 9:43:06 PM] Langy: As in ‘Ural Mountains’ as in ‘Mountains in Russia’. Seems real appropriate for a Russian SUV.
[4/10/2013 9:43:12 PM] Langy: Bah.
[4/10/2013 9:43:28 PM] Mac: hahaha
[4/10/2013 9:45:58 PM] Pacoy: Ah google images, you never fail me: http://www.flickr.com/photos/electrolux-design-lab/4730080530/lightbox/ To the Workshop!
[4/10/2013 9:47:13 PM] Langy: Robo-Sheep, Away!
[4/10/2013 9:47:57 PM] Wormwood: OK, no “do you want CHiPs with that beefcake?” jokes, m’kay?
[4/10/2013 9:48:32 PM] Mac: http://www.everydaynodaysoff.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/USMC-Custom-Boss-Hoss-Motorcycle.jpg
[4/10/2013 9:48:54 PM] Langy: Heh
[4/10/2013 9:49:05 PM] Wormwood: dayum, fun ride.
[4/10/2013 9:49:19 PM] Pitbull: You could say he was blind drunk and castrated a sheep with his Reaper as he did the Backwood Nasty to another sheep. :P
[4/10/2013 9:49:19 PM] Langy: Not quite what I was picturing. Not steamlined enough, for one, and I wasn’t thinking rotary cannons.
[4/10/2013 9:50:18 PM] Langy: You should play the ‘transformation noise’ over the internal speakers when the cop disembarks:p
[4/10/2013 9:51:07 PM] Mac: Hahahaha
[4/10/2013 9:51:48 PM] Wormwood: aw crap, my internet connex is acting up. If I go offline sudden;y, guys, I’ll be back as soon as poss.
[4/10/2013 9:53:53 PM] Mac: I am imagining this happening if we were being a bit sillier today: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXPeLctgvQI
[4/10/2013 9:54:17 PM] Pitbull: Robo cop?
[4/10/2013 9:54:57 PM] Wormwood: pretty near. I doubt we could all take him w/out Pit’s reaper…which is now not quickly available.
[4/10/2013 9:55:34 PM] Langy: http://digitalinkrod.deviantart.com/art/AES-character-concept-264308146?q=favby%3Alangymd%2F47575788&qo=597
[4/10/2013 9:55:53 PM] Pitbull: Btw: That’s something Pitbull wants to get ahold of. :)
[4/10/2013 9:55:53 PM] Langy: (mainly described so I could use that picture for him:/)
[4/10/2013 9:56:50 PM] Pacoy: Well, I brought the harpy this time…
[4/10/2013 9:57:02 PM] Pitbull: And yes! That scene from Super Troopers. Or the “Littering and” segment. :)
[4/10/2013 9:57:17 PM] Mac: Hahaha…
[4/10/2013 9:57:38 PM] Pacoy: “Hey, you… Bear-Fucker!” Spit pop.
[4/10/2013 9:57:58 PM] Pitbull: Lol
[4/10/2013 9:58:25 PM] Wormwood: Who?
[4/10/2013 9:58:28 PM] Langy: Super Troopers was pretty awesome:)
[4/10/2013 9:58:31 PM] Pitbull: One of Broken Lizard’s best. Next to Beer Fest. :)
[4/10/2013 9:58:31 PM] Mac: …also, who is to ‘you’?
[4/10/2013 9:58:56 PM] Wormwood: visrec?
[4/10/2013 9:59:07 PM] Langy: That’d be Wormwood, Pacoy, Pitbull, and even you, Mac. Not so much Eris.
[4/10/2013 9:59:26 PM] Langy: Not sure it’d cotton on, due to the absolutely massive amount of damage his face had the last time you saw him.
[4/10/2013 9:59:38 PM] Pitbull: Tunnel cop?! OMG!
[4/10/2013 9:59:50 PM] Mac: Oh dear, I think it is.
[4/10/2013 9:59:50 PM] Wormwood: the guy from the sewers!
[4/10/2013 10:00:04 PM] Langy: Yep:)
[4/10/2013 10:00:05 PM] Mac: Nice Recall, Pitbull.
[4/10/2013 10:00:15 PM] Pacoy: Nice.
[4/10/2013 10:00:22 PM] Langy: I had to reread that section to remember his name – James Taffy.
[4/10/2013 10:00:43 PM] Langy: (remember: last time he was high as a bloody kite on anti-pain/stabilization meds)
[4/10/2013 10:00:54 PM] Mac: Truth
[4/10/2013 10:03:07 PM] Wormwood: what the f—k is the point of a disguise if everyone I meet already knows me???!!!!
[4/10/2013 10:03:33 PM] Pitbull: To fool the people who don’t know you.
[4/10/2013 10:03:39 PM] Langy: The people you already know who have high-grade voice recognition filters – like journalists – recognize you.
[4/10/2013 10:03:48 PM] Langy: The people who they then tip off know you.
[4/10/2013 10:03:56 PM] Wormwood: aw poop
[4/10/2013 10:03:57 PM] Langy: The other people? Not so much.
[4/10/2013 10:04:07 PM] Wormwood: :-)
[4/10/2013 10:04:17 PM] Langy: Remember, you changed your face. You didn’t change your voice.
[4/10/2013 10:04:30 PM] Wormwood: I know, I’m just funning it.
[4/10/2013 10:04:41 PM] Pitbull: Oh Mac, I didn’t know you had such taste in men. :P
[4/10/2013 10:05:00 PM] Mac: Pffffbbtbbtttt
[4/10/2013 10:05:18 PM] Mac: My metaphormachine is broken today
[4/10/2013 10:05:25 PM] Pacoy: It’s not like it was a big secret, what’s Pit’s PER again?
[4/10/2013 10:06:08 PM] Pitbull: Was that the sound of you sputtering coffee through your nose and all over your computer? (Done that, but not on my computer thankfully)
[4/10/2013 10:06:39 PM] Wormwood: Pit, I’ve seen you do that with soup.
[4/10/2013 10:07:07 PM] Pitbull: Yes I did. Ahhh, to be excitable…
[4/10/2013 10:07:14 PM] Mac: Hahahhaa – Cambells Chunky?
[4/10/2013 10:07:38 PM] Mac: That’s what she said? (To Wormie’s comment?)
[4/10/2013 10:07:42 PM] Wormwood: homemade chicken and veg
[4/10/2013 10:07:44 PM] Pitbull: No. Homemade chunky. Did Steve ever mention his badassery behind a stove?
[4/10/2013 10:08:50 PM] Langy: No – he’s bad as an ass behind a stove? Isn’t that a little denigratory towards donkeys?
[4/10/2013 10:09:08 PM] Wormwood: only if they’re not magical donkeys
[4/10/2013 10:09:26 PM] Mac: …Magical donkeys and redneck robotic sheep?
[4/10/2013 10:09:32 PM] Mac: Picked a hell of a session log to share :)
[4/10/2013 10:09:35 PM] Wormwood: rofl
[4/10/2013 10:09:51 PM | Edited 10:10:06 PM] Langy: Thinking on it…I’m not sure there have been any significantly better.
[4/10/2013 10:09:54 PM] Wormwood: pretty tame by our standards, i thought
[4/10/2013 10:10:36 PM] Pacoy: ‘Bout average, I’d say. We get some gold every now and then.
[4/10/2013 10:11:25 PM] Pitbull: He was thinking that. Steve. :)
[4/10/2013 10:11:33 PM] Pitbull: He didn’t say it.
[4/10/2013 10:11:52 PM] Wormwood: oops. removed.
[4/10/2013 10:12:06 PM] Pacoy: Wormie knows pits well enough to read it in his face! ;)
[4/10/2013 10:12:31 PM] Mac: Hahahaha
[4/10/2013 10:12:45 PM] Wormwood: lol, probably
[4/10/2013 10:15:03 PM] * Wormwood sent Border Crossing.jpg Border Crossing.jpg Border Crossing.jpg Border Crossing.jpg *
[4/10/2013 10:15:45 PM] Langy: That’s a bit sludgier than I was imagning, but hey. Good enough.
[4/10/2013 10:16:12 PM] Pacoy: Looks like Pit’s bathwater….
[4/10/2013 10:16:46 PM] Mac: hahahaha
[4/10/2013 10:16:54 PM] Mac: I can mix up the water later if you wanted, L
[4/10/2013 10:18:56 PM] Pitbull: Fuck! That ain’t Pit’s bath water: That’s the entire Texas Free State Rough Riders’ Spittoon!
[4/10/2013 10:19:25 PM] Langy: Ooh, I like that name. Please don’t tell me you’ve already mentioned it and I didn’t notice:/
[4/10/2013 10:20:04 PM] Wormwood: grin special insurgent-hunting unit?
[4/10/2013 10:20:38 PM] Mac: That’s pretty good there Stet.
[4/10/2013 10:21:58 PM] Langy: Always liked Theodore Roosevelt.
[4/10/2013 10:22:40 PM] Pacoy: Yep, Most Intersting Man in the World.
[4/10/2013 10:22:42 PM] Mac: He was the best of the Roosevelts.
[4/10/2013 10:22:48 PM] Pacoy: Make Chick Norris look like a pansy.
[4/10/2013 10:22:55 PM] Pitbull: Yep! Their like the Rough Rider Plattoon, just really love their tobacco chew. :)
[4/10/2013 10:22:58 PM] Mac: Chick Norris is right!
[4/10/2013 10:23:20 PM] Pacoy: Actually, Both Pres. Roosevelt’s were amazing in their own right.
[4/10/2013 10:23:26 PM] Langy: Texas Free State Rough Riders’ Company, now, I think.
[4/10/2013 10:23:33 PM] Langy: In completely different ways, I imagine.
[4/10/2013 10:23:57 PM] Pacoy: Kinda polar opposites.
[4/10/2013 10:24:03 PM] Pitbull: That’s where Pit came from, or at least where the Sarg trained him.
[4/10/2013 10:25:14 PM] Wormwood: Kinda glad veracity’s car has run-flat tyres now :-)
[4/10/2013 10:25:25 PM] Langy: Heheh;)
[4/10/2013 10:25:39 PM] Langy: But yeah, you don’t expect her car to be junk, right?
[4/10/2013 10:25:49 PM] Mac: Hahahaha
[4/10/2013 10:25:51 PM] Langy: Well, not her car. The guy driving her’s car.
[4/10/2013 10:26:04 PM] Langy: But it’s nice, and has amenities such as that.
[4/10/2013 10:26:08 PM] Wormwood: not at all. I’m surprised she’s ground-based even
[4/10/2013 10:26:24 PM] Mac: Maybe being incognito?
[4/10/2013 10:26:39 PM] Langy: She was in the area when she got the call. Specifically, out on a date with the douchebag driving her around;)
[4/10/2013 10:27:08 PM] Mac: Hahahaha
[4/10/2013 10:27:21 PM] Wormwood: damn, too late!
[4/10/2013 10:27:47 PM] Mac: Really Occifer, I don’t have a problem drinking!
[4/10/2013 10:28:13 PM] Pitbull: “I had a whole keg for breakfast. U MAD OFFICER?!”
[4/10/2013 10:30:14 PM] Langy: Oh geeze. This is gonna get akward.
[4/10/2013 10:30:30 PM] Mac: Oh dear?
[4/10/2013 10:31:30 PM] Wormwood: fast talk 14 here, anyone got better?
[4/10/2013 10:31:51 PM] Mac: 15
[4/10/2013 10:32:04 PM] Pacoy: 15
[4/10/2013 10:32:14 PM] Wormwood: refer him to Eris, we’re just the hired help for a Corp, remember.
[4/10/2013 10:32:19 PM] Mac: Truth
[4/10/2013 10:32:32 PM] Pitbull: Fast talk 13. :/
[4/10/2013 10:32:43 PM] Mac: …actually, that raises a question
[4/10/2013 10:32:45 PM] Wormwood: Pac, wanna take it?
[4/10/2013 10:32:48 PM] Mac: Do I HAVE a passport?
[4/10/2013 10:33:02 PM] Pacoy: I get a +2 if I get a chance to confuse him with math-double talk!
[4/10/2013 10:33:14 PM] Pitbull: Pitbull only has Texas credentials!
[4/10/2013 10:33:14 PM] Wormwood: we all have IDs. They count as passports in 2050.
[4/10/2013 10:33:23 PM] Mac: Ah, phew!
[4/10/2013 10:33:35 PM] Wormwood: trouble is, my ID is wanted in NC
[4/10/2013 10:33:57 PM] Langy: That does sound like a potential problem.
[4/10/2013 10:34:01 PM] Pitbull: And mine will get me deported, if I’m not mistaken.
[4/10/2013 10:34:05 PM] Mac: Yeah it does.
[4/10/2013 10:34:08 PM] Mac: GUN IT
[4/10/2013 10:34:08 PM] Wormwood: see if you can get him to wave us thru on the strength of the Corp in back and getting the line moving faster
[4/10/2013 10:34:09 PM] Mac: er
[4/10/2013 10:34:14 PM] Pitbull: Can we bribe him?
[4/10/2013 10:34:19 PM] Wormwood: maybe
[4/10/2013 10:34:28 PM] Wormwood: try fast talk first, pac
[4/10/2013 10:34:42 PM] Pacoy: //m15
[4/10/2013 10:34:42 PM] Langy: dan.0.brien rolled 3d 6; result:
6, 4, 1 = 11 vs 15
Margin of Success: 4
[4/10/2013 10:34:50 PM] Langy: I was just about to suggest looking at a certain page of the book involving that, Pit:p
[4/10/2013 10:34:57 PM] Langy: But yes, you can attempt a bribe.
[4/10/2013 10:35:02 PM | Edited 10:35:04 PM] Langy: (note ‘attempt’)
[4/10/2013 10:35:14 PM] Pitbull: What would be a decent ammount?
[4/10/2013 10:35:55 PM] Mac: These are not the passports you are looking for…
[4/10/2013 10:35:57 PM] Wormwood: basic border cop earns about 4k a month, give or take, so say a weeks pay to be certain?
[4/10/2013 10:36:10 PM] Wormwood: half a week minimum
[4/10/2013 10:36:23 PM] Mac: But not too much, because then he’d think he could make a career bust on us.
[4/10/2013 10:36:28 PM] Wormwood: yeah
[4/10/2013 10:36:42 PM] Wormwood: Pac, you’ll have to say something in-game for that roll :-)
[4/10/2013 10:36:53 PM] Langy: Yep.
[4/10/2013 10:36:56 PM] Langy: That’s what I’m waiting for:)
[4/10/2013 10:37:24 PM] Wormwood: NOT you, Pits…..!!!
[4/10/2013 10:37:56 PM] Mac: L – Sav-Faire Police, or Law (police) give me any insight into loopholes that would let us through?
[4/10/2013 10:38:47 PM] Wormwood: i have Psychology and Body language, which might help find out if he’s condusive to a bribe?
[4/10/2013 10:39:03 PM] Pitbull: Aww fuck. Jumped the Pitbull gun!
[4/10/2013 10:39:18 PM] Langy: Yeah, those’d help, Steve.
[4/10/2013 10:39:27 PM] Langy: As would those you mention, Mac.
[4/10/2013 10:39:27 PM] Wormwood: slaps Pits on the forehead
[4/10/2013 10:39:33 PM] Wormwood: Psych
[4/10/2013 10:39:37 PM] Wormwood: //m13
[4/10/2013 10:39:38 PM] Mac: //m15 Sav-Faire (Police)
[4/10/2013 10:39:40 PM] Langy: steve.hynd rolled 3d 6; result:
1, 5, 2 = 8 vs 13
Margin of Success: 5
[4/10/2013 10:39:40 PM] Langy: rase.cidraen rolled 3d 6; result:
4, 3, 1 = 8 vs 15
Margin of Success: 7
[4/10/2013 10:39:50 PM] Wormwood: Body Lang
[4/10/2013 10:39:51 PM] Mac: //m14 Law (Police)
[4/10/2013 10:39:51 PM] Langy: rase.cidraen rolled 3d 6; result:
1, 3, 3 = 7 vs 14
Margin of Success: 7
[4/10/2013 10:39:53 PM] Langy: Ya just got 2 people attempting to bribe him first:p
[4/10/2013 10:40:01 PM] Wormwood: //m13
[4/10/2013 10:40:01 PM] Langy: steve.hynd rolled 3d 6; result:
6, 4, 4 = 14 vs 13
Margin of Failure: 1
[4/10/2013 10:40:21 PM] Wormwood: oh jeezus.
[4/10/2013 10:40:23 PM] Pitbull: Can we bribe the GM?
[4/10/2013 10:40:28 PM] Pitbull: :P
[4/10/2013 10:40:31 PM | Edited 10:40:38 PM] Wormwood: he better be very corrupt then
[4/10/2013 10:40:52 PM] Mac: If I had known you needed Body lang read, W – I have 20 in it.
[4/10/2013 10:41:57 PM] Langy: //m11-2-4
[4/10/2013 10:41:57 PM] Langy: langymd rolled 3d 6; result:
1, 5, 4 = 10 vs 11 -6 = 5
Margin of Failure: 5
[4/10/2013 10:42:25 PM] Pitbull: Please tell me that was a roll on morals?
[4/10/2013 10:42:25 PM] Wormwood: I wonder if thats a good fail or a bad fail, for us
[4/10/2013 10:42:36 PM] Langy: It was, Pit
[4/10/2013 10:42:53 PM] Pitbull: Pumps fist in the air
[4/10/2013 10:43:01 PM] Langy: 11 will, -2 for corruption, -4 for fast-talk/etc skills.
[4/10/2013 10:43:30 PM] Langy: (you still needed to succeed by 5 in order to actually win – which you did)
[4/10/2013 10:43:30 PM] Pitbull: I did just offer him 1.5 of his weekly pay. :)
[4/10/2013 10:43:58 PM] Wormwood: phew. Stop doing that to Wormie’s poor heart, guys!
[4/10/2013 10:44:04 PM] Mac: Hahahaha
[4/10/2013 10:44:47 PM] Pitbull: Hey, Pits is like his dog-namesake: if he isn’t fighting, he’s impulsive. :)
[4/10/2013 10:45:01 PM] Wormwood: mental note all future route planning takes us past border control, m’kay?
[4/10/2013 10:45:24 PM] Langy: If they find anything, he’s going to have to share his corruption with his fellows – ie, his cut goes down:(
[4/10/2013 10:45:46 PM] Langy: Or you plan how to deal with it prior to entering.
[4/10/2013 10:46:44 PM] Mac: I hope that they dont find that bloody gun.
[4/10/2013 10:46:55 PM] Langy: That was a success by 7 on hiding the gun, right?
[4/10/2013 10:47:00 PM] Langy: //m12
[4/10/2013 10:47:01 PM] Langy: langymd rolled 3d 6; result:
6, 5, 4 = 15 vs 12
Margin of Failure: 3
[4/10/2013 10:47:02 PM] Mac: Think so, yeah
[4/10/2013 10:47:04 PM] Langy: Yeah, they miss.
[4/10/2013 10:47:08 PM] Mac: Awesome.
[4/10/2013 10:47:17 PM] Mac: Thank goodness for weak cieling panels!
[4/10/2013 10:47:37 PM] Wormwood: and thick Russian metal
[4/10/2013 10:48:06 PM] Pitbull: Sheer dumb luck and compulsion helped too.
[4/10/2013 10:48:22 PM] Mac: …that, yeah
[4/10/2013 10:49:32 PM] Wormwood: wrap up there?
[4/10/2013 10:49:33 PM] Langy: The cop’s getting back at Pitbull for his garish bribe attempt
[4/10/2013 10:49:35 PM] Langy: Yep
[4/10/2013 10:49:55 PM] Mac: Hahahaha
[4/10/2013 10:49:56 PM] Mac: Nice
[4/10/2013 10:50:02 PM] Wormwood: phew, i thought we’d get busted
[4/10/2013 10:50:10 PM] Pitbull: I amm literally rolling in my seat!
[4/10/2013 10:50:29 PM] Langy: Now, to be clear – the police in this instance were the ‘Monsters’ rolled on the random encounter table.
[4/10/2013 10:50:36 PM] Wormwood: tension doesn’t always need combat, and Wormie doesn’t want to be a Slate
[4/10/2013 10:51:07 PM] Langy: There was very much the possibility for a little firefight, but the main focus of this session was actually just an everyday (mostly everyday) beuracratic nightmare;)
[4/10/2013 10:51:17 PM] Wormwood: nods
[4/10/2013 10:51:34 PM] Langy: Plus, I wanted to re-introduce Taffy to everyone.
[4/10/2013 10:51:44 PM] Pitbull: Awwww yeah!
[4/10/2013 10:51:55 PM] Wormwood: maybe Wormie’s convo with Veracity will take some heat off tho. If they’re looking for a killer who isn’t the Lipstick Stalker, that’s better for him
[4/10/2013 10:52:10 PM] Langy: I hope the complete-lack-of-action wasn’t a disappointment after last session:D
[4/10/2013 10:52:25 PM] Pitbull: Naw! Loads o’ fun!
[4/10/2013 10:52:33 PM] Wormwood: not at all. I for one was sweating it. Characters can die in more ways than just in combat
[4/10/2013 10:52:40 PM] Langy: Yep:D
[4/10/2013 10:52:46 PM] Mac: I protest – not one shipbased seamonster combat in the whole drive. For shame.
[4/10/2013 10:53:04 PM] Wormwood: MVP and cp?
[4/10/2013 10:53:10 PM] Pitbull: Tell me about it. It would take some real magic to bust Pitbull outa Texas. :)
[4/10/2013 10:53:14 PM] Langy: 2 CP
[4/10/2013 10:53:15 PM] Mac: Yeah, no, I was worried the entire time.
[4/10/2013 10:53:34 PM] Langy: Well, to be fair – you are heading into a dustbowl, not exactly a thriving sea monster location.
[4/10/2013 10:54:05 PM] Langy: This drive down the coat may have worked for the sea monster fight, but wouldn’t it be more interesting for the sea monster to appear while you’re in Death Valley?
[4/10/2013 10:54:30 PM] Mac: Landlocked sea-monsters?
[4/10/2013 10:54:30 PM] Mac: This is true – I will keep my seamonster related aggressions in check.
[4/10/2013 10:55:26 PM] Mac: Trying to sort through my notes for MVP – anyone got a good Title for my notebook entry?
[4/10/2013 10:55:54 PM] Wormwood: In a jam
[4/10/2013 10:56:02 PM] Pacoy: Gridlocked and Cock Blocked
[4/10/2013 10:56:06 PM] Wormwood: lol
[4/10/2013 10:56:20 PM] Wormwood: bordering on the insane
[4/10/2013 10:56:28 PM] Mac: lol – I suppose it depends on what we’re goign to call the mission log
[4/10/2013 10:56:32 PM] Pitbull: Dread and the Fugitive Drive?
[4/10/2013 10:56:54 PM] Wormwood: CHiPs with everything
[4/10/2013 10:57:01 PM] Mac: Hahahaha
[4/10/2013 10:57:13 PM] Langy: There are too many puns to be made.
[4/10/2013 10:57:55 PM] Pitbull: Traffic Jammed? Or does that sound too sitcom?
[4/10/2013 10:58:41 PM] Wormwood: loads to choose from, as L says
[4/10/2013 10:59:00 PM] Wormwood: simple: Across The Border.
[4/10/2013 10:59:42 PM] Wormwood: obscure: “Flowers In Their Hair”
[4/10/2013 11:00:03 PM] Mac: Hm…
[4/10/2013 11:00:14 PM] Mac: Kicks on Route 6?
[4/10/2013 11:00:21 PM] Wormwood: I like it.
[4/10/2013 11:00:25 PM | Edited 11:00:41 PM] Pitbull: “Flowers In Their Hair, CHiP On Their Shoulder”
[4/10/2013 11:00:47 PM] Mac: There she goes
[4/10/2013 11:00:51 PM] Mac: Up up and away
[4/10/2013 11:00:52 PM] Wormwood: Born To Be Mild
[4/10/2013 11:00:56 PM] Mac: as for MVP… hmmm
[4/10/2013 11:01:22 PM] Pitbull: Life In the Traffic Jam
[4/10/2013 11:01:36 PM] Wormwood: Mac, for putting Wormie in his place
[4/10/2013 11:02:38 PM] Pacoy: It’s a tough one, but I’ll go with Mac as well.
[4/10/2013 11:02:49 PM] Mac: I think I have to go with Wormie, for putting Mac in his place
[4/10/2013 11:02:55 PM] Wormwood: lol
[4/10/2013 11:03:18 PM] Pitbull: I’d go Wormie. Had the most ideas. :)
[4/10/2013 11:03:28 PM] Wormwood: tie-break, L!
[4/10/2013 11:04:03 PM] Langy: Last tie went to Wormie – this one goes to Mac.
[4/10/2013 11:04:15 PM] Wormwood: woot, well done Rase!
[4/10/2013 11:04:26 PM] Mac: Ty, tyvm.
[4/10/2013 11:04:54 PM] Wormwood: and with that, i’m going to get out of this chair and get some feeling back in my legs. I’ll do the log over the weekend as always.
[4/10/2013 11:04:55 PM] Mac: Rounds out to an absurd number of CP, which will mostly be gone by the end of this mission.
[4/10/2013 11:05:07 PM] Wormwood: G’night guys.
[4/10/2013 11:05:12 PM] Mac: You may want to check your mention in the Notebook, Steve
[4/10/2013 11:05:13 PM] Mac: :)
[4/10/2013 11:05:23 PM] Wormwood: Thanks for a tense and funny session in equal measure, langy
[4/10/2013 11:05:35 PM] Langy: Thanks, Steve:)
[4/10/2013 11:05:48 PM] Pacoy: night, all