Ulric has Manipulation 5, Mega-Manip. 1 (Persuader), and both Interrogation and Subterfuge of 5.

I would say stick with Charisma in that case.

Yeah, you guys never need to feel rushed on my account. If you are happy with the RP going on then go on with it. I just didn't want the game to bog down on account of me not updating.

Cody, you and Kyria might want to do your bonding as a fic rather than in the main thread, might make the story flow better. Either way, it will be two to three days before you can make the arrangements you want to make to pick up all the proxies and their pawns at once. Picking them up one at a time would be bad, as someone mentioned IC. The one thing you don't want to do is tip them off that they are being taken out one at a time.

Word. And yeah a fic sounds fine. It just didnt seem the right time/place/ or atmosphere to bond atm. Poor girls had a rough day and Cody arguably rougher.

That's the reason I jumped her thread. I'm trying to help her and doing so would help me, too. Hope Kyria reads this so we can get things into a better flow.

Nah, that's all good.

Set your bonding fic for the next day or the day after and you should be good. It will take two days of IC time in preparation before you can apprehend the other proxies anyway.

I'm reading. I'm also still getting a handle on the character, so please forgive minor delays in posting as I figure out her responses.

some freaking bot is raiding our Fiction Thread...

maybe we should lock that thread?

who can?

I took care of that bot post. Hopefully it was a one time thing.

you haven't been around the day it happened. The thread got bloated up to 4 pages with over 50 posts of that stupid bot. Fortunately Chosen showed up and fixed it.

Thanks to both of you

bah, Damned bots!!!

Getting Chosen involved was the best thing to do anyway. Being the site Admin, he should be notified anything something like this happens so he can block the IPs and notify the originating IP's service provider.

As for me...
I have to apologize guys. Lately my weekends have been pretty slammed and I haven't been able to take the time to log in at home. Because of my shift, my weekends run Sun - Tues, and every other Wed. I'll try and make time on the weekends when possible, the last two or three have been crazy though. Wife found out she is expecting and I spent this weekend going to the doctor with her and related stuff. We're happy. I'm scared out of my freakin mind... you know, normal expecting father kinda thing.

Hey, thats great news! I can fully relate to that, since last year I was in the same situation. I wish you both all the best! Congrats!

Congrats on the news. I've just gotten back from my eldests 1st grade recital. I can't say I miss the daipers though.

Fox, buy tons of diapers. When you start out, they have to be changed about twenty times a day.

When's the due date?

Right around Christmas. Poor kid. Forever doomed to get less presents than the other children.

Are you guys waiting on me for something? My last post was intended to be the opening to the next scene with you all posting your actions for the abduction of the two proxies. I will post an addendum with the two locations, if you need anything else from me let me know.

I need to post for Cody.There are a couple of maters which require his (my) attention. I just havent had the time to sit down and do it yet. Will get to over the next couple of days as I sort things out.

What are the take-down teams going to be?

No one. We'll use Lorean for it, I already have a cunning plan that will be low risk.

"I have a cunning plan my lord." - Baldric (from BlackAdder)

Usually followed by hilarity and rarely boding well for Blackadder.

Exactly.

And I'll edit that post if you want Fox, but it seemed pretty low risk.

The hard part will be bugging the other guy, he works where security is much higher.

Solutions:
1) Bug the rest room or lunch room.
2) Set up a meeting and arrange things for him to be there.
3) Bug his car and or set up a camera so we can see him get into or out of his car/house.

If he lives in an apartment building there will be cameras somewhere we can tie into. If he lives in a house there will probably be a tree we can put a "nest" in.

The good news is we don't *have* to pick up both of these guys at exactly the same time. They probably don't know each other.

The presidents office is very high security, but he can give you access and let you in to place the bugs disguised as a security sweep of the office before his day's appointments. Not that he will actually be keeping any of those.

The scene as I set it is pretty much the where and when. What you are doing is happening before their arrival, which is fine.

I think I'll give our telepath a chance to post first.

That would be me!

I just posted for NF and now its time for my commute but I thought I would check in here before I post IC for LM.

Im going to put up a fiction section later, initially as a group meeting and then to meld with Kyria. I think that needs a bit of play time to fill in the gap of a few days we just jumped IC. In fact one of thie biggest challenges for me in this game has been the massive time jumps. So much gets glossed over and I lose that bit of connection to the character...something Im hoping some fics can remedy.

But in the meantime I dont want to bog things down. The fics will happen but in the meantime what is it Cody is supposed to be doing? Help me out here cuz Im a little lost atm...

Ideally you'd bring Mike back to the world of the living.

Mike's not going to be back in time for the Alien confrontation.

I don't want that to be an NPC making the headlines, I want that to be PCs in the spotlight.

Yeah...there isn't anything a PC can do againt the deadly virus of ST fiat!

Seriously though, aside from my upcoming team meeting/get to know Kyria thread, what does Cody need to do for the main IC thread. Would like to keep things moving along, but I am unclear on what the plan is or how Cody is supposed to be involved. Of course once we have them onboard Lorean, I finally get to use Cody's interrogation skill, so that should be fun. But what until then?

Plot is the most powerful weapon!

You and Amber play future canary. Of course that's you more than her. God help you if you get a solid hit and she doesn't see it in time.

After we nab the two you may have to play "deprogram the minions".

Thats assuming they arent Proxy level telepaths like the last one. Maybe they are all telepaths or maybe its like Trin where each aptitude gets its own Proxy. Im not assuming anything...in fact Im assuming Fox has changed things deliberately for hi game so any OOC knowledge is useless (Of course we would never use OOC knowledge right guys? Right guys??? ).

And can you clarify Courier? What do you mean by play future canary? Or a solid hit? Im not hip to tha lingo...

Cody will be bad cop during the interrogation of the other two proxies, with Ulric playing good cop.

We know IC both of them have been edit-ing people. They're telepaths. Whether that's *all* they are is a different matter.

Well, they may all be telepaths, but let's hope they are not 'Super-Psion' Telepaths like the guy we froze. If they are, we may just lose this war, seeing as about half of us are vulnerable to Tepes.
Of course, we don't plan to meet them in a situation of their own chosing, but one of ours. Here's hoping for homefield advantage.

I'm hoping we can flip one or more. I have the feeling that their masters didn't tell them that they *are* the genetically enhanced types that they're working against, much less that extermination is the goal.

get me some genetic samples and I Andrew can easily work on that. Actually as soon as he recovers from his litte 72 hour programming marathon to prevent the global power network from going down he can get to work using "Pop's" DNA

I normally don't go for long periods without positing, but there has ben little for Omar to do. I assigned him the tasks of checking the lists of those closest to the president, and to helping Joani with the president. Essentially he is waiting for the rest of the team to call him in when needed.

That said, I will have a post up this afternoon.

I feel the same - kinda on hold until needed.