I'm happy to do that, but it'll take me a bit and it's already midnight here.  Expect something tomorrow.

I'll be away on holiday from next Sunday to the following Friday, but unlike previous years I'm going to be in 5G range pretty much the whole time, so I'll check in regularly and post when I can.

Paul,can you give us a quick run down of what our mechanical options are here? Im assuming this encounter is a dice heavy one.

Can you put your Mario hat on and tell us about the plumbing?

Aka, what are we walking into mechanically wise with this system?

Hey, sorry, Paul. I have been a little busy with work and I also didn't notice that you separated out out thread from Doug's so I thought we were waiting for you to progress our side of things. Sorry, I missed that.

Anyway, I'm away until Thursday. Canada Day celebrations 🍾 ✨️ 😎

Yeah, I remembered about Tom.  Guess I was just feeling insecure this morning!

Hey Paul, Tom is away. He is on vacation for two weeks, which started on the 18th. So we can assume that is almost over.

I will have something up soon.

Anyone else still reading? 

Thanks!

You go to the first post in the thread, click the MORE button in the lower right and MODIFY post.

Change the subject title and save.

Understand, it doesn't change the subject of every replied post, but it changes the subject of the primary one and every new post added.

Doug, how do you rename a forum thread?  I've been looking all around the boards (including through the mod and admin panels) and haven't found anything that suggests it lets you do that.  Clearly it's possible, though - I mean, you've recently done it. 

The new LAPD headquarters was built from the ground up to tell anyone looking at it that there was a right side and a wrong side of its walls for everyone to be on.  The little people who go about their fog-shrouded, rain-drenched days, it says, belong on the outside.  And the cops, though they sleep in their apartments and live on the streets, belong inside this floodlit tower.  As soon as he leaves the elevator on to the Rep-detec floors, Wylde feels it: a relaxation into the camaraderie that's soaked into the walls of this place just like the residue of cheap tobacco.  He hates that he feels it but can't deny it's there.  Just like the old barracks, this place knows him for the inveterate sinner he is. Welcomes him anyway like the wide-open arms of a favourite doxie. 

For once, the Esper wall isn't booked out, and the recovered surveillance footage has a good view of the loading dock.  Wylde, not an expert, is nevertheless capable of narrowing the scope to the single vehicle visible when coverage is restored. 

Flickflickflickflickflickflick.  A logo of a bio-waste disposal company on the side of the truck. 

Flickflickflickflickflickflick.  A single huge figure, running towards the truck.

Flickflickflickflickflickflick.  A different angle on the running figure resolves into a somewhat less huge figure carrying another man. 

Flickflickflickflickflickflickflickflickflickflickflick Capturing the first face is easy.  The second man is so badly messed up that it takes whatever digital sorcery powers the Esper system a little while to get the second.  Then the Mainframe brings up surface-level identifications: Boltun Nergüi, automatically cross-referenced with his street name 'Bolt-On', and Jacques Bellefontaine, a professional thief of long standing.  Full bios and rap sheets in the Mainframe and so on and so forth. 

For now, Wylde finds himself much more interested in the faces of the two men.  Both bloodied to some extent, one clearly panicking and the other so slack that if he's conscious it's only barely. 

Something went real bad here, but no bodies at the scene.  Were these guys running for their lives, or did they already have what they wanted and didn't see a reason to stick around when things got hairy?