You can get up there without the gangers seeing you, no problem. Plenty of other people will see though; its too crowded to climb a building unseen unless you have an invisibility spell on or something.HereComesPete wrote:To the roof!
I shall head up and get eyes on this biker gang, but ninja style.
3 hits is not poor, it would be pretty good for a normal person. Even with a dice pool of 14, 3 is only a little below average (average would be 4-5). Anyway:looking Intuition 4 + Perception 3 +4 cybereyes +3 actively looking = 14 - 3 hits. Rather poor
hearing Intuition 4 + Perception 3 +4 cyberears +3 actively listening = 14 - 5 hits. Rah!
You see five assorted ganagers on heavily modded bikes. One is doing wheelies and suchlike in the street whilst the others are at the side of the road, watching. The one doing tricks is clearly a rigger; he has a cable running from the back of his head into the bike, all lit up dayglo colours. his bike is all sporty and slick. Of the other four, there's a large ork (you almost mistake him for a troll at first), a human bloke, a rather ropey looking human woman who is wearing a far too revealing outfit, and a lanky looking elf. The elf is obviously your guy. He has a massive mane or black hair, tight red leathers with some sort of ruthenium display showing a looped flame animation, and a weird half scowl, half manic grin as he watches the rigger. He is lighting a cigarette with his thumb.
You can see the telltale bulges of guns under all the gangers clothes. Looks like a mix of heavy pistols and smgs, typical street gang stuff.
That's pretty generous, but not absurdly so. Just to put it in perspective: a pint of beer would cost about 5Y, a dinner would cost about 25Y, a fancy restaurant dinner would cost about 100Y. Its not exactly accurate, but the nuyen to real world £ conversion rate is around 2 to 1.Dog Pants wrote:Is 50Y an appropriate amount, or would he bite my nuts for that?
With that roll? hell yes.Do I know anything about this gang?
They are a very small time street gang, only just number in the double digits. Purely a go-gang (think bike gang, but other vehicles are allowed), they tend to roam about the city in an attempt to stay out of the way of the bigger boys. They occasionally try and ingratiate themselves with one of the bigger gangs, but don't seem that successful. This might just be because they are too small to bother with, but it might also have something to do with their leader. You don't know him by name, but you know him by reputation. He is a proper psycho, and is rumoured to be some sort of mage. He certainly like burning things. He doesn't like being backed into a corner or threatened, and will happily take on overwhelming odds if he is. The fact that he is still alive with that kind of attitude probably owes more to luck than ability.
Which is coincidentally something you actually have some familiarity with: he and his gang are the guys you paid to make a distraction, way back when you were stealing the mask out of the warehouse.
Quickly! Or I'll have to put Numan on to lure him back!