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Message no. 1
From: Sorrow <sorrow@*******.ORG>
Subject: Deckers on runs and Indirect Fire
Date: Wed, 3 Jun 1998 16:34:17 -0500
Reading the thread about the Cortex bomb reminds me
of a few questions I have:

* When deckers assist *in the matrix*, do they count towards
the total runners you can send on a run?
Also, I'm not sure how the program 'Sleaze' works.
The team fails to sleaze an "Elite Security Mage", the alarm
gets triggered. The decker can reset the alarm, but has to
fight the "Elite Security Mage"? Or what about "Hit and Run"?
The decker resets the alarm, but takes 2 damage? What if
the decker is assisting through the Matrix? How does the decker
fight? Or 'return to the safehouse' which happens when you
fail to sleaze 'Hit and Run'?

* If a runner has a weapon that can be used for Indirect Fire,
the runner has to turn to use it? And they don't count towards
the team max? Is that runner available only for that one revealed
Challenge?

thnx,
Sorrow
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Message no. 2
From: Matb <mbreton@**.NETCOM.COM>
Subject: Re: Deckers on runs and Indirect Fire
Date: Wed, 3 Jun 1998 15:16:25 -0700
Sorrow wrote:

> Reading the thread about the Cortex bomb reminds me
> of a few questions I have:

> * When deckers assist *in the matrix*, do they count towards
> the total runners you can send on a run?

Yes. You could send, say, Red Widow and her three sisters, and have
them covered by Ice Queen and Dodger in the Matrix - but that's all, no
one else may join.

> Also, I'm not sure how the program 'Sleaze' works.
> The team fails to sleaze an "Elite Security Mage", the alarm
> gets triggered. The decker can reset the alarm, but has to
> fight the "Elite Security Mage"? Or what about "Hit and Run"?
> The decker resets the alarm, but takes 2 damage? What if
> the decker is assisting through the Matrix? How does the decker
> fight? Or 'return to the safehouse' which happens when you
> fail to sleaze 'Hit and Run'?

The wording on Sleaze is a bit unclear; basically, it just resets the
alarm. The Runner team still has to face down the Challenge.

AFAIA, the Elite Security Mage can't dismiss a Decker from the Matrix,
since the Decker never leaves the safehouse. Oh, wait, you didn't ask
that... :)

> * If a runner has a weapon that can be used for Indirect Fire,
> the runner has to turn to use it? And they don't count towards
> the team max? Is that runner available only for that one revealed
> Challenge?

From the RBT, p. 38: "Turn the Runner holding the weapon to add that
weapon's Attack Value to the cumulative Attack Value of the
shadowrunning team .... " Runners using Indirect Fire *do* count toward
the max. (If they didn't, the Remington 750 would, sigh, be a pretty
cool toy after all.) The Indirect Fire bonus stays active through the
shadowrun, unless noted on the weapon (the Ranger Arms, for instance,
only deals damage once a turn). Or, of course, if the gun (or Runner)
gets trashed midway through.


- Matt

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