FunkyEntropy
Occasionally insightful, possibly grumpy
- Location
- Los Angeles
We obviously felt that getting healed, managing the Tinker group, and coordinating the response was a more valuable use of our time.
Not to belabor the point, but we have actual rules for figuring out if we can find someone that's trying to hide. Tracking/Evasion is an extended, contested rolloff between the tracker and the evader. Normally it has an interval of approximately one third of a day, but because we have IEU that'd cut it down by a factor of six (so a 1.33 hour interval). At this point Jack didn't have access to teleporter backpacks (his base also being a static location) so we'd gain a couple autosux from outpacing him by a significant margin, in addition to the autosux from the 2nd Perception Augmentation. That's at minimum four autosux in our favor. Our recollection of the video provides us with a small circumstantial bonus because it helps us narrow down the type of building we're looking for, to the tune of one die to be conservative. We don't have a hard copy to scrutinize, so no more than that.
Let's be charitable and assume that having Vista warp the space around their base makes it more difficult for us to find, applying a -2 external penalty to our roll. In addition, Jack has help with Mannequin assisting his roll by prepping the base. Normally this'd only add one extra die, but since Mannequin is a Fucking Tinker I'm upgrading that to an autosux.
Weaver has a pool of Perception 5 + Survival 3 + Swarms 1 + Stunt 2 + Conviction 4 + circumstantial 1 - Sleep Deprived 1 - Wound Penalty 1 = 14 dice, plus 4 autosux, minus 2 external penalty. This averages out to 9 successes.
To be as favorable as possible to Jack, let's give him a max pool of Wits 5 + Survival 5 with a specialty in Hiding. He gets an autosux from Mannequin helping his roll, and we'll go with a bog standard TN of 6 because this is a contested roll. This averages out to 6 successes.
Thus we have Weaver with 9 successes on average vs Jack Slash's 6. This means that Weaver has accumulated three more successes than her opponent, so she finds him after the first search interval.
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