Before he hangs up, Carver yells "it is tradition in my country to wear hats made of festive fireworks to symbolize the start of a new business enterprise!"

OOC: sorry, i back burnered this to think of a response and then it slipped my mind.

"Two hours, space needle, the right package this time."  Snow said into the phone before hanging it up.

"Alright this guy is really getting on my nerves.  What package now? we gave him a drop bear.  then we gave him the drop bear he wanted along with about a dozen other ones and in return he sics a bunch of psychotic runners on us."  Snow pulls out his taser and looks at it with a bit of dismay, "It appears that I dont have the proper package for him.  We are going to have to stop off somewhere and pick up some explosive and a remote detonator.  Reputation be damned, this guy is getting what he deserves."

I would need to roll 25 successes to be able to get commercial explosives within the time limit, so i dont think that's going to happen

Yeah, getting commercial explosives without a good contact is tough. However, non-commercial ones are still viable. And since you're just exploding a PERSON, not a building, the technical requirements are a little more lenient.

"I know a person or two who have their ears to the streets and might know where we could get some explosives on short notice.  No guarantees though.  As for a remote detonator..." he glances over at Firefox and points a thumb at her.  "I thought that was her specialty."  St. V considers calling in a favor with Ms. Loretta Vanderpelt, but also racks his own brain to try remembering if he had ever heard of any local fireworks dealers worth looking into.  Someone who sells the good stuff!

10:56, Today: St. Velveteen rolled 1 success using 3d6 with the Shadowrun system with a target of 4 with rolls of 4,2,2. Street Rumors.  Fireworks dealers.

Firefox pulls out her PDA and rings up Alfred.  "You remember those troll blasters we used at the New Year's party a couple of years back?  Know where I could pick up a couple on short order?  Yeah the sparkly ones with the big secondary.  No, it's ok.  It'll be outdoors this time.  I think green.  It'd be good to match his eyes.  Oh and some of those whistling ones too"

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13:56, Tue 09 Dec 2014: Firefox rolled 4 successes using 8d6 with the Shadowrun system with a target of 4 ((2,3,(6+3)9,4,3,3,(6+4)10,4))

Turning to the the team, she smiled.  "I'll look after the pyrotechnics.  Should have a pretty display wired up in the next hour or so.  Might be good to have a few folks case the site up front in case our Mr. F's mercs are setting us up.  Or our fuzzy friends.  Or someone else not yet accounted for . . ."

Ms. Vanderpelt responds to St. V, "oh, hello my dear! Fireworks? Are you having a party? That's so sweet. But no, you shouldn't get into those. Someone might lose a finger! Sparklers are much safer. Oh, or I know this sweet young lady, she's offloading eighty surplus AK-74s and boxes of phosphorous flare rounds. Would that be better?"

Firefox, however has far more luck. "Yes, ma'am. As you recall, the old estate had an overabundance of, ahem, 'party favors' of different sorts. I'm afraid there is a minimum blast size. The smaller items simply never moved. I can arrange for a few boxes to be available, for you to pull through."

(Cost for this is $600 for the materials for a single hat--they're illegal fireworks and all.)

Can we have one of those bottle rocket radio control rigs set into the fusecord? Because that shouldn't be impossible to rig up and would cost less than 50 nuyen. Well, depends on if we go with the deluxe version...

Those AK-74s did sound pretty tempting, but after checking his wallet one more time St. Velveteen ultimately decides to conserve his money for once.  He would have to wait until this payoff before going back for the guns.  "Thanks, Loretta.  I guess if you could just give me the name of a place with sparklers, that will have to do.  I might be back for those flare rounds though, depending on how well this gig goes..."  Sparklers wouldn't be as impressive, but they sure are pretty!  And the 'bears said they would raise the payout to 6000 if some were incorporated.

I'm sure a techie can wire those up to remote launcher stuff. If someone wants to give me a Hardware roll, I'll use that.

So you guys pick up the fireworks. Anything else you're doing? Who is making the roll for attaching them to the hat?

Carver attempts to help with the wiring up of the fireworks and distracts himself with the electronics kit, making himself an assortment of simple entertaining gadgets like an alarm and a joybuzzer. It comes to a head when he accidentally adds a bottle rocket to the mix, trips the circuit, and strikes himself in the face with the Cantonese incendiary.
Carver rolled a critical failure on Electronics, rolling 1 on 1d6.

After carefully tending to his singed scalp and smokey clothes, he settles on a simpler task - integrating the wires and whatnot into a lovely sun cap he found at the Redemption Marine Depot down the way (also finding a nice tie for himself). Unfortunately, he soon realizes that his only sewing kit available is the suture gun from his medkit. After stapling the hat to the mannequin (not a partially deflated basketball, mannequin) and nearly setting the entire enterprise ablaze again, Carver extracts the frame and decides to let the others do a better job.
Carver rolled a failure on Knowledge: Homemaker skill, rolling a 3 on 1d6

Firefox watches amused as Carver attempts to wire things up before taking over.  If there was one thing she knew, it was how to properly incinerate things.  Or people.  Or whatever . . .

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16:28, Today: Firefox rolled 5 successes using 6d6 with the Shadowrun system with a target of 4 with rolls of 5,(6+6+6+1)19,(6+2)8,3,(6+5)11,5. Pyrology - wire up hat.

Pyrology

That should do it, I think?

At this point, you're working on the remote part. I trust the detonator part is in hand. So Hardware still applies.

BTW, where are you doing this? Whose house are you setting on fire?

Was assuming I'd use an elemental for that.  Much harder to jam.  No metal to detect.  Plus my pet would enjoy the fun. . .

Seriously guys let the right skills for job get used

Demolitions: 07:39, Tue 16 Dec 2014: Snow rolled 3 successes using 4d6 with the Shadowrun system with a target of 4 ((2,(6+4)10,4,4)).

Electronics: 07:40, Tue 16 Dec 2014: Snow rolled 2 successes using 5d6 with the Shadowrun system with a target of 4 ((2,3,4,5,1)).

Given the time crunch, someone else can drive and Snow will do the work in the truck.

So Snow manages to wire the explosives into Carver's funny hat. It looks like sun hat with a dozen rockets soldered to the top. However, with Firefox's negotiations skill, she can probably talk him into wearing it. I'm sure it's fine.

Excellent. Now how do we get reservations for the space needle?

I believe the meeting is for under the needle, which should be a tad easier

Oh, then excellent. We can move to the next scene and I'll see you all at the afterparty!

St. V watches curiously as the others take their turns trying to make the hat look presentable.  He would have offered expert pointers, but his heart just wasn't in it with his craft kit was left back at home.  Some scrap paper and glitter glue could have done wonders.  But as it was, the troll spent most of the ride preparing his gear and making sure everything was still in working order.  There was still a hit squad out there somewhere being paid to take them out and he didn't want to be caught with his pants down.  V holsters his handgun in his concealable holster when they near the needle.  "Everyone ready for things to get hairy?"

Snow hands St. V a half empty canister of NADS (http://www.nads.com/).

"Or if you prefer I know a great little German girl who does great body waxing."

Okay, that product is way less offensive than I thought it would be, given the name.

In reply to Papa Bear (msg # 39):

The name alone is all the comedic value.  of course if you get more into it they always talk about pulling the strips towards your nose with led to the concept of pulling your nads towards your nose.

On reading the OOC text, Carver crosses his legs uncomfortably and tries to focus on getting the glitter only on the hat. Unfortunately, an ill-timed speedbump sends an explosion of craft supplies like a pixie orgy, coating the back seat and making Carver look less threatening and more like a novice joyboy.

So wrapping up another chapter! Probably good that this one fell on Christmas, since it's one of those dull, in-between chapters. Anyway, +1 karma for completing a chapter, +1 Christmas Karma (you may replace it with Hannukkah karma if you'd like, but you have to split the point up across seven days), and a well-earned +1 haberdashery karma.

GM gets 100k Proffessorland FunBucks for proper use of the word "haberdashery"