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I do agree two Hornets and a dog is cooler than three Hornets. :)

Make a Perception roll.

Hoping to provoke a read intention or a better perception test to identify the tail or tails while making sure he isnt tracked at the same time, because dual action ftw.

How close do you consider the dog need to be to "smell" somebody's emotion, traces of firearms or identify some individual smell marker to scan for later?

Some clarifications first. VR mode will mean you are not in control of your meat body, so standing is not possible, nor using your body's senses. If you want to stay physically conscious, you'll have to use AR, and remote control your dog. By default your dog is running on its own based on your last command (which is a Major Action), which currently I assume is 'follow' or 'heel', so it continues to perform that action.
Regarding the olfactory sensor, sure it can smell anything you want to detect. It gives Edge to a scent-based Perception test. Think of it like a visual Perception test, you can see as far as your eyes can see, and recognise individuals as different, but need to roll to 'perceive' something specific. Same with smell, which can distinguish individual smell markers.
Matrix Perception works the same way. In the Matrix there are icons, PANs, etc all around. A Matrix Perception test can reveal something about what you'd like to investigate, either to search for some subject, or to analyse a particular icon.

So in this case, so far you've noticed that there are some people watching you. If you want you can use the dog's olfactory sensor's rating for your Perception roll. (You haven't specified what rating you installed on the dog though :) ).

Clearsight rating 9 is installed in the RCC with slave the drone.

About drone actions, I have read conflicting info in the book, and in


For Matrix Perception, i was thinking of . My understand of the Matrix system is still not great, but I think that if someone was trying to put a Matrix way to track Hotaru equipement through the Matrix, they would be running silent near him.

Drone and vehicle sensors. They come with sensor arrays. You inu has a sensor rating of 2, which means it can hold 2 sensor functions, which you have installed, a camera and an olfactory scanner. You need to state the rating for both of these items (and paid the nuyen). For the camera, its rating determines how many enhancements you can install in it. You've installed one, the image link enhancement. For the olfactory scanner, its rating is whatever you've bought.
To remotely command the inu to use its olfactory sensor, the drone uses its Pilot rating + your Clearsight autosoft which uses its Sensor rating. On the other hand, if you're jumped into your inu, you would use your Pilot rating + your Perception skill (it's not using autosofts since you're jumping in and controlling it.) Clearsight itself has no rating.

Drone actions. Commanding a drone is always a major action, whether one or many. This refers to a single command issued. If you then intend to issue different subsequent commands in that turn to other drones, each of those need a minor action. So say you have 3 drones. You major action command is 'attack' for 1 to 3 of them. If you want number 2 and/or 3 to 'retreat', you'll need a minor action for that. If instead you want number 2 to 'retreat' and number 3 to 'standby', you'll need 2 minor actions.

Matrix Perception. Yes, it is possible to enter the Matrix, and use Matrix Perception to search for hidden icons. Successes would reveal various 'invisible' icons, near and/or far. Whether or not they are harbouring ill-will towards you you wouldn't be able to tell.

Judge Intentions. The appropriate roll to figure out who is observing Hotaru is Perception. Judge Intentions is used for social interaction, ie, your character is trying to figure out the intentions of the person speaking with him. So in this case, your earlier Perception roll revealed that it is possible that a couple of people might be observing / tailing Hotaru.

Hope all these help. Keep asking and clarifying! SR is a crunchy system, so there are a ton of rules to work through.

I found no listed price for the sensor functions. Or is it single sensor ratingX100 nuyen p277?
There is price for physical camera and mics and some cyberware equivalent for olfactory booster headware and ultrasound, but nowhere for most of the other. The cyberware price seem disproportionate to use as reference for drone equipment, especially if you compare camera and cybereye price.

Clearsight in 6th is clearly indicated as an autosoft (whose only price is ratingX500 nuyen). Was it a program without rating in earlier edition?

My mistake on needing to pay the nuyen for the sensor functions. I was thrown off by the lack of rating for these items: the camera, the directional mic, and the olfactory sensor. The relevant line is in p277 under Sensor Functions. So they all have a rating of 2 because your Inu and Hornet have a Sensor rating of 2.
My mistake also for your Clearsight, which is an autosoft for which you bought a rating of 9, like your other autosofts. (In the previous edition, Clearsight was specific to each drone, so in 6e it seemed general to me at first)

So back to your original question, although the autosoft says Clear "sight", yes it can be applied to an olfactory Perception test as well. Sorry for the long detour, I hope I cleared things up more than I confused you.

Hehe, I got scared a bit at some point of having to reread everything again,but all is good :P I think the manouver autosoft i got will need to be set for a specific type of drone, though it will probably go on a car model instead Everycar is supposed to be able to drive itself, but with 1 die and handling requiring 3-4 success, they cant do much by themselves.

Slight change on last scene

If the dog gets an edge for observing someone who's observing someone else, i'll probably use that.
Edit : If 0 Edge 3 successes, if 1 edge he'll reroll a 1 and if 2 edge bump a 4 to 5 for 4 successes.

Not sure I understand, the idea was to keep the dog with me and take automated stairs to the second floor and have the dog notice if somebody reacted or followed while they thought Hotaru was looking in the opposite direction...

Let me clarify. Which of these did you mean in your last post?
- Was your instruction to the dog to observe and transmit the suspects' emotions and behaviour while you are on the escalator? If so, I assume the dog will have to move around in order to use its visual and olfactory sensors to do what you command it to do.
- Or was your instruction for the dog to stand next to you to alert you if someone is reacting to you or following you, while you yourself are standing on the escalator looking at the dog's image link? If you are, all you'll see is what's in front of the dog, and what you'll smell is the effective radius around it.
In my post I described the former. If you mean the latter I'll change it.

The second one. The dog's camera will at least be able to pick up if one of them change direction to follow or do more than casually glance in Hotaru's direction. Actual change in emotion reading depend on the effective radius which I do not know and the others distance which i do not know either.

Noted, earlier post deleted. This post continues the story. No opposed roll, so no Edge generated. I will assume the dog uses its camera and olfactory scanner of course. And the scanner gives you 1 Edge for scent-based Perception tests. 3 successes gets you the following information.

Using the gained edge to reroll one die.

What does the tense person 2 step below look like?

Btw give me a brief description of your dog? Size? Colour? etc. Helps when I narrate.