//File 0.11 - Helios and Missy//

Please use this shared thread for your phone conversation and subsequent thread if/when you meet up.

I've moved Helios' message to Clarice here.

From @dejoker. I am assuming we have a normal place we meet from time to time, some out of the way hole in the wall joint -- of course we could have 2 the Usual Place and the Other Place. I would also assume our meeting times are pre-arranged to be 2 hours before whatever time is messaged -- so if you say 3pm we would be meeting at 1pm kind of thing

I have no idea if I get any Edge for any of these rolls though

Am resolving with @dejoker his equipment use and his assensing. Optical devices are either wireless or wired. Sorting that now. :)

Let's start with commlinks. They can come in all sort of models, from basic handheld to implanted headware. I'm assuming everyone's commlink allows them to view AR. Helios' model is presumably handheld and manual. He needs to look at it to see digital information sent to him, or it can speak to him, since he has no other way to interact with it.
Now, the eyewear. If the vision enhancements are supposed to be concealed or disguised, they use the Glasses stats, ie. capacity max 4. If you want up to capacity 6, then we'll use Goggles stats, but lose concealability (too many enchancements are obvious). Default eyewear are wireless, or they can be wired by a universal data cable. If you like, we can say it's an older model, so it doesn't have wireless nor wired capability, but needs to be operated by hand, like the touch of a button.
Physical objects are gray shadows in the astral. So @runekyndig is somewhat correct, wearing eyewear while assensing will show a gray shadow right in front of your eyes. You can still assense, but the goggles hamper that. This is easily solved by saying that you take off your eyewear when you assense, and put it back on after you're done.
Next, for Mystic Adepts, they use Astral Perception in order to assense. Using Astral Perception makes the adept become dual-natured, and gives a -2 dice pool penalty to all non-Magic actions, this will include your Perception roll. If you want to get round that we can of course say that you assense first, complete your assensing, then use your Perception after that.
Putting both together, there's basically a lot going on in what you're trying to do: take off glasses, turn dual-natured, stop being dual-natured, put on glasses, turn on glasses, turn off glasses. Nothing wrong with that, but it's not going to be as stealthy as you think it might be.
Just to clarify, is your Scrutinize roll meant to be a Perception roll? (Trying to add up your 11d6)
Finally, the rolls grant Edge if they are opposed. Eg. if someone is hidden, and you roll Perception with superior dice, this gives you Edge against that person. Think of Edge as 'edge over someone'. But if you use Perception generally, you can perceive all sorts of things in your surroundings, the cars, the cats, the rubbish on the ground, etc, but none of these will give Edge.

Yup, no worries. My bad because I assumed that you were trying to make Helios do it stealthily. I make a difference in this game between stealthy and non-stealthy use of equipment because it seems very important in SR. Some characters are fully wired with headware commlinks that control what they see/do etc with a thought, because of their neural interface. The contrast is character like mages/adepts with no cyberware, so they have to manually manipulate their gear. In the first case, no one can tell. In the second case, it's typically more obvious that they are using equipment, and grants a chance for an observer to perceive it.
I think it's perfectly fine in many contacts, especially non-combat ones, to scan a place first before entering. I'll handwave most of it, unless I think it's a problematic social situation, ie. you're talking to a mafia boss and his cronies, and you decide to scan him there and then, or unless it's a tactical situation, ie. the place is already being watched. In those circumstances, you can propose a roll as customary for your character (ie. Helios always scans before he enters a building), or I will ask for a roll (ie. I'll say something to the effect of "Helios arrives, and wonders if he'd better take his usual precautions."
Sure, the goggles can have various settings. If it were wireless you'd control it remotely. If it's manual, you'd have to manipulate it somehow to get the setting you want, like a button or a dial, eg turn on the full suite of vision enhancements, turn on individual enhancements, turn off everything.
Alrighty, let me post a response. Thanks for being patient as we talk through a crunchy ruleset.

Oh can I make the googles appear like they are fully wired although they are not kind of thing that would seem like a nice camouflage

I'll let you two talk it out, and will jump in either because I'm needed to clarify something, or when I need to do a plot advance, soon...