IC: Beginner's Luck Options

[Dashifen]

@Silent
It's been a pretty slow couple of weeks for you and not much has been happening in the job market, if you know what I mean. Beginning to worry that you soon might start to loose your edge, you're excited when your fixer, Alan Flash, drops you a message:

Got a potential for you. Point your gear at this address 697-91-2293 and check out the information there. The host will only be available for the next 12 hours, so if you don't get the intel, I'll assume you're not interested. My sources tell me that your friends are more than welcome to be included in this operation.
--- Alan ---

[Mana Child]

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[Mana Child]

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[Leowulf]

After checking his messages, Silent smiles a little and makes a note of the LTG address on his pocket secretary. Given the short amount of time available for the site, Silent decides to get on his computer immediately and check things out.

He sits down in front of his PC and logs on to the LTG to see what's there and whether it's too much for him to handle by himself.

[Dashifen]

@Silent
Arriving at the correct LTG address, you're startled to find an advertisement for bricks-and-mortar gambling den just inside the barrens named the Jack of all Spades. It seems that they're having a going-out-of-business extravaganza tonight and they're owner would like you and the others to contact him by midnight tonight at your convenience. The message includes a telephone number and the address for the Jack of all Spades.

[Leowulf]

Silent makes calls Hook, Aelarith, and Mallard, and tells them to check out the LTG address he was given. He also tells them that he is going to call the owner and set up a meeting.

After finishing contacting his 'associates', Silent calls the Jack of All Spades and asks to speak with the owner.

[Ditaki]

"Tell me what he says." Hook ends the phone conversation, a slight tug in his voice revealing a wish to be on the phone when Silent calls Jack of Spades. However, Hook had more important things on his mind: looking up this LTG. After heading outside, a quick (only 45 minutes) bus ride, and a ten minute walk, Hook arrives at his location: Seattle First Public Library. He waves hello to the librarian and, after finding out where the computers are, heads over, slips a pair of trodes on, and slowly dips into Matrix, looking for this LTG (and ironically, his lost saltshaker of salt).

[Mana Child]

"ok that sounds fine with me silent, thanks for letting me know and tell me what he says", Alelarith hangs up the phone.
She catches a cab to the nearest public library. As the cab pulls up to the curb she pulls out her credstick and pays her fare offering a warm smile as she steps out onto the sidewalk. She then anxiously steps into the library stopping at the first member of staff to ask about a computer to be used. She is directed to the nearest unused computer. Alelarith Then gets to work searching for this LTG.

<<ooc>> better?

[Dashifen]

@Hook and Alelarith
Arriving at the LTG you see a similar advertisement to what Silent described to you. It seems a static advertisement with nothing to really dig your teeth into. You both think that perhaps Mallard will have more luck with digging any other information out of the host.

@Silent
When you call the Jack of all Spades, the receptionist tells you that the owner is out on business at the moment, but will return tonight at 8:00pm. She then sets up an appointment for you, Hook, Alelarith, and Mallard for 9:00pm. She says that should give him enough time to greet people and answer his messages.

[Mana Child]

Alelarith waves a taxi down then gives him her home address to point his cab. As the cab reaches the sidewalk near her home she pays with her trademark smile and steps out of the taxi and walks casually to her front door. Alelarith then reaches into her pocket and out again to reveal her house keys. She fits them into the lock turns and enters taking out the key before shutting the door and firmly locking it.
Alelarith then makes her way to the bathroom where she slowly strips off and enters the now running hottub. She lies back and breaths out slowly and closes her eyes.

After lying in the hot tub for some period of time she gets out of the tub and starts wiping herself down with a towl. Alelarith then proceeds to brush her hair, put on her black eye shadow, and black nail polish. Ooc: Woops i forgot to tell you shes a goth..... sorry.

IC: after getting into some clothes she sits down on the sofa and rings silent.
"Are you going to pick me up or are you going to make me catch a cab?" she says in a mock playful vioce"

[Leowulf]

Silent has the receptionist set up the appointment for 9:00pm.

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Silent replies to Alelarith, flirting back to her, "You know I don't have a car. None of us do. Besides, walking is good exercise. This place is out near the barrens. I wouldn't trust my car sitting out there if I had one. Our appointment is at 9:00pm. See you there, girl."

[Mana Child]

Alelarith continues with phone conversation: "Ok honey sorry i forgot (giggles) i'll see you later are we all going to take seperate taxi's or is one of us going to get a cab and go pick up everyone then go to the appionment, although i dont really see the point in that?"

[Hidden-Shadow]

:Kesdak while speaking to his Fixer overhears another Fixer telling a group of people to jack into 697-91-2293, curious he jacks in. Upon finding information about a meeting that he might be interested in going to. Jacks out:

:Prods Xel who is sculling down a Beer:,"Hey Xel, give us a lift 'ey. Were heading out near the barrens"

[Xel naga]

Xel naga having his drink interupted by Hidden-shadow while giving him an evil stare agrees to take him to the barrens

[Mana Child]

:ignores last 2 posts:

[Hidden-Shadow]

OOC: Mana Child, were just trying to join in the game. Fool

[Leowulf]

:ooc: Xel naga & Hidden-shadow, apply to join the game on the OOC thread please guys. It's bad form to post on a game you aren't part of.

:ic: Silent says, "It would be best if we all arrived in separate cabs. There is less chance of a gogang attack if we are on the road less time. It also won't look like we all know each other, which is a good precaution to take."

[kevyn668]

Mallard hangs up after getting the call from Silent. I guess this why I make the big bucks....

Ignoring the little voice in his head that tells him to not deck from his doss, he hauls out the Avatar and plugs it into the wall. Taking a second datachord, he conects one end to the deck and holds the other end in his hand for a moment before sliding it into the jack on his right temple with a 'snic'.

The world of the Matrix unfolded before him and as fast as thought he made hi s way to the Jack of All Spades.

[Dashifen]

@Mallard
Jumping onto the Matrix, you log onto the Seattle-UCAS LTG and the virtual representation of Seattle leaps into view. Entering the LTG address given to you by Silent, you zip forward towards a small matrix hosts with blinking lights. The advertisement for the going-out-of-business extravaganza is still prominent, but you notice that any mention of the the owner wanting to meet with you has been removed.

Entering the host, you see that their iconography is that of a casino. The flashing lights and the mirrors are reminiscent of Las Vagas in the late 20th. Red shag carpeting covers the floors and pulsating colors assault you as your reality filter ties to deal with the garish data-stream. Pulling up any information you can gather from the public grid, you get their normal hours of hoperation (3:00pm - 2:00am) as well as the name of the owner -- one Jamison "Jimmy" Lincoln -- who's smiling face beams out at you from the "Meet the Owner" section of their host. They list blackjack, poker, and craps as their main games but do not list any slots or other mechanical games of chance.

As you move through the casino, you notice a small door on the back wall that is marked "Employees Only."

[ Spoiler ]

Since this is a learning game, I'm going to do this frequently. I'll post the IC results of rolls and then post what actually happened behind the scenes down here in an OOC section. When there are more than one characters being spoken to in one post, I'll seperate them as I have before with a bold face @<character name> line (like above).

Anyway, to log onto the LTG and get to the Matrix, Mallard had to perform a Logon to LTG operation. This operation is aided by the Deception Utility which Mallard owns at rating 6. So, the rating of the Deception utility is subtracted from the Access rating of the Seatlle-UCAS LTG with is also 6. Therefore the target number for his logon test is a 2 (6-6 = 0 but the lowest TN is 2). He rolls his computer/decking skill of 6 (17 11 05 05 03 02) scoring 6 successes. The LTG rolls its security value of 4 against a target number of Mallard's detection factor which is the average of his masking and sleaze utility ratings. Therefore, the host's TN is 6 (masking 6 plus sleaze 6 divided by 2 equals 6) and it gets 1 success. Not enough to keep our decking friend out of the grid.

Going to a specified address requires no rolls, but once there, I rolled a sensor test, which is matrix perception, for Mallard with his sensor rating of 5 getting 11 04 04 03 01 which is 3 success (TN 4). This got him the information about the hours, owner, games, and the ability to notice the Employees Only section of the casino.

[Mana Child]

Alelarith says to Silent "where are you at the moment?" "is there anything thing we should do until the meeting?"

[Leowulf]

Silent says to Alelarith, "We might want to have Mallard check the place out before we go there. Knowing him, he probably already is."

[Mana Child]

Alelarith says to silent "fine that sounds good should we wait till he contacts us?"

[Leowulf]

Silent says over the phone, "Yes, let's wait, but not too long. We don't want to be late. Mallard has our numbers. He can call us on the way if he needs to. Eh.. you did pick up a cellular phone like I suggested didn't you?"

[Dashifen]

@Everyone except Xel Naga and Kesdack
As night approaches, you all get to the Jack of all Spades as exected. Not wanting to arrive late, most of you are able to land cab rides early and arrive between 8 and 8:30. Mallard arrives just in the nick of time at about 8:50 before you are approached by a tall human in a three-piece suit.

The Jack of all Spades is a run down dive of a place, nothing like the matrix advertisement and iconography would have lead you to believe. It's a smoke filled, somewhat smelly place and not near as nice as you expected. The tables are worn and the chairs don't match. The dealers are mostly human with a few orks mixed in. There are two obvious bouncers (a human and a dwarf) at the door but when you tell them that you're here to meet with the owner at 9:00, they let you in with only a cursory glance.

"Hello. My name is Jimmy Lincoln," says the man as you approach. "I believe that you are here to meet with me?"

[Mana Child]

"Yes", says alelarith. "i hear you have some potential business for us?"