The Accidental Tourists, Some questions about a run in TT Options

[icharbezol]

My questions stem from the scenario I am running at the moment, and since I have no Tir Tairngire sourcebooks to work with, I was wondering if I was anywhere near on track with this.

I will give a little info on the scenario, strictures I am placing on their jaunt and the ‘runners involved first.

The Scenario: Steal some valuable data from a prominent citizen of Portland. The characters have the dirt on where he lives and what sort of security that he has. Their problem lies in the fact that few of them are able to bring in their “Big Guns” because of the strictures I have placed on them as “tourists”. I had planned on this being a problem for them so they would be forced to use their brains more than their hardware.

The Strictures: I am wondering how far off base I might be and if these strictures are fairly reasonable for TT, since I don’t have access to any data on what’s legal and what’s not in TT. For one, I am not allowing their licenses for firearm possession on their various identities to carry over as tourists into the Tir (since these licenses are for the UCAS), so no guns are crossing the border (but see the Adept below). Also, any cyber beyond Class A (other than those used as “prosthetics”) must be disabled.
There are two magicians and an adept in the group, I am not allowing them to bring any foci or other magical gear beyond Force 2 into Portland. They also must pay a registration fee added to their visa cost just for being magicians and bringing any gear that fits the strictures.

The Characters: There is a “combat specialist” who is a former Sioux Wildcat. She has gone to her cyberdoc contact to have her “questionable” cyber disabled, but wanted some sort of device which could in effect disable the disabler on her reflexes. I thought this should be possible, so the cyberdoc installed just such a thing with a remote trigger.

There is an Adept whose specialization is, of all things, heavy weaponry. I thought he pulled a great job with getting himself into Portland, though. Recent events left him homeless (was staying in the Norwegian Embassy at Seattle; he is a Giant) after his home was bombed, and he requested permission to tour Portland in order to decide whether he wanted to establish residency there to escape the preponderance of hate-crimes in the UCAS. He also let it be known that he was a big-game hunter (paranormal that is) and had a firearm he wanted to bring to do some hunting; he does have the hunting and firearms licenses on his own identity.

There is a rigger who will be fairly useless in that capacity after all of his cyber is disabled, but can still drive like a demon.

There is a mage and a shaman, both of which claim that there is no way for any border officials to actually know what is in their head, so they are bringing no foci/magical gear (since all of their magical gear is over Force 2) and only the spells they know.

There is a decker who has rigged his cyberdeck to appear as though it is registered and is keeping copies of his programs in headware memory. I have pretty much told him that trying to get in with an unregistered deck is going to screw his part of the run right off the bat. The programs are an interesting question, though.

My questions mainly revolve around:
1. What they can expect to be able to find on the black market in Portland (provided they can contact anyone) and what sort of Street Index I should be shooting for; I was thinking about twice the SI of Seattle, but not sure…
2. How easily the Tir Border Patrol could be expected to catch the “combat specialist’s” “enabler”
3. If the Adept’s request to become a citizen based on seeking asylum from hate crimes in Seattle would have much pull and how willing the officials are actually going to be to allow a big game hunter to bring in a Panther Assault Cannon.
4. Seems to me that the Tir BP are going to find those headware memory files fairly easily and that the decker’s gonna have some severe problems getting his stuff in. Any suggestions?
5. Are my strictures excessive? I’m not really sure, but I think that they are fairly reasonable.