IC: Fight Night, Let's Get Ready to RUMBLE! Options

[Soluna]

Lynx gathers everyone together on the right hand side of the door that's to their left. She then kneels in front of the handprint reader and maglock and does the same thing she has for the past two doors. When the light turns green, she motions the others to stay still, pulls the handle down and eases the door open just wide enough to peek through. She stays perfectly still and holds her breath scouting the area beyond the door as best she can.

[Dashifen]

@Lynx (because she's peaking through the door)
As you slide open the door and peak down the hallway, you notice two things: 1) this hallway is more sterile, utilitarian than the previous ones, and 2) it's empty of metahuman life. The hallway is about 20m long running most of the length of the building. At the far end are two doors but you can't see much about them from here. You can see that there is a camera outside the farther door that seems to be aimed such that people standing in front of the door would be in it's field of view. The camera is fixed on it's location; it doesn't pan left or right.

The odd part about this hallway is that for all of it's sterile atmosphere, there are four potted plants evenly spaced down the hallway against the far wall. That is, the wall that doesn't contain the door you're currently peaking through.

The hallway is well lit from flourescent lights hanging from a drop ceiling. The floor is white tile squares and the walls are painted a matching beige, off-white.

@Corbin
As Lynx deals with opening the door and peering into the hallway, your radio begins to crackle, "Damnit Max. My shift is done. Get your stumpy ass out here. I want to get some food."

[Soluna]

Lynx edges back and allows the door to close quietly in case there's a timed alarm on it. She turns to her teammates.

"We've got two doors with a stationary camera pointed at one of them. My guess is that's the door we want. Corbin, that disappearing act you pulled before..does that work against cameras?"

[Shadow]

"If it doesn't, I have something that will." I said with a smile.

[Nikoli]

Ikarus casts about looking for some way onto the Matrix, or at least into the local host.

[paul_HArkonen]

standing behind watching the experts do their thing, Slash prepares himself for the battle he can feel coming.

[TinkerGnome]

Corbin takes a minute to piece together the significance of the radio communication and blinks. "Possible trouble," he sends over the comm. "Got a guard outside probably asking after the dwarf we just fried."

[Dashifen]

@Ikarus
You've got nothing in this hallway that can give you access, but the guards came from somewhere back here .....

[Shadow]

"Ok, we need info, and we just don't have the time to be subtle."

I hated doing this, but I didn't have much of a choice. We needed to know how many guards there were and where the money was.

"Corbin, Slash, keep an eye on ansy pants, Lynx, watch the door."

I grabbed the human guard and rested my hand on his skull, concentrating I narrowed my vision. Now some people will tell you there magic comes from some mystical plane or from a totem. I tell you, mine comes from will power. The will and the word. Summon the will, and say the word.

"Open your mind." I said allowed. Mana crackled around me as I battered into the guards mind, searching for the information we so desperately needed.

[Dashifen]

@Trace
A confusion of images comes to you from the guards mind. It seems that in his electricly induced unconciousness he is actually dreaming. Through the mindprobe you guide his unconscious mind towards work. You seem him walking the halls through which you and the party have already come and eventually ariving in this very hallway. He moves down hall to the closer of the two doors and using a keycard on his belt and his right hand, he opens the door into the security offices of the building. He nods to a guard doing paper work and you recognize the dwarf that was also tasered by the your intrepid comrade. You also see two people you don't recognize, a female elf who seems to be of higher rank than the guard you're currently reading from and another human female who you haven't seen yet. He says hello and moves to his workstation. As he enters his name and password his mind seems to subconsciously try to keep you from seeing his confidential information, but you get some information nonetheless: his user name for the security system is "alfred20581002" and you know his password is eight characters long ending in "0xs." Hopefully Icarus can do something with that information. You haven't seen exactly where the money systems are, but you now know which door leads to the security "brain" of the building. Deduction leaves only one other exit from this hallway that you haven't search. Confident that this information could help keep the teams hoop out of the fire, you drop your spell and stand up to report to the others who are watching you expectently.

My spelling and grammar could be really bad above. It's late and I'm tired but I remembered that I promised to do this yesterday and decided to hash this out before hitting the sack.

[Shadow]

"Ok," I said as I stood and dropped the guard back to the floor. "This is what I got," I rattled off all the info I could remember, hoping that some of it was in use.

"I figure if we take the security room we can control the building, and find the money."

[Soluna]

"But if we take the security room that traps us in one room and it'll make it easier for them to pin us down. Plus there's going to be multiple people in there which gives one of them time to get an alert out before we can take them all down. But we can probably pull it off as long as we all attack at the same time. What do you guys think?" she asks Corbin, Ikarus and Slash.

[paul_HArkonen]

Slash thinks for just a moment, "taking control of the comand room would allow us to complete our mission, and after that we can cut our way back out using their own defenses."

[Soluna]

"Good point. Let's do it then," she said as she grins and pulls out her Pred.

[paul_HArkonen]

Slash double checks that his safty is off, and prepares his blade to be drawn and started up quickly.

[Soluna]

Lynx reopens the door using the key card and the guard's hand. She goes through the door first, being sure to stay in a low crouch and against the wall. She motions the others to follow and makes her way to the door that doesn't have the camera pointing at it.

"Bring the guard," she says to Corbin over the transducer.

[Shadow]

"As soon as I am on the other side of the door I can do some astral surveillance."

[Shadow]

I stepped through the door, around Slash and Corbin dragging the poor guard. Once inside I leaned against the wall and floated free of myself. Always a weird sensation, but now that I was in the barrier I could see what was what.

[TinkerGnome]

Corbin moved as he was directed and when he was done, he readied his taser, sliding a few fresh darts into the cylindrical housing. He nods his readyness.

[Soluna]

Lynx sees Trace's body slump to the floor. She does her best to catch his arm before he topples sideways and hits his head. She motions for the group to wait for hold any action until he comes back to himself.

[Dashifen]

@Trace
Slipping into the Astral plane the importance of those potted plants along the wall of the hallway becomes apparent. The twisting astral form of the Guardian Vines extends slightly beyond the physical boundaries of the plant and seems to waver slightly as if blowing in some form of an astral breeze. It looks like you could probably avoid them if you moved quickly and carefully...

[Dashifen]

@Corbin
Over the guard's radio: "Max where the hell are you? I swear you spend longer on the fragging john than anyone I've ever known."

[Nikoli]

Ikarus unsure of the concern over the plants asks quietly, "What are those? Are they dangerous?"

[Soluna]

"They sure don't look it from here," Lynx whispers, "but we should hang tight until Trace get's back. I know shit about magical stuff, but I don't want to take any chances you know?"

[TinkerGnome]

Corbin flips frequencies and relates the last message to the group. "We'd better hurry up," he notes.