OOC: Extradition Options

[adamu]

Kiedo - up to mischief have I been.

One of the next things I was going to have Al do once we resolved his little night of shopping was, on the way to the next meeting, access some basic public info on this Scott's Valley place, maps, weather, etc. I have literally dozens of questions I need to plague you with before I can hope to make an intelligent contribution to our little planning session.
Well, to save you some trouble, I had a hunch it might be a real place, and I figured whatever I could find in RL, Al could easily find, since he's smarter than me and actually knows a little about computers.

[ Spoiler ]

So I found tons of stuff on this place, and if you want I can save you lots of typing and have Al introduce some of the pertinent info when we meet. But there are just a few snags.
1) I would need to know how much of the real world info - population, etc. is still valid in 2070.

2) The real Scott's Valley is well south of the Tir/CFS war zone, in the Santa Cruz mountains (neither high nor cold). Shall we assume that for game purposes it is A) farther north (in the war zone) and B) higher in the Sierras (to match the altitude you gave)? C) How about distance from coast?

3) I found an interesting historical tidbit about the real Scott's Valley from 1990 that seems like it might be relevant, but I don't want my nosiness to spoil your storyline.

OR it could all just be a coincidence and the real place has nothing to do with your devilish machinations.

If this is helpful, cool. If not, just forget it. In any case, we are definitely going to need all this sort of info if we are going to make a decent plan and have any chance of survival.

Catch ya, Adam.

[Divine Virus]

well, Sebastian don't need sleep for another 44 odd hours thanks to the sleep regulator, so he is going to sit outside the cafe and run a seach untill its time for the meet.

I run my stealth complex form and then start by threading a browse program.
(resonace 6 +software 1+fulll submersion 2=9)
5 5 6 1 1
4 1 1 6
four hits
that was frighteningly close to a botch. I have a browse 4 complex form. soaking fading (resonace 6+willpower 3)
1 1 2 5 6
3 6 1 5
four hits.

No Fading damage.
Now, dice pool for the seach.
thats Datasearch (0)+Browse (4)+FUll submersion (2)-sustained complex form (-2)
so thats four dice. That enough for me to buy 1 hit.
Lets say I get in 6 hours of seaching, all things saidn and done (I beleive the meet was at 8am) searching the whole matrix, so thats a 1 minuet interval. now. 6 hours means 360 intervels. To keep things simple I will buy 1 hit per roll. giving me some 360 hits by the meeting.

Now: optional:
Since I am overclocking, I should have 1 more inniative pass then anyone else possibly could. That means I should be able to search faster. But instead, I would like to use that extra overclockingness to be constantly spoofing my datatrail. I don't even want to image the mechanics of that right now, cause I need sleep. Be back in about 7 hours RL time

[adamu]

Rokur - the chip with ALL the info - Jack already tossed it to Al, who put it on his commlink and sent it out to the PAN we had up during the meet.

It was just a couple of lines of text IC and OOC (not the chip, but my posts to that effect!), so not surprising you missed it.

By the way - totally off topic - was lurking on another run and saw your lengthy description of the lifestyle of some Native American troll sniper - wow - great stuff (not that our own vengeful ninja thief hasn't been great fun so far as well!).

[Rokur]

oh.. i thought that chip was just your map that you asked for.... well then i guess I'll access your comm while we're in the room still and download it all if you don't mind.... I don't want to risk having it passed along in a open environment.

PS Also, if wanted and necessary since Patch and Gore have worked with Avenger before... they know they can get their comms subscribed to his, so they are offline but subscribed to me, so they run any mail or traffic through my commlink (thus benefitting from my stealth 6 and firewall 4)

[adamu]

That's great thinking. Also, Sebastian distributed that file he got by backtracing Crawford's initial commcall to just about everybody - so everybody should have everybody's commcode.

[Kiedo]

Adam

Seattle Dockyards (specialization: criminal activities)
You know that there is a fixer by the name of Flash operating out of dock 27.

Etiquette
He is friendly but you can tell he doesn't really like you.

Hunting Rifle
He's got an old model, no wifi, that is in desperate need of a little TLC, ie hasn't been clean is quite some time, and as a result functions less than perfect.
final cost: 1200 :nuyen: (with ammo)
additional notes: until cleaned (using a armorer+logic 8, 1 hour, extended test, it's really dirty) the rifle does 5P and you incure a -2 dice pool modifier trying to shoot it.

Scott Valley

Yeah I used google earth to get such exact lat and longs (and elevation), it's very real, I've been there IRL. But looking at Google earth again I apparently got the elevation wrong, it's actually 3715ft above sea level. You might be looking at a different part of scott valley than I am, but the coordinates I have put it exactly 28.78 miles from the California/Oregon state line. And from the map in the back of the SR4 source book it looks like that conflict area is bigger than 30 miles wide. The location of the place I gave I guess is technically Siskiyou, but I'm thinking it's still in Scott Valley, I'll have to check.

Population -50% everything else, the same

I picked Scott Valley randomly off the map, to be honest, but I am very interested in what you found, I'm going to google it after I'm done, replying to everything.

Yeah but Al can know anything you can find on the place with out rolling a test for it.

Everyone who wanted a sporting goods store

You can a) make a place up, or b) got to Colonel Bubbies, it's a real place, near were I live, but for the purposes of my run it's located in Seattle.

Take 1% (up to 15%) off the price of your haugepage survival kit for each item after the first, so simulate a packaged deal. (ie, 11 items =10%).

Cogar and Ginerkid
I took care of the results of your tests IC so you can just roll with them from there.

Divine Virus
Don't think I forgot about you, I've got to create some mysterious and cryptic sounding search results that include all the information that I want to share. I'm going to give you the results once everybody gets the gear they want, and is at least on the way to the cafe.

[Kiedo]

Adam, were you by any chance looking at Scotts Valley, because I found a bunch of wikipedia entries about it but none about Scott Valley, which is the location I found.

[Divine Virus]

no worries, take your time.

[Cogar]

edited... whoops wrong place

Also Kiedo

Can i pay a bit extra for the riot shield to have it custimised???


i want to to be retractable, Kinda like the one in PDZ (perfect dark zero)

would you allow that?

[Divine Virus]

BTW, Kiedo, in addition to the keywords noted by Gore, I am also looking for the names of nodes that might have more information on the sword encrypted, passworded and hidden away.

[adamu]

Kiedo - ouch - that is exactly what happened. My bad.
I realized it when I saw your mail this morning, and I've spent every spare minute all day at work digging up info on the REAL Scott(no s) Valley.

So I have now compiled lots of great, accurate, not contradictory data for the meet, and adjusted it for the parameters you stated so it will be valid in the game.

[Kiedo]

Yeah, I was pretty sure you were searching for scotts valley once I found the articles about the "bomb" and computer viruses.

[edit]...And the plot thickens, bum bum buuuuum[/edit]

[Kiedo]

Ok this is what I'm feeling for your custom riot shield

Retractable Riot Shield
Cost 400 :nuyen:
Availability: 8R
Ballistic/Impact: +3/+7

notes: Using cutting edge technology this riot shield uses four retractable titanium poles to produce a strong electromagnetic field. While is is virtually useless against natural weapons, such as a wooden club or fist, it is more effective against bullets and alloy weapons (including bone lacing and things like that).

Mechanics: Unlike a normal riot shield this one can be concealed. To spot the presence of the item, the searcher gains a +3 dice pool modifier when retracted. Due to the delicate nature of the electronics it cannot be used as a melee weapon. If it is used as on, roll it's barrier rating, against a threshold of half the wielder's strength.

[Cogar]

nice ill have a normal one and this one :D

joy!!

and i can afford it :D

[Kiedo]

I forgot to tell you, you guys are on the honor system about money, I don't want to have to keep track of all that, sorry.

alright, I don't generally roll for anything a starting character can get, so you've got it as soon as you shmooze Flash. But once the availability jumps over 12( or 8 if it has an R, or 4 if it's F), you've got to start rolling for stuff.

By the way, the search results may not seem to relevent now, but you rolled good so it's fish free (especially those pesky red ones...). I think I might have gone a bit too cryptic though....

[Cogar]

want me to roll for the Riot shield then ??

[Rokur]

Kiedo - did you notice my post about watching the footage on the file etc etc? just checking

[Divine Virus]

Kiedo, do I have that message that Gore pointed out? The one thats supposed to be attached?

[adamu]

DV - it's right there near the end of the fat IC post Kiedo sent you yesterday.

[Divine Virus]

Right. I was pretty tired when I read that post post, and I got quite confused. It makes sense to me now. I had to pull an all nighter so my brain wasn't in top shape...

Anyways. I am going to be making an analyse check on that message I got.
So:
Thread Analyse (software+resonace+full submersion*)
6 2 1 1 6 1 5
1 3
Yikes. I don't like how close that was to a botch again. thats 3 hits
soaking a fading of 3
(resonace+will)
6 6 3 5 2 1 4
5 3
and looks like I'm clear.

so Analysing the message at the end.
thats (computer 1+Anaylze 9+ hotsim 2- sustained CF 2)
5 4 1 1 6
6 5 6 1 5

So 6 hits. I suppose I can now forgive my dice for those 4 ones on that earlier roll.



*Its ambiguous as to weither or not threading counts as a matrix action for the purpose of hotsim bonus, rereading the rules I think it does. If I could get a ruleing I would appreaciate it. For ease sake, if it doesn't count scap the dice on the second row.

[Cogar]

"AH! Good morning, good morning! My name is alex higgins i work for a small magical research facility in the UK, i wish to talk to someone who deals with magical artifacts......"

Chrisma roll : 4 6 6 (2 hits) Also i have a Fake Sin Rating 4 do you want me to roll that too ? as this is what the sin relates to?


"Ah yes! hello, im calling on behalf of thebastion magical research facility, we are in posistion at this moment in time of getting a hands on a artifact of significant magical power, i was researching on the matrix and came across your node stating that if we can return said artifact to you to contact you, obviously we are a magical research facility like your own and would like to make a few notes on the item before signing it over to yourselves, however, is there a finders fee for returning items to the DIMR?"

Charisma roll: 5 4 2 (1 hit on that one)

[Kiedo]

Hey sorry about not posting yesterday, I've been sick and as it stands right now I have ten saltine crackers and a bottle of sprite in my system. So bear with me if I'm not making much sense.

DV

I'll have to check on that threading matrix action, thing.

But the results of your test:

The Message seemed to have come from your own commlink, I was going to post it IC using the commcode I abitrarily assigned for Avenger's trace, but I didn't think you went to all the trouble of writing down the commcodes.

[Rokur]

sorry about not being there for breakfast... but there's LOTS of stuff i wanna do... but it starts by reading that file... that I said i was gonna read.... sorry all

[Kiedo]

Oh, Rokur, that reminds me. Yes, the file has video, from four different angles, including several officers equipped with cyber eyes. You have a total of about 10 hours of video for the 15 minute break out. As I said in my last post, I'm sick, so I'm not feeling up to posting a play by play, but if you want to just wing it here are some details.

obviously what I put up in the first post. She uses no obvious signs of magic. When she encounters and kills the gaurds it is no more than 2 on 1 at any given time. she escapes through the fire exit, in the gaurd shack, and flees on foot.

[Rokur]

could you tell me... how does she kill them? like punching/kicking? or grabbing their guns... or does she kinda walk by and they crumple to the ground (but that would be obvious magic i guess)

also the file on her? does she have any cyber? what's her tradition? what spells are known that she knows? Her voice patterns? her sign? her languages spoken? known relations? next of kin? etc etc.... it may be time for avenger to go sniffing around this night, but he wants to know where he could do it.

Also, he's looking for any survivors that may have fought her and not died. and whether she talks to anyone before leaving.... or if she picks up the tasers or the pistols or the shields or the stun batons. and where she was headed after the fire exits

Also, I'd love to be able to track where she went, is there still video from after the fire escape? does she steal a car? fly away? this way i can either hack grid guide, or maybe have some lone star security satelite feeds? or something