IC: Reign of Shadows Options

[Large Mike]

White frowns. "In my experience, that is *alwayse* a bad idea. I'd have to not accompany you, and probably part ways with you fine people."

"Nothing personal, really."

[Silverspur_2020]

Opening the boot of his Honda... he takes the Codor out and packs it into the back of Sedryks van ready to give an overall eye of the area. "So are we waiting on anyone? or are we ready to take a look at this area?"

[Tanka]

"Yeah, I'm about ready."

Iso walked around to the back of Sedryk's van and leaned against it, awaiting their decsions.

As she waited, she pushed the all-too-familiar button on the item inside of her pocket, just in case.

[Grey]

"Are we all riding in the van together? I could take my bike and meet up with you."

[Large Mike]

Deciding that standing here is accomplishing very little, White decides it's about time to pop into the building itself.

Being very careful, and incredibly cautious, and ready to beat feat at the first sign of discovery, he carefully rises high above the facility and dives down into it, being careful to stay almost completely within walls and furniture, just sticking his face out to see what's going on. He mentally tries to put together a map, and look for anyone or anything magical.

[grendel]

At this time of day, the building hardly seems occupied. You count a total of twelve people inside, over half of which appear to be security personnel. The other four are either janitorial staff, or the depot workers are supremely bored. The layout is relatively simple. Apart from the administrative offices on the southern side of the building, most of the area is dominated by three-high industrial shelving units holding all manner of medical gear. There is a small, four meter by ten meter room in the rear which appears to be climate controlled and probably contains vaccines and/or medicines which require refridgeration or other special handling.

[Silverspur_2020]

When they get a few blocks from the target Jim asks Sydrik to pull over... and in a quiet back street he opens up the back doors of the van and sends his condor floating quickly and gracefully above the rooftops up to a suitable hight where he can see the target, making use of the night sky for the extra ability to remain hidden. When in place, Jim shuts his eyes... and lets the electronic feeds tell him all there is to know about the exterior of the building.

[Chance359]

Sedryk sits into the drivers seat, looking out over the compound. Over the next two hours his patience is stretched to the max. The van's ashtray was empty when he parked, steadily it has filled. Sedryk knows that it takes him five minutes to burn through a cigarette, so he keeps times on patrols. He also studies they layout of the complex, looking for places of deep shadow and dead zones where security doesn't go.

When the first pack is empty, he crumples it up and dumps the ashtray into a small ziplock baggie before getting out of the van. Staying in the shadows, walking as silently as he can, he looks to see if any of the employees park outside the lot. He also dumps the ziplock baggie in a corner trash can the sneaks back to the van.

After being gone from almost half an hour Sedryk with a smile on his face.

[Grey]

Grey takes his spot next to Sedryk and keeps an eye on the place. After about half an hour, he decides to take a walk around the complex and get a feel for it and the surrounding neighborhood.

[grendel]

During your surveillance, the compound continues to operate oblivious of your presence. An Ares Roadmaster passes through the gates, receives it's load of supplies, and trundles out the opposite end of the compound towards its destination. The parking lot is filled with the cars of half a dozen employees, but apparently you've arrived after shift change. None of them depart during the time you've spent watching.

During the surveillance, you can detect no obvious areas of the compound to exploit. The sodium arc lamps on their pylons leave the entire area in a low-light condition, monitored by the unblinking eyes of the security cameras mounted on the exterior of the building. The fenceline provides little cover, and the surrounding streets are wide three lane industrial ways.

[Grey]

Grey gets back to the van and asks Jim, "Your the security guy, how about testing out their stuff and see if you can hack into their signals?"

[Large Mike]

White materializes in the van and gives everyone the low down. "There seem to be only 8 security guards. There are 4 other people, who are either janitorial staff, or really bored. There doesn't seem to be alot of security. There's a refridgerated room in the back that probably holds what we're looking for.

I think our best option is to send someone in disguised as someone from headquarters come to pick the vaccine up. There's no need for us all to go in. We'll simply have the rest of us waiting outside in case there's a problem. I vote having myself go in. I have a physical mask spell, and I'm still useful even without the weapons they would probably search me for."

[Tanka]

"Sounds like a plan... But what if they don't believe you? I might be able to help out in that area. All it takes is a little wink here... A smile there... And a quick wit, and I'm sure the guards will let me in. Although, if you want to try first, go for it. I can sit here and play with Sedryk's toys a little while longer..."

[Large Mike]

"I had figured I'd call BlueChip and see if I could get some credible looking ID and maybe find out what the proper paperwork would look like and maybe got something similar. Your idea requires less props, though, so let's try yours first. But don't do anything until my meat body gets there."

With that, White goes back into his body and hops into his car.

[Silverspur_2020]

Jim nods slowly in agreement with Grey.... sitting watching through his drone wasnt gaining them anything, they seemed to have competant security who actually gave a frag about their jobs, so the natural next course of action was to hit the security cameras, see what they could provide....

So with that, he took a deep breath and activated his cyberware...

[Grey]

"It would be a good idea to have some backup go in with ya. I could act as a body guard for ya. Besides, I'm pretty darn good at bluffin' my way past a guard post if I need ta."

[Silverspur_2020]

Secounds later Jim opens his eyes muttering "damn lame ass security....to tight to put in a proper system for me to take over!" and then in a louder voice "Well the good news is that it looks like they dont have any drones to speak of, because there is no remote network set up for them.... and even if they do have any security rigger set up, which I doubt, then it will be hard wired in."

[Large Mike]

Finally arriving on the scene in person, White whips out his cell and calls BlueChip.

"Hey, buddy, here's what we'll probably need. We'll need something that looks like ID from Cross Applied technologies. Something with some clout in the biomedical devision, but nothing fancy. It doesn't even have to work, it just has to look impressive. We'll also need something that pases casual inspection for papers to remove an experimental vaccine. Is that going to be too tricky for you?"

[grendel]

Blue Chip fans the virtual deck of cards in his hands, a Cheshire grin upon the face of his avatar.

"I'm working on your data search, but multi-tasking is one of my specialities. I will, of course, require additional compensation for my time. You'll have the required documentation in an hour."

[Large Mike]

"Thanks. Remember, it doen't need to be legit, it just needs to *look* legit."

[grendel]

White's phone rings in exactly sixty minutes. Blue Chip's avatar shuffles the deck in his hands once before dealing five cards face down.

"There are your requested files. Print on something that'll give you decent resolution and it'll fool everything up to a regional supervisor. Use at your own risk."

[grendel]

Reign keyed her telecom, the soft pastels of the screen the only illumination in the darkened room. Thirty seconds passed as the system completed the necessary electronic handshake.

"Go ahead." Todd passed only the audio component of his transmission.

"It's Reign. If you're free, I've got an employment opportunity for you. The team is working on one of my jobs and could use some assistance. Here's the contact number of their rigger, Jim."

"How much?"

"The usual."

"I'll be in touch." Todd closes the transmission. Reign glances over at Trance and smiles.

[Grey]

Todd bounces a call though several telcoms and finally, having made sure the call is secure, sends the call through to Jim.

[Silverspur_2020]

Picking up the phone Jim answers it using his street name, not knowing who would be ringing at this time..."Ghost here, who's this?" keeping it simple, making whoever was on the other end work for his attention.

[Grey]

The voice on the other end of the line if a cheerful one and by the tone of his voice, you'd guess young as well.

"Hey, we have a friend in common and she asked me to give you a buzz, saying you may have use of my skills on the 'trix. Is there a place we can meet?"