IC: Reign of Shadows Options

[grendel]

IO shakes his head. "Nope. But then again I'm not in the fixer finding business. Want me to poke around a little bit for you?"

[Silverspur_2020]

Looking with annoyance at Todd....Jim (Ghost) says "look my young friend, feel free when we are at your flat, feel free when we are out an about, feel free ANY FRIGGIN TIME EXEPT when you are in my car!" and with that he sees a women stepping out from a swish westwind and look directly at the Honda.... knowing that this must be one of the contacts.... Jim opens the door slowly and steps out and stands in front of his headlights so he can be seen clearly. "Good evening" he says extending a hand...."am I correct to assume you are looking for me?"

[Raiko]

Mirage's cybereyes cut the glare from the cars headlights down to dull glows against the monochrome image provided by her lowlight system. As she reaches the waiting rigger she accepts the offered hand, and then replies, "It seems so, my contact provided your LTG code and said that you're taking on for a job, but didn't give any further details."

She speaks in perfect english, but with a discernible French accent.

"My main area of expertise is combat, but I can also sneak or talk my way around most problems, my prior experience is within the security industry, so I'm also knowledgeable in the methods used to protect sites, or individuals from attack."

[Grey]

Todd gives Ghost a sideways glance, man, this guy needs to lighten up!

He opens the door to the van and steps out along with Jim. Getting a look at the woman waiting for them, Todd smiles, now this is what I'm talkin' about. He sets his skateboard down and kicks over to where Jim and Mirage are greeting eachother.

"Hoi, my names Todd. I sure hope you're a bit friendlier than this grouch."

[Raiko]

Mirage watches Todd as he approaches, he doesn't look much older than Kikumi, such a waste of life. She smiles at Todd, "I'm pretty friendly, as long as you're not in my way..."

Her face hardens, "then I'm about the most unfriendly person you could ever meet."

The smile returns, she turns back to Jim and says, "So what's the job?"

[Smed]

[grendel]

"All right, let me see what I can pull up. It's going to take me a little while for any detailed info, though, probably around twenty four hours. If you want it faster it'll cost more."

[Silverspur_2020]

Turning to Todd as he makes the grouch comment Ghost simpley says "Never confuse being a grouch and being a perfessional, the differance between the two could either get you killed or keep you alive."

Turning back to Mirage he continues...."I am glad you found the time to come here tonight, I know it was a last minute call. I also have alot of experiance in the security field, so hopefully we should get along just fine! The job looks to be a fairly straightforward one and shouldnt be too much of a problem, although I never like to believe what I see! We need to gain access to a medical facility to steal some drums of chemicals, the security doesnt look too tight from what I have seen so far.... they have duel security fences and no apparent drones or network to support them...." and with that Ghost begins to explain the basics of the mission.

[Raiko]

When Jim has finished explaining the run, Mirage nods and says, "ok, I'm in. I'll meet you back at your observation position"

With that, she turns and makes her way back to her own car.

[Yum Donuts]

[Smed]

"I'd better go with fast and pricey" Blount replies with a grin. "I don't have much time before I'll have to call."

[grendel]

IO grins. "I'll have something for you in eight hours."

[Silverspur_2020]

Just as they are about to go back to the cars... Jim's phone rings...."Ghost here" and with that he gives details of meeting here ASAP and to keep it discreet. Turning to Mirage, "Im sorry, looks like we have some new people about to join us, do you want to stay here and attend the meet or do some observations of this place yourself? you could always take our friend here to find a jack point so he can get to work" and with that he gives a causal nod in the direction of Todd.

[Yum Donuts]

Firmpoint acknowledges, "excelent, be right there"

a short ride later, he is aproaching the destination. when the parking lot barely comes into view, he astrally perceives and sends one of his watchers to go over there and report back the presence of any spirits, or awakened.
(ooc: assuming there's none)
he begins to cast an armor spell upon himself, but seems to think better of it. nothing like a glowing blue aura to make you a target from a thousand yards out. eventually, he settles on a compromise, finding a secluded spot, he casts his armor spell into the ring he wears (4 successes), suddenly being covered in a blue glow, then immediately disappearing, as he casts an improved invisibility spell (8 successes)
walking up to the meeting place, he waits until he's about 15 meters from whoever is there before dropping the invisibility spell and announcing his presence.
"Hello, I was told you were in need of my expertise. My name is Firmpoint, and I provide magical power. Just to ensure that I'm in the right place, what are your names and what job are we doing?"
assuming people answer normally,
"excelent, what reconaisance have we already done? should I go do some astral snooping now?"

[Raiko]

"I'll scope the place out for myself," Mirage turns to Todd, "You might as well jump in my car then, lets get you set up with a jackpoint."

[Grey]

"Alright, lets do this then."

Todd grabs his backpack and skateboard, then throws them into the trunk of the car. Taking a seat in the car, Todd winks to Mirage, "Ready when you are, beautiful."

[Silverspur_2020]

"Well before the last mage left he told me that he had done it and there was nothign of significance...but I am assuming you wont take my word for it and you would rather look yourself, do you have your own transport to the target or do you want to come with me?"

after having recived an answer Ghost leaves for the target.

[Yum Donuts]

"I'll come with you, if you don't mind."

When we get there, Firmpoint tells him
"Ok, watch my meat please. this should take about 2 minutes. 5 at the most"
and with that he slips out of his body, and flies toward the building, leaving one of his watcher spirits with orders to come and get him if anything happens to his body.

I fly directly above the compound, then do a quick ring around. I look for anything, watcher spirits, wards, etc. If I don't find any, I slip into the compound and try to get a layout in my head, and also to find any sign of what we're looking for.

is there anything on the astral? are there any people in the compound? how many people, and are any of them awakened? how many people in there have large amounts of cyberware? are there any areas of high concentration (i.e. a main lab, or a guard room, or a break room where lots of people would hang out.)? on the way out, I check the front door to see how well guarded it is.

then I come back to my meat.

[Raiko]

As soon as Todd settles into the passenger seat, Mirage hits the gas and the white Westwind roars back onto the Seattle streets, heading towards Tocoma.

When they arrive at the observation position she turns to Todd, "I'll leave you to set yourself up, I'm going to take a closer look at the target site."

Then mirage takes a discrete look around Bicsons perimeter security, looking for any weak links, particularly anywhere that disabling a single camera would open up a blind spot in the video coverage.

[grendel]

[grendel]

[Smed]

"Thanks bud" Blount replies. He hangs up the phone and drives back to his apartment to wait.

[Yum Donuts]

coming back to his body, Firmpoint relays a quick summary of what he saw,
"Ok, we've got zero magic, twelve people total, and seven of them hav apreciable cyber. largest concetration is a group of 3 roving guards. of the other 5 who aren't cybered, they could be technicians or masked mages. I saw no sign of the target though (it's pretty hard to ID things like that on astral though.
I want to go in and make another pass. I am going to check all the floors for solidity to see if there's a secret basement, I also want to check on the behavior of the non-cybers, and see if I can tell anything about their job in the complex that way. do you guys have any idea the location of our target? I'd like to scout that room if I could."

If they know where the target is, I include a stop to check out that room very thoroughly, and to see if there are any guards posted on that room, and how far it is from the front door, etc.
I am also going to do everything else I just mentioned: check all the floors to make sure there's just earth beneath them, and spend time watching the non cybers I know I can't tell if they're mundanes or masked by looking, but I want to try to tell by behavior. i.e. if he's mopping the floor, he's probably the janitor. if there's 2 working with a whole bunch of techno gizmos, they're probably techs. if the non-cybers are walking around with or hanging out with the heavy-cybers, I'll guess they might be mages.

[Grey]

Todd takes a look around, trying to spot any place that he could use as a jackpoint.

[grendel]

There is a public tridphone on the corner which, even if broken, could still provide access to the matrix.

The depot does not appear to have any hidden rooms or subbasements. The team has no information regarding the location of the canisters. You suspect that the personnel on site which are not security are most likely janitorial staff.