Urban S.E.R.E Challenge, Survive, Evade, Resist, Escape. Not necessarily in that order. Options

[Zak]

Well, as interesting this challenge is: For every runner you will have a different answer. Different skillsets require different actions or allow additional escape strategies.

[DocTaotsu]

Certainly everyone has a different answer, it wouldn't be much fun if everyone said the same damn thing would it? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

[CanRay]

OK, how would my Characters from my stories deal with it?

"Money" Johnson would go for his Grandfather's Black Bank Accounts (The ones he knows about) for supplemental cash at a White Label ATM to get some extra spending cash, and use his charisma skills to hire himself some Shadowrunners that don't know him to get him out of town, preferably by Zeppelin or T-Bird.

Alternatively, he'd call in favours from people that CAN'T afford to say "No", no matter what (He collects SEVERED HEADS in his closet, forget skeletons!), find out what the issues are with the MegaCorps, and handle them the hard way. The women would be easier, as he was married at the time, and not even in Seattle. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/nyahnyah.gif)

Nas would sneak around, jack a few cars and bikes, disappear into the Barrens for a bit (Probably Redmond, as he's known to frequent the Puyallup), then smuggle himself out through the holes in the Barrens exterior patrols.

[Daier Mune]

Zach, my face adept would find himself a naieve looking young lady and start a conversation. probably something along the lines of "hey i just got jumped, do you mind if i borrow your 'link to make a few calls and some cash to buy a bus ticket?" although knowing his luck, even that would probably backfire.

[Aaron]

Grab somebody that looks fairly similar to me, preferably in the Barrens. Kill him off, take his teeth, swap clothes with him. Burn the body (and the clothes), singe the commlink with the SIN on it, wipe it down, leave it at the scene. Take a long walk, then send an anonymous text message via a public comm that I had taken out the guy they were looking for and to meet me at a place that's near the place I left the body and to bring a reward. Lie low for a couple of weeks as a homeless guy that eats a lot of vending food, then find a job as cheap labor on a smuggling ship. Once I'm wherever the smugglers went, contact the rest of the team.

[Fortune]

Critias stole my real answer, so I don't wanna play! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/frown.gif)

I think he's secretly one of those strange technoweeniewizard guys. Watch out before he steals all your ideas as well.

[Shrike30]

Switch off the wireless on the commlink, except to your own devices as needed (the Walther Secura Kompakt (IMG:style_emoticons/default/cyber.gif) and the contact lenses). You no longer leave a datatrail, and can't be drug up easily that way.

Head towards a lower-security area (assuming "medium" is something like a B neighborhood). Don't go so far out that you get yourself in trouble, but go to the point where you're not going to be picked up by a random drone sweep on visual. It also helps that you won't draw law enforcement towards you by not having an active ID broadcasting in these neighborhoods.

Write snail mail using inside jokes or pre-arranged codes (yes, that pen CAN be useful!) to make your team aware of your issues and requisition their help. Rapid courier delivery (paid for by certified cred) can be used to make this happen quickly. This is, however, counterproductive if your team is being monitored by the same people who are after you, in the event that you try and ask them for help.

Skip town as best you can, preferably in a low-profile way. Be it having your buddy drive you to Cleveland, hooking up with a t-bird jammer to run the Cascades, or using the multitool to let yourself into the back of a tanker truck full of milk wearing stolen SCUBA gear and shooting up with Slab so you can survive the long trip without running out of air, that's the end goal... you'll have to nail down the specifics as opportunities present themselves.

[WearzManySkins]

Would go into the Ork Underground, into the mostly wireless areas, make a connection to the Creeps, get into the smuggling pipeline, provide services along the way, into the Cascade Orks. Barter the comm link, SIN, etc for needed items.

WMS

[toturi]

Setup:
For reasons beyond your control you are alone on the streets being actively pursued by Lone Star, Ares, MCT, and 3 women you slept with briefly back in ’65. That locker with fake SINs, certified cred, and a SA Puzzler fell off the face of the planet. You’re contacts are shunning you like the plague and it’s safe to say that you’re SIN has been compromised. Your team is alive but spread throughout the city and possibly unaware of the situation. Furthermore your best chance of survival is to leave the city (possibly the country) in the next 6 hours.

You are currently in a medium security area with the following gear:

-Commlink 3/3/3
-Ares Predator IV (Or other pistol of your choosing)
-Fake SIN level 6/Ammunition/Relevant Permits (Compromised)
-500 (IMG:style_emoticons/default/nuyen.gif) Certified Cred
-Armor Jacket or Lined Coat
-Multi-Function Tool
-Goggles/Glasse/Contacts with: Image magnification, low light, flare comp, smartlink.
-Ball Point Pen

How would you get out of this situation?

Edit: Compromised SIN added for clarity

I will do whatever Mas Selamat is doing. And he has evaded the dragnet for the past 2 months in one of the most urbanised and most monitered cities in Asia(if not the most, barring Beijing now) and one of the presumably most secure cities in the world. And if anyone says that is not realistic can come kiss my ass.

[WearzManySkins]

I will do whatever Mas Selamat is doing. And he has evaded the dragnet for the past 2 months in one of the most urbanised and most monitered cities in Asia(if not the most, barring Beijing now) and one of the presumably most secure cities in the world. And if anyone says that is not realistic can come kiss my ass.

Obviously he has some skills and connections exceeding the 6 rating. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/grinbig.gif)

WMS

[Screamin Demon]

Summon a decent spirit, cast invisibility on the both of us and fly to the Puyallup Crime Mall

Cast analyze device on my ball-point pen, raise my forgery-related attribute (Popping edge to get a serious bonus), then write myself a few very convincing IOUs I can trade for better guns for my mates and several doses of psyche for myself.

If a Lone Star Patrol catches up rock a few Control Mob Mind spells to take all their equipment and get there access codes before I murder them and mask as them and drive around in style?

[kanislatrans]

The first thing "Hugh"Jorgen (tantric Mage) would do is summon Jenna(F3water elemental and Chasey(F6 air elemental).
Then he would grab a bus and leave the com stuck down between the seats, and cast Invisabilty on himself and sneek ouut at the next stop.
I would then make my way to a seedier part of town and drop the invis. and cast fashion to blend in with the street folk. I would thin locate a soup kitchen, find a drug dealer and trade the Pistol for what ever cash I could get from it. (and make them my new best friend with manipulate emotions . ) I'd spend the day hanging with my new Homie, maybe make a few deliveries,then mention that I know of a connection for some really flash Novacoke just over the Salish border but cant get there cause I got no sin and no cash cause my old lady hired some Yak muscle and had me thrown out. If they bite, I offer to get someone to the contact if they can get across the border. if all goes well,Im at least one step away from the trouble.

if they don't bite, I would go to plan B. I would find a Gentlemans Club and find a Corper slumming. I'd offer him the services of Chasey for an hour or two. for 2000 (IMG:style_emoticons/default/nuyen.gif) and suggest they retire to his vehicle once chasey has him distracted , I hit him with Orgasm at F8 and sustain it untill he goes unconscious. then I use the multi tool to cut his clothes into strips and ty him up leaving him in a GasNGo restroom. stealing any cred he has and anything else that may get me out of town. then head back to the barrens and sell the car to a gang for what ever I can get for it. if his com isn't protected, I use it to get on a bus to where ever. if it is, well on to plan C

At this point I have about 5K and am still neck deep in the Drek. the heat is closing in and I'm exausted from all the casting. I head for the docks and risking passing out cast invisability again and sneak ito a warehouse , crawl into a back corner and tell the girls to watch my back.get some shut eye.

In the morning, Cast fashion, wearing a White hat , dress suit , . snag a datapad or clipboard, and walk around making notes with the ballpoint pen. Eventually someone in charge will hear that there is an inspector of some kind in the building. when they approach, introduce myself as Nick Dermus, with the Seattle public works department. Explain that we are have been reviewing the records and are really impressed with this warehouses safety and health history and I had been sent down to make notes to pass on to the other warehouse owners to help them maintain a safe and healthy workplace. (Charisma 5 Con4) and Manipulate Emotions) ask to see the records of the shipping schedule. find a ship, that is leaving . got to ship. cast invis. home free.

once at sea. approach the captain. offer payment and assistance in return for dropping me at first port of call.

Of course any plan I have ever tried to implement went south with in 5 minutes of implementation. but a guy has to have a dream... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/spin.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/spin.gif)

[stormcrow]

My primary character, Core, is a hermetic mage following Raven. Write notes to teammates. Summon Air Spirit to deliver them. (They look like "this" on the Astral.) Buy a metric crap-ton of easily transportable beverages and food that will keep well from a street vendor. Call up bound Air Spirits for Concealment and Movement. Cast Flight (a Levitate spell variant with half weight and double movement rate.) Do my imitation of a suborbital to avoid surveillance drones or find them when they leave regular flight patterns to follow me. Judicious uses of Lightning Bolt and spirit Accidents may be necessary. Visit (briefly) my cargo containers on the docks and pick up my supplies of Psyche and Deepweed from my chem setup and grow operation. (Logic 8, Chemistry 4.) Fly (nape of the earth) across multiple borders or transoceanic. Go back to the Yucatan and clash with the Azzies for a while, renewing connections with friends in Amazonia. Get a bit of cosmetic surgery, possibly get my junk DNA scrambled. Damn i hate getting my junk scrambled!

[CanRay]

I hate getting my junk scrambled as well.

*Listens to another character*

Oh... That kind of junk. Yeah, I hate that too.

[FlakJacket]

20-year tour of duty, and those Temp SINs become Real. Now there's a good promise!

Who needs to wait twenty years? All you need to do is serve in the French Foreign Legion for three years with good service and you can apply for French citizenship. And if I remember rightly when joining up you have to join under an assumed identity, they don't let you use your real one.

So my general plan of action is to scrape together two/three thousand nuyen and then make my way down to the docks which shouldn't be too hard for a mystic adept. Buying passage on a freighter legitimately costs a couple thousand nuyen so find a ship heading to Europe and then bribe the captain by paying the fee direct to him rather than the shipping company plus the other thousand for him to bribe any other ships officers needed and sneak aboard. Then when it gets to France sneak off there, make my way to Aubagne and parrot off the line "Bonjour. Je suis Américain, je suis venus pour joindre La Legion Etrangere".

[Chrysalis]

Setup:
For reasons beyond your control you are alone on the streets being actively pursued by Lone Star, Ares, MCT, and 3 women you slept with briefly back in ’65. That locker with fake SINs, certified cred, and a SA Puzzler fell off the face of the planet. You’re contacts are shunning you like the plague and it’s safe to say that you’re SIN has been compromised. Your team is alive but spread throughout the city and possibly unaware of the situation. Furthermore your best chance of survival is to leave the city (possibly the country) in the next 6 hours.

You are currently in a medium security area with the following gear:

-Commlink 3/3/3
-Ares Predator IV (Or other pistol of your choosing)
-Fake SIN level 6/Ammunition/Relevant Permits (Compromised)
-500 (IMG:style_emoticons/default/nuyen.gif) Certified Cred
-Armor Jacket or Lined Coat
-Multi-Function Tool
-Goggles/Glasse/Contacts with: Image magnification, low light, flare comp, smartlink.
-Ball Point Pen

How would you get out of this situation?

Edit: Compromised SIN added for clarity

Anything that could be compromised is and should be given away or put in publically seen places(park benches, on the ground). That means the commlink, the pistol, the fake SIN, the jacket, and even pen. Second hand store will get you a new outfit that makes me less likely on standing out as being me, it also gets rid of any RFID tags I have. My first job is not to get out of the city but get out of the medium security area. Often traveling from medium security areas to lower security areas do not involve SIN checks. Walking is safer for short distances and public transport is alright for medium distances.

The Barrens gives me access to paying some kid 20 nuyen for his disposable commlink and then making a few discrete talks to people who know my team mates. If the heat is serious there are ways to get out, depends on the heat. I would sell myself for money to a bunraku parlour as that gives me anonymity, marginal protection, and not having people look at my face. A couple of weeks later no-one even remembers my name and then back into the biz.

[Siege]

Welcome to the Marine Corps.

Bwahahahahahahah. Although that's not a half-bad way to go, considering what a recruiter will do, Federal or (so one assumes) Corp Military, to put a body in a uniform.

"Actively Looking":
1. I am a person of immediate interest and a bounty is on my head?
2. cyberzombie ninja kill teams have my DNA locked, cocked and ready to ride annoyed dragons in my pursuit?
3. The new aura-sensing drones with brain-pod blood mages locked in like missile tubes scorching astral looking for my aura, which they have committed to memory?
4. Coyote shows up, tells me I'm so screwed, but he's got a fiver on my reaching the end of the alley alive - or at least 50% intact and if I don't mind, could he have my femur once I'm done using it?

In scenario 1, they probably won't openly antagonize other major powers in an effort to get me. In any other scenario, the tread marks on my arse will resemble so much scorched earth.

Plans that would work for most of my characters: Notify all my partners via a stolen commlink after tying the C-12-rigged one my walking corpse of a fixer gave me to an unsuspecting devil rat -

1. Hop, skip or otherwise catch a ride with one of the outlaw crews moving goods and whatnot through the smaller NAN tribal areas - hire on for muscle (or tech support) and get dropped off somewhere rugged, frontier-like and go to ground.
2. Same as 1, but move SE to New Orleans and disappear into the hodgepodge that is the Caribbean. And drink rum.
3. Call in a marker or two, get my face changed and disappear into the fringes of the sprawl. Figure out why they're mad at me and see if I can play one against the other five. And hope my cranium doesn't go pop like a teen ork's zit.
4. Peddle my skills on a smuggler headed towards the PacRim and learn to like Filipino women.

-Siege

[Cantankerous]

There is only one thing to do in such a situation when you're tall for a troll, built like a tank, even for a troll and love to be the center of attention. Ditch the rest of the stuff except for the cash and buy the ultimate stealth suit. Yep, it's the flip flops, shades, speedoes and loud Hawaiian shirt routine from from the thread on what to do when street dress and corp suits don't cut it. No one would recognize me then. And if that doesn't cut it I'll just accesorize with a glow in the dark baggie and some BLUEBERRY syrup.


BB

[Critias]

Critias stole my real answer, so I don't wanna play! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/frown.gif)

I think he's secretly one of those strange technoweeniewizard guys. Watch out before he steals all your ideas as well.

Or maybe I'm just a genius who thought of it first.

[Mickle5125]

Cami, my sneaky face adept elf, would find her friendly neighborhood black market dealer and sell everything, then would use her facial sculpt adept power to change her appearance, walk into the SR4 Maci's equivalent and purchase the hottest nightgown she could find. Another facial sculpt to make herself as attractive as possible, and she'll make her way to the hottest nightclub she can find. Once there, find the shallowest billionaire with a private jet in the building and she'll be home free.

Now Mars, my Troll street samurai with MPD, would probably not make it out of the city. If he was lucky, his friend for life, Venus, would be willing to hide him for a while. If not, well, he's probably tough enough to challenge the ghouls for control of the sewers...

[Cthulhudreams]

Another hilarious mage option: Get an ally spirit to maintain 'turn to goo' on you, then post you out of town, or put you in a backpack and fly out of town, or use his fake sin and carry you in a briefcase and walk out of town.

[Fortune]

Or maybe I'm just a genius who thought of it first.

I considered that, but clearly that's not the case, so I discarded that idea for my own, already stated theory.