T-Town, A game in Alabama Options

[fistandantilus4....]

Setting his PAN to Private mode and running a fast encryption, MITNick sends the encryption key to the rest of the "team" followed by a private invite to a group chat.

Setting up a quick display layout of the room, he depicts the hidden mics and cameras with AROs. Quickly, he thinks his first message into the chat.

"Anyone carrying a white noise generator, or should we jsut start picking this place apart"

[SinN]

Chester, now starting to get a bit annoyed with the looks and comments about his sister, decides to make it clear what was meant in Reisons comment.
He turns to Flash, a bit annoyed.

"Actually, neither of them. My sister is 6 years old. Reison DOES in fact, baby sit for me sometimes."
Fraggin asshole.

Now to MIT-Nick in the chat.
"I'm sure there's one here somewhere. Check under, or around his desk. There are wires here. Reison does have some enemies. It helps to hear who's been in his office."

[Meriss]

Steve doesn't actually snort at the kid's snarky reply. Good fer you kid, show you've got a bit of spine. A team needs spine.

He glances over at the private chat window hovering in his vision. Frag I feel like it was the worst thing I ever did letting the Doc link my eyes and ears to this fragging link thing

He shuffles closer to the dwarf. In the private chat Steve's semi professional tone sounds out <<Well better get looking fer it then. Kid you take one side, I'll take the other.>>

He thumbs a brief message on his link screen and clears his throat noisily to attract the dwarf's attention. As MITNick looks at the small LCD screen he sees the following.

@MITNick:

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<<Can U help w/ F'ing link & cyber L8R?>>

[Redjack]

Flash raises an eyebrow at Chester's unexpected response without turning around. "Hmm."

<<@Team [Flash] Anybody have any experience with para-critters?>>

[ludomastro]

With a little searching the team is able to find three different wires around the desk. Only two of which actually work.

[fistandantilus4....]

MITNick rolls his eyes again as he settles into a chair, propping his head up, leaning on his fist as he goes full VR. Quickly he throw up a conference chat room, editing it as a large circular room with of white walls and thick cream carpeting, circular blue couches surrounding a four sided mahogany table. Simple constructs, and a safe enviroment. Just what they need. His agent he puts to work guarding the door against any unauthorized icons entering or snooping, while he ups the encryption, again quickly disseminating the new key to his "peers". The icon at the dor appears as a tall, lean dark chrome figure in a black on black suit, black fedora included.

<<<<@Everyone -"It's obvious we can't trust the kid's contact to look out for anyone's interest but his own, since he's putting us in a room full of bugs and a dead 'gen'rator. We'll have to do this a bit more private.

I don't know jack about any critters, except that I'm not a fan of devil rats. But I should be able to take care of any tech issues we run into. I should be able to split up our cred as well.

We're going to need transport to whereever this place is. It'd be best if we all traveled together. Anyone have something that'll work for that?

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Set up the private chat, ran a quick hack on the camera system (7 successes over 2 rounds, then Analyzed the system to see where it links to the rest of the surveillance gear in the club (2 successes on ANalyze) to see if it would be possible to hack the rest of the cameras to give us eyes outside of here.

Threaded the Encryption up, then sustained to give us more security. Nick has 3 IPs in Full VR, so this only takes about 4-6 seconds to put together, unless you think a quick adhoc chat room should take longer.

Again, rolls are all listed in InvisibleCAstle.com under MITNick

[Meriss]

Syeve smiles as he adjusts his cybereyes to take in the VR.

<<@Everyone: I'm a city boy by nature myself. So yah, devil rats is about it fer me. On the transpo front, what you want a Bulldog or closer to a Growler?>>

[fistandantilus4....]

MITNick's suited icon gets comfortable in a chair at the table, a cigar appearing from up his virtual sleeve. He takes a moment to light the stogie from his fingertip, apparently more willing to ge comfortable in the virtual world than the meat.

<<<<@Everyone - 'Growler's' a bike, right? Not gonna do a lot of good for four of us. But if you've got both, couldn't hurt to bring both. Options are always a good thing.

I've got plenty of gear and know how for handling old tech, and we'll get a look at what we've got for intel on these dics. What else've we got for running this show? Kid here's got the mojo, right? I know enough 14 year old hackers that can make system security look like a playground, so I'll assue since you're here, you've got a good idea of what you're doing. So where's that leave us with you two and your contributions?>>>>

MITNick's chrome featureless face regards "Steve" and Flash, apparently in no hurry, somehow enjoying the cigar, despite lacking a mouth or nose on the icon.

[Redjack]

Having moved on from the pictures and Chester's sister, Flash continues.
<<@Team [Flash] I'm more politician with a little street muscle thrown in for good measure. I've got a chameleon suit and make a reasonable sneak. Say I'm thinking that if we are gonna play with critters, we should stock up on ammo for my Ingram. I've also played with a few IEDs in my misspent youth, but never had much access to any vehicles.>>

He looks over at the final member of the team.

[Meriss]

Steve's icon doesn't react very well in VR but anyone looking at his meat bod sees his very best evil grin.

<<@Team: I lie to people. I'm reasonably good at making it stick too. Mostly I do face work. I can get access to a Bulldog and maybe a Growler. I hope. I'm yer man fer gear and guns. I know a few of the guys around town who are in the "off the truck" biz. Anybody need anything soonest?>>

[fistandantilus4....]

"<<<@Steve -We should probably make trans the first thing you get to work on then. I'll go ober my gear, and do the all important work of distributing our cash. Anyone have any accounts they like? If not, I'll just work out some cert cred.>>>"

While they brain storm, MITNick slots the OC chip, runs a quick analyze, and displays whatever data it carries.

[Redjack]

<<@Team [Flash] As to the expense money, I'd like to start with a fly-spy. Add some vision mods to round it out to assist me on point. Extra ammo all around, automatics & smartlinks for people without 'em. Some B&E gear is probably gonna be required. Pry bar or two, maybe some plastique just in case we find a door that won't open. Some rope and harnesses in case we have to go down an elevator shaft.>>

John considers the list. He tried to remember everything he'd seen in the shadow-trid Aztec Temple.
<<@Team [Flash] Fatigues, shotguns and several grenades wouldn't hurt in case it gets real squirrelly.>>

He looks around to his team mates. "Sounds like a real happening party."

[Meriss]

"Yup, a real happening party." Steve grins.

<<@Team: Maybe I should talk to some of my kinfolk? We've been around these parts since the Mason-Dixon line. Or I can try the UofA. They should know whats going on out in the woods.>>

[SinN]

Chester looks around.

<@ team-"I can throw mojo from my hands. It seems Im the only mage on the team, so perhaps Im the most effective against para-critters. Unless anyone decides to blow the place to hell with a frag-load of ammo.">Chester says grinning.

<@Team-"Ill do some research work and look up the kind of wild life to look forward too, and decide the best plan of action for that, wether it be a specific spell, or I just throw mana bolts and fire balls. But as far as I can tell boys, the party hasn't even started yet."> Chester sits back with a Joker smile.

[Redjack]

Flash just shook his head as Chester sat back pleased with himself. The corner of his lips curled slightly. The boy obviously didn't get it... at any of the levels..

He took a breath and let it pass, then turned back to Steve, "I think its about time for us to kick it up or crash it. Which ever is required."
<<@Team [Flash] Let me know what you can get Steve. Even if you can't get special ammo, I'd like to be ready with a dozen clips just to be safe. I've seen mojo drop a dozen gangers and the same mojo knock out the caster. Speaking of which.... Better get a top end first aid kit.>>

[fistandantilus4....]

MITNick's icon nods, completely ignoring the in-meat cover banter.

<<<<@Everyone" Extra bang sounds like a great idea. We should be far enough away from civilization that some extra noise won't matter. Fatigues would be good, but just make sure they're armored. I'm a 40"x22" by the way.

The drones would be useful if you can get a hold of them in the time we have. A couple of microskimmers with a SMG mount would be really useful. If you can find it, I can operate. I'm pretty new to the area though, so I don't know the kind of people we'd need to get a hold of that sort of gear.

I'll be going over the plans, see if it's possible to get some real time location information off the 'trix, and put together some nice ice breakers just in case.

If you're pickin' up smarrtlinks, I got a shotgun I could use one for, plus maybe some extra slugs or something.>>>"

[ludomastro]

Steve's icon starts fuzzing out in the VR boardroom. Steve finds himself back in the meatworld with his AR going nuts with troll/dwarf porn and ads for "personal services" from various people.

[fistandantilus4....]

Watching Steve's icon rew, MITNick immediately runs an Analyze on their chatroom, then on Steve's to see if this is some sort of intrusion issue. Seeing that it's little more than an I D 10 T problem, MITNick goes to work.

The little idiot...

"Steve, turn on your damn Spam filter and swtich to private before your jack hole opening gets all of us registered to a spammer."

Realizing that Steve's problem is a bit more severe and immediate than he'd orignally suspected, MITNick quickly pulls up the specs on Steve's link from it's manufacturer, sending the self help link to the hapless human.

[Meriss]

"Oh fer the love of. Ow. Ow, ow, and fuck ow."

Steve follows the help links dilligently and finally manages to switch his PAN to passive mode.

"I say we crash the bitch."

<<@Team: Sorry, sorry, been out of the loop fer teh last lil' while. Anyways we settled fer gear or do we wanna add more to the wishlist?"

[Redjack]

<<@Team - A fly-spy or two will better enable us to avoid encounters. I'm hoping to go around the things that a skimmer would benefit us against.>>

Flash remains silent as the spam problems begin. He was far from an expert himself.

[SinN]

Ah frag! Spam! Damn it. Maybe I can get this Mit-dwarf guy to clean this up for me.

<<@Team "There a few items Id like to pick up from a talismonger shop. I know a place that I can get a good deal. A bit more mojo can't hurt. Some anchoring and spirit fetishes might be in order. If I can conjur a spirit, we'll have a guide through the place. Anyone disagree?">>

[fistandantilus4....]

"<<<<@All - Yeah sure kid, what ever you just said. Sounds good.""

[SinN]

Personal Message to MIT-Nick

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<<@MIT-Nick "Am I speaking a different language? Fetishes and Anchors are basicly the same thing. They give me a little extra power for certain things you can do with mojo. For example, the conjuring fetish I mentioned gives an edge in order to obtain a spirit(denizens of the metaplane). Wether that be binding it, banishing it, or the conjuring itself. There are many different types of fetishes for almost every magical ordeal. If Im lucky, I might be able to score a Foki. Foki is a magical item that would give me a big edge over spirits and paracritters.">>

<<@Team "Alright, unless anyone has anything els they want to throw into the pot for supplies, I think we should either get the stuff and goin with the job, or atleast map out a plan.>>

[fistandantilus4....]

@ "The Kid"

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<<<"Listen kid, I could really care less if it helps you Level Up. Get the gear you need as long as it fits in with the costs. I don't expect you to speak l33t, so don't expect me to know what the frag you just blathered out. We both do our jobs, and leave our respective geek speek to ourselves, soka?"

Letting the others do their thing, MITNick brings up another window, running a fast hack while the others waste system cycles. MITNick calls up a local weather satelite after routing through a few other systems, simply to slow down any trace routines he might upset. MITNick pokes his icon into the camera systems, running his forms against the firewall, happily intruding on the vulnerable system.

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Given threshold to Exploit from GM is 3.
http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/1774526/

Hacked it on first pass.

Command action to take some pics for them using standard and thermo imaging
http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/1774529/

Edit to remove traces of the Command and the access log.

http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/1774534/

[ludomastro]

MITNick finds that the old civilian navsat is a cakewalk. He is treated to two things. The first is his unrestricted use of the satellite for a few minutes to get the pictures he needs and the second is the hidden file shows the previous generations of hackers who have literally placed their mark on the system.

Data

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The thermal camera is obviously old and doesn't add much detail; however, it outlines the complex in question. The building has obviously been breached by the wild and if the thermal images can be believed there are things inside the building. The forest has essentially taken over the area. There is no parking lot. The helipad is gone. There is a tree growing out of the atrium. Surprisingly, there is a path that roughly follows the old road to the facility.

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After a few more minutes of discussion, the team is able to divide the funds and make it's way out of the club. With a nod from Reison, they are on their way.