OOC: Phoenix Rising, Out of Character thread for the runners Options

[crizh]

@DWC

Ms J will apparently supply us with an upgraded Everglades Hovercraft, does Truth want to specify a few upgrades he would like to see on it?

@Brent

I'll sell them on to Ochir then and make a couple of minor changes to my gear with the extra cash...

[bmcoomes]

You pick the normal radio chatter nothing special for the most part thats how you guys got the numbers and type of guards they have, which drones are you talking about?

You can't find any nodes for doors or gates, Cutter or Tom will tell you it looks like there hardwired in. Currently there is vary little matrix presence out here at lest wirelessly.


Cool not a probelm Crizh.

[DWC]

Any chance we can get an old Hughes Stallion or Sky Train instead?

If not, rigger adaptation, small landing drone racks, a satellite link, and a retrans unit should suffice.

Edit:
The Phoenix drones that the Azzies built using the plans we stole.

Also, are the locks opened with physical passkeys, or is there a keypad or something?

[bmcoomes]

Yeah your looking at an Everglades the other are just a little out of there of her to get.

K, there to far away to get any wirless pick-up on them. They are running with stuff turned way down, and/or off at times.

There passkeys.

[crizh]

Can I toss in a vote for uprated Armour, a smuggling compartment and Chameleon Coating on the Everglades?

Also some of the anti-MAD stuff in RC....

[Oenone]

Can I toss in a vote for uprated Armour, a smuggling compartment and Chameleon Coating on the Everglades?

Also some of the anti-MAD stuff in RC....

Don't forget Signature Masking. As without it a Chameleon Coating isn't going to help except against the guards and visual sensors.

[DWC]

How is the site supplied? Are construction materials being flown in, then trucked to the site? If so, how many trucks are there, and are they slaved to a remote node, or to the drivers’ commlinks?

[Little Johnson]

i seriously think we increase our risk by going in over equiped. I think the fake worker sins will do the trick.

we just need to make sure the face or who ever is our best face if we dont have a dedicated one is acting as our forman so he/she interacts with oppisition first

[Oenone]

Do we even have a face now?

I have this suspicion Charlie is now up at the front of our social skills pecking order either her or maybe Tom or Gecko.

Truth is unlikely to actually be on site, which rules him out and Etoile has Uncouth. Can't say for Noowan as I've not read his sheet in any great depth.

Edit - And going in with equipment in reserve is a lot smarter than just trusting our luck. The chances of being picked up don't increase all that much with a smuggling compartment equipped vehicle than they are with just sneaking a few pistols in.

[Little Johnson]

humm .. uncooth fits in pretty much for most construction workers i know.. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

[crizh]

or maybe Tom or Gecko.

ROFLMAO!!

't ain't me, that's for damn tootin'.

We don't even need to take the vehicle in with us. Which is why I was liking the idea of a Stealth Hovercraft. There are probably several similar vehicles operating on the Lake, it's a damn long way by road from one shore to the other and only about five minutes by Hovercraft.

It could either be our 'van' depending on the trade we are emulating or it can remain hidden on the water until needed.

[Oenone]

humm .. uncooth fits in pretty much for most construction workers i know.. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

There is of course a slight difference between rude construction worker and sociopathic vindictive killing one.

[bmcoomes]

How is the site supplied? Are construction materials being flown in, then trucked to the site? If so, how many trucks are there, and are they slaved to a remote node, or to the drivers’ commlinks?

All that you are able to find out is there materials are truked in from Spokane, there are only a few (3) turcks on site. There all slaved to driver's commlinks.

[Shalimar]

Charlie isn't a face, she doesn't even have any spells in that direction either.

[crizh]

So, we're officially a Face free zone?

On looking harder at the maps all the construction seems to be happening on the spillway side of the Dam. Is the reservoir itself part of the lease agreement? It's a pretty large 'tract of land' in a pretty deserted area and presumably provides fishing opportunities for the local tribes.

The lab we need to access is inside the Dam?

[Oenone]

Wow. I am mildly terrified that with her skillwires Etoile is the closest we have to an all round face, with DP's of 6 in each social skill except Leadership...... I think the only DP higher is Noowan with a 7 in I think Etiquette.

Lets hope our NPC companion knows how to talk with people without starting a fight!

Edit - And @Crizh yeah I think Brent mentioned something about the target location being inside the dam itself.

[bmcoomes]

Yes, the lab is in the dam with the tokamak reactors.

Add yes most of the building is on the spillway side.

Some of the reservoir will be controled by the azzies but with the agreemant that the locals can us it to fish.

here is a land agrement pic, Link

I'm at work so I can't load it anywhere else.

Cutter does have some good people skills, he has skillwires 4 and a good charisma.

Brent

[DWC]

Escrima. Nice.

[crizh]

Which means that the Reservoir side of the Dam has the narrowest security cordon. Even if we walk in the hovercraft can be standing by to evacuate us either over the Reservoir towards Spokane or along the canal towards Coulee City and the airport.

If Etoile is our face then perhaps a straight intrusion is a better option.

[bmcoomes]

Escrima. Nice.

You practice?

Cutter would be a better choice than Etoile. He'd have a DP of 8 and doesn't have the uncoth quailty.

[DWC]

Not anymore. Back when I got out of college, I got into Isshin Ryu, and my instructor cross-trained the hell out of us. Escrima and jiujitsu were big on his list of other things to expose us to.

[Oenone]

Cutter would be a better choice than Etoile. He'd have a DP of 8 and doesn't have the uncoth quailty.

I think the point was more along the lines of 'we should ensure our plan has the lowest amount of talking possible' rather than specifically nominating Etoile for face duty....

And wouldn't having Cutter along doing the talking mean he's away from his new Drone killing heavy weapon though?

[bmcoomes]

Not anymore. Back when I got out of college, I got into Isshin Ryu, and my instructor cross-trained the hell out of us. Escrima and jiujitsu were big on his list of other things to expose us to.

Yeah, I'm very happy with the Eskrima I study. I think there are very good schools out there as long as there not the McDojo types. I can't stand them.

Right, it wouldn't be the best idea to have him away from that.

Brent

[Shalimar]

My thought would be sneak onto the base so we can carry whatever we want in, and once we arrive have the Chameleon suits shift to showing normal worker clothes, and then just turning off that program when its time to be sneaky again. The place is under construction, and we will have pass keys, etc. carrying boxes around with our stuff in them shouldn't be hard (unusual), and we'd still be under concealment 10.

If people see through the concealment well, we look like we belong, if they don't then they aren't a problem.

[DWC]

Are the crew at the construction site wearing anything distinctive, like Aztechnology jumpsuits, or are they just wearing typical Carhardt-esque work clothes?