IC: Phoenix Rising, In Character thread for the campiagn. Options

[Little Johnson]

Tom moves into position to take out the guards.

once in position he sets up his rifel subsonic rounds in one half of the duel clip and hollow points in the other half.

He also sets aside a clip of explosive ammo just incase.

[crizh]

--Friday April 11th, 2070 at 2330 - Bainbridge Island, Eagledale--

Taking care to make sure everything is safely stowed in the water-proof pockets of his jumpsuit, Gecko slips quietly into the water some distance back up the shore. He picks his way cautiously along the bottom avoiding the rubbish often found on the bottom of harbours and keeping a low profile on the off-chance that there are more sensors below the waterline.

[ Spoiler ]

Infiltration: 8 Hits.

In the lee of one of the two smaller piers that ran east/west he pushed a Fiber-optic waveguide above the surface and plugged the end of a reel of Fiber into it. After a few moments his comm-link was able to align with the laser link on the Sat-comm.

<<sat-channel-1-encrypted>>

Nearly in position. I think this facility may be built over the water to some extent, I'm going to examine the structure when I get closer, see if I can't get in underneath. If not I'll try the optical tap.

Reeling the fiber-optic line out behind him he glided across the bottom to the south-east corner of the facility. When he got there he pressed his RADAR sensor up against the Plascrete wall. RADAR was useless underwater but it would be able to tell him how thick the wall was and what might lie behind it...

[Fuchs]

--Friday April 11th, 2070 at 2330 - Bainbridge Island, Eagledale--

Team Chat Channel:
<<Let me see what I can do, Truth. Jake, I am off to hack the restaurant's node.>>

DD orders her agent to keep supervising the team's communication, and starts looking for a way into the restaurant's node. The neon green stylised woman that is her icon swirling around the access point of the restaurants matrix presence, molding herself into a waitress icon.

[ Spoiler ]

Hacking into the restaurant security node:
Hacking the security node of the restaurant: Hacking 5, exploit spec 2, Exploit 5, VR 2 (14d6.hits(5)=6)

If that's enough to get access as a security account DD then installs a back door for Truth so he can access the cameras, then wipes the log of her actions.

[Shalimar]

--Friday April 11th, 2070 at 2330 - Bainbridge Island, Eagledale--

<<Team Chat Channel>>
<<I can hit them with a stun ball if you want, it covers an area and should puteveryone in the area out of commision for a few hours without hurting them. I can hit all of them if they are within a 20 meter circle...I'd be better if they were within a 10 meter circle so I don't have to push myself as much, but a 20 meter circle would definitely be enough to put them all out.>>

Charlie swaps her senses over to the astral plane to look around at the area, trying to see whats there, be it wards, spirits, or astral projecting mages.

[ Spoiler ]

Astral Perception: 2 hits
Do the guards ever get within a 20 meter area of each other? Can Charlie see the guards?

[Tarantula]

--Friday April 11th, 2070 at 2330 - Bainbridge Island, Eagledale--

Ralph sits quietly monitoring the feed from Gecko keeping alert for anything out of place.

[ Spoiler ]

[3,4,2,6,6,4,6,5,5,4,2,2,2,4,1,1,2,4,2,5,6,3,1,4] = (7)

[DWC]

--Friday April 11th, 2070 at 2330 – Eagledale Harbor, Bainbridge Island, Seattle—

The interior of the compound is bathed in yellow, blue, and purple AR objects, labeled as fence mounted sensor ranges for ultrasound, wideband radar, and motion detectors. The digital rainbow extends to just outside the fence.

<<�Good news, everybody. I was looking at the atmospheric signal decay from their wideband RADAR sensors and the patterns didn’t make sense, so I looked at the signal strengths and phases from the ultrasound emitters. Those were screwed up, too. Then it hit me. Their coverage outside the fence is almost non-existent and most of what I was getting was the signal coming through the building from the directional sensors on the far side. The whole detection network is set up to find people who are either in contact with the fence to tamper with the sensors, or have already breeched it and are headed for the building. Makes sense really. With all the deer on the island and all the boats in the harbor, anything reading more than a few meters from the fence would be going off constantly.�>>

The entire site is suddenly bathed in a pale pink surrounding the facility that extends well over a hundred meters past the boat’s position, and almost all the way across the bay.

<<�But don’t get sloppy just yet. The pink is their theoretical detection range. Everything I’m reading shows that these things are turned way, way, way down to reduce the number of false alarms, and attract less attention. Oh, and they’re all hardwired. But I think we all knew that already.�>>

[Shalimar]

--Friday April 11th, 2070 at 2330 ��" Eagledale Harbor, Bainbridge Island, Seattle��"

<<Teamchat>>
<<There are two Force 4 Fire Spirits floating around the compound. We are going to have to deal with them when we deal with the guards guys.>>

[ Spoiler ]

How close together are all of these spirits and guards? Can she catch all of them in a 20 meter diametter?

[crizh]

--Friday April 11th, 2070 at 2330 – Eagledale Harbor, Bainbridge Island, Seattle—

<<sat-channel-1-encrypted>>

Relax guy's, there's no need to interfere with the guards if we don't have to.

Nice work Truth. Things are looking up here.

The south side of the facility is actually built on piles over the water. They've walled them in with Plascrete but it only follows the line of the fencing. There is a huge sensor blind-spot under the platform at the end of the two north-south piers. Even if they were to jack the sensors all the way up they would still be blind under there.

I'm going to head across there and put a probe through the wall, there is a good chance that the wiring for the fancy sensors runs through that dead space. If not it might well make a good route in or out.

Stealthily he glided back across the bottom of the bay to the waveguide he had placed earlier and used it to re-direct the LASER beam from the Sat-comm on the shore below the waterline to a second waveguide. Running the beam underwater would greatly reduce the range of the beam. He would probably have to put in a repeater after only 4 klicks instead of 10. He places another three of the little waveguides, just little lengths of fiber-optic wire mounted on a rotating track and concealed to look like something innocuous, mostly security sensors in this case, as he made his way along the sea floor to the shadow of the platform and then the hastily erected Plascrete wall designed to keep the likes of him out of this facility.

Carefully and quietly he crawled up out of the water until he was tucked into the corner formed by the wall and the platform above.

[ Spoiler ]

Infiltration: 8 Hits.

Magic Sense: 5 Hits.

Now he drew a number of small bits and pieces from various pockets and started to assemble the drill.

He knew a Traceur who used his skills to access odd places to run fibre, power cables and the like into old buildings and he'd been amazed when he'd first seen him use his mono-filament drill to run an endoscope into a derelict building they had wanted to explore. A low powered electric motor or hand crank, a screw rod and a loop of mono-filament could do in seconds what old fashioned Tungsten-Carbide drill bits struggled to do at all.

Pierre always said that the Mono-filament chainsaw was an abomination and the last refuge of lunatics and poseurs.

It was the work of a few moments to drive a 3mm bore right through the Plascrete barrier. Tiny shavings of the material drifted silently down onto water like mad industrial pencil sharpenings.

Gecko slipped the signal probe through the hole and tasked one of his new IC constructs to examine the data feed.

DD's busy and I need to know if this software is up to the job anyway.

[ Spoiler ]

He lets it scan for a good 20 seconds to make sure it gets even hidden nodes.

Scan for wireless nodes:

Pilot (4) + Radio Signal Scanner Rating (6) (15, 1 combat turn): 4 Hits, 4 Hits, 4 Hits, 3 Hits, 3 Hits, 0 Hits, 2 Hits = 20 Hits.

[bmcoomes]

--Friday April 11th, 2070 at 2330 – Eagledale Harbor, Bainbridge Island, Seattle--

When those of you who are in place looking over the compound see that two soliders (the third some see in astral but not physically). There standing by the enplacement eating there MRE's (except the one you cann't see) but there in Military Grade Armor "Heavy Duity Armor", the contact officer is packing a Ares Alpha on a combat sling a Ares Predator on his right leg a Cougar fineblade in the small of his back, a stun baton on his left hip, and some grenades. The solider in the enpalcement is packing a Ares MP-LMG, Ares Predator on his leg, a cougar fineblade in the small of his back, a stun baton on his left hip, and some grenades.

[Shalimar]

--Friday April 11th, 2070 at 2330 – Eagledale Harbor, Bainbridge Island, Seattle--

<<Chat>>
<<Dancing Eyes, I can catch all of the soldiers and one of the spirits in my Stunball, but I'll need you to take out the spirit that's further from the guards. Can you handle a force 4 spirit with your stunbolt?>>

[crizh]

--Friday April 11th, 2070 at 2330 – Eagledale Harbor, Bainbridge Island, Seattle--

<<sat-channel-1-encrypted>>

Relax Charlie, don't start taking pot shots at the guards. I'm making progress here.

[crizh]

--Friday April 11th, 2070 at 2330 – Eagledale Harbor, Bainbridge Island, Seattle--

Not going over the fence is starting to look like a very good plan.

Carefully he unclipped the end of the endoscope from the end of his smartgun and fed it slowly through the hole he had created. He attached it to a hi-res camera and started to peer around the space behind the wall.

Now what have we down here?

[ Spoiler ]

Observe in Detail (Feeding light from a low-light flashlight into the fiber to illuminate wherever the endoscope is pointing)

Perception (4) + Intuition (2) + Vision Enhancement (3) + TacNet (3) = 12 Dice = 6 Hits.

<<sat-channel-1-encrypted>>

Ralph, are you getting all this?

[crizh]

--Friday April 11th, 2070 at 2330 – Eagledale Harbor, Bainbridge Island, Seattle--

<<sat-channel-1-encrypted>>

Ralph, did you notice anything unusual? I'm going to send a drone in to check it out.

Slowly he drills another five parallel holes in the wall to form the apexes of a hexagonal column about 3 inches across. He drills a sixth shaft at a shallow angle from the lower third of the front face of the hexagon into one to the holes he has already drilled. Threading a short length of rappelling line through this last hole he forms a lanyard and ties it off at his waist.

<<sat-channel-1-encrypted>>

OK, this might make a little noise but I'll try to keep it to a minimum. Keep your eyes peeled.

He focussed his Mana and wreathed his hand in a compressed shock-wave of high pressure plasma and wrapped the other end of his climbing line into a thick ball around his wrist hoping it would muffle the noise of the impact.

[ Spoiler ]

Infiltration: 4 Hits.

Careful to judge the blow so that at full extension his fist would only penetrate an inch or so, he balled his fist and struck.

[ Spoiler ]

Unarmed Combat (9) + Spec (2) + Agility (9) + TacNet (3) = 23 Dice = 7 Hits.

Modified DV: {Base DV (Strength (2) + Critical Strike (5) + Martial Arts (2) = 9) x 2} + Net Hits (7) = 25

Damage Resistance: 12 Dice = 5 Hits.

Barrier takes 20 Structure Points in damage.

(Would normally knock a hole 1.8 square meters in 10cm of Plascrete)

[bmcoomes]

--Friday April 11th, 2070 at 2330 - Eagledale Harbor, Bainbridge Island, Seattle--

data theft team
With a barley auditabel "Smack", As the dust cleared there before everyone eyes is a hole in the area of the drilled plascrete.

[ Spoiler ]

Perception test of the soldiers 9d6 = (1) 0 hits, (2) 0 hits, (3) 4 hits

The ones watching astral see a guard look in the dircetion of Gecko... After a second or two he starting walking the fence line.

[ Spoiler ]

those of you who want can make a perception test vs. 10d6 = 3 hits -4 dice on your perception test.

-eidted-

[Fuchs]

--Friday April 11th, 2070 at 2330 - Eagledale Harbor, Bainbridge Island, Seattle--

DD enters the restaurant's system without any trouble, installing a back door as a security account for Truth.

Team Chat Channel:
<<'ere's access to the cameras, Truth.>>

[Oenone]

--Friday April 11th, 2070 at 2330 - Renton--

Sitting in the back of Winstons car, Etoile idly runs through her routine gear checks, making sure everything is in place and ready for use at a moments notice.

Team Chat - Encrypted <<We 'ave been following 'er with your directions Truth, just give us the word and we'll move into position and strike. Or if it is required Noowan can always move in and rig 'er car to explode.>>

[crizh]

--Friday April 11th, 2070 at 2330 - Eagledale Harbor, Bainbridge Island, Seattle--

Working quickly Gecko snapped the fiber on the reel into the port on Lil'Gecko and pushed both into the new hole. He followed that up with one of his spare 'Links and a couple of sensor packages. He concealed another waveguide on the edge of the hole, connected it to the reel of fiber and slipped noiselessly back into the water.

The big lump of plascrete still tied to his waist became a comforting piece of ballast as he sank himself into the mud at the base of the wall and made like a rock.

Nothing to see here. Nothing to see here. Nothing to see here. Nothing to see here. Nothing to see here...

[ Spoiler ]

Infiltration: 7 Hits.

[Coldhand Jake]

--Friday April 11th, 2070 at 2330 - Eagledale Harbor, Bainbridge Island, Seattle--

"And this is how we lost the element of surprise." Jake looks over at Charlie. "Get your sleep and stun spells ready, or whatever you can to make the guards not notice whatever Gecko just did. Illusions, suggestions. Wait for my signal." He unslings his pistol. "Otherwise, this is about to go downhill. Fast."

[crizh]

--Friday April 11th, 2070 at 2330 - Eagledale Harbor, Bainbridge Island, Seattle--

<<sat-channel-1-encrypted>>

Don't panic yet. Guard thought he heard a noise over this way. He ain't goin' to find anything. Unless he wants to go for a swim.

Let him walk the fence, reassure himself. He'll go back to his doughnuts in a minute.

[DWC]

--Friday April 11th, 2070 at 2330 – Wanda’s Witchery, Renton, Seattle—

<<�Insert your own joke about girls who let you in the back door here.�>>

Truth loads the new ergonomic Stealth program, unsubscribes the clustered Kanmushis, and pokes his digital nose into the restaurant’s security node. He begins searching the security cameras for feeds of the doctor and her party. The ones that show them are routed out to everyone else in the network.

[ Spoiler ]

Stealth-6 running for the purposes of the system’s scan to detect his presence.

<<�As you can tell, we’re still working over here, Etoile. Things might or might not have just gone to hell, and you’ll know as fast as I do.>>

Meanwhile, outside, the LEBD-1 completes its’ orbit of the restaurant, noting additional exits and windows. The Rotodrone just keeps watching.

--Friday April 11th, 2070 at 2330 – Eagledale, Bainbridge Island, Seattle—

After tying the video from the restaurant into the network, Truth turns his attention to the communications traffic between the soldiers.

�Let’s see what these stormtrooper jackasses are up to.�

After taking a moment to sample the encrypted traffic, he unsubscribes the Fly-Spys to free up processor space and sets his Decrypt program on the job.

[ Spoiler ]

Response+Decrypt(2*Rating, 1 Turn)
Turn 1 10d6.hits(5)=2 Rating 1
Turn 2 10d6.hits(5)=2 Rating 2
Turn 3 10d6.hits(5)=4 Rating 4
Turn 4 10d6.hits(5)=2 Rating 5
Turn 5 10d6.hits(5)=1 Rating 5
Turn 6 10d6.hits(5)=5 Rating 8
Turn 7 10d6.hits(5)=5 Rating 10
God bless Strong Encryption not working for signal encryption. How long does it end up taking?

As soon as the Decrypt routine is done, Truth returns to manually tweaking antenna settings in the second gunship drone, hunting for wireless traffic between the soldiers’ PANs and anything other than each other.

[ Spoiler ]

I keep forgetting that this step comes after decryption…

Electronic Warfare+Sniffer(3) Intercepting wireless traffic from the three soldiers
Gate guard 15d6.hits(5)=7
LMG guard 15d6.hits(5)=4
Roaming guard 15d6.hits(5)=5

[Oenone]

--Friday April 11th, 2070 at 2330 - Renton--

Team Chat - Encrypted <<There is the sound of Etoile muttering curses rapidly in French, then a sigh. Try and at least let 'er leave the restaurant before you raise the alarm, it would make life so much easier.>>

[Little Johnson]

--Friday April 11th, 2070 at 2330 - Eagledale Harbor, Bainbridge Island, Seattle--


Tom Looks closely to see what the guard is doing.

[ Spoiler ]

Perception test 17dp -4= 13 D Phttp://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/1745798/ 3 hits

[Zaranthan]

--Friday April 11th, 2070 at 2330 – Eagledale, Bainbridge Island, Seattle--

<"I certainly can handle such a foe, but let us not loose our arrows against that which we have not come to hunt. The guards are not yet a problem, not even the one who moves as a shadow. I can see him clearly from the spirit world.">

[ Spoiler ]

A long boat ride offers enough rest.

[bmcoomes]

--Friday April 11th, 2070 at 2330 – Eagledale, Bainbridge Island, Seattle--

Data Theft Team
Chameleon Solider Perception Test:4d6 = 2 hits

The solider walkes by looking around but doesn't notice anything. He continues on walking the rest of the fence line.

Tom you see a fate outline of a solider walking the fence line.

Truth with in 18 seconds you decrypt there traffic, and you easly pickup there radio chatter.

Contact Officer (gate guard)"Allcock anything to report over there?"

Close Support (roving guard)"Negative Lt. I don't see or hear anything else, must have been a wave or something."

Overwatch (LMG guard)"I'd bet it's one of those Merrowes agian, remember that last month? First time I've seen one of the paracritters."

There is also biomonitor data being broadcasted.

-edited-

[Shalimar]

--Friday April 11th, 2070 at 2330 ��" Wanda’s Witchery, Renton, Seattle��"

<<One of the guards is walking over...can't see him physically, but I can see him astrally. Any spells I cast are going to be like a beacon to those Fire Elementals. No way around that, and while they don'r seem to be paying attention to us now, if we cast spells into the area they are gaurding they certainly will start caring. Spirits are real sticklers for how you word things.>>

<<I can do an illusion, but it'd be immediately obvious to either or both of the spirits on their next circuit around the fence if they didn't see it immediately. The bigger problem is when Dancing Eyes and I take out the spirits, their summoner is going to know the instant it happens. The summoner is going to go astral and get his butt here and see us if he's stupid which'll let us nail him, or he'll just call up whoever is in charge and sound an alarm if he isn't.>>

<Wait...I might be able to do something to the spirits...disable them without alerting their master. I just wish I'd learned Orgy instead of Orgasm. I can definitely get one, and most likely the other but the second one will have a second or two to react. None of the guards here would know anything is happening.>>

When the guard doesn't seem to have notied anything Charlie relaxes a bit. She is still trying to figure out the best way to disable the two spirits without setting off an Alarm.

<<Be aware that there are wards up on the building, so we wont be able to keep the spirits with us and concealing us if we need to go in, that'd set off the wards. I'd have to summon a new spirit once we are inside, and any spells I am sustaining against the spirits would have to drop too. I can keep them occupied but only from the outside.>>