The Divine Comedy(OOC), Snowfall Options

[Shalimar]

a SIN would be a social security number only if you used a social security number in absolutely every transaction you were part of from riding the bus to buying an ice cream cone. You are required in a lot of nicer areas to broadcast it at all times so people know who you are, and faling to do so is a crime. SINs are datamined all the time, with companies spamming you with advertisements, offers, etc constantly. Everything you do is recorded, thats why runners keep fake SINs so that they can ditch them when there is too much info attached to any given one.

[Coldhand Jake]

I am really impressed by how this is going, so far. You're all very, very good players... I've been out of the online RPG scene so long, and you all are making me regret having stayed away! I am on for the next several hours, and I am very very much enjoying watching this unfold.

I have a question as well, as I am finding that the whole SIN concept is leaving me a bit in the dust. How much information would be connected to a person's name? Is it similar, perhaps, to a highly advanced Google/Social Security system, where you get stuff about employment, criminal records, and basic indigraphy, plus anything that might have been "newsworthy"? I guess I am not really understanding how much would come up, in an ideal sx attempt.

I recommend reading some of the posts inside of UNwired and Runner's to really get a feel for what your data footprint is. Luckily, being so sheltered, and not carrying a comm, Portia's at the moment next to immune.

[Oenone]

@Jake. What does Mia's search for external camera feeds come up with? Anything useful?

[Coldhand Jake]

@Jake. What does Mia's search for external camera feeds come up with? Anything useful?

You find that there's a camera on the driveway, and one on each entrance, showing you this is a rather opulent old-school house, but not much perimeter view, mostly incidental.

[Oenone]

Public access? If so is there archived footage too?

(If so Mia will skim back through it as far as she can, to try and find out who has been coming and going from the house.)

Edit - This time she's checking out social networking and blogging sites for anyone listing their address as being on the same street as the targets house. To try and find anything interesting. (Hopefully Vergot picked the nosy neighbors flaw when setting up his house!)

[Mickle5125]

just an fyi: I'm pretty busy today. I'll be posting when I can, and keeping track of things as well as I can, but I won't necessarily be posting every five minutes.

RL is totally getting in the way of my gaming... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/frown.gif)


Which floor is the old orc on, or is it a single story house?

[Coldhand Jake]

One floor place

[Oenone]

@Jake - Do the door staff have anything useful in response to Mia's question? Or should I just skip waiting on the reply and move her over to a booth? (Oh and the question I asked last post on this thread about public access and archived footage was directed at you too. Basically I was wondering if there any accessable logs of when people came/went from the house).

[Coldhand Jake]

@Jake - Do the door staff have anything useful in response to Mia's question? Or should I just skip waiting on the reply and move her over to a booth? (Oh and the question I asked last post on this thread about public access and archived footage was directed at you too. Basically I was wondering if there any accessable logs of when people came/went from the house).

Getting a dining booth is no big deal, think like getting a booth at a dine-in Pizza Hut. Except these have sound scrubbers making eavesdropping a bitch. Also, no public access to the footage, and no on-network recording, you'd have to hack a Horizon security division to get it.

[Oenone]

Getting a dining booth is no big deal, think like getting a booth at a dine-in Pizza Hut. Except these have sound scrubbers making eavesdropping a bitch. Also, no public access to the footage, and no on-network recording, you'd have to hack a Horizon security division to get it.

Oh, no I meant when she asked the door staff the question below. Pose might have been missed in all the preperation stuff.

Flicking back to AR Mia heads to collect her things from storage, giving the troll bouncer a friendly smile as she politely asks "Haven't had any German tough guys in tonight have you?"

Hmm if there's no public access to the footage how did she know what the camera's showed?

She was aiming for the free (or nominal fee) to subscribe too camera's which are all over LA according to the sourcebook. The sort of thing which makes the P2.0 work and suchlike, she's got high lifestyle so any nominal fee's for the footage she can cover if it's up for sale to interested parties. Should be cheap given it's dull footage.

Oh and what results came up from her hunting through social networking data for the local area? Anyone posted anything interesting in regard to our target? (Basically Mia is trying to use the way LA works to her advantage, hoping the out of town types wouldn't have enough knowledge to keep themselves under the radar in that regard.)

[Coldhand Jake]

Oh, no I meant when she asked the door staff the question below. Pose might have been missed in all the preperation stuff.

Hmm if there's no public access to the footage how did she know what the camera's showed?

She was aiming for the free (or nominal fee) to subscribe too camera's which are all over LA according to the sourcebook. The sort of thing which makes the P2.0 work and suchlike, she's got high lifestyle so any nominal fee's for the footage she can cover if it's up for sale to interested parties. Should be cheap given it's dull footage.

Oh and what results came up from her hunting through social networking data for the local area? Anyone posted anything interesting in regard to our target? (Basically Mia is trying to use the way LA works to her advantage, hoping the out of town types wouldn't have enough knowledge to keep themselves under the radar in that regard.)

Steve says "Nope." on the German guy question.

And the reason you can see his security cameras is because DD hacked the hell out of them, and routed a copy of the feeds to CreepWatch2070, if I'm not mistaken.

Now, as for checking the social networking/P2.0 blanket for locational keywords, based on what you already know, you see the place is not really a focus of any public attention except occasional people commenting on what a nice classical house it is, and how they'd love to buy it.

[Oenone]

And the reason you can see his security cameras is because DD hacked the hell out of them, and routed a copy of the feeds to CreepWatch2070, if I'm not mistaken.

Ah, but those aren't the camera's I was interested in. Should have made it clearer in the post I guess, but Mia was looking for public access camera's on the street itself. Not ones linked into his house or security system. (Which is why she did a seperate search of the whole 'trix rather than a much quicker search of his security system).

Now, as for checking the social networking/P2.0 blanket for locational keywords, based on what you already know, you see the place is not really a focus of any public attention except occasional people commenting on what a nice classical house it is, and how they'd love to buy it.

Cool. The neighbors (assuming anyone lives next door) haven't complained on thier blogs or anything then huh? Shame although this implies he keeps things quiet close to home.

[Shalimar]

We seem to be about set on everything except transportation. Does anyone have transportation? Or can we agree on something to get this going?

[Oenone]

Mia has a bike, but that's not suitable for mass transport.

[Mickle5125]

Ronnie runs, jumps, and climbs everywhere, so nothing here.

[Shalimar]

Pura is thinking about buying a bike but doesn't have the cash for it yet.

[DWC]

Every crowd is made up of individuals, and the Divine Comedy is pretty crowded. Here's one of the faces in the crowd. I'll throw him into things at some point, though he's unlikely to get too involved in anything that spills out of the club. He's fairly socially capable, but still focused on shooting people in the face.

Background

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Vitals

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Handle: Vice.
Name: Riley Travis
Gender: Male
Ethnicity: ¼ Caucasian, ½ Afro-america, ¼ Brazilian. Features are surgically enhanced to look stern and germanic, in stark contrast to his complexion.
Metatype: Human
Nationality: CAS

Date of Birth: April 3rd, 2041
Place of Birth: Jacksonville, Florida, CAS.
Height: 6’1� (1.8542m)
Weight: 206lbs (93.44kg)
Eyes: Originally brown. Cybereyes are usually kept replicating his original eye color.
Hair: Normally black. Currently not applicable. Vice shaves his head every morning.
Distinguishing marks: His upper left arm is branded with a regimental insigna for the 101st Airborne. There’s a barcode tattooed on the back of his neck, though the code is gibberish and doesn’t even match the checksum.
Build: At a glance, Vice looks like just another narcissistic suit who spends two hours a day at the health club, plays tennis or racquetball three or four times a week, and spends his weekends on the golf course.
Demeanor: Professionally, Riley goes to great lengths to be menacing, without overtly threatening anyone, until frustration sets in. Then he has to fight the urge to hang people out windows and throw them off balconies.

Socially, he’s very much at ease, and somewhat disarmingly laid back. In the rare event that he gets to completely let his guard down, he hurls himself headlong into his addictions.

He lives well beyond his means, and works constantly to ensure he always has cash to throw into the hole in his soul. Despite maintaining his own personal code of conduct, he has no hard and fast rules about what types of jobs he will or won’t accept.

History:

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Riley Travis was born in Jacksonville, Florida, in an Ares Macrotechnology enclave. Both parents were loyal company employees, and he grew up in the “baseball, mom, and apple pie� corporate culture of Ares. After high school, company career counselors determined that continuing his education was a “dubious� investment and instead recommended that he either apply to the Knight Errant academy or join Ares Arms security force.

In an act of teenage defiance, he joined the CAS army and served for eight years as an air assault rifleman on the west Texas front. His impulse control problems kept him out of the elite echelon of special operations, but his physical toughness and forceful personality made him an exemplary NCO. In 2066, he was honorably discharged as a staff sergeant with a bronze star for valor and a second for meritorious service.

After his honorable discharge, he was contacted by a Saeder-Krupp Prime recruiter. Rather than go to work for a SWAT or HTR team, or for Firewatch, he thumbed his nose at his family again and went to work for Saeder Krupp Prime. After some elective augmentation and cosmetic surgery, he was assigned to the Miami office as a “problem solver�. He split his time between negotiating with the Miami shadow community and shooting at them. After a year, he was a man respected and feared in equal measures.

In the fall of 2069, a new director took over his office and began purging the department of loose cannons and potential problems. Rather than getting fired or cleaned for his reckless personal life, Travis turned in his resignation and signed on with a Macao based mercenary company called Proactive Security Solutions. He spent 6 months sweltering in Vietnam, guarding opium fields and doing counterinsurgency work with the group before deciding he preferred concrete to mud under his feet. When his contract was up, he declined to renew and examined his other options. Someone from the security firm put him in touch with an expatriate Californian fixer in Seattle looking for “freelance operators� to help him make a name for himself. The two connected quickly, and Vice was off to the races.

Travis remains estranged from his family. He broke ties with his parents when he went to work for Saeder-Krupp. They’re now retired and still in Jacksonville, berating his sister about why they don’t have any grandchildren yet. He hasn’t spoken to his older sister Kathleen since he left for Vietnam. She is an Ares fleet helicopter pilot in Manhattan, and spends her days chauffeuring executives and VIPs around.

Stats

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Subrace: human (0BP)

Attributes (200BP)

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Body: 4
Agility: 4/8
Reaction: 5/9
Strength: 4
Charisma: 4
Intuition: 3
Logic: 2
Willpower: 2
Initiative: 12
Passes: 1/3
Essence: 0.26
Edge: 2
Physical Damage Track: 11
Stun Damage Track: 10
Karma: 0

Qualities

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Positive Qualities (+25)
Biocompatibility(cyberware).
Restricted Gear (Move by Wire-2). Late in his time at Saeder-Krupp, after a particularly good semi-annual review, he was allocated a refurbished 2nd generation Move by Wire unit to replace his wired reflexes and reaction enhancer.
Restricted Gear (Muscle Toner-4)
Restricted Gear (Reality Amplifier, Oracle)

Negative Qualities (-25BP)
Standard SINner. As a legitimate citizen of the CAS, born in a corporate hospital and raised by corporate employees, Riley Travis was issued a SIN at birth. His SIN was destroyed in Crash 2.0, and replaced by the CAS because he was active duty army at the time.
Addiction, Mild. Vice has been a social drug user since he was 15. He quit completely while he was in the army, but relapsed hard while working in the non-stop party of the Miami underworld. He kicked his opiate habit, and moved on to a speedball of novacoke and eX, though he’s a big fan of loading up on Asia or Zen and playing golf.
Poor Self Control (Compulsion, 1). Vice is fighting a stalemated battle to overcome his sex addiction. He’s far less out of control than he used to be, but that’s just because he spends a lot more time working. But eventually, someone he brings home in a drug and pill induced stupor is going to either kill him or get him killed.
Records on File. Saeder-Krupp Prime has all of his biometrics in a database.

Skills (146BP)

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Active Skills

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Athetics Group-3
Influence Group-4
Automatics (Assault Rifles) -5(+2)
Pistols(Semiautomatics)-3(+2)
Intimidation-4
Unarmed Combat-4
Perception-2

Knowledge Skills

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CAS Army Procedures-4
Corporate Security Procedures-2
Street Drugs-2
Corporate Fashion-2

Language Skills

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English - N
Cantonese – 2
Vietnamese – 2
Spanish - 1

Resources :nuyen:250k (50BP)

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Augmentation 157950

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Cyberware

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Alpha grade datajack
Alpha grade orientation system
Alpha grade biomonitor
2nd hand move by wire-2
skillwire expert system
Cybereyes-4

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Flare compensation
Low-light vision
Smartlink
Thermographic vision
Vision enhancement-3
Vision magnification

Cyberears-4

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Audio enhancer-3
Balance augmentor
Damper
Select sound filter-4
Spatial recognizer

Commlink

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Transys Avalon
Vector Xim
-Upgrade to System-4
-Upgrade to Firewall-6

Bioware

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Minor Cosmetic Biosculpting
Saeder-Krupp Prime had Travis’s facial features altered to fit a more generic Germanic mold, giving him more authoritative, classic features. His chin and brow were strengthened, his cheekbones were sharpened, and his nose was narrowed.
2nd hand bone density augmentation-1
2nd hand muscle toner-4
2nd hand tailored pheromones-2

Gear

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Weapons 19215

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Survival knife 50
Colt Government 2066, matte black 2165

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-modified cost 2165
-base cost 500
-skinlink 50
-smartlink, internal 500
-quick draw holster 100
-silencer (accessory) 400
-4 magazines Ex-explosive 615

FN 5-7C, matte black 5640

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-modified cost 5640
-base cost 600
-smartgun link, internal (accessory) 600
-extended clip 500
-skinlink 50
-improved range finder 1000
-gas vent3 (accessory) 400
-personalised grip 100
-concealed holster 75
-6 magazines EX-explosive 1525
-4 magazines Stick’n’Shock 815

FN P-93 Praetor 4725

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Base cost 650
Electronic firing 200
Smartgun link, internal (accessory) 650
Gas vent 3 400
4 magazines EX explosive 2015
2 magazines SnS 810

Colt M-23, matte black 6335

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-modified cost
-base cost 750
-smartgun link, internal (accessory) 750
-gas vent3 (accessory) 400
-skinlink 50
-foregrip (accessory) 100
-improved range finder 1000
-electric firing 1000
-personalised grip 100
-shock pad (accessory) 150
-sling (accessory) 15
-5 magazines EX-explosive 2020

4 Flash bangs
4 High explosive grenades
2 Ceramic knives
Hardliner gloves

Armor

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Lined coat
Armor vest
3 sets Globetrotter fatigues

Software 8620

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FTL Matrixware Power Suite 1240
-Analyze-3
-Browse-4
-Command-1
-Edit-2
-Purge-3
Encrypt-6 (Ergonomic, Optimization 2, Virus Resistance 6) 1700
Mapsoft-6 (Los Angeles)

Sensor Software (pirated)
Empathy-6 (Ergonomic, Optimization-2) 350

Reality Amplier (Oracle) 500

ActiveSofts (Pirated)
Dodge 4 (Ergonomic) 1230
Pilot Ground Vehicle-4 1200
Infiltration-4 1200
Armorer-4 1200

Gear

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Satellite link
Renraku Sensei
-Renraku Ichi OS
Tag Eraser
Sim Module
Monofilament chainsaw
1 box, large garbage bags
Plastic restraints, 10 bundles of 10
Metal restraints, 5 sets. One set’s key don’t work
Gecko gloves
Grapple Gun
Catalyst Stick
3 100m spools of stealth rope
Maglock passkey-4
Medkit-6
5 refills
2 Trauma patches
Hyundai Shin-Hyung
-spoof chip

Drug stockpile 2950

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Asia, 10 doses
eX, 49 doses
Novacoke, 99 doses
Zen, 10 doses
Galak, 50 doses

Lifestyle Breakdown 27600

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Fake SINs 8800

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Fake SIN-4 4400
-Dwight Wilson
-fake license-4 (bodyguard)

Fake SIN-4 4400
-Greyson Pierce
-fake license-4 (personal security assessment consultant)

Fake SIN-4 4400
-Hamilton Lee
-fake license-4 (simsense industry military consultant)

Fake SIN-4 4400
-Dalton Zachary
-fake license-4 (Private military contractor, still employed by PSS, Inc)

Lifestyle 10000

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High Lifestyle, 1 month
-Vice lives in an apartment on the 46th floor of a skyscraper in Central Hong Kong, though he’s currently staying in a suite at a hotel in West Hollywood.
Comforts (4BP): The furniture is high end, and neo-minimalist. The walls are covered with hand-made reproductions of famous ancient Chinese pieces. The building has a cleaning staff that comes around once a week. The rest of the housework is handled by drones, maintained by the building staff.
Entertainment (4BP): The building’s concierge staff has a block of standing reservations at all the popular night spots, restaurants, and stadiums in Hong Kong.
Necessities (4BP): Vice lives in a 287 m2 apartment, with vaulted 5 meter ceilings, floor to ceiling windows looking south at Victoria Peak (he doesn’t know about the prestige of having a harbor view), 2 guest bedrooms (one converted to a home gym), 3 and a half baths, two reserved spots in the underground parking garage, and his measurements on file at several clothiers in the trendy part of Wanchau-Causeway.
Neighborhood (4BP): The building is located right in downtown Hong Kong. It has an extensive fitness center, two restaurants exclusively for tenants and guests, an indoor pool, and a rooftop garden.
Security (4BP): The building’s matrix host is well secured and monitored constantly. It has an onsite security staff, mostly to deal with unruly guests of residents, and maintains its’ own contract with Knight Errant, independent of the city’s. His neighbors are reasonably sure he’s a career criminal, but, as is the way in Hong Kong, would never be rude enough to tell anyone.
Leased Vehicle
-Blue and white Suzuki Mirage, though he's currently driving a Range Rover 2068 borrowed from his hotel
Premium MPS service

Assets 11815
(4d6+12)*500
(4d6+12)=(16+12)*500=:nuyen:14000

Contacts (4BP + 8 free points)

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Vincent Cocetti - Fixer (L:3/C:4)
Vinnie C grew up in the San Fernando Valley, surrounded by wiseguys. After going to college and business school, he got into the “olive oil� business rather than the corporate world. As a mob finance man, he was able to avoid the hail of gunfire when the don went to war with a yakuza clan. When his capo and don were slain, Cocetti expanded his operations beyond organized crime staples and expanded into contract corporate espionage. When he got sick of LA, he moved to Hong Kong. After several productive years, an old acquaintance who’d gone into the mercenary business put him in touch with a former company man looking for work in the Free Enterprise Zone.
Dog – Drug Dealer (L:3/ C:2)
Dog is a local LA dirtbag, perpetually living out of someone’s pool house. His only real claim to fame is serving as a conduit for triad party drugs.

[Divine Virus]

Hey DWC, I notice you have a car with a spoof chip. We could really use someone like you about now.

[DWC]

Hey DWC, I notice you have a car with a spoof chip. We could really use someone like you about now.

I hadn't planned on hopping in just yet, primarily because there are already plenty of folks involved in what's going on. I figured that I'd wait for this "episode" to sort itself out, then hop in the next time things quiet down.

[Shalimar]

Could we just steal a van? Or rent one?

[cndblank]

How about we borrow a van from a rental place (DD handles the paperwork so that the van is listed as rented).

The advantage here is that we can make sure that there are no data trails back up us and the van won't be reported stolen because it is being "rented".

If the milage, gas, and credit accounts all balanced out then the fact that no one remembers who actually rented the van and the person that rented the van could be one of a half dozen Bill Lee will never come up.


I'll front the cred for the rental until we are paid.

[Coldhand Jake]

I'm here, folks, if we're going to do this. I'll be in and out every hour or so till we get some movement, and then I'll settle in and run.

[Shalimar]

I like CND's idea, I think at this point that would be the best way to actually get us moving at this point.

[crizh]

We could even use the target's SIN to rent the Van and then it's presence on his property will not raise any eyebrows until after the fact.

Do you think we could have it delivered or have one of the Orcs pick it up in disguise?

[Shalimar]

That would just be adding insult to injury, I like it.