IC: Plata o Plomo - Reloaded, One Month later Options

[Red-ROM]

04-Apr-2071, 01:17:29, Tacoma, Seattle

Jasper watched Cheryl carefully,"yea, she snapped like a squirrel in a nut house. took some doin to put her down too. I've dropped trained soldiers faster." Realizing that he was talking as if she wasn't in the room, he redirected his comments to the woman under examination"No offense hun, but you got some issues "

[Fuchs]

04-Apr-2071, 01:17:45, Tacoma, Seattle

Cheryl starts to cry, and Slick Jim looks confused "Someone bloody explain to me what happened! How did a hooker turn into a killing machine? Hell, I had to save her from a John who got rough once, and she did not do anything!"

[DWC]

04-Apr-2071, 01:17:51, Tacoma, Seattle

Nuke shrinks a little bit.

”I don’t get it, either. Just relaying what I saw. Hell, we had to shock the shit out of her ourselves just to stop her from killing us, too.”

Revelation strikes him.

”When you got grabbed, you had just finished up with lucky bastard. Did he give you anything, like a drink or some coke or something that could have had kamikazi or PCP or god knows what else mixed in with it?”

[Fuchs]

04-Apr-2071, 01:18:00, Tacoma, Seattle

Cheryl shakes her head. "I took nothing then. Nothing. And Death came." Slick Jim frowns "Did you take tempo?" Cheryl flinches. "That was before the job... they like me when I am on tempo... you said that yourself..."

[DWC]

04-Apr-2071, 01:18:15, Tacoma, Seattle

”Yeah. This is starting to suck...”

<<Do you two want to stick around for this? I’d rather get out of here and go after Gannings and once we’ve got the whole story, we can come back to get paid. He can’t possibly be dumb enough to think he can get away with stiffing three people who found a professionally kidnapped joygirl in a subbasement of a tenement deep in ghoul territory in Puyallup in under 48 hours.>>

[Fuchs]

04-Apr-2071, 01:18:30, Tacoma, Seattle

<<Unless he gets killed by miss psycho-killer here.>>

[Red-ROM]

04-Apr-2071, 01:18:30, Tacoma, Seattle

<<yea, I'm ready ta go , but I am wonderin whats up with his chick, and what's this Tempo stuff she's on? >>

[Fuchs]

04-Apr-2071, 01:18:30, Tacoma, Seattle

<< Where have you been? Tempo's all the rave. Biological Awakened Drug, supposed to make you see, feel astral space during a trip. >>

[DWC]

04-Apr-2071, 01:18:30, Tacoma, Seattle

"Sounds like we're done here. You'll hear from us when we know what you got grabbed."

Nuke turns to leave.

<<Amped up magic eX. Girl gets all worked up on the lawyer, then gets bagged Came out of nowhere. She gets scared, and who the hell knows what happens? Let's go ruin Gannings' life.>>

[Red-ROM]

04-Apr-2071, 01:18:45, Tacoma, Seattle

<<I thoughth BTL's was the end all be all in the drug world, what'll they think of next. >>

Jasper nods his blue maintenance hat to the host as they leave.<<I'm gettin tired of grabbin people that don't know whats goin on, G-man better have some answers, or I'm parkin a truck in his ass>>

[Fuchs]

04-Apr-2071, 01:20:12, Tacoma, Seattle

The runners leave the building and board their vehicles again. It has started to rain in the meantime, causing an almost filter-like effect by blurring the lights of the city.

[DWC]

04-Apr-2071, 01:20:12, Tacoma, Seattle

<<Looking for an address for him now.>>

Nuke settles into the increasingly comfortable chair in the van and slips into hot VR. The interior fades into the sculpted majesty of Seattle's matrix system. Nuke's icon soars upward, zooming his view out to the entire city. Windows open containing agent command terminals and search clients as he begins digging for information on where to find Gannings. After a nanosecond, he dips back into the GridGuide host, looking for vehicles registered to the lawyer/politician.

[Fuchs]

04-Apr-2071, 01:20:15, Tacoma, Seattle

It doesn't take long to find Gannings - he is at a dinner for supporters of his campaign, in a local restaurant, the "Umberto's". Given his other schedules he'll likely leave there in about 45 minutes - he obviously has a sleep regulator built in considering the number of his appearances recorded in the last few weeks.

"Umberto's" is in a good section of the city, but not too much patrolled - Gannings "Tough on Crime" platform is most appealing to the middle class areas who feel they are less protected from the SINless undesirables.

Gannings Nightsky Limousine - leased after he ditched his Westwind, to change from being a "rising young dynamic" lawyer to a "conservative family values upholding" politician is parked in the garage of the restaurant.

[Red-ROM]

04-Apr-2071, 01:20:15, Tacoma, Seattle

Jasper hopped in "Charlene". he figured he'd ride with the group this time. He got the trucks moving as he waited for Nuke to hunt this guy down on the matrix.

[DWC]

04-Apr-2071, 01:20:15, Tacoma, Seattle

<<Got a hit on his car. Looks like he's out at dinner doing politician dirt. Going to see if I can do a little listening in. Want to swing by his place while we know he's out and do some snooping?>>

Having located the limo, Nuke switches to running his persona on the nexus and begins brute forcing his way into the limo, in search of the car's access log, which should have connections to Gannings' commlink just from proximity, which will (hopefully) point him at the lawyer's commlink's AccessID and allow him to find the link's node.

[ Spoiler ]

Hacking+Exploit, going for Security Access. Invisible Castle appears to be down again, but he's working with a DP of 15 and a Stealth of 6

[Red-ROM]

04-Apr-2071, 01:20:31, Tacoma, Seattle

<<sounds good, hoss>>
Jasper looks to Stray as he mentaly starts up the trucks, "well here we go again"
He scratches the head of the metalic dog in the back seat,"I reckon we got a little leverage on old Gannings, seein as how he wants to be a public figure and all, so far we got him involved with 2 criminal groups and a kidnapped prostitute. If he don't talk, it'll be cuz he dun killed us."
<<what do we got on Ganning's place?>>

[Fuchs]

04-Apr-2071, 01:20:31, Tacoma, Seattle

Nuke finds the access ID of gannings' personal commlink - at least the one used to communicate with the car and driver - without much trouble.

Stray nods to Jasper. "So, how do we do this?"

Gannings lives in a large house with surrounding garden, guarded by a private security firm. Mostly drone-based, though he has a dog as well.

[Red-ROM]

04-Apr-2071, 01:20:34, Tacoma, Seattle

"I think the softest target is the limo, depending on the escort."

<<you think its worth dealing with ganning's home security? or do you want to nab him off the road?>>

[DWC]

04-Apr-2071, 01:20:34, Tacoma, Seattle

AccessID secured in his grubby digital hand, Nuke sets about running a quick Track on the commlink, does a quick analysis of the node, then dives in, Stealthed to the hilt, looking for a way to turn on the commlink's microphone.

<<I like the house. Hijacking an armored limo gives us a lot of ways to accidentally kill him.>>

[Red-ROM]

04-Apr-2071, 01:20:39, Tacoma, Seattle

<<guess I didn't think of it that way, the house is gonna have more ways for us to accidently get killed. but I'm headin that way. >>
Jasper pulled up maps and plotted the course to Gannings and checked out the layout of the area, then he worked on spoofing the ID's on the trucks.

[Fuchs]

04-Apr-2071, 01:22:12, Tacoma, Seattle

<<More chances to encounter magical security at his home though.>>

Jasper easily spoofs the trucks' ID.

[DWC]

04-Apr-2071, 01:22:15, Tacoma, Seattle

<<Good point. Unless you've got more tricks up your sleeve, we're dead in the water against decent magic security. On the other hand, I'm pretty sure I can hack into his limo and stop it at the dramatically appropriate time.>>

[Fuchs]

04-Apr-2071, 01:22:34, Tacoma, Seattle

<<I can beat and shoot spirits if they appear, but I can't do anything about spells or the astral stuff.>>

[Red-ROM]

04-Apr-2071, 01:22:53, Tacoma, Seattle

<<so, we got any Idea where he's heading next? I figure we find a good spot to seperate him from any escort, then "shelly" and "charlene" can tie up traffic while you take the limo>>

Jasper changes course, and heads towards the limo.

[DWC]

04-Apr-2071, 01:22:57, Tacoma, Seattle

<<No clue where he's headed next, but tracking the car should be easy enough, so it might be time to do something stupid and reckless. Pretty sure I can take control of the car without too much trouble, then stop it and pop the locks. If I'm lucky, the driver will be rigging it, and I can remote subdue him while I'm at it.>>