IC: Denver Missions Team 2 Options

[klinktastic]

[Saturday April 9th, 2072 | 5:50 pm | Denver, Sioux Sector, Marcel's]
Riot: PAN = passive | Fake SiN = Jim Smith

<<Riot@Team - You guys need a bite to eat? Might be a long night. We can grab something fast, talk game plan while we eat.>>

[Zyerne]

[Saturday April 9th, 2072 | 5:50 pm | Denver, Sioux Sector, Marcel's]

"Luck won't hold." Wolf replied, sounding vaguely disgusted. "You say he boss though." From his tone it was obvious that he was wondering if Kreskin still felt that way.

"They spot us doing recon on their safehouse, we blow the meet. We can get drone in position, but don't use it til after meet, if we have to use it at all.

[klinktastic]

[Saturday April 9th, 2072 | 5:50 pm | Denver, Sioux Sector, Marcel's]
Riot: PAN = passive | Fake SiN = Jim Smith


<<Riot@Team - Wolf's right. We can't tip our hand yet. Let's grab some Stuffer Shack, and I'll tell you my plan.>>

Meanwhile, Riot runs a quick search to see how long the drive would take, from the safehouse to the meeting place.

[Kim]

[Saturday April 9th, 2072 | 5:50 pm | Denver, Sioux Sector, Marcel's]
Kim: PAN = active | Fake SiN = Angel Snow

"Yeah, haha, very funny. Now that we’ve wasted enough time on this stupid idea, can you tell me why Wolf wants to meet with some black hats?"

[BlackHat]

[Saturday April 9th, 2072 | 5:50pm | Denver, Sioux Sector, Marcel's]
Kreskin | PAN = passive | Fake SIN = Cody Demasi

"Sounds like we should stop someplace and make sure we're all on the same page. Before the drek hits the fan, we should make sure we all agree on the plan. We have a pretty good lead on the runner team we think was responsible, and we also have a pretty good lead on a safehouse that team might be using. It also sounds like we have a meeting set up in an hour and a half with that team, which could go either way." Kreskin turned to Angel, "... and I can't speak for Wolf, but, personally, I'd like to meet the Cats as a professional courtesy. I don't see why they would help us, or give us any information, but we might be able to confirm that they actually did do this job, and whether or not they're still holding B. They are also probably the only link we have to whoever was actually behind this thing, which is something Falcon wanted us to try to look into. I think we might be able to convince them to tell us that - and incidentally confirm that they really did do the run - if we are willing to deceive them about our objectives...."

[klinktastic]

[Saturday April 9th, 2072 | 6:05 pm | Denver, Sioux Sector, Heading to Meeting Spot]
Riot: PAN = passive | Fake SiN = Jim Smith

The van had pulled through the drive-thru lane and everyone had gotten their order. Thank god for auto-pilot and remote control driving. One could enjoy their meal now a days, while driving.

<<Riot@Team - I've formulated a game plan that should help us achieve success in our mission. There are some drawbacks, but it gives us a very high success rate to win the day and rescue Belenkiy and get our other 4k. If you will, please join this AR room I've set up to highlight the key points [its basically a white board that a coach would use during an in game discussion]. You see the DIY Storage here and the Park here. I've estimated that it will take about 20 minutes. My proposed plan will have us ambushing them right at 7:30, when their team is split. It's the old divide and conquor strategy. They're already dividing, so we pop in on them with their pants down, and take Mr. B off their hands. Now, to make sure we know where their storage room is, we'll have to have someone inside the DIY at about 6:45. Kreskin's got the skills. He goes in, pretending to look for some storage. He asks to look around, and hopefully sees one of the Black Cats leaving their room. Using that knowledge, he flags the room and we wait. At 7:30, we bust down the door and ask them politely to give us Mr. B. No violence, just outnumber them and they'll see that discretion is the better part of valor. I think this gives us the best shot to get our mission accomplished. We could send one person, but I'd rather not split our forces as they're already doing that. Thoughts, comments?>>

[Zyerne]

[Saturday April 9th, 2072 | 6:05 pm | Denver, Sioux Sector, Marcel's]

"No."

[klinktastic]

[Saturday April 9th, 2072 | 6:05 pm | Denver, Sioux Sector, Heading to the DIY Storage]
Riot: PAN = passive | Fake SiN = Jim Smith

<<Riot@Team- And what's your master plan Wolfie?? Go to the meeting, let them know we're on to them, and have to face them down at full strength later? Good plan....>>

[BlackHat]

[Saturday April 9th, 2072 | 6:05pm | Denver, Sioux Sector, Marcel's]
Kreskin | PAN = passive | Fake SIN = Cody Demasi

"Double no." Kreskin grinned. "For one thing, I was at the bar when Wolf set up this meet. I'm pretty average, I know, but there's a good chance they'd recognize me snooping around - or Wolf for that matter. The two of us need to be at this meet. That's number two. We didn't set up a meeting just to blow it off and screw over the Black Cats. Remember what I said about them just doing their jobs. We gotta show them some respect, or our reps in the Sioux are going to tank." Kreskin smirked, and added, "You're also nuts if you think any Shadowrunners are going go easy when their reps and paychecks are on the line."

[Zyerne]

[Saturday April 9th, 2072 | 6:05 pm | Denver, Sioux Sector, Heading to the DIY Storage]

"Don't call me 'Wolfie' again." Wolf sounded pissed. Deadly pissed. "We don't know that's where Belinkiy is, we don't know that they are splitting up and we don't know that they won't just kill him the monent the drek starts flying.

We talk to them."

[BlackHat]

[Saturday April 9th, 2072 | 6:05pm | Denver, Sioux Sector, Marcel's]
Kreskin | PAN = passive | Fake SIN = Cody Demasi

"Right," Kreskin agreed. "If they're pros, and their rep is as good as they say, they'll have no reason to mess with us until we tip our hand. I say we avoid that, but there is plenty of common ground between us, and a lot of info we might get without dropping names and hoping for the best."

[klinktastic]

[Saturday April 9th, 2072 | 6:05 pm | Denver, Sioux Sector, Heading to the DIY Storage]
Riot: PAN = passive | Fake SiN = Jim Smith

<<Riot@Team - Elaborate on this plan. There may be potential here, but I liked like to have contigency plans in place.>>

[Zyerne]

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[BlackHat]

[Saturday April 9th, 2072 | 6:05pm | Denver, Sioux Sector, Marcel's]
Kreskin | PAN = passive | Fake SIN = Cody Demasi

Kreskin raised an eyebrow at Wolf as though to ask if he may take a stab at the plan. "Okay, here's what I got so far.... Wolf and I go to the meet, as planned. The people who set this up saw us, not you guys. I'm sure they assume we have a whole team, but as far as they know, only Wolf and I were interested in meeting the Cats - and it'll look suspicious if one of us isn't there. Meanwhile, everyone else gets into position at DYI. Do some recon, maybe go as far as tracking down B's chip, or at least identifying where he is being held on site." Kreskin looks toward Wolf, and held up a hand. "I would normally agree with Wolf that recon might tip our hand, but we need to know exactly where he is being held. Ideally, details about how he is being guarded."

"He's our leverage. If we're barking up the right tree, we know the BC's last or current job, and they don't know about ours. They don't know we're after B, and they don't know we know where he is. We know how to make them fail their mission, and they don't even know what our mission is, yet. It sounds like they're willing to talk with us - probably just to find out what we want - and I suggest we use that to our advantage, to get the additional information that Falcone asked for - without using the meet as a distraction." Kreskin looked at Riot in the back, but didn't get an visual response from his unconscious body.

"In addition to rescuing B, we want to know who hired the Cats. That's information we want that they may have, and they may be willing to help if disclosing that information doesn't appear to compromise their current mission. So, Wolf and I show up, be polite and respectful. We level with them Runner-to-Runner, and see if they'll help us find out who's extorting Falcone. We inform them that we think they might know, because we know they're the team who took B, in the first place - and even if they don't know who's really behind it all, they can probably point us to their J or Fixer, and at least give us a new lead. " He shrugged.

"If they play ball, awesome, we thank them for their time, pay whatever they want for the info - well, if its under the 5K its worth to us - and then we leave... and we don't hit them when their guard is down. If they tell us to frag off, we're no worse off. If the drek hits the fan, though, the ace up our sleeve is that we've already got a team in position to extract B which would cost them their job. We only play this card if the meet goes badly, and we need them to back off. If they push, they had their fair warning, we signal you guys, and you do the deed - but expect them to put up a fight. Otherwise, we walk away from that meet as friends, and make sure they know that if we meet again, its just business. We will meet again, but they won't necessarily know that."

"Main thing is, if you move on B while Wolf and I are at the meet - in addition to that being a dick-move - if one of their men gets the chance to send a message to the Cats meeting us, Wolf and I are toast. They set up the meet, so we can be damned sure they're going to be prepared to take us down. Even if they don't, we lose our only chance to really impress Falcone by letting him know who's out to get him."

"Anyway, its a work in progress, but I like that we don't burn any bridges."

[Zyerne]

[Saturday April 9th, 2072 | 6:05pm | Denver, Sioux Sector, Marcel's]

Wolf waited until Kreskin had finished before putting in his own take on the situation. "Recon is too risky. We don'tknow where he is, we know where a safehouse is. If Riot gets a drone in position to recon if the meeting doesn't pay off, that's 20 minutes to pull an extraction before whichever of the Cats we meet can get back there, if they are actually using it.

We also have other leverage. If this goes south, Falcone won't pay us, he'll pay a wetwork team. Ares may not go after the Cat's directly but I'm fragging sure Falcone will hold a grudge."

[BlackHat]

[Saturday April 9th, 2072 | 6:06pm | Denver, Sioux Sector, Marcel's]
Kreskin | PAN = passive | Fake SIN = Cody Demasi

Kreskin nodded, "As long as people are in position. The more we know, the better - but like I said, if they catch wind of what we have planned, you and I are dead. My point was, we do have leverage, and they do have information we need. We should do this meet, and do it like professionals."

[klinktastic]

[Saturday April 9th, 2072 | 6:06pm | Denver, Sioux Sector, Traveling to the Meet]
Riot: | Pan = Passive | Fake SIN = Jim Smith

Listening to Kreskin and Wolf bounce ideas back and forth off of one another, Riot admits that their idea, while not as flashy or ballsy, isn't half bad. It might need some tweaking, but it was workable.

<<Riot@Team - I think the structure of it is fine. I can tell Wolf likes to know things 100% before committing to them. While I agree, in an ideal world, that always nice, I think we can take it on faith that they're holding Mr. B at the DIY Storage. DIY means Do it Yourself...meaning no one is going to question you. I'd like to deploy a team there, but let me finish hacking this commlink...I need another 30-40 minutes. If I can pin him down at the DIY, I'd like pull out and get in position there ASAP. That means we'd know his location at 6:45ish, meaning we can still make adjustments. But for know, let's go to the meeting location, scout that out for possible ambushes, and just settle in until we get more info. At this point, I think we should throw our comms to "Hidden" mode, as drek might hit the fan, and I'd rather be harder, not easier to find. I think this sounds like a fair compromise between all of our major ideas.>>