IC: Denver Missions Team 2 Options

[Zyerne]

[Saturday April 9th, 2072 | 6:06pm | Denver, Sioux Sector, Traveling to the Meet]

"Good chance he is there, but faith gets people killed. Not good for anyone."

[BlackHat]

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

"Sounds good. I might suggest Wolf and I check out the meet location, alone, though. If they see a whole team roll up, they may wonder where you guys went when the meet goes down. I'd actually rather let them ambush us. It'll make them feel more in control than they are, and they're not going to kill us without a reason, and - so far - we haven't given them one." Kreskin shrugged, "Even if we all go, and manage to spot an ambush, we're not going to take them out, or anything. Might as well not give them the chance to see you guys."

[klinktastic]

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

<<Riot@Team - Well we have at least 3 votes, so it looks like we'll set up at the meet. Make sure we grab the advantagous terrain (just in case) and I'll see what this commlink can give me. The rest of us will just park in the van nearby. Worse comes to worse, I can track them via their commlinks if the meet goes poorly, track them back to their base of operations.>>

The van continued to take them close to the meeting spot. They were going to be pretty early, but never hurts to be extra cautious when paired up against a more seasoned opponent. About 15 more minutes until the hit the park. Another 15 and he was sure he'd have a way into that god forsaken commlink. VR was so annoying.

[Kim]

[Saturday April 9th, 2072 | 6:06pm | Denver, Sioux Sector, Traveling to the Meet]
Kim: PAN = passive | Fake SiN = Angel Snow

After it was explained to Kim that Kreskin really wasn’t joking and that she had misheard Wolf, she just could neither believe Riot’s luck nor that the Black Cats were not mentioned earlier. If she’d been wrong about this, what else had she been wrong about? Kim puts on her glasses, so no one can see her eyes change.

“Did you make a big enough fool out of yourself yet?”

“Seriously, same stinking cigarettes?”

“I could have given you a perfectly reasonable scenario.”

“I’m listening.”

“B comes here to relax. Only thing is he’s got a fetish. So he finds the closest place in town where they offer that kind of service. He makes the deal and finds he’s out of smokes. The guy says: “Here take my tobacco, you have to roll them yourself though.” B goes back to the ranch and waits for the women to ‘kidnap’ him and bring him to some dungeon. He has enough money to make his fantasy look real.”

“That’s NOT what happened.”

“It doesn’t matter. Anything that involves B being out of his own kind of cigarettes and getting the distinctive tobacco from this Mafioso would have been a good enough explanation to check it out.
Just face it, you screwed up … again!”

“Oh, SHUT UP!” Kim says rather loudly, taking her glasses off. She looks around the van and says “No not you. I just want to add that I could probably find B within half an hour if he’s there and that I think no kidnapper deserves to live. So do whatever is needed.”

[J. Packer]

[Saturday April 9th, 2072 | 6:22pm | Denver, Sioux Sector, South Platte Park]

The van pulls up a block or two away from the park entrance, far enough away to avoid any surveillance drones if they might be in the area - it's not uncommon in public areas like this - and Wolf and Kreskin step out, along with one of Riot's roto-drones.

The drone pulls ahead and scouts the way, finding no one in the park at this time of the evening. After a trip around the area of the meet, it finds a nearby copse of trees in which to hide, but still be able to observe the entire area of the meet proper.

Kreskin and Wolf tentatively enter the area. There are picnic tables and a kiosk with information in it, but not a soul to be found at this point.

[Saturday April 9th, 2072 | 6:43pm | Denver, Sioux Sector, In the Matrix, On the Raod]

The results of the probing finally come back, and Riot manages to score a full administrator account - looks like a backdoor that one of the original Ares hackers put in there as a failsafe during testing, and it never got turned off or removed from the system.

His icon dives into the node and begins a thorough inspection of the system. It's a stock 'link (Signal 4, Response 4), running a totally custom OS (System 4, Firewall 6). The representation is of an office, with a desk and whiteboard and the usual accoutrements. Unfortunately, it seems security has noticed the account being accessed. Something in the system twigs to your presence and you see an alert flash through the system, with klaxons and flashing lights. Icons shaped in the likeness of humans begin to pull icons of papers out of drawers and drop them into paper shredders.

Looking around quickly, you see that the system does not appear to be securing the access controls. There, you see a frequency and security code associated with an RFID tag that would allow immediate access to the system written on the whiteboard. You quickly copy that down, but the internal data of the node has been wiped out by the security automatons.

You're alone in the node now, the klaxons gone silent, and it's dark. It looks like an office building where the business went bankrupt and all that's left is stuff that they didn't think was important.

[Saturday April 9th, 2072 | 6:43pm | Denver, Sioux Sector, DIY Storage and Lodging]

The rest of the team - Kim, Doc, Riot and his remaining drone - leave for the DIY safehouse.

Located at the eastern end of E 112th Ave, DIY Storage and Lodging is one part coffin motel, one part self-storage and five parts rundown. The three story building has an obvious lean to the southern side where pre-fab walls have given way and begun to crumble.

There's an entrance to the building that appears to lead to a standard sort of check-in desk. You can see someone manning the desk through a grimy window, but little detail.

[BlackHat]

[Saturday April 9th, 2072 | 6:22pm | Denver, Sioux Sector, South Platte Park]
Kreskin | PAN = passive | Fake SIN = Cody Demasi

Kreskin checks the time in AR, and idly begins flipping through the ARO information the kiosk is offering up, as he finds a comfortable spot on one of the picnic tables. He asks, rhetorically, "We're almost an hour early, right?" Kreskin smacks his hands together, and is suddenly holding a pack of cards. He raises an eyebrow at Wolf and a grin creeps onto his face. "Unless you'd rather sit in uncomfortable silence...."

[Zyerne]

[Saturday April 9th, 2072 | 6:22pm | Denver, Sioux Sector, South Platte Park]

"Only uncomfortable for you." Wolf replied with an answering grin, seemingly totally at home in the park and much more relaxed than he had been in the confines of the van. "Quick game ok I guess."

Kreskin would quickly realise that was Wolf not much of a card player, although he'd clearly played before.

[BlackHat]

[Saturday April 9th, 2072 | 6:27pm | Denver, Sioux Sector, South Platte Park]
Kreskin | PAN = hidden | Fake SIN = Cody Demasi

Kreskin smiles and pulls the cards out, quickly shuffling them theatrically, like a dealer at a fancy casino table. He does a couple of tricks, displaying an impressive amount of manual dexterity, before dealing them both out a standard hand of cards. The game doesn't take very long, and it is pretty clear that Kreskin is an experienced player, but Wolf gets a couple of good hands in. Part way through, he remembers Riot suggested they put their comms in hidden mode, and does just that.

[klinktastic]

[Saturday April 9th, 2072 | 6:43pm | Denver, Sioux Sector, DIY Storage and Lodging]

With the RFID code in hand, Riot tries to track it down. Hoping that Mr. B was at the DIY, Riot performed a quick scan in hopes to locate him.

[ Spoiler ]

Scan + E-War = 12d6
http://www.catchyourhare.com/diceroller/
Pword = Armor
Rolled: 6,3,5,4,4,6,6,5,4,4,1,3,4 = 5 successes

"Drek!" Riot roars, emerging from VR. "Fraggin' protection protocols wiped the commlink clean. Least I didn't get dumped. Hopefully this code will help me locate Mr. B."

Stretching out, Riot looks to Angel, but pops his 360 vision on so he can look and talk to her while still observing the outside to see if any of the Black Cats leaves the DIY.

[ Spoiler ]

Perception Test 14d6
http://www.catchyourhare.com/diceroller/
Pword = Armor
Rolled: 4,5,6,3,4,4,4,5,3,6,3,6,3,5 = 6 successes

Additionally, if anyone leaves, I'm vision mag'ing to get a clear up close shot of them

"Angel, I wanted to talk to you. You doin' ok? That outburst a while back was...odd. I wanted to say something right then, but I figured it would be better to talk to you in person than via IM (instant message). Don't worry about Mr. B, we'll get him back and hopefully get to kick some ass while we're at it," Riot said smiling, in his awkward attempt to console her. It was readily apparent, Riot lacked experience in most areas related to sensitivity..

[Kim]

[Saturday April 9th, 2072 | 6:43pm | Denver, Sioux Sector, DIY Storage and Lodging]
Kim: PAN = passive | Fake SiN = Angel Snow

“Umm… oh that, yes.” Riot’s sudden advance to her caught Kim totally by surprise.

“I’m fine now, thanks… Let’s just make sure those Black Cats are not innocent.”

[J. Packer]

[Saturday April 9th, 2072 | 6:45pm | Denver, Sioux Sector, DIY Storage and Lodging]

Riot scans the area for the RFID tag. The results are inconclusive, but only because of the potential range of the tag given the size of the building.

[Saturday April 9th, 2072 | 6:55pm | Denver, Sioux Sector, DIY Storage and Lodging]

A woman in black leathers steps out of a side door of the building at the DIY Storage and mounts up a motorcycle. A quick comparison to your video evidence says that she could well be one of the three Black Cats.

[klinktastic]

[Saturday April 9th, 2072 | 6:55pm | Denver, Sioux Sector, DIY Storage and Lodging]

Upon seeing the female jump on the bike, Riot pulls up his image link of the magnified image, comparing to the security footage. Riot begins to prep a message for Wolf and Kreskin with an attachment of the more recent video footage.

"Hey Kim, could you assense her? See if she's awakened? I'd like to give those two a heads up if she is."

<<Riot@Wolf, Kreskin - Looks like only one is coming. See attached.>>

Realizing that if one of the four left, Riot would be able to scan for all nodes, including hidden ones to try and find a fairly tight cluster of 3 or so commlink strength signals to help pinpoint the Black Cats' location.

[ Spoiler ]

Scanning for hidden nodes - interval of 1 combat turn, threshold of 15 http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/2858536/
12d6.hits(5) → [6,5,1,4,6,5,2,4,3,2,6,2] = (5)
12d6.hits(5) → [1,6,3,2,1,4,2,6,3,5,6,2] = (4)
12d6.hits(5) → [1,4,3,4,6,3,5,3,2,4,6,4] = (3)
12d6.hits(5) → [5,4,5,3,4,2,3,2,3,5,6,2] = (4)
Takes 4 turns to find all hidden nodes within mutual signal range, so all commlinks should pop up

[Kim]

[Saturday April 9th, 2072 | 6:55pm | Denver, Sioux Sector, DIY Storage and Lodging]
Kim: PAN = passive | Fake SiN = Angel Snow

"Sure."

[ Spoiler ]

assensing (6d6.hits(5)=2)

[J. Packer]

[Saturday April 9th, 2072 | 6:55pm | Denver, Sioux Sector, DIY Storage and Lodging

Riot compares the woman on the motorcycle to the footage, and with a software assist is all but assured that she is one of the three women from the video - the third to emerge from the room, in fact.

Kim fires up her senses and peers out at the woman. She's mildly cybered, showing up as dark patches on her body throughout, with a larger collection in her arms and head. She's stressed and a little irritated, but generally healthy physically.

And she's accompanied by two spirits of Man, flanking her on either side.

While Kim is getting her sense of the woman, Riot spends some time looking for nodes. There are 23 nodes present in the building proper, and nine of them are ghosting (hidden mode).

[Kim]

[Saturday April 9th, 2072 | 6:55pm | Denver, Sioux Sector, DIY Storage and Lodging]
Kim: PAN = passive | Fake SiN = Angel Snow

Kim quickly checks the auras of the two spirits.

“She’s not alone. Two spirits accompany her and I’m not sure how strong they are.”

[ Spoiler ]

Assensing spirits separately (6d6.hits(5)=0, 6d6.hits(5)=2)

[J. Packer]

[Saturday April 9th, 2072 | 6:55pm | Denver, Sioux Sector, DIY Storage and Lodging]

It could be the distance, or it might be some other interference, but one of the spirits is all but closed to Kim, and the other shows only that it is focused upon the woman on the motorcycle with a single minded intensity.

[klinktastic]

[Saturday April 9th, 2072 | 6:56pm | Denver, Sioux Sector, DIY Storage and Lodging]

<<Riot:Wolf,Kreskin - Check that, Angel tells me that there are two spirits inbound as well...I assume they are astral, because I can see shit.>>

"Thanks Angel. Good to for them to know what they're up against. Also means the remaining three's defenses are down a notch." Struggling to find a way to locate the RFID chip, Riot starts getting annoyed. "Fraggin' matrix...there's so much you can do...and I'm not really all that good." Stumped, he continues thinking of ways he can tracks down the location of the RFID chip.

[Zyerne]

Saturday April 9th 2072 657pm Denver Sioux Sector South Platte Park"]

<<@Riot, Kreskin [Wolf] Understood. Suggest you pull roto-drone out to surveil DIY and head back here ready for pickup.>>

Message sent, Wolf looked over at Kreskin. "Looks like we got time for another game.."

[klinktastic]

[Saturday April 9th, 2072 | 6:56pm | Denver, Sioux Sector, DIY Storage and Lodging]

<<Riot@Wolf, Kreskin - Roger. I think it would be hard to take them inside the building. They're probably on a the 2nd or 3rd floor, meaning they've got the high ground and more defensible positions. Easiest way to get B would be to force them to transport him out of the DIY. If things don't go well, we can bluff them into thinking we'll call Ares or Knights Errant. They'll be more vunerable then.>>

Sending a command to the roto-drone to return to the DIY, Riot waits.

[J. Packer]

[Saturday April 9th, 2072 | 7:15pm | Denver, Sioux Sector, DIY Storage and Lodging]

Shortly before quarter after seven, the drone returns to the van, where Riot brings it in for use in surveillance.

At 7:15, a motorcycle pulls into the park where Wolf and Kreskin await. The woman on-board climbs off and gives the place the once over, a real thorough look, before approaching.

She speaks to you, in a language you're unfamiliar with. Wolf can place it as being a Sioux lanugage, but that's about all.

“Táku cha yachin he? Nituwe he?”

[Zyerne]

[Saturday April 9th 2072 | 7:!5pm | Denver Sioux Sector South Platte Park]

Wolf stood up but made no move away from the table or towards his weapons.

"Neither of us speak Lakota. I can manage some Hopi if neccessary but we'd prefer English. We're just here to talk."

[BlackHat]

[Saturday April 9th, 2072 | 7:15pm | Denver, Sioux Sector, South Platte Park]
Kreskin | PAN = hidden | Fake SIN = Cody Demasi

Kreskin nodded, and waited for the woman to respond, and he gathered up his cards from the picnic table and returned them to their package. He wasn't sure if this was one of those situations where he would end up needing to excuse himself to go to the bathroom, or not, but decided if he wasn't going to get to speak much, he would rather save it until something important was being said.

[J. Packer]

[Saturday April 9th, 2072 | 7:15pm | Denver, Sioux Sector, South Platte Park]

"Who are you, and what do you want?"

[BlackHat]

[Saturday April 9th, 2072 | 7:15pm | Denver, Sioux Sector, South Platte Park]
Kreskin | PAN = hidden | Fake SIN = Cody Demasi

Having secured his cards in his jacket, Kreskin stands, as well, and looks to see if Wolf was planning to dive right in, or have Kreskin do the talking. It was kind of Kreskin's half-baked plan, but Wolf was the one who set up the meet - so maybe he wanted to make his own good first impression.

[Zyerne]

[Saturday April 9th, 2072 | 7:15pm | Denver, Sioux Sector, South Platte Park]

"I am Wolf, this is Kreskin. We want to talk about the Ares executive you are holding for ransom."