JackPoint: The Novel, To the rescue of Hackbaby! Options

[CanRay]

Read "Attitude" and find out!

[Xahn Borealis]

Guh. One day...

[warrior_allanon]

fraggin hades Canray, cant you at least give those of us stuck in DT format a hand

[CanRay]

Steampunk is the big thing (Which is actually told in Arsenal. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/nyahnyah.gif) ), but there's a lot of other styles that are happily about.

Post Apocalyptic has evolved from the "Thug" or "Armored" look of the '50s, which makes Shadowrunners stylish with only a minimum amount of work.

And a bunch of stuff from /dev/grrl that I could care less about. Because it's /dev/grrl. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/nyahnyah.gif)

[Xahn Borealis]

And a bunch of stuff from /dev/grrl that I could care less about. Because it's /dev/grrl. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/nyahnyah.gif)

You just don't like the fact that you're generation is being replaced. Go play with your old rusty cyberdeck, Grampa, the real hackers are taking over.

[CanRay]

You just don't like the fact that you're generation is being replaced. Go play with your old rusty cyberdeck, Grampa, the real hackers are taking over.

I got no issues with young Hackers, notice that I don't mind Slamm-0! or Netcat at all, and they're young(ish).

I just have to agree that there wasn't much reason for her to be on someplace like the JackPoint until Attitude came out and she finally got to provide something other than carrying the ignorance ball so the older group could explain all the stuff that happened in the game's past.

In JackPoint: The Novel, we'll have to demonstrate her "1337 Haxxor 5K!llZ" or something.

[Xahn Borealis]

Sorry, if that sounded confrontational, I meant to put a smiley after it. Nothing is offensive on the internet if you put a smiley face after it, right drekhead? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

[Troyminator]

I've said it before, and I'll say it again. You all are the best!

[CanRay]

First, a description of a fly-by of Seattle describing the history in a nutshell up to the 2070s...

Then, focus on a Short-Time Con-Infiltration to the Aztechnology Arcology for Netcat's Sprites to lift whatever they want from the Muckity-Mucks CommLinks while Slamm-0! and team are riding oversight via a tap-in from a low-level security station. I'm figuring the other characters used would be One-Offs, probably characters we have just because, well, hell, we can. Accentuate how wonderful and great life is, and how controlled everything is as well.

So, for the team, we'd need a Magician that can read minds or force the truth from someone to get the check-in passcodes (Remember: The old ways are the best when it comes to security at times.), someone that can fake a voice well enough to fool a basic vocal scan (Either an adept or cybernetic), some Muscle/Samies to deal with the other guards (No Geeking! Can't have AZT on them for geeking security.), and probably a Wheelman for an exit. Possibly an additional asset to assist Netcat in her exfiltration.

OK, escape scene. Through the Arcology, outside, show the niceness of Downtown Seattle, but how it's now run by the gangs at night... Move through some of the areas, show how things are going progressively worse in condition as we move away from the position of money and power... Hit the Barrens where even the Security Forces won't pursue.

Need a Johnson for the job, as we're trying to explain how and why the world of Shadowrun works the way it does. Demonstrate just how Mercenary Shadowrunners are and how they operate, demonstrate how Mr. Johnsons will attempt to weedle and screw them in turn. So on and so forth...

Yeah, that sounds like a good start.

[warrior_allanon]

Use an MCT Johnson, we need an MCT angle here so we can play to it later.

i'll pony up the rigger, an AI in a Renraku Manservant drone and a battle buddy commlink, but we have to show how worn the manservant is.

her handle is Tank Girl, I'll email discuss things with you soon

[CanRay]

What good is a Johnson that you've been able to track? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/nyahnyah.gif)

Although, seriously, we are talking Slamm-0! and Netcat here. They could easily trace him/her back by even the smallest clues that were looked over. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

[warrior_allanon]

this is true but an MCT Johnson would be a marvelous red herring to hack baby and allow certain persons to be released.

[Xahn Borealis]

Demonstrate just how Mercenary Shadowrunners are and how they operate, demonstrate how Mr. Johnsons will attempt to weedle and screw them in turn. So on and so forth...

Yeah, that sounds like a good start.

Then Mr and Mrs Hackbaby get home and realise they've been played like a particularly well-tuned piano?

[CanRay]

Then Mr and Mrs Hackbaby get home and realise they've been played like a particularly well-tuned piano?

Slamm-0! and NetCat come home to find the Proud Grandparents (Finally find out who Slamm-0!s parents are! YAY!) knocked out like John Q. Wageslave in a slappy fight and HackBaby gone, yeah.

Was it their Johnson, was it someone who had a beef with Slamm-0! or NetCat, or with Slamm-0!s parents, Clockwork selling them out again? Or someone else entirely. Let those those thoughts run around in their heads for a bit, then log into ShadowSEA, JackPoint, and so on, trying to call in the Posse and get a search party going...

[warrior_allanon]

hey canray, do you have any updates on this? email me if you need to

[CanRay]

Well, with CGL not giving any concrete statements about a novel, and contemplation of the nightmare that would be created trying to credit everyone properly (And getting legal documents allowing us to use their ideas)...

It's on the backburner of my mind. Don't worry, there's lots of room in there, even if it is pretty dark. Like, pitch black. OK, now where did I put that flash... OW! Damned end table!

[CanRay]

News update!

Congrats Slamm-0! It's a boy!!!

[ggodo]

Now the real question is if he's a technomancer.

[KnightAries]

So.......
What's happening with the story

As cool as it would be for FJ to pull the trigger on his pred I; I think he should also have to call in Skald (or whatever she calls herself these days)

An intristing twist would also be that one of the teams didn't know who's baby they helped extract and turned around was hired later to extract them again just not knowing it's the same baby.