[IP] Panzerknacker Options

[Volker]

"So, as long as you walk and talk, you give commands, also in combats?"

[Jack_Spade]

"Obviously not in a tactical capacity. I certainly won't tell you how to use violence. But I reserve the right to tell you who to use violence against."
Schmitt replied with a sardonic grin.

[Volker]

"All right. Then we need someone who does tell us how to use violence. So Slob is our tactical commandor and whenever you, Mr. Schmidt, say something else, it is the voice of God which stands above all earthly officers. But unless you do, Slob's in charge.

Okay, can we continue? Let's just assume Krestov took out that lad over there. We continue clearing, and you go down to vault. Ready when you are, sisters."

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[SquirrelDude]

"Well then time to start cutting open these lock boxes.

"Someone start a timer and see how long it takes us to get through all of them."

[Volker]

"Running. Go!"

[Jack_Spade]

As it turned out, it took exactly 3 seconds per box. All in all, Slobber was cutting non-stop for five minutes to open all boxes.
"We'll use a tarp to empty all the lock boxes into. For this exercise, we have metal scraps. Unless all boxes are packed with gold, those should be a bit heavier than our expected haul, so we can exercise.

Anna, this is your cue: When we are finished with loading, you have to levitate the bag up and out."

[Volker]

Krestov and bnc's drone meanwhile checked on the remaining guards. "Everything cleared. Kite, get the van close to the entrance."

[SquirrelDude]

Slobber was breathing a bit heavily after going through all the boxes.

"So that's 5 minutes, call it 8 with setup and take down where I can't support with my rifle if things go bad.

"Special K that means you need to be fast upstairs and faster getting downstairs to secure the main entryway"

[Gilga]

Anna grimaced "up and out? How far... if you ever watched star wars you'd know that levitating is painfully slow..."

[Jack_Spade]

"But it certainly beats carrying around a half ton of stuff up a flight of stairs. We could use the elevator, but if something goes wrong we'd be trapped in there.
As for how far: If we park directly at the back door it's a little bit under 45 m. If your spirit is capable of using movement, your levitation should be able to move at quite a decent speed."
Schmitt replied.

"Anyway, that's the course so far. Now we do this a few times more, so we get a routine. I'll list the new, amended action plan, including the preparation stuff. You all can take five, get a donut, some soycaf or a yogurt, while Kite and I update the simulation."

After the short break an easily visible AR board popped up at the wall of the hall:

Step 1: Use incriminating evidence to get Mercenary Kynos to turn against Zola and Ramirez, hopefully causing a distraction for Zola.
Step 2: Visit Bank to infest building with spy drones

Day of break in:
Step 3: Activate gas grenade in hotel to take out mage to stop watchers reporting activities and subsequent combat spirits arriving
Step 4: Hack biomonitor of Corporate Decker
Step 5: Send spirit to knock out Decker

Actual break in
Step 6: Drive up with van to backside of bank
Step 7: Don RP capes, have Kite use Invisibility and Spirit Concealment on team and Van
Step 8: Direct connect to camera over back door and enter Security Host (R7)
Step 9: Hack camera feeds with loops
Step 10: Open door with SOK, wait for patrol to be out of sight.
Step 11: Anna enters, moves directly to women restroom
Step 12: Anna levitates to ceiling, places Gasgrenade in vents
Step 13: bnc hacks Utility host (R5) to control vents to all places where guards are present
Step 14: bnc fakes message from Commanding Officer to tell guards to stay at their stations and help being on the way.
Step 15: Activate gasgrenade, Slobbertooth, Krestov, Anna's spirit, bnc drone and kite drone storm building to neutralize remaining guards, while bnc data spikes Leggios commlink (as he is most likely to withstand gas attack)
Step 16: Everyone in building is subdued with no alert (if not, it's 10 minutes running until reinforcements arrive)
Step 17: Slobbertooth, Krestov, Schmidt and Anna enter vault to empty lock boxes (6 minutes)
Step 18: Levitate loot out through staircase and backdoor into Van.
Step 19: Evacuate to boat house, unload haul into minisubs, have Kite pilot them back to the safehouse.
Step 20: Leave Island as regular, inconspicous business people (suits ready at the boat house)

[Volker]

bnc goes for a coke Xtreme, one of this extra caffeinated cokes they launched a couple weeks ago, and prepares a bowl of tsampa. When she comes back, she shows signs of being impressed.

"Jeez, sounds sound. You certainly do a great job doing my great job. Though I'd like to mark Leggio's 'link before we let loose the grenade. Do we whether his 'link will be slaved to the Security Host?"

[Jack_Spade]

"Not to my knowledge, but if you want to be save, you should probably do a little penetration test. And as always, I'll let you guys handle the details of your craft."
Schmitt replied.

[Volker]

"Good, I'll check on him. Then allow me to update the list:"


Step 1: Use incriminating evidence to get Mercenary Kynos to turn against Zola and Ramirez, hopefully causing a distraction for Zola.
Step 2: Visit Bank to infest building with spy drones

Day of break in:
Step 3: Activate gas grenade in hotel to take out mage to stop watchers reporting activities and subsequent combat spirits arriving
Step 4: Hack biomonitor of Corporate Decker
Step 5: Send spirit to knock out Decker

Actual break in
Step 6: Drive up with van to backside of bank
Step 7: Don RP capes, Kite uses Invisibility and Spirit Concealment on team and van
Step 8: Direct connect to camera over back door and enter Security Host (R7)
Step 9: Hack camera feeds with loops
Step 10: Open door with SOK, wait for patrol to be out of sight.
Step 11: Anna enters, moves directly to women restroom
Step 12: Anna levitates to ceiling, places Gasgrenade in vents
Step 13: bnc hacks Utility host (R5) to control vents to all places where guards are present
Step 14: bnc hacks Leggio's 'link
Step 15: bnc releases the fake message from Commanding Officer to tell guards to stay at their stations and help being on the way.
Step 16: Activate gasgrenade, Slobbertooth, Krestov, Anna's spirit, bnc drone and kite drone storm building to neutralize remaining guards, while bnc data spikes Leggio's commlink (as he is most likely to withstand gas attack)
Step 17: Everyone in building is subdued with no alert (if not, it's 10 minutes running until reinforcements arrive)
Step 18: Slobbertooth, Krestov, Schmidt and Anna enter vault to empty lock boxes (6 minutes)
Step 19: Levitate loot out through staircase and backdoor into Van.
Step 20: Evacuate to boat house, unload haul into minisubs, have Kite pilot them back to the safehouse.
Step 21: Leave Island as regular, inconspicous business people (suits ready at the boat house)

[Gilga]

Anna chuckled "So all we need is 21 simple steps going according to plan... What do I do when Slob and Krestov do their tour of doom...? Should I wait for them? Secure bnc when she hacks? but bnc remains int he van rright? Go with them...? I mean I am handy with a gun if I am not sustaining too many spells." The chaos mage could not even imagine such a complicated plan going on without a hitch... but randomness - random - and it meant that she needed to keep an open mind that the plan might just work. Unlikely - -but it was a possibility and Schmitt and the rest seemed confident enough in that plan. Well, she did not care much if it worked or not - they'll get out alive... they planned well enough for that. At least she hoped they did. Succeeding or not, life was about embracing surprises and danger was the thing that made them worth living for. What could be more invigorating than robbing that bank?

[Volker]

"You command your spirits and watch us from the astral."

[Jack_Spade]

Schmitt gave another sardonic chuckle:
"If it was easy, everyone would do it.
All the preparations and training and spying... It's the necessary groundwork for the 15 minutes of work we will do.
I'm under no illusion that everything will go according to plan. And I am happy to hear your ideas for redundancies, back ups and alternatives that we can add to make this whole thing safer.

For example, if the gas doesn't work, we'll have to subdue the guards with old fashioned violence. I am in the process of obtaining hand loaded gel and S&S rounds for our weapons."

[Gilga]

Projecting is a bit dangerous if I am in the bank, I do not want to leave myself helpless. I can either join the party and give you a hand, or just make my way ahead of you to the vault. Shorten the time it takes us to clear it?"

[Volker]

"Never said anything 'bout projecting, did I? Sure you can come along. I don't think you should approach the vault alone. If there are guards, I'm left without someone I can make fun of."

[Jack_Spade]

"Since you'll be maintaining quite a few spells to keep Krestov and Slobbertooth save, I'd prefer you staying behind them and control your spirit. Once the place is clear you need to get down to the vault fast."
Schmitt added.

[Volker]

bnc leans back and reflects a bit about the plan.
"So-ka. Let's see...
Maybe we can position a second killer drone nearby the mage's apartment, in case the grenade doesn't hit. Also, I should monitor his commlink, lest he alarms Lavadora. I will do the same with the decker.
Also we should bring gear to unlock the door manually, in case the SOK doesn't work for whatever reason. What kind of door is it? Maglock? A mechanical one?
Flatline should come with us. This way we have some magical support and a proper healer.

What do we do, if Lavadora is at the scene? We can't risk an additional bloodmage without proper sprinkler systems."

[Jack_Spade]

"If Lavadora makes an appearance, kill him. I don't say that lightly. If he survives he will track you down. He has both the resources and the will to do so.
Which reminds me: One of you mages has to wipe down the signature of your spells before we go.
A backup for the gas grenade at the mage's room certainly is a good idea.
The bank doors are secured with R6 maglocks, passcodes with iris scans and R4 anti-tamper devices. If the SOK doesn't work this whole operation is a bust since we can't get into the vault. Period."
Schmitt answered.

[SquirrelDude]

Well we've got the mono saw and thermite bars to break it but it won't exactly be subtle, and will take too many cycles for us to slash and burn our way through.

[Volker]

"Okay, Flat has fewer tasks right now. Can you do that?
Kite, do you have a spare killer drone? If not, Mike, can you get us one? I'll take mine with me."

[Jack_Spade]

Mike shrugged: "As I said, already got one in the workshop. Ares Alpha on an Aztech Crawler with gecko tips. You can let that baby crawl up the outside wall of the hotel and take care of the mage through the window."
Flatline shook his head to bnc's question: "Only outside. I'm supposed to guard our exfiltration route. But I suppose I can just nip inside the ward, call up a spirit and have it wipe down spell signatures."

[Volker]

bnc nods to Mike. "That should do."
After Flatline's reply, bnc looks surprised. "Spirits can do that? Wiz. Guess that's the problem with theoretical magology - they just assume that you already know the practical stuff.
Awesome. Are we done here? I could use a massage or something."

I mean a dose by that, lighters. I've been feeling way too sober way too long.