Deeper into the Matrix [OOC] Options

[Gilga]

Not as far as overwatch is concerned.

[Thanee]

From then on until September 4th, I'm going to be in Nepal.

Oh, right. Volker isn't quite back, yet. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

Bye
Thanee

[Gilga]

Yeap he is still in Nepal.

[Volker]

Hoi, chummers!

I just returned back to Austria. It's close to midnight and I've been travelling for over 20 hours, so I won't be posting today, but I already read everything and should be able to get a post up tomorrow, definitely the day after. So, I'm back, fellas!

[Gilga]

Volker! You were missed.

[Thanee]

Welcome back! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

Bye
Thanee

[Gilga]

@Volker the control room is in the underground facility below Core, the one mirroring the facility you are in.
It is near the "Management" room where you met the Drake in the physical. The bunker you tried to raid and got arrested was a storage facility.

[Volker]

How can a room within the simulation be near a room where we met someone in the physical?

[Thanee]

Maybe both have the same layout?

So, it would not be near the physical room, but rather near its representation in the simulation.

Bye
Thanee

[Gilga]

The simulation essentially simulates the base and its surrounding (without Prague). So a similar layout base exists under Core.

[Volker]

I find myself unable to interact with the world without understanding its places properly. Do you think, you could draw us a crude map of the simulation, including the very most important details about contents and matrix security. For example, I was ruminating about the plan to hack the supply chain but I don't have the slightest idea where I would have to go to gain direct access to the host, where we really are at the moment, and so on. That would be mighty helpful.

[Gilga]

Sure, I'll try to draw something. However, you are also welcome to add stuff of your own. You could try to hack the host of the bunker when you were there, and with anything even manually driven hackable, you can also hack one of the tracks leading equipment to the bunker. I'd assume you can even disable a guard and take their weapons. Don't treat it as a skill test, a cooperative story telling is more in the spirit.

[Volker]

That's my point entirely: I can only do things with the environment when I know about it. Maybe it's also me paying too little attention, or just the fact that months pass by so quickly but I wasn't aware that I was close enough to hack the bunker (without fighting the system at its full defense), I don't even know what tracks you could mean that are hackable.

You know me: I want bnc to be Sprinkles. But for that, I need a clear idea of what there is and is not. And right know, there is actually mostly confusion. o.O

[Gilga]

Okay some recap, so far you have 3 locations on your map.
1. The cabin you entered the simulation illegally from - and the one you are likely to use to leave the simulation.

2.1 Core Top-side -a residential area with 12 tall buildings and 2k apartments.
2.2 Core Bottom-side - Core is located roughly in the same place as your facility, the topside is a residential area built on top of the bunker on the mountain, and the bottom side looks just like the facility on the meat-side. All the bells and whistles controlling the simulation are on the bottom side, and people live in the top side.

3. Storage bunker for storing the weapons out of reach when people go crazy and start killing each other.

You are right now at the Storage bunker,
1. you sneaked in to steal equipment before your raid on Core-bottomside, then you discovered a scripted (non-realistic) trap (Nova got a warning from someone and chose to listen to it).
2. You decided to ambush a track instead of stealing directly from the bunker.
3. You decided to ambush the track close to the facility to make sure you get to stop it. The drawback is that you needed a stealth check to remain hidden until the track arrives. You failed that check and got captured but since you technically did nothing wrong yet. You got they released bnc and Nova but kept Fox as he was too volatile, and they don't trust him not murdering people. The two of you are stable enough to carry on with your nightly activities in the frozen forest.

So right now, you are on the road between Core and the storage bunker. If you hurry you can still ambush the track (would be very strange to do so at the entrance to the facility though). Alternatively, bnc can use her magical hacking powers to make sure some drone fetches you what you need from the bunker. Here she has two alternatives - a difficult roll or someone sneaking to form direct connection with a device in the bunker.


I also made a map (well, a drawing). It came out kind of ugly, but perhaps it is of use.
https://shadowrunlol.obsidianportal.com/maps/134653

[Volker]

This was quite helpful. Thank you very much!

[Thanee]

Yep! Definitely very helpful! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

Bye
Thanee

[Gilga]

@Volker, after the edit file, you have a device slaved to the host. Assuming that is the small detail you needed to change - you do not need to hack the host - you hacked the simulation. Now you can (for example) have a direct connection to the host, which for all intent and purposes, would let you place work order. (possibly some more hacking but since lesser defense dice pools let's call it a success).

The resistance roll was very close, by the way:
resist: 18d6t5 8

[Volker]

Why does the gun resist with 18 dice? It should not have more than device rating 2 or so, and I do have a direct connection.


Aaaah, now I understood: I need the Watchdog action to get a mark "on the simulation", and then I need an additional "edit file" to alter the simulation, and the simulation (not the host) resists with 18 dice. Did I get that right?

[Thanee]

Copied from IC:

So no FlySpys, Noizquitos or any armed flying drones? That's sad.
Can you give me just a little more detail on the dog drones? Are they also unarmed (except for tasers)?

[Gilga]

@Volker exactly instead of hacking the host you hacked the simulation and changed a minor detail. You could also stopped the van in that particular manner, or turn a gun into a potato or a bomb.

Etc. The effects are temporary though and the less realistic the change the faster it would be undone.

There are no spydrones in storage because the bunker stores mainly weapons and a little bit of armor. The dog drones I was thinking of the Aztechnology crawler but feel free to take any walker drone roughly that shape. The dog drones are also armed with tasers, but you know once they have a weapon mount you can mount other small weapons as well so all pistols should be alright. There are multiple flying eyes in the city which you can try and hack.

[Thanee]

Are there and mods for the weapons, like smartlink and such?

Bye
Thanee

[Gilga]

Yes, feel free to modify them as you see fit.

[Thanee]

But only the external stuff, I guess.

Bye
Thanee

[Volker]

Thanks. Do they have quick-draw holsters?
Silencers?
What about backpacks to carry stuff?

[Thanee]

Where did you get that Ingram Smartgun from? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

So, this would be my shopping list then...

FN HAR
+ Smartlink (Top)
+ Sound Suppressor (Barrel)
+ Shock Pad
+ Regular Ammo (70)
+ Flechette Rounds (70)
+ Gel Rounds (70)
+ Capsule Rounds (35)
Ruger 100
+ Smartlink (Under)
+ Silencer (Barrel)
+ Regular Ammo (16)
+ Flechette Rounds (16)
+ Gel Rounds (16)
Defiance EX Shocker
+ Smartlink (Top)
+ Ammo (16)
Flash-Bang Grenade (6)
Smoke Grenade (4)
Thermal Smoke Grenade (4)
C4 + Detonators (4)
Big Game Hunter
Helmet
Medkit 3
Backpack

Bye
Thanee

P.S. I don't remember, could we take form-fitting body armor with us under the overall?