The Found Arcana - Chapter 9 [OOC] Options

[Thanee]

Stank: a small timber cofferdam made watertight with clay

Yes, I'm sure, that must be it. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

Bye
Thanee

[Gilga]

@Beta how long do you want to keep surveliance on the Lantern?

[Beta]

Tamarind will keep surveillance (including periodically checking her drones for marks) up until one of:
- Things go quiet in the Lantern
- The team is leaving the hotel
- "something happens"
- If none of the above trigger, then about 2am she'll have Aunty-1 (Flying Eye) fly back up to one of the Pellipers (delivery drones), and will send the drones to go park at Dumpings? Dumplings! (her contact's restaurant), and set her agent take over monitoring the Kanmushi, with instructions to ping her if the drone detect any of the following:
* Noise of many engines starting up
* sounds of explosions or gunshots
* the gas tanks get taken from the washroom
* the drone goes offline, gets moved, or has any marks placed on it (agent is to scan the drone regularly for marks)

And her matrix set-up (I should have mentioned this earlier)
- RCC set to run two program and provide 3 points of noise reduction
* RCC runs Clearsight and Piloting for the Pellipers (delivery drones), giving them (RCC 5 + Clearsight 6 - 1 for distance -3 for dim light around the Lantern) = 7 dice
- She is live monitoring the Kanmushi for now, but when she goes to sleep it will be using sensor 3/Clearsight 6 for monitoring The Lantern
- In her CyberJack she is running:
* her Agent (regularly checking herself and her network for marks, rolling 6 dice),
* Signal Scrub (2 more points of noise reduction, total 5, which should deal with distance and noise from The Lantern being in the Barrens),
* Stealth (+1 Sleaze, taking the total to 2)


Tamarind and her drones are running silent (resisting spotting with intuition+sleaze=7 dice while she is awake, 5 dice when her agent takes over)

[Gilga]

Feel free to fast-forward to the morning.

[Thanee]

How much time will we have until we have to go to the meeting?

Bye
Thanee

[Gilga]

Up to you really; you haven't even shared which bank it is.

[Jack_Spade]

Yeah, we want to be there just before the bank opens - on the way there we call Big Stank and tell him were to go. That should prevent an ambush just fine.

[Tecumseh]

Sunrise should be 06:48 at this time of year.

GM, can you remind me if the safe deposit box is tied to Mato's account (and thus his person) specifically, or is the key/tag neutral in the sense that anyone with it can access the box and retrieve its contents.

[Gilga]

Sunrise should be 06:48 at this time of year.

GM, can you remind me if the safe deposit box is tied to Mato's account (and thus his person) specifically, or is the key/tag neutral in the sense that anyone with it can access the box and retrieve its contents.

It is tied to Mato's bank account, but he needs an additional security measure rather than biometrics/SIN to open the box. I assume he can grant permission to some other SINner to open the box, leaving a digital trail of the permission though.

[Thanee]

Ok, let's see...

First, create Increase Charisma F6 (Contact) Preparation.

Alchemy + Magic 6 hits
Preparation's Force 3 hits (Potency 3)
Drain Resistance (DV 4S) 3 hits (1S)

Use the Preparation.

Increase Charisma Preparation 3 hits

Summon Spirit of Air F6 (Elemental Attack, Noxious Breath).

Summoning + Magic 9 hits (6 Limit)
Spirit's Force 2 hits (4+1 Services)
Drain Resistance (DV 4S) 6 hits

Create Improved Invisibility F5 (Contact) Preparation.

Alchemy + Magic 4 hits
Preparation's Force 1 hit (Potency 3)
Drain Resistance (DV 5S) 5 hits

Create Gecko Crawl F6 (Contact) Preparation.

Alchemy + Magic 4 hits
Preparation's Force 4 hits
Drain Resistance (DV 4S) 2 hits (2S)

One last try. Create Gecko Crawl F5 (Contact) Preparation.

Alchemy + Magic 4 hits
Preparation's Force 2 hits (Potency 2)
Drain Resistance (DV 3S) 3 hits

Resting for one hour.

Recovery 2 hits


In total:

Spirit of Air (F6; Elemental Attack, Noxious Breath; 5 Services)
Improved Invisibility F5 P3 (Contact) Preparation
Gecko Crawl F5 P2 (Contact) Preparation

1S remaining

Bye
Thanee

[Thanee]

Just to restate, what he actually said:

"Deal! Meet me at the entrance to that bank at opening hour, I'll bring the 60k."

(IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

Bye
Thanee

[Gilga]

Alright, bank it is.

[Thanee]

Heh. That wasn't meant for you, but for Bobby, so he can hold him to his word on the phone. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

Whether he will live up to it, is not for us to decide. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

Bye
Thanee

[Gilga]

I did not mean to make him go back on his word, but I did not remember. A bank with all its cameras just seemed like a bad place to make an illegal transaction.

[Jack_Spade]

It's not an illegal transaction (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)
And this is the sixth world - banks are basically always complicit in white collar crime.

But this still works.

[Thanee]

I did not mean to make him go back on his word, but I did not remember. A bank with all its cameras just seemed like a bad place to make an illegal transaction.

Ah, alright then. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

Bye
Thanee

[Gilga]

It's not an illegal transaction (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)
And this is the sixth world - banks are basically always complicit in white collar crime.

But this still works.

You really don't know the card's origin, and Vala did not exactly provide any evidence for her claim. The bank is complacent and would accept the money but there is a digital trail that you stored it there/brought it there/sold it there or there may be. (up to other GMs I presume).

[Jack_Spade]

That's the beauty of the art trade - unless it is stolen goods (i.e. taken from someone who can prove they owned it legitimately), there aren't many regulations (this is why the art world is rife with money laundering schemes). In point of fact, Vala asserted, that she created the cards, making this nothing more than selling original art.

[Thanee]

In point of fact, Vala asserted, that she created the cards, making this nothing more than selling original art.

Well, at least the buyer can't know that, since that is the whole point. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

Bye
Thanee

[Thanee]

@Gilga: Your IC posts #450 and #451 are (almost) the same (double post). I can delete one of them, but would need to know, which is the correct one, that is supposed to stay, as they are slightly different. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

Bye
Thanee

[Jack_Spade]

OOC: Am I understanding the situation correctly, that the casino security sabotaged our auction so they would have less work to do?

[Tecumseh]

Well one could argue that they were trying to keep the temperature down at the Gates, although hacking our burner and falsifying messages seems like a very roundabout way of going about it.

Man, Bobby cranky tho.

[Gilga]

@Thanee - I edited a bit to improve the writing. deleted one of them.
@Jack -
1. Yes they sabotaged your auction.

2. They are not exactly hotel security but a bunch of criminals Gates keeps around in case someone manages to get passed their normal security. They pretty much get to do whatever they want as long as they are available when Tony calls. Tony explained a bit about it when you asked him about security.

3. They did not try to make it easy for Gates security - they had their own selfish motivations. Either greed or perhaps to get back at Vala.



Thing is, they knew about all the information exchanged in the burner link but not on Big Stank's offer because that one was made through your normal comlinks because he already had it. So once you made it clear that the card was sold and that their ruse did not work, Frisson confessed because she saw no point in screwing you over if she does not benefit from it.

[Gilga]

@Jack, Tammie would take a few minutes to respond, so I'll resolve it after the current scene.

If you try to sway a big stank from destroying the card I'll need a social dice roll. Either con or intimidation works (and I think they are possible because of your knowledge/reputation in arcana).

@all where is the burner link?

[Jack_Spade]

The burner link was left at the hotel

alright, one intimidation roll coming up: Intimidation: 10d6t5 4