The Found Arcana - Chapter 10 [OOC] Options

[Tecumseh]

Jack, this ended mid-sentence:

Rachel noticed that the lodge and the outer ward had been created by two different people. Both signatures she would recognize again if she felt them.
Also

Was there supposed to be more there?

I presume that the radar sensors didn't detect anything.

[Jack_Spade]

Oh yeah, must have somehow deleted the sentence. Also note, that I changed something in the last sentence...

[Thanee]

Is anything picked up by the Detect Life spell (cast from outside the apartment ward).


Also, is that Lodge in a place, where you would have it around every day? Or does it feel like a more recent addition just put somewhere where there is enough space?

Bye
Thanee

[Jack_Spade]

The detect life finds four people in the rest of the building.

The lodge is a permanent one at F10. It's build deliberately in the living room so that you could spend days on end in there (if you put something like a chemical toilet in there).

[Gilga]

AM would tag the devices to allow the team to locate them, and then she'll directly connect to them and hack them.

Tag: 12d6t5 3

Hacking:
Hacking four devices: 4#14d6t5 2 5 2 6

I probably should do it one by one because not all rolls are delicious.
The rest is an Edit file (?) actions to see what they recorded.

Edit file: 4#12d6t5 4 4 3 6

Is the spy drone slaved to anything? Can we trace that device?

[Jack_Spade]

Careful - I'd suggest you roll first for three matrix perception rolls - and tell me which device in what room you want to target first.

[Thanee]

The lodge is a permanent one at F10. It's build deliberately in the living room so that you could spend days on end in there (if you put something like a chemical toilet in there).

Okay, so it is rather likely, that the lodge is from him and the ward from her. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

Bye
Thanee

[Tecumseh]

Or from Gladius, since he bought a boatload of reagents recently.

[Gilga]

Okay lets take it slowly: Lets do the drone first.

Matrix perception drone: 11d6t5 6


She wants to see what the drone has seen, and if it is slaved to some other device trace that device.

[Thanee]

Or from Gladius, since he bought a boatload of reagents recently.

Those might also have been for binding.

Bye
Thanee

[Gilga]

A ward, even F10 does not require that many reagents so my guess is that these are for binding.

[Tecumseh]

I would guess that the reagents were used to reduce the drain of the ward.

An F10 ritual would generate 20 boxes of drain to be soaked. The ritualist could use 10 reagents to lower than by 1 box, down to a minimum of 2 boxes. So for 10 (initial offering) + 180 (drain reduction) = 190 reagents, you could do the ritual without baking your brain. You could use fewer, of course, if you were confident in your drain soak.

(Mato would not know this ICly so he won't be saying any of it.)

[Jack_Spade]

Okay lets take it slowly: Lets do the drone first.

Matrix perception drone: 11d6t5 6


She wants to see what the drone has seen, and if it is slaved to some other device trace that device.

Alright, the drone is slaved to a Siemens Secretary commlink - notable for being the only commercial available comm with an integrated agent.

The drone has been active for about 23 hours and is soon in need of charging. Only one sensor tag - the one in the main living room is also connected to the commlink.

You are pretty certain that the drone has noticed your entrance, but does nothing to hide. Instead it seems to have dumped it's files to the commlink.

[Gilga]

Okay then, I think I can get a mark on the comlink by connecting to the drone - can I thus get access to its data?
Do I need to roll?
Hack on drone + edit file on comlink?

[Gilga]

Edit file:
Edit file: 12d6t5 4

Hack drone:
Hack drone: 14d6t5 5

[Jack_Spade]

Yeah, you can get a MARK, but I need an Ini roll as well, since there is an agent keeping watch for marks.
Resist hack: 8d6t5 2

Ini agent
Matrix ini: 8+4d6 27

Agent uses matrix perception every round to scan for marks
Matrix perception : 8d6t5 4
At ini 17 the agent reboots the device into wifi off mode.

The commlink is on the public matrix and over a km away, so you have to contend with 3 noise

[Gilga]

She is too slow: Initiative: 13+1d6 16

whats next?

PS She has 4 noise compensation.

[Tecumseh]

Well I think the agent would be chilling, searching for MARKs, until AM does something. So it's scanning for MARKs but doesn't find anything until AM acts on 16 (and presumably places one).

Then it would scan for a MARK at initiative 7 and presumably find one. Finding one, I think it would try to reboot during its CT2 IP1 action. That would give AM one shot at initiative 6 to accomplish something.

Is it obvious that the agent is scanning for MARKs or is that OOC information?

[Jack_Spade]

That's ooc information, but the ini causing situation is the mark on the drone that causes a mark on the commlink

So AM has one complex action after the agent notices the MARK, before it shuts down the device

[Gilga]

Let's go for the edit file to get a copy of the recordings from the drone. She had four hits.

PS: I would have tried the crash program action, but it isn't easy to justify without ooc knowledge. Perhaps once it goes back online (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

[Thanee]

Just as a quick reminder... there is always Edge for important tests. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

Bye
Thanee

[Jack_Spade]

Indeed - and such a roll would be very much a prime candidate for a bit of luck

[Thanee]

BTW, does Raven learn anything useful from astrally exploring the rest of the building?

Bye
Thanee

[Jack_Spade]

Right, sorry - hacking - rest of the world disconnect again.

Rachel finds an elderly couple in their flat on lvl 3, a single man jacked into VR on lvl 2 and a woman on the ground floor/ lvl 1 working on some kind of statue. All of them not awakened.

[Gilga]

Few things:
1. AM hacks the drone - but performs an edit file on the comlink. The drone is just a shortcut to the link (and less risky to hack).


About a threshold 5 test - I let's do it with edge.
cyber combat (personas?): 8d6t5+2d6t5 2
reroll: 8d6t5 3

Oh, wow - threshold 5 is met. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif) There are no hits in the speciality dice so it is the same result if they do not apply (also in the reroll).