The Found Arcana - Chapter 13 [OOC], Urban Exploration - 13 is the luckiest number... Options

[Thanee]

Summoning a Guidance Spirit F9+1 (Enhanced Senses (Low-Light Vision, Thermographic Vision, Smell)) with Channeling

Summoning 4 hits
Resistance 2 hits
Drain 4S No Drain

Replacing the Increase Charisma spell with Increase Intuition F6

Spellcasting 7(6) hits
Drain 3S No Drain


Astral Perception / Assensing 5 hits

Bye
Thanee

[Beta]

Now with rolls!

1) Drone swarm search, looking for little things not easily seen by people (tucked into a light fixture, behind furniture, a loose baseboard, or whatever)
Led by Kaa (sewer snake, can climb walls), supported by 4 kanmushi and 4 flying eyes for +9. Clearsight running on RCC R6/data processing 5 Intuition* 5+Clearsight 6+8 supporting drones=19 dice
* I haven't found where I stashed Rigger 5, but I think it is the RCC's data processing that is used in place of Pilot to establish attributes when the RCC is coordinating a swarm
Drone searching: 19d6t5 8
8 successes

2) Matrix Perception, looking for things running silent
Intuition 6 + computers (matrix perception) 7 + perceptive 1 = 14 dice
Matrix Perception: 14d6t5 8
hot dice -- 8 successes to spot hidden devices

3) Trying to hack the outdoors camera, just for kicks. Sleazing it:
-Sleaze dongle 3, overclocker set to Sleaze, and in Datajack+ run the program for +1 sleaze giving sleaze 5.
- Logic 5 + hacking (devices) 7 = 12, vs rating 2x2=4
hacking outside camera: 12d6t5 5
outdoor camera resist: 4d6t5 1
(could just buy successes on this I guess -- from there copy it to go over in more detail later, and do a fast skim to look for anyone entering or leaving)

[Thanee]

Casting Astral Window F10

Spellcasting 5 hits
Ward's Resistance 2 hits
Drain 7S No Drain

Assensing (Limit are the net hits on the spell, which is 3) 7(3) hits
(Probably -2 dice here, since the Astral Window spell needs to be sustained, but that makes no practical difference.)

Bye
Thanee

[Thanee]

"Glowing brilliantly to the astral senses" ... this means they are magical in nature? Or just that there is a strong astral imprint on them?

Either way, seems like we should definitely take a closer look into that room...

Bye
Thanee

[Gilga]

Oh there is a ward I missed?
Trouble vs Ward first is trouble.: 2#10d6t5 1 3
Trouble vs Ward first is trouble.: 2#10d6t5 6 3

[Jack_Spade]

Strong astral aura - it's not exactly magical, but incredible strong imprints

@gilga the cellar room has a ward - but it's a zapper ward, so maybe Trouble should avoid diving in head first

Also ward rolls Force x2 dice...

[Gilga]

it is F10? he can't enter that. I'll edit.

[Thanee]

it is F10?

Yep.

Rachel found that the cellar was protected by a surprisingly strong ward that was able to zap intruders. (F10)

Bye
Thanee

[Gilga]

I guess I skimmed over it, I was a bit behind.

[Gilga]

Hi Jack I assume tagging the sensors would mark the physical location? or do we play hide and seek to find them?

[Tecumseh]

What kind of lock is on the safe? Here are the options and, for my future reference, the test to defeat them:

Key locks: Locksmith + Agility [Physical] (Lock Rating, 1 Combat Turn) Extended Test. Autopickers (p.447) add their Rating in dice to this test

Transponder-embedded keys: Hardware + Logic [Mental] (Lock Rating, 1 minute) Extended Test

Maglocks: (Step 1 open it up) Locksmith + Agility [Physical] (Maglock Rating x 2, 1 Combat Turn) Extended Test, (Step 2 bypass anti-tamper circuits) Locksmith + Agility [Physical] (anti-tamper system rating) Test

There are other locks, like facial recognition or DNA scanners, but I doubt we're going down that route.

Mato should be able to handle both locks, but AM might have the better dice pool for the maglock(s).

[Gilga]

she can also give a few more dice with improve logic, and or leadership.
So the next step is to crack the lock and unleash whatever is locked in that basement?

[Thanee]

We might want to deal with the surveillance first...

Bye
Thanee

[Jack_Spade]

Finding the bugs is trivial once you detected their existence (cyberware scanner and/or matrix based tagging)

@safe lock: It's an R4 biometric lock, wifi connected to the security host.

@bugs: hacking them to trace where their collected data is sent too, is easy as well, but leads to somewhat of a dead end: the data is sent to a random advertising display in Downtown Seattle where anyone could retrieve the data if they knew where to look. Unless you are monitoring the device to catch the perpetrator during pickup, you won't find out who is behind this.

[Thanee]

@bugs: hacking them to trace where their collected data is sent too, is easy as well, but leads to somewhat of a dead end: the data is sent to a random advertising display in Downtown Seattle where anyone could retrieve the data if they knew where to look. Unless you are monitoring the device to catch the perpetrator during pickup, you won't find out who is behind this.

Main question here would be...

Is it possible to figure out, whether the data of the last few minutes (i.e. since our arrival) has been accessed / picked up, yet?


If not, it might be a good idea to remove it.

Bye
Thanee

[Jack_Spade]

That is possible - hack the R2 display directly or the R6 host protecting it and access the log file.

[Jack_Spade]

Opening a mag lock is a control device action - though with that amount of successes, even a reduction of dice doesn't change the success (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

[Gilga]

For the record, What do I roll for control device? My cheatsheet was vouge about it.

[Jack_Spade]

Electronic Warfare + Intuition [Sleaze] v. Intuition + Firewall

Alternatively you could have used

Spoof Command, Hacking + Intuition [Sleaze] v. Logic + Firewall, but for that you would need a MARK on Diego's commlink (which is offline, though you haven't checked that yet)

[Gilga]

Thanks Jack.

[Jack_Spade]

So, any other actions you want to take?

[Gilga]

Mato wants to hack the deadrop but given the host level I think we should go there and try to get a direct access.

[Tecumseh]

Oh, I thought AM wanted to do it remotely.

I was thinking Edge could do the trick.

Beta, what was that drive you were referring to? Did we have one that could plug and provide a direct connection remotely?

[Thanee]

How far away is that, if we were to go there?

Bye
Thanee

[Tecumseh]

@bugs: hacking them to trace where their collected data is sent too, is easy as well, but leads to somewhat of a dead end: the data is sent to a random advertising display in Downtown Seattle where anyone could retrieve the data if they knew where to look. Unless you are monitoring the device to catch the perpetrator during pickup, you won't find out who is behind this.

We're somewhere in Bellevue. If the the display is in Downtown then we're probably 20-30 minutes away, depending on distance and traffic.

I'm blanking on which drone Tamarind was referring to.

Is there a way we could passively monitor the device for when the data is retrieved? Do we have an agent who is up to the task?