IC: Trails of Reflection Options

[TinkerGnome]

Raton zips through the host, looking for anything that might represent a security icon. In a tacky host like this, it could be a potted plant for all he knows.

[Fenris]

Raton - As you're gliding down the narrow corridors stuffed with random bits of files, you come across one door marked "secCam" in red.

[tisoz]

Token says, "You've got an assault rifle? I wish I had an assault rifle, even a second hand one. All kidding aside, do you feel that?"

Everyone looks at him like they are ready for Token to go off on another rant. "I got a feeling after I assensed the wards on those guard buildings and those watchers patrolling the place. It feels twisted: tainted somehow. Usually something like that needs killing.

"Oh, don't get me wrong. I'm all for subterfuge. But when your intel sucks as badly as ours does, the alarm usually goes off. And if you aren't ready to deal with that, you die."

[TinkerGnome]

Raton sidles up to the secCam door and looks it over. He pulls a lockpick from his "pocket" and waves it over the door, trying to get a look inside.

[Fenris]

Raton - The door swings open, and you're greeted with a blast of white noise. You get jumbled flashes of images and sound and scanner output, all swirling together in an incomprehensible montage of sound and light.

[TinkerGnome]

Raton tries to adapt quickly and see just one image at a time, using his skill to ignore the others.

[Fenris]

Raton - Despite your considerable skill, the barrage of images and static refuse to resolve into an individual scene.

[Fenris]

Raton - You reach out, tweaking a bit of the dataflow here and there, and the static recedes, leaving you with two dozen or so individual video feeds, along with streams of data from various sensors posted around the grounds.

[TinkerGnome]

Raton grabs several camera streams in turn, trying to get an idea of what they cover as well as an overview of the security system for the outside. He seems particularly interested in views of the inside of the house.

[Fenris]

Raton - The camera's cover the majority of the exterior of the house, including 1 at each guard gate. The security system on the outside consists of ultrasound emitters/detectors guarding the exterior of the walls, and seismic sensors scattered along the interior of the walls. The weapon points on the corners of the house send sensor information to this system, but are not controlled by it. The interior system consists of pressure plates guarding the roofs and all entrances, including windows, ultrasound emitters/dectors ...As your sifting through the various datstreams, you feel a slight lag in the system response time. It's that sort of brief resistance you get when the system is funneling all the data requests through a probe IC. You immediately slam the door shut on the incoming flow of information, shutting it off mid-stream, and de-rezz the system around you, blinking your eyes open and staring up at the ceiling in the communal living room.

[TinkerGnome]

Raton yawns slightly as he comes out of his Matrix trance. "The exterior stuff is on the Matrix. Shouldn't be hard to handle that when we need it. Didn't see anything for the inside, though, so we might be looking at a PLTG or a dedicated system. Worst case, CCSS."

[Fenris]

April 6th, 2064 11:00am

Dawn has come as usual, tinted grey with the constant overcast of pollution that hangs over the city. It's a bit of a change from the clear skies over Snohomish, but definitely more familiar.

6 more days on the job...

[TinkerGnome]

After giving the host a little time to forget about him, Raton plunges back into the Matrix and tries again. He slips through the window as before and slides down the hallway to the security door, as before, and peeks inside.

[tisoz]

Token shows up from his nice night of rest sleeping on a comfortable bed, and room service breakfast. He tells you of his plan to have a watcher spirit cross the astral space of the estate and run to the renraku arcology like the demons of hell are on its heels as soon as it is spotted. Token plans to observe what happens from a stealthy spot of astral space and see if he can get a glimpse of the magician that conjured the patrolling spirits or maybe trigger some spirits other than watchers to chase the watcher playing bunny rabbit.

If they don't chase, Token may send some closer and closer to test what they will and won't allow.

[ Spoiler ]

If I am talked out of this, I'm doing a general matrix search on Michael Versuvio. If I'm not talked out of it , I'll suggest someone else do the search and if that fails to happen I'll do it myself after finishing the test.

[Bearclaw]

Lee awakens in his sleeping bag, in a storage shed in Tacoma. Before opening his eyes, he reaches out with his senses for Bandit. He sees himself sleeping, through a pair of mostly color blind eyes, looking up from foot level.
He lets go of bandits senses, and opens his eyes. "Well buddy, we've got some more work to do."
He rolls up his bag, rolls up his air mattress around the bag and throws a trash bag over them, so the rats don't crap on his bed. He puts his sneak suit on, then a pair of brown baggy Dockerz™ and his overcoat. Making sure everything else is in his duffle, he throws it over his shoulder, puts out the light, and opens the door. Closing and locking the door with an old combination lock, Lee heads out to the road, and walks to the bus stop.
Hopping off the bus in downtown Tacoma, he waves down a cab and rides to three blocks from the bolt hole. After walking around in two big circles, 5 then 2 blocks wide around the safehouse, checking for tails on him and surveillance on the apartment, he heads in.
Hearing Token's idea, Lee says, "Hey, I think that's a great idea. Let's probe their defenses a little. Do you mind if I join you?"

[Fenris]

Raton - You slip back into the house, taking a long look around before pushing open the marked door again. You're swamped with the same wash of static, but a few flicks and twists and it clears up once more. You pick up the threads of information where you left off, reviewing over the information you have on the system, and adding all the data you can pull about the interior. It looks like all the exterior doors and windows are alarmed, no big shocker, including the roof access from the helipad. The interior security is light, with carmera's at the major hallway junctions. 4 security guards patrol the interior of the building, all wearing IFF tags to feed constant positions to the security system. One camera appears to focus on a single door. The door shows up on the security system, but only sensors on the locks and the interior of the room, there's no camera inside, and the lock on that particular door can't be accessed from this system.

[paul_HArkonen]

Irving awakens to the new dawn light and stretches himself slightly, almost tearing the sleeping bag he's in into shreds. He steps out of the bag still stretching out all of his muscles and the rest of his body. Looking at Raton who is still jacked in "Do we have any idea of what we're going in for, or where it is?"

[tisoz]

Token accepts Lee's offer to join him, gets his meat bod in a comfortable position and slips from it into astral space. With the watchers and two great form spirits, Token travels the astral to Snohomish and finds some cover to observe what happens. With the spirts well back under cover, Token tells Larry to pass just outside the walls of the estate on his way to a landmark they passed in Renton. Token then moves forward where he can maintian cover and still be able to observe what happens.

[Fenris]

Token - As the spirit passes close to the walls, one of the nearby patrol animals starts barking, tugging at it's owners leash and pulling the man towards the wall. The man reaches down, unleashing the collar, and the dog bounds forward, coming up to the wall as the watcher moves by. It jumps it, putting it's front paws up on the edge of the 2m tall wall, and barks rapidly, moving every second or two to keep the watcher in site. The handler turns his head and speaks, following the dog alertly, glancing around for any physical evidence. He follows the dog all the way along the property line until the watcher moves away, the dog settling down and being releashed shortly afterward.

[tisoz]

Token calls for Moe, and tells him to go directly over the estate, staying well out of the reach of the dual natured critters on the ground. He tells Moe this is a dangerous assignment and it may be a good idea to head through the wooded part of the estate to lose any pursuit on his way to the landmark Larry is at.

[TinkerGnome]

Raton dumps the camera views and sensor data into offline storage, before rezzing out of the slave node.

Back in the host propper, he tries to pull up any data he can find on the layout of the house interrior. Whether or not he succeeds, he logs off and begins the task of compilng a map from the data he recieved.

[Fenris]

Raton - You pull several minutes of the camera and sensor feeds down into offline storage. You spend several long seconds searching the host for the files you're looking for, and find a security layout in one of the nodes. You start downloading the file when you sense that same sort of lag that probe IC generates, and you flee halfway through the file. Checking it on your deck, you can see that the files corrupted because you didn't pull it all. It will take some time to fix the file enough to gather what data you did pull down.

Token - The watchers don't seem to notice as Moe goes flying across the property to the appointed rendezvous spot.

[Fenris]

Raton - You dive back into the system, familiar now with the tacky house and it's cluttered furnishings. You slide past the locked door into the security information center again, and grab ahold of the roll of paper that represents the layout you're looking for. There's a slight resistance as you tug it free, same as all the rest of the times, but you give the file a jerk and fade the house around you.

The basic search you tossed out in an hour didn't bring up anything. You figure you're going to need to go in depth to get anything useful.

[TinkerGnome]

Raton once again surfaces from the Matrix. He shakes his head to clear the cobwebs and looks around for a vid screen. Having located one, he plugs it into his storage memory and finds the data he grabbed, looking displaying the layout. He then takes the security camera and sensor information he had from before and lays it all out on a single image.

"Hey guys, I think I've got the layout," he announces. "And a pretty good guess as to where those boxes are.

[tisoz]

Token sets Buck to watch the front guard house. "Count people entering that warded building. Note position of sun when they do. Check if any are magical." He has Eenie count those leaving, noting the position of the sun and if they are magical.

They skirt the estate at a safe distance and Token sets Meenie and Minie to watch the back guard house from a stealthy position. He assigns one for the people entering and one for those leaving.

He then leaves, gathering Larry and Curly along the way and returns to the safehouse.

He'll return in 3 hours to get a report.