Infiltration Challenge, Examining situation variables Options

[Talia Invierno]

Arghh!

I am going to stop making predictions on updates. They seem to guarantee that events to delay that next post will proliferate completely out of proportion. (One reason why I eventually lost my taste for hot liquids which are supposed to be drunk hot: something inevitably came up such that they became tepid liquids before I could get back to them.)

Corrected the quote attribution, Crusher Bob. Sorry.

For now, a relatively short corridor - now that Ghost is into it, she can see where it (and the other arm of this cross-corridor) ends - barely. (It's dim: phosphorescent-type track lighting [blue-green white] in a long strip running along the tops of the doors.)

Lined with what looks like very solid (unrusted) metal doors roughly every 3 or so metres and a similar door at the end, large hinges on the outside, very solid, otherwise the same type of roughed-out walls as the central chamber, and also similarly rounded (lengthwise). Some of the doors are padlocked, large, old-fashioned key locks, others aren't. Stale smell, like the air in here doesn't move all that often. Definite adrenaline pheromones as well. Naturally it's too faint to track.

If she wasn't before, Ghost is definitely starting to get angry - furious! - and just a little afraid. (Although I think the anger is mostly drowning out the fear.)

[kevyn668]

Better have Slotaire shut down al the garbage mashers on the detention level... :D

[Siege]

Ghost's getting angry? Fascinating...any chance we have a biomonitor rigged in her suit, feeding data to CC?

I vote (shadowrun by committee) Ghost checks each door for heat signatures and sounds behind them.

-Siege

[kevyn668]

Trogdor is there, right? Can we have him check Ghost's aura for...magical nasties? (Possibly eminating from the globe or the overall background of violence...)

I also second Siege's motion.

[Crusher Bob]

It might be a pheremone based effect, masing up might solve the problem.

[Siege]

To be fair, it might be the normal paranoia associated with this kind of situation.

However, I'm inclined to think a professional like Ghost wouldn't be prone to flashes of emotion to the point it would interfere with her job.

With that in mind, it might be something artificially induced by the environment -- although I can't imagine exactly what it could be.

-Siege

[Crusher Bob]

Since Trogdor isn't getting angry too, it seems likely that it is some physical effect, rather than a magical one.

[Siege]

[Shanshu Freeman]

[Crusher Bob]

There is a 'gross' biomonitor in the suit to track thingsl ike heart rate, bp, etc. Since it's not the cyber version it probably won't get things like 'anger'.

[Shanshu Freeman]

[Crusher Bob]

My assumption is that it would be a 'combat' biomonitor that wouldn't bother with things not directly related to big gaping holes in the skin.

[Siege]

[Shanshu Freeman]

[Mace]

Ok, I've been keeping track and peering now and then - and there's something that I can't believe was missed - maybe I'm wrong but...

The troll snake shaman who you called up and asked to be 'ready just in case' - when you decided to check on your 'extraction target' - the same name and specification popped up as part of the team from the botch job a while back. Yes? Curious isn't it - Talia actually dropped one in your lap and it was overlooked.

If I'm in error here I apologise - I will now retire to my dark corner and continue to await developments with fascination. Wish I'd gotten in on the start.

[kevyn668]

There's no set team here. I jumped in well after the project began....

[Shanshu Freeman]

[Siege]

[Siege]

[Talia Invierno]

I find the Edit: Find (on This Page) function to be very useful :) Within this thread, the reference is back about 4 or so pages.

Welcome to the thread, Mace. Nice catch :) (Lurkers 2, and counting.) Like kevyn668 said, it's very much a jump in anytime thing.

The biomonitor issue has already been talked out, I think. Heartbeat, breathing, sweat - your basic lie detector + wound detector. Trauma patch yes as standard, defibrilator no. You'd be picking up a steadily rising curve of standard flight/fight responses.

[Raiko]

I think we should check whats behind one if the unlocked doors, if they lead to cells then hopefully our target is behind one of them.

[Mace]

*smiles and bows* - Sorry for not quoting the relevant sections - I read through twice and simply wrote.

I'm REALLY interested in what said shaman would have to say about the extraction target. If Talia's willing to allow for 'backdate' on our rush for information as setting up, that would be high on the list and then some.

As for Ghost's immediate actions - while Trogdors trying to keep from getting sucked away and watching her ass - approach each door and take a good whiff. If she can smell 'woman' from one of them in greater strength than the others...

[Talia Invierno]

Sure, I'll allow for backdate (as quick or slow as everyone wants). That's part of the point of this thread and the later post mortem thread: how to go about doing a specific type of run, what would have been done differently with (partial or complete) hindsight.

How would you have asked said shaman? Who would have done the asking? And what would have been asked? (Summaries and paraphrasing okay for this - I'm just trying to get a sense of the approach, here.)

One more note re doors (before I forget):

Some of the padlocks aren't closed (ie. click-locked). Others are. And some doors are not padlocked at all.

[Shanshu Freeman]

[Raiko]

I think we should check an unlocked door first, if all the doors appear the same, then we'll be able to confirm what to expect behind the locked door.

It seems likely that these are cells, but these could be where the 'night watch' are kept. Maybe the reinforcements are kept behind lock and key till they're needed!