Infiltration Challenge, Examining situation variables Options

[phelious fogg]

Just nit picking

* Aghavni Choxeli
* Romko Zakharii
* Timur Apkhazava
* Shalva Ketsbaia
* Yavuz Papava

About the assumption of Ukranian or Gorgian, they arent.. THe last three would be female names if they were. In fact the first names are all masculine except Shalva. So the names dont make sence in a Russian based grammar. But thats just my two cents...

[Raiko]

Solitaire - Female Human Decker

Body 4, Quick 4, Str 2
Cha 6, Int 6, Will 4
Ess 2.2 React 5

Initiative 5 +1d6; Matrix 12 +4d6

Combat Pool 7
Hacking Pool 9
Task Pool 2

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SKILLS

ACTIVE SKILLS

Athletics 2; Biotech 4; Car 2; Computer(Decking) 6( 8 );
Electronics 4; Electronics B/R 6; Etiquette(Matrix) 6(8 );
Negotiation 6; Pistols(Browning Ultra Power) 3(5);
Stealth(Sneaking) 4(6)

KNOWLEDGE SKILLS

Art 5; Asian Cuisine 3; Cellular Network Familiarity 4
Comm Satellite Familiarity 4; Computer Background 6;
conspiracy Theories 2; Corporate Politics (MCT) 2(4)
Data Havens 4; Databases 6;

LANGUAGE SKILLS

English (Netspeak) 5(7); R/W 2
Japanese 3; R/W 1

EDGES & FLAWS

Friends in High Places (Researcher), Good Looking & Knows it, College Education
Moderate Matrix addiction, Sensitive System

CYBERWARE

Datajack, Encepheron(2), Maths SPU (3)

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CURRENT CYBERDECK (Custom Build)

MPCP 8 B6/E4/M8/S6
Response Increase (2); Hardening (4);
ICCM Filter + biomonitor; Hot Assist;
Active Memory 2000MP; Storage Memory 4000MP;
I/O Speed 600
- FUP Ports (6)
- Matrix Interface
- Std Portable Satellite Dish
- Satellite Transmitter(3)
- Laser Transmitter
- Power Lead
- 2x Fibre-optic I/F Cables (2m & 50m)
- RAS Overide
- Offline Storage 7000 MP
- Hitcher Jack
- 2x Battery Packs
- Casing (4)
Normally Runs in masking mode with B3/E4/M12/S6 (Detection Factor 10)

--Also has older MPCP 6 Deck at home.

PROGRAMS

Analyse(6) (sneak 2) 300Mp
Armour(6) 108Mp
Attack(6D) (Targeting, One Shot, Limit(IC)) 80Mp
Attack(6S) (Area 2) 256Mp
Browse(6) (sneak 2) 100Mp
Browse(3) (sneak 2) 49Mp
Camo(6) 108Mp
Cellular Link(6) 36Mp
Cloak(6) 108Mp
Commlink(4) 16Mp
Deception(6) (sneak 2) 200Mp
Decrypt(6) 36Mp
Defuse(4) 32Mp
Laser Link(6) 36Mp
Mirrors(4) 48Mp
Purge(4) 32Mp
Read/Write(6) 72Mp
Read/Write(1) (sneak 2) 50Mp
Relocate(6) 72Mp
Satellite Link(3) 18Mp
Scanner(4) 48Mp
Shield(6) 144Mp
Sleaze( 8 ) 192Mp
Sleaze(6) 108Mp
Sniffer(4) 48Mp
Snooper(4) 32Mp
Spoof(6) (sneak 2) 300Mp
Triangulation(4) 32Mp
Validate(6) (sneak 2) 400Mp


Agent-Core(4) (Pilot 4, Masking 4, Evasion 4,
Init 4+1d6, 16 Utility points) 160Mp

Current Agent Builds
- Sleaze(6), Browse(3), Deception(6), Read/Write(1) 598Mp
- Sleaze(6), Attack(6D), Mirrors(4) 396Mp

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Typical Program Load out for recce run using laser relay

- Attack(6D) (Targeting, One Shot, Limit(IC)) 80Mp
- Attack(6S) (Area 2) 256Mp
- Sleaze( 8 ) 192Mp
- Cloak(6) 108Mp
- Deception(6) (Sneak 2) 200Mp
- Analyse(6) (Sneak 2) 300Mp
- Browse(6) (Sneak 2) 100Mp
- Validate(6) (Sneak 2) 400Mp
- Relocate(6) 72Mp
- Armour(6) 108Mp
- Laser-Link(6) 36Mp
- Shield(6) 144Mp
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- Total 1996Mp

Memory swap validate for Spoof(6)(Sneak 2) as necessary

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OTHER GEAR

Browning Ultra Power Pistol
50 rnds std ammo
concealable holster
pocket secretary
8x tres chic clothes
Leather Jacket
Form Fitting BA(2)
1x dataline tap(6)
2x dataline taps( 8 )
Standard satellite dish

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CONTACTS/DATAHAVENS

Deckmeister(2), Researcher(2), Shadowland(2), Info Broker(2),
Software Pirate(2), Reporter(2), Fence(1), Otaku(1), Gang Leader(1),
Technician(1), Nightclub Owner(1), Street Samurai(1), Combat Mage(1),
Private Detective(1), Fixer(1), Decker(1)

DATABASE ACCESS

State Records - Dept of Motor Vehicles
City Records - Building Permits
Consumer Records - Intel-XS
Matrix Records - Memory Wall
Business Records - Dun & Bradstreet's Index

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Solitaire worked for MCT for two years after leaving college, before deciding that a wage slave's life wasn't for her. She jumped ship and started to run the shadows, shortly afterwards she met up with Advent, they've been a partnership since then.

[Crusher Bob]

I guess Trogdor needs a kitten, or something so that everyone can be paired up.

Does anyplace in that region have a high background count, and will growing up in a high background count area make you aura looked 'washed out'? Any other ideas about the people if we assume they grew up there?

A quick link up with the 2060's equivalent of babblefish might be in order. Alas, the days of shouting "Halt, state security!" and getting your mark to piss themselves are long gone...

A lot of this info will probably only be useful in the AAR of the run, since there is little time available to do data searches.

[Entropy Kid]

[phelious fogg]

Note thats just my opinion on the matter based on my current knowledge, perhaps in 60 years they have changed a lot of naming customs... I mean how many people in the US do you know named Razor or T-bird, or Solitare or Advent... LOL

Besides Talia might have been making up random names just to fit the senario.. in which case they could be French for all it matters :-P

[Siege]

Actually, you'd be surprised -- "River Pheonix" leaps to mind.

Although street names or handles aren't uncommon today which are just glorified variants of nicknames.

-Siege

[Talia Invierno]

Sorry, Talia keeps getting pulled away ...

Good ... you've covered a couple of the utilities at slightly more than the levels I'd assumed in the earlier system co-opting and file retrievals. And "typical program load out" is very useful to know, as well as standard database access. Relatively very specialised in the decking/Matrix aspects of computer-ese though - in some ways just as well you got the others to help you break those files. "Sensitive system" was a nervy flaw to take for a non-Awakened type ... be interesting to develop personality further within that context. (We already know she sometimes gets snappish :D)

Generally, this is a high-CH (and high # of contacts) team! Not that I'm objecting in any way ... but after the amount of objection in other threads as to how CH is basically a "useless" attribute? (Maybe it was that sudden image of "babes" in tight leather jackets :D)

[phelious fogg]

I was thinking they were turkish.. sweet.. Ukranian isnt so bad.. the rules are just slightly off... Same with Gorgian.. or Serbian.. or.. Well okay.. they are all pretty closely related..

I mean if you think about it they all originate in greek, word origens are similar. Thats why they have some older cognates with english (not stuff like computer, but stuff like stool, divan, etc.) The spelling rules are different, same with inflections (declinsion classes, verb forms) but overall you can probably figure out what a person is talking about if they speak Ukranian and you speak Russian.. It might take a while, but you could even pick up the grammar in a few weeks..

Now if its turkish and ukranian that leaves the border countries between russia and turkey.. might be Iranian... but thats probably too Arabic.. Kazikhstan might be more likely.. or Turkmenistan... Just some thoughts...

[Crusher Bob]

AS ofr naming conventions, the names given for the team would be their 'street' names which follow a different naming convention than 'normal names'. IRL I've been Ogre, Cat, and Big Dog and known: PTC, Peg-Boy, Minoc, Bird, and a KCN all of which were names not directly derived from the real name.

Advent and Solitaire are both computer game references, and Torgdor is, well, Trogdor (the burninator!).

[Raiko]

[Talia Invierno]

I'm sorry. Meant to get back to this earlier, but life things kept getting in the way. (Thanks for the interrum answers!)

All right - fast forward. (Tell me if I missed anything.)

The first gang has arrived. The mood's getting really ugly out there - Diamond might soon find himself in the middle of something that is quickly becoming more than just a distraction. They're only just reaching the area, but shots have already been fired, and they aren't all blanks. (Shot-out streetlights - and the city plans you'd pulled up earlier was showing that they had only recently been restored.) He's also spotted knives, chains, a couple of swords that had been hidden under coats before. A couple of the gangers have started snick-snicking cyberspurs. (That's really about the extent of the cyber they have - a few odd razors and spurs. Some of it might even be seconds.) One ganger has a habit of scratching at her spur-sheaths, she seems to find them increasingly an annoyance. Diamond wasn't really going to ask that question - he closed his mouth quickly after he was met with a suddenly extended spur with the points almost touching his face. He's trying to hang back a bit, detach himself from the gang, but he's not yet found the opportunity. They've got him well ringed around, and so far they've been sweeping him along. There's always other options, of course ... not to mention the elementals he has on call. (Does the gang know he's a mage? None of them seem to be magically active.)

Advent reports on the guard office. (Solitaire is a bit distracted at the moment, but still has access to those cameras if needed.) For now they've decided to ignore the gang activity unless it gets worse or shows signs of penetrating the fence - they're hoping that if the gangers aren't provoked further it might blow over before it's time for the cleaners to leave, or maybe if they're looking for trouble the gang might decide to go hunt it up somewhere else if they can't get it here. Diamond knows that at this point they most definitely are looking for trouble - they'll take it where they can get it, but he'd gotten them well and truly focused here first. If the other gang doesn't arrive fairly soon and this place proves to be a dud, Diamond is starting to think that they might start looking in his direction next ...

At one point the guards were discussing whether to bring in the night shift early - one of them looked distinctly uneasy when the proposal was brought up. They decided it wasn't necessary for now - things were still under control. ("Jatro'll be feeding the doggies about now." "They can have 'em. Those things give me the creeps!" and yes, the exchange is in English.) They're all really focused on the outside scene at this point - two of them have gone upstairs to check out the situation through the windows. (Not a usual patrol pattern.)

Ghost (with an astral Trogdor) swoops down to -1. The front doors open automatically into the parking lot - and just for a moment Trogdor is nearly swept through the back doors. (Not really that strong, at least not steadily - just the sudden arrival into a main part of the current and a distinct "wave" which just swept by. But it's a constant "tug".) The sound of the fans down here is quite loud, you'd have to shout loudly to be heard at any distance. An odd smell down here - turgid air with something faint and just a little sweet in the background.

Solitaire had already looped previously to keep the elevator sensors from picking up Ghost's presence (wouldn't have alarmed this early, but would have recorded), mentions that two of the guards have passed Ghost in one of the other elevators on the way up - they looked like they heard the passing elevator but they're not really paying attention, they get off at the fifth floor and head for the front windows. The other two are still in the security office. Solitaire's having a bit of trouble overriding the back -1 door: Ghost's "acquired" passcard doesn't work for this. Security tally 3 and counting - there's some hidden tar there. "Tar. Why does it always have to be tar?" It gets up to 5 before Solitaire has the back doors open: the rayed corridor you saw earlier. The current's along one of the rays. And - is that footsteps coming toward you from down there? And something a bit squeaky?

Advent informs the group that the guard at the building under construction has moved into a clear transmission area and has flipped open his wrist telephone.

Time check: 2040 (five minutes after the last full update - p.2). Overall, because some things went much more smoothly than expected, you're ahead of your original schedule. The first gang (with Diamond) is definitely ahead of schedule. The second one - well, they're not running late yet.

The one drone which nearly fell into the grilled vent has a very nice close-up view of hellhound teeth: they're awake now, and they definitely know something's there. Judging by what you know of the regular schedule, they're due to be taken out in about twenty minutes (cleaners leave, shift change). The drone's catching another sound above their snarling though - sounds like a key in a lock somewhere very close ...

[Raiko]

[Talia Invierno]

Certainly Advent will probably be able to overhear the conversation. I worded it as I did in case anyone wanted to take an action before the call was made.

Yes to the second and third questions. ETA on second gang based on current location and apparent speed of transport: somewhere between 10 and 15 minutes. No activity yet out of Lone Star.

[Entropy Kid]

Well, the basics then: let Diamond know that gang-2 is coming so he can inform the leaders and have them pull in the reigns on the gang-1.

[Talia Invierno]

Diamond lets the gang leaders know. They're probably in as much position to pull the reins in on their gang as Diamond himself - at this point they're out for trouble too.

Trogdor spots a male elf coming up the corridor with a wheelbarrow half-full of full sacks (from the way they're lying you'd assume they were full of grain or powder) ... and he's dual-natured. Not astrally perceiving, actually dual-natured, Trogdor's never seen that type of aura before and he's (probably?) not sticking around right now to examine in detail. Fortunately for Trogdor, the elf's not really paying attention, so he was able to duck out of the way before being noticed. The elf seems to be heading straight for the elevators. (Since the corridors do radiate, there are also duck-out-of-the-way possibilities for Ghost.)

Earlier layout (insofar as you were able to get it for this area) suggests that the hellhound kennel is further up the same corridor - there's still that one drone which can barely see them through the grilling, unless you've recalled it.

Fyi I'll be checking today and every day until this Saturday, then I'm gone for the next three weeks until mid-October. I'll be checking in each Saturday though and updating as well as I can.

[Raiko]

[Talia Invierno]

You understood correctly.

The key was heard at the same time as the footsteps, and it's turning.

Dual-natured elf you saw passes you - you're close enough to see him insert a key and turn it as he presses the call button. Aura suggests he's a bit surprised when it opens immediately, but he wheels the wheelbarrow into the elevator and the doors close behind him. (It's just big enough, but he wouldn't have turning room.) You don't hear the whirr of the elevator going up, though. Instead, Ghost hears (barely) the sound of the doors opening on the other side.

Alas, it's a duty thing, not a vacation thing, but thanks for the thought.

[Shanshu Freeman]

[Entropy Kid]

[Shanshu Freeman]

Wow, I expected this thread to be more active than it is... I can't wait to find out what's going on!

[Raiko]

[Talia Invierno]

I suspect it's been an intense week all around. It didn't particularly help when the last two days last week I was on-line, Dumpshock was not ... :sleepy: Was that due to Isabel?

[Shanshu Freeman]

[Crusher Bob]

Ghost: Yeah, okay, sorry but I just had no idea that horrors were such prancing lightweights. Mark my words, the team is going to kick your skanky lopsided ass back to whatever place would take a cheap whorish fashion victim like you.

(it hits her so hard she flies out of the building)

Ghost: (to herself) Good plan, Ghost!

Horror: (to Minions) Bring her back!

Heh.

We may want to hold going down to the next level until the other gang gets here and the confusion would hopefully begin to set in... Another 10-15 min spent just waiting might not be too bad a choice; How do things stand for time? Also, waiting until the hellhounds are outside (rather than inside) may be worth it. If things go bad they should be simple enough to pick off out on the grounds, while fighting them inside the building would be messy (though they are dual natured right?, Trogdor would be able to blast them).

[Shanshu Freeman]