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Redmond HQ: SIS Redmond HQ

Bellevue home: SIS Bellevue home

Calendar

Chapter 1: Sunday, September 18, 2078
Chapter 2: Monday, September 26, 2078
First Interlude: Saturday, October 1, 2078
Chapter 3: Monday, October 10, 2078
Second Interlude: Sunday, October 16, 2078
Chapter 4: Sunday, November 6, 2078
Third Interlude: Wednesday, November 23, 2078
Chapter 5: Thursday, November 24, 2078
Fourth Interlude: Sunday, November 27, 2078
Chapter 6: Thursday, December 22, 2078
Fifth Interlude: Sunday, January 1, 2079
Chapter 7: Friday, January 20, 2079
Sixth Interlude: Wednesday, February 1, 2079
Chapter 8: Sunday, February 5, 2079
Seventh Interlude: Wednesday, February 8, 2079
Eighth Interlude: Tuesday, February 14, 2079
Chapter 9: Thursday, March 2, 2079
Ninth Interlude: Saturday, March 11, 2079
Chapter 10: Monday, March 20, 2079
Tenth Interlude - San Angelo: Tuesday, March 21, 2079
Tenth Interlude - Seattle: Friday, March 31, 2079
Chapter 11: Saturday, April 8, 2079
Eleventh Interlude: Saturday, April 15, 2079
Prelude to Chapter 12: Saturday, April 15 until Monday, May 15, 2079
Chapter 12: Monday, May 15, 2079
Prelude to Chapter 13: Saturday, May 20, 2079
Twelfth Interlude: Wednesday, May 31, 2079

Contacts:

Persons of Interest:
Feliciats Aglimente - Combat Biker Celebrity
Diego "Trece" - Urban Explorer

Raven's Character Sheet

Bye
Thanee

Tamarind character sheet

Mato's character sheet: https://stormy-waters-2075.obsidianportal.c...characters/mato

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Mato has the curiously-applicable Seattle Parkour knowledge skill, so let's roll that!

Intuition 6 + Seattle Parkour 3: 9d6t5 3 hits

Oops, forgot the new mnemonic enhancers: Mnemonic enhancer 4: 4d6t5 2 hits

So that's 5 hits total. I give credit to all this knowledge karma that we've distributed over the years.

About time one of us had a really random, clutch, knowledge skill

Added some insights for Mato - let me know if you want any more specific information - with five successes you are familiar with all his old work and have seen his new channel as well. Also, you know the address of the club and that it's definitely not for poor folks. Rich kids like to hang out there as well as a lot of posers.

@Embargo

Just setting up a little hook for the next interlude

Wait, rereading it, it sounds like Saeder-Krupp was the previous investigation, and this new investigation is totally separate? So it's not a potential story about Saeder-Krupp, in theory that content has already aired?

Follow-up questions: Is Mato familiar with Martin Marten? Is Felicitas' representation of Martin Marten accurate from the view of an outside third party?

That is my understanding as well.

It does show, also, that there could be some pretty big players involved.

Bye
Thanee

Yes, the new investigation is not S-K focused, but it appears they found some old data chips in an abandoned S-K facility that they are using in a future segment.

Martin Marten is not a parkour enthusiast - he is a classic armchair expert, who does a lot of reaction videos and mainly uses drone footage if he visits abandoned places. He has high output, but mainly cheaply produced.

Hi, reality is a bit dystopic so I was slow. My neighborhood took two hits from ballistic missles in the last two days. No damages personally but it is a bit of a warzone. Two friends had to leave their home and many broken windows in the nearby streets.

Made a fun post about being late to the party, so there is a silver lining. Sort of.

All the best to you and yours - I hope you all get through this unharmed

I've been thinking about you and your family in all of this. I'm glad you have been safe so far, but the stress and disruption must be intense. I hope the fictional dystopias give a nice escape, when you can get there

Its more intense than anything we had until now, damages very big as well. I hope its the end of the two years nightmare though.

Yeah, Gilga, that's wild. It's front pages news here, and very top of mind. I don't have any words that will help, but if you're going through hell, keep going.

SR is kind of an escapism part of the routines that I can keep up regardless of stuff. Almost anything else get/got disrupted in the last years numerous times due to not always being able to physically meet. Digital hobbies in a way are a constant (well as long as we have Internet access).

Horrible times for sure. Stay safe!

Bye
Thanee

I guess it's Tamarind who has to answer the question of the guard - or whoever rides shotgun

Question: if this is a 5 minute walk from our place, is it the same neighborhood or a different neighborhood? If they're the same, we can just say, "We live here." If they're different, is there a 'border' between the two where you have to cross security? Because if not, we can just go home and walk.

Different gated community - just next to your neighborhood

Do we recognize the individual guards? Or just from the same company?

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@TableTalk Tamarind is competent at etiquette, but has minimal ability to lie. If anyone else wants to have their character offer some story about what we are doing then go ahead, else Tamarind will tell something essentially true, just omitting a few details.)

I don't see why we would need to lie to the guards here. I would just tell them where we are going. They will likely be able to see that on security cameras, anyways.

Bye
Thanee

Same company, but different guards

The scanner Mato is using:


Cyberware Scanner R5: 5d6t5 1 hit, is this thing on?

Mato should generally be able to buy 4 hits on most Perception tests. I can roll if that's preferable.

There is a hidden safe in the master bedroom - cheap model with R3 security

The home security and entertainment system is a bit more sophisticated with R4 security host (A3 S4 D6 F5)

There are cameras (R2) but only outdoors and in the common rooms downstairs.

The mag lock is also an R4 model

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

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)

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

"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

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

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...

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

Yep.



Bye
Thanee

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

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

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).

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?

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

Bye
Thanee

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.

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

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

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

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

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)

Thanks Jack.

So, any other actions you want to take?

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

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?

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

Bye
Thanee

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?