After you pass the place to get on the other side, you see running lights about a klick down the road - there's a dirt turnout on which sits a giant tractor-trailer rig - some sort of monster version of our own 2007 rigs. Engine is powered down, but cabin lights are on, windows curtained.

That's it in the immediate vicinity outside. Inside the compound see the IC description.

Damn straight... well, as long as it's something that can be done without anyone else noticing, barring any huge fuckups.

Brain flatulence. Your SPRITE is intercepting their chatter.

See in-line.

From the fenceline you see only the big cybered guys, plus the bald guy and the long-haired guy you saw at Rudolpho's. The bald guy still has the astral watcher lizard on his shoulder, looking all around.

Note that without exposing yourself by going through/under/above the fenceline, you are not seeing people that may or may not have gotten out of the SUVs on the far side from you.

You see the dogs, and you saw the four junkyard guys (yes, ghouls definitely dual so definitely astrally perceiving) as they went down the stairs, but now they are out of your sight.

Let me know if you want to try looking from another angle, and if so exactly how you do it.

This is basically what the requested perception test was for - and you got the most successes plus figured it out on your own.

So I will say that based on what you've been told, what you've seen, conferring with Smith about the feed (BH got good hits, too), and observing people talking into the cars and what doors opened, etc. Angel figures out that there is still one person each in the middle and tail SUVs.

A worthy question, although admittedly a bit of a challenge for a forum game. Table top I could give you a rough sketch of that stuff in three minutes.

(Yes, I know you have all taken great pains to explain to me how to use my new scanner and all that - but you know, the Gremlins flaw DOES exist in real life, as does the Incompetence flaw.)

The situation is relatively simple, though.

Let me elaborate on what I have told you so far.

As you know, the junkyard is on a north-south road 5.1 kilometers south of I-90. You are in an industrial zone.

There are several other public roads running south (not north into the Barrens) from the freeway into this area, to provide access to the freeway.

However, all the east-west roads are private - they are built by the companies to provide access for supplies, shipments, and employees. (Although there are independent operations here, a large proportion of the installations are here for a reason - coffee-maker factory goes up, their chief parts supplier builds its factory next store; a lot of them combine to buy power in bulk or provide security, etc; or they're all subsidiaries of subsidiaries of subsidiaries of the same megas.)

Thus, at night the east-west roads are almost all just gated. If they will be used 24/7, they are manned. Most are remote controlled, however.

The long and the short of it is that you have got just the one north-south road, and it goes another 7 kilometers south before coming to a public road running east-west and connecting to the other lines running south from the freeway.

Thus, in effect, anywhere could be a chokepoint.

For terrain, you have a variety - in some places you could have a warehouse or fenced factory compound abutting directly against the road on both sides. And in some places you could have unfenced employee parking lots on both sides of the road. And so on. If you are looking for a particular configuration, let me know and if it's real specific I'll roll some dice to randomly decide.

As for high ground - there's enough empty and relatively cheap land around here that it's generally not worth the expense of building tall, so nothing nearby that overlooks the meet REAL well, especially considering the width of the yard (remember, 3 klicks on a side).

Any more questions, let me know.

Your right, I couldnt find anything on it either.
My guess would be Heavy pistol or SMG range for that type of weapon though.

I think we'd start with this, the people there half expect this to happen.

How far away from the compound is the truck?

Although you are sensing a jumped-in state, as you know, you are only listening in on signals right now. So you are basically unable to direct your attention at any aspect of the drone on your own - your attention and perception go where the rigger's does.

You can tell it is a vector thrust drone, and that in addition to a sweet sensor package (thermo, low-light, audio, radar, ultrasonic) it is armed with an LMG - the rigger is constantly targeting the guy with the big beer gut. The drone "feels" very agile and the targeting seems very spot on (as well as you can judge without pilot aircraft or gunnery skills).

What the heck - we'll say Heavy Pistol for now. If I had time, I might do a search on DS for something authoritative...

As stated in the IC post, you are in the parking lot of a warehouse right across the road from the gates of the junkyard. With the van magically concealed, no one has noticed it. I have been narrating things from the better view of the drone, but you can probably get eyes on the meet through the windshield of the Love Machine.

Of course, that only gets you some dogs and thugs and the back side of the SUVs. The "meet" is on the other side of the middle SUV, the one that is broadside to the gate.

Total distance to closest dogs - say 30 meters. Total distance to roughly where Louie is, 40.

As noted in the quote above - a klick down the road.

Whether anyone would hear or notice the sound of gunfire from that far away, with factories all around and dogs snarling - hard to say. Would depend a lot on the quality and quantity of the gunfire, and other environmental factors.

I should still be behind the van (in visual of the van, but not the compound). I have offered to move up, but that isn't necessarily the best plan we've got - and until that's the plan we're going with, I don't want to risk exposure.

Welcome Stateside!

Thank ye. It's been way too long since I set foot on my home ground, though I still have a bit to go before I truly get home.

Muahauhuahauhauahauahauha!

10-4 Rocky's all over it.

JD