Once Rocky knows whats going on he will start packing up stuff at the room.

Also, a stop somewhere along the way to get a jacket with a really big hood for Rocky would be good.

I'll IC some stuff once Fort has left.

JD

Man, everyone is being so paranoid. We all need to take a deep breath and relax.

Personally, I can't wait to get some waffles... maybe a soda.
I hope they have bendy-straws.

This is gonna be sweet.

@adamu

Int + Percep + .5*UCAS Special Operations # dice 9 :: 4 5 5 2 2 3 3 2 6 -- 3 hits

I believe the details of the encounter, proposed deal and conditions have not been shared IC with the team. If I missed it please let me know and I will modify my post.

I belive you are correct DR.

Very little detail at this point.

JD

Yeah, which, combined with Sledge's knack for being vague about things... makes for a pretty strange image of what's going on in my head, at least.

i left cerb and rocky in the parking lot of the motel so Adamu could do his fancy come together post or for JDragon to take over.

As far as camera's and face recog software. Is there any cool gizmo's that can counter face recog software? Like some kind of mini image jammer. Obviously if people walked around with jammed faces they would stand out but I was thinking that if we wore a hood or or hat and had a face jammer we coul make it totally darken out our faces and make people looking at our jammed faces think it was just because of the hat or hood.

latex or nanopaste mask?

Finally got my IC post up after scrapping the first 35% due to a re-read and finding it utter crap.

@BH
Left the end open for your reply/whatever and the trip to the waffle house.
If you offer a helmet to Caittie, she'll decline it and pull the helmet she bought earler out of her backpack. She'll put it on even if you dont offer her one.

@K Nice post as always.

BTW you are a day off we are on Friday at this point.

JD

Bah... now I'm transversing into pragma's realm of time magic...

EDIT: Fixed.

Alright, putting something together quick.

So, took longer than I thought. posted, then saw Sledge's response, and wanted to rephrase a few things. Should be done shortly.

Okay, fixed.

Assuming Angel is still in, and doesn't have any other questions/comments, feel free to post about us heading out. Yeah, Adam will still offer the helmet, and smile when you pull one out of your backpack, instead.

So sorry guys - promised post not going to make it up tonight. (BAD GM!!!) Role play at will, and you will definitely get any needed bumps or whatever within 24.

Okay, that last IC post leaves all six of you free to post at will.

Hope I didn't step on any toes with some of the protrayals - anything I wrote that anyone thinks is out of character for them, please just let me know, it's easy to fix.

Does everyone have a sim mod and trodes?? We could all meet in a node or something in AR?

TIME OUT

I misread adamu's post I thought smith and angel showed up without being seen. I have to really change up my IC post and get things rolling now. So try not to post until until i say.

ok game on!

working on something, but don't wait up. Will probably post within the hour, but nothing that requires anyone to wait.

Sledge's commlink is probably going to refuse, actually simply not offer a connection from anyone on the team except Sugar Lips. So if sending anything over the Matrix to @Team and you might notice she's not available.

Finally. Took a while to get it right, and work kept demanding my attention.

And without even getting shot at or framed for capital crimes!

RL beats SR any day of the week.

I don't know if its framing when you actually did commit the capital crime.

@adamu
Fort knows things -- here are the relevant rolls:

(For the time being I'm going to assume UCAS special operations knowledge skill is tradecraft sort of stuff and UCAS bureaucracy knowledge skill covers who's who, how the various three-letter agencies work and what their resources are -- more of a political skill. Let me know if you'd like it otherwise.)

Info on Archer Higgins:
Int + UCAS Bureaucracy # dice 7 :: 3 1 1 6 5 2 4 -- 2 hits

Info on Lonny Lovell:
Int + UCAS Bureaucracy # dice 7 :: 3 3 1 1 5 5 5 -- 3 hits

FBI SOP for chasing fugitives through know associates (are we likely to get jumped at the meet? How much exactly does my training say this smells like a trap?):
Int + UCAS Spec Ops # dice 6 :: 5 4 3 6 6 6 -- 4 hits

@pragma -

Okay, just so it isn't weird that you [I]suddenly[I] know stuff about these guys, it helps our willing suspension of disbelief that you had previously only seen them, but only just now learned their names.
So it is easy for us to rationalize that you had been unfamiliar with their appearances but know of them by reputation.

Oh, and as mentioned earlier, I don't know where this Lonny business came from. But the wiki has been fixed, and since Fort just had access to a video where the dwarf calls him Lowell, I will assume Fort knows the correct name.

Anyway -

Archer Higgins - not at all famous to the general public, but well known in North American law enforcement and intelligence circles. Almost 30 years with the Bureau, and said to have an impressive array of wins in his jacket (no specifics for two successes). Known as a loyal patriot, honest, but pragmatic. Gets things done. If he's in Seattle, it is probably a field assignment pursuing something of national importance, or he is the Head Agent for the 'Plex.

Lowell Pritchard - generally associated with Higgins. Was a wunderkind in the 50s - an accomplished mage AND decker/hacker - no one could figure out why he didn't go private sector. But burned out after about ten years. Word is that his partner Higgins pulled him back from the brink - though ever since he's been an effective agent but a sort of shell of his former personality.

General "you would know this stuff about the FBI in adamu's game world" stuff -
As I've said before, in my campaign I put the UCAS as about 20% the power level on the 2070 world stage as the RL US in 2008. So consider the FBI 20% as powerful a law enforcement agency - which is still a serious force to be reckoned with, if no longer the world leader in every respect.
Also, you would know that the UCAS often considers spending money on Seattle to be more trouble than it's worth - not enough voters there compared with the main body of the constituency.
Also, one thing Fort will be especially aware of is the division of labor among the agencies. The FBI does not care about local laws, only federal violations. And even there you've got counterfeiting and other treasury concerns handled by the Secret Service, the INS and Homeland Security on immigration and customs, and ATF/DEA on most substance and contraband issues. That leaves the FBI to deal with bank robberies and any financial crime against federally insured financial institutions, kidnapping, and seccessionist, civil rights and espionage issues, and then any crime that crosses state lines. Grab bag of other stuff the federal government cares about.
And of course in the world of 2070, civil servants consider themselves the "real" police and tend to despise most private law enforcement agencies.

As for your last question - sure, they would use known associates to draw in other fugitives. And they might break a lot of legal rules to get convictions or just eliminate bad guys, and not lose a night's sleep. But the key issue that rings bells in Fort's mind is that they appear to have given their real names and affiliations. Anything deceptive they do would be undercover. They are concerned about reputation and credibility - the simple fact that they are and represent the FBI is one of the strongest weapons in their arsenal - and it is extremely unlikely that they would be anything but straightforward under the auspices of their own names and authority.

Note that for the "They gave their name so they must be legit" theory to work, you'll need to independently verify that the pair are who they say they are.

I wish I would have had cerberus ask what they wanted with Sledge.

It doesnt really matter what Sledge or Fortunato did does it? As long as we are helping them they will ignore your past crimes or protect you from other agencies looking for you...it when we decide to ditch the feds that the crap will hit the fan and then we will just have to do what we should be doing now and thats running for our lives. But atleast if we play ball we will have some cash in our pockets and more experience under our belts before we have to run....

@adamu: after the audio/video plays over the network Cerberus unsubscribed his commlink from his datajack and turns the wifi on it back off.

That's one way it could go.

I think both of them assume the Feds are really only interested in catching up to them - and that the whole job offer is a ploy to draw them out of hiding. In which case, playing ball is just going to get them arrested.

It's not like Law Enforcement have done fun things like send Lottery Prize Winning announcements to people with outstanding warrants and arrest them when they show up to collect their XBox 360.

We all know working for a Big Corp/Government, DocWagon for example, can protect you from all sorts bad things happening to you right?

Trust is earned.

Fort's take on the affair is that he's got a lot more to lose by being on the federal government's radar than by passing up the job.

@adamu
Does Fort's knowledge skill roll positively ID the people in the van as Pritchard and Higgins? Or does is just cover what he knows about the FBI agents who have those names and not necessarily match them with a face?

Okay, sounds like Cerb is at least in. My guess is that Rocky and Angel will be too, although I'll wait to hear their confirmation before moving forward with the plan.

Someone mentioned us calling them, which was why I mentioned it in my last post, but after digging around in the actual post that was recorded, I am not sure they gave Cerb a contact number. Maybe Adamu can confirm?

If we can't call them, I guess that makes our job that much easier.

Ok, I havent posted anything for the game in the past couple of days, but the first thing I'll do is have Caittie quickly look at the FBI website for any pictures that match the two agents in the video.

First of all, I think I've mentioned this before, but Adamu is evil. Good thing for a GM.

On a metagaming level, I'm very interested in these two FBI agents, there are at least two ways they can tie into Sledge's background. Each has different repercussions, and perhaps might not be able to be separated thus presenting the dilemma of deciding between opposing needs and consequences. Suffice to say there is a case where Sledge would actually willingly work for them, and another where she wouldn't, and it's likely the FBI agents are interested in her for both reasons.

IC it's currently very hard to rationalize in any way given the current IC information Sledge wanting to meet or interact with the FBI Agents for any reason whatsoever. "Hey, you criminal! The Feds want to talk to you!" Well Duh!

Smith suggested calling them. Cerberus had said that their numbr was "in the book" like he had been told.

Anybody out there?

Looks like Adamu posted some info on what Angel did, where to next?

JD

I guess I don't mind moving forward in an attempt to call them. I had hoped to dsicuss whose commlink it made the most sense to call from and whetehr or not Angel wanted to eitehr play defense, or consider hacking them.

Probably the safest bet would be to use a decently strong commlink (Smith's work comm is fine for that, after he spoofs a commcode), and set his agent to look for unauthorised users or whatever, and maybe have Angel logged on in case shit goes down.

Since the only function I need it to perform is communication, if someone else has a more secure commlink, we can use that instead.

I think the the general idea is that most of us want Smith to atleast talk to them and see what they have to say. So that should be the first thing we do.

Smith also wanted to meet everybody and tell us something but with Sledge gone and atleast one of us being possably tailed that seems unlikely to happen anymore? Maybe smith could talk to us now and then talk to Sledge 1 on 1.

Cerberus is just waiting on everyone else to make decisions, he has already stated his desires, and relayed all messages..

Yeah, that certainly won't happen at this meet - but should be easy to get to later. Nothing that big. A potential new job is much more important.

If player or GM reading Then insert generic appology for absence : set x to 1
If x=>0 Then smack programmer up side the head with a stick : repeat from line 1

Okay - I have no idea what that second line is about - but then we know I am a complete computer illiterate.

No apology required - we know you'll post when you can.

But be a chummer and fix the location on your last IC header....

Okay, attempting ot make the call. If the FBI node requires authentication with a SIN, they're getting the Aaron Smith (Rating 4) fake one.

Current commlink load out, in case Adam needs it, or Konisaki is curious:

System 6 (running at 5), Firewall 6 (I believe they erratad that firewall can exceed response and system?), Response 5, Signal 5.

5 programs running in memory are Encrypt @5, Stealth @5, Analyse @5, Edit @5, Scan @5, Agent 4 (with Browse, Scan, Virtual Person, Analyse, set up to constantly look for unauthorised users/agents/whatever)

@BlackHat & Konsaki -

You can each make a matrix perception test (Computer + Analyze + VR or TM bonuses). Konsaki, since you are purposely on overwatch, it is fine for you to use Threading to help with this, if you think Angel would have been doing that as she looks out for Johnson.

Johnson is intentionally not going into VR (or otherwise having the conversation via trodes) because he wants the rest of the team to potentially overhear his half of the conversation, at least (plus he wants to stay aware of the waffle-house, since he's convinced himself the team is being observed). Plus, if anythign comes up where he needs to refrain from using the words "I'm a criminal for hire" in a public wafle-house, he can subvocalize it, instead - which should hinder casual eavesdropping.

So, his roll is: 5+2 = 7 dice
#D=7 : 5152632 n1=1 n6=1 nHit=3

If its something that would matter to the agent (unauthorized user), it rolls: 5+5+2=12 dice
#D=12 : 235345361664 n1=1 n6=3 nHit=5

Thanks. As you'll see from the IC, I assumed from your IC that you were sticking to AR.

Konsaki - I hand-waved your staying with Johnson. Don't worry, if I send a PC into a possibly threatening situation without checking first, that means I'm not really allowed to do anything too mean to you (unless you start trouble yourself). Still, if you want to break contact with Johnson's signal as it connects deeper into the FBI node, I can delete your section of the IC. You'll be left with whatever he sends, but you won't be able to get what he receives without him relaying it to you. And you will be unable to discern if they initiate a trace or whatever from their side.

@BlackHat -

You were very clear on your computer specs, but not on whether you were still using your (spoofed and rerouted) usual icon (which looks like you) or a generic one - you mentioned the Virtual Person - but not what image it is projecting. Maybe you could make that clear in your next IC post...Thanks.