No, paying a lot of attention. Any ideas that help us keep our bases covered. And even ideas we don't use could evolve into ideas that win for us.

Here is another crazy idea for keeping track of them en route. Since they are taking an HSCT, they will not be leaving the gaiaspere. As long as Toobit has a Magic rating of at least 5, and provided he leaves his body before OUR flight hits too high an altitude, he should be able to stay with their plane astrally for their whole five-hour flight. (Provided the airlines don't mind mage passengers going astral....)

Crazy, and risky for Toobit, but just brainstorming here.

Time is about dawn, call it 9.00am now, your activities were during the late hours of the night.

Paris is 6 hours ahead, with flight time they'll arrive at 8pm local time. After Dusk or there abouts.

Adamu - Orchestrate, great word I'll try and remember that.

Sub-orbs don't quite leave than Manasphere. Only Semi Ballistics do that.

Staying with a plane is very hard as your astral speed is either Very fast, or very slow.

Can't remember the exact value of astral fast, but it would be hard to finesse.

I would be up for it but if we end up flying I would rather have Toobit rest on the flight to recover from stun damage.

That's totally cool - I guess you've been tossing a lot of mojo around.

So the salient questions before us are

* Give up on Logan and try to catch them in Paris, or give Metatron's plan a try first?

* If we fly, split up or stay together? If together, on the faster flight, or on the target's own flight?

We do have their comms hacked for tracking purposes, there are some tricks they can pull to try and shake us, But they haven't demonstrated any remarkable computer savvy yet.

I don't think there's any harm in trying something at Logan, as long as we're willing to abort at the drop of the pin and give it another shot in Paris.

Okay, we've all had a chance to air our opinions.

Looking back over the last couple of pages, it looks like there is a basic consensus to try Metatron's "evacuation" plan, but be ready to walk away if it looks bad, and also be ready to fly to Paris ("fast way" or "on their flight with them way"???).

I'm good with that....

Other people want to chime in with a definite thumbs up or down to have JW start looking at the airport's evacuation plan and the rest of us start setting ourselves up?

We're all back home now. Could a PC please post something about your planning chat in the IC thread?

Are we waiting on some ooc rolls?

Me most likely, sorry, I've been delaying figuring out how to hack the airport (also, I don't think we've arrived IC).

So if we could get there and Ophis could let me know something about how the nodes are arranged that'd be pretty sweet.

If not I'll make something up and hack up a storm.

No worries.

You can arrive when you want...

Nodes I'm presuming a bit of scanning here. There is a public node, easy to access, but with unobtrusive patroling IC to punish evil doers. Evacuation points etc are findable on this, the closest to the targets is in the short stay car park, there would be some cover for nefarious activities... Of this are various secure nodes, check in desks etc, the security control is also off this so airport customers can easily alert sec in emergencies, that one is looking a it like a killing jar, real easy to enter (so joe public can chat to sec), with a harder system beyond.

Hey guys.. when it rains it totally pours.

If life-changing stuff wasn't keeping me away from DSF enough lately, my now basically dead computer definitely will. I'm hoping to be up and running sometime next week, and if not I can try to pop on from work but I'm making no promises.

This is just a friendly heads up with time stolen on a borrowed computer.

Sorry guys, I'm trying to get back, I really am. Just when I think I've got it all worked out, something else tries to stop me.

Thanks for the heads up.

Okay - so while JW hacks, I guess our plan calls for the rest of us to start checking out the short stay parking garage (sorry Ophis, that was simply an irresistable oppotunity).

Question is, are we still considering having someone go into the terminal to tail them physically as they evacuate, while the others set up the ambush, or do we all just stay generally together in the vicinity of the ambush?

Dude it's open air, so that's a parking lot...

Alright: rolling up my sleeves and diving in.

JW is first going to try something crafty and walk, in plain sight (sans weapons) inside the terminal and try to scope out any manually activated alarms (pull switches and the like). On the assumption that these will be easier to hack than the central security node or any of the air corps nodes and that he still might be able to start a system wide alert from one.

If one is found he'll analyze it and then decide whether it's worth fast hacking or slow hacking it.

If not he'll settle in to slow hack the security node.

Matrix Security Knowledge:

Log + Matrix Sec # dice 10 :: 1 2 6 1 1 3 1 1 2 4 -- 1 hit, glitch

Perception rolls to find the device:

Int + Perception + Actively Looking + Vision Mod # dice 14 :: 2 5 4 6 5 2 1 1 4 6 4 4 5 2 -- 5 hits

Analyze rolls for deciding how easy it is to hack (looking for firewall rating, data bombs and IC

Computer + Analyze # dice 10 :: 6 4 3 5 5 4 4 1 1 3 -- 3 hits

Exploit Rolls - he's looking for an administrative account:

hacking + exploit # dice 11 :: 6 5 1 6 1 5 4 1 4 4 1 -- 4 hits
hacking + exploit # dice 11 :: 2 4 3 1 2 4 6 6 1 4 5 -- 3 hits
hacking + exploit # dice 11 :: 3 2 1 4 5 6 4 1 5 3 3 -- 3 hits

If there is any pertinent information which would cause JW to derail the plan let me know and he'll try to pick up the pieces.

The plan sounds reasonable.

The alarm you find is rating 5, If your wanting to fast hack it'll be hard to do it to admin with out being noticed (it rolls 10 dice each time you do against a threshold of your stealth program rating). On the other hand normal access should be enough to get it to do what you want.

Slow hack for the security account. I can reroll my hacking+exploit rolls if you like, or we can leave them as they are.

If you plan to allow him to hack unmolested, then I'll be overjoyed, but if he will be harassed sometime during his two hour stint as hacker, I'll need a diagram of the area and a signal rating for the device so that JW can find appropriate cover (which is one of his top priorities).

He'll also let everyone know that he's settling in for a long hack and that he'll keep them posted.

pragma, do you want one of us to follow you into the terminal to watch your back from a distance, or would you prefer to go it solo?

Ophis, in any case, the rest of us will be scouting good ambush locations/exit routes in the short stay parking lot. Do you want a lot of detail on that (which sort of requires a map), or would you prefer a general idea and some die rolls?

JW was planning to run solo or with one other person tailing him from a solid distance. (The latter is probably better because he'll be hanging out in full VR in an unusual and potentially hostile place.)

Depends on exactly how many we need to manage the parking lot situation.

To be fair, either is good for me. In, out, I don't mind.
Wing is just a proficient with longarms and pistols as she is with her hands and feet. (She has as much stopping power as an ares loaded with gel...)

Sure Toobit can join those on the inside. If we get into any sort of trouble with the bad guys it probably will not get too far because of heavy airport security.

Question about the slow hacking: Does anyone remember how long before their flight takes off?

Okay, since Metatron says she's okay either way and amra28 expresses willingness, looks like Toobit is nominated to watch JW's back.

Ophis, without Toobit around, I will be watching Jun while Wing and Darkhorse do the heavy lifting vis a vis setting up the ambush. I'll always be in astral perception while watching her, and we will stay in the Landy insofar as possible.

By the time you get there you'll have about 30 minutes, though there may be some delay due to security check ups... (wonder who caused those)

Are we arriving at the airport half an hour before the flight? Just want to make sure we're on the same page (and yes, fast hacking would be appropriate then, I'll strategize when I get the clarification).

Exactly right.

Alright, I've stalled long enough:

JW is going to have to fast hack, according to earlier posts he thinks he can start and maintain a system wide alarm with user priveliges on the fire alarm, so he's going to fast hack for those, with edge.

Hacking + Exploit + Edge # dice 14 :: 6 3 3 1 6 4 3 5 1 5 6 2 1 4 -- 5 hits
Exploding sixes # dice 3 :: 3 3 2 -- 0 hits

Once he has them, he'll notify the team.

Also of note, I'm going to be out of town until Sunday - hope to see some progress by then.

As best I understand things -

JW hacking.

Toobit in the terminal watching JW from a distance.

Everyone else at short-stay parking.

Flat in astral perception sitting with Jun in Landy.

Wing and Darkhorse planning the ambush (which seems perfect in an OOC sense, since the planning needs maps, adn Metatron seems to have RL access to Ophis....).

Just restating that, actually, to confirm that I have it right. In other words, the last thing I want is to hold the game up...near as I can tell - aside from chatting with Jun (tough since Vegas is having computer troubles) - there is no post needed from me right now.

But if there is anything anyone needs me to do to help keep things going, I stand ready and willing six days a week.

Way too cool a game to let it fall by the wayside.

Cool, I'll try to work on that with Metatron. As it looks like most of the work is done, and JW will get the access I will move on to the action.

Since JW decided to fast hack, he probably would not have requested Toobit's supervision; It's not unrealistic to see someone in VR for three seconds in an airport, three hours is a bit implausible.

Don't know if that affects how and where Toobit is placed. I'm fine either way.

bump, given it's been a while...

Amen to that...

Since Flat is in the Landy watching Jun while the inside team hacks and the outside team cases the ambush site, Vegas, if you want to start up an IC conversation between Flat and Jun that might be fun....

Apologies for quiet time, I've been distracted by IRL game.

@Ophis:

What's my agent telling me about the location of our targets?

Still in the airport at security desk.

I'm going a serious bump on Saturday.

Ophis, we're still waiting on you right for the bump?

Just don't want to see this die off again

It won't die, we've both been distracted by an IRL game, I'll give Ophis a kick when I get in tonight...

IRL game and working pretty much full time has eaten all my time recently. I honestly post the snatch attempt shortly.

Ok guys.. it's been close to two weeks, almost 4 since the last IC post. I know Ophis is busy with IRL stuff and other commitments on here.

Is it time to put this one to bed for a while/permanently?

Not saying I want to by any means, but we keep slipping to the back page on a regular basis.

Sorry I appear to have writers block on this bit...

I'm going to attempt to push it through my brain...

Though If another fortnight passes It will prolly be dead.

I don't particularly want to let it drop.

I'm also fine with having it slide in and out of obscurity every now and again.

I'm always around.

Thanks for the understanding guys. I'll keep kicking my brain.

Just so we don't slide TOTALLY out of obscurity