Perception
5d6.hits(5)=2

Visual
3d6.hits(5)=0 Total: 2

Auditory
3d6.hits(5)=3 Total: 5

Yeah, I am a little vague on that "plan", to say the least...

Bye
Thanee

Ok so I think the plan was to give Dalma time to investigate the artifacts while we do some recon on the HSE (physical, matrix and hitting up contacts for intel) while she does that. Sell the magical crap we have now for funds then hit HSE then upgrade our gear then head out for the next locale where we think the next artifact is?

Miss anything?

Yep, Dalma/Hamagen is doing the work. It will take 12 days In-Character.

The Perception tests from the recon team won't provide much more data than was already gained since you are working from a distance and staying outside. (If you're going inside HSE let me know.)

Fenris/Buddha--Watching throughout the day, you see two definite rushes, from 11a-2p and from 5p-7p. During this time, you'd guess there are probably 200 plus customers in the building at any moment. Other times when the store is open, it's about half that. You count roughly twenty employees working, with overlapping shifts for a max of 30. Hours from 9a-9p with employees in the building an hour before until an hour after.

You've also sampled every coffeeshop, cafe, and storefront that faces HSE.

Thanee--Are you telling your contact, you'll take the money for the reagents?

Redjack/Saytr--any actions during recon day?

I'm kinda waiting for a reply here...

"@Team [Siren] I can sell the reagents for 8k, if you are ok with that."

If there are no objections... sure.

Bye
Thanee

Sorry totally missed that Thanee

Is there any roll/mechanic to see if the price can be raised? If so, then roll them bones and get us the moola!

Negotiations roll.

Ok, then I will negotiate a little and then sell them.

Negotiation 7 hits

Bye
Thanee

I've ran out of time today and will be out all day tomorrow. I will post in Sunday.

Ok. How about this for a high level plan:

We have the identity of a security asset for the company. Let's extract this resource after a shift. Use a signal jammer on their com during the extraction. Clear all bugs/tags from the agent while Papa hacks the com in a wifi blocking room. He will then take over the com. We can enter during the start of their shift sending in Siren. Papa will access the master node when she enters. Jenni and Ollie stand by to clean up astral problems while Brock stands by to deal with physical issues. We get what we can get quick and Siren bugs out in one of the company vehicles.

A few blocks away we have our van. Transfer with the loot. Go a few miles, change codes and appearance. Rinse and repeat.

Thoughts? Clarifications? Concerns?

Folks who have Kn: Security Companies, Security Procedures can roll.

Papa: Security Procedures(2) + Logic(4) + Analytical Mind(2) + Mneumonic Enhancer(2) [1,4,4,4,3,6,5,3,2,3] = 2 hits

Redjack the plan looks solid to me and I sadly lack any skills in this arena to point out any flaws or errors.

All I would be down to do a run through the interior while its open (posing as customers etc) but I'm not sure it's needful at this point considering the current plan especially if Papa gets some hacked information about the site.

Looks and sounds good of course Brock will always be a a good attention getter

I guess some Disguise skill would be handy here... and Siren lacks that currently.

But it was something I wanted to pick up, anyways.

Is there enough time to learn a new skill (and possibly a new spell also)?

I would then learn the following:

Disguise (Cosmetics) 1(+2) -- 6 Karma
Increase Intuition -- 5 Karma and 500¥

Bye
Thanee

Redjack--Your previous research showed HSE had a contract with PuebSec and Koshari ties. It did not mention other security contractors.

Thanee--Skills I generally let people buy with their karma if there is some plausible reason behind it. There are plenty of fashion mags dealing with cosmetics and your lifestyle supports the disguise, so it's fine. For the Spell, you will need to buy the formula if you don't have it.

Yeah, that's the 500¥.

Ok, I guess finding a formular for such a standard spell shouldn't be hard (in fact, I could probably get it at the talismonger ).

So, it is down to some dice rolling how long the learning process will take.

Spellcasting + Intuition (5, 1 day) Extended Test.

1st day 4 hits
2nd day 2 hits

So, it will take two days to learn the spell.


And just to be sure, I picked "Cosmetics", since it seemed the most fitting for changing ones appearance and possibly impersonating others (including the Facial Sculpt Adept Power, also). If another specialization would be better-suited for that, please let me know.

Bye
Thanee

Alright, so if no one has objections, I'm going to bump forward a few days on Friday morning.

What time of day is the team making their approach?
Are you grabbing a guard who is coming off-shift, or running a Trace to find one's location away from HSE?

BishopMcQ
I'm just curious, I know that Dalma is basically busy this whole time...is it constant work from the moment i wake up to the moment i go to sleep in figuring out this magical item? Or is it more like a "days" work, like 8 hours a day?

Team
Is Dalma asked to stay at the house during these two weeks? Or is she going home every night?

Hamagen I think it's ok to stay but then I have the same question. Can we crash there during this job?

BishopMcQ time bump works great for me - as to the timing those are great questions! Redjack your thoughts or would you rather one of us make those calls?

A little bump ahead sounds like a good idea to get the learning and research done.

Bye
Thanee

Hamagen--With the interval being 1 day, I'm inclined to say you can't do anything else strenuous during that day. Riding on an airplane, cooking breakfast etc would be fine, but summoning spirits, going on jobs would not. You can set a day aside to do the job.

I believe there was an IC post when Ollie and Brock arrived saying to grab rooms.

Sweet! Then join us Hamagen!

Correct bishop Brock said he was going to drop his stuff in one of the rooms. Also with the run Brock is bringing the room sweeper good for be shot and his trusty hammer and wearing his full body armor ith helmet.

To be clear, are we currently on recon, not the run? Everyone is in the van, except Dalma and Father? (ergo: Papa, Brock, Siren & Jenni)

I thought on the run itself - I think BishopMcQ asked if he could bump us to the run and no one screamed "NOOOOOOOO!"

You are on the run at this point. I answered all the legwork questions and made the bump. At this point, I believe Hamagen elected to take a day off the work, so everyone is in the van. The team can either follow one of the employees out of the building, per the previously laid out plan, or make a new plan.

I'd like to get the thread moving again since it appears to have stalled out a little.

I was under the impression Dalma and Father were staying behind...

Can come though, doesn't matter to me.

I think we can just brute force this if we want - I think Brock and Ollie are more than capable of dealing with the rent-a-cops assuming that Brock can take people out without crushing their spinal cords. Not trying to step on toes - just looking to get the cash we need and get back to the main part of the run/game.

Thoughts?

Hamagen--It's up to you. As I said in my previous post, you can set a day aside to come on the run if you want.

RP wise, Dalma would be a lot more interested in studying the magic item than going on a money grab.

Posted the immediately obvious information as Ollie walks through HSE.

Perception
5d6.hits(5)=3

Visual Enhancements
3d6.hits(5)=1

Hearing Enhancement
3d6.hits(5)=1

Anyone watching through the feed can also roll Perception or Security Systems.

Buddha--Ollie will note the outline of a door in the back of the store near the counter. There are no visible handles. One of the customers near the hardware upgrades has the bulge of a handgun under his coat.

Perception (visual) -> 4 hits

Bye
Thanee

http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/3633004/ 3 hits

Thanee--Siren notices the door outline. Several of the simfeeds along the right wall are known to be regularly pirated. The employee working in that area has an AR skin of Melody Moore, a rock singer known throughout North America. The employee appears to be Pueblo.

Saytr--Brock notices the handgun under a customer's coat near the hardware upgrades area. None of the customers have visible gang colors or tattoos.

Redjack you there?

Sorry - Very distracted lately. Anything requiring focus...
The plan doesn't seem to match my original expectations so I'll roll with it and try to reintegrate. Stealth R6

Hacking on the fly Car #1 - User Access: Hacking(6) +Exploit Specialization(2) + Exploit(6) + Hot Sim(2) [2,4,1,2,4,6,2,2,3,3,2,3,5,5,5,3] = 4 hits
Hacking on the fly Car #2 - User Access: Hacking(6) +Exploit Specialization(2) + Exploit(6) + Hot Sim(2) [6,6,6,4,1,3,2,2,5,6,6,3,5,5,5,1] = 9 hits
Hacking on the fly Car #3 - User Access: Hacking(6) +Exploit Specialization(2) + Exploit(6) + Hot Sim(2) [4,5,4,4,2,3,1,4,1,4,3,1,1,1,2,5] = 2 hits
- [6,4,4,4,3,1,2,2,3,3,6,3,2,4,1] =2 hits (4 hits total)
Hacking on the fly Car #4 - User Access: Hacking(6) +Exploit Specialization(2) + Exploit(6) + Hot Sim(2) [6,2,6,4,2,1,6,4,2,1,5,1,2,4,4,4] = 4 hits

Loaded programs: Stealth, Exploit, Command, Decrypt, Analyze, Edit, Bio Feedback Filter, Encrypt, Scan, Sniff, Spoof (Response depreciated to R5; No effect on System)
Hacking on the Fly for Security Access:
- Hacking(6) +Exploit Specialization(2) + Exploit(6) + Hot Sim(2) [1,4,5,1,5,5,6,6,6,6,1,2,2,1,5,1] = 8 hits
- If the firewall is 6, instead of 5, I will spend edge to reroll: [1,5,2,3,2,2,5,3] = 2 hits

Do I need to decrypt?

Redjack--To confirm, you're kicking down the door on the HSE public node. It is not encrypted.

Redjack sorry wasn't pushing the smash and grab but more looking for the next part of the original plan which I thought involved you doing the digital dance and us grabbing the employee you selected. We were doing recon on the site and grabbing our employee but I think either works fine and frankly getting things moving again would be awesome. This is just a side step from the main storyline so I'm not feeling a great need for it to take too much time from it.

Let's commit crimes!

Brock is willing able and ready. With his head gear on he will be hard to I'd lol

I thought I had the private node from the subscriptions or connections of the security account I compromised last time. If not, I'll start with the public node.

No problem. Just trying to keep from getting us into an ambush like the campus and getting caught like my last foray into HSE. We have the team members on site for smash and grab; I'll try to work my way into the system and if that fails we drop back and punt... err hail mary.. err smash & grab.

I agree. We were floundering a bit and need to get back on track to the main event.

To be clear, nothing in any of your research has shown any connection between the Security Consultant whose commlink you hacked and HSE. Also, your previous knowledge rolls told you the security system would likely be separate from the retail node, and hardwired to the cameras and security devices. Response time is 15-20 minutes, less for violent crime.

Meaning that it does not have a wireless component?

Are we all in the van?

Bye
Thanee

Redjack--Correct.

Thanee--Olethros is in the store unless you call him back. Dalma is at the safehouse, everyone else is in the van.

Ok. Changing this a bit now that the scene is getting clearer. Still hacking the cars, then hacking the mall parking security (that is where we are, correct?)
Loaded programs: Stealth, Exploit, Command, Decrypt, Analyze, Edit, Bio Feedback Filter, Encrypt, Scan, Sniff, Spoof (Response depreciated to R5; No effect on System)
Hacking on the Fly for Security Admin Access:
- Hacking(6) +Exploit Specialization(2) + Exploit(6) + Hot Sim(2) [1,4,5,1,5,5,6,6,6,6,1,2,2,1,5,1] = 8 hits
- If the firewall is 3+, I will spend edge to reroll: [1,5,2,3,2,2,5,3] = 2 hits

Penetrate the node with exploit:
Matrix Perception: Computer(4) + Analyze(6) + Hot Sim VR(2) [5,3,5,5,2,5,3,6,2,4,5,4] = 6 hits
- Alert status of the node
- Encryption state of node
- Hidden access to another node
- Access ID's of users/agents
- Running programs.

Please let me know if there is something here that does not jive...

Some preparations...

Casting Increase Intuition at F5 -> 2 hits
Drain Resistance vs DV 1 -> 7 hits

Drop and try again.

Casting Increase Intuition at F5 -> 4 hits (better )
Drain Resistance vs DV 1 -> 5 hits

Sustaining the spell via Sustaining Focus.

Intuition + Disguise using Facial Sculpt and Melanin Control -> 5 hits

Casting Fashion at F5 -> 4 hits
Drain Resistance vs DV 2 -> 7 hits

Casting Makeover at F5 -> 7 hits
Drain Resistance vs DV 2 -> 7 hits

Bye
Thanee