That was my concern as well. Jack being able to bring his Colt M23 is great... having to try to ride public transit with it not so much. It almost seems like, given the unique nature of Denver, there would be a thriving equipment rental/lease program for criminals (LOL).

Not sure what to do at this point. Mel is running her Matrix searches... I guess we could look up what the transit requirements are IC and notice that we would need to have CAS permits for our Restricted gear and cyberware, which might put the brakes on our plans to try to cross over the border semi-legally.

... one option would be for Mel to give us her gear while she drives Grease's car across the border with absolutely nothing of consequence inside of it. With that said, I'm not sure how border guards would handle someone driving a vehicle across an international border that isn't registered to them. Additionally, we just met Mel, would she really entrust a super-expensive cyberdeck to us?

There are an awful lot of unknowns. Maybe we should just fast forward to the meet with Onyx and have him/her (in an entirely IC context) give us our actual options and not waste time considering the stuff that is going to bring this run to a rather quick end.

I do think we need to get two shock-proof, preferably discrete cases for the items. Lots of bubble wrap too...

I just feel compelled to point out that we can all still get things taken care of if we're visiting the Ascension host in AR, given that time is somewhat of the essence. Since it isn't a call per se, we all can just login to the host and look for the dude all in black (hopefully there are not more than one).

Onyx's Info: I was going to actually offer him money from the get go to tell us about the border (a deposit towards any fee he might charge us for actual services rendered, of course), but sort of forgot that plan. Oops...

Just a note: I have an event tonight and won't get home until late in the evening. Tomorrow, I have an AM meeting, then a 4-hour drive, a HS football game, and then a 4-hour drive back, so I may not be on all that much tomorrow.

Busy busy Four hour drive for a HS football game - that's a serious commitment...

@Grease

1) A minor point, but Mel's persona icon has a tragedy mask, like this - so you can't actually see her features.

2) You can send Mel over in the cab certainly - just remember that she would be the only one that could take the cab back, since none of the rest of you will have visas stamped as entering the zone. (Not trying to nix the plan, just throwing it out there so that you realize that you are going to have to have the three of you use the coyote both ways).

I agree with the thought process. If border patrol will let her through in the taxi, that would work for us. Although there is still the question of the deck...

I probably should have said I would have attempted a Negotiation teamwork test to help Grease, but let's see what Mel says.

I'm not 100% convinced bribery is off the table, but at the same time it would be an expensive mistake if it was..

-DrZ

True, but he has an agenda. He doesn't make any money if we go that route.

@Lobo; As I am excited to go on this Matrix run, if you notice, I didn't actually agree to Onyx...I was getting the go-ahead from the others via Commlink before I committed unilaterally.

ETA: Does switching from Cold Sim to Hot Sim require me to jack out, then back? Because if possible, I'd like to do so leaving Ascension before going to the private host. Let me know if there are any issues with that...

Let's have the Grid, plus Attack and Firewall.

I attempt to Hack on the Fly to put a mark on the host, and after doing that, I will begin to run silent.

Just FYI, you probably can get away with not running silent while pulling the Matrix Search. A MARK is considered legitimate, so until you perform an illegal action in the Host, you shouldn't have to worry about Patrol IC (assuming Lobo isn't going to be a dick and say that the Patrol ICs instructions are to check every persona icon for an Attack attribute, indicating they are a decker, LOL).

Is everything running silent? Normally, the only time a matrix perception check is resisted is if the icon is running silent. Just wondering, it wouldn't surprise me for what seems to be a relatively private host.

Wait... is my CAS fixer Eve Myles?

You get 2 hits, so you can have 2 questions answered, this time they can be:

• The most recent edit date of a file.
• The presence of a data bomb on a file.
• Whether a file is protected, and at what rating.

@Lobo, if you don't mind, I'd like you to continue to write the IC posts, just for this mission. I just want to get the full hang of this kind of run first. Thanks!

@Lobo: Don't know if you saw it, but I posted my questions answered before you posted your request for them. Just look one post back...