Rachel noticed that the lodge and the outer ward had been created by two different people. Both signatures she would recognize again if she felt them.
Also

The lodge is a permanent one at F10. It's build deliberately in the living room so that you could spend days on end in there (if you put something like a chemical toilet in there).

Or from Gladius, since he bought a boatload of reagents recently.

Okay lets take it slowly: Lets do the drone first.

Matrix perception drone: 11d6t5 6


She wants to see what the drone has seen, and if it is slaved to some other device trace that device.

I would guess that the reagents were used to reduce the drain of the ward.

An F10 ritual would generate 20 boxes of drain to be soaked. The ritualist could use 10 reagents to lower than by 1 box, down to a minimum of 2 boxes. So for 10 (initial offering) + 180 (drain reduction) = 190 reagents, you could do the ritual without baking your brain. You could use fewer, of course, if you were confident in your drain soak.

(Mato would not know this ICly so he won't be saying any of it.)

So, there is definitely a third party here, since they would not just use a spy drone to record themselves, right?

@Jack, I got the impression that we were done with hacking as the other tag is wiped clean. Did I understand correctly? (before I respond to Tam's text).

Also does any of them, or their friends publically posted anything about going hiking? (for my next post).

Which room are you looking at first?

Trouble finds footprints on the roof - heavy, large boots with deep imprints. Though no prints leading to them. Just two imprints, square in the middle of the gravel decked roof.

Using the RFID signal, the door opens and admits the team to the staircase and the elevator. At the top floor the transponder again works its magic and opens the heavy door into the condo. It takes a while for Trouble, AM and Rachel to get through the ward and across the doorstep, but once inside they see a spacious appartment with an open plan kitchen, a master bedroom with bathroom attached, a guest room, another bath, a work/study room, a small home gym, a storage room and the large living room, dominated by a hermetic lodge.

The place looks clean and organized. No stray papers, dust or anything out of place.

Several oil paintings decorate the walls - all of them seem to be from the recent 50 years and take on motives from the 6th world: The Great Ghost Dance, dragons in the sky, the horrors of the first arcology, a drug fuelled nightmare hellscape titled "Tempo" as well as the unmistakable Chicago crater, where Ares detonated an atomic bomb against the bugs.

The astral side is even more disturbing: A pervasive taint fills the room, raising the background count significantly. It has the feeling of rusty manacles closing around your wrists and ancles, weighing you down and demanding compliance. Trouble shudders in revulsion as her essense struggles to keep her moving.



The walls in the work room are covered with printed out diagrams


OOC: Arcane Knowledge Threshold 3