saw posts respond later today

sorry, my mother board went down Friday. Actually it's been glitching for about a week and the computer people came and took away the bad machine to make it into a good machine.

Summoning Roll:

8 dice: 2 hits
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Opposed test:
no hits
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Drain dv 2 minimum
3 hits no drain
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2 services owed.

1 remain in Astral space and protect the vehicle and it's occupants from attack from astral based beings.

Aeryn is sure that the location is from a video camera on the somewhere just outside of the Redmond Barrens where they picked up the first package.

Can i locate it hack it and see if i can pick up the trail from the security logs?

You'd need to get in range of it, since its matrix connection is either hidden or hardwired.

What if we sent a small drone to the cam? Could i go through its link?

ok, new rule, no more 'intigrated video cards' cause I've now had one go bad after a little over a year and one that was crap when I got it, and both took down my machine for at least a day. These things suck.

As to current security issues, I say just brute force defend our comms and lets try to keep moving. If we keep moving it makes it significantly harder to set up a hit on us. The only problem is going to be returning the SUV and the fact that we're going to have to be at a certain place at a certain time to make the exchange. Almost every kidnapping-for-ransom goes bad at the exchange of goods for dollars. Do we know exactly where we're supposed to be doing this exchange yet? Like enough for us to get a map of the area?

To save a little (or a lot) digging through the old posts, the team has not bee implicitly told where to make the drop off of the case. They might assume the original pickup location.

Should we contact the johnson then and get instructions since its comeing back to him?

Her, actually. And yeah, she only said that we would deliver the package back to the Puyallups. Calling her makes sense... but first we should get Aeryn's car.

Bye
Thanee

I will drop a map and travel times up in a few days, as time allows.

This would be good to know... roughly

- Time to reach drop-off from current location.
- Time to reach where we have to bring the car back to from current location.
- Time to reach drop-off from where we have to bring the car back to.
- Whether it is feasible to bring the car back and then drive to drop-off from there, probably have to go to car wash first.
- Does the package fit into Aeryn's car (Comet) and how many passengers could be transportet in addition?
- Until when (time) do we have to bring the car back?
- When do we have to get our bikes from the storage?

Bye
Thanee

hey all just wanted to say happy halloween, enjoy and be safe.

Okay, I little bit of prep work.

One, is Collateral's commlink better than my commlink? Cynic has a Novatech Airware w/Iris Orb OS. I'm asking because I think we can make use of the commlink but whichever one we use may be a complete loss.

I'm thinking in terms of the exchange and how we prep for the meet. One, the other side knows all about our team from the initial meet with the Johnson but that meet included Collateral and didn't include Quicksilver. If they are planning an ambush for us they'll be looking for all of the team members who were there and the most likely way they're tracking that would be comm signature. In an effort to prep the battle field we could set the commlink to broadcast subtlely stash it in a position which would afford someone holding it a decent 'sniper' position over the meeting. If the other side intercepts the broadcast it'll hopefully give them something to worry about or in the worst case another target to waste fire upon rather than a live body.

What I was thinking was take the crappiest commlink in the group, load Collateral's stuff into it and use it as an electronic 'dummy' to add a safety factor to our meeting.

Also, since the people meeting us are likely to know an awful lot about us, I was kind of thinking that we'd only show the people at the exchange part of our strength, like Zion and Cynic, with Aeryn running combat/recon drones nearby for cover and Quicksilver nearby for emergency back up.

We'll obviously need a better idea of the situation. I was just thinking in terms of gimmicks and tricks which might help.

Don't expect too much in terms of combat droning from Aeryn. She's no rigger in the classical sense.

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Thanee

We'll need something to provide firepower. My guy has spell capabilities but I'd be shocked if they didn't plan for that. If we end up in a bad spot where is our firepower going to come from? What are the odds of us getting our hands on a Doberman tracked drone? It comes with an LMG and if we pay for some kind of increased AI functions that would be a big help. It's about 3000 standard so maybe 5000 total with upgrades I'd say.

Aeryn does own a Doberman (with grenade launcher), but she doesn't carry it around in her handbag, I'm afraid.

Firepower... Zion?

Aeryn only carries a light pistol, but at least she is a pretty good shot with it.

Bye
Thanee

So far this has been a low combat run, which is just the way I like it, but we ought to at least have the capability. An ounce of prevention is better than. . . .

It may not be important, I mean we are unlikely to need it, but I reviewed our group and realized that we're awful light on firepower, especially when it comes to being intimidating at the meeting to convince the other guy it's better to buy than to just take.

zion is good in close but as far as scary looking he is not, he has explosive ammo but not a lot of it if we go up against a group of trolls i think we are goin to have to make a tactical retreat lol. other then that though i think we will be ok if its just gangers or another small group. if its corp then we will be hosed.

sorry for the absence but i could not log into DS for the last 4 days.. looks resolved now

As far as colaterals com ID i should be able to spoof that signal to come from almost anyplace..or ours as well if needed.

For drones my self and my agent have controle 5 programs we could use.. not sure how much help that is.
I have gunnery and remore opperations for jumping in to almost anything. no controle rig

Ok. Sorry for the disappearing act, I've only had time for short posts. We finally poured the concrete Saturday. Short story is I have a buddy who thought he knew about pouring concrete. Luckily, I had another buddy who does and bailed us out.

Satyr - You wouldn't believe how much nicer the garage looks with concrete.

Minimum time: 40 minutes
Aeryn's sedan is at her doss. I think that is in Loveland, Puyallup Barrens. 10-15 minutes due west. Her bike is at the parking lot in Puyallup City, N-NE. Mike's garage (where the suburban needs to be returned to) is minutes Aeryn's doss.
~40 minutes
I don't understand this one. Bring the car back then drive to the drop off?
The package is smaller than the coffin delivered to the Tir. It could be squeezed into the back seat, then three people could squeeze into the from of the sedan.
10pm tonight. You picked it up Saturday night. 500 /day.
Cynic's bike is prepaid until 04:12:12 tomorrow morning. Aeryn's is prepaid until 04:14:36 Tuesday morning. Zion's is at his apartment building in North Puyallup City.

The doberman does fit in her sedan's trunk

Many thanks.



Sounds like fun.



You know that better than I do, so I'll trust you on that.



Sorry. Bring Suburban back to Mike (if we have enough time, we should prolly wash the Suburban first, but I guess that's out of question, right? ). Then drive to our rendevouz with the Sedan.

Speaking of which... Aeryn is currently remote driving her car from her place to their current location (posted that a bit earlier but still on the last IC page).



Ok, that sounds workable, I guess. But we are four now, so we will need the bikes (or at the very least, one of them).



Well, then we might get some extra firepower if needed.

Bye
Thanee

Glad you pulled it out.. breaking up a truckload of concreat blows with out the rite explosives.

I had my new PC die so ive been out for a week but i should have limited acces now.

for the record if youre PC suddenly sounds like you stuffed a bag of cats in it .. its not a good thing.

what if they sounds like a room full of banshees lol, just kidding suck that your PC died i had that happen to my dell once or twice and RJ had to bail me out.

Ok. What's the plan folks?

I would say we switch cars and get at least one bike, then head to the meet.

Bye
Thanee

i agree we should get rid fo the ride we have now and change vehicles.

I'm okay with ditching the vehicle, I could pick up my bike if we need to, let me know.

On second thought, we should get two bikes. Aeryn and Quicksilver in the car + the package on the backseat. Zion and Cynic on bike.

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Thanee

im ok with swapping cars

Looks like two bikes + Aeryn's car for the meet. Unless there are further alterations, I will post up either Friday or Saturday.

quickie if we are heading to a "A" district. i will make sure to leave all my ex ammo and smg along with all my firearms at my dos when i pick up my bike also i will put on more appropriete clothing for the section of town we are heading to, although i will still be wearing my vest. just with slacks instead of camo lol.

Makes sense.

Does Aeryn know a good route to the destination? (Smuggling Routes)
What kind of security checks or patrols can we expect on the way? (Lonestar Procedures)

3 hits each

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Thanee

I started to work up an extended post and realized that I'm not quite sure of the specifics. I think you are taking the suburban to the parking garage and get Cynic's bike, then onward to get Zion's bike, then back to Mike's garage to change out the suburban for Aeryn's car then on to the meet. Right?
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Smuggling route aren't very effective to get to the drop off point, but Lone Star procedures will yield considerable information.

Once you reach an "A" rated neighborhood there will be traffic drones running random checks on licensing. Upgraded models will also have weapon detectors. Response times will be under three minutes if police are called out and SWAT will be called out if superior firepower is leveled. Police watchers also patrol looking for powerful or combat magic use in public areas.
Zion is right to ditch his EX ammo. A silenced weapon might be unnoticed, but EX ammo will negate that.
If you look like you don't belong, you will gain additional scrutiny and potentially a stop by an officer or two for questioning.

If time permits, I would like to do the following...

- get Aeryn's car (already on it via remote)
- get Zion's and Cynic's bikes
- on the way, drop off equipment we don't want to carry with us
- at least get some sort of blanket to cover the package on the back
- get the Suburban to Car-Wash (optional, but would probably be appropriate)
- get the Suburban to Mike (potentially via remote/autopilot)

Bye
Thanee

I can ditch the armor jacket and plan to stay on matrix watch to guard agaainst intrusion of our links.

curently i have all the coms linked including colaterals and the suburbans slaved to my com i have 2 r5 IC watching for intrusion and my r5 agent as well as myself. If we need info from the matrix ill search for it from my com and pass the info to the others.

Redjack how long would it take to hack a delivery service and grab thier info? we would need some employee IDs/ sins a permit/ license number and an invoice for delivery in the A zone?

Im not sure we have the time for that involved of a hack. ..failing that can we purchace a quick and dirty package of what we are looking for from some of our contacts and or black market resorces?

throw away IDs and a false vertiual buisnes card with an invoice to deliver where we are going

thats pretty in depth, i think if you can just hack some delivery company and take thier info and do a excel equivalent in this day of age we can just use that for a manifest, if we are goin for the whole delivery service us being in our suits would be kind of off set but if we were a private courier we could all wear our business attire such as a suit or nice clothing and go from there seeing as it is a A neighborhood they wouldn't unaccostumed to that type of thing would they?

PING

Anyone still with me?

yeah im here brother.

Up and running. I'm not sure I have any input at this point but I'm still tracking

Cedric

Of course.

Bye
Thanee

Couple of more items. (1) If a slaved device loses its connection to its master it is effectively disconnected from the matrix because it is ignoring all signals not from the master, proxying all connections to the matrix thereto. (2) There is an inherent problem with slaving a com to another com. (a) A slave cannot have slaves because the slave will only communicate with its master. The owner of a slaved com usually wants to use that comlink. They do that via their peripherals: Image link contacts, trodes, etc. Those devices have a signal of 0 (3 meters). They must proxy all communications via the master. So the team must be within 1 meter of each other at all times or the owners of the slaved coms lose connection to them. (3) With a System rating of 5 you are limited to 10 slaved devices: Coms, drones, I/O devices (image link, trodes, etc).

Slaving works well for everything except other people's coms.

Depends on whether you are hacking on the fly or probing first. See BBB 221 for Hacking on the Fly and Probing the Target.

Package of what?

You have but to contact your fixer and do some shopping.

I pinged Little Johnson to make sure he's still with us.

@Thanee
Give me an edge roll for Aeryn (that is simply a roll of the dice equal to her edge attribute.)

Here you are

Bye
Thanee

@All
Little Johnson is having extreme PC problems is unable to use a PC he can access Dumpshock with atm. He is expecting to be back next week. With the holiday, I won't push us forward too much, giving him time to get those issues sorted out and us through the holiday.

@Thanee
Outstanding!

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Located. In Progress...


Next step.


Ok, assuming Aeryn will ship off the Suburban on autopilot to the car wash, then Mike's that wraps up that loose end.
The package is in the car and the team has several of their bikes.

Let me know the next steps. If Little Johnson is able to email me his plans, I will post those, rolling as needed.
Feel free to post either IC or OOC working out the remaining details and next steps.

are at a stand still RJ? been a while since i have heard anything just wanted to make sure we were still on board.

Yeah, now that the christmas season is over, we should probably get on the road again...

Bye
Thanee

Ok. I sympathize with Little Johnson's PC issues, but the game must go on. I will robot him until his player is able to re-appear.

Let's work out the remaining details through IC and OOC and finish this run. We are just a few scenes from bagging this one.