Tom moves into position to take out the guards.
once in position he sets up his rifel subsonic rounds in one half of the duel clip and hollow points in the other half.
He also sets aside a clip of explosive ammo just incase.
Full Version: IC: Phoenix Rising
--Friday April 11th, 2070 at 2330 - Bainbridge Island, Eagledale--
Taking care to make sure everything is safely stowed in the water-proof pockets of his jumpsuit, Gecko slips quietly into the water some distance back up the shore. He picks his way cautiously along the bottom avoiding the rubbish often found on the bottom of harbours and keeping a low profile on the off-chance that there are more sensors below the waterline.
In the lee of one of the two smaller piers that ran east/west he pushed a Fiber-optic waveguide above the surface and plugged the end of a reel of Fiber into it. After a few moments his comm-link was able to align with the laser link on the Sat-comm.
<<sat-channel-1-encrypted>>
Nearly in position. I think this facility may be built over the water to some extent, I'm going to examine the structure when I get closer, see if I can't get in underneath. If not I'll try the optical tap.
Reeling the fiber-optic line out behind him he glided across the bottom to the south-east corner of the facility. When he got there he pressed his RADAR sensor up against the Plascrete wall. RADAR was useless underwater but it would be able to tell him how thick the wall was and what might lie behind it...
Taking care to make sure everything is safely stowed in the water-proof pockets of his jumpsuit, Gecko slips quietly into the water some distance back up the shore. He picks his way cautiously along the bottom avoiding the rubbish often found on the bottom of harbours and keeping a low profile on the off-chance that there are more sensors below the waterline.
[ Spoiler ]
In the lee of one of the two smaller piers that ran east/west he pushed a Fiber-optic waveguide above the surface and plugged the end of a reel of Fiber into it. After a few moments his comm-link was able to align with the laser link on the Sat-comm.
<<sat-channel-1-encrypted>>
Nearly in position. I think this facility may be built over the water to some extent, I'm going to examine the structure when I get closer, see if I can't get in underneath. If not I'll try the optical tap.
Reeling the fiber-optic line out behind him he glided across the bottom to the south-east corner of the facility. When he got there he pressed his RADAR sensor up against the Plascrete wall. RADAR was useless underwater but it would be able to tell him how thick the wall was and what might lie behind it...
--Friday April 11th, 2070 at 2330 - Bainbridge Island, Eagledale--
Team Chat Channel:
<<Let me see what I can do, Truth. Jake, I am off to hack the restaurant's node.>>
DD orders her agent to keep supervising the team's communication, and starts looking for a way into the restaurant's node. The neon green stylised woman that is her icon swirling around the access point of the restaurants matrix presence, molding herself into a waitress icon.
Team Chat Channel:
<<Let me see what I can do, Truth. Jake, I am off to hack the restaurant's node.>>
DD orders her agent to keep supervising the team's communication, and starts looking for a way into the restaurant's node. The neon green stylised woman that is her icon swirling around the access point of the restaurants matrix presence, molding herself into a waitress icon.
[ Spoiler ]
--Friday April 11th, 2070 at 2330 - Bainbridge Island, Eagledale--
<<Team Chat Channel>>
<<I can hit them with a stun ball if you want, it covers an area and should puteveryone in the area out of commision for a few hours without hurting them. I can hit all of them if they are within a 20 meter circle...I'd be better if they were within a 10 meter circle so I don't have to push myself as much, but a 20 meter circle would definitely be enough to put them all out.>>
Charlie swaps her senses over to the astral plane to look around at the area, trying to see whats there, be it wards, spirits, or astral projecting mages.
<<Team Chat Channel>>
<<I can hit them with a stun ball if you want, it covers an area and should puteveryone in the area out of commision for a few hours without hurting them. I can hit all of them if they are within a 20 meter circle...I'd be better if they were within a 10 meter circle so I don't have to push myself as much, but a 20 meter circle would definitely be enough to put them all out.>>
Charlie swaps her senses over to the astral plane to look around at the area, trying to see whats there, be it wards, spirits, or astral projecting mages.
[ Spoiler ]
--Friday April 11th, 2070 at 2330 - Bainbridge Island, Eagledale--
Ralph sits quietly monitoring the feed from Gecko keeping alert for anything out of place.
Ralph sits quietly monitoring the feed from Gecko keeping alert for anything out of place.
[ Spoiler ]
--Friday April 11th, 2070 at 2330 – Eagledale Harbor, Bainbridge Island, Seattle—
The interior of the compound is bathed in yellow, blue, and purple AR objects, labeled as fence mounted sensor ranges for ultrasound, wideband radar, and motion detectors. The digital rainbow extends to just outside the fence.
<<�Good news, everybody. I was looking at the atmospheric signal decay from their wideband RADAR sensors and the patterns didn’t make sense, so I looked at the signal strengths and phases from the ultrasound emitters. Those were screwed up, too. Then it hit me. Their coverage outside the fence is almost non-existent and most of what I was getting was the signal coming through the building from the directional sensors on the far side. The whole detection network is set up to find people who are either in contact with the fence to tamper with the sensors, or have already breeched it and are headed for the building. Makes sense really. With all the deer on the island and all the boats in the harbor, anything reading more than a few meters from the fence would be going off constantly.�>>
The entire site is suddenly bathed in a pale pink surrounding the facility that extends well over a hundred meters past the boat’s position, and almost all the way across the bay.
<<�But don’t get sloppy just yet. The pink is their theoretical detection range. Everything I’m reading shows that these things are turned way, way, way down to reduce the number of false alarms, and attract less attention. Oh, and they’re all hardwired. But I think we all knew that already.�>>
The interior of the compound is bathed in yellow, blue, and purple AR objects, labeled as fence mounted sensor ranges for ultrasound, wideband radar, and motion detectors. The digital rainbow extends to just outside the fence.
<<�Good news, everybody. I was looking at the atmospheric signal decay from their wideband RADAR sensors and the patterns didn’t make sense, so I looked at the signal strengths and phases from the ultrasound emitters. Those were screwed up, too. Then it hit me. Their coverage outside the fence is almost non-existent and most of what I was getting was the signal coming through the building from the directional sensors on the far side. The whole detection network is set up to find people who are either in contact with the fence to tamper with the sensors, or have already breeched it and are headed for the building. Makes sense really. With all the deer on the island and all the boats in the harbor, anything reading more than a few meters from the fence would be going off constantly.�>>
The entire site is suddenly bathed in a pale pink surrounding the facility that extends well over a hundred meters past the boat’s position, and almost all the way across the bay.
<<�But don’t get sloppy just yet. The pink is their theoretical detection range. Everything I’m reading shows that these things are turned way, way, way down to reduce the number of false alarms, and attract less attention. Oh, and they’re all hardwired. But I think we all knew that already.�>>
--Friday April 11th, 2070 at 2330 ��" Eagledale Harbor, Bainbridge Island, Seattle��"
<<Teamchat>>
<<There are two Force 4 Fire Spirits floating around the compound. We are going to have to deal with them when we deal with the guards guys.>>
<<Teamchat>>
<<There are two Force 4 Fire Spirits floating around the compound. We are going to have to deal with them when we deal with the guards guys.>>
[ Spoiler ]
--Friday April 11th, 2070 at 2330 – Eagledale Harbor, Bainbridge Island, Seattle—
<<sat-channel-1-encrypted>>
Relax guy's, there's no need to interfere with the guards if we don't have to.
Nice work Truth. Things are looking up here.
The south side of the facility is actually built on piles over the water. They've walled them in with Plascrete but it only follows the line of the fencing. There is a huge sensor blind-spot under the platform at the end of the two north-south piers. Even if they were to jack the sensors all the way up they would still be blind under there.
I'm going to head across there and put a probe through the wall, there is a good chance that the wiring for the fancy sensors runs through that dead space. If not it might well make a good route in or out.
Stealthily he glided back across the bottom of the bay to the waveguide he had placed earlier and used it to re-direct the LASER beam from the Sat-comm on the shore below the waterline to a second waveguide. Running the beam underwater would greatly reduce the range of the beam. He would probably have to put in a repeater after only 4 klicks instead of 10. He places another three of the little waveguides, just little lengths of fiber-optic wire mounted on a rotating track and concealed to look like something innocuous, mostly security sensors in this case, as he made his way along the sea floor to the shadow of the platform and then the hastily erected Plascrete wall designed to keep the likes of him out of this facility.
Carefully and quietly he crawled up out of the water until he was tucked into the corner formed by the wall and the platform above.
Now he drew a number of small bits and pieces from various pockets and started to assemble the drill.
He knew a Traceur who used his skills to access odd places to run fibre, power cables and the like into old buildings and he'd been amazed when he'd first seen him use his mono-filament drill to run an endoscope into a derelict building they had wanted to explore. A low powered electric motor or hand crank, a screw rod and a loop of mono-filament could do in seconds what old fashioned Tungsten-Carbide drill bits struggled to do at all.
Pierre always said that the Mono-filament chainsaw was an abomination and the last refuge of lunatics and poseurs.
It was the work of a few moments to drive a 3mm bore right through the Plascrete barrier. Tiny shavings of the material drifted silently down onto water like mad industrial pencil sharpenings.
Gecko slipped the signal probe through the hole and tasked one of his new IC constructs to examine the data feed.
DD's busy and I need to know if this software is up to the job anyway.
<<sat-channel-1-encrypted>>
Relax guy's, there's no need to interfere with the guards if we don't have to.
Nice work Truth. Things are looking up here.
The south side of the facility is actually built on piles over the water. They've walled them in with Plascrete but it only follows the line of the fencing. There is a huge sensor blind-spot under the platform at the end of the two north-south piers. Even if they were to jack the sensors all the way up they would still be blind under there.
I'm going to head across there and put a probe through the wall, there is a good chance that the wiring for the fancy sensors runs through that dead space. If not it might well make a good route in or out.
Stealthily he glided back across the bottom of the bay to the waveguide he had placed earlier and used it to re-direct the LASER beam from the Sat-comm on the shore below the waterline to a second waveguide. Running the beam underwater would greatly reduce the range of the beam. He would probably have to put in a repeater after only 4 klicks instead of 10. He places another three of the little waveguides, just little lengths of fiber-optic wire mounted on a rotating track and concealed to look like something innocuous, mostly security sensors in this case, as he made his way along the sea floor to the shadow of the platform and then the hastily erected Plascrete wall designed to keep the likes of him out of this facility.
Carefully and quietly he crawled up out of the water until he was tucked into the corner formed by the wall and the platform above.
[ Spoiler ]
Now he drew a number of small bits and pieces from various pockets and started to assemble the drill.
He knew a Traceur who used his skills to access odd places to run fibre, power cables and the like into old buildings and he'd been amazed when he'd first seen him use his mono-filament drill to run an endoscope into a derelict building they had wanted to explore. A low powered electric motor or hand crank, a screw rod and a loop of mono-filament could do in seconds what old fashioned Tungsten-Carbide drill bits struggled to do at all.
Pierre always said that the Mono-filament chainsaw was an abomination and the last refuge of lunatics and poseurs.
It was the work of a few moments to drive a 3mm bore right through the Plascrete barrier. Tiny shavings of the material drifted silently down onto water like mad industrial pencil sharpenings.
Gecko slipped the signal probe through the hole and tasked one of his new IC constructs to examine the data feed.
DD's busy and I need to know if this software is up to the job anyway.
[ Spoiler ]
--Friday April 11th, 2070 at 2330 – Eagledale Harbor, Bainbridge Island, Seattle--
When those of you who are in place looking over the compound see that two soliders (the third some see in astral but not physically). There standing by the enplacement eating there MRE's (except the one you cann't see) but there in Military Grade Armor "Heavy Duity Armor", the contact officer is packing a Ares Alpha on a combat sling a Ares Predator on his right leg a Cougar fineblade in the small of his back, a stun baton on his left hip, and some grenades. The solider in the enpalcement is packing a Ares MP-LMG, Ares Predator on his leg, a cougar fineblade in the small of his back, a stun baton on his left hip, and some grenades.
When those of you who are in place looking over the compound see that two soliders (the third some see in astral but not physically). There standing by the enplacement eating there MRE's (except the one you cann't see) but there in Military Grade Armor "Heavy Duity Armor", the contact officer is packing a Ares Alpha on a combat sling a Ares Predator on his right leg a Cougar fineblade in the small of his back, a stun baton on his left hip, and some grenades. The solider in the enpalcement is packing a Ares MP-LMG, Ares Predator on his leg, a cougar fineblade in the small of his back, a stun baton on his left hip, and some grenades.
--Friday April 11th, 2070 at 2330 – Eagledale Harbor, Bainbridge Island, Seattle--
<<Chat>>
<<Dancing Eyes, I can catch all of the soldiers and one of the spirits in my Stunball, but I'll need you to take out the spirit that's further from the guards. Can you handle a force 4 spirit with your stunbolt?>>
<<Chat>>
<<Dancing Eyes, I can catch all of the soldiers and one of the spirits in my Stunball, but I'll need you to take out the spirit that's further from the guards. Can you handle a force 4 spirit with your stunbolt?>>
--Friday April 11th, 2070 at 2330 – Eagledale Harbor, Bainbridge Island, Seattle--
<<sat-channel-1-encrypted>>
Relax Charlie, don't start taking pot shots at the guards. I'm making progress here.
<<sat-channel-1-encrypted>>
Relax Charlie, don't start taking pot shots at the guards. I'm making progress here.
--Friday April 11th, 2070 at 2330 – Eagledale Harbor, Bainbridge Island, Seattle--
Not going over the fence is starting to look like a very good plan.
Carefully he unclipped the end of the endoscope from the end of his smartgun and fed it slowly through the hole he had created. He attached it to a hi-res camera and started to peer around the space behind the wall.
Now what have we down here?
<<sat-channel-1-encrypted>>
Ralph, are you getting all this?
Not going over the fence is starting to look like a very good plan.
Carefully he unclipped the end of the endoscope from the end of his smartgun and fed it slowly through the hole he had created. He attached it to a hi-res camera and started to peer around the space behind the wall.
Now what have we down here?
[ Spoiler ]
<<sat-channel-1-encrypted>>
Ralph, are you getting all this?
--Friday April 11th, 2070 at 2330 – Eagledale Harbor, Bainbridge Island, Seattle--
<<sat-channel-1-encrypted>>
Ralph, did you notice anything unusual? I'm going to send a drone in to check it out.
Slowly he drills another five parallel holes in the wall to form the apexes of a hexagonal column about 3 inches across. He drills a sixth shaft at a shallow angle from the lower third of the front face of the hexagon into one to the holes he has already drilled. Threading a short length of rappelling line through this last hole he forms a lanyard and ties it off at his waist.
<<sat-channel-1-encrypted>>
OK, this might make a little noise but I'll try to keep it to a minimum. Keep your eyes peeled.
He focussed his Mana and wreathed his hand in a compressed shock-wave of high pressure plasma and wrapped the other end of his climbing line into a thick ball around his wrist hoping it would muffle the noise of the impact.
Careful to judge the blow so that at full extension his fist would only penetrate an inch or so, he balled his fist and struck.
<<sat-channel-1-encrypted>>
Ralph, did you notice anything unusual? I'm going to send a drone in to check it out.
Slowly he drills another five parallel holes in the wall to form the apexes of a hexagonal column about 3 inches across. He drills a sixth shaft at a shallow angle from the lower third of the front face of the hexagon into one to the holes he has already drilled. Threading a short length of rappelling line through this last hole he forms a lanyard and ties it off at his waist.
<<sat-channel-1-encrypted>>
OK, this might make a little noise but I'll try to keep it to a minimum. Keep your eyes peeled.
He focussed his Mana and wreathed his hand in a compressed shock-wave of high pressure plasma and wrapped the other end of his climbing line into a thick ball around his wrist hoping it would muffle the noise of the impact.
[ Spoiler ]
Careful to judge the blow so that at full extension his fist would only penetrate an inch or so, he balled his fist and struck.
[ Spoiler ]
--Friday April 11th, 2070 at 2330 - Eagledale Harbor, Bainbridge Island, Seattle--
data theft team
With a barley auditabel "Smack", As the dust cleared there before everyone eyes is a hole in the area of the drilled plascrete.
The ones watching astral see a guard look in the dircetion of Gecko... After a second or two he starting walking the fence line.
-eidted-
data theft team
With a barley auditabel "Smack", As the dust cleared there before everyone eyes is a hole in the area of the drilled plascrete.
[ Spoiler ]
The ones watching astral see a guard look in the dircetion of Gecko... After a second or two he starting walking the fence line.
[ Spoiler ]
-eidted-
--Friday April 11th, 2070 at 2330 - Eagledale Harbor, Bainbridge Island, Seattle--
DD enters the restaurant's system without any trouble, installing a back door as a security account for Truth.
Team Chat Channel:
<<'ere's access to the cameras, Truth.>>
DD enters the restaurant's system without any trouble, installing a back door as a security account for Truth.
Team Chat Channel:
<<'ere's access to the cameras, Truth.>>
--Friday April 11th, 2070 at 2330 - Renton--
Sitting in the back of Winstons car, Etoile idly runs through her routine gear checks, making sure everything is in place and ready for use at a moments notice.
Team Chat - Encrypted <<We 'ave been following 'er with your directions Truth, just give us the word and we'll move into position and strike. Or if it is required Noowan can always move in and rig 'er car to explode.>>
Sitting in the back of Winstons car, Etoile idly runs through her routine gear checks, making sure everything is in place and ready for use at a moments notice.
Team Chat - Encrypted <<We 'ave been following 'er with your directions Truth, just give us the word and we'll move into position and strike. Or if it is required Noowan can always move in and rig 'er car to explode.>>
--Friday April 11th, 2070 at 2330 - Eagledale Harbor, Bainbridge Island, Seattle--
Working quickly Gecko snapped the fiber on the reel into the port on Lil'Gecko and pushed both into the new hole. He followed that up with one of his spare 'Links and a couple of sensor packages. He concealed another waveguide on the edge of the hole, connected it to the reel of fiber and slipped noiselessly back into the water.
The big lump of plascrete still tied to his waist became a comforting piece of ballast as he sank himself into the mud at the base of the wall and made like a rock.
Nothing to see here. Nothing to see here. Nothing to see here. Nothing to see here. Nothing to see here...
Working quickly Gecko snapped the fiber on the reel into the port on Lil'Gecko and pushed both into the new hole. He followed that up with one of his spare 'Links and a couple of sensor packages. He concealed another waveguide on the edge of the hole, connected it to the reel of fiber and slipped noiselessly back into the water.
The big lump of plascrete still tied to his waist became a comforting piece of ballast as he sank himself into the mud at the base of the wall and made like a rock.
Nothing to see here. Nothing to see here. Nothing to see here. Nothing to see here. Nothing to see here...
[ Spoiler ]
--Friday April 11th, 2070 at 2330 - Eagledale Harbor, Bainbridge Island, Seattle--
"And this is how we lost the element of surprise." Jake looks over at Charlie. "Get your sleep and stun spells ready, or whatever you can to make the guards not notice whatever Gecko just did. Illusions, suggestions. Wait for my signal." He unslings his pistol. "Otherwise, this is about to go downhill. Fast."
"And this is how we lost the element of surprise." Jake looks over at Charlie. "Get your sleep and stun spells ready, or whatever you can to make the guards not notice whatever Gecko just did. Illusions, suggestions. Wait for my signal." He unslings his pistol. "Otherwise, this is about to go downhill. Fast."
--Friday April 11th, 2070 at 2330 - Eagledale Harbor, Bainbridge Island, Seattle--
<<sat-channel-1-encrypted>>
Don't panic yet. Guard thought he heard a noise over this way. He ain't goin' to find anything. Unless he wants to go for a swim.
Let him walk the fence, reassure himself. He'll go back to his doughnuts in a minute.
<<sat-channel-1-encrypted>>
Don't panic yet. Guard thought he heard a noise over this way. He ain't goin' to find anything. Unless he wants to go for a swim.
Let him walk the fence, reassure himself. He'll go back to his doughnuts in a minute.
--Friday April 11th, 2070 at 2330 – Wanda’s Witchery, Renton, Seattle—
<<�Insert your own joke about girls who let you in the back door here.�>>
Truth loads the new ergonomic Stealth program, unsubscribes the clustered Kanmushis, and pokes his digital nose into the restaurant’s security node. He begins searching the security cameras for feeds of the doctor and her party. The ones that show them are routed out to everyone else in the network.
<<�As you can tell, we’re still working over here, Etoile. Things might or might not have just gone to hell, and you’ll know as fast as I do.>>
Meanwhile, outside, the LEBD-1 completes its’ orbit of the restaurant, noting additional exits and windows. The Rotodrone just keeps watching.
--Friday April 11th, 2070 at 2330 – Eagledale, Bainbridge Island, Seattle—
After tying the video from the restaurant into the network, Truth turns his attention to the communications traffic between the soldiers.
�Let’s see what these stormtrooper jackasses are up to.�
After taking a moment to sample the encrypted traffic, he unsubscribes the Fly-Spys to free up processor space and sets his Decrypt program on the job.
As soon as the Decrypt routine is done, Truth returns to manually tweaking antenna settings in the second gunship drone, hunting for wireless traffic between the soldiers’ PANs and anything other than each other.
<<�Insert your own joke about girls who let you in the back door here.�>>
Truth loads the new ergonomic Stealth program, unsubscribes the clustered Kanmushis, and pokes his digital nose into the restaurant’s security node. He begins searching the security cameras for feeds of the doctor and her party. The ones that show them are routed out to everyone else in the network.
[ Spoiler ]
<<�As you can tell, we’re still working over here, Etoile. Things might or might not have just gone to hell, and you’ll know as fast as I do.>>
Meanwhile, outside, the LEBD-1 completes its’ orbit of the restaurant, noting additional exits and windows. The Rotodrone just keeps watching.
--Friday April 11th, 2070 at 2330 – Eagledale, Bainbridge Island, Seattle—
After tying the video from the restaurant into the network, Truth turns his attention to the communications traffic between the soldiers.
�Let’s see what these stormtrooper jackasses are up to.�
After taking a moment to sample the encrypted traffic, he unsubscribes the Fly-Spys to free up processor space and sets his Decrypt program on the job.
[ Spoiler ]
As soon as the Decrypt routine is done, Truth returns to manually tweaking antenna settings in the second gunship drone, hunting for wireless traffic between the soldiers’ PANs and anything other than each other.
[ Spoiler ]
--Friday April 11th, 2070 at 2330 - Renton--
Team Chat - Encrypted <<There is the sound of Etoile muttering curses rapidly in French, then a sigh. Try and at least let 'er leave the restaurant before you raise the alarm, it would make life so much easier.>>
Team Chat - Encrypted <<There is the sound of Etoile muttering curses rapidly in French, then a sigh. Try and at least let 'er leave the restaurant before you raise the alarm, it would make life so much easier.>>
--Friday April 11th, 2070 at 2330 - Eagledale Harbor, Bainbridge Island, Seattle--
Tom Looks closely to see what the guard is doing.
Tom Looks closely to see what the guard is doing.
[ Spoiler ]
--Friday April 11th, 2070 at 2330 – Eagledale, Bainbridge Island, Seattle--
<"I certainly can handle such a foe, but let us not loose our arrows against that which we have not come to hunt. The guards are not yet a problem, not even the one who moves as a shadow. I can see him clearly from the spirit world.">
<"I certainly can handle such a foe, but let us not loose our arrows against that which we have not come to hunt. The guards are not yet a problem, not even the one who moves as a shadow. I can see him clearly from the spirit world.">
[ Spoiler ]
--Friday April 11th, 2070 at 2330 – Eagledale, Bainbridge Island, Seattle--
Data Theft Team
Chameleon Solider Perception Test:4d6 = 2 hits
The solider walkes by looking around but doesn't notice anything. He continues on walking the rest of the fence line.
Tom you see a fate outline of a solider walking the fence line.
Truth with in 18 seconds you decrypt there traffic, and you easly pickup there radio chatter.
Contact Officer (gate guard)"Allcock anything to report over there?"
Close Support (roving guard)"Negative Lt. I don't see or hear anything else, must have been a wave or something."
Overwatch (LMG guard)"I'd bet it's one of those Merrowes agian, remember that last month? First time I've seen one of the paracritters."
There is also biomonitor data being broadcasted.
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Data Theft Team
Chameleon Solider Perception Test:4d6 = 2 hits
The solider walkes by looking around but doesn't notice anything. He continues on walking the rest of the fence line.
Tom you see a fate outline of a solider walking the fence line.
Truth with in 18 seconds you decrypt there traffic, and you easly pickup there radio chatter.
Contact Officer (gate guard)"Allcock anything to report over there?"
Close Support (roving guard)"Negative Lt. I don't see or hear anything else, must have been a wave or something."
Overwatch (LMG guard)"I'd bet it's one of those Merrowes agian, remember that last month? First time I've seen one of the paracritters."
There is also biomonitor data being broadcasted.
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--Friday April 11th, 2070 at 2330 ��" Wanda’s Witchery, Renton, Seattle��"
<<One of the guards is walking over...can't see him physically, but I can see him astrally. Any spells I cast are going to be like a beacon to those Fire Elementals. No way around that, and while they don'r seem to be paying attention to us now, if we cast spells into the area they are gaurding they certainly will start caring. Spirits are real sticklers for how you word things.>>
<<I can do an illusion, but it'd be immediately obvious to either or both of the spirits on their next circuit around the fence if they didn't see it immediately. The bigger problem is when Dancing Eyes and I take out the spirits, their summoner is going to know the instant it happens. The summoner is going to go astral and get his butt here and see us if he's stupid which'll let us nail him, or he'll just call up whoever is in charge and sound an alarm if he isn't.>>
<Wait...I might be able to do something to the spirits...disable them without alerting their master. I just wish I'd learned Orgy instead of Orgasm. I can definitely get one, and most likely the other but the second one will have a second or two to react. None of the guards here would know anything is happening.>>
When the guard doesn't seem to have notied anything Charlie relaxes a bit. She is still trying to figure out the best way to disable the two spirits without setting off an Alarm.
<<Be aware that there are wards up on the building, so we wont be able to keep the spirits with us and concealing us if we need to go in, that'd set off the wards. I'd have to summon a new spirit once we are inside, and any spells I am sustaining against the spirits would have to drop too. I can keep them occupied but only from the outside.>>
<<One of the guards is walking over...can't see him physically, but I can see him astrally. Any spells I cast are going to be like a beacon to those Fire Elementals. No way around that, and while they don'r seem to be paying attention to us now, if we cast spells into the area they are gaurding they certainly will start caring. Spirits are real sticklers for how you word things.>>
<<I can do an illusion, but it'd be immediately obvious to either or both of the spirits on their next circuit around the fence if they didn't see it immediately. The bigger problem is when Dancing Eyes and I take out the spirits, their summoner is going to know the instant it happens. The summoner is going to go astral and get his butt here and see us if he's stupid which'll let us nail him, or he'll just call up whoever is in charge and sound an alarm if he isn't.>>
<Wait...I might be able to do something to the spirits...disable them without alerting their master. I just wish I'd learned Orgy instead of Orgasm. I can definitely get one, and most likely the other but the second one will have a second or two to react. None of the guards here would know anything is happening.>>
When the guard doesn't seem to have notied anything Charlie relaxes a bit. She is still trying to figure out the best way to disable the two spirits without setting off an Alarm.
<<Be aware that there are wards up on the building, so we wont be able to keep the spirits with us and concealing us if we need to go in, that'd set off the wards. I'd have to summon a new spirit once we are inside, and any spells I am sustaining against the spirits would have to drop too. I can keep them occupied but only from the outside.>>
--Friday April 11th, 2070 at 2330 ��" Eagledale, Bainbridge Island, Seattle��"
"Alright, it's getting close to go-time. Truth, are you picking up their PANs?" Jake reholsters the Ruger, and prepares to hack what he can through Truth's relays.
"Alright, it's getting close to go-time. Truth, are you picking up their PANs?" Jake reholsters the Ruger, and prepares to hack what he can through Truth's relays.
--Friday April 11th, 2070 at 2330 – Eagledale, Bainbridge Island, Seattle--
<<"Wireless security is a joke. All the useful encryption can't protect dynamic data like communications traffic. Everyone, us and them, might as well be screaming at each other with megaphones. We picked up their PANs before we even got here. I'd have intercepted their wireless traffic sooner, but I've been busy stalking Dr. Cummings.">>
Truth continues digging through the intercepted bundles of wireless data, looking for sensory data for a tactical AR network, and some indication that someone else in the UCAS military is in contact with the soldiers' commlinks.
Suddenly he stops, and begins digging through a seperate section of the mess of intercepted wireless traffic.
<<"You don't put in an alarm system like this without giving it a way to notify the guards that doesn't involve a giant horn and flashing lights. This system has to be connected to the matrix somehow, unless they're all walking around dragging 500 foot data cables. Gecko, what do you see on the underside of the pier? There should be some sort of maintenance access to get under there, and fiberoptic cable running to all the sensors. Is there anything infrastructure looking that goes out into the ground of the island?">>
<<"Wireless security is a joke. All the useful encryption can't protect dynamic data like communications traffic. Everyone, us and them, might as well be screaming at each other with megaphones. We picked up their PANs before we even got here. I'd have intercepted their wireless traffic sooner, but I've been busy stalking Dr. Cummings.">>
Truth continues digging through the intercepted bundles of wireless data, looking for sensory data for a tactical AR network, and some indication that someone else in the UCAS military is in contact with the soldiers' commlinks.
Suddenly he stops, and begins digging through a seperate section of the mess of intercepted wireless traffic.
<<"You don't put in an alarm system like this without giving it a way to notify the guards that doesn't involve a giant horn and flashing lights. This system has to be connected to the matrix somehow, unless they're all walking around dragging 500 foot data cables. Gecko, what do you see on the underside of the pier? There should be some sort of maintenance access to get under there, and fiberoptic cable running to all the sensors. Is there anything infrastructure looking that goes out into the ground of the island?">>
--Friday April 11th, 2070 at 2330 – Eagledale, Bainbridge Island, Seattle--
Gecko could feel his own heartbeat pounding in his temple. Long moments passed, the tension palpable, until Truth's decrypted comm's traffic brought it to an end.
Relief flooded through Gecko as he nudged the little drone into life.
Lil'Gecko climbed up the inside of the wall, it's little low-light camera sending ghostly images back to the team through the fibre-optic lifeline it dragged behind it. It climbed the three feet to the top of the wall and swung it's camera from side to side looking for any evidence of control cables for the sensors only a few feet above it. It followed the corner Westwards until it was directly below one of the sensors above and then began to make it's way along the roof towards the centre of the building above.
Gecko could feel his own heartbeat pounding in his temple. Long moments passed, the tension palpable, until Truth's decrypted comm's traffic brought it to an end.
Relief flooded through Gecko as he nudged the little drone into life.
Lil'Gecko climbed up the inside of the wall, it's little low-light camera sending ghostly images back to the team through the fibre-optic lifeline it dragged behind it. It climbed the three feet to the top of the wall and swung it's camera from side to side looking for any evidence of control cables for the sensors only a few feet above it. It followed the corner Westwards until it was directly below one of the sensors above and then began to make it's way along the roof towards the centre of the building above.
[ Spoiler ]
--Friday April 11th, 2070 at 2330 – Eagledale, Bainbridge Island, Seattle--
Jake whispers softly. "I am so glad I brought these two guys along. They really have managed to shine. I might actually have to make it a habit to call them on later jobs."<<Good job so far, folks.>>
Jake whispers softly. "I am so glad I brought these two guys along. They really have managed to shine. I might actually have to make it a habit to call them on later jobs."<<Good job so far, folks.>>
--Friday April 11th, 2070 at 2330 – Eagledale, Bainbridge Island, Seattle--
Lil'Gecko works it way in scanning as it goes. It picks up nothing, there is no cables or wires of any type under the compound. The whole space is empty.
For those of you search for other nodes and wireless communications you find a Nexus that is centered at the emplacement. Under further looking to can see that the sensors and lights are hardwired through the fence piping to this nexus.
Lil'Gecko works it way in scanning as it goes. It picks up nothing, there is no cables or wires of any type under the compound. The whole space is empty.
For those of you search for other nodes and wireless communications you find a Nexus that is centered at the emplacement. Under further looking to can see that the sensors and lights are hardwired through the fence piping to this nexus.
april 11,2070,
<<teamchat>>
<< let us know we are ready just a bit on edge.>>
<<teamchat>>
<< let us know we are ready just a bit on edge.>>
--Friday April 11th, 2070 at 2330 – Eagledale, Bainbridge Island, Seattle--
Satisfied that it was safe Gecko had the little drone start a systematic search of the underside of the building. He climbed back up to the hole and established a link to the drone with a directional antenna which allowed it to release the fiber-optic cable and thus have a little more freedom to explore.
He twiddled with his sensors and carefully watched Lil'Gecko's video feed for some sort of access or inspection hatch, drain or sewage pipes, electrical junction boxes, structural ventilation blocks, any way the tiny drone might gain access to the structure above.
<<sat-channel-1-encrypted>>
Ralph, are you still with me? Do you see anything useful?
Satisfied that it was safe Gecko had the little drone start a systematic search of the underside of the building. He climbed back up to the hole and established a link to the drone with a directional antenna which allowed it to release the fiber-optic cable and thus have a little more freedom to explore.
He twiddled with his sensors and carefully watched Lil'Gecko's video feed for some sort of access or inspection hatch, drain or sewage pipes, electrical junction boxes, structural ventilation blocks, any way the tiny drone might gain access to the structure above.
<<sat-channel-1-encrypted>>
Ralph, are you still with me? Do you see anything useful?
--Friday April 11th, 2070 at 2335 – Eagledale, Bainbridge Island, Seattle--
Data Theft Team
After a few minutes of the little drone searching the underside of the building it does find sawage pipes, and a conduit for the power feed line coming into the building. Nothing esle is found.
Data Theft Team
After a few minutes of the little drone searching the underside of the building it does find sawage pipes, and a conduit for the power feed line coming into the building. Nothing esle is found.
april 11,2070,2335 seatle
<<teamchat
<<Etaile,Winstion,
where is she now exactly and how long do you estamate she will be there>>
this wateing is driving me nuts,not used to working with others its nice not haveing to watch your own back all the time,but the presure comes from the fact that if I get something wrong it could get one of them hurt or killed not just me.
<<teamchat
<<Etaile,Winstion,
where is she now exactly and how long do you estamate she will be there>>
this wateing is driving me nuts,not used to working with others its nice not haveing to watch your own back all the time,but the presure comes from the fact that if I get something wrong it could get one of them hurt or killed not just me.
--Friday April 11th, 2070 at 2335 – Eagledale, Bainbridge Island, Seattle--
DD keeps monitoring the Comm/Tac net, and being ready to support whatever team needs some matrix support.
Team Chat Channel:
<<Could we create another "Merrow" incident somewhere else, and lure the guards there?>>
DD keeps monitoring the Comm/Tac net, and being ready to support whatever team needs some matrix support.
Team Chat Channel:
<<Could we create another "Merrow" incident somewhere else, and lure the guards there?>>
--Friday April 11th, 2070 at 2335 – Eagledale, Bainbridge Island, Seattle--
<<sat-channel-1-encrypted>>
Looks like we have two potential points of ingress here for the drone but unless somebody has a Dragonfly Hunter-Killer I'm going to have to get in there myself to cut an access hole into the power conduit. Widening the hole probably won't make much noise now that I've weakened it somewhat but it's still a risk.
The Merrow idea isn't half shabby. Maybe somebody 'local' could call in a sighting to the local radio station or some sort of Critter-watch Matrix site? I'd bet if they've had trouble before that those are exactly the sort of data-feeds they are monitoring.
<<sat-channel-1-encrypted>>
Looks like we have two potential points of ingress here for the drone but unless somebody has a Dragonfly Hunter-Killer I'm going to have to get in there myself to cut an access hole into the power conduit. Widening the hole probably won't make much noise now that I've weakened it somewhat but it's still a risk.
The Merrow idea isn't half shabby. Maybe somebody 'local' could call in a sighting to the local radio station or some sort of Critter-watch Matrix site? I'd bet if they've had trouble before that those are exactly the sort of data-feeds they are monitoring.
--Friday April 11th, 2070 at 2335 – Eagledale, Bainbridge Island, Seattle--
<<I've heard about something like this before. Let me think for a moment.>>
<<I've heard about something like this before. Let me think for a moment.>>
[ Spoiler ]
--Friday April 11th, 2070 at 2330 - Renton - Winstons Car--
"Relax Noowan, she is 'aving dinner still. Just stay focused, perhaps you could tell me what methods you 'ave to deal with the spirit if it is alerted to us?"
Team Chat - Encrypted <<Can we tell what course she is on? If they 'ave ordered desert will we 'ave to prepare to move out.>>
"Relax Noowan, she is 'aving dinner still. Just stay focused, perhaps you could tell me what methods you 'ave to deal with the spirit if it is alerted to us?"
Team Chat - Encrypted <<Can we tell what course she is on? If they 'ave ordered desert will we 'ave to prepare to move out.>>
--Friday April 11th, 2070 at 2335 – Eagledale, Bainbridge Island, Seattle--
<<sat-channel-1-encrypted>>
OK, I'm going in. Feel free to report Merrow activity if you like if this draws any attention.
He places the flats of his hands on the roof above him and hangs straight down for a moment. Pointing his toes he starts to swing backwards and forwards. On the third back-swing he suddenly jackknifes and thrusts his legs straight out in front of him as he swings forward. His feet strike the wall a foot apart and a foot below the original hole.
The wall cracks in a triangular pattern and starts to deform inwards but does not collapse. Gecko swings back and repeats the procedure, this time with his feet together and barely an inch below the original hole.
The wall finally gives, two large chunks of Plascrete slide noiselessly into the sea. Gecko allows his momentum to carry his legs through the hole, he releases his grip on the roof and twists as his torso slides through the newly created gap. In the blink of an eye he is on the far side of the wall hanging on to the edge of the hole with his fingertips.
<<sat-channel-1-encrypted>>
OK, I'm going in. Feel free to report Merrow activity if you like if this draws any attention.
He places the flats of his hands on the roof above him and hangs straight down for a moment. Pointing his toes he starts to swing backwards and forwards. On the third back-swing he suddenly jackknifes and thrusts his legs straight out in front of him as he swings forward. His feet strike the wall a foot apart and a foot below the original hole.
[ Spoiler ]
The wall cracks in a triangular pattern and starts to deform inwards but does not collapse. Gecko swings back and repeats the procedure, this time with his feet together and barely an inch below the original hole.
[ Spoiler ]
The wall finally gives, two large chunks of Plascrete slide noiselessly into the sea. Gecko allows his momentum to carry his legs through the hole, he releases his grip on the roof and twists as his torso slides through the newly created gap. In the blink of an eye he is on the far side of the wall hanging on to the edge of the hole with his fingertips.
--Friday April 11th, 2070 at 2335 – Eagledale, Bainbridge Island, Seattle--
Data Theft Team
With two silent impacts on the wall Gecko vanishes under the compound.
None of the soldiers seam to response to the impact nor is there any radio traffic.
As you hang there you see that the ground is just below and that you can almost hang there and touch the ground.
There before you is a large space with pillars in rows at the far end is sewer pips and electrical conduit running into the building above and out to island.
Data Theft Team
With two silent impacts on the wall Gecko vanishes under the compound.
[ Spoiler ]
None of the soldiers seam to response to the impact nor is there any radio traffic.
As you hang there you see that the ground is just below and that you can almost hang there and touch the ground.
There before you is a large space with pillars in rows at the far end is sewer pips and electrical conduit running into the building above and out to island.
--Friday April 11th, 2070 at 2335 – Eagledale, Bainbridge Island, Seattle--
<<sat-channel-1-encrypted>>
OK, I'm in. Any reaction from the guards?
He carefully brushes the edge of the hole clean of debris before placing a waveguide and aiming it at the little drone where it sits on the shrouding of the buildings power cables. He pings it with the directional antenna to make sure it is connected to the LASER link.
Effortlessly he launches himself off the wall and sails four meters through the air to one of the nearby supports. He grabs it with one hand, slingshots around it and sails another four meters to the support that is nearest to the power conduit. He slips a short length of rope around it, clips it to his climbing harness and leans back until he is in the perfect position to start work.
Unzipping his jumpsuit Gecko reveals the tools strapped to the chest of his form-fitting body-armour. Studying the RADAR and millimetre wave scans of the conduit for anti-tamper circuits he selects the best place and carefully cuts a hole large enough for the micro-drone in the skin of the conduit.
<<sat-channel-1-encrypted>>
OK, I'm in. Any reaction from the guards?
He carefully brushes the edge of the hole clean of debris before placing a waveguide and aiming it at the little drone where it sits on the shrouding of the buildings power cables. He pings it with the directional antenna to make sure it is connected to the LASER link.
Effortlessly he launches himself off the wall and sails four meters through the air to one of the nearby supports. He grabs it with one hand, slingshots around it and sails another four meters to the support that is nearest to the power conduit. He slips a short length of rope around it, clips it to his climbing harness and leans back until he is in the perfect position to start work.
Unzipping his jumpsuit Gecko reveals the tools strapped to the chest of his form-fitting body-armour. Studying the RADAR and millimetre wave scans of the conduit for anti-tamper circuits he selects the best place and carefully cuts a hole large enough for the micro-drone in the skin of the conduit.
[ Spoiler ]
--Friday April 11th, 2070 at 2335 – Eagledale, Bainbridge Island, Seattle--
Data Theft Team
From your interments and inspection there seams to be no anti-tamper circuits on the conduit. You find a thin walled section and cut there. You open up the conduit with no problem, there in the conduit is the main power line running Medium Voltage (30 kV [30,000 volts]) and information lines to the facility.
Data Theft Team
From your interments and inspection there seams to be no anti-tamper circuits on the conduit. You find a thin walled section and cut there. You open up the conduit with no problem, there in the conduit is the main power line running Medium Voltage (30 kV [30,000 volts]) and information lines to the facility.
--Friday April 11th, 2070 at 2335 – Eagledale, Bainbridge Island, Seattle--
<<sat-channel-1-encrypted>>
Jackpot.
What we have here are is the facilities fiberoptic trunk.
He pulls a Optical tap from a pocket and clips it onto a length of fiber he carefully teases from the bundle with an insulated plastic hook.
Alright then.
<<sat-channel-1-encrypted>>
OK DD you're good to go here.
<<sat-channel-1-encrypted>>
Jackpot.
What we have here are is the facilities fiberoptic trunk.
He pulls a Optical tap from a pocket and clips it onto a length of fiber he carefully teases from the bundle with an insulated plastic hook.
[ Spoiler ]
Alright then.
<<sat-channel-1-encrypted>>
OK DD you're good to go here.
--Friday April 11th, 2070 at 2335 – Eagledale, Bainbridge Island, Seattle--
<<Team Chat>>
<<The only way for us to get passed the spirits without alerting their master is to hit them with orgasm's so strong that they lose themselves in it. With Spirits as strong as they are, the only way to do that without one of them getting off a mental warning to their master would be to take them by surprise. If they notice something, or an alert sounds they are going to have time to use their link to their summoner.>>
<<If I can get Dancing Eyes to soften the second one up with a stun bolt to weaken it while I do the first we should be able to pull it off. If we catch them by surprise we should be able to disable them without the guards ever knowing something happened. So...should I do it or should we hold off and hope we aren't found? Risks either way. Maybe we should check out what Gecko was able to hook into first?>>
<<Team Chat>>
<<The only way for us to get passed the spirits without alerting their master is to hit them with orgasm's so strong that they lose themselves in it. With Spirits as strong as they are, the only way to do that without one of them getting off a mental warning to their master would be to take them by surprise. If they notice something, or an alert sounds they are going to have time to use their link to their summoner.>>
<<If I can get Dancing Eyes to soften the second one up with a stun bolt to weaken it while I do the first we should be able to pull it off. If we catch them by surprise we should be able to disable them without the guards ever knowing something happened. So...should I do it or should we hold off and hope we aren't found? Risks either way. Maybe we should check out what Gecko was able to hook into first?>>
--Friday April 11th, 2070 at 2335 – Eagledale, Bainbridge Island, Seattle--
<<Team Chat>>
<<Tom>> ok Keep cool we are in it seems. No need to do anythng unless Gek is noticed..>>
<<Team Chat>>
<<Tom>> ok Keep cool we are in it seems. No need to do anythng unless Gek is noticed..>>
QUOTE (Oenone @ Sep 28 2008, 07:00 PM) 
--Friday April 11th, 2070 at 2330 - Renton - Winstons Car--
"Relax Noowan, she is 'aving dinner still. Just stay focused, perhaps you could tell me what methods you 'ave to deal with the spirit if it is alerted to us?"
"Relax Noowan, she is 'aving dinner still. Just stay focused, perhaps you could tell me what methods you 'ave to deal with the spirit if it is alerted to us?"
"well sir got a few sprits my self that will distract the the one 3 to be exact,and if I can get in the right spot and time it corectly her sprit wont even know I am there"
--Friday April 11th, 2070 at 2335 – Eagledale, Bainbridge Island, Seattle--
Team Chat Channel
<<Gotcha. Let me see what I can sniff out through the tap...>>
DD focuses on the link to the wire tap Gecko installed, the other feeds she is monitoring shrinking in size in her field of view in the matrix, and starts to check the data traffic passing through the line.
Team Chat Channel
<<Gotcha. Let me see what I can sniff out through the tap...>>
DD focuses on the link to the wire tap Gecko installed, the other feeds she is monitoring shrinking in size in her field of view in the matrix, and starts to check the data traffic passing through the line.
[ Spoiler ]
--Friday April 11th, 2070 at 2335 – Eagledale, Bainbridge Island, Seattle--
Data Theft Team
DD upstream is the Facility Nexus, a sculpted Node in the form of the Mech the is being developed. Downstream is a Military Nexus with a chock point, which is also sculpted. The chock points looks like a military check point with guards and emplacements beyond that is an ominous fortress.
Wetworks Team
From the video feeds and surveillance drone the doctor is eating dinner and drinking with her company.
Data Theft Team
DD upstream is the Facility Nexus, a sculpted Node in the form of the Mech the is being developed. Downstream is a Military Nexus with a chock point, which is also sculpted. The chock points looks like a military check point with guards and emplacements beyond that is an ominous fortress.
Wetworks Team
From the video feeds and surveillance drone the doctor is eating dinner and drinking with her company.
--Friday April 11th, 2070 at 2335 – Eagledale, Bainbridge Island, Seattle--
DD takes a deep breath.
Ok... time to earn the nuyen.
Team Chat Channel:
<<Ok, you might not like this, but we need a bit more time to infiltrate the facility node. Hacking on the fly is too risky - too easy to get detected. So, get comfortable, and be a bit patient, and thank you for using our data services.>>
Firing up her stealth and exploit programs, DD starts probing the node with Jake at her back. Her neon green icon darkens, her curvy form getting rougher, and less distinct, until it ressembles a ghillie suit as she is trying to worm her way into the facility node.
Team Chat Channel:
<<If anyone wants to analyze the traffic pattern we're sniffing, do so, so we have got a leg up if we need to insert fake alerts as a distraction... >>>
Suddenly, DD, already probing the node for exploits, has an idea.
It's crazy but it might work.
Team Chat Channel:
<<Oh, if they use this line to move the data in an emergency then even if we trigger an alert we might get the files we're after, so keep copying and sifting the data we sniff. It's a slim chance, but better than none.>>
After an hour of digital hide and seek, DD finally finds a small bug, a weak spot in the sculpted mech's armor. Grinning, she "goes for the eyes and groin".
Showtime!
DD takes a deep breath.
Ok... time to earn the nuyen.
Team Chat Channel:
<<Ok, you might not like this, but we need a bit more time to infiltrate the facility node. Hacking on the fly is too risky - too easy to get detected. So, get comfortable, and be a bit patient, and thank you for using our data services.>>
Firing up her stealth and exploit programs, DD starts probing the node with Jake at her back. Her neon green icon darkens, her curvy form getting rougher, and less distinct, until it ressembles a ghillie suit as she is trying to worm her way into the facility node.
Team Chat Channel:
<<If anyone wants to analyze the traffic pattern we're sniffing, do so, so we have got a leg up if we need to insert fake alerts as a distraction... >>>
Suddenly, DD, already probing the node for exploits, has an idea.
It's crazy but it might work.
Team Chat Channel:
<<Oh, if they use this line to move the data in an emergency then even if we trigger an alert we might get the files we're after, so keep copying and sifting the data we sniff. It's a slim chance, but better than none.>>
[ Spoiler ]
After an hour of digital hide and seek, DD finally finds a small bug, a weak spot in the sculpted mech's armor. Grinning, she "goes for the eyes and groin".
Showtime!
--Friday April 11th, 2070 at 2335 – Eagledale, Bainbridge Island, Seattle--
Heeding DD's warning, Gecko leaned back on the rope holding him to the pillar, stretched and made himself comfortable.
He listened in to the guards radio chatter, munched his way through an MRE and rehearsed his exfil mentally.
And waited.
Heeding DD's warning, Gecko leaned back on the rope holding him to the pillar, stretched and made himself comfortable.
He listened in to the guards radio chatter, munched his way through an MRE and rehearsed his exfil mentally.
And waited.
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