Distractions which aren't likely to get traced back to us, I mean. If there's a mage on staff, that smacks of potential disaster

sorry can't help you with the fire elemental but it seems like a good idea to me

I would love to see the look on the face of two punch drunk boxers when a fire elemental materializes between them and says, "Yo!"

Wouldn't that require setting the ring on fire?

Details, details.

Anyway, we have a basic plan, let's flesh it out a bit and run with it.

Questions:

1. How are we getting to the third floor?
2. What's our backup plan for getting past doors if we don't crack the maglock or one of them goes off?
3. What is our alternate exit strategy in case the stairs are fragged?
4. What is our alternate entry strategy in case someone's made some renovations we don't know about?
5. What is going to be our distraction if we need it? (I'm still thinking an explosive outside, myself)

There's alway the old fire alarm pull cliche.
it is a public building, chances are it adheres to the fire codes.

not necessarily on the fight night,

i can answer one of the question though, i think, at least from how i read the maps, that getting to the third floor can be done by coming in the other side, the one with the hill connected to it. Othe than that, I aggree that explosives outside, or elementals or spirits work well.

I'm a fan of having both, now that I think about it When it comes to getting away with the loot, chaos is king.

you have a point, although this is one of those times that i wish there was a Haduken in Shadowrun.

1. I think that was covered...we walk right up to the door There's always roof access, too, I think if going up to the door is too suspicious. Although I think most people will be distracted by the fight.
2. If I fail a roll for a maglock I can always try again as long as the alarm doesn't go off. Maybe we can have Ikarus hack into their system before we go in to keep the alarms surpressed, so that if they do go off the security forces won't know.
3. Alternate exit strategy I think should be the air vents. Maybe Ikarus can find a map of the ventalation systems when he searches for the security detail.
4. Alternate entrance strategy could be the roof. Our we could try the front door, pay to get in like we're patrons of the fight. Maybe we could have the majority of the team go in that way and then one go in from the third floor with all the weapons. Meet up on the second floor in the stairwell to hand out weapons and then go down to the first floor and do our work.
5. Distractions could be explosives outside, or flash and stun grenades inside like I mentioned in the IC thread. Not sure if an elemental will work. With the don families there it would be easy to blame the grenade and explosives on an attempted assassin for the mafia families. A giant elemental manifesting can't easily be blamed on another group.

As always, just my ten cents. What does everyone else think?

sounds fine to me, although quite isn't exactly going to be easy once we start firing with anything other than pistols. My comment about the automatic is both me and character talking. silencers are a good idea, but getting sound supressors will be hard from OOC knowledge

Anyone heard from Number_6 in a few days? I sent him a PM about his contacts and he hasn't posted or gotten back to me about them. Oh well. Could be on vacation.

I'm pretty sure that if you fail any maglock test, an alarm goes off. The point I was making is that we need a way to blow doors if the alarm is ringing on us since hotwiring takes quite a while. A shotgun with shocklock rounds should do the trick.

There's that, too

Also, we haven't seen anything that resembles a matrix access point in the public areas, we have to get past the locked and alarmed doors for me to unlock and unalarm them. seems rather pointless, but a good thing to remember for the trip out.

Depending on how we beat the maglocks, we might not need that. Instead, we could seal all of the doors except the ones we've hotwired to further confound pursuit.

actually what we could do that would be extremely interesting if anyone has the skill/resources go down the stairs on the third floor, stop on the second, plant explosives of some kind, blow open a large hole and go through that, coming back out through the first floor that would likely be rapidly emptying on acount of the kaboom.

in other words blow it all to hell.

Does anyone want to do anything between now and the fight night. There was some talk of going in prior to the fight and what not IC but I'm not sure if anyone decided on that. If not, we can jump forward to fight night and move forward with this.

Let me know.

Let's just skip on and put the plan into motion. I don't think dragging the planning on any more is going to result in a plan that's much better

I think we should jump ahead Dash.

**boing***

I would be ok with that, but i can't post till about saturday, my computer died. My apologies for the inconveniance, you can "proxy" for me as needed in the meantime.

The only thing I think we need to make sure of before fight night is that everyone has silencers or sound supressors for their guns. I know boxing matches are noisy, but you don't want to alarm the public that are at the fight. I always like to be better safe than sorry.

Dash, I want to pick up 4 flash grenades and 6 stun grenades and a grenade belt to carry them in (the across the shoulder type). Other than that: LET'S GET IT ON!

Corbin's going to be a walking array of pistols and grenades. He'll probably leave the assault rifle outside since it's not silenced or concealable.

Ik will just bungee the board across his back.

I've got a colt I will be bringing, silenced of course, and my armor, and a ski mask.

Sounds good. I will advance us this week. I'm in the process of moving from PA to IL this weekend and I'm not quite settled in yet (I'm at the airport now -- yeah wireless internet ). I'll move us forward and I'll also post a listing of the armor and weapons that I expect people to have based on the information listed above.

Soluna -- I'll get back to you on the cost of those grenades but I don't imagine that you'll have too much of a problem finding them.

Sounds good to me. I'll get back to you in a few days as to what I'll be packing. I need to look at my gear list, but DCRS won't load the gear tab to click on to see it. Stoopid dial up connections. Anyhoo, I'll try again later and see what happens.

I just thought of one other thing. Nikoli: are you having Ikarus perform another matrix search for information on the security detail of the gym? If so, depending on how you want to do it you could either deck the gym's host and see if you can access personel records and the like from the matrix or you could perform a general search to try and find threads of information in the public space. It's up to you.

Wasn't originally, but that sounds like a good idea.

I'll do a middle of the road search, low-profile on the security

Will post search test tonight

Dang. Sorry, forgot to look it up.
What is the base TN for the standard search?

I don't have the matrix sourcebook until my furniture and stuff arrives in Illinois. Can anyone else look it up?

I'm guessing it's 5, since the basic is 3 and the deep one is 8

Works for me -- make a roll and post it. I'll send you a PM about what you find (if anything )

Here goes:

I'll take the flash grenades, but not the gas ones. I don't want to gas myself or the team accidentally. Can I pick up 8 of the flash grenades instead of 4 since I can't get the stun grenades? Those and the bandolier are fine.

So as to what I'm packing: My Ares Pred III with silence and in conc. quick draw holster, my taser which has Smart II and is in a conc quick draw holster, plastic compund iV and the radio detenator for it, laser microphone, glass cutter and suction cup, wire cutters, Autopicker, keypad sequencer, maglock passkey, my electronics toolkit and my computer toolkit, the grapple gun and the stealth grapple line, a jammer and a data codebreaker and dataline tap. I'll be wearing my form fitting half body suit and secure long coat and will be carrying everything in a knapsack on my back (except the guns which are in their holsters of course).

Toting:
Board
New new tech toy and chips (labeled as music, I'll know which are the real pay-data)
Form fitting armor + forearm guards
I'll snag a set of flats from the coffin hotel vending machine (5)
My music playback unit/headphones/all the music chips
and the ear-plug cell phone (no, the teams numbers aren't pre-prgrammed in, gotta love total recall)

Soluna: roll your stealth and intelligence for me please. Tell me which roll is which, but that's all the information you're getting at this point

Edit: Oh, and unless I hear from Number 6 by the time we bump forward (tomorrow hopefully) you guys couldn't get in touch with Hellcow (Slick) and he didn't show for the pre-arranged meeting point prior to the run. None of you get the sense that he'd betray you, but something must have come up. Perhaps someone more violent than Trace took exception to his name.

Stealth:
Here's the roll for straight stealth: 3 die: 5,5,1
I have a specialization in sneaking so here's the roll with that: 6 die: 9,9,8,3,3,2

Not sure which one is necessary since I don't know what you're planning.

Intelligence: 6 die: 5,5,5,5,4,1

Okay. So, I'm moving us up to two hours prior to the time of the fight. If anyone has stopped watching the thread in the week or so of slow down, then assume that they don't show and respond accordingly. No of you get the feeling that other members of the team would have turned you in, however, so you don't really need to worry about that IC unless you really want to.

Also: one bit of information that, when re-reading what you've heard so far, I noticed that I forgot to tell you all. At some time, either from the Johnson or from the matrix searchs, contact phone calls, etc. you would have learned that there are three fights prior to the championship fight. They're smaller fights meant to wet the audience's whistle for the title fight taking place as scheduled around 9:30pm. Betting for the title fight is allowed up until the ringing of the bell for the first round. After that, all bets are off.

I do believe my hat is still in the ring.

Cool, that means we want to wait until the the bell rings for the third fight before hitting the place.

Perception test:
28 5 4 4 3 3 2 2 2 1

Watching the crowd, doing that photographic memory thing. in case I have to recall details later in the adventure.