Is there anywhere that I can get to where I could see it with a telescope? With the profits from this run, I will be buying mage goggles!

If not I can try the sneaking in as an animal. I can get up to about 10 die on infiltration and concealment 4. We would need to influence the watchers though.

The cook idea is looking better and better

it didn't seem like there were any good areas for viewing the retreat from a telescope - that's what Dante tried to do, and he wasn't able to find any vantage point. Maybe if Dr. Yang could fly...

I'm thinking 2 people inside would be way better than just 1 person, for the many reasons, including the fact that the tool to measure the angles of the plants is big and unwieldy.

What kind of a Wuxia mage would I be if I couldn't. Ha. Of course I can fly

Maybe Fractal could figure out, whether there are professional hostesses at the party as well? That might be a way to get Ting-Ting in there.

Bye
Thanee

Fractal has sent multiple screen captures from each camera to Ting-Ting. So, we have a good idea of what the cameras cover, and he sent the blueprint of the place that shows where all the cameras are. He can be plotting and sending guard movements to Ting-Ting while he's slow hacking his way in.

I'll post a little IC post to that effect.
Well, I fully intend to make this node my bitch and own it from now until we do this run. We'll see how well it goes. That Big Node is gonna be a bear.

Actually shouldn't you be able to figure that out from looking at the financials?
I gave you all of em
I'm a bit busy to be doing extensive Data searching on the stuff right now.

Good point, maybe there is something in there... at least worth a look.

Bye
Thanee

The hostess angle could work, but we've abandoned trying to get into the garden during the celebrations on the 19th, haven't we? We've seemingly settled on getting in after the gardener leaves, so somewhere after 1pm-ish on the 22nd? And before 4am on the 23rd.

Hmm... I thought there are several days worth of partying going on there... am I wrong?

Either way, it might still be useful to gather intelligence on the location.

Bye
Thanee

... ... ... Max is a failure as a Wuxia mage... T_T

You have an astral form Max, and that can fly. I am sure that counts.

yay!

I might be wrong, but I thought it was just the one day...but like you said, either way, it would be good just for sheer intelligence gathering.

On another note, now that the Adept's Way ebook came out...

Anything interesting in there?

Bye
Thanee

I don't have it meself, but from reading the thread about it, it could come in handy one day

(if Edana allows it...)

I mostly liked it. To summarise: Spend 10 bp get a discount on your main adept powers, and access to a single specialist power.

Another thought - Thanee, can you have Ting-Ting look through the financials to maybe find out who the on-call mage is? He might be someone else to "neutralize", in case we get tripped up by watchers or the like...

For searching the financial records you copied off, you're pretty much guaranteed to find whatever's there about what you're looking for, but you have to ask the questions if you want something specific, since I can't predict everything you'd want . To save a bit of IC writing though, the on-call mage (or mages ) won't be in there, as it's financials for this house/garden, not for the corp.

Also, as far as the 'party' goes, there's only the event scheduled for the 19th, but it's safe to assume that some people will be using the house for the whole New Year's timeframe (19th-22nd).

For the Adept's Way stuff, I'm pretty unlikely to ever buy an ebook only release, and I'd feel weird using something I hadn't bought. I may see about taking a look at it, but I wouldn't count on it getting added to sources.

phlapjack: Let me know if you want to keep tailing the SUV or not. If you do, you should make another vehicle shadowing roll.

Cool - hoping to get Kim's input, but I'll just put something up IC

If I got it right, the festivities happen first, then the gardener would have his regular visit, and afterwards we get to the point where we have to turn the plants (if we do not go for the bonus).

Bye
Thanee

yeah, that's my take on it too...unless the cook job can be stretched out for a few days, which I'm doubting...

Seth and Kim, do your characters want to be dropped off at home, or go back to the KTV place with Dante?

Dr Yang is going to be terribly sensible and go home and get a good nights sleep. I will leave the partying to you younglings.

I thought so - Dr. Yang has that early appt to see a patient

*edit* Haven't seen Kim post in awhile, I'm going to be slightly forward and assume Hope comes with us to KTV...need that 4th player for mahjong, doncha know...

It's been a week since Edana posted. I hope we get a post soonish

Yeah, sorry about that. I tried to work on one last night, but Dumpshock was apparently down for maintenance. Hopefully I'll have time this afternoon to get caught back up, but worst case I'll have time after I get home tonight.

There, I think that catches us up to everything. Feel free to have conversations and such in the 12:45-2:30 timeframe, but it didn't look like there were any other time-sensitive things happening, so I just advanced to the point Fractal gets into the system.

sabs: The node failed miserably at noticing you . Anyhow, I need a matrix perception roll from you and you can let me know what all you're looking for in the node.

Ok! I've survived the semester and graduated from Ye Old Institute of Higher Learning. I'm officially a productive member of society now!

What that means: My life has become much, much less cluttered, so I will be available to actually participate in the goings on of the game. Isn't that wonderful?!

Congratulations.

Yeah, Congrats! And good luck on your search that naturally comes now...


Mahjong: Intuition + Gambling 2 hits

Bye
Thanee

hmm... is Mahjong a luck game or a bluff game?

Its a skill game

computer(4)+Analyze(6)+PuSheD(1)+Vr(2)+ci(1)+encephalon(2)=16d6.hits(5)=5

as for what I'm looking for? I'm trying to figure out what's IN This node. I want to find the logs of course. So I can clean out my presence.

Yep, skill game, with some luck involved, AFAIK.

Bye
Thanee

The more skill you have, the less luck is involved

speaking of...

Int + Skill + drinking = 1 hit with a glitch

Charisma + Con to cheat! = 3 hits!

There's a file archive that looks like it's probably the access logs, at least it's the only encrypted file you can pick out. Threshhold 12 to decrypt, 1 combat turn interval. Otherwise, this node has a week's worth of footage from all of the security cameras/sensors. It also looks to be a repository for the IC's running in the other nodes, acting as a location they can be loaded from.

The hidden node link is 6/6/6 attributes. You'll need to analyze if you want to try to get anything beyond that.

Decrypt: 16d6:
5 2 5 6 5 5 4 2 4 4 3 3 6 3 5 6 ( hits
4 4 3 3 5 3 3 4 4 5 3 2 5 1 6 3 (4) hits 12! in 2 combat turns.

Analyze: 16d6
4 6 6 5 4 2 5 4 2 6 1 4 1 4 2 1 (5) hits

Heh, I didn't expect it to take too long to decrypt, but 2 turns is pretty good .

You can edit the logs to your heart's content, though you should keep track of how many combat turns you need to accomplish what you want. (1 complex action per edit, I'll let you set the threshold for the Computer+Edit tests based on how thorough you want to be, 2 covers casual browsing, 4 for a more thorough audit, 6 if you want it to never be seen again.) I haven't gone back and counted, but assume at least 1 edit per action you rolled anything for, and probably a few more to cover the searches and such that I didn't make you roll since they were unlikely to matter.

Why don't I roll like 12 edits: I'm gonna be gunning for thresholds of 6, but I'll settle for 4? Do I get 1 shot per edit, or how you working it?

Computer(4)+Edit(6)+VR(2)+CI(1)+Encep(2)+PuSHeD(1)=16d6
1 1 5 1 6 3 6 4 5 6 4 5 1 6 5 6 (9)
5 4 4 6 4 3 6 2 5 2 5 6 1 6 2 6 (
3 3 6 2 4 5 3 5 4 1 6 1 3 6 4 6 (6)
2 3 6 5 6 2 5 2 6 3 1 3 4 1 5 5 (7)
1 1 4 5 4 4 3 5 4 3 4 4 6 6 3 2 (4)
2 5 5 6 1 4 5 1 6 5 2 5 1 6 5 5 (10)
1 3 6 4 2 5 4 5 4 4 3 6 6 6 5 2 (7)
2 1 3 1 5 5 3 5 4 3 4 6 3 6 1 1 (5)
1 3 2 3 1 5 4 5 2 3 6 5 6 5 1 5 (7)
5 3 3 3 1 1 1 5 5 6 5 5 6 6 5 5 (10)
5 3 1 3 2 2 4 3 6 4 4 3 6 3 3 2 (3)
2 2 2 1 6 1 5 4 5 2 4 5 2 5 2 2 (5)
5 3 2 4 3 6 6 3 3 5 3 2 6 6 6 1 (7)

That's 13 rolls
Let me know if that's enough editing

That should be good for now. It's 1 roll per edit.

Also, forgot to mention, but you didn't get any further info on the hidden node.

Let me know what your next step is .

Really 5 hits on an analyze test and I got cockblocked?

Youch.


Next step: Grab all that video footage, and pack it up onto my commlink.
Give myself an invisible,but completely valid account on this node.

Clean up after myself, and log out for the night.

You know, I have no idea how to calculate transfer time on that much data. It's 1 combat turn per 'file', but it's amazingly ambiguous past that. I'm going to assume that a week's worth of video from several dozen cameras would definitely fall under 'truly epic size' though . 2 minutes (40 combat turns) sound reasonable to you?

Creating the account should be Computer+Edit(6) test, single roll. Then 2 more edits to cover file transfers and account creation in the logs.

You'll also need to make a stealth roll for every 10 combat turns to cover IC rescans. (4 total, since you're less than 2.5 minutes on the node unless you're planning on doing more.)

No, I think Kim will kill me if I take even longer ;)

So let me make the 6 rolls

Edits:
3 4 2 5 1 6 4 1 2 5 5 2 5 1 3 6 (6)
5 4 4 1 3 6 3 5 3 1 6 1 2 6 5 1 (6)
1 5 5 3 3 4 5 5 5 3 6 3 5 2 1 2 (7)
Stealth:
5 5 3 6 1 6 6 4 1 6 1 5 5 2 2 1 (8)
6 3 1 3 5 4 4 2 3 5 4 6 4 1 2 2 (4)
3 4 6 3 3 2 1 4 5 3 4 6 5 2 4 5 (5)
1 5 3 4 1 4 1 6 5 2 4 1 1 5 4 6 (5)

Good news: You have a shiny new admin account hidden for when you log in next time.
Bad news: Both of the IC's tagged you about 1/3 of the way through the file transfer (yay for 5 & 6 successes on 10 dice ).

You'll need to roll matrix initiative, and decide what you do. The IC go on 14, 12 and 11. (On the off chance you don't beat the 14 its first pass is initiating an active alert.) Should probably take this to IC though, I'll let you start .

Matrix Initiative: Response(6)+intuition(3)+1=10
10d6.hits(5)=5
Initiative: 15

How many IC are there? Going to use my First simple action to Deactivate the Program.

There are 3 IC in the node at the moment. 2 flagged you as unauthorized, the 3rd won't be able to act directly against you on the first pass. (There are the 2 patrolling IC and the 'van', the patrollers are the ones that spotted you.) Patrols go on 14 and 11.

Which program are you deactivating? (Keep in mind that running IC are independent of the node, so node credentials might not be useful to deactivate them.)

I miss read, I thought the Agents were local to the node.
I think actually, going to use a Free Action to terminate the data transfer, and a simple action to log off the system.

Brave sir Robin, bravely ran away.

I was going to just deactivate the agents, but it looks like I can't. And a direct confrontation with those agents will only go badly.
I will post IC once i know if that log off worked.

Agents can be tied to the node or operate independently, depending on how they're loaded. IC are always counted as independent agents, so an authorized user can issue commands to them, but they're not a part of the node they're running in.

Since you haven't been engaged by black IC, there's nothing preventing you from logging off. It does mean that the data transfer will still be in the access logs.

Yeah, but my other option is to try and win a 3 on 1. that's not great odds. I would really like to get this one clean. But.. It's an ugly fight. And I don't have armor and atack loaded, and it'll take me 2 complex actions to load them. Once I do that, alarm is up, and then the bully boys show up. Even if I can win that first fight. Which is unlikely. I'm not really good at cybercombat


I think stop transfer, spoof trace, log off, and get the fuck out of dodge is the best idea.