AaaaaaChhhooo ! ... cat you say ? /sniff ...aaahgadsnooo

I may have to be a tad more specific with the allergy, upon reading it a bit further (or take multiples of the less severe case to accomodate all animals?)



as I take Physical damage from them .. basically it attacks my face and I'm helpless to fend it off

so in keeping with the other qualities, I am compelled to avoid tiny pocket based dogs (Neo-Chowowas) damn teh ex-wife .. s'all her fault

but I do not like animal fur, as it gives me the acchoos!
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I'm aiming for anything is better than front door at present, just because of my attire and general demeanour

and obviously I haven't entirely thought through the plan ... so yes there's a good chance that it goes horribly wrong ... but wing suits can and are used for base jumping and other low altitude activites .. not just terminal velocity

2-3 minutes have passed as you all have each made your way to the roof's edge to peer down at the balcony, walk around a little to see what else you can see of the front entrance/roof of the Horizon building, make some phone calls and data search, as well as introducing yourselves to each other and just trying to come up with ideas on how to do this.

It's going to take you several minutes to get back down the the base of the Yojirushi building, a few more minutes to get in through the security check at the front door, a few more minutes to get up to the floor of the party, with possibly more checkpoints along the way depending on their security.

So, like I said, if Mr. White is planning to talk his way in, he needs to already start moving towards that end. And maybe he will make it within the 15 minutes the team was given.

For the record, our employer is a poor planner, and should have asked for an earlier meeting

IC post incoming.

I'll be heading downstairs with White. If I'm going in, it won't be over a rope or anything...

No, think we've already had our Indiana Jones moment.

So, then, you don't want me to try and hack into the Horizon nodes and force the door open? Or potentially put us on the guest list?


EDIT: I guess not. Mr. White left without waiting for an answer.

I'm all ears.

I think hacking our way in or talking our way in are both viable options. Mr. White is a man of action; and yet I'm not trying to plow over any players.

I'll tell you right now, you aren't going to be able to talk your way in with the whole team.

Besides, white is merely heading downstairs, which we'll all have to do anyway if we want to take advantage of any open doors. If you wanna hack a door, we can certainly alter our plans as we ride the elevator down.

Meta, we're almost completely blind right now. No real idea of security inside, physical or matrix or magical or otherwise. There could be a dozen guards inside the entrance, or some sort of monster Black ICE guarding in the matrix. We won't know till we knock on the door.


Yes, floorplans would help!

White's plan is to get the party into the building on a ruse. They're here to fix security cameras, or the plumbing, or the chef forgot the crème brûlée, or whatever.

Now that's a shame, Slacker.

As you start heading to follow Mr. White, you trip over a bag that somehow nobody noticed previously. Looking inside you find ten sets of rappelling gear and gloves, a grapple gun with 200m of micro-wire, and a 500m reel of micro-wire attached to a grapple assembly.

Metagaming: All you are looking at is resisting 4S damage at most on the other end of the zip line. And that is only if you fail a Climbing + Str (2) test to stop yourself.

Snrk. Looks like I was wrong.

Shit.

I believe our little friend has gone and done something rash.

Yes, I did just quote C-3PO. Deal with it.

edit: Kiir, you might as well just let him jump. The bullets impacting the building somewhere between the 19th and 27th floor have already blown any chance of surprise.

Yes. The anthill has been kicked.

Okay, how do we use this to our advantage, then? Try the back door, and hope the surge of security heading towards the thrill-seeking ork nutjob lets us get in (relatively) unscathed?

No, I'm rolling with Gardner having stopped him before he made it off the roof, that and/or he stumbled trying to walk around in that ridiculous suit.
The window he shot at was for a darkened (meaning off hours) floor of the building with nobody currently there. Not even sure if the shots shattered the window.
For now, the mission can still go forward, but should a patrol come by, the alert would be sounded. More than ever it's important for you guys to make some fast decisions.

Let's all hold off on more IC posts for the moment please.
The mission is not fragged. If Silas was seriously doing that, Gardner was able to stop him from leaping at the last second. SIlas would also need to roll to actually hit a window with some penalties considering the distance the bulky wingsuit and the horrendous winds gusting between the buildings to see if he actually penetrated the reinforced windows.

Yeah yeah, point taken and pink Mo' is put back in the closet.

For the record, pistol fitted with gel rounds, Thoroughly ineffective

I'll get dressed in the elevator

I put a post in just a sec ago. If I need to revise or kill it, let me know.

Ok, here goes nothing.

I'm attempting to Hack into one of the hidden nodes I found earlier. One that is connected to the building itself, preferably closest to the doors and/or security system. I'm going to attempt to give myself an admin account. This is an extended test with a threshold equal to the target nodes' Firewall + 6 (due to wanting admin access). As soon as I hit the threshold, I'm considered to be logged on with that access - no Log On action needed.

Every attempt I make - considering I'm Hacking on the Fly - allows the target system a free roll of Analyze + Firewall, with a target equal to my Stealth (6). This is considered an Extended test as well; if the target node hits the threshold an alert is generated, even if my hacking attempt is successful. Remember that the target node only gets to add Analyze IF the Analyze program is already running on that node. I am quite sure it is, but just want to throw that out there.

Commlink Stats: Response 5, Signal 6, Firewall 6, System 6; Hardening 6, Non-Standard Wireless Link 6, Customized Interface
Running Programs: Stealth 6, Exploit 6, Spoof 6, Command 6
Response Degradation: None until I hit 5 loaded programs

Test 1: 17d6.hits(5) = 5
Test 2: 16d6.hits(5) = 7

Normally I'd stop here as I've 12 hits, and most thresholds even with the +6 modifier aren't going to be 12+. But this is Horizon we're talking about, so I'll add another roll in the event iti is needed.

Test 3: 15d6.hits(5) = 7

That's 19 hits across 3 tests. If that's not enough, then this thing is going to be a pain in my ass.


EDIT: It's a little jacked up, but I edited my post to reflect what Needle is doing AFTER Mr. White speaks. Sorry, but I originally posted a reaction to the ork plunging off the roof, but I got ninja'ed. I can delete and re-post after Mr. White if possible.

Although, this does bring up something. We really should slow down here OOC and discuss things. This isn't the right mission to start doing that, but in the future maybe? I'd hate to see our ork become a pancake.

Sadly, Needle is not having a good time in the matrix. Before she can even make the second attempt at hacking her way into the node, the Firewall slams down hard with an alert. (On 16 dice it got 7 hits)

is Needle still trying to get admin access with your second action, or are you doing something different?

Sorry for the delay guys! An unexpected out of town business trip came up, so my computer usage is pretty limited until Thursday. I'll be posting in just a second though.

That's cool. Glad you could post something up before things got too involved. Were you going to be doing any calls to contacts or anything for legwork?

Nope! Unfortunately I'd already decided Eclipse was treating the meeting as an interview for the job rather than the beginning of the job itself, in the same way a Johnson might say "Meet me at the Steakhouse." Hence the lack of gear and walking in the front door... and the "oshit" expression.

Fair enough. Feel free to post up a Perception roll and any suggestions you have for the team.

Absolutely!

Perception Roll - 2 hits

I'm continuing. If I stop now, the mission is fragged.

edit: Are you sure? You probably know hacking better than I, but I wonder if jacking out now would be better, and cause less alarm (and possibly damage) than staying in...?

I'm holding off on an IC post for a little bit to let Needle do some work if she likes.

I try not to be a huge metagamer, but in this case, we clearly have been provided a means of entry (and possibly exit) by our employer. I think that we should use them.

If that's what you want to do. Then we need to go ahead and roll Initiative for you because that Black IC is going to be coming for you (and yes I did say Black IC which would normally jam your connection open, but I'm willing to let you log out now without penalty if you want to do so).

How tall was the Yojirushi building? My blind self can't seem to find it! Eclipse has no way of knowing exactly (other than buttons on the elevator), so a comparison to the Horizon building would be fine

Yojirushi building is 30 floors, Horizon building is 50 floors with the banquet being on the 28th floor.

I'm no expert at this (in RL, or in shadowrun). We've got a sniper on the roof to avoid. It would rule if we could shoot a line from our 30 story rooftop over to the 28th - drop in, grab our mark, and then zip back out to this roof, down and out. There might be some flaws in this plan, but one flaw it does not have, is that it does not involve us fighting our way in or out of that building.

Actually, we don't even have to zip back to this roof, we can just rappel off that balcony down to the ground.

Eclipse will certainly mention that in my next post, but triple posting is a bit much for me.

I think we're going to have to either neutralize the sniper or ensure no alarm is sounded... and that we're lucky, the sniper is bad, and he doesn't notice us. Otherwise there's nothing stopping him from just shooting straight down as we rappel or zipline away. ...Unless of course there's a distraction of some sort (usually of the pyrotechnic variety!) that distracts everyone long enough for the getaway.

...or, more stealthily, what's stopping us from taking the elevator to the basement level (50 stories has to have one just for support, right?) and getting him out underground?

Heck, most big buildings like that have two or three (or more) underground levels. Gotta put wiring, plumbing, heating, storage, and sometimes even parking - somewhere.

Another idea comes up - though I know we're under an IC time crunch. If Mr. White could get into there, and get close to our mark, it might make the grab part easier. 1k nuyen is a pretty penny for a ticket to get in - even if we split up the cost.

Perhaps the security security rigger(s) that can shut down the elevator and just hold all of you in there while they form up a welcome committee for you at the next stop?

I see the disconnect. Oh no sir, this Master Plan ™ I'm brainstorming has nothing so plain as pressing the "B2" button and waiting while listening to bland music. Oh no! You hit "50," pry the doors open, and use your 500' of microwire to merrily rappel to freedom. Since Eclipse has seen Mission Impossible 24 staring Connor Cruise, he knows that all self respecting elevators have laser grids to detect just such. The solution? Stay tuned! (Hint: It involves fireballs and dramatic music.)

...Since the online thing seems to support splitting the party so much better I don't see a problem with sending Mr White in through the bottom to locate, mark, and presumably lure the Target somewhere easier, but 1,000 is a hefty price tag. Would it be possible to con his way in, knowing that he would be on his own if something happened?

Slacker, since this is my first forum thing, how much planning is OK in the OOC thread? Is it just assumed to be the characters are all having the conversation, an ease of play thing, or..?

I'd rather not get into cyber combat with horizon, thanks. But the mission us screwed. An alarm has been triggered and we aren't even in the building. We have no hope of success at this point.

Honestly, I'm not sure what to do at this point. I either risk getting fried to salvage the mission, or I jack out and the mission fails.

In general, planning on forums games goes as long as the conversation is being productive rather than people getting frustrated. In this case, I'm trying to push towards quicker processing of ideas because you are on a strict time table with only having been given 15 minutes until the Johnson expects you to start hitting the building.

An alert regarding a possible Matrix intruder has been sounded. That doesn't mean the entire building instantly goes on alert. If they did that they'd be going on high alert multiple times every day as random punks were playing around with their new commlinks. The harsh system response here is likely due to an overabundance of such in this area (i did mention earlier that the Yojirushi building in particular was completely covered in multiple layers of AR graffitti).

At this point needle hasn't even touched the system let alone been tracked down. If she's worried about that, she can change her commlinks access ID without too much trouble (this is standard practice among hackers when they think their access ID might have been recorded). It's a Hacking + Software (2) test to temporarily change your access ID (lasts until you next reboot your commlink). Or you can permanently change it with a Hardware + Logic (2) test.

Well. I can summon up a spirit to give us some concealment. People would take less notice of us, so we might be able to get in and out without as much trouble.

Sorry. I'm not near my computer, using my phone to check and post...

I'll be super meta, and Slacker, correct me if I'm wrong here. I think that if you jack out now, that their matrix security people smile smugly, knowing that they chased some passer-by hack away. Our plan continues.

oops - I sat on that too long before hitting send. Scooped!

Sorry, but I've played with far too many GM's who like to screw players over on the first dice roll. Was just covering my bases.

However, my character IS at an impasse here. She's set off a matrix alert, and she isn't about to get fried here. So she will log out. No big deal, but she's kind of useless now. She's got no armor and no weapon on her. I guess she can head over with Mr. White, but when the guards refuse to let everyone enter...she's kind of useless. Or is she...

Was the sniper in signal range when I checked for PANs earlier? Probably, considering my signal is 6. So I'm viewing the matrix through AR and checking for a hidden node on his person. I'm going to assume that, at the very least, he has at least a commlink OR cyberware. This is a specific check - Electronic Warfare + Scan, with a threshold of 4. If I can't force the doors, I can at least make sure the sniper isn't a problem.

15d6.hits(5) = 9

She's doing this via AR. I'll let you tell me if there is a node there or not before I continue.

I hemmed and hawed over it. I'm sending White in. I think that having him inside when the party is crashed will be valuable. He can help make sure the target does not disappear. He may not rappel out - he needs to not have him or his contact look suspicious on investigation. But we'll see how that goes down.

Needles, she could camp out just outside of the building in anticipation of our people coming back out. Trust me, I understand the frustration about being useless outside of specific circumstances. If we're not talking, White may as well be hiding under something.

Thoughts, folks?

I got no problem with you being inside when the party gets crashed.

Needle is going to see about taking out the sniper - or at least disabling him to the point where he is either firing blind or his weapon won't work. After that...we'll have to wait and see what types of tricks Horizon tries to pull. Might be able to help do the same thing with anybody else that gets in signal range to help out.

How's that sound?

And yeah, it's frustrating when the GM rolls 7 hits on his first roll, thereby almost eliminating one player before anything starts. She's got a secondary skillset, but I'm really hoping nobody gets hurt so much that she has to use it. But I'll do what I can in the matrix from here, even if I can't get into Horizon. Yet.

It's stretching the limit of the signal rating on his commlink between your current position and his. As you're looking at the signal it disappears out of range, but you are confident that if he moves to a position along the building's edge that looks over the balcony that he will be within range for you to do nasty things to hims commlink.
Also, there were in fact two nodes on the balcony, the other one being by the bar. Given the speed of the virtual world, the 10 minutes+ you all have left before go time is an eternity. Metagaming you targetted the more difficult of the two nodes and while any security rigger would certainly take a look where an alert was triggered. Finding no evidence of intrusion, he will order the IC back to its natural state, andthen move on to check over the rest of the building's security to make sure this wasn't a distraction rather the attempt vandalizism he deals with on a regular basis.

I'm sorry if it comes off as being heavy handed. I promise you i'm not trying to be, but even if I only bought successes with that nodes dice, it would have detected you on your second attempt which still would not have given you the admin access you were trying for (target was 14).

Besides, i'll let you in on something, this whole mission is going to take more than the 2 minutes of zip lining across, grabbing the guy and rappelling/zip lining/however away. You are going to have more opportunities to be useful.

Trying to hack a megacorps system is damn hard and the stats reflect that.