Ali could definitely be a part of the infiltration team, working their way into the facility and bypassing locks/security measures where necessary.

And the GM Bribes begin.

Lany has the acting ability to pose as a nurse, and is tough enough to help protect anyone else on the inside along with Nikki. I think we should likely get the patient we are inserting inside through a fake transfer, just need a fake file, and a
fake Van. The tricky part is getting him into the long-term areas with staff who have been assigned to the rooms we are aiming for.

I am currently running a very active PbP campaign set in Denver - given the number of players you have in this one, I'm going to bow out, I don't really have the time to commit to both.

Best of luck

Lobo

Bummer.
But good luck with the other game!

Still leaves us with eight.
I think.
Everyone has chimed in fairly recently, except not heard from Chance since 8 Jan.

Granted, not much been happening.

Still with us, Chance?


As for the plan - seems everyone wants to con our way in as opposed to sneak our way in.
No argument there.

Of the two con ideas - pretend to be medical types and pretend to be HVAC repairmen, I'll throw my vote for the latter.
The reason is that the place is full of medical types. It is a lot harder to convince people you are something you are not when they are that thing you are not.
All the docs and nurses will more easily spot a fake medical type than they would a fake HVAC type.
They will know what sort of medical personnel should be where, but they won't really have much clue where the HVAC repair people should be.
It is just an easier role to play, an easier con to pull off.

But that is just my two cents, since Al is probably going to be either on top of a nearby building with a rifle, or waiting in a getaway vehicle.
I sort of think that because Aria has sort of hinted there ought to be an outside element, and nearly everyone else has volunteered for the inside team.
But cool either way.

Ah, ok. That simplifies things.



Sounds good to me. If it's possible, LeFey will hack the machinery or have a sprite use Gremlins on it. That way, we won't have to convince anyone there's a problem. Maybe half of us can go in as the repair team (the other half will wait outside in case anything goes wrong), along with the mole. He'd be in disguise until we find a spot without staff or cameras. Then he could switch clothes and we can tell one of the personnel there's a patient wandering around.

Additionally, Colin will be able to bullshit as many people as we need to get in under the guise of an HVAC repair team.

"Oh, well, your main rotor coil is busted, which causes the coolant to leak all over the flux capacitor. I can fix it, but I need one of my guys to monkey around in the Jeffries tube so he can jimmy the latch and make sure the Reactor doesn't leak."

-DrZ

@Adamu: Strong point about the Medical guises vs. the HVAC guises. You can only fake so much knowledge around professionals. An HVAC repair job could also take several days at least to service all the problems, so we would have a good window of
access to the facility.

If we go the HVAC route, we still have the problem of how to get the mole into the long-term care area, which I remember being described as having longer tenured staff if the area who will notice if a new patient pops up in their area. Perhaps
these problems could be solved over the Matrix with some creative hacking and reassigning and rescheduling the staff in the necessary areas of the hospital.

Definitely a problem to solve.

So - does the mole we are inserting have to have any particular physical appearance?
I note that in the original mission parameters, it says there is also a list of names that we can get paid bonuses to extract.
Is it worth exploring the possibility of killing two birds with one stone with a switch?

I am pretty sure the mole is already chosen, it is a "willing" individual, however much that means, so sadly I doubt we will be able to do the two for one.

I know we have the exterior map, but do we have any maps of the floorplan inside?

What level of security does the facility have, both physical (number of guards on duty) and electronic/matrix security?

Yes, mole chosen.

Does the mole have to be in there as a specific cover identity, or do they just need to be in there?
If the latter, then access files on the extraction candidates ahead of time, choose the best fit, and alter mole's appearance.

May not be doable, but worth asking, cuz elegant if pulled off.

I still think we could con our way in as HVAC people into the secure-wing/long-term care. They still need heating/cooling. However, Someone is going to have to hack their way into the system to not only to move the longer tenured staff from the wing/ward as necessary, but to also insert records/files on the mole.

It's one thing to get the mole inside, but we'll have to do what we can to insure they're not discovered right away and removed.

Again, spitballing.

Dr. From weekend crew checks them in (not really). Same doctor gets discovered stealing morphine and is fired. New patient is checked in with no one actually working at the facility having met them. Lots of hacking, but doable.

Drz

Fraggin awesome idea, I don't think I had considered the outright termination of a couple of Staff members, but that could help tremendously.

I think your spitball hit its mark.

We could even plant the evidence that they DID steal morphine by breaking into their lockers, I could pick the locks easily once we are inside disguised as the HVAC crew. When they catch someone stealing pharmaceuticals at a Medical facility,
they get Banned from entering the building FAST. Shouldn't be any time for them to notice the insertion of our mole.

This is all brilliant.

As an added twist, try to choose a doctor with skills that could be useful in the future, and keep hold of his personal info.
Then we'll have a line on an unemployable and desperate doctor.
Good future resource.


So as the plan takes shape, how much stuff (hacking, scouting, etc.) are we supposed to ACTUALLY implement?
My impression, and I could be wrong, is that we are supposed to simply make the plan and present it in broad strokes to Aria, who will then base the "mid-run start" on that.
Is that right?

OR
on second thought, choose a guy to get fired who actually is dirty in some way or another. Easier to make stick, and more importantly we don't have to feel guilty about his three little girls being raised in the barrens.

If Summer's interest in this place is well founded, that shouldn't be hard.

Player: Vegas Character: Ali Moneaux - Sneaky, forgettable adept

Player: RdMarquis Character: Morgan "LeFey" Senlis - Face/Technomancer

Player: Always Overkill Character: Elaina "Lany" Argyle - Face/Assassin

Player: DrZaius Character: Colin "BOLO" Mathias - Infiltration expert

Player: Thanee Character: Violet - Mystic adept

Player: Chance359 Character: Victor "Wreck" Heller - One of the same waiting outside

Player: justkelly Character: Lynn "Nikki the Knife" Meadows - Assassin

Player: adamu Character: Al - Dockworker

Ah, +2 karma for Adamu

I think the HVAC crew on the inside will have a disproportionate amount of females on it.

Girl Power!

We can dirty ourselves up and just look like some hard-working women

Can we move OoC over to the main thread now please? Will hopefully help me to keep track of things. I will try and answer the various questions that have cropped up in the last few posts over there!

Sorry for being unavailable recently. I'll catch up and go with the flow until fully briefed.

Is it still possible to join the game?

Absolutely! Can you post a character concept here or in the main OoC and we'll see how we can fit you into the thread without having to bend space time too much don't worry, it should be perfectly doable!

Don't know if you had anything in mind, we've got a TM, couple of samurai types, possibly one or two others active at the moment, obvious lack being magic but don't feel you have to play a mage...

that's great!

I've been thinking of playing a tough as nails, cigar smoking, ex military gun adept. I'll post the build on the general forum. I hope it would fit with the overall theme of the run and party.

Okay Nikki is back and I hope her post will help get her back into the action, as well acquire additional information.

I read through the IC I missed, but I'm a bit lost on the other character placements. Perhaps in IC characters can give Nikki a quick update.

If the IC is totally out of sync, then ignore and tell me where I should go to jump the time space continuum.

Ok, I scarpped the ex-solider concept as I noticed someone is already running a similar concept.
I will create a mage to provide some magical support to the team.

That would be great! To work you in we can either retcon you into being part of the original party and you played a 'silent' role until now or you could be one of the patient group already down here...if you like the sound of the later I can PM you with some juicy details...

Name: Monique Debrière
Concept: Mambos (Female Vodun Priest)
Age: 19
height: 5'5''
appearance

Priority Table


Attributes


Qualities


Karama expenditures

Skills


Adept Powers


Spells


Contacts (18 free)


Gear (6000Y+ 6000Y from 3 karma spent)


Background



dicerolls

This would be a very interesting addition in a number of ways...

Jared "Haze" Givens
Dwarf


Appearance:

Age: 21 looks 15
Height: 4'3"
Weight: 61 lbs
Eyes: Metallic Green

Haze wears different clothes and styles varying on the need, from combat gear, biker leathers, jeans and shirts with puma athletic foot wear. And if needed suit and tie for high end clients. He is soft spoken, but very quick witted. He looks like he is constantly appraising what ever situation he is in. And you can see a edge to him that you are sure comes from his past.

Origin:

Jared Givens was born as a young boy into a very poor family. As he was growing up his mother had a BTL addiction that left her useless to her children, Jared learned to beg and steal for food to feed his sister and himself. When he had reached the ripe old age of 13 his mother died and left him fending for his little family.
Now he was forced to up his effort to keep the place they called home and food on the table for his sister and him. Then that fateful day when he got caught trying to take a cred stick from a drug drop that went bad. Jared grabbed it when it hit the ground when the rival drug pin was geeking the drop man. He actually got away a full 2 blocks before the black nightsky rolled up on him, that is when the world ended, he was dragged into the back of the limo and beaten terribly. He was told the cost of theft was death or servitude. They pulled up to his doss and he was told since you are not answering for your crime I will choose for you.
That is when the huge troll bodyguard came from the building holding his sister, the suited man nodded and Jared watched as his sisters brain was removed from her skull with a large caliber bullet. I spun on the suited man screaming and swinging until I was struck unconscious. The next thing I remember is waking up in more pain than I can ever remember. Then after I could finally stay awake and focus the suited man walked in. I tried to leap from the bed to strangle him for killing my sister but I found out I was restrained.
He then sits down and explains what he has done to me, he said you will become my driver and body guard. I start to laugh and say the minute I am free I will end you, he shows me a button and says you even think of crossing me and I push this detonator to the cortex bomb in you brain. When you have paid off your debt to me I will remove the bomb, but know the cost of the enhancements are great and you will owe me for years.
So my career started as a rigger, I learned control and fighting, I strived to learn everything, to be the best of the best. I started doing off site jobs when I knew it was safe. Started saving cred till I could get the bomb removed without Slick Sammy ever knowing. Then years later the day finally came. Sammy went to his vacation home, I had the procedure done when he was out of the country without me. Then he returned and that day had finally come. I was taking him on his daily pickup route and I had the Roto drone waiting. He stepped out and the ares alpha turned him to Swiss soy cheese. Now alone in the world with just the starting equipment I could gather and hide I turn to the shadows looking for a home and a family.

Ericen, welcome on board...as I said via PM, feel free to start posting in the IC, ask any questions if you need clarification of events

Crap, wrong thread...

Is this still open? If it is, I'll roll up a character and backstory. I'll also read through the current IC so that I know what's going on

It is and it isn't...I'm just about to post a recruitment thread to the sequel to this story line as we've had some drop outs and I'm getting some interest in the game from SG etc so it seemed sensible to put a timeline break into the proceedings and start fresh...so please do post you characters in that OoC or the main OoC as you like!

All right then, thanks for the answer. That might give me a little extra time to get a better concept fleshed out.