Ok, so some OOC info:

MARKs disappear once you've disconnected from the Matrix, so the two MARKs you had on you are gone. However, what Jack has figured out (and I think that Overkill would quickly figure out IC) is that the last piece of IC was Trace. There is nothing wrong with your deck, and the now that you've disconnected from the Matrix they can't follow you, but the authorities have been alerted of your intrusion and told your last known location. Response time isn't instantaneous, but I would suggest not hanging around.

As far as the footage, it shows the officer and a woman leaving the club, walking past Paul on their way out the door. Paul seems to be busy doing his job. As the couple stands waiting for a cab, Mitchell's hand around the girl's waist, he staggers backward as three rounds from off camera hit him in quick succession in the chest, knocking him backwards into the line waiting to get in.

He almost falls into one patron, a tall, blonde haired human with cybereyes that look like two silver orbs in their sockets, who reacts with superhuman speed. He catches Mitchell with one arm, holding him off the ground, while the other arm extends out toward the direction the shots came from, a pistol rocketing from inside his sleeve to the palm of his hand, and he gets off a round.

The return fire is a single shot, snapping back Mitchell's head. The man who caught him drops him to the floor and moves off camera toward the gunfire, ducking and weaving as he goes.

The woman with Mitchell drops to the floor, screaming and crying, and the rest of the crowd scatters (including Paul, who makes a quick retreat into the club).

I just did, although I was nice about it.

Can Grease task one of his drones to search the bar to see if the blond haired dude is here? If not, Paul may know him.

Ok, so some OOC info:

MARKs disappear once you've disconnected from the Matrix, so the two MARKs you had on you are gone. However, what Jack has figured out (and I think that Overkill would quickly figure out IC) is that the last piece of IC was Trace. There is nothing wrong with your deck, and the now that you've disconnected from the Matrix they can't follow you, but the authorities have been alerted of your intrusion and told your last known location. Response time isn't instantaneous, but I would suggest not hanging around.

Drain only goes physical if the number of hits exceeds the caster's Magic attribute. On top of that, the way I understand it is that the spell's force derived limit is applied before determining if the total number of hits exceeds the Magic attribute. That way, as long as you limit the force of the spell to the caster's magic rating or lower, you don't have to worry about physical drain.

No wanted posters

The trace would have given the local authorities (Lone Star in this case) an exact location of where you were - and, btw, as long as you stayed in the Matrix, it would continue to track you.

Since you disconnected, they only know you are at QXTs - they don't know what you look like - although theoretically they can pull video footage.

You were inside a club's Host for a few seconds and didn't touch their financials. I'm not sure how far either a) QXT is going to press to find you or b) how much the cybercrime division of Lone Star is going to pursue it.

They will dispatch officers to the club, so getting caught with a deck in the club is not a good idea. However, once you get out of the club, they can try and piece together various video footage, but you simply probably aren't worth the effort.

If you were robbing a bank, or destroying R&D materials at Saeder-Krupp and you had a trace put on you, it would be a different matter altogether.

So given the casual response of Denver's Finest, we can probably finish the chat (and my drink) before discreetly exiting the scene without too much worry. Now just comes the question on if it is worth it to go back in and cleanup (Erase) the footage of our being at the club.

So given the casual response of Denver's Finest, we can probably finish the chat (and my drink) before discreetly exiting the scene without too much worry. Now just comes the question on if it is worth it to go back in and cleanup (Erase) the footage of our being at the club.

Note: Chromehead caught an error in a previous IC post where I committed a little metagaming; when she mentioned trying to get more info on the pills; I used my OoC knowledge and warned her of the danger of going into Los Mag territory, when she had not mentioned that that was where she was going. I will amend his message to correct the error, his character is disregarding the specific warning.

In this case, it would change the 2 boxes of Stun Drain to 2 boxes of Physical Drain. However, since you rolled enough hits to reduce it to zero damage, it really doesn't hurt you.

@Jack

I hope you didn't mind me taking the creative liberty in having Jack drink the synth-vesa you ordered me. Seemed like an amusing note that Jack would realize Drave wasn't drinking it and didn't want to see it go to waste.

Also, we should ask Paul more details on this Argent from the video who returned fire.

That's fine. The whole point of the beer was to make it look like you weren't necessarily in VR to the casual observer.

I'm sure Grease will ask about Argent.

@Chrome,

I updated the expense report - I'll write up the trip to LM territory - which service are you using?

Since my character is remaining silent and has no access to DNI his commlink, I'm not going to add anything. I think Lisa will probably be the best source in any event if Argent spends all his time at the bar.

ETA: Also, I've been trying to put all of the clues together on the map and I seem to be missing something. Do we have anything definitive about the Los Mags being associated with Crimson Fire? The pills and Predator were confiscated form the Twoman bust, the LM tagged pistols were a different bust.

I just wanted to make sure that we were operating on assumption rather than a definitive connection.

ETA: Also, I've been trying to put all of the clues together on the map and I seem to be missing something. Do we have anything definitive about the Los Mags being associated with Crimson Fire? The pills and Predator were confiscated form the Twoman bust, the LM tagged pistols were a different bust.

I just wanted to make sure that we were operating on assumption rather than a definitive connection.

Lol.

So, I imagine Jack is Eliot
Overkill is Hardison
Amy is Parker
and Grease is a very ugly Sophie?

Hey I'd like for Amy to be dropped just outside of Los Mags turf, somewhere relatively safe too. If possible, some place not too far from where there's a good likelihood to find pushers on the street.

I'll roll in case you think it's relevant.
Area Knowledge: Aurora Warrens 3 + Intuition 5
8d6.hits(5)=2

And sorry Dr. Z, even if Grease was the most stunning he could be, he would still only make a far-uglier Sophie.

Firm but fair. I probably should watch that show.

-DrZ

IIRC, the full series is on Netflix right now.

@Lobo: Did you want us to post anything else? My plan was to swing by the alley from which the shots were fired if Lone Star is all inside. Otherwise, just head back to Union Station and meet up with Overkill.

I was sort of waiting on you guys - (I was also afk last night - spending some time with the wife and kids:))

My last post got you Argent's contact info and got you and Grease out of the club - I wasn't sure what you were planning on doing next - you might have contacted Argent right away, or might have headed back to the UCAS Zone first.

How do you guys want to handle that?

Also, Grease and Overkill you will need to update the expense sheets to include the 50 for the air taxi.

ETA - the 50 is one way.

About the expense account, and some of the other document in the Dropbox, I have a hard time opening many of them as I don't have Microsoft Office on my PC...