@Trace
Pushing through the wall you seem to be in a hallway. It's empty of life and extends about 10m in front of you. At the end of the hallway on the left is another door.

All these frikkin doors were giving me a headache. Who builds like this? I moved ot the next door and looked for any windows or anyway I could look through without having to do go through it.

@Trace
Looks to you like there is a faint, shimmering ward surrounding the door before you. At closer inspection, however, it looks like it only wards the door. Guess they're a little more worried about active spells and foci at this point relying on the other ward and the vines to keep astral critters out. Lucky for you, not so lucky for them.

You look through the wall next to the door and are startled to see an elemental before. The flaming humanoid waits at the opposite end of the room and doesn't seem to react to your presence opposite its station. You can also see the aura of two mundanes in the room. They're focused and look to be handling some form of electronic devices. You can't get a sense of exactly what they're doing, but their emotional state is one of greed and avarice.

Yippy skippy, an elemental. I took a quick look at it before I zoomed back to my body. It was a bit tricky with those damn plants, but I was ready this time.

"Alright," I said suddenly. I could see the others suppressing a jump as I came back to life.

"Ok, down this hallway, through the door and to the left and we have our bag men. The only problem is that there is a elemental. I think I can deal with him but it is going to take my undivided attention. We ready?"

Slash actually does jump, thinking to himself Blasted wires, leave me all jumpy

"I've got your cover. If you can deal with the mojo I can deal with the meat."

"Alright, then. Here we go," Lynx says as she makes sure her Pred is locked and loaded. "If we can, try and take them down without too much commotion. Trace, could you tell how many there were?"

Quietly, "Can't we just trick it into the vines?"

Corbin nods and makes sure his taser is loaded. That done, he checks to be sure that his predator is also ready to go, in case things got serious. "Chiller, let's motor."

Nodding Slash grabs his blade, and places his hand just over the switch. "You got it."

@Corbin
The guard's radio crackles again, "Stacey, this is Jim out on duty. Max hasn't arrived, yet and isn't responding to the radio. Any ideas?"

Theres only a couple, but we have to go by the security room, and through the door with the camera. We will either need to take out the camera or risk being seen. Can you disable it without setting off any alarms?"

I said to the thief, I figured she could.

"Someone answer that damn radio! Just say 'I'm taking a crap, hold your horses,' or something like that," Lynx says to Corbin.

She then turns to Trace. "I can disable the camera no problem. In terms of setting off alarms it depends on if the camera has one hooked up that signals tampering. I won't be able to tell unless I get close and take a look. If you can get me to the camera while the others wait here I can see what I can do."

Corbin takes a deep breath and focuses. He tunes his transducer for a deeper voice and opens the channel, fiddling with the talk button as he does so intermittently to create the illusion of a bad connection.

"Hang [crackle] on. Fraggin' [crackle] adio's [crackle] working," he says and lets it go dead.

@Corbin
Over the radio: "Whatever man. Get your fragging behind out here. I wanna eat my lunch."

"On second look the camera isn't mnoving, it is pointing away form us and at the door. Just go down there quietly and you should be okay. Corbin, you an I need to go take care of that guard, the rest of you keep an eye out here."

"Ok, Slash you're with me. Let's stay tight to the wall and be ready for anything." She checks her pred one more time and replaces it in her hip holster, shoulders her electronics kit and takes a deep breath. Going through the door low, she heads straight across the hall and presses herself up against the far wall that the door is on. She waits for Slash to join her and then makes her way down the hall to the camera, being sure to stay low and against the wall.

Slash slides in behind Lynx. Following her lead he resheathes the sword.

When they get near the camera Slash holds out his hands forming a step of sorts for Lynx.

Ikarus strains to hear sounds from the now open door as well as from the direction they came down.

"Can I get on your shoulders?" Lynx whispers to Slash.

@All
The hallway is strangely quiet. You can hear the muffled sounds of the crowd as they cheer on the prize fighters in the gymnasium but the walls back here must be somewhat sound resistant concidering the number of people screaming and yelling out there. Adrenaline surges for a moment as you realize that you don't really know how the fight is going. Is it round 3? 4? Could the match be over and the money already leaving ... and not in your hands!

"Null shean"

going down on one knee Slash sets himself up to essentially give Lynx one heck of a piggyback ride.

@All
Without missing a beat, Lynx is lifted off the floor by the camera. Taking care to stay out of the camera's field of view, Lynx begins her work.

With Corbin following I led the way back to the guard who was complaining about the bathroom.

"Okay, heres the plan, I am going to turn you invis, then, when your ready, I am going to open the door, you grab the guard and pull him back in here and we'll silence him. Hopefully we can just beat the tar out of him."


I summoned the will in my mind forming the mana and focusing it into one single shape.

"Invisitalis." And then Corbin vanished.

Lynx reaches into her tool kit and rumages for the right tool and starts into work.

@Soluna
Takes you about 25 seconds to get the camera's backplate off. Inside you can see the electronics for the camera. Nothing to sophisticated, you think to yourself, should be to hard to short out.

"Shouldn't take me much longer," she whispers to Slash, hoping that her weight wasn't too much for him.

"null shean, You're not that heavy."

Mean while Slash thinks to himself How many anvils did she eat this morning

Corbin nods and gets ready to grab the guard at the appropriate time.

@Lynx
It takes about half a minute for you to tease the wires around and find the feed line for the video. You also notice, much to your delight, that it looks like the video is recording its data into on-camera memory and then this display feed is extracting from this memory. Shaking your head at the morons who came up with this little security "feature," you quickly cut the electronic cord from what you think is the camera's auto focus and patch it between the video line and the memory line. Then, you switch the camera from record to display. Hopefully, this will continue to display what's in memory on the camera rather than what's actually in front of the camera.

"Sweet," Lynx says as she realizes the stoke of luck. "Kay, Slash, coming down."

When she gets down on the ground next to Slash against the wall, though, she starts to think. What if they did that on purpose with the camera to lull people into a false sense of security? After all they were about to pass into an isolated hallway with this door as the only exit. It would be all to easy to cut someone off in there and stage an ambush. The lead weight began to form in her stomach as the seed of doubt was planted. "Re-group!" she calls hastily over the transducer and prays that someone is listening. She motions for Slash to follow her back to the other door saying that she'll explain in a minute.

nodding slightly Slash follows Lynx out of the hallway.

"Corbin...Trace..?" Lynx calls over the transducer as she reaches the hallway where Ikarus is waiting. "Where are you guys? Meet us back at the hallway, we have to regroup."

@Trace and Corbin
As Trace holds the door for Corbin, Corbin steps silently up behind the guard who is standing about two steps in front of the door. Giving a quick look around Corbin sighs in relief to see that there is no line outside the bathroom across from the guard's post. Sliding one arm around the guards throat and use the other to put him in a headlock, Corbin pulls the struggling guard back into the small antechamber and Trace lets the doors slide shut. Holding the guard for a few more moments until his stuggling stops, Corbin then rises and stands looking at the unconscious form for a few seconds to see if he's just faking.

Then, over the radio from Lynx, "Corbin...Trace..? Where are you guys? Meet us back at the hallway, we have to regroup."

Looking over at Trace, Corbin grins sheepishly, "Why do I think she's not going to be happy about this." He says lifting the guard over his shoulder to be hidden outside of view from the main gym area.

We hustled back quickly, Corbin dropping our latest guard with the rest of the butterflies.

"okay, lets do this."

"Shit!" Lynx cursed as she saw Corbin coming toward them with another body. "Ok guys, here's the deal: the camera is out of commission on a feedback loop, however, it was too damn easy to do. The flaw was built into the camera's computer a little too nicely, if you know what I mean. Then it occurred to me, we go through that door and it's the only way out. All they need to do is throw a grenade into the hallway or even just pin us down in there and we're done. We need to rethink how we're going to get at the money. We can't go in guns blazing because then they raise the alarm and we get pinned. Maybe invisibilty would be a good way to get in, although when the money bags start floating across the room they might get suspicious. Any ideas?"

Lynx's eyes lock on the ceiling and light up. "Slash, can you give me another boost?"

Corbin thinks about it for a few seconds and nods. "How many people are going to be in there? We're secure up to this point, I think, so if we can take out the last few while invisible or the like, we're good to go."

"I'm just worried about what we haven't seen. Yes there's been gaurds at each of the doors as far as we've seen. However, what about other places that we haven't seen and what about off duty gaurds in a break room or something like that. Let me see what's on the other side of the ceiling and I may have an alternative."

SLash nods, "sure, that's not a problem" kneeling down He sets up to pick her up again on his Back.

Lynx climbs up onto his shoulders and lifts the ceiling tile. She sneezes as a dusty of little white balls jostled loose from the tile drift into her face.

@Soluna
In addition to the usuall accumulation of wires, supports, ducts, and vents that you'd expect to see above such a ceiling, you also see two large chrome tanks at the far end of the hallway. It looks like they are connected by two exit nozzles from which one pipe leads into the room on the otherside of the door with the camera.

"I think we have a problem," she says to the rest of the team below her. "I might be able to fix it though." She goes from kneeling on Slash's shoulders to standing and does her best to find good hand holds to hoist herself up into the ceiling.

@All but Lynx
Lynx shimmies her way into the drop ceiling, taking great care to put her wait on the corners of each tile where the supports connected to the true ceiling are. Winding her way through those supports, you can her here sneeze as she kicks up long undisturbed dust. Her progress is slow and she knocks out one other tile, but Corbin's wired reflexes kick in and he catches it on the way down. Steadying herself, Lynx looks down at Corbin and nods her thanks. Getting herself situated, she begins to analyze the device.

@Lynx
The two chrome containers are about a 1/3 of a meter in diameter and as long as the hallway. They are joined by a pipe shaped like a Y where the brances connect to each vat and the stem leads into the next room. There is also a rather large amount of electrical wiring leading from a small control pannel at the neck of the Y into the other room along side the pipe. It looks like some form of a trigger would release the chemicals stored in the containers allowing them to mix and be released into the next room. If you could disable that trigger then things should be good to go. Pulling your tools, you get to work on the panel and it takes you about a minute to get the face plate off. The wiring is simple but leads into a complex system of circuit boards. Ikarus could probably tell you what they do, but hauling him up here to take a look seems overkill. You analyze the wiring and isolate a cable that seems to run into the circuit boards from the other room. You cut that cable. The panel still seems to be powered, but you think you've probably disabled the tirgger. Pulling yourself back, you slide the ceiling tile to the side and drop back to the floor to amidst the waiting eyes of your teammates.

"Boom baby," Lynx says with a wink. "We're good to go now, but we should still go the quick and silent root." She leads the way back to the door the camera was pointing at, not worrying about staying out of its sight since she disabled that earlier.

"All right then, heres the plan, Corbin and Slash go in first and go in hard. I will go in and take care of the elemental, everyone else follow and take out Tangos as they appear. Once ion Ikarus gets the electronic money, Lynx gets the physical money, then we high tail it out of here. Thoughts?"

Slash's eyes light up in anticipation. "I can cover the going in hard part." Gripping his blade his finger twitches towards the switch.

"Remember that we want to dispatch people quietly, though. If we can get in and out without raising an alarm I'll be a happy shadwrunner," Lynx says with some grunting as she drags the body of the limp guard to the door. She swipes the card and then places his hand on the panel, drawing her pred with her free hand.

@All
The door opens before you and Lynx pushes it silently open into a long dim hallway. As Trace reported, there is one door on the far end of the 10 meter hallway on the left hand side. The walls are smooth for 1/3 of the way down the hallway but are then texturized with raised bumps. The door itself has a handprint and 9 digit keypad that you'll have to get through before you can enter what you think is the fight club's main banking center.

"Bring the body," Lynx whispers as she crouches low and moves along the wall that contains the door. She motions for the others to follow and do the same, hoping all the while that those vats really were disabled. She didn't have any desire to find out what was in them.