Slightly belated, but happy new year!

Is someone waiting for a post from me?

Anybody out there?

Yeah, sorry! Thanks for the reminder.

Will post soon.

Bye
Thanee

The mouse cozies up to the cat.

Is the park under Frank's window the park to which the ork woman is headed?

Yes

Heh, you could take the last 6 dice off Bongo's roll and he'd still have 4 successes! You're right, though. I should have thought of that.

Thanks for the endorsement.

I knew it. Mike was Frank all along!

No need to get into any detail there... she will likely bne occupied with Mike for a while, and we can just move on from there.

Bye
Thanee

D'oh!

Edited, just to hide my shame.

Not a chance. I once GMed a game in which my wife's PC seduced another player's PC. They were sitting on either side of me, and the innuendo and descriptions passed back and forth in front of me.

Yeah.

Ok then. I'll advance time in the IC post. Let me know if you have questions about what to do. Thanee can add detail if they'd like, or not if they'd prefer.

As an aside these posts tend to take long than I'd think, but I suppose I'm learning trivia about Baltimore, which was part of the purpose.

I never expected to know so much about how the Baltimore sewer system works or how they manage their below ground conduits.

As an aside, I have someone else PMing me from an invite back when I was trying to get this going. If they're interested I'd put them with Willie. If that doesn't work out I did get permission from Crossbow to use Flatline.

I have an aversion to GMPCs. I've loathed ones that other DMs/GMs have foisted on the party in the past, and so I worry how mine would be perceived. However trying to run with a character someone else made feels different, and a bit of a fun challenge.

Yeah, Willie got uncharacteristically turned around in some side streets, but he figures he's on track again. Ready to rumble!

Bongo has been watching people use the elevators long enough to know it must be handled in the matrix. The guards seem to know who on the street to let in and who to glare at without anybody flashing passes or exchanging words. This can change over time. Someone can bring a package and be waved over but get a guard adjusting their grip on their weapon if they stick around until it opens again.

Probably indicated in AR. And somehow people in the above apartments must be able to arrange for their deliveries and "guests".


For the other folks, I think what Tubesnake is saying they want to do is move underground via the storm drain system from their van to the mahole cover. From there a little elbow grease and a large wrench could open up one of the vertical access points (not sure the technical term, but the idea is the vertical distance could let you get at the pipes while sewage slides underneath without getting on you unless it backs up).

Tubesnake would know these uptown buildings take their fire load very seriously and probably use metal instead of PVC. So he'd need to have his drone spool out a wire until it pops up in someones toilet and can get on the wireless. Seems like some kind of navigation roll to get the right apartment. They aren't trying to make it a maze. But there are a lot of apartments.

As for keeping Thanee in the mix. Mike is a cuddler and likes being with somene in that little nook the large angled window makes. So he could be asleep and Selina could wake up(or still be awake) for Bongo pinging her and Tubesnake about the girl.

Close; the real question at hand is whether the metal pipes will act as waveguides so that one drone at the base can act as a relay for wireless communications all the way up; essentially reducing the need for wires while also reducing the interception risk.

So, does she get to the security before Bongo gets closer to her? I wonder if she looks like or looks related to our target.

A few things.

A quick search will reveal baltimore city does have a journalism program.

Since the park is close to the elevators. She just has to walk40feet south to the sidewalk, turn east and go about 120 feet to the elevators. Still, she's walking at a slow distracted pace so Bongo could intercept her if he wanted.

Unless he shares the feed from his contacts you'd have to ask Bongo how similar she looks.

( For Bongo, she has certain similarities in body type. But she looks to be some sort of Asian African mix instead of Caucasian, so not likey a blood relative. )

I know what Koekepan is talking about with the wave guides. Many frequencies wouldn't work at all, but in principle some frequencies people use should. Still, the pipes are wet, smeared, with occasional deposits and a lot of junctions and bends. Far far from ideal. In a pinch I might allow something with penalties. But one drone with a fiber in a toilet's trap would give a "clean" signal, ironically enough.

Actually it was I asking for Bongo.

Just to be clear, whatever Tubesnake decides to have done or ask Angel to do, he'd have been able to be messing with it for the couple hours that passed.

Haha! I think we might have misjudged the situation with fox girl a little.

Bye
Thanee

Well, we have to give the GM some unexpected fun time too, don't we?

Huh. I think I better get with the program and follow others' colour scheme.

OK, there's one in the positive column. Thanks, Thanee. I'll wait a while to see if anyone else is against Bongo opening up a bit. If I don't hear anything against it, Bongo will go ahead.

So Koekepan's post made it sound like Tubesnake decided on a course of action with his drones, but please be more explicit so I know what he's been up to.

Also Angel needs an autistic level of explicitness on what to do. Though Tubesnake can do searches and hacks to an extent too.

Also I'm not sure if it's missing the trees for the forest or good RPing in that while Bongo saw her appearing to use AR he never explicitly said so to the group.

I choose to go with good RPing!

Bongo, a creature of his time and environment, though, would find it quite natural for one to use AR in all kinds of situations, such as checking in at a location expecting them. I suspect one could walk down any street in SR 2070 and see all kinds of people 'phased out'.

The intent was to illustrate a line of thought, with the only actual action being looking to see whether there were such a list - but I'll go with the continuing research assuming that nothing else interrupts him for the minutes that it takes.

Koekepan, it seems like your character sheet link was broken .

I was looking for something to roll for the drone navigation. Not like a crash test, but to figure out how to guess the right pipes to take to wind up the the right toilet. Something plus logic. One roll. You had enough time to get up in some toilet, the only question being if it's the right one.

And just to clarify. Tubesnake is below ground at the manhole underneath the building Bongo mentioned.

Tubesnake has taken off the bolts and head of the inspection riser/pipe (I think that's what it might be called) and has one Anneliese in there on a fiber cable.

Potentially a second is in there wirelessly, that has been using the wired one as a relay.

Tubesnake is interested such a wireless annelid to pop out like Mr. Hanky and explore.

OK, I don't know how we got there from here.

Paul is supposed to be at his van. He is remotely controlling drones, testing physical infiltration strategies for the drones. He only opened the manhole to put his drones down it. Assuming that he has signal (which is why he set up a relay team in the expectation of signal being interrupted or attenuated) he would continue operation.

Once a drone can infiltrate through a commode's riser, its signal accessibility should be greatly improved unless the entire building is a Faraday cage (highly improbable because the tenants would complain) at which point he can be pretty confident of being able to control it from his van anyhow.

Why he would go down the manhole himself is beyond me; it buys him nothing.

https://files.catbox.moe/zivcyw.html should be a fresh link.

I'll try it on my laptop but it doesn't work for my phone. Does it work for anybody else? Could it be a permissions issue?

I figured Tubesnake was in the van, too.




I see a lot of HTML code but not the page it should be generating.

Well, you have to get the bolts off to get access to the sewer line.

However if Tubesnake wanted to stay in the van, it occurs to me the brisket drones can use tools. Presumably one of those could have managed it. It could also serve as one end of the fiber optic link if you don't want to have the fiber running all the way from the van.

Just grab the file, name it as Paul.html, and slap it into a browser.

oh. yeah.

FYI new thread up. Willie finally gets to go!

Lenny? Bodyguard?? What a reversal for Willie.

Lenny is a human male hacker that has no business running the shadows.

He wears a helmet not so much to conceal his identity but to avoid death from traumatic brain injury. Think Leonard from Big Bang Theory.

While wearing gear for the job, it's too clean to give the impression he's been at any of this for long.

Sign--

Wacky

Just making sure this was background and fleshing out the character and intended for the OOC thread, instead of the IC thread.

Lenny will be loading Analyze, Bio-Feedback Filter, Browse, Exploit, Decrypt, Scanner, Spoof, and Stealth onto his commlink. Thanks to the ergonomic mod to several of his programs this won't slow down his commlink at all.

The Hacker will begin with scanner on the boat and note the various signals he's getting and then running analyze with them to log them as friendlies. After that, Lenny will scan out onto the water to see if anything is coming their way of us to them.

This is all being done in AR.

Let me know how you'd like me to roll for this--I forgot to ask before

Sign--

Wacky

Here's a roll to see if Willy catches what Flatline mumbled.

Perception roll: Perception 3 + INT 5 + earbuds 3 = 11 dice: 5 hits!!

Hmmm. I kind of took over your show, sunnyside. If you want me to wait till you interpret a dice roll liek that, let me know.

Lenny is running Scan on his commlink to detect any wireless signals and those that might be hidden in the general direction that Willie's Otter is heading.

Here's the roll for Scan.

He'll follow up by running Analyze on any nodes he finds.

https://orokos.com/roll/1003498

Sign--

Wacky

You can flesh stuff like that out and include it in IC posts.

In this case I'm not sure what you did for the scan post link, but it wasn't the right thing.

Yes, that is what I was thinking, already. With the scouting intel, that Tubesnake provides, Fiona can certainly get through the Ward in a place, where she won't be seen, and then possibly provide some astral intel from inside.

Bye
Thanee

By the way, seeing as Willie doesn't expect to have to make it through scanners with his weaponry, the expensive and very hard to get HK Urban Combat smg and its ammo are safely stored back home.

Hey! He's not cheap. He costs the client just as much as the rest of them do.

So, should we let Fiona sneak into the appartment to take a closer look?

Bye
Thanee

Sounds good to me. Between spirit and mechanical insect we should be able to glean some information.

Like most gamemasters fixers, Brewster has a hard time getting hackers, and is willing to develop the talent of individuals like Angel and Lenny.

The dermal plating on his head may get a workout from the wall sometimes as a result.

What kind of rolls would you need for Fiona?

Probably Infiltration and the four Assensing rolls.

Is the ward active around the whole apartment, or just some parts of it?

Bye
Thanee

That would get Willie's vote!

Well, maybe not anymore. Poor guy is starting to think things through.