P comms come with an encryption rating equal to their rating. So a P comm 6 would be encrypted at lvl 6. Thats what Raven has. I believe 10 is what Gren has but that is both spendy, and hard to come by time wise. A 4 is all but worthless, as that is the TN they have to hit to break the encryption.

Should I order more than 4?

well Konton needs one, Leblanc could use and upgrade, Miho is going to need one, as is Carmen. I dont know about Q's situation, does he have the extra datajack like Christophe?

Well he said he had an internal 4. A network can only operate at its lowest rating. So everyone needs to be at least 6. You can use the P comm. (I envision them looking a little like an Ipod) with a wireless earbug and a subdermal mic, you don't need a datajack, it just helps if you have a transducer.

Hey, we got paid half upfront right? If so, I'll pay for mine directly, then you can get an extra one just to be on the safe side.

Perhaps we should start helping Ecc out by consolidating some of the stuff that's going on...

Compose a list of what's being looked for by who, and what all is requested, etc. That way he can look at the Synopsis post, and at least have a good idea of where to start.

You mean like this?

Leblanc (Two)
• Target Building, Blue prints, security whatever you can get. The conference too, were going to need passes, routes in and out etc. We also need a room at a nearby Hotel, and if you can do it without setting off alarms, the Hilton would be great.
  
  Miho (Four)
• You hit the ground, walk every floor of the Hilton, get on the roof if you can. Once the Doctor is in town you shadow and Q is your back up if things go south.
  
  Konton and Carmen (Three) (Five)
• Magical Security, we need to know everything about it and how to beat it. You also need to become familiar with Azzie magical security practices, Leblanc may be able to help with that one.
• Once we have a room to stay in and a safe house you guys will need to secure it magically.
  
  Grendel (Base)
• Learn the streets, fly the area with your drones, get familiar with it. Once the Doc is in town were going to button down until we make our move on the elevator.
  
  Wraith (Seven)
• We need 5 P comm. units rated 6 or higher on the Ares scale. We also need a safe house to fall back to and to store our extra gear. Including the sub.
  
  Raven (One)
• I am going to stay with Leblanc to be his physical guard. And to assist Wraith as needed.
  
  Q (Six)
• You are Mihos security, and back up for if anything goes wrong.

Exactly.. except punch it up, and give it a more jazzy ending


Btw, i'm counting 5 Comms total. Konton, Carmen, Q, Miho, and Leblanc.

I think your comm unit can only support a encrypt module up to its rating. If it is easier we'll see. Lets give Ecc some time to catch up though. He messaged me that he was slammed at work.

Before Miho and Q go anywhere scouting we need to get the comms for us, seeing how I wont be walking with her as that will look funny and she needs to do her thing we will need to be in touch wirelessly. So seeing how Carmen is no use to anyone awake atm Wraith is the only one who knows where to get stuff in this town. I can go get the stuff if he could security the products for us.

So I guess I’m just hanging out with Wraith atm

Yep; yo chilin with our new homie

..................... ok..... yea.... there's so many things wrong with that sentence....

(I'm in a goofy mood, watch out)

Yeah basically we are waiting on Wraith for a safe house and the Comm units. As far as I know everyone is still in the hangar, except for Miho and Grendel who stayed outsides and Raven and Leblanc who are walking the perimeter real quick.

Q was just saying that if we enroll Miho and then some girl goes missing then Miho goes missing and all records of Miho go missing that it's a little suspicious. Having her there a week and then maybe keeping her there for like a week after and then like have "Her parents pull her out of school for some reason" wouldn't catch many peoples attention. But we don't have the time for that and there’s no need for someone to enroll for half a day in school.

Well... she shows up in the computer records for a single day, and then the file just disappears... they'll never be able to trace her back.

Good news and bad news.

Ecce has informed me that he is super slammed at work. He doesn't want to give up the game but he needs help. So I am going to take on some of the co-gming responsibilities.

To make it easy to distinguish who I am when I post I will preface it with a bold name.

Example:

Raven

Post is here.

I will get right on moving us along first thing tomorrow morning.

Does that mean I can't make any remarks to Raven concerning her curvaceous body?

.............darn..........

Remark away. I'm sure Leblanc can outrun Raven when she decides to kick his hoop.

Yeah, sorry guys, but with my latest promotion to the Systems team at work I am absolutely swamped. I've got like 14 projects to work on and of course they are all high prioity. Bleh. At the moment I'm about two page behind in reading and even though I have some time tonight, its only because I had four hours worth of dental work done today so I left work early (at 9pm). Shadow, I can't thank you enough for the help and hopefully I'll be able to catch up with stuff this weekend (though at the rate you guys are posting, I'll likely be another page behind by the time I get around to it).

On a side note though, I am happy at how well you are all playing together. I haven't seen posts and role play like this in a loooooooong time. This is awesome and I can't wait to get back on track.

Hoooray for us!

Thanks Ecc for sticking with it, despite your new workload. And thanks Shadow for lending a helping hand. Players included, great group of folks all around. (except that overwatch guy...who posts a whole page of OOC on pizza toppings?!)

We should do a group hug.

How exactly would you group hug on a message board?

The airbase is a 20 to 30 minute drive from the airport you guys are at. It is really out in the wilderness, with one long road that leads to it.

Corpus Christi and the Naval Air Station Safe House

Here is a satellite photo. Google Style

Zoom till your hearts content, or until the government stops you.

Damn nice!

Konton attempts to assence the Ward, to get a feeling for it's power rating. He is also looking for any gaps in coverage. He's checking from all angles, but not entering the patrol zone of the watchers.

Works for me. There are no visible gaps, its at least a force 6 ward.

Noted, I'll wait for Carmen to post before proceeding...heh I mean Whizbang. For now, Konton is planning to return and get inside physically. Barring Carmen pulling a magical rabbit out of a hat.

In the mean time more Google Goodness This time Downtown Corpus Christi. The satellite zoom isn't that good, but the map itself is solid.

Oh, and I've been poking around looking for a Hilton on the water in DT Corpus Christi. (not cheating...I'm just trying to help ) I'm coming up empty handed, but I did find something close.

This Monster

don't know if that helps or not, but it is a large Hotel owned by a Hilton subsidiary, and it's right on Shoreline Blvd.

Ecce informed me that he is doing the 1 point of karma per week (dependent on posting). So since everyone has posted every weeks, we all get:

4 Karma.

Woot!

Must not...spend it...all...on...HATS...

Were going to keep the specifics of the hotel... abstract. Its Downtown CC on the water. I think thats good enough for now.

Is Monteray on the east coast of Mexico, or the West?

i'm not finding a Monteray Mexico, the closest i have is Monterrey Mexico, and that's inland. Now there's Monterey California, which is coastal, but it's way north of mexico, I think even by 2060 standards.

I'll keep digging.

Monterrey, Mexico is on the East Coast, about a hundred kilometers inland from the Caribbean.

The skinney on Monterrey, courtesy of Wiki.

And here is where it sits on a Map.

damn what can't the interweb do. i was looking up satellite photo's of buildings for my work earlier this morning and there are allot of sites and i found a great program check it out if you like

Google earth program

and i have always like

Terra Server from Microsoft

Ok, I just wanted to make sure we were all on the same page. We can leave right from the Naval Station via the mini sub, and return there too.

I'm taking off for the weekend see you guys back sunday night

Guys, I'm off for the weekend. Over worked and over stressed. A buddy invited me up to his cabin for the weekend to get away from things for a few days. I'll post when I get back.

Enjoy!

Anyways; its saturday night and I'm too hung over to out and party (yes, I do share a lot of traits with my character ), so, I thought it'd be constructive to do some thinking.

And by thinking, I mean, about our extraction plan (which we've only rough drafted for the first part of the mission). There is one thing I'm concerned about: how are we supposed to cap all those sec guys in an elevator. Yes, confined space makes it easy... like shooting fish in a barrel. But that doesn't change the fact that an elevator is only SO big. How many people can stand on top of one, open the celling trap and shoot down? One? Two? Can he/her/they take all the guys down before one makes a move? What do we do with the blood and damage? I know Grendel suggested "crashing" the elevator afterwards, which would indeed take care of that. Do we get someone hidden/disguised inside the elevator, as well as the people "on" it? Do we block the elevator between two floors, do our thing, and then take it to parking level?

I mean, doing recon is coo and all, but our plan is still VERY rough. I know we can't do a detailed plan with what little info we have, but I believe that with a little brain storming, we can come up with something clearer.

Basically... I just want us to start discussing all that OOC

Doing it on a "random" floor seems VERY risky. If someone just happens to come out of their room and sees a bunch of shadowrunners emptying clips... not cool. Not cool at all. Even if the runners are wearing shades.

Roof is doable, but people inside other building might notice it.

Basement / parking = same risk as on a random floor.

The plan is good, but it has some SERIOUS flaws. Beside the roof, bystanders always have a very good chance of being present.

Anyways... I was thinking while watching The Usual Suspect for the 100th time (since it has an "elevator" scene) about how everyone was going to sneak inside. We need to get various disguise and uniforms, as well as find a way to get the weapons inside (yes, disable the MAD systeme via Matrix... but an assault rifle is still big )

We could always make the hit on "their" floor.

I'm sure they'll have more than one room reserved, and we hit the elevator closest to where their rooms are. We get our rooms (say two of them) on the same flor in the same area. That way we have reason to be up there. And as most of the rooms in that area belong to either us or them, that will minimize the chance of non combatants happening by.

As for getting us all in the building, with two rooms, you could believably get two of us in a "couple", and three of us in as a "family". That's five of us on site, on the right floor with a consistent cover. The left overs will have to come in as employees.

As for the hit itself, with Miho's stealth, combined with an invisibility spell, hearth spirit concealment, and Carmen's own "combination invisibility/silence" spell, we should be able to get a large portion of the team into the fray undetected.

The MADs detector, that they probably have in the hotel's lobby, can probably be defeated via the matrix... but it would still be a safe thing to get our hands on non detectable weapons and Hi C ammo.

As for the run itself, I was thinking of two things for the decking:
1-Either connect via radio / laser/ whatever link setted inside the hotel
2-Or jack in from inside the hotel itself (via a remote device or something of the kind)

Option one is the safest (they can't trace the hack if they find out)
Option two will enable Leblanc to bypass a lot of security and get right down to business.

Thoughts?

Can you get us rooms and what not form outside? If so I would suggest that route. Then once we're in, doing the rest via an internal hook up.

As far as guns go, if konton is going to be required to shoot anything, he's going to need silenced pistols. His is oversized, burst fire, 10M dragon slayers are the exact opposite of silent.

To get weapons into the hotel, we can always levitate them in via a window or balcony once we're inside. Set up a couple of large cases with everyone's hardware, put them in the back of the van. Once the van is on the hotel grounds, we can have a spirit conceal it, stack that with improved invisibility, and then float the cases up to our window.

Of course I'm just pursuing the magic angles, if anyone has more mundane ideas, i'm game.

Well, if I manage to get my silence spell to cover the elevator, it won't really matter what you bring...only thing is now I'm starting to think that the reason I was allowed that spell was that it was personal ranged....

that means you would have to cast it on individuals.

Hrm...

Perhaps save that for the opposition forces, who may not be nice enough to come equipped with silencers.

How exactly does the spell work? Did you design it?

I really don't think we are going to be able to get a room, even with Leblancs decking. We don't want to kick someone out of their room because that will be suspicious. This is an international conference, the hotel is going to be packed. If were lucky we will be able to get a room in a nearby hotel.

In fact, I don't want to stay in the hotel. After this goes down, local Law, and Azzie sec, are going to be looking at sec tapes and guest lists real close. I don't think we want to take the chance of being linked to this that easily.

As for the guns, I doubt there are MAD detectors in the parking garage(even if there are, they don't see through vehicles. We just drive the bison as close as it can go to the elevator and boogy. We can take care of the problem of passerbys by having Leblanc lock down the other elevators and close of the garage for a few minutes.