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“Point taken, the rumbly elevator it is then. Get in position, we might still have to use the slip’n slide if my little buddy frags up.”
The drone had reattached to the backpack, using the position inside the host for direct connections.
Spoiler:Alright, now, the drone has to do illegal actions, so Ini might be relevant.
Ini: 4d6+8 30
Not bad at all
Agent Ini: 8+4d6 17
Damn, For the first round, Drone has to delay until Agent is done with its calculations
So, Smoke and Mirror at max to be extra stealthy, Agent assisting with putting a MARK
Agent: 8d6t5 4
Nice
Watchdog: 12d6t5 4
Lift resists:
Lift: 4d6t5 2
MARK achieved – Overwatch increases by 2
1 MARK should be enough to use Control Device on the lift
2nd Phase:
Drone delays until Agent is done with Teamwork: Agent Teamwork: 8d6t5 1
Drone Control Device: 9d6t5 1
Lift: 4d6t5 2
I’m spending Edge on behalf of my drone
Edge Reroll: 8d6t5 1
A draw – at least no alerts blare
Agent is out of actions, Drone trys again on its own
Drone Control Device: 8d6t5 3
Lift: 4d6t5 0
And there you go
Drone even has one action left to keep the current camera edited
Kynos gave a mental command. For a moment a puzzled look appeared on his face as his HUD showed him an error message, but then the lift started moving – without any alarms blaring.
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Kynos nodded to his two companions: “Alright, now comes the dicy part. So far my drone has done nothing illegal in the net, execpt editing some files. Now it needs to do a control device thingy with the elevator. There’s a good chance that could be noticed. – Or we could risk climbing down the shaft, holding on to the rails. Less obvious but much more dangerous. I think my armor will take the heat from sliding and Lilly’s chrome should have much a problem with it either. But it’s a hell of a long way down. Batshit, how good are your mittens? Enough strength in your fingers?”
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Kynos tapped his link: <<Al, I’ll appreciate it if you and your friend could keep ready for a hot extraction. We are going down the mines and aren’t exactly sure if we can get out again without big fuss and at which point exactly. So be prepared to ram down the fence section left of the main door – it’s intentionally weak to let emergency vehicles get through if necessary.
The girls and I will likely go dark for a while.>>
Kynos whisled between his teeth and the small cubo drone separated itself from the micro hardpoint on his backpack. “Unseen passage alpha.”
At once the small drone flitted away ahead of the team.
Spoiler:Ok, the following is supposed to happen:
The drone has a small drone arm that carries a modded induction receiver module, allowing the drone to get into direct connection mode with a camera around here.
The drone has loaded an Agent 4, Electronic Warfare Autosoft 4 (Virtual Machine) and Smoke and Mirrors.
The agent uses Teamwork to allow the drone pilot to employ the Watchdog action:
Teamwork: 8d6t5 3
Watchdog: 11d6t5 6
Camera: 4d6t5 1
MARK on Camera and security host. Drone pilot enters host to gain direct connection to all cameras.
Drone can now suppress recordings of the team with edit file actions (buying hits 8 dice vs. 4 for a typical camera) – Edit file is not an illegal action, and the persona is not that of a decker, so security shouldn’t get alerted.
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“Looks like we are going down.” Kynos whispered to Lilly. <<Into the mines then. I can let my drone try to hack doors for us or we can catch us a willing hostage with access rights – both options have good and bad sides.>> Kynos sent to the team feed.
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Kynos has both rifle (bullpup) and handgun with him – as well as his backpack
Considering what the jantior said, I think we are heading for the mine?
So, who of us wants to say “Melon”?
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Dormitory with the aim to find out as much as possible about our target’s current location.
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Could be communications black out – but yeah, likely its the mines for us 😉
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Kynos nodded towards the mopping orc: “Time for your Honey Bunny act. Guy like that usually knows what’s going on.”
Otherwise the tall mercenary kept out of sight – this required a subtle touch, something he was well aware he did not possess.
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Kynos also made sure he changed his outline until he was close enough to the specified edge of the compound. Pulling out his silenced pistol, he took careful aim at the sole camera on it’s pole.
“Be ready to get over the fence in a hurry. The looper round gives us 10 seconds.”
Spoiler:Sneak: 14d6t5 3
Aim and Shoot: 20d6t5 6
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Kynos shrugged again: “Agreed – doesn’t change the reception we are going to get. Or maybe it does – if our dryad here asks nicely at the front desk.”
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Sorry, I meant to say, write a PM. This is still the open internet 😉
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Yes, although we might want to exchange email addresses with the GM in case we have another outage
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Looks good 😀
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Brad nods: “Yeah, it’s mainly for comm communications, but of course among us Chasseurs we use them anyways. Just remember not to call anyone important by their callsign to their face.”
As Brad beginns to answer, Mato suddenly is aware of someone hiding behind the bushes to their right – and by his radar sensor it’s not a dear, presumably, because woodland critters seldomly carry long metal objects.
Wesley smiled at the cat: “What a cute little fluffball. But keep her better out of sight. The Wuxing Dragon hates cats.
At that moment van der Bloom sounded in AM’s ear: “Time to earn your keep. Someone wrecked the terminal on the second floor in the private library. I’m getting a lot of error messages. Be discreet though, the Duchess is currently there, reading.”
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Yeah, that is acute enough perception 😉
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Brad nodded: “Alright. Since you already got your code name, let me fill you in on the rest of the code: I’m Brown, Varis is Violet, Fines is Grey and Hammington is Black. We refer to Pike as Gold, the Duchess as Silver. Guests are Copper. The couriers are Octarine, other staff are Tin.”
Spoiler:Perception test on Mato’s part
The two Chasseurs went outside and found two fully charged Segways to go on rounds.
McElroy smiled: “Alright, let’s beginn with our work then. Start by calling up a spirit – I’ll try assist you, but mainly I’ll be studying your technique. We’ll need to be able to teamwork that at an instant’s notice.”
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Alright, time to meet the guests and family then
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Kynos shrugged: “I’m not out to murder anybody. But I do go in ready to kill or be killed. We can’t really blend in there, so we’ll have to sneak until we can’t sneak anymore. Than it’s gel bullets until someone stays alert long enough to raise the alarm. Then it’s a race – and should it come to it – a last stand.
You know, like that old motto of the post office: “Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night nor self important rentacops stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds”
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McElroy smiled: “You are good at dissimulation. You said the truth while still concealing your core.
Now, I keep out of petty office politics, but I do care about everone under my responsibility. So all I’m asking of you is, that you are not here to hurt someone under my protection – which includes social or emotional hurt as well as physical. And of course that you work with me to the best of your abilities and not sabotage my work.In turn I’ll keep silent and also teach you some tricks to unlock that vast potential that you haven’t yet fully developed.”
The wireboy snorted: “I’m Wesley by the way. That Tosser over there is William and this book reading nerd over there is Winona. I studied at Seattle University – until I got this job here. What’s your background? You look like some kind of wild hacker out of the plex – or at least your deck looks like it.”
Brad smiled: “I wouldn’t call them that, but yeah, fit young girls like fit young boys. And staying here weeks at a time does somewhat limit going clubbing.
Which brings us to the rhythm around here: There is none. It’s utter madness. These rich guys don’t care about what the servants want – if there is a problem, they throw money at it to pay for overtime.
Hamington – for all his faults – does take care to shield us from the worst, but even he can’t prevent them from arranging surprise parties at the spur of the moment. I’m mightily glad that you hired on. As you already noticed, we are far from enough to provide comprehensive security to everyone here – at least if you expect us to get some sleep at all. Sometimes I’m not sure that the lords and ladies grasp that fact. After all we can’t just take Longhaul for weeks on end. Hamington has a sleep regulator as well as Fines. And I’m scheduled for one as soon as I can get three days of consecutive leave – which might just be possible now that you are here.But then just remember: We are here more for representation and maybe catching a bullet before someone else does. The heavy lifting will come from the reinforcements.”
He paused to order his thoughts: “Anyway – if there aren’t any surprise parties going on we usually are on duty until midnight. After that it’s the sensor net, hounds and spirits that take care of security. One of us gets to sleep in the gatehouse, the others up here. Getting up sometime at six or seven, free time until briefing at ten – that’s when the guests usually get active again. After that we are doing our shifts, walking around with a two hour break – preferably at a random time everyday – unless we are needed somewhere. At 2000h we are expected to represent at dinner. After that it’s again rounds and then an early night. So basically 12h shifts like any other job in the service industry – but much better pay and health benefits.”
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Brad nodds, but as soon as they have left the briefing room, he nods towards the stairs: “Not so fast, you haven’t seen your room yet, do you?”
He leads Mato upwards into the fourth floor. There is a row of rooms that look like very tiny hotel rooms, but are still of high quality.
“You should receive a keycode to your commlink now. The corridor is under camera surveillance, so be careful who you take to your room after hours. Not that it is forbidden, you just have to live with the gossip afterwards. If you want snacks, you can grab them in the kitchen – as long as you don’t get on the wrong side of the cooking staff. Doing that is worse than a sin – because sins can be forgiven.”