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[Jintor]

Basically looking through future rich person only yelp (squawk) reviews for info about the security, especially systems that would monitor locations of patients. Based on what reviewers say, I want to know what type of system (like an ID chip on each patient, are they camera monitored, some other sensor) we have to hack in order to find Kidd (and now LiK) when we go in. NanlCo assisting - I'll wait for their roll before posting mine.

Rolling research; 6+5+1+1=13. Taking +1 intel, and a followup based on your response.

Ask two questions from the list:

Where would I find ______?
ЂЂ How secure is ______?
ЂЂ Who or what is related to ______?
ЂЂ Who owned or employed ______?
ЂЂ Who or what is ______ most valuable to?
ЂЂ What is the relationship between ______ and ______?

After a while, other runners began selling their... collectibles to him, and now he has the help of more than 10 people. And he is always grateful for my initial assistance.
He says:

"Nico, what can I help you with?"

I answer that I'm about to infiltrate a rich compound, and will need non-lethal tools to move easily under guards or innocents. Gas grenades, tranquilizer darts, anything he'll have. If I'm lucky, I'll get things there to sell to him later.

Hit the Street: (4+4)+0 = 8

• Your request is going to cost you extra
• Your request is going to take some time to put together

Seurat frowns and rubs his chin. "Non lethal...? There has not been so much request for non-lethal in some time, da?" He thinks for a moment. "This one, I cannot do cousin prices, I am afraid. There will be some delay as well. A day or two. But I can get you a TOR Pacifier, I think. A few are scheduled to fall off the back of a truck very soon. You remember them, yes? From the old days?"

Nico, what is a Pacifier?

'Bro, I need your help with a job. Nothing major, my man. Just need a few tweaks to get some geeks to make my trucks look less hot dog and more Janitorial bro.

Hit the Streets6+1)+2=9
-Your request is going to take time
-Your contact needs help

I figure this will give us a less suspicious way to come and go from the hospital and it will let my crew come along

"Dudeeeeeeee, Goroooooo, maaaaaaaaan," begins Mario, staring vacantly past your left shoulder. "You gotta drop by more often, man, share in some of this dank synth-vape-juice..." he sees your hot dog cruiser over your shoulder and straightens up. "Damn, man, that's gonna be a heck of a remodel job..."

Weird lights emit from his fibre-optic hairdo as he staggers upright and wanders towards your vans. "Garbage, man, I dunno..." he says. "Could take a few days... and you'll need to go, like, get me some shit..."

He ponders absently for a second, tapping the hardened plastic of the USB port embedded in his hand against your van, and brightens up. "Oh yeah! Dude, think you can pick me up, like, a Structuro capsule car? Just a cheap one, doesn't need to be too fancy. Just gotta get some parts outta it is all."

Goro, think you can get this dude a capsule? Tell me how you do it and roll +Edge

 

[sproutella]

Where would I find an access point to Hawkeye's interal network?

How secure is Hawkeye's internal network?

 

[Jintor]

Where would I find an access point to Hawkeye's interal network?

Internally. You'd have to be on-site to access Hawkeye's network, which is partitioned off from the rest of the Feed.

There's two networks running concurrently throughout Hawkeye; Squawk afficianados complain heavily of feed isolation in the Patient-accessible network. What's let through is shaped through a series of internet filters designed to strip the Feed of anything negative that could affect a patient's state of mind, meaning it's slow, unreliable, and censored to hell and back. Moreover, that side of things has no access whatsoever to critical subsystems.

Going back through the mass of reviews, you find a few by disgruntled former employees that the platform hasn't pinged and removed yet for whatever reason. They complain that the internal network, for security reasons, is almost entirely wired. Not just wired - cabled, with clunky, old but highly secure monitor-workstations placed where access is required.

How secure is Hawkeye's internal network?

Terminals are RFID-coded to individual staff for access rights. Some of the reviews are complaining about the RFID Implant requirements being "Overly intrusive"... or at least overly intrusive relative to the pay. So it goes.

 

[Tubobutts]

"Dudeeeeeeee, Goroooooo, maaaaaaaaan," begins Mario, staring vacantly past your left shoulder. "You gotta drop by more often, man, share in some of this dank synth-vape-juice..." he sees your hot dog cruiser over your shoulder and straightens up. "Damn, man, that's gonna be a heck of a remodel job..."

Weird lights emit from his fibre-optic hairdo as he staggers upright and wanders towards your vans. "Garbage, man, I dunno..." he says. "Could take a few days... and you'll need to go, like, get me some shit..."

He ponders absently for a second, tapping the hardened plastic of the USB port embedded in his hand against your van, and brightens up. "Oh yeah! Dude, think you can pick me up, like, a Structuro capsule car? Just a cheap one, doesn't need to be too fancy. Just gotta get some parts outta it is all."

Goro, think you can get this dude a capsule? Tell me how you do it and roll +Edge

That's sounds to me like a job for the Strollers & Patrollers. I tap open my com:

"Yo Tetsuya! Bro I need you to pick up a capsule car. No bro, just a cheap one. Nah, just as long as it runs."

I turn back to Mario, " Just as long as it still runs right bro?"

Then back on the com:
"Yeah bro. Yeah bro. Dude just jack it in the slums. Anybody who's gonna miss it won't be able to do shit. Of course it's a good plan my man. And bring it to Mario's shop when you get it. Seeeya bro."

And to Mario again:
"Cars on its way my man."


Have Testuya steal a car: (6+5)+1=12

I don't know if this is exactly how this would work based on the rules, but I figure since I have my gang I should use them

 

[Bowlie]

Seurat frowns and rubs his chin. "Non lethal...? There has not been so much request for non-lethal in some time, da?" He thinks for a moment. "This one, I cannot do cousin prices, I am afraid. There will be some delay as well. A day or two. But I can get you a TOR Pacifier, I think. A few are scheduled to fall off the back of a truck very soon. You remember them, yes? From the old days?"

Nico, what is a Pacifier?

"I remember running from them yeah; that weapon is indeed good at pacifying. Even the headache is enough to make you stop."

"That's a byte more aggressive than I wanted... oh well, as long as it doesn't kill, right? I'll be back soon, Seurat."

---

The Pacifier is a gun only used by the local police department, an exclusive contract between the city and TOR, to knock out dangerous individuals.

It's a small, short-range gun that shoots sticky nodes that releases a powerful electromagnetic pulse after contact. Unlike the usual EMP grenades, these nodes don't propagate the pulse towards the area around it, only the surface they're touching.

There's a catch: the pulse will only work on chromed citizens, as it damages the cyberware and potentially fries them, causing a large pain on their bodies. Someone that does not have cyberware will feel no more than a sharp headache.

+s-harm +close +reload, +2-harm if the target has cyberware?

 

[Jintor]

Have Testuya steal a car: (6+5)+1=12

I don't know if this is exactly how this would work based on the rules, but I figure since I have my gang I should use them

Mario grins. "Yeaaaah, I can use thisssss..." he says, a digital wave of smoke blasting out of ports just next to his ears. "Give me a little bit of time, we'll have you all dirty in noooo time flaaaaat".

(price is one cred)

There's a catch: the pulse will only work on chromed citizens, as it damages the cyberware and potentially fries them, causing a large pain on their bodies. Someone that does not have cyberware will feel no more than a sharp headache.

+s-harm +close +reload, +2-harm if the target has cyberware?

acceptable. two cred for two Pacifiers.

More legwork rolls anyone? I'll be out today and can't really write, but I'll have something more substantial tomorrow, so if you want to put out requests today...

 

[sproutella]

Terminals are RFID-coded to individual staff for access rights. Some of the reviews are complaining about the RFID Implant requirements being "Overly intrusive"... or at least overly intrusive relative to the pay. So it goes.

I ping a "friend" I know who I think might be able to help, she goes by Incandenza. She's a whiz at cracking all locks digital and physical; I regularly drop off ID's, phones, keycards, or whatever I have picked up on a job so she can scrape whatever valuable data they can from the stuff, or I did anyway. We'd split the profits, and that worked great for a while, until it didn't. At this point I don't remember who screwed over who last, but the relationship got ugly. I remember getting shorted on a big get, she remembers me bringing in goods with an active trace.
In my message I let her know I got a big score for her, to make things right, if she's willing to help me out. She eventually gets back to me with a time and place. Checky Square, @712 beats.

I call up Goro, cause I don't want to get screwed over again, Incandenza's the type that puts me on my back foot. We roll up on his HAWG (I'll leave it to Goro to describe his HAWG and our entrance) to a dilapidated city park. It's late, but there are a couple pairs playing speed chess by ledlight. Incandenza stands up from a bench as we approach, unfurling to her full gmo'd height and wingspan. Spliced with avian genes, she's whisper thin with pointed features, long arms, and bright golden hair meant to evoke plumage.
Slowly she pulls off shades, revealing dark amber eyes, "Looking good Duch," she says with a half smile and a nod toward Goro.
"You too Den, this is my friend Goro, and we got a job coming up. Need access to some sec terminals secured by RFID, think you can hook us up with a chip that'll give us admin privileges?"

Tiamat rolled 6+6=12 - he can post a description of that.
Hit the Streets: 4+1+1+1=7; Cost Extra, attract unwanted attention, complicaitons, or consequences.


Barring any other ideas I'm game for a planning sesh before we move to go in

 

[Tubobutts]

Triple D called me up about needing back-up for a meeting with some hacker geek. It sounded better than hanging around the shop while Mario worked on the trucks so I told her I'd come along, I could even give her a ride on my HAWG if she needed to make an impression.

And let me tell you bro, my HAWG always makes an impression. The fastest bike on the street is what Mario told me, all done up in black and gold like something out of the '20s. Yeah it's loud enough to hear from miles away, but I figure that's a plus. Don't need to be stealthy when you've got grenade launchers bro.

So I swing over to pick up Mad D, and then we head on over to some busted up park to meet with her bird bro. It was hard to tell under all those mods, but I that geek knew for sure that we weren't anyone to try to mess with.

Help: (6+6)=12

 

[Jintor]

Incandenza smiles - by your measure, genuinely - but says, "Payment upfront," she whispers.

2 cred.

She gets the details off you, raising her eyebrows at the address, but she doesn't question it, before her shades snap back over her eyes and she leans backwards on the chair and stares at the sky. Within an hour she is reaching into a pocket (her jacket is especially weird) and hands you two RFID chips in small plastic bags.

"Best I can do," she says. "A couple of dummy accounts they use for testing purposes spliced with a few accounts of former employees. Should be full admin rights. I'd not overuse them were I you - I can fool a program, but if a SysAd gets pinged about it and looks at the logins for more than a minute it likely won't hold."

She looks at Goro, then looks at you, Duchess, and puts her hand on your shoulder as she stands to leave. "I've missed you, D," she says simply. "But for gods' sakes, don't bring your troubles home ever again."

Anything more? I can't believe these legwork rolls. lmao

 

[Bowlie]

Can't wait to roll a 4 again during the mission

---

After spending the night with Madonna researching rich people, I hop again on that building alley and buy the pair of Pacifiers from Seurat.

I ask him to kiss my aunt for me and let him know again that if I find anything good in the compound I'll bring it back to him.

 

[sproutella]

SqdTXT
d>>we good to grab a drink at PS150 for the run through? @020 beats?

 

[Bowlie]

^

please let us not get more cryptic with our cyberpunk messages, lol

---

I think at this point we are ready to begin, right?

 

[Tubobutts]

I think I'm ready yes

 

[justjim89]

I'm good too, yeah.

 

[Jintor]

3, 2, 1, let's jam

 

[Jintor]

Okay, you fuckers didn't trip any legwork segments at all somehow so you're gonna get a hell of a bonus on your payout when if you all live long enough to get paid

>>HAWKEYE PERIMETER, ??????Beats

You all roll up in your hot-garbage truck to a quiet checkpoint on the edges of Neo City One. Out here the air is clean and the greenery abundant. It creeps you all the fuck out. Ain't natural, this amount of green things in one place, at least without synthetic fibres and fibreglass. You can see the quiet, elegantly designed architecture of the main campus brightly lit by spotlights in the distance, but first you need to get past the gatehouse.

You took some time getting your gear together, so this is it - one and done. If you don't get him tonight, Kidd is gonna check out and go back into Corporate Isolation tomorrow. But that don't worry you all one bit... right?

(Here's the kind of thing I have in mind, but the thugs look a bit less soldiery)

You halt outside the low-gate barriers where a bored-looking rent-a-cop strolls towards your vehicle and motions for you to wind down your windows. "You're early," she says, scanning your QR Plate, but she doesn't really seem that interested. Mario did a good fucking job; the nanotech in the Structuro capsule is easily reconfigured to remake the shell of a hotdog cart into a heavy-duty brick shithouse of a vehicle.

The gatehouse is a sleek, metal thing of blues and green-greys that blends seemlessly into the tall, neatly trimmed hedges. You think there's another guard or two inside probably. The guard looks like she's gonna come up to the window to peer inside - probably just as a courtesy.

Goro, hasn't your face been on the news bulletins recently? What for and why are the Strollers and Patrollers the most notorious MiniCorp on the streets right now?

NaNIco, what sorta shit is Seurat looking for anyway? What's he specialise in? Which corps are his friends?

What do you all do?

 

[Tubobutts]

Notorious? Nah, my man. We're completely Orious. We lay low and keep 😎 dude. It helps that none of the Corps care about what goes on in Ol' Yokosuka. We can Stroll and Patrol those streets and no Corporate geek squad is going to get in our way. Now I know FRKLyft's on to us because we keep hitting their docks, but we were always careful you know? Never taking more than what insurance could cover without anyone making a fuss. If they're starting to pay attention to use it means they're planning to do something in Yokosuka.

And who watches the News?

Im not entirely sure how to say this in character, because although there would be plenty of people who know of and hate Goro, (Remnants of rival gangs, FRKLyft being more concerned about thievery than he thinks, People in Yokosuka who are not exactly happy aboutnthe S&Ps going around "asking" for protection money), Goro is too stupid to realize it.

 

[Bowlie]

Seurat's front is a bijoux shop, selling acessories to older men and women to make them stand out. Thus, he's always looking for jewelries that would sell for a lot of cred. A gemstone, impossible to find on this side of the ocean, would grant him months of rent.

He does sell weapons too, but those draw too much attention. You won't find anything bigger than a pistol in his stash, and even so the stash is more for the neighborhood's security than for selling.

Seurat has some strange deal with Palmar. Every one of his purchases has its data sent to the corp, and it's analyzed to inform trends, price range, demographical and geographical distribution, etc. He's free to sell illegal items as long as they have his back.

---

I'm inside a garbage bag for... hiding purposes. I stop moving and breathing once I hear the guard closing in on us.

 

[justjim89]

Sitting in the passenger seat with my rifle case tucked my seat and my holdout pistol in my jumpsuit, I pull Goro's ballcap a little lower over his face as the woman approaches the truck. "Discretion, my friend."

I look to the other members of the team with a reassuring nod, going over the job in my head. Find Kidd, get Kidd out safely, and somewhere along the way find and send Deckson's message to LiK. Gonna be a busy night, but between the lot of us, we can handle it. By the time the woman rolls up to the window, I feign a coughing fit. A heavy, throaty, phlegm-filled coughing fit that one in such an industry might develop. Muttering loud enough for the woman to hear, "We don't get paid enough for this shit..."

 

[Tubobutts]

After Troseph pulls my cap down I nod at him in a manner that conveys "Got to be stealthy got it bro", and duck my head down more.

 

[sproutella]

I'm sitting in the backseat of the truck, looking unkempt in my oversized cleaners uniform. At one point during the ride over I say to NanlCo, "why are you in a bag dude?"

 

[Bowlie]

"You guys couldn't find an uniform that would fit my size, only L and XL ones. This is my way of being discreet."

 

[Jintor]

Once your qr plates cleared she doesn't seem much more interested in you all at all, waving you through. You trundle up to the loading dock side of Hawkeye.

It's a maintenance area, workers in overalls moving around purposefully and garbage bags piled to one side. The shift supervisor flags you down.

"I see here you're a new crew, hmm?" He says, scratching his chin reflexively as he scans a tablet. "Then you guys get bag duty. I'll clear you for admin, but stay away from the patient, surgery and rehab wings, alright? High security, you know."

The admin area looks mainly like reception waiting room and another set of cubical farms, according to the map. Security, naturally, is also forbidden to you all, though nobody is even looking at you twice. (Well, except for nanic, if he's out of the bag)

What do you do?

 

[sproutella]

Nanlco is still in the bag.

I'm going to look for an air duct or other entry point and attempt to inconspicuously toss the bag in or near it.

 

[Jintor]

Cool don't even bother rolling for that, it just happens

Before you get to the reception area proper I think you guys come across a bored looking guard and his Cyber Dog and there's a metal detector you gotta pass through, a couple of work guys are standing in line waiting to get through.

what do you do

Nanic you're in a trash bag someone carelessly left by a human sized air vent

What do you do

 

[Bowlie]

"-anks M-onna!"

A muflled sound leaves the bag as I'm dropped on the floor.

I tried my best to learn where I am according to the entrance, but I don't know where I am.
I pop my head out of the bag after Madonna leaves and stay quiet for almost a minute, assessing what's here or about to be here.

Assess: (3+2) + 2 = 7
Where can I gain the most advantage in the Admin area?

 

[justjim89]

My rifle case is insulated from metal detectors, so I can easily stuff it into a garbage bag and none will be the wiser, but my gut tells me that my pistol will be a lot more useful in these close quarters, and that is decidedly not protected from detection. Thinking quickly, I walk over to NanICo's bag and discreetly drop my holdout pistol into it. "Something tells me you'll find your way upstairs before the rest of us. Be a pal and stash that somewhere up there for me, will you?"

After that, I quickly toss my rifle case into a garbage bag and toss the bag into large plastic bin on wheels, for the purpose of collecting many bags. Then I get in line with bin for the metal detector. As I wait, I mutter over comms to the others, "Heads on swivels, folks. A lot of variables at play here. A lot of points of failure."

I should be good for the metal detector at this point right? Shouldn't need to roll Act Under Pressure?

 

[Jintor]

Yeah your good

 

[Tubobutts]

My gang is coming in with us to fill up the rest of our crew. Can't have a janitorial staff of just 3 people probably.

"Don't worry bros," I whisper, "I got this."

Already having cleverly concealed our weapons at the base of our great metal trash bins I approach the guard on duty.

"Bro, BRO, we just got a call from admin. My crew needs to get up there right NOW. Some geek was blowing chunks all over the place, made a huge mess and stunk up the whole place. We ain't got time to go through the scanner, they need us up there NOW! Come on bro, I can't get fired. I've got 8 kids!"

Fast Talk to bypass security4+1)+2=7

 

[sproutella]

flying and going to a wedding tomorrow so if I don't respond to something that's why!

--
The plan as i see it is we gain entry to patient areas, find a security console, create enough time to use said console, locate our soon to be friends, sedate Kidd, put him in a garbage bag, takeout the trash.
Thoughts?

 

[Jintor]

I pop my head out of the bag after Madonna leaves and stay quiet for almost a minute, assessing what's here or about to be here.

Assess: (3+2) + 2 = 7
Where can I gain the most advantage in the Admin area?

Well, where you are, you see the entrance into the airvents. It's got a standard set of security grilles but you think you could probably remove them with your eyes closed. It probably leads into the rest of the facility, but you won't know until you explore it.

(If you chose to go into the vents roll me a 1d6 and we'll see where you end up)

Other than that, you see a bulky Secure Line Terminal through some plastisteel windows in the Security Section, which is closed off to you - as in, literally, the door to the security station is shut. Well, it was shut. It opens as a security guard steps out; you hurridly duck your head back in.

"Those scutters bloody dropped one of their bloody trashbags here..." you hear a low voice mutter, then the sound of approaching footsteps. NaNIco, what do you do?

"Bro, BRO, we just got a call from admin. My crew needs to get up there right NOW. Some geek was blowing chunks all over the place, made a huge mess and stunk up the whole place. We ain't got time to go through the scanner, they need us up there NOW! Come on bro, I can't get fired. I've got 8 kids!"

Fast Talk to bypass security4+1)+2=7

The guard looks at you frantically as you blather on, reaching for the phone, then he reconsiders and waves you all through quickly. "I- okay, if it's admin - but how did a patient get into admin? It's - well, if they called you up -"

Your crew rushes past him quickly; the metal detectors go off but he waves you through anyway. "Just go, just go! Dr Xero gets really fuckin' pissed if the hospital's not spick and span..."

You notice as you all rush past that the security checkpoint, naturally, also has a bunch of cameras pointed right at the metal detectors. You sure hope nobody checks them.

---

So Duchess, Goro, Troseph, you and your crew of cleaners is in the reception waiting room. Goro, who did you bring with you? Pick three and outline them briefly. You see a door open that leads into the administration offices proper, full of office workers and other personnel. Tinkly off-brand music wafts gently overhead, but at this time of night there are few patients or friends of patients around. A few fake potted plants offset the distinctly sleek angles and bright whiteness of the room.

The patient wing is above you, accessible by elevator, but you notice the staff going up and down are holding their wrists to the panels before they open - RFID operated, you bet. You can't seem to see the entrance to the surgery wing from here, but there's a few off-duty surgeons hanging around by a Insta-Cafe Unit, laughing and joking around.

If you're looking for information on patients, it would likely be found in the admin area itself, but at a pinch any security console would do. You can't see one in here though.

You've a little time to maybe do a spot of assessing or planning or something along those lines. What do you do?

 

[Tubobutts]

Akio - Akio is the third in command of the Strollers & Patrollers. Despite his large stature and aggressive attitude, he spends his free time taking care of neighborhood cats.

Ryuji - Ryuji owned a small business before the MegaCorp enforced depression hit. With nowhere else to go he joined the Strollers & Patrollers, using his business experience to help expand their influence.

Takeshi - Takeshi was originally a member of a rival gang. His talent for languages made him an early acquisition when Goro united the Dock Gangs.

 

[Jintor]

A gentle reminder that if you don't do something, it gives me space to make a move. I generally won't make hard moves unless you fail a roll or if the situation demands it, but do keep that in mind.

 

[Tubobutts]

I'm going to go start "cleaning" over by the surgeons to see if I can overhear any useful information, (where the patient is, security details, any sort of recent goings on in the hospital etc.) or maybe see if they have carelessly left something lying unattended which I could take.

Asses4+6)+1=11,
What is my best way in to the patient wing?
What potential complication do I need to be wary of?
What do I notice despite an effort to conceal it?

 

[Jintor]

What is my best way in to the patient wing?

Your best bet would to be a patient or support staff, or at least have their chips; from the way they're talking, their RFID chips would let them into that wing without any problems. It seems the checkpoints within the clinic are automated for the most part.

What do I notice despite an effort to conceal it?

The surgeons are exhausted, for all that the Insta-Caf is keeping their eyes open. Probably some kind of all-night surgery that is taking an inordinate amount of time.

What potential complication do I need to be wary of?

The surgeons seem to be talking about Kipp as being both in the patient ward and in the surgery wing at the same time. Odd, that.

 

[Bowlie]

Well, where you are, you see the entrance into the airvents. It's got a standard set of security grilles but you think you could probably remove them with your eyes closed. It probably leads into the rest of the facility, but you won't know until you explore it.

(If you chose to go into the vents roll me a 1d6 and we'll see where you end up)

Other than that, you see a bulky Secure Line Terminal through some plastisteel windows in the Security Section, which is closed off to you - as in, literally, the door to the security station is shut. Well, it was shut. It opens as a security guard steps out; you hurridly duck your head back in.

"Those scutters bloody dropped one of their bloody trashbags here..." you hear a low voice mutter, then the sound of approaching footsteps. NaNIco, what do you do?

I also happened to see the camera above the guard; as much as it'd be useful to hack that terminal, that would start a confrontation and ruin our momentum.

Instead, I literally remove the grill with my eyes closed, putting only my arms out the bag to do so and heading in as fast as possible, locking the grill back from the inside in the end.

Act Under Pressure: (6+2)+1+1 = 10
First "+1" from my Cool stat, second "+1" from the Assess answer

Vent roll: 2

 

[justjim89]

I go about removing the full bags from all of the bins and replacing them with new ones, contemplating briefly how much simpler life would be with an unremarkable dead end job like this. Who knows, maybe I'll live long enough to grow old and incompetent as a hunter and return to the traditional work force. It's a nice thought. I'm brought back to reality by a particularly fragrant bag and think to myself "Fuck that."

When I clear out all the bins in the main area, I make my way to the men's room as if to get the bags in there. What I'm actually doing is waiting for someone of higher clearance to come relieve themselves and get my hands on one of their chips. Doctor, guard, someone higher up the totem pole than janitor.

I assume I don't need to actually roll anything here until someone walks in, correct?

Edit: I rolled a 6

 

[Jintor]

I go about removing the full bags from all of the bins and replacing them with new ones, contemplating briefly how much simpler life would be with an unremarkable dead end job like this. Who knows, maybe I'll live long enough to grow old and incompetent as a hunter and return to the traditional work force. It's a nice thought. I'm brought back to reality by a particularly fragrant bag and think to myself "Fuck that."

When I clear out all the bins in the main area, I make my way to the men's room as if to get the bags in there. What I'm actually doing is waiting for someone of higher clearance to come relieve themselves and get my hands on one of their chips. Doctor, guard, someone higher up the totem pole than janitor.

I assume I don't need to actually roll anything here until someone walks in, correct?

Give me a 1d6 and let's see who comes in

 

[sproutella]

I'll try and blend in like Troseph, hanging out near the entrance to the admin areas.

 

[Jintor]

Act Under Pressure: (6+2)+1+1 = 10
First "+1" from my Cool stat, second "+1" from the Assess answer

Vent roll: 2

You dive into the vent like some kind of master contortion artist, the grill unbelievably slipping tightly back on just seconds before the guard grabs the bag and drags it roughly away from the wall, never even noticing you were there or that it seems somewhat less full that previous.

Feeling your way through the system, you find yourself above the security room; three guards are there, two chatting away, one intent on the monitors before him. You're basically in a vent that's above the two guards' heads, but you can see it goes on a little bit further and comes out just above a server which is something like a hidden vantage point.

From where you're sitting above them, Nanico, you can see that the guard sitting is rechecking one of the tapes. It's pointed at a bunch of metal detectors. You see Goro and his crew on the tapes stroll past the detectors. The guard rewinds, and scrubs through the footage again. And again. He pauses, freezeframe, on Goro, and tries to zoom the image - but it just looks pixellated and dodgy. You think perhaps, without a distraction, he's about to come to some kind of conclusion.

What do you do?

When I clear out all the bins in the main area, I make my way to the men's room as if to get the bags in there. What I'm actually doing is waiting for someone of higher clearance to come relieve themselves and get my hands on one of their chips. Doctor, guard, someone higher up the totem pole than janitor.

I assume I don't need to actually roll anything here until someone walks in, correct?

Edit: I rolled a 6

Two nurses walk in, one tossing his gloves in the bin as he passes you whistling. The tall one, red hair, strolls into a stall; the other, who is shorter and a bit more rotund, is probably heading to the urinal. What do you do?

 

[Bowlie]

Covert Entry: (1+6)+1 = 8
Gain 1 hold

I move to the furthest vent exit, above the server, before they recognize the Patrollers. Once I reach that spot, I aim my Pacifier at the server running that tape and who know which other security devices and shoot a node on top of it, hoping to power the room down for a few minutes. They won't be able to see the node in this height and darkness, I think to myself.

Spend 1 hold to disable a security system (their security system *server*) you have bypassed.

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After that, I crawl as quick as I can back to the first vent opening, SMG in hand, and watch for the three guards' reactions. If all three turn their backs to me I am shooting at their heads.

Again, using the SMG's +autofire tag to give it the +area tag
(If needed) Mix it Up: (4+5)+0 = 9

• you take harm as established by the fiction
• something of value breaks

 

[justjim89]

I watch carefully as the heftier one walks to the urinal and turns his back to me before wrapping a loose garbage bag around his head, in attempt to choke him out. As he writhes and struggles, I do my best to listen for the one in the stall and ensure he doesn't walk out too soon.

Mix it Up: 2d6+Meat

(2+6)+1=9

-You take harm as established by the fiction
-You make too much noise. Advance the relevant mission clock

 

[Tubobutts]

I approach the surgeons panickedly.

"Oh bros, oh bros, oh no. Is that insta-caf from this unit? Oh bros, oh geez. Oh bros, oh geez."

The panic on my face turns to disgust.

"Some geek messed up the hook-ups bro. They hooked the sewage up to the input and oh geez bros, there was supposed to be a sign posted. Oh bros. At least you're in a hospital."

Fast Talk to get the surgeons to put of the area and possibly delay them from continuing the surgery: (5+6)+2= 13.

 

[Jintor]

just wanted to give a heads up apologising for lack of updates on this, real life has taken over as has another writing project (and Doom). I'll try and get something up today or tomorrow

 

[sproutella]

real life has been cray the past week as well!

 

[sproutella]

Hey, I spoke with Jintor and he let me know it's cool for me to take over GMing this thing if you all are willing to step back in. How do you all feel about that? I'd try and pick up right where we left off basically. Let me know what you think!

 

[Jintor]

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