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Umbrafer (8:36:13 PM): What was this mysterious last action?
Thematrian1 (8:36:31 PM): loading up that weird tiger-elf-mutant corpse
MilesMk1 (8:36:43 PM): Right... mutant. :)
Umbrafer (8:36:44 PM): We also started heading for the next-closest contact.
MilesMk1 (8:37:05 PM): Is that what they're called. :p
Thematrian1 (8:38:32 PM): sure
Thematrian1 (8:38:52 PM): that's right, from a somewhat restricted list
Umbrafer (8:39:34 PM): IIRC we only excepted Sigrun and Zbyhnev
Umbrafer (8:39:53 PM): Oh, Blake cut some L1 contacts.
MilesMk1 (8:40:33 PM): Well, even without them, we have: Shojo&Martha, Jerome, Ed, Jeremy and Buck.
MilesMk1 (8:40:55 PM): Plus any other contacts of other people I don't know about.
MilesMk1 (8:41:19 PM): It seems excessive to include two level 1 contacts that have never even appeared in the game till now.
MilesMk1 (8:41:52 PM): (and they really wouldn't fit in anyway)
Umbrafer (8:42:01 PM): Well, Zbyhnev had had about four minutes of screen time before last session :)
Umbrafer (8:42:05 PM): But your point is taken.
MilesMk1 (8:42:21 PM): Well, yes. But I knew someone named Zbyhnev existed.
Thematrian1 (8:43:13 PM): Next closest is Buck, as nearly as you can figure it
MilesMk1 (8:43:35 PM): Don't get me wrong, Blake would want to check in on them - I just don't think we ought to take everyone's time with it...
MilesMk1 (8:43:50 PM): That would be my fixer, BTW.
Thematrian1 (8:44:34 PM): (If Blake wants to check on them, push it; making stuff interesting is my job)
MilesMk1 (8:44:45 PM): So, off to Buck's?
MilesMk1 (8:45:29 PM): (Eh... Once everyone else is checked out, and we're still alive and not part of the hive mind, maybe. ;))
Gedeon Ogoun (8:46:22 PM): Sounds okay to me...
Thematrian1 (8:46:35 PM): ok. Buck's house is upscale, and far away, but his place of business is much closer, also a part of Westside
Thematrian1 (8:49:04 PM): You drive for a few minutes. A few blocks down, you see smoke billowing out the doors and windows of a factory
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Gedeon Ogoun (8:50:04 PM): any signs of life around?
Thematrian1 (8:50:36 PM): a group of orks and humans in smudged work overalls are watching it burn
Thematrian1 (8:51:10 PM): they're standing in the parking lot. There's an obviously-dead human pushed most of the way through the windshield of a fancy sports car
Umbrafer (8:51:45 PM): Does the rest of the sportscar look intact?
Thematrian1 (8:51:58 PM): As far as you can tell from this distance, yeah
Gedeon Ogoun (8:52:07 PM): how big a group?
MilesMk1 (8:52:12 PM): How nice a car?
Thematrian1 (8:52:13 PM): the patent leather seating is probably done for, at least in the front
Umbrafer (8:52:21 PM): Harrumph.
Dragcrell (8:52:23 PM): *looks the group over*
MilesMk1 (8:52:25 PM): Ah, never mind - patent leather seating.
Umbrafer (8:52:30 PM): Blood gives it character.
Dragcrell (8:52:52 PM): Dragcrell rolled 7 6-sided dice: 3 4 1 4 1 4 3
Thematrian1 (8:52:58 PM): heh. The group is of six or eight guys
Gedeon Ogoun (8:53:08 PM): Gedeon Ogoun rolled 8 6-sided dice: 5 5 4 1 4 6 2 2
Gedeon Ogoun (8:53:19 PM): Gedeon Ogoun rolled 1 6-sided die: 4
MilesMk1 (8:53:19 PM): "That's a nice car to be just sitting out there."
Gedeon Ogoun (8:53:27 PM): Gedeon Ogoun rolled 4 6-sided dice: 5 5 1 4
MilesMk1 (8:53:36 PM): Is the dead human in coveralls, or clothes that match the car?
Dragcrell (8:53:46 PM): "Ummm I sugest we not stick around>"
Umbrafer (8:53:54 PM): "Too bad the market's shot to hell…"
MilesMk1 (8:53:58 PM): "Why?"
MilesMk1 (8:54:16 PM): "Any bugs around?"
Gedeon Ogoun (8:54:17 PM): Well, could we use something fast?
Thematrian1 (8:54:21 PM): The dead guy is decked out in Armante
MilesMk1 (8:54:47 PM): Does it look like he smashed through the windshield head-first in a crash, or something else?
Umbrafer (8:54:53 PM): We probably could. Alex is just grieving the loss of her usual secondary income source.
Gedeon Ogoun (8:54:57 PM): Gedeon Ogoun rolled 6 6-sided dice: 2 3 1 5 1 3
Dragcrell (8:55:14 PM): "No not a bug but there is something dark here over the group."
Thematrian1 (8:55:18 PM): his legs are dangling out of the car. It looks like he was pushed through the windshield forcibly, somehow
MilesMk1 (8:55:23 PM): Ah.
Gedeon Ogoun (8:55:35 PM): "I see the thing you speak of."
Thematrian1 (8:55:39 PM): the car is just sitting there in its reserved parking space, peaceful as you please
MilesMk1 (8:55:44 PM): "Aside from what usually lingers at the scene of a killing?"
Gedeon Ogoun (8:56:04 PM): "No, this is a kind of malaise. Strange."
Gedeon Ogoun (8:56:09 PM): "A being"
MilesMk1 (8:56:33 PM): "The car is nice, but frankly, we couldn't sell it, and for our own purposes we could use something sturider... and with an intact window."
MilesMk1 (8:56:41 PM): sturdier
Dragcrell (8:56:41 PM): "ya I dont think we best get close it may be the cose of this."
MilesMk1 (8:56:59 PM): "You mean like a spirit?"
Gedeon Ogoun (8:57:33 PM): "There is definitely something strange going on here. I don't know if it will help us to understand the threat facing us to stick around...if not, then let's move on."
Dragcrell (8:58:09 PM): "Eh dont know what it is but I dont wish to tangle with it."
EverGuard4 (8:58:54 PM): (someone mind filling me in pm?)
Umbrafer (8:59:08 PM): (Sure)
Thematrian1 (8:59:09 PM): Actions?
Gedeon Ogoun (9:00:01 PM): *watching the van for a cue*
Thematrian1 (9:00:29 PM): Thematrian1 rolled 15 6-sided dice: 1 2 3 6 5 5 1 3 3 3 4 4 2 3 6
MilesMk1 (9:01:11 PM): "I guess we ought to head out, then."
MilesMk1 (9:01:37 PM): (BTW, I'm saying this into the radio, rather than transducing, so everyone can hear it.)
Dragcrell (9:01:51 PM): "ummm Guys we better move out as its apprently seen me."
MilesMk1 (9:01:53 PM): (And all the other stuff before. Since we're in separate cars.)
Umbrafer (9:01:55 PM): I'm going to scan the crowd, just looking for anything unusual, then head out if nothing comes of it.
Umbrafer (9:01:57 PM): Umbrafer rolled 5 6-sided dice: 3 3 6 1 3
Umbrafer (9:02:00 PM): Umbrafer rolled 1 6-sided die: 3
Umbrafer (9:02:02 PM): Umbrafer rolled 8 6-sided dice: 1 6 2 5 6 4 2 6
Umbrafer (9:02:05 PM): Umbrafer rolled 3 6-sided dice: 2 1 1
Thematrian1 (9:02:07 PM): nothing jumps out at you
Thematrian1 (9:02:07 PM): so to speak
Umbrafer (9:02:15 PM): Fair enow. I head out.
MilesMk1 (9:02:25 PM): "These things always seem to see you. We need to put you in a lead-shieled box..."
Dragcrell (9:02:51 PM): "very funny."
MilesMk1 (9:04:42 PM): "Fine, fine... A tinfoil hat, then."
Thematrian1 (9:05:07 PM): The party drives away. No one seems to notice or care. In a few minutes, you're at Buck's
Umbrafer (9:05:27 PM): *Mildly relieved, though without a good reason why*
Dragcrell (9:05:43 PM): *chucles then looks the place over when they arive*
MilesMk1 (9:05:44 PM): Any angry crowds here?
Thematrian1 (9:05:50 PM): Buck rents the top floor of an old office building. There's a reasonably-sized parking lot, but it is empty
Thematrian1 (9:05:53 PM): no angry crowds
MilesMk1 (9:06:18 PM): Does he usually park there, or somewhere else, like an indoor garage?
Gedeon Ogoun (9:07:03 PM): are the other floors normally occupied with other businesses, or such?
Thematrian1 (9:07:07 PM): There's an indoor garage (underground, actually) a few blocks away
Thematrian1 (9:07:17 PM): that's how office buildings usually work, yeah
MilesMk1 (9:08:00 PM): "Well, I'm going to go check on him. This shouldn't take long."
Gedeon Ogoun (9:08:02 PM): sometimes vacant spaces, though :>
Umbrafer (9:08:15 PM): "Take the Kimji."
MilesMk1 (9:08:24 PM): "Ok. Anyone want to come with?"
Thematrian1 (9:08:29 PM): well, you don't know about this particular office building
Gedeon Ogoun (9:08:35 PM): "Once again, if you'd like me to accompany you, I will gladly."
Umbrafer (9:08:39 PM): *Laments the poor still-unrepaired Spider*
MilesMk1 (9:08:50 PM): "Thanks. Let's head out, then."
EverGuard4 (9:09:00 PM): *follows*
MilesMk1 (9:09:06 PM): *takes the Kimji, heads in*
Gedeon Ogoun (9:09:19 PM): *looks at Rock* "Are you armed?"
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EverGuard4 (9:10:37 PM): *nods*
Thematrian1 (9:10:41 PM): gonna be one of those nights
Dragcrell (9:11:51 PM): *Stays with the Van scaning around*
Thematrian1 (9:11:59 PM): headed...into the office building?
Gedeon Ogoun (9:12:43 PM): *to blake* "Obvious weaponry ok, or low-key?"
Thematrian1 (9:13:22 PM): and everyone else is just hanging out in the van?
MilesMk1 (9:13:53 PM): "I think we'll have to go relatively low-key on this one. I'm leaving my AK behind."
Umbrafer (9:14:14 PM): *Hangs out, does usual overwatch thing*
Thematrian1 (9:14:23 PM): with what?
Gedeon Ogoun (9:14:24 PM): *nods, placing shotgun back in jackrabbit*
Umbrafer (9:14:52 PM): Van sensors, and rotation with Kimji.
Thematrian1 (9:15:02 PM): check
Umbrafer (9:16:03 PM): (Most time spent with van. Figure a 6:1 ratio, roughly.)
MilesMk1 (9:17:11 PM): *takes helmet off, but holds it in his left hand* (mind you, it's rapid transit, so it doesn't actually scream: armor!)
Thematrian1 (9:17:32 PM): Blake and Gedeon go in. The rotating door rotates, and you're indoors. The space is cramped and kinda dirty, but the lights are on
MilesMk1 (9:17:41 PM): I think Rock came too.
Thematrian1 (9:18:08 PM): Rock?
MilesMk1 (9:18:09 PM): If it's not too far up, I take the stairs. Otherwise, try the elevator.
Thematrian1 (9:18:20 PM): Two floors.
MilesMk1 (9:18:30 PM): *takes the stairs*
EverGuard4 (9:18:44 PM): *stairs*
Gedeon Ogoun (9:19:05 PM): *stairs*
Thematrian1 (9:19:34 PM): and by a unanimous decision, stairs
Thematrian1 (9:20:00 PM): there's a card-reader lock on the door, but it's deactivated, or something.
Dragcrell (9:20:14 PM): *looks around the parking look from the Van keeping a eye out for odditys that might slip past alex*
Thematrian1 (9:20:22 PM): perception from the three inside
Thematrian1 (9:20:29 PM): guys in the van: You're in the van. It's boring.
Gedeon Ogoun (9:20:40 PM): Gedeon Ogoun rolled 8 6-sided dice: 5 1 4 3 4 1 3 4
MilesMk1 (9:20:48 PM): MilesMk1 rolled 6 6-sided dice: 3 5 4 2 1 3
Dragcrell (9:20:53 PM): (lol)
Umbrafer (9:21:40 PM): Is it any less boring in the Kimji?
EverGuard4 (9:22:01 PM): EverGuard4 rolled 5 6-sided dice: 2 4 4 2 6
Thematrian1 (9:22:03 PM): a little. You may roll perception too, if you wish
Umbrafer (9:22:10 PM): Umbrafer rolled 8 6-sided dice: 5 2 5 1 5 1 1 4
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Thematrian1 (9:26:51 PM): There is a painting on the landing of the third floor. It's of aphrodite, in the classic pose. One of her eyes contains a spy camera
Gedeon Ogoun (9:27:55 PM): I thought we were going to second floor...
Umbrafer (9:28:02 PM): Top floor.
Thematrian1 (9:28:34 PM): two floors up
MilesMk1 (9:29:16 PM): Is this camera something I knew about before? Regardless, I head for his office door.
Thematrian1 (9:29:34 PM): This is new on you
Gedeon Ogoun (9:30:19 PM): I'll hang back at landing, standing underneath camera if possible
Gedeon Ogoun (9:30:27 PM): that is, if I can see Blake from there
Thematrian1 (9:30:39 PM): Office door reached. It's open a crack, you hear Buck speaking quietly, inside
Thematrian1 (9:31:25 PM): (Things are very strange on this laptop, folks. If I fall off the internet again, and don't reappear right away, don't wait for me)
Thematrian1 (9:32:45 PM): actions, Blake?
MilesMk1 (9:33:26 PM): I listen at the door, to make sure I'm not going to intrude on someone holding a gun on him, or something.
MilesMk1 (9:34:00 PM): Well, not intrude on it without my own weapons ready, anyway.
Thematrian1 (9:34:03 PM): "...don't care about that. Tell your master she'll have to wait."
Thematrian1 (9:34:06 PM): right
MilesMk1 (9:35:02 PM): Hmm. This could be interesting. I ready to spring into the room if necessary, but knock lightly on the door and say: "Buck? It's Blake."
Thematrian1 (9:35:42 PM): A pause. "Just tell her what I told you. Go!"
Thematrian1 (9:35:52 PM): Another pause. Come in, Blake.
Thematrian1 (9:36:12 PM): "Come in, Blake" (that is)
Gedeon Ogoun (9:36:12 PM): #you want me to come in, or stay out?#
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MilesMk1 (9:37:54 PM): #I'll let you know in a moment. He can be jumpy.#
MilesMk1 (9:38:02 PM): Damn.
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EverGuard4 (9:40:27 PM): wb
MilesMk1 (9:40:44 PM): *enters the room*
Thematrian1 (9:41:38 PM): He has a browning ultra power pointed at your chest, but he lets them aim go as soon as he sees you
Thematrian1 (9:41:49 PM): "Hey Blake. Strange day, huh?"
Gedeon Ogoun (9:42:17 PM): *out of view of camera, draws browning and holds low. keeping ears on blake, eyes on stairs*
MilesMk1 (9:42:51 PM): *looks around for the person he was talking to*
MilesMk1 (9:43:24 PM): "Yeah, though that's something of an understatement."
Thematrian1 (9:43:26 PM): You don't see anyone
Thematrian1 (9:43:32 PM): roll perception, though
MilesMk1 (9:43:37 PM): MilesMk1 rolled 6 6-sided dice: 1 1 4 5 5 3
MilesMk1 (9:43:41 PM): grr
Thematrian1 (9:44:53 PM): you don't see anything unexpected
MilesMk1 (9:44:54 PM): "Could have sworn I heard you talking to someone before I knocked, and with the phones out..."
Thematrian1 (9:45:04 PM): just a man and his desk
Thematrian1 (9:45:30 PM): He shrugs. "Someone sent a spirit to talk to me. Makes sense, like you said. Buncha hippies."
Thematrian1 (9:46:12 PM): "Anyway, what's for you today, Blake?"
MilesMk1 (9:46:14 PM): "What, the UB bunch?"
Thematrian1 (9:46:22 PM): He nods.
Thematrian1 (9:46:39 PM): The van is kinda hot, and getting stuffy.
Umbrafer (9:47:18 PM): If made aware of this fact, I'll check systems. If not… well, that's the passengers' own lookout.
MilesMk1 (9:48:03 PM): #Alex, tell Trickster to be on the lookout for a spirit around the top floor of the building.#
Gedeon Ogoun (9:48:53 PM): Gedeon Ogoun rolled 8 6-sided dice: 6 1 3 2 6 2 3 6
MilesMk1 (9:48:56 PM): "A couple of friends of mine came along - mind if they step in? They're good guys."
Gedeon Ogoun (9:49:01 PM): Gedeon Ogoun rolled 3 6-sided dice: 5 6 4
Gedeon Ogoun (9:49:05 PM): Gedeon Ogoun rolled 1 6-sided die: 3
Umbrafer (9:49:07 PM): "Hey Trickster, watch for a spirit around the top of the buil… what the hell?"
Umbrafer (9:49:11 PM): *System check*
Gedeon Ogoun (9:49:49 PM): #what's up Alex?"
Dragcrell (9:49:52 PM): *hops out of the van and looks around the top of the building*
Thematrian1 (9:49:52 PM): System reports climate control working correctly. Your skin reports not.
Gedeon Ogoun (9:49:58 PM): #
Dragcrell (9:50:29 PM): Dragcrell rolled 7 6-sided dice: 2 5 1 3 6 4 1
Dragcrell (9:50:40 PM): Dragcrell rolled 1 6-sided die: 5
Umbrafer (9:50:59 PM): What does the system report the temperature to be, and what do I estimate for actual temperature?
Umbrafer (9:51:28 PM): #Van's climate control's busted. Or something weird. Checking on it now."
Thematrian1 (9:51:45 PM): It reports the temperature at 92.1 degrees, which feels right. It doesn't seem to think that this is a problem.
Umbrafer (9:52:28 PM): Manually override it if possible, then start digging in the diagnostics.
Umbrafer (9:53:56 PM): What's the outside temperature like?
Thematrian1 (9:54:31 PM): about the same. It's hard to tell exactly
Umbrafer (9:54:53 PM): *Nods* But it isn't, say, meaningfully cooler than current van temperature?
Thematrian1 (9:55:01 PM): nope
Umbrafer (9:56:13 PM): Fair enough. Diagnostics it is, with checks on the external sensors.
Dragcrell (9:57:25 PM): "ya I seen it Alex head it off to the docks one of there eyeballs." *stays out side the van and takes a look around*
MilesMk1 (9:58:10 PM): #Could that be magical interference, Gedeon?#
MilesMk1 (9:58:26 PM): #The problems with the van, I mean.#
Umbrafer (9:58:28 PM): #Spirit headed for the docks, whatever it was.#
Gedeon Ogoun (9:58:55 PM): #could be.# (where can I get a look at van from?)
Thematrian1 (9:59:09 PM): nowhere near your present location
Thematrian1 (9:59:19 PM): Blake: Buck doesn't look too happy, but he nods
Gedeon Ogoun (9:59:57 PM): #awful hard to tell from here. Can Trickster get a look at the van?#
Umbrafer (10:00:28 PM): "Hey Trickster, anything funny about the van?"
Dragcrell (10:01:06 PM): *gives the van a good looking over* "let me check"
MilesMk1 (10:01:12 PM): "It's fine if you'd rather they didn't but I just wanted to have one verify that this eyeball that visited you was really gone, but I just heard it headed out, so unless there's more than one..."
Dragcrell (10:01:14 PM): Dragcrell rolled 7 6-sided dice: 6 6 3 6 2 3 4
Dragcrell (10:01:25 PM): Dragcrell rolled 3 6-sided dice: 4 1 6
Dragcrell (10:01:30 PM): Dragcrell rolled 1 6-sided die: 5
MilesMk1 (10:01:44 PM): "Sorry if I'm being weird about it, but I think these hippie bastards are bad news."
Gedeon Ogoun (10:01:47 PM): *stepping up to doorway with Blake*
Gedeon Ogoun (10:02:07 PM): *looking at Buck*
Dragcrell (10:02:14 PM): "nothing that I can see Alex"
Gedeon Ogoun (10:02:16 PM): Gedeon Ogoun rolled 8 6-sided dice: 2 3 6 1 5 6 2 2
Gedeon Ogoun (10:02:23 PM): Gedeon Ogoun rolled 2 6-sided dice: 3 5
Gedeon Ogoun (10:02:30 PM): Gedeon Ogoun rolled 4 6-sided dice: 5 2 6 1
Gedeon Ogoun (10:02:34 PM): Gedeon Ogoun rolled 1 6-sided die: 3
Thematrian1 (10:02:51 PM): He's a big beefy guy with thinning hair and a bad suit.
Gedeon Ogoun (10:03:42 PM): "Pleased to make your acquaintance, sir."
MilesMk1 (10:04:08 PM): "As far as I can tell, that meditation of theirs looks a lot like brainwashing, and they seem to maybe have something to do with the weird bugs popping up all over the city... which are, by the way, very real."
Thematrian1 (10:04:48 PM): He looks sourer than usual. "Hate to hear that confirmed."
MilesMk1 (10:04:59 PM): "Oh. Sorry. Buck, Gedeon... Gedeon is a friend of Sam's."
Thematrian1 (10:05:20 PM): Buck nods to you, Gedeon, but doesn't get up.
Gedeon Ogoun (10:05:21 PM): (is Buck still holding pistol?)
Thematrian1 (10:05:24 PM): (Where is Rock in this?)
Thematrian1 (10:05:32 PM): Yes, but it's pointed at a wall now
MilesMk1 (10:05:39 PM): *pulls up a t-shirt enough to show one of the healing wasp stings*
Thematrian1 (10:06:14 PM): Buck winces sympathetically
MilesMk1 (10:06:43 PM): "Fuckers are big enough to sting through polymer armor sheathing."
Gedeon Ogoun (10:06:55 PM): *still holding pistol, but aimed at floor* "There are many different bugs abounding in this place. All are aggressive."
Thematrian1 (10:07:26 PM): His wince grows more personal. "How big?" He makes a space-ecompassing gesture with his free hand, taking in maybe three feet of length
MilesMk1 (10:07:37 PM): "Anyway, me and the rest of the crew were doing a circuit, checking on all the people *wry grin* we'd like to see in one piece..."
MilesMk1 (10:07:49 PM): How big were the wasps?
MilesMk1 (10:07:59 PM): In terms of size range, from small to big?
Thematrian1 (10:08:21 PM): five feet long to maybe seven
MilesMk1 (10:08:32 PM): "Five to seven feet."
Thematrian1 (10:08:57 PM): His gesture sags sadly
MilesMk1 (10:09:10 PM): "But one of our awakened guys claimed to have seen a couple of beetles the size of vans in the ruins of a house we passed a while ago."
MilesMk1 (10:09:41 PM): "They seem to scale pretty well with normal bugs, some mosquitos we came across were smaller."
Thematrian1 (10:09:47 PM): "Well, you know mages..." He doesn't sound too convinced.
EverGuard4 (10:10:03 PM): (sorry)
EverGuard4 (10:10:07 PM): EverGuard4 rolled 9 6-sided dice: 5 5 3 5 2 3 3 2 1
Gedeon Ogoun (10:10:28 PM): "You seem pretty confident. All alone up here, you are vulnerable."
MilesMk1 (10:10:53 PM): "Yeah, I hope he was wrong... But I was in hand to... hand with those wasps, and there's no way I'm off by more than a few inches."
MilesMk1 (10:11:09 PM): "Which was going to be my original point..."
MilesMk1 (10:11:41 PM): "Some of us are thinking of getting out of this place long enough for things to go back to sane, and I figured I'd drop by, and see if you needed a ride."
Thematrian1 (10:11:52 PM): "Well, I'm planning to take an extended vacation tonigh...I see."
MilesMk1 (10:12:10 PM): "Mind you, we're still working on how exactly we're going to get past the barricades."
Gedeon Ogoun (10:12:16 PM): "Are you planning to leave the city?"
Thematrian1 (10:12:46 PM): "Frag yes."
Gedeon Ogoun (10:13:08 PM): "How?"
MilesMk1 (10:13:28 PM): "If it's not something you mind talking about..."
Thematrian1 (10:14:38 PM): "I have my ways. But since you mention it..."
Thematrian1 (10:15:18 PM): "...it would only be right to let Blake pay back a few of the favors he owes me." This with a not-quite-wink at Blake. "I'd be glad to come. Thank you."
Thematrian1 (10:15:29 PM): Alex: Roll computers
Umbrafer (10:16:29 PM): Umbrafer rolled 6 6-sided dice: 5 4 5 3 1 4
Umbrafer (10:16:44 PM): (No hacking pool, I assume.)
Thematrian1 (10:17:09 PM): (None)
MilesMk1 (10:17:40 PM): "Great. We're going to need to check with a few more people first - do you want to come with, or have us pick you up later?"
Thematrian1 (10:18:05 PM): "Pick me up, if it's not too much trouble. I've got one or two more things to do here...
MilesMk1 (10:18:06 PM): "And, of course, work out a way past the cops and troops that doesn't get us all shot, so any info you might have..."
Thematrian1 (10:18:18 PM): He nods. "When we meet again."
MilesMk1 (10:18:58 PM): "All right... Watch yourself, though. I don't trust those UB people. They seem awfully interested with finding ways into people's heads."
MilesMk1 (10:19:10 PM): "You'll be camped out here till then?"
Gedeon Ogoun (10:19:23 PM): "You should be careful. Being alone at a time like this is a very dangerous thing."
Thematrian1 (10:19:33 PM): "Right here."
Thematrian1 (10:19:52 PM): "That's been true for years - Gedeon, was it? I managed."
Gedeon Ogoun (10:20:29 PM): *nods* "Things are different now." *shrugs* "We'll meet again, hopefully."

Thematrian1 (10:20:47 PM): He nods confidently.
Gedeon Ogoun (10:21:18 PM): *backs out of room, looks down hall/stairs*
MilesMk1 (10:21:28 PM): "Oh, and one last thing... If you ever come across one of those bugs, and can't run - try putting as much will into hurting them with your hands or a melee weapon. They shrug off pistols."
Gedeon Ogoun (10:21:51 PM): ##okay, Alex?##
MilesMk1 (10:22:06 PM): "The tougher ones were barely hurt by a long burst from an AK loaded with Ex rounds."
MilesMk1 (10:22:30 PM): "Though shock gloves, tasers and fire work well too."
Umbrafer (10:22:47 PM): #God-damned climate control…#
Thematrian1 (10:22:55 PM): Alex: Here's something weird. The program that controls temperature is using some screwy degree system you've never heard of, but not applying the result consistently.
Umbrafer (10:23:27 PM): And it's fair to say that I've never encountered this issue before, correct?
Gedeon Ogoun (10:23:32 PM): #I think we're coming out...coast is clear?#
Thematrian1 (10:23:45 PM): A few simple changes to its configuration and the cooling process begins.
Thematrian1 (10:23:48 PM): Never
Umbrafer (10:23:51 PM): *Looks about*
MilesMk1 (10:24:05 PM): *leaves an incendiary greande on his desk* "If things get really bad and you need to slow then down and cut out. When we meet again." *heads out to the van*
MilesMk1 (10:24:14 PM): slow them down
Thematrian1 (10:24:37 PM): He nods, and lays a hand on it. You leave?
Umbrafer (10:24:47 PM): #This is bad. Someone might have messed with the van.#
Gedeon Ogoun (10:25:02 PM): #when?#
Umbrafer (10:25:04 PM): Can I tell if this bug should have triggered previously if it had been present all along?
MilesMk1 (10:25:05 PM): Unless he says something, or appears to be considering suicide via grenade...
Thematrian1 (10:25:15 PM): he doesn't
Umbrafer (10:25:35 PM): #No clue, but the climate control's fragged from software. Fixed it, but…#
Thematrian1 (10:25:36 PM): Alex: Yes. It should have.
MilesMk1 (10:26:15 PM): #Fuck. We ought to check for other tampering, but there's so little time... Who had access? Someone at Sigrun's? Could it be done remotely?#
Gedeon Ogoun (10:26:42 PM): *once outside, take a look at van astrally*
Gedeon Ogoun (10:26:47 PM): Gedeon Ogoun rolled 8 6-sided dice: 6 1 5 6 5 4 2 5
Gedeon Ogoun (10:26:52 PM): Gedeon Ogoun rolled 2 6-sided dice: 2 5
Thematrian1 (10:27:01 PM): You don't see anything amiss
MilesMk1 (10:27:20 PM): *comes back to the van*
Gedeon Ogoun (10:27:35 PM): #could it have been some kind of interference?#
Umbrafer (10:27:54 PM): #Sigrun's is the best guess. I don't even know if you can set this remotely, but they'd need to crack the encryption first.
Umbrafer (10:27:56 PM): *#
Gedeon Ogoun (10:29:32 PM): *laughs slightly* #want to ride in the rabbit? AC works in here...#
Gedeon Ogoun (10:29:52 PM): *proceeds to roll down windows*
Umbrafer (10:30:42 PM): I check to see if there's any sort of access log or record of changes to the software. I didn't set any up specifically, but it's worth a shot…
MilesMk1 (10:31:22 PM): *comes over to the van*
MilesMk1 (10:31:57 PM): "Would they need to jack in to do this, or are there other ways? Want me to check the undercarriage for anything that doesn't belong?"
Thematrian1 (10:32:34 PM): computers from Alex
Umbrafer (10:34:15 PM): Umbrafer rolled 6 6-sided dice: 3 3 2 1 6 3
Umbrafer (10:34:18 PM): Umbrafer rolled 1 6-sided die: 5
Umbrafer (10:34:54 PM): "Sure. I can't think what they'd put there that they wouldn't have used already, except for a tracker…"
Gedeon Ogoun (10:35:25 PM): "What happened at Sigrun's? Would anyone have reason to follow you around?"
Thematrian1 (10:35:30 PM): There's no record of changes, but the system is redundant to the nth degree. The backup made ten minutes ago records the correct values, the one made nine minutes ago does not.
Umbrafer (10:35:46 PM): "What the fu…"
Umbrafer (10:35:54 PM): "This didn't happen at Sigrun's."
Umbrafer (10:36:09 PM): For the record, where were we in that timespan? Parked here, I assume?
Thematrian1 (10:36:34 PM): nope. Still in motion
Thematrian1 (10:36:57 PM): hard to say where exactly you were...
Umbrafer (10:37:38 PM): "As far as I can tell, it happened while we were on the road."
Umbrafer (10:38:38 PM): I'm going to dig for all vectors the system accepts these kinds of changes from, if available. *Prays the system doesn't just abstract all methods of communication as "commands from somewhere else"*
Gedeon Ogoun (10:39:11 PM): "Was it triggered then, though, or did it happen then?"

Thematrian1 (10:39:14 PM): it accepts them from the datajack port inside the van
Thematrian1 (10:39:16 PM): full stop
MilesMk1 (10:39:17 PM): *sighs a bit, then crawls under the van to look around using his eyelights/thermo*
Thematrian1 (10:39:33 PM): Blake: electronics B/R, please
Umbrafer (10:39:46 PM): "It's going to be a very long night."
MilesMk1 (10:40:15 PM): MilesMk1 rolled 5 6-sided dice: 2 6 4 3 3
MilesMk1 (10:40:18 PM): MilesMk1 rolled 1 6-sided die: 3
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Thematrian1 (10:41:03 PM): Blake detects no changes or additions
Umbrafer (10:41:05 PM): "No one else could have done this. Either there's something installed, hard or soft, that shouldn't be here, or… I don't know what the 'or' is. Nothing good."
MilesMk1 (10:41:14 PM): (Well, that wasn't that great, but still not bad.)
MilesMk1 (10:41:20 PM): *crawls back out*
MilesMk1 (10:41:29 PM): "I didn't see anything underneath."
Umbrafer (10:42:09 PM): "File under 'weird drek', delay panic attack until later."
Umbrafer (10:42:16 PM): "Want to check on it now, or keep making the rounds?"
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Dragcrell (10:43:51 PM): (Walks back in with a bat in hand. realy going to need to get off my ass and to a over haul on my comp lol)
Gedeon Ogoun (10:44:15 PM): "your call."
EverGuard4 (10:44:20 PM): EverGuard4 rolled 9 6-sided dice: 3 4 4 2 3 1 4 2 3
MilesMk1 (10:44:32 PM): "Why don't you take a little longer to look for tampering - but I think we ought to keep moving, if possible. We don't know how much time we have."
Umbrafer (10:45:17 PM): Heading to the next point, but leaving most of the driving to the van—I'm spending my time elbow-deep in the diagnostics looking for signs of other tampering.
Thematrian1 (10:45:54 PM): check. Computers
Umbrafer (10:46:05 PM): Umbrafer rolled 6 6-sided dice: 3 6 1 6 3 3
Umbrafer (10:46:09 PM): Umbrafer rolled 2 6-sided dice: 1 3
Thematrian1 (10:46:24 PM): You find no other tampering. That check takes you over an hour, though
Umbrafer (10:47:38 PM): Fair enough. Where's our second stop?
Gedeon Ogoun (10:48:16 PM): "Blake, is Buck a reliable source of information...and do you think he actually knows a way to get out of here?"
Umbrafer (10:48:22 PM): Third, counting Zbyhnev.
Thematrian1 (10:49:57 PM): meanwhile, the party easily reaches the safehouse where you stashed Jonah
MilesMk1 (10:50:18 PM): "Knowing things is basically his business... And I trust him more than just about anyone in our line of work."
MilesMk1 (10:50:24 PM): Jerome.
MilesMk1 (10:50:44 PM): (Which was a name you came up with. :p )
MilesMk1 (10:51:08 PM): "Which isn't to say, blindly - but I think he's good for it."
MilesMk1 (10:51:30 PM): "Mind trudging up agaiun, Gedeon?"
Thematrian1 (10:51:33 PM): (I named that guy twice, and I can never remember which is which. Leave me alone)
Gedeon Ogoun (10:51:41 PM): "Not at all. Who is this guy?"
MilesMk1 (10:51:44 PM): (:))
MilesMk1 (10:53:29 PM): "A... guy I went to some lenghts to get out of trouble."
Gedeon Ogoun (10:53:50 PM): "Okay. Anything I need to know/watch out for?"
MilesMk1 (10:54:44 PM): "He's stupid, like anyone his age, so just cut him some slack." *grins*
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Umbrafer (10:56:50 PM): (C'mon, you know your connection wants to start working again…)
Dragcrell (10:58:04 PM): (shoudl have lent him my bat to smack it with)
Umbrafer (10:58:29 PM): (Sooth.)
Gedeon Ogoun (10:59:13 PM): (what qualifies as "right away?"
MilesMk1 (10:59:23 PM): (Well, we did make it to 11:00... Though it'd be good if he came back.)
MilesMk1 (10:59:47 PM): (I'm inclined to give it at least 5 more minutes...)
Umbrafer (11:00:14 PM): (I was thinking 5-10 myself. That works.)
MilesMk1 (11:01:00 PM): (Well, I can wait longer, but at 11:30 I was planning to turn in myself anyway...)
Umbrafer (11:02:35 PM): (Yeah, way I figure it is he's least likely to keep trying at this point.)
Umbrafer (11:02:41 PM): (Or rather, fairly close to least likely.)
MilesMk1 (11:05:53 PM): (So... On Thursday, you'll be trying to kill our characters in their homes, right?)
Umbrafer (11:06:08 PM): (Maaaaybe… ;) )
Dragcrell (11:06:34 PM): (hehehehehe sounds like fun lol)
MilesMk1 (11:08:00 PM): (Did I mention that Glitch sleeps with his skillsoft jukebox on, and uses the ruthenium suit for PJs?)
Umbrafer (11:08:13 PM): :)
Umbrafer (11:08:18 PM): Now you did.
Umbrafer (11:08:26 PM): Sounds uncomfortable.
MilesMk1 (11:08:41 PM): (It actually freaks me out a bit to have so much of my character concept tied up in gear. Very expensive gear...)
Umbrafer (11:09:00 PM): (Now you know how I feel.)
MilesMk1 (11:09:23 PM): (He probably does have a bag packed he can grab in emergencies, containing his most valuable stuff, at that.)
MilesMk1 (11:09:54 PM): (That stupid suit would be 120,000 + the cost of ruthenium to replace ont he street)
MilesMk1 (11:10:47 PM): (And the skillsofts would be around 80,000)
MilesMk1 (11:11:28 PM): Well, I think we've lost Seiler for good.
Umbrafer (11:11:34 PM): Indeed.
MilesMk1 (11:11:46 PM): Sorry the whole evening was taken up with my character's business...
Umbrafer (11:12:04 PM): Meh, last week it was mostly mine. We trade off :)
Umbrafer (11:12:45 PM): It's the contactless folk who get screwed now. Feel free to smack us if we're taking up too much spotlight.
Dragcrell (11:13:19 PM): hehehehe ahhh come now I got to find a dead mutent lol
Umbrafer (11:13:43 PM): That's true… what do you need to make a zombie?
Dragcrell (11:14:25 PM): I think 1k in rutual materials would look it up but my books in my room
Gedeon Ogoun (11:15:00 PM): yeah something like that..plus you need a hounfour...(voodoo lodge)
Umbrafer (11:15:13 PM): How easy are those to find/create?
Gedeon Ogoun (11:15:59 PM): I have a messenger out to Samantha to find it. to create is same as shamanic lodge
Gedeon Ogoun (11:18:34 PM): so unfortunately, I think the body will rot before I have time/money to make a good zombie
Umbrafer (11:18:44 PM): Bah. Ah well.
MilesMk1 (11:18:45 PM): Aw...
MilesMk1 (11:18:59 PM): And I wanted a shambling monstrosity to follow us along! ;)
Dragcrell (11:19:11 PM): hehe
MilesMk1 (11:19:31 PM): Festooned with dozens of insect legs...
MilesMk1 (11:19:37 PM): Well, I guess this is it.
Umbrafer (11:19:39 PM): Every team of Shadowrunners needs a shambling monstrosity.
Umbrafer (11:19:48 PM): If we can get you set up with the gear, we may get other chances.
MilesMk1 (11:19:56 PM): I'll see you guys later.
MilesMk1 (11:20:01 PM): Good night.
Umbrafer (11:20:03 PM): *Waves* Sleep well.
Gedeon Ogoun (11:20:15 PM): good night.
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Gedeon Ogoun (11:20:19 PM): I'm turning in too.
Gedeon Ogoun (11:20:23 PM): catch y'all later
EverGuard4 (11:20:28 PM): night
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