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umbrafer (8:35:38 PM): When we last left our antiheroes...
umbrafer (8:39:28 PM): When we last left our antiheroes, I hadn't lost the apartment description. One minute.
Thematrian1 (8:40:09 PM): That's right, we were shaking down the living ex-Nobilis guy's next-of-kin for information.
MilesMk1 (8:41:34 PM): Was he living?
MilesMk1 (8:41:53 PM): I thought he'd been killed, too...
Thematrian1 (8:42:15 PM): living in one of the Indian councils IIRC
umbrafer (8:42:30 PM): He'd gone to somewhere in central-northern Canada.
umbrafer (8:42:39 PM): Algonkian-Manitou Council
MilesMk1 (8:42:44 PM): Ah. As good as, then.
umbrafer (8:43:02 PM): Yeah, it's pretty much like being dead.
Thematrian1 (8:44:12 PM): for our purposes
Thematrian1 (8:44:24 PM): well, back to bullying old people
umbrafer (8:47:14 PM): Hmf. Ah well, onward anyway.
umbrafer (8:47:42 PM): The door opens. The apartment inside is… messy isn't exactly it. /Cluttered/, most definitely.
umbrafer (8:47:54 PM): Everything is clearly /arranged/, but there's stuff everywhere.
umbrafer (8:48:24 PM): The room the door opens onto was once an anteroom, for example, but piled tables and books have turned it into a narrow hallway.
umbrafer (8:50:17 PM): Your host is short, very wrinkled, and looks not entirely pleased. She stalks back through the piles.
Thematrian1 (8:50:31 PM): I follow politely.
Thematrian1 (8:50:34 PM): anyone else around?
umbrafer (8:50:42 PM): Perception.
MilesMk1 (8:50:52 PM): I follow Gem. Looking around discreetly.
MilesMk1 (8:50:56 PM): MilesMk1 rolled 6 6-sided dice: 2 3 2 1 6 6
MilesMk1 (8:51:00 PM): MilesMk1 rolled 2 6-sided dice: 4 1
Thematrian1 (8:51:10 PM): Thematrian1 rolled 6 6-sided dice: 6 6 4 1 2 1
Thematrian1 (8:51:12 PM): Thematrian1 rolled 2 6-sided dice: 6 1
Thematrian1 (8:51:15 PM): Thematrian1 rolled 1 6-sided die: 5
umbrafer (8:52:12 PM): You hear a brief squawk as you enter that Glitch is pretty sure is a bird. Other than that, there's no sign of life.
Thematrian1 (8:52:28 PM): and astrally?
umbrafer (8:52:51 PM): The rooms have a very odd smell, pleasant on the surface but cloying and slightly nauseating underneath.
umbrafer (8:53:27 PM): Astrally, there's a little more pollution than average from outside. Assensing to get details?
Thematrian1 (8:53:42 PM): sure
Thematrian1 (8:53:45 PM): Thematrian1 rolled 6 6-sided dice: 3 6 1 4 4 2
Thematrian1 (8:53:47 PM): Thematrian1 rolled 1 6-sided die: 3
Thematrian1 (8:53:54 PM): that's 3 successes against TN 4
umbrafer (8:54:21 PM): Faint undercurrents of joy and mirth, with frustration, anger, despair, and loneliness layered on top.
Thematrian1 (8:55:03 PM): No surprises there. Once inside, I resume my badgering for hard data.
MilesMk1 (8:55:26 PM): (Is Dave not playing?)
Thematrian1 (8:55:37 PM): Thematrian1 rolled 6 6-sided dice: 1 5 4 4 2 2
umbrafer (8:55:46 PM): (He'll be here at his usual time. He's at work, I believe.)
MilesMk1 (8:55:51 PM): (Ah.)
umbrafer (8:58:03 PM): She continues to be evasive, but as time goes on you continue to get the sense that she really doesn't know all that much about the organization, rather than that she's being secretive.
umbrafer (8:58:14 PM): Continue should be begin
Thematrian1 (8:59:25 PM): #Ugh. This is a wash.#
MilesMk1 (9:00:29 PM): #Do you think you might be able to get her to open up on the specifics of her son's involvement? Maybe it can lead us to someone who knows more.#
Thematrian1 (9:01:00 PM): #You remember how she acted the last time we brought him up. Still, we've worked every other angle...#
MilesMk1 (9:01:10 PM): #Or, well...#
Thematrian1 (9:01:58 PM): Ok, here we go. "I'd like to talk about your son."
MilesMk1 (9:03:22 PM): #You could also just try the truth, or some of it. Tell her we want to hurt them, and need anything that could help us do it... Though that might have her think we're just like the APN, or something.#
MilesMk1 (9:03:48 PM): #People can be so self-righteous sometimes...#
umbrafer (9:04:44 PM): The look in her eyes tells you she knows exactly what you mean, but she responds with "he's at work."
Thematrian1 (9:05:05 PM): #Mmmph. I hate telling the truth in situations like this.#
umbrafer (9:05:22 PM): (Honesty is a pretty bad policy.)
MilesMk1 (9:06:14 PM): #Well, then... I don't know, beg? Think you can muster up some tears, maybe?#
Thematrian1 (9:06:18 PM): "No, ma'am. If we're going to protect our client's child, we need to know more about the Order. Maybe your son knew people, spoke some names that you remember?" Push push push.
Thematrian1 (9:06:29 PM): (IRL I'm in favor, but that's why I'm a gamer and not a terrorist)
Thematrian1 (9:06:37 PM): Thematrian1 rolled 6 6-sided dice: 3 5 4 4 5 4
Thematrian1 (9:07:16 PM): #Breaks character. We're hard-core tough-as-nails private eyes, remember?#
umbrafer (9:07:17 PM): (Well, I was going to say you don't need to roll again, but since you mostly need to not botch or ask her to joing the APN herself it doesn't really matter)
umbrafer (9:07:47 PM): (*join)
MilesMk1 (9:08:28 PM): #Right.#
umbrafer (9:09:22 PM): "That boy… he never talked about them much, 'cept that slut Ferrel. He just went on and on about the great society…"
umbrafer (9:09:28 PM): "All I could do to shut him up."
Thematrian1 (9:09:51 PM): Ooh, that slut Ferrel. Let's hear some more about that. "Ferrel?"
umbrafer (9:11:09 PM): "Talked about her a lot. Good-for-nothing tart."
umbrafer (9:11:16 PM): "Always running errands for her."
Thematrian1 (9:11:28 PM): "What sort of errands?"
umbrafer (9:12:54 PM): "Anything she wanted. Take her places. Talk to people for her. I didn't raise no manservants, 'specially not for someone like her."
umbrafer (9:14:07 PM): The old lady fumbles for a pack of what look like old-fashioned cigarettes.
umbrafer (9:14:15 PM): Lord knows where she got them, if that's what they are.
Thematrian1 (9:14:27 PM): "Do you remember any names?"
umbrafer (9:15:06 PM): She snorts. "I've better things to do with my head than remember /that/ sort of person's name."
Thematrian1 (9:15:37 PM): I give a description of our target Farrelli, or however her name is spelled. "Same person?"
umbrafer (9:15:49 PM): Fierelle
Thematrian1 (9:16:19 PM): there it is. Just to be sure, I inquire.
umbrafer (9:16:44 PM): She snorts again, this time blowing smoke out of her nose. "Sounds like her. Don't remember all the red, 'cept her hair"
umbrafer (9:17:01 PM): "Least she got the sense to dress like what she is."
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umbrafer (9:19:38 PM): There's another squawk from somewhere deeper.
Thematrian1 (9:19:41 PM): #It's interesting, but I don't see how this helps. River quickens...#
circlmastr (9:20:22 PM): (What'd I miss?)
umbrafer (9:21:33 PM): (An old lady grousing)
MilesMk1 (9:21:44 PM): #Yeah, I know... Hmm... Ask if there's anything he might have left behind? This place looks like it just has to have boxes of stuff packed away somewhere.#
Thematrian1 (9:21:52 PM): (We got a little more on one of our targets, but...)
MilesMk1 (9:22:20 PM): #I know she's pretending he doesn't exist, but doesn't seem like the type to throw anything out.#
Thematrian1 (9:22:23 PM): Yeah. I bet she's kept his room exactly as he left it, or something. "Did he leave anything behind, that we could examine?"
umbrafer (9:22:46 PM): Roll them bones.
Thematrian1 (9:22:55 PM): Thematrian1 rolled 6 6-sided dice: 2 5 4 1 3 4
umbrafer (9:23:17 PM): umbrafer rolled 15 6-sided dice: 2 3 4 3 2 1 2 2 4 6 4 1 6 3 4
umbrafer (9:23:30 PM): umbrafer rolled 2 6-sided dice: 3 4
umbrafer (9:24:54 PM): She grits her possibly-false teeth and resists, but she eventually cracks.
umbrafer (9:25:09 PM): She stretches out a bony finger towards a back hallway. "Last door on the left."
circlmastr (9:26:22 PM): (I assume Hound is babysitting?)
Thematrian1 (9:26:33 PM): We go visit. AstralVision ON
MilesMk1 (9:27:14 PM): (Probably, though here at least we probably could have brought one of his spiders, if he wants to hitchike)
MilesMk1 (9:27:29 PM): (If they're not too big.)
circlmastr (9:28:17 PM): (They're small)
circlmastr (9:28:22 PM): (Yay hitchhiking)
umbrafer (9:28:44 PM): The last door on the left, as it turns out, is a cramped three-quarters bathroom. The second-to-last door is unmarked and has dust on the doorknob.=
umbrafer (9:28:46 PM): *-=
Thematrian1 (9:28:59 PM): Good enough. Locked?
umbrafer (9:29:23 PM): Not at all.
Thematrian1 (9:29:56 PM): and within?
umbrafer (9:30:06 PM): The room inside is dusty and spiderwebby. There's an area of greater astral pollution right at the door, and then the inside is downright pristine, astrally speaking.
umbrafer (9:30:42 PM): It looks to have been a very long time since anyone lived here. Probably at least since he left Seattle.
Thematrian1 (9:30:46 PM): Weird.
Thematrian1 (9:31:19 PM): Ok. Photograph everything, then search, quickly, for papers or OMCs or what-have-you. I'll try not to disturb things too much; no reason to hurt the old lady more than we have to.
umbrafer (9:32:04 PM): Roll Perception.
MilesMk1 (9:32:09 PM): I help with the search.
MilesMk1 (9:32:16 PM): MilesMk1 rolled 6 6-sided dice: 6 5 1 5 2 5
Thematrian1 (9:32:19 PM): Thematrian1 rolled 6 6-sided dice: 3 5 6 2 2 1
MilesMk1 (9:32:20 PM): MilesMk1 rolled 1 6-sided die: 4
Thematrian1 (9:32:21 PM): Thematrian1 rolled 1 6-sided die: 5
MilesMk1 (9:32:25 PM): 10,5,5,5
umbrafer (9:32:45 PM): Between the two of you, you find:
umbrafer (9:32:58 PM): A set of political treatises, on disc
Thematrian1 (9:33:16 PM): slotted, copied, returned.
umbrafer (9:33:21 PM): Several pamphlets from the APN
umbrafer (9:34:13 PM): A carbon copy of an application for, according to the text, housing space at the APN headquarters
umbrafer (9:34:28 PM): The Sponsor is filled in as "Fierelle"
Thematrian1 (9:35:20 PM): photographed
umbrafer (9:35:43 PM): And a baseball bat.
MilesMk1 (9:35:53 PM): Anything special about the baseball bat?
umbrafer (9:35:58 PM): Also some bedding and miscellany.
umbrafer (9:36:18 PM): It looks to have been decently well-used. Perception.
Thematrian1 (9:36:26 PM): Thematrian1 rolled 6 6-sided dice: 1 6 1 2 4 5
MilesMk1 (9:36:27 PM): No... I dunno, appointment books, phone numbers, addresses, etc? (though it makes sense he'd take that with him.)
Thematrian1 (9:36:30 PM): Thematrian1 rolled 1 6-sided die: 4
MilesMk1 (9:36:33 PM): MilesMk1 rolled 6 6-sided dice: 5 1 3 2 3 3
umbrafer (9:36:44 PM): None that you've found.
MilesMk1 (9:36:45 PM): Microscopic vision?
umbrafer (9:37:43 PM): And the bat has some deliberate-looking scratches midway up its length. They're sorta angular.
circlmastr (9:38:07 PM): Spider crawls along the bat, just for effect.
MilesMk1 (9:39:00 PM): *examines the scratches*
umbrafer (9:39:04 PM): *Crawl crawl crawl*
Thematrian1 (9:39:21 PM): anything under the bed, under the matress, etc?
umbrafer (9:39:55 PM): You find $27 UCASD under the mattress.
Thematrian1 (9:40:27 PM): I leave it there.
umbrafer (9:40:33 PM): Glitch: roll a language or linguistics knowledge skill
circlmastr (9:40:39 PM): Hound is seriously tempted to carve a message into the bat with the spider's laser.
MilesMk1 (9:41:49 PM): Any language? Also, can I use College Educated on this?
umbrafer (9:42:08 PM): You can. What languages do you have available?
MilesMk1 (9:42:33 PM): German, Japanese, Russian and Spanish.
umbrafer (9:43:51 PM): Hm. Roll German, unless you have something linguistics-related.
umbrafer (9:44:06 PM): Actually
umbrafer (9:44:07 PM): German or English.
MilesMk1 (9:44:21 PM): Ok... English, then.
Thematrian1 (9:44:24 PM): Thematrian1 rolled 6 6-sided dice: 1 3 1 5 1 3
MilesMk1 (9:44:25 PM): MilesMk1 rolled 8 6-sided dice: 6 4 2 2 5 3 3 3
MilesMk1 (9:44:29 PM): MilesMk1 rolled 1 6-sided die: 1
MilesMk1 (9:44:32 PM): Shit.
Thematrian1 (9:45:26 PM): that was quite a nice roll, I thought
umbrafer (9:45:46 PM): Nothing. They look like writing, but damned if you know what kind.
Thematrian1 (9:45:57 PM): photographed
umbrafer (9:46:04 PM): Done.
Thematrian1 (9:46:09 PM): #Hound, I'm going to send you an image. Tell me what you make of it.#
Thematrian1 (9:46:25 PM): Actually, I guess I can't yet.
circlmastr (9:46:28 PM): #Sure.#
circlmastr (9:46:38 PM): You could sow it to thespider
umbrafer (9:46:41 PM): The spider, I think, is crawling around on the grooves.
circlmastr (9:46:44 PM): *show
Thematrian1 (9:46:56 PM): Oh, true. #Have a look at those grooves on the bat you're crawling around on.#
circlmastr (9:47:20 PM): #Pick it up so I have a good vantage point. The spider, I mean.#
Thematrian1 (9:47:38 PM): I do so.
MilesMk1 (9:47:51 PM): *rotates the bat so that the markings can be examined*
umbrafer (9:47:55 PM): Done and done. Spider has a good view of some scratches.
circlmastr (9:49:25 PM): Now I have to look up the English score I have
Thematrian1 (9:49:36 PM): Or German?
Thematrian1 (9:49:47 PM): Come to think of it, I have a German language chip. Can I try that, too?
umbrafer (9:49:55 PM): Sure, why not
Thematrian1 (9:50:18 PM): Thematrian1 rolled 6 6-sided dice: 3 5 1 5 6 4
Thematrian1 (9:50:21 PM): Thematrian1 rolled 1 6-sided die: 1
umbrafer (9:51:28 PM): Nothing, sadly.
Thematrian1 (9:52:08 PM): (I think the next step is to infiltrate the group directly. Search their living space, seduce their leadership, whatever. If we time things well we can take them all in a single night)
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MilesMk1 (9:52:45 PM): (Yeah. It looks like trying to find info from the outside isn't working.)
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circlmastr (9:53:25 PM): (Massive crash upon launching Safari = bad)
circlmastr (9:54:04 PM): Anyway, rolling English.
circlmastr (9:54:11 PM): circlmastr rolled 6 6-sided dice: 3 4 4 3 6 3
circlmastr (9:54:14 PM): circlmastr rolled 1 6-sided die: 6
circlmastr (9:54:15 PM): circlmastr rolled 1 6-sided die: 2
circlmastr (9:54:22 PM): 14, 4, 4, 3, 3, 3
umbrafer (9:56:00 PM): You think you recognize it. It's an old script
umbrafer (9:56:21 PM): If you remember correctly, it was a stepping stone from Greek to the Latin alphabet
circlmastr (9:57:14 PM): #It looks like this old sort of Greek-Latin script.#
circlmastr (9:57:51 PM): (Does it say "FATVM IVSTVM STVLTORVM"?)
Thematrian1 (9:58:07 PM): #Some kind of proto-elvish, maybe>#
umbrafer (9:58:17 PM): (Hah, no, it doesn't :) )
circlmastr (9:58:30 PM): #Oh, don't give me that 'everything was invented by elves' line.#
MilesMk1 (9:58:42 PM): #Curious.#
Thematrian1 (9:58:51 PM): #Or something they think is proto-Elvish? They're the ones who thing everything good is elfy, not me.#
circlmastr (9:59:59 PM): #Ah well.#
Thematrian1 (10:02:28 PM): I guess we're done here. Close up, thank her for her time, and withdraw?
umbrafer (10:02:43 PM): Taking anything with you, or just pictures?
Thematrian1 (10:03:02 PM): Hm. Can we plausibly smuggle the baseball bat out?
circlmastr (10:03:08 PM): Hound is still tempted to carve stuff with his laser.
Thematrian1 (10:03:11 PM): Throw it out a window and go round to retrieve it, maybe?
umbrafer (10:03:48 PM): You could do that, potentially. The bat might have a bad landing, but on the whole it's feasible
umbrafer (10:04:09 PM): You could even try to hit something soft, though that's in shorter supply than it probably was when the house was built
Thematrian1 (10:04:10 PM): Ok. For security, I lean out the window and whistle up the wind, at force four:
Thematrian1 (10:04:14 PM): Thematrian1 rolled 6 6-sided dice: 6 6 1 6 4 1
Thematrian1 (10:04:17 PM): Thematrian1 rolled 10 6-sided dice: 3 5 5 3 2 4 6 5 1 2
umbrafer (10:04:39 PM): The wind whispers to you.
Thematrian1 (10:04:57 PM): 4 services, not that it matters. When my spirit arrives, I ask it to gently carry the bat to the car, without letting anyone see the bat.
MilesMk1 (10:07:02 PM): On the way out, I leave a 100Y certified cred stick somewhere she'll be likely to find it (but not until we leave).
Thematrian1 (10:07:38 PM): And...withdraw!
umbrafer (10:07:39 PM): It puzzles over this for a minute, then departs. As for the credstick, roll perception to try to figure out someplace where it will get seen in the next century that isn't painfully in the open.
umbrafer (10:07:44 PM): It's harder than it might seem.
MilesMk1 (10:07:49 PM): MilesMk1 rolled 6 6-sided dice: 4 1 3 2 3 2
MilesMk1 (10:07:56 PM): Hah.
Thematrian1 (10:07:57 PM): Put it in the bedroom; she'll check that out for sure, after we're gone.
MilesMk1 (10:08:03 PM): True,
MilesMk1 (10:08:09 PM): I'll do that.
MilesMk1 (10:08:22 PM): On the other hand... The aura thing makes it look like she never goes in.
circlmastr (10:08:39 PM): On the other hand, why are we giving her money at all?
MilesMk1 (10:08:50 PM): *I* am giving her money.
circlmastr (10:08:54 PM): On the OTHER hand, if we're giving her money, why not do it openly?
Thematrian1 (10:09:15 PM): Because it's an insult. Put it wherever and let's roll.
umbrafer (10:09:24 PM): The aura thing and the layers of dust. You're very confident that she hasn't been in there for at least a year.
umbrafer (10:09:46 PM): Either that or she's gone to some serious trouble to create dust to make it look like she hasn't, and Occam is gesturing dangerously at that idea.
MilesMk1 (10:09:58 PM): I'm just going to let Gem provide a distraction and then leave it somewhere in the open.
umbrafer (10:10:20 PM): Fair enough. Roll something and don't botch, and you've left some cred.
Thematrian1 (10:10:25 PM): Yeah, that works. I draw her out onto the porch or something.
MilesMk1 (10:10:41 PM): And let me make that 500Y. I feel charitable, and we did steal her basebal bat.
MilesMk1 (10:10:45 PM): Stealth, then.
MilesMk1 (10:10:49 PM): MilesMk1 rolled 6 6-sided dice: 1 3 5 6 4 1
MilesMk1 (10:10:53 PM): MilesMk1 rolled 1 6-sided die: 5
MilesMk1 (10:11:23 PM): Actually, what the hell, 1000Y.
umbrafer (10:11:24 PM): Her disowned son's baseball bat
Thematrian1 (10:11:56 PM): more than fair.
Thematrian1 (10:12:49 PM): #Any excitement at home, Hound?#
umbrafer (10:12:49 PM): Anyway, you're safely away, with your conscience-saving measure accomplished.
MilesMk1 (10:12:50 PM): Yes, but Glitch is feeling bad about not seeing his family in years. (and probably getting them thrown out into the cold by the corp)
circlmastr (10:12:50 PM): Hound checks on Maya now that the excitement in the spider is over.
MilesMk1 (10:12:50 PM): (Or maybe they disowned him too.)
umbrafer (10:13:14 PM): Hm.
umbrafer (10:13:14 PM): The chat's being uppity again.
umbrafer (10:13:15 PM): You should visit them sometime ;)
umbrafer (10:13:49 PM): Maya is reading something. She glances up when you look in.
circlmastr (10:14:24 PM): *soft smile* "Need anything?" *casual look at what she's reading* (Hound, given his nature, probably doesn't have many books that don't feature robots.)
umbrafer (10:14:51 PM): (She didn't have much luggage with her. If Hound has books about robots, it's a book about robots.)
umbrafer (10:15:13 PM): "'mfine"
circlmastr (10:15:21 PM): (Just making sure it's not a Pocket Necronomicon or something)
umbrafer (10:15:26 PM): She looks tired, but isn't staring blankly at anything.
umbrafer (10:15:30 PM): Not that you can tell
Thematrian1 (10:15:31 PM): (What a great idea)
circlmastr (10:15:53 PM): "Alright, I'll be getting [time-appropriate meal] ready soon, if ou're hungry."
circlmastr (10:15:55 PM): *you're
umbrafer (10:15:59 PM): I'm not sure how familiar Hound is with what leather made of human flesh looks like, but he'd lay better than even odds that that isn't it.
circlmastr (10:16:05 PM): #She's alright, she's reading one of my books.#
Thematrian1 (10:16:26 PM): #Good.#
Thematrian1 (10:16:27 PM): Beat.
Thematrian1 (10:16:36 PM): #It's not "How To Destroy Tokyo" or anything, is it?#
umbrafer (10:16:37 PM): She mumbles something affirmative.
umbrafer (10:17:02 PM): (Every book about giant robots is implicitly that guidebook, so unless it's about smaller 'bots it is.)
circlmastr (10:17:12 PM): "Okay..." Hound retreats. #Nah, it was a Japanese mecha manga.#
circlmastr (10:17:29 PM): (Er, not IN japanese, but made in japan)
circlmastr (10:17:40 PM): (Meh, whatever, it's flavor. Leave me alone. >_> )
Thematrian1 (10:17:43 PM): #Japanese. Good. Virtues of cooperation and xenophobia and like that.#
circlmastr (10:18:18 PM): #Questionable locomotion design, but you can't beat 'em for giant weapon systems.#
Thematrian1 (10:18:39 PM): #Sure.#
Thematrian1 (10:19:13 PM): Okay, I still think our next step is to visit our targets. Until Thursday, we can relax, I can get some programming done, and maybe Glitch and Hound could break into something?
MilesMk1 (10:19:35 PM): Like, say, their HQ?
Thematrian1 (10:19:58 PM): For example.
MilesMk1 (10:20:02 PM): I can do that, but does Gem have any way of telling if they have anything like watchers wandering around the place?
MilesMk1 (10:20:19 PM): Because that's the one thing I worry about.
Thematrian1 (10:20:45 PM): I can, if I'm present. Maybe I could give you a Hearth spirit and give it standing orders to kill any spirit that comes near you, I don't know.
MilesMk1 (10:20:47 PM): It seems unlikely, given the apparent laxity of security at the place - people coming in and out of the roof entrance - but who knows.
Thematrian1 (10:21:38 PM): Yeah. If random people can enter and leave then watchers can't be too strict about patrols.
Thematrian1 (10:21:52 PM): It'd be different if any (meta)human was automatically a trespasser, but in this situation...
MilesMk1 (10:22:46 PM): Ok, so I'll put together my standard B&E kit and get ready to break in.
circlmastr (10:22:47 PM): If nothing else, a spider could sneak in.
Thematrian1 (10:23:12 PM): True. Those are flat immune to watchers
MilesMk1 (10:23:20 PM): Hmm... What time would be best, do you think? Night is out, I don't want people sleeping in their rooms.
Thematrian1 (10:23:35 PM): If they're having a protest or event, that'd be best
Thematrian1 (10:23:43 PM): research time!
Thematrian1 (10:23:46 PM): Thematrian1 rolled 6 6-sided dice: 1 2 6 2 4 2
Thematrian1 (10:23:50 PM): Thematrian1 rolled 1 6-sided die: 1
MilesMk1 (10:24:40 PM): Let me help...
MilesMk1 (10:24:44 PM): /roll-dice 7
MilesMk1 (10:24:48 PM): MilesMk1 rolled 7 6-sided dice: 4 3 5 4 3 6 5
Thematrian1 (10:24:50 PM): yeah, I definitely need it
MilesMk1 (10:24:52 PM): MilesMk1 rolled 1 6-sided die: 6
MilesMk1 (10:24:55 PM): MilesMk1 rolled 1 6-sided die: 5
umbrafer (10:25:31 PM): Their next event is the Thursday meeting, sadly. After that they're planning on staging something Saturday afternoon in a nearby park.
MilesMk1 (10:26:47 PM): Ok, so do we wait until Thursday, then?
Thematrian1 (10:26:57 PM): how bothersome. I guess we do.
umbrafer (10:26:59 PM): As for what time, it's hard to tell. People have incredibly erratic schedules, about half appear to have no job external to the organization
Thematrian1 (10:27:10 PM): three-pronged attack: I go to the meeting, you and Hound sneak around.
MilesMk1 (10:27:20 PM): Sure.
circlmastr (10:27:24 PM): Works
umbrafer (10:27:27 PM): From around 11:00 AM to 2:00 PM a slightly larger proportion of people tend to be gone
MilesMk1 (10:27:54 PM): Hmm... I could always get in and pull a fire alarm, or something, if we were desperate for access, even for just a short time.
MilesMk1 (10:28:26 PM): But I think going in on Thursday while the meeting's on makes more sense.
Thematrian1 (10:28:30 PM): I don't think we are. We've got loads of time; let's just wait until...yeah.
MilesMk1 (10:30:05 PM): So we're set, I guess. Hmm... Let's research the bat-writing while we're waiting.
MilesMk1 (10:30:09 PM): MilesMk1 rolled 7 6-sided dice: 4 6 6 6 5 6 4
MilesMk1 (10:30:13 PM): MilesMk1 rolled 4 6-sided dice: 5 5 5 1
MilesMk1 (10:30:17 PM): Damn.
circlmastr (10:30:28 PM): Let's get Robin on that Bat-writing right away
circlmastr (10:30:50 PM): 'Holy racist agenda, Batman!'
umbrafer (10:31:17 PM): You learn how old Robin is. This makes Superman angry.
circlmastr (10:31:36 PM): And he destroys his prescient milk carton?
umbrafer (10:32:04 PM): Well, it appears to be in the Old Italic alphabet.
umbrafer (10:32:21 PM): Once you manage to get it entered into a dictionary of Old Italic, you discover it's also misspelled.
umbrafer (10:33:00 PM): According to the dictionary, it was probably once intended to say (translated) "resolve"
Thematrian1 (10:33:03 PM): Go go racist morons.
MilesMk1 (10:33:29 PM): (And then, I need to go, unfortunately. After a long day of squinting at small things behind glass and cells through a microscope, my head is splitting and the computer screen isn't helping.)
umbrafer (10:33:56 PM): (Aww. Ok, sleep well and see you Monday.)
MilesMk1 (10:34:00 PM): Hmm... I'll see if I can download a dictionary somewhere, maybe we'll come across more of this when dealing with these people.
MilesMk1 (10:34:21 PM): If not, then this has been one expensive baseball bat.
MilesMk1 (10:34:22 PM): :)
Thematrian1 (10:34:35 PM): We can still use it to play head games with F-lady.
umbrafer (10:34:37 PM): You never know when you might want to play some baseball :)
Thematrian1 (10:34:43 PM): that's why I stole it in the first place
MilesMk1 (10:34:57 PM): Or we can hit F-lady in the head with it, when the time comes.
Thematrian1 (10:35:06 PM): Yeah, or that. Just mind the ears.
umbrafer (10:35:07 PM): That's a kind of head game
MilesMk1 (10:35:32 PM): Well, later. Glitch helps Gem as necessary with any research, and so on. See you guys Monday.
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umbrafer (10:36:06 PM): Any further research or questioning or whatever?
Thematrian1 (10:36:14 PM): I program until Thursday. Decrypt 6.
circlmastr (10:36:43 PM): I really should mark down how much cash Hound has. If any.
umbrafer (10:36:53 PM): Yeah, that would be useful
circlmastr (10:37:04 PM): According to my most recent post, it's 35k.
circlmastr (10:37:20 PM): Which I think is enough for Hound to start asking around about vehicle armor.
Thematrian1 (10:37:42 PM): Program Plan:
Thematrian1 (10:37:45 PM): Thematrian1 rolled 6 6-sided dice: 4 2 2 1 2 3
umbrafer (10:38:55 PM): Probably, I don't remember the rates
umbrafer (10:39:58 PM): By my count that's 1 success, so you get a -1 TN to programming
Thematrian1 (10:40:11 PM): sigh. Yeah. And programming:
Thematrian1 (10:40:13 PM): Thematrian1 rolled 6 6-sided dice: 6 4 1 2 5 4
Thematrian1 (10:40:35 PM): I have double memory and all that, but less on the planning test than I'd hoped for
circlmastr (10:40:38 PM): I don't know if I need to roll anything. Likely Hound will just ask his mechanic contact, who will do the actual asking around.
umbrafer (10:41:38 PM): TN 6-3=3, so that's 4, so it'll take you MP/4 hours.
Thematrian1 (10:42:00 PM): 36 * Decrypt's multiplier / 4
Thematrian1 (10:43:18 PM): I easily get it done before Thursday, at any rate.
Thematrian1 (10:45:22 PM): Hound: I think you need to roll Etiquette for the asking around part. Or your friendly neighborhood not-quite-social-adept could do it
circlmastr (10:48:33 PM): I was going to have my L2 contact ask around
umbrafer (10:48:46 PM): Yeah, but the roll is a formality
Thematrian1 (10:48:54 PM): Fair enough.
circlmastr (10:49:24 PM): Can I use/default to Negotiations?
umbrafer (10:49:47 PM): If you want and it's linked *checks*
umbrafer (10:51:34 PM): My skill table is all screwy, but I don't think it is
circlmastr (10:57:22 PM): ....
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