[Solodice]

Miner was pleased with himself when they rolled in the A rated neighborhood. The Rover that Nixon had fixed him up was working beautifully and in this part of town him and Frank wouldn't stick out like shore thumbs.

Miner shuffled the tooth pick, that he just picked up just minutes before, in his mouth when Alexei introduced himself, "You can call me Miner Fox or Miner if you prefer," Miner then grabbed Alexei's hand giving him his tight military grip, "I know Franky boy here as we were stuck in a room together last night."

Miner enjoyed the real coffee but thought it could of had some extra kick like with some alcohol... Miner was do for his morning drink.

Miner was highly impressed by the commodities in the back room and when he took at seat on the real leather he couldn't help but run his hand over it a couple of times.

Miner looked up at Alexei when he spoke, "Before I get to any real question do they happen to serve alcohol here? I know the rich types like to add some added kick to there morning refreshments like me."

[cr4kp0t]

@ Hydroraven & solodice



Right then that's a lot of questions.... I'll do my best to answer them all.

Where is 'The Doc' , simple answer is I don't know; the more useful answer is i don't know exactly, he has been doing some work up north on the ice sheet about the arctic circle some ship wrecked up there and he seems to be interested in it. he took his truck out from the garage a few days ago so he's probably up there.

Why is 'The Doc' doing what he's doing? he believes that the man has it in for him as his research has taken him down a line the company didn't want to see... he's a raid they are going to kill him or something, so he's decided to bug out of the city and take his work with him. Given the goons he had following him i'm not surprised at his paranoia.

Who's helping him... Well me for one... and a few choice friends of mine. He approached me a long time back when he started to suspect this sort of thing might happen and i helped him set up a plan to get out of the city should the need arise... you the sort of thing drop box with ID's etc... flak screen vehicles etc... I thought that's why you were there yesterday as that's was the drop site for the ID. i was there to make sure the trace was gone.

I heard in the rumors that the job was on didn't know you had got it mind....


Whilst talking he notes miner request for alcohol and carefully lifts an ornately engraved silver hip flask form his coat pocket. and offers it to you both. as it cracks open you can clearly smell the wonderfully peaty smell of an old highland single malt  whisky.

[HydroRaven]

"Whisky, don't mind if I do" says Frank when Alexei opens the bottle. He then takes a big sigh, sips his drink and says "Alexei my friend, looks like we're on opposite sides of the fence here. The only reason I'm telling you this is because I don't want this run affecting our future work together. Let me ask you a few more questions before this ends: who were the mages we heard about in the arcology and how are they connected to the doc?"

[Thrass]

My call sign will be Nature. Andy says to Miner before he leaves.

After Miner and Frank left Andy turns to Ginji.

Looks like they left the elite to do the job while having a cup of tea with some friend.
Can you organize a ride?
I don't mind either a taxi or a "lent" car, tinted windows would be very nice though sunlight's always giving me trouble and this particular day... worse then usual.
And if you could maybe get some imagery of the place before we get there to plan ahead.



I think that middle lifestyle of Kyo should include Taxi rides, dosn't it?

[obidancer]

Great! I'm with the fat guy!
Kyo felt like back in school when he would be paired up with the not-so-cool kid. Though on paper 'Andy' had all the reasons to be an exciting pair up, Kyo had to admit he wasn't impressed yet. The big guy was suspicious trying to hide his identity and well... truth had to be said... he kind of smelled. Kyo had read a bit about magicians and of course watched a lot of trids about them. The most powerful could throw fireballs, lift up cars with  only their minds, read your thoughts and invoke super powerful entities. So far all he knew of Andy was that he could apply a decent nanopaste disguise, and eat goulash like a starving family of 6. The guy had mentioned being able to call on spirits, was he speaking the truth?

On the other end, after all the mention of experiments and toxic magic, he'd rather stand not too far from the team's mage.

The mention of 'Elite' by Andy brought him back  from his thoughts and motivated him to show off his skills.

Yeah, I'm sure I can take care of transportation. The garage is at the edge of the city, I'm not sure there will be cameras on every street corner, but as we get closer I'll be able to send drone to do some scouting.

He sat down again, comfortably, grabbed his commlink - again to fake his non-Technomancer identity - put on his glasses, and along his gloves and his trode-equipped beanie, he looked like your average, run-down-the-mill wanna be hacker. Reality was different. Out of his mind, AR like images appeared in his sights and along with them buzz and feelings. With a though he was calling on the matrix and connect with the city's node to obtain a detailed map of the Moscow sprawl. He zoomed on his actual location, pinpoint the closest car rental service and moved on to their matrix node.
Once he found what he wanted he closed his eyes and entered Virtual Reality.  His goal was simple. Hack in their system, log a rental car reservation ready for pick up, with fees taken cared of already, for a week. With the possibility of snow storm, he went for a 4 wheel-drive, with tinted windows and all options included.


Matrix Perception (Analyse+Computer+2 Technomancer)
12d6.hits(5)=4

Switch to VR (free)

Thread Stealth Complex Form (Software +2 + Resonance +2 hotsim)
14d6.hits(5)=5

Fading (Resonance + Intuition 11)
11d6.hits(5)=6

Hack on the Fly (Hacking 6 + Exploit 6 + 2 HotSim) for an admin account
14d6.hits(5)=3
14d6.hits(5)=4 (Glitch. Use of Edge to Negate it)
14d6.hits(5)=5

Should be enough for an admin account with firewall of 7!

Unless, firewall is 1 (which I doubt), system has three Analyse+firewall rolls to get a threshold of 11.
Total Time 3 Complex Actions (1 round) for the hacking + one Simple for the Matrix Perception.

[Solodice]

I've died and gone to heaven, Miner thought as he held out his coffee cup for some whiskey. Whiskey was a favorite of Miner's from his time in the UCAS military.

Now Miner got to the serious questions after taking a sip from his cup, "Now Alexei are we going to have any problems with you because of this run? It would be a shame if I had to make a mess of this nice room."

Miner took another sip of his coffee with whiskey but he kept his eyes on Alexei to see how he would respond.

[cr4kp0t]

@ Hyrdoraven & Solodice

You're not going to have any trouble with me i can assure you! My part of the contract has been fulfilled.

The mages my dear frank are news to me as well probably some eco nut-jobs that went after the doc for his nuclear research.... you know what these whackoes are like.


@ Thrass & Obidancer

 The rental company's system defends its self.

7d6.hits(5)=1, 7d6.hits(5)=1, 7d6.hits(5)=3
You easily get into the system and manage to get a rental car sorted for free.

[for future reference public transport is included in lifestyle]

//automated message protocol v1.7-A//
Your vehicle has been dispatched to your location following a successful rental booking with AXIS Int.

Please read the enclosed terms and conditons fully to make sure your journey is as trouble free as possible.

Have a nice day!

<< attached file - T&C's >>
//automated protocol terminated//

A few minutes later a shiny new BMW 400 GT [same stats a shin hyung from arsenal] is rolling round the corner on an automated pilot program.

[HydroRaven]

"Alright, I guess that's all we can ask for. Thanks for your hospitability Akexei, always a pleasure meeting you. I'll contact you later about that other thing we talked about. Au revoir." Frank gets up from his chair and takes the last sip from his dram. He savours it before gulping it down, turns around and nods to Miner, indicating their business here was over. Before pulling the curtain open, he asks his fixer one last question. "By the way, you wouldn't happen to have the doc's comm code, would you?"

[cr4kp0t]

@ Hydroraven & Solodice
Sorry frank my contract with the doc was quite specific... so even if I did have what you want I can't give it to you... you know I have reputation to uphold... that same reputation that you have banked on more than once I might add.

Alexei taking sips of his own dram between phrases before leaving hastily.

[obidancer]

And here we are! proclaimed Kyo as the rented car arrived. Sure they could have relied on public transportation be having their own mean of transportation was much more efficient to go from point A to point B, even more than the place was on the outskirt of the city.

Alright Big guy. Let's get going. He got in the vehicle, subscribed to it and got a feel for all the options and sensors the car was offering. He then proceed to drive to the address he had managed to collect in the Matrix.

OOC: I think the idea is to stop a block or two away from the place, then Kyo will jump in his Flying Eye Microdrone to scout the place first using the Ultraband Radar Sensor. Maybe Andy could Astrally project too to get a feel of the Magic around.

[Thrass]

Andy got in the car after Ginji, and first thing he does is adjusting the window tinting, then when Ginji dosn't do so Andy accesses the cars map software and accesses the route to the target location.

I have a "skin condition" which is part of my sunlight problem and part of why I don't show my face.
If we manage to build a trust base maybe I'll show you some day.

With these words Andy puts on his mask and puts up the hood, then he drops the spell.
Andy begins to shift and twitch as his body transforms, 2 seconds later everything is over
and if nothing else gives it away his voice definitely sounds like Ork now instead
of the human voice Ginji new from Andy.


Ahhh... that's better... no sunlight, natural form.
Now down to buisness.

[obidancer]

性交何! (what the fuck?)
Kyo almost veered in the wrong lane when he witnessed Andy's transformation. The gain in size, the claws, some white fur appearing from the sleeves.
He couldn't see the freak's face but he wasn't sure he wanted to.

A quick mental command put the BMW in auto-pilot, giving Kyo a chance to gather his nerves. That Mage freaked the hell out of him.

What the fuck are you, Furīku?
Kyo wasn't feeling comfortable in the closed confinement of the car. Nowhere to run. No space to maneuver. He could try to grab his gun but those claws would rip him apart in no time.
He didn't know what was next to him but was torn inside. To many, Kyo was a freak, he's been hunted because of his innate abilities with the Matrix and the Resonance. Judged without knowing. He was freaked out but couldn't allow himself to judge his so-called teammate before knowing more about him, after all he was himself hiding his own abilities from his new colleagues. Maybe he was just an ugly ass Troll who was ashame of his face, maybe a meta-variant Kyo hadn't read about, or a young Sasquash cybered up to have gain voice capability? The fact was, Kyo just didn't know.

He tried to keep his composure, put both hands on the steering wheel, and took a deep breath.

[Thrass]

As I said, I have a skin condition, I'll maybe show you some other time.
For the moment I'm the guy your boss thought fits the job description.
Heavy weapons and magical support.
let me tell you: I couldn't possibly hold an MG in this puny human form you are way better of with me.



Andy get's out a couple of nuts and incantates while shaking them untill he throws like dice.

summoning Watcher (5d6.hits(5)=2)
Drain against 2 (10d6.hits(5)=5)
Tasks are: manifest, fly out of the window, unmanifest go to the the street in front of the adress we are looking for then comce back and show us an image of the place.


A translucent and unreal looking raven appears and sitting on Andys hands for a couple of seconds untill Andy opens the window and it flys away. Then he closes the window again.

Let's see what the birds whisper about this place.

[Solodice]

Miner got up as Alexei made his hasty escape, "He's lucky this part of town has just enough security or I would of squeezed every detail out of him."

Miner then looked at Frank, "So it looks like the doc isn't in Moscow any more. I guess we'll make travel plans after we meet up with Andy and Ginji. Talking about that we better get a move on."

Miner pulled back the curtain but did so slowly so he could scan for any threats.

Reputation my ass... he'll probably kill to keep it.

Visual: Intuition 3 + Perception 4 (4 with Visual) = 7

7d6.hits(5)=1

[HydroRaven]

"He's a fair man and I have an ongoing business relationship with him, so torture would serve no purpose other than to complicate our lives. Besides, we got some very valuable info. Let's just meet the others and see what our options are." Frank gets out of the booth and heads to Miner's car.