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IC: The Old Smoke: Raiden and Dragonslayer

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« Reply #15 on: <06-23-13/0625:30> »
_______DragonSlayer__________
"ah you're a gent, thanks for that" He says, taking a hearty swig of his pint.
"The job is a catch-and-deliver. cargo freightliner is heading through the 'Channel tomorrow night at high tide, and will "accidentally" lose a box overboard. It's your job to retrieve this box, and get it safely up to Clacton-on-sea without the coastguard picking you up. It's right on the border of the dead zone, so patrols should be light.
Should be a good run, though the contact is a newbie and a bit of an unknown round here, says he understands my concerns and has offered a decent 2.5k for the job. He'll have someone waiting on the north beach and you'll need to complete the meet before dawn. Flash him with an IR flashlight as you approach the beach and he'll complete the deal.
Sound good?
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« Reply #16 on: <06-23-13/0639:47> »
____________Raiden___________
Your knock on the metal shutter rings out loud and clear, and after about 30seconds, the ancient motors fire up and haul the shutter up to about your waist height with the torturous sound of metal-on-metal, and then stops abruptly.
A heavily accented scottish voice comes from the other side of the door;
"You the techie? come under this door, nice and slow. no funny stuff."
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« Reply #17 on: <06-23-13/0646:07> »
"Sounds good.  I'll go pick up an IR torch on my way home.  There a locator on this box?  Hate for it to accidentally go overboard and sink for truth."

Dom take a pull on his pint.  "Good thing I just got done washing my boat today, eh?"

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« Reply #18 on: <06-23-13/0712:10> »
"Yep, it'll be a low strength radio frequency signal, in the 85khz spectrum apparently. Here are the co-ordinates it'll be dropped at [He pushes a datachip over the desk] it should be dropped just around midnight. Carrier is the Volontsoz, but don't try and hail it what ever you do. Not all the crew are aware of the drop. Have a good one mate, stay safe yeah?"
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« Reply #19 on: <06-23-13/0948:13> »
yeah, thats me Hax crawls through the opening on the door then stands up on the other side showing open palms. heard some weird stuff was happening and you wanted some tech help.
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« Reply #20 on: <06-23-13/1027:15> »
______Raiden________
You crawl through the gap and get to your feet. Turning around, you see your contact; Jimmy, and he's pointing a double barrel shotgun at you. Another large man stands next to him, who isn't introduced.
"glad you could make it, we've just got to go through the usual security checks blah blah blah. Ivan here is going to pat you down. don't fight it or try any funny stuff. He aims the shotgun at your chest and cocks it. I'm sure you understand why we're a little cautious.

Ivan must have been about 7 foot tall, and nearly as wide. his bald head just becomes one with his shoulders, the bulking muscles he sported denying him the privilege of having a neck.
He quickly pats you down and finds your weapons, removing them deftly and placing them into a safe, located near to the back door. He stands up and moves back behind jimmy without uttering a word, his bulking frame blocking a good deal of your view past him into the loading bay area.

Jimmy the dwarf walks over to you and begins to speak in his heavy glasgow accent. His face is pretty chiselled and he's bearing a few scars. He's obviously seen some action.
"Great stuff, now the formalities are over, i'll take you through to the systems room and give you a wee briefing shall I? Jimmy un-cocks the gun and passes it to "Ivan", who never stops looking at you with a steely glare.
"I'm sorry about our little introduction, aye but things have been a little crazy lately, you'll get your toys back when we're done. I'm Jimmy by the way [he offers a handshake], nice to meet you"
"We've been having some issues recently mate, our computer systems have been a wee bit bonkers. Our stuff keeps going missing, shipments dont match up to our documentation and the like. Its all a wee bit weird. We've had a few unsavoury characters knocking on the doors yet the camera feeds show nothing. I think we've been well and truly done over and thats why you're here.
I know its probably not your full time kinda work mate, but by the sounds of it you can handle yourself in the techie world? I want to know how badly we've been done over and if possible, by who. Also mate, theres an extra couple of hundred in it if you can tighten up our security while you're at it.
That said, whatever you see in here today does not pass your lips again right? otherwise my mate Ivan here will be having a wee word wi ya, Glasgae style lad. Got it?"

He motions for you to follow him, and heads to the back of the loading bay area, where there is a small access lift built into the floor.
He pushes the button and both of you descend into darkness for a second, before a series of automatic lights flick on and reveal a huge underground warehouse. the access lift takes all of 30 seconds to reach the bottom, and you follow jimmy through an aisle made between crates, noting the signage in many different languages covering hundreds of different boxes stacked up 7-10ft tall.
He leads you into a small office that is piping hot, a large nexus and workstation taking up the solitary desk and a projected AR keyboard currently active. Jimmy spins the large chair around, motions for you to sit and then places a set of trodes over your head.
"I've created you an admin account, so don't worry about breaking into anything. i'll be watching your progress on these screens thanks to this simrig, so no funny business while you're in there.
Like I said, get in, find out what and who the fuck is dicking about with our systems. Ping me on Admin_002 in case of any drama."

With that, he connects your commlink into the nexus via cable and engages the trodes. Within a blink of the eye, you're in full VR on your home node staring at the open portal to the nexus.
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« Reply #21 on: <06-23-13/1106:32> »
After the frisking Hax accepts the handshake "yeah healthy paranoia is always nice to have mate. really? well you got the right man for the job then and I will see what I can do for your system." he follows him back to the other room listening as he goes as well as making mental notes of the things he sees within the warehouse. eidetic sense memory and multitasking after being rather abrubtly plugged in his icon shows up on his home node, this month his icon is a empty O-Yoroi samurai suit of armor with the face mask pulled down glowing blue and red. *well then, guess we should get started. hope my iball can get to me if need be didn't get a chance to ask to have it brought in, probably wouldn't have let me anyway* Hax makes his way to the warehouse's node. first he analyzes the node trying to find everything he can data errors, backdoors to the system, the works.
haven not done this type of thing before so heres my stuff.
lets start with a matrix perception check Computer 4 + Analyze 6+ 2 VR=12  oops, that is if I am hot, sorry I forgot about that for a sec.
12d6.hits(5)=1 ... I see nothing XD he then Observes in detail, no roll. anything not running stealth I "see" or he could do this first
if he finds any backdoors, unknown icons or similar he attempts to trace them back to their origin.
  I will wait to do the extended test after your next reply based on if he finds anything. also I assume that "checking the system" is fairly simple task and wouldn't require a roll, especially if I was given a code of how it SHOULD be.
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« Reply #22 on: <06-23-13/1303:49> »
The node is a really barebones interface, they really have spent no time sculpting it or personalising it whatsoever. you are in a pristine white room, with several black boxes representing connections to other nodes.
There is a shipping server, a security server and a workstation server, in a row equidistant from one another.
From your observation of the server, you can't tell that anything seems out of place so far.

yep, you're accessing their system via your commlink so you have all your software/agents and hotsim at your disposal. feel free to bring out the big guns :-) also let me know what programs you have loaded up.
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« Reply #23 on: <06-23-13/1424:36> »
*well this is a lovely place to look at, at least it seems efficient, though a tad simple*. Hax thinks on some past stuff he learned that might help him out here
  knowledge skill underworld, (matrix crime) 8d6
 8d6.hits(5)=4

Hax starts up his agent program and has it continually check the server and nodes for any backdoors, exploits, weak  spots and the like. R4 agent
He goes by and analyzes each server for any past error reports, checking the files seeing if anything seems out of place or if something was tampered with. he accesses the video records on any inside cameras and has it play through while doing so. He checks the systems firewall settings and power as well as the other defensive programs if any within the system. Multitasking power, I don't know if I need to roll a matrix perception for each node/server or any at all as it may fall under observing in detail. he also sends a message to jimmy via the admin address he gave him <sorry to bother ya but I noticed all your stuff is running as active and is fairly open for other people to find your nodes fairly easily, any reason for this? I believe that it would better secure this place to be running hidden if possible.>

at the moment he has all his ergonomic programs running. as well as his agent, exploit, browse, command and encrypt. his ergonomic programs are, bio feedback filter, armor, stealth, analyze, sniffer, and scan
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« Reply #24 on: <06-24-13/0336:53> »
After having a good think about it, you would expect an intruder to have left themselves an open door, a worm or virus that easily permits entry into a system or feedsback data to an outside server.

I take it you set up the agent's payload with the following then: analyze, attack, armour and stealth?
Your brief scans of the servers from the outside reveal little of use, from the outside they appear to be running normally. you'll need to get your hands dirty with this one.

<<Admin_002>>We're no techies here mate. the bloke who came down and did it for us did it years ago on the cheap. we've just never really thought that much about it since as we've never had any trouble. Got trouble coming out of our ears now though! Like i said, if you can patch it up for us, theres a couple of hundred in it for you. cheers.
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« Reply #25 on: <06-24-13/1028:36> »
*welp, here goes,* <lets go Ryu,> Ryu is what he named his agent. Hax enters the nodes in this order and runs checks and analysis unless something happens. shipping server, security server, and finally the workstation. Ryu, his agent continues to run scans within each node he enters with Hax.
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« Reply #26 on: <06-25-13/0224:15> »
"Yep, it'll be a low strength radio frequency signal, in the 85khz spectrum apparently. Here are the co-ordinates it'll be dropped at [He pushes a datachip over the desk] it should be dropped just around midnight. Carrier is the Volontsoz, but don't try and hail it what ever you do. Not all the crew are aware of the drop. Have a good one mate, stay safe yeah?"

"No worries mate.  I've no intentions of letting you down now."

Dom finishes his pint and mentally summons his car.  Saying his goodbyes, he leaves the pub, contemplating doing something to the car of the the over dressed dick that's set up shop in what he considers his watering hole.  It's not much of an urge, but there none the less.  Ah well, work first.

Settling behind the wheel, his first stop is to a 24 hour mart, he needs to pick up an IR torch and something to see it with.

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« Reply #27 on: <06-25-13/0357:19> »
____________Raiden_______________
You enter the shipping node, and are greeted with a wealth of information. the contrast with the previous sculpt was amazing.
Several different document archives were spread around the untidy node, and numerous data terminals still running and open from the last session.
//Admin_002//<<forgive the mess in here lad, I had it to pieces the other day trying to figure what the fuck is going on mate. This is our shipping server, we log everything in and out on here. This is the main bit of the system we think is being dicked with. we've had thousands of quid go missing because of this. Do what you have to do>>//
analyze 6, computer 4, hotsim 2 (shipping server) Hax(12d6.hits(5)=3)
analyze 4, computer 4 (shipping server) Ryu (8d6.hits(5)=2)

Your combined scans find something, lurking in the corner of the node. it's shape is very very well concealed and it actively tries to resist and evade your scans.
It's hard to figure out exactly what it is, but there is definitely something weird in here with you.


____________DragonSlayer______________
You punch in "hardware store" into gridguide and it pulls up several options nearby for 24 hour opening times.
'Focus' looks to be the best bet after you quickly scan it's matrix page and the drive takes about 15 minutes through dull, unpopulated streets.
You find the IR flashlight after a bit of searching, for a very honest 25 quid. a set of thermographic goggles to match costs you a few more quid though, setting you back 150 quid
The Radio Signal scanner is on offer this week, and you manage to get a mid-level model for 25 quid, not bad.
Please deduct 200NY from your starting cash; you now own an IR flashlight, R2 goggles with thermographic (with space for one more mod-slot) and an R3 radio signal scanner
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« Reply #28 on: <06-25-13/0950:26> »
 < I am going to be honest, I prefer nodes like this, that last one just felt empty and, well, open.> After a bit Hax "sees" something out the corner of his eye, something that should be there.
<ryu, over there, somethings up, keep on it and lets lock it down. Be careful, it may be something nasty.  Hax and his agent attempt to surround the anomaly to make sure it doesn't try to take off.  He also continues to analyze it as he moves in on it trying to garner as much info as he can.
<I think I found something, gonna have a closer look> he lets jimmy know that something IS in here.
figure I would make a roll. 12d6 12d6.hits(5)=2 bahh.
 please don't be a sprite, plz don't be a sprite. or worse a TM.


Hax is running all ergonomic programs, and now Attack, agent, encrypt, spoof, blackout and track I guess.
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« Reply #29 on: <06-25-13/1016:35> »
As you continually probe and surround the anomaly, it drops it's cloak showing itself to be a vibrant  mish-ash of geometric shapes, contantly re-moulding itself.
It begins to rear up and faces you, instantly growing a limb, except this limb doesn't have fingers, they resemble something more like...barrels? and they're spinning up?!

Roll for initiative!!!!
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