[Csjarrat]

Both of you make it inside before the lads arrive around the corner.
Laughing and joking can be heard along with the scuffing of feet.
It sounds a lot like they're play fighting or playing rugby or something..
The three of you hear a loud smash followed by an alarm, a bike alarm.
All three of your commlinks vibrate and light up your AR feeds as the lads are pissing themselves laughing.

[Raiden]

"seems so, on my way" < I'll see what I can do, though if we are framing some poor bloke I don't imagine it matters, as long as you can get in that is.> Hax moves inside and heads towards the door with the maglock. Would I be able to break into the node and over ride it? or am I already able to do so?

[Lumen]

<He isn't any poor bloke he's a sodding bellend.  I could probably bash or slash the door in just might take a few tries but my mates have a way with doors.>

[Csjarrat]

____Hax____
You jump out of the business node and back into the security node. The doorlock system has crashed and is stuck in a reboot-crash cycle.
Give me a computer + analyze (3) test.

All_______
Your bike alarms have triggered and are flashing in your AR feed, check my previous post

[Raiden]

Fragging great, yo Knives, Mantis go make sure they don't render us rideless, I'll get this door open if I can, If I can't I'll come help if its needed."

computer 4 + analyze  6 +1 improved ability
 11d6.hits(5)=0 oook.. spend a point of edge to reroll that
 11d6.hits(5)=7 talk about your black and white here >.>

[Lumen]

<You mean those pissed blokes wrecked my bike!?  Fuckin' 'ell!>

Knives heads back up the stairs and uses back alleys to get closer to the bikes before heading out towards the street.   He stops in a shadow to get a look at these wankers before approaching.


Infiltration 3 + Agility 6 = 9d6
9d6.hits(5)=5

Perception 4 + Intuition 3 + Enchantment 3 + Actively Looking 3 =13d6
13d6.hits(5)=5

[Csjarrat]

___all____
You can hear the pissed up laughter mixed in with the bike alarms

___lumen___
You peer around the corner of the building only to see 8 blokes pointing and laughing at a severely drunk bloke dressed in drag, sat in a heap on top of your bikes.
The bikes were laying on their sides with the bloke, probably the poor fucker who's stag party it was, on top. The bloke didn't look good, aside from the frumpy dress and shoddy make up, he looked liked he'd had far too much synthahol.
His mates were having a great time taking pictures, probably forwarding them to his wife-to-be

[Lumen]

*Bloody hell.  I don't have the time or patience for this chicanery.  Let's wait and hopefully they'll move this party elsewhere.*

Knives sits tight and watches for now, letting his alarm blare but dismissing the AR notification.  He captures a few images himself. *Some of the boys will get a kick out of this bloke but Queen save em if they do any real damage to the bike.*

He sends a picture of the situation along with a short message to the team, <Sok for now mates.  I'm just gonna keep an eye out for a minute and make sure they move along.>

[Csjarrat]

___raiden____
The door lock system was stuck in a boot-reboot cycle and your in-depth probe shows you that the cheap hunk of junk is dependent on a stable connection to everything in its database to work properly, effectively putting the rest of the door locks out of action until the severed connection is repaired.
Your analyze program highlights the problematic configuration code, and you realise that you can fix it from where you are now by writing a new configuration script and manually reseting the maglock's power.
let's start with a logic + software (12) 1 minute test for the config files (only use software that is actually on your commlink so no nexus). Then I'll need logic + hardware (3) at -2 for improvised tools to pop the casing and do the reset

[Raiden]

ok software 4 logic 7 improved ability 2- 2 for improvised, I guess this is an extended test?
 11d6.hits(5)=2, 11d6.hits(5)=3, 11d6.hits(5)=2, 11d6.hits(5)=4 so four minutes and no go, gonna make a few more rolls
  11d6.hits(5) → [2,1,1,4,4,6,3,5,4,6,1] = (3) after 5 minutes I gwould get it.
 hardware 10 dice 10d6.hits(5)=3

[Csjarrat]

____Lumen____
The stag looks ever more green around the gills as you observe and eventually the lads begin to tire and the joke wears off.
One of the lads nearest to you finishes taking photos and announces loudly to the group that he needs a piss, spins on his heels and drunkenly staggers towards your alley.
As you duck back out of sight, you hear the sound you didn't want to hear, the stag parting ways with his stomach contents, most likely all over himself and whichever bikes he was sprawled across.
The rest of the lads cheer, and the joke is back on again.

[Csjarrat]

____Raiden________
You had to give it to the coders, it might be cheap off-the-rack equipment but it was all well coded.
Your work around script took an age to get right, but eventually the maglock node established a stable connection to it's host and stopped crashing, 5 minutes after you'd started work on it.

The laughing lads were still audible, the still of the night carrying their bellows and guffaws through the streets and the constant alarming of your bike was more than a tad disconcerting, though probably less so than the idea of getting busted by pissed off yaks' if you stood here all night daydreaming.
Jimmying the case off took a few minutes and the metallic clunk of the lock disengaging with the reset was reassuring.
The badly hung door swung open under its own weight and revealed a small windowless office with a desk in the middle and cleaning supplies stacked up on the right.
It was practically pitch black in there, the dim street light cascading through the upstairs windows was too weak to illuminate it's contents further.

[Raiden]

<keep an eye on them knives, mantis lets check the room out.> Hax gives the command to override the maglock so they can get in.

[Scawire]

Mantis is having a bad day with all the mana backlash and now his bike is getting round two done to it, as if crashing his ride wasn't enouph. Subvocal Ok Hax I'll fallow you in. Even though this is a low risk of magic target he still mentally make sure he has his counterspelling guarding him and Hax.

[Lumen]

<I'm about to do a lot more than that mate.  Those fucking asses are tossing their lunches all over my bike!  You lads better hurry before I loose my temper with these wankers.>

It takes every ounce of his self-control but Knives resists the urge to carve up the stag like Christmas dinner.  He subconsciously touches his fineblades over his coat. *Calm down mates, we give em one more shot to get out of here.  Painting the sidewalk with their innards would not help the job.  If I fuck this up they'll send me somewhere worse than Kent... is there a place worse than Kent?*