[Csjarrat]

___Scawire + Lumen____
Aye, she's a heap 'o shite alrite, but at least these hacker boys cannae ruin our nice drive 'round tha slums 'o paris.
Clutch is fucked though lads, best give me tha night te get her finished up and then we'll be reet to head off in tha 'morn.

A peaceful night awaits.
You take the opportunity to get a decent night's kip before the shit hits the fan and retire to bed early. After a light supper of left over roast beef in crusty bread sandwiches, and a catch up of the world news 'cast on the trid, your head starts to bob and your eyes shut.

That fucking cockerel was at it again, "cock-a-doodle-doo" was the last thing you needed at 6.55.
Streaks of weak sunshine penetrated the heavy curtains, casting rays of daylight across the floor and duvet.
Sounds of activity could be heard all around, the domestic drones seemed to be hard at work downstairs doing a spot of vacuuming and the low rumble of an ancient combustion engine could be heard through the window, even when closed.
The faint smell of breakfast was on the air, encouraging you to get out of your pit and get into action.

ok, state any legwork stuff you wanna do now before departure, otherwise just give me a kitlist and i'll move you on after breakfast.

[Scawire]

Once Mantis gets up for the day he grabs himself some breakfast, as he eats he does his best to scan over the map he was given and his own map on his Comm link to get an idea of the lay of the land. When he finishes his breakfast he heads to his room and gets his gear together, but before he does he asks Knives. So the plan is to come back to the mansion before we hit the target site right? If he finds out they will return before they hit the site he will not bring his stealth suit.


OOC List for my gear is in the OOC thread.

[Lumen]

"Yea mate...  The way I see it we go ride around today and check out the area,  come back here for some sleep.  Then tomorrow after the meet with the supplier we really get to work pro"  Knives quickly scarves down his breakfast and gets all his gear together.

[Csjarrat]

Pavel had pulled out all the stops this morning, a glorious full english awaited you in the spacious and well lit kitchen.
A pot of proper coffee stewed on the hot plate, the zing from it a million times better than the usual soycaf shit you drank.
Dunk popped in for a brew as you wolfed down your brekkie.
Alrite lads? She's ready. Clutch was a fucker to sort but she'll get us there and back alrite.
I'll be in the garage oiling her up when you're ready.

07.42

The gravel crunches underfoot as the nightlighting clicks off. The low hanging mist had settled in the undulations of the sculpted gardens, giving them a ghostly ethereal look. A thick dew had settled on the tops of the grass, giving everything that "just washed" gleam. The dawn had broken and the birds were singing their little heads off in the trees. The air felt fresh, if not bloody cold, but it definitely was one of those good-to-be-alive mornings.
As you approached the garage, the sound of soft rock was gone.
Dunk had the boot open ready for your kit and was dressed in very casual clothing, barely perceptible armour plates giving the material a slightly clunky appearance as he moved around the engine, fine tuning and tweaking stuff.
Just fiddling aboot lads, ready when you are. Whats the plan then? We just having a wee look around today?

[Csjarrat]

____Sillasion____
18.30 hours

How long's that train gonna be? about an hour wasn't it? It'll take fucking hours to get him out here by the time you get there, find him and catch another train.
I'll get one of the lads to pick me up and take me, go on girl, you scarper. I'll be alright for an hour or two, but then I'll give them a call the second that train leaves. You'll probably want to be long gone by then.

[Lumen]

After breakfast Knives loads his things in the car, "Yea Dunk for today we'll just have us a nice cruise around the area.  Until we get thermo we can't put eyes on the place but we can at least narrow it down I'd think.  We need to be nice an invisible today lads..."  He looks down at his typical suit and greatcoat outfit and looks back to Dunk, "An maybe get me some clothes that don't stick out so much..."

[Scawire]

Mantis looks over his clothes. I think we just do some driving around, stay in the car as much as possible. See what everyone has for clothes, and keep an eye out for buildings that look like they have something valuable inside them or at least seem big enouph to sport our power supply. Mantis gets into the car and gets ready for the drive into town. I think if we drive through the neighborhood a few times we should get a feel for the place maybe grab lunch then do another drive through. Atleast this car shouldn't stick out too much not like a limo in the slums that is for sure.

[Csjarrat]

Dunk smirks at Lumen's get-up. Aye, ye'll stick out like a sore thumb doon there!

08.01
He packs your stuff in the boot and you all hop in the ancient junker, Mantis riding shotgun, knives in the back right, behind Dunk.
The ancient vehicle stunk. It was somewhere between rancid body odour and mouldy cheese, but whatever it was, it wasn't good. You sincerely hoped you didn't have to go far, which turned out to be the case.
Traffic was starting to hot up on the motorway into Paris, the usual monday morning grind reminding you of a life you'd not lived in a long long time.
Dunk's sighs and tuts signalled he was as pissed off at the hold-up as you were. He was trying to tune the audio centre into a decent trid cast, but all that came out of the two working speakers was some random yammering in foreign-ese.

The grind soon became unbearable, Dunk swinging off at an out-of town retail park on the southern ring road, following signs to a Mega EuroMart.
Knives mate, you said you wanted te pick up summat less conspicuous? Now's the time.

Let me know what kind of thing you'd want, the shop sells basic clothing in a multitude of styles from 20NY up to 100NY for smarter wear. It has a line of industrial wear which features light armour plating and chemical resistance at anything from 75NY up to 500NY depending on what you think you need

[Scawire]

With the stench flowing through the ride Mantis cracks the window a bit to help release the fog of stink from the car..... Well that didn't really work but atleast the smell might help with our blending into the area for any dogs that are still alive in the area. Mantis kills a smoke well they three drive into the area. Looking out the window Mantis takes in the scenery. Once at the store Mantis decides to grab the cheapest black shirt and pants he could find.


I'll have Mantis buy one extra shirt and pants..... later to put dirt on when they get back to the hideout from heaven.
?? So Like 20 nuyen 40 nuyen for 2 items???

[Lumen]

Knives tries his best to cover the horrendous stench of the junker by chain smoking, lighting one smoke off the other.  His leg bounces impatiently during the traffic stand stills, it's pretty obvious he's sick of sitting around.  Once they pull up to Euromart he gets out and takes a big stretch, then nods to Dunk, "Yea mate this'll do just fine."  He takes a while picking through the racks clearly unimpressed.


I'm looking for something along the lines of arc resistant clothing.  Like 1/1 Armor and 3 levels of Non-conductivity, whatever they have available along those lines.
Also if EuroMart sells smokes throw in two packs


Finally done Knives comes out and leans up against the junker, when Mantis comes out he nods, "How bout you take the back this time mate?  In case you need to do your thing while we're cruisin."

[Csjarrat]

_lumen_
The clothing department is pretty lacklustre. The best you could find was proper safety gear, festooned with broadcast RFIDS and high vis panels to stop you from getting flattened by a construction drone. It wasn't cheap and you were pretty sure it'd be even more conspicuous than your usual suit and jacket look.
Eventually, you come across a premium technicians' outfit in dark grey that comes with basic chemical protection, insulation and non-conductivity
treat it as rating 1 for all those and 1,2 for armour (ballistic, impact)
It's on the steeper end at 200NY, but it was the best you could find outside of a specialist retailer.

[Lumen]

*Bollocks figures the only decent threads cost as much as my first suit..*  Knives reluctantly forks over the quid and gets changed before exiting the store.


That's perfect.

[Scawire]

Once Mantis has his clothes he grabs a hand full of dirt and throws the dirt into the bag. I don't want to be wearing new clothes in the slums we are going to hit. With that Mantis lights another smoke this one seems to taste a bit better with the stench of the car a few steps away and not invading his nostrils at the moment. As he smokes his cig he shakes the bag of clothes and dirt from time to time to try and get the shirt and pants into the roll of the slums. With the last of his cig done he grabs the back seat of the car.

[Csjarrat]

The PA played shitty pop music at you as you mooched around the shop, flicking through the clothing racks.
Grabbing the kit you need, you spot dunk at the sales kiosk grabbing some smokes and a soycaf and promptly do the same.
please deduct the appropriate amounts from your total cash reserves
By the time you'd got sorted and back in the car, the traffic had started to die down a bit. 20 minutes down the road, you'd found the source of the commuter's nightmare. A lorry had rear ended a car, closing one lane.

Once you'd cleared the grind, dunk's mood improved. He even started tapping his fingers to the beat on the steering wheel to some shitty French rock.
Soon, the road quality started to drop off. AROs flickered and failed above the store fronts and the quality of the parked cars declined to the point where yours looked in mint condition.
All sorts of stragglers, waifs and strays occupied the crowded streets, congregating in cramped cafés and sheisha lounges. The shop fronts were signed up in all sorts of foreign script, even the French had been drowned out in amongst the Cyrillic, or'zet, Eastern European and Arabic adverts and store fronts.
You'd arrived..

[Scawire]

Once Mantis sees that they have made it to the site he does his best to look around without making it too obvious that he is checking the area out.


Visual perception Test

Perception (Visual) 1(3) + INT 2 + Vision Enhancement 3 = 8
1 hit from ( http://rolz.org/ )
hey no link to the dice rolls and I can't see what the rolls where, how do we know if we glitch???

I was checking we could try the "repeat 8 1d6" where the 8 is the number of times you roll this will show all the dice you rolled. Your call CS

If Mantis notices anything he will use his vision magnification to get the best view of the place if needed.