[Sentinemodo]

sniffing

[Kontact]

Normally, I'd have you scan for nodes first so that you could pick which signal you're trying to capture, but I'll instead just assume that you're eliminating all of the wireless traffic you can already account for, such as the team's comms and vehicles.

Anyway, you pick up a satellite transmission.  It is unencrypted.

[Sentinemodo]

i've already scanned for wireless traffic/nodes first during appearance of jack and gardener, then again after the secretary bot wakeup.

iirc, there was nothing wireless within 300 meters, except our commlinks/drones. that's why I was gambling with ai that way.

i'd like to eavesdrop what's being transmitted, especially what nodes are being connected. record that transmission.
but most importantly triangulate the location of the dishes.

[inca1980]

I"m trying to look through the whole codemonkey hacking scene and i'm just wondering how much we know about it.  It probably says it somewhere and i'm just missing it.

[Sentinemodo]

where are the dishes in the building?

[Kontact]

The signal you're picking up is coming from somewhere around the 85th, based on your best guess.

[Sentinemodo]

Remind me please which floor we are on now?

[Sentinemodo]

I'll make a sweep in the currently open rooms (looking for safes behind the wall pictures, what's inside the desk drawers and lockers around)
if possible I'll pickup a shotgun from the trashed drone and reload it.

perception roll Intuition(4) + Perception(2) + careful look(3) 9d6.hits(5)=5

also if possible I'd like to use the crashed drone shells and mount it on the Ruckus 2.0 for additional protection.

Cross, how about you taking the point now for next rooms? I'm a little tired taking the point

anyway, let's do this methodically -
quiet on the corridor, look through the gardener radar (we now know what to look for - namely armed drones)
if nothing wrong enter the room, sweep, move further.
Ruckus will take the rear guard, I'll move second, Xzyl behind me.

spoils from this floor will be gathered in a first room, we'll see what we'll take down afterwards

[Kontact]

Remind me please which floor we are on now?

104th floor.

You don't find anything that Machete hadn't already.

The large drone is stuck halfway through a wall.  If you want to pull it through, you can, but there's another done on the other side of that hole.

Gardener is 140kg of unconscious ogre.  His radar isn't moving anywhere unless Digger starts to drag him around by his feet.

[Crossbow]

Guys, wait a sec, we might need to pull an about face and get back below, or at least find out what that fraggin elf is doing with the commlink WE GAVE HIM.

Calling might be the better option, we can speak plainly from this distance.  What is the word?  If he is jamming us up I say we keep going, collect the Ares Nest Bounty and call it a day.

[Kontact]

Well the link code gave him after he took the portable satellite while you guys were busy threatening him.

Ya'll really know how to make friends... 

[Sentinemodo]

As if reminding himself of something. Code took Machete's commlink and prepped it for instruction mode. Setting up new user account for Holland and running the standard startup program for familiarizing new users with it's functionalities. Then with Machete's privileges blocked the outside calls other than to his own commlink. Logged in as admin and put the link console in the AR, turned on both display, microphone and camera so he could easily exchange text and video messages with the mage. After that he wrapped the thing with a piece of synth leather from the nearby chair and a piece of cord from the remains of Ruckus 2.0 and waited. When the bugs settled down a little he dropped the package on the Hollands sofa.

The initial text on the link would be: read the instruction, ask aloud if you need help, I'll guide you. Robot.

How did he managed to piece the dishes with the link together? I can't teach my grandpa how to use mobile phone for calling much less for texting and the technology is barely ten years old. And he is putting things around without as much as an ask?

When did he does anything with that link, that I haven't noticed if I was supposed to have an AR windows with his inputs open in case he as much as say anything or type?
When did he hack over the restrictions that the link was supposed to be allowing outgoing communication only with my link?

I'd assume, that an AI could do so, but it would have to have a wifi link with it - and I haven't found any wifi's around hidden or active :/

[Kontact]

Well, I figured you were going to use the link to try and communicate with him once everyone was safely out of LoS with the swarm.  That never seemed to happen.  After a while everyone just moved on and traveled out of potential signal range with the device.  You're in a matrix dead zone, and that metalink has a signal of 2.  Traveling 60m away with over 7 meters of steel-reinforced plascrete between you and it, isn't going to let you keep up the communications.  I probably should have mentioned the loss of signal, but no one seemed interested in Holland once they moved on.  Perhaps you could have left a breadcrumb trail of commlinks up the stairs to try and keep the connection up?

As to how he bypassed your settings, he's a very clever guy with some computer skill and the analyze device spell.  He just tinkered with it for a bit, tried to make some calls, and when that didn't work, he reset the thing to factory defaults and called his manager.

[Crossbow]

Ya'll really know how to make friends... 

I thought I had made friends with him  

[Sentinemodo]

resetting the thing to f.actory details usually requires admin priviledges on things more complicared then refrigerator,
otherwise setting any kind of blocking features just don't make any sense.

secondary reseting everything to os wouls/should remove also the credentials required to use the matrix provider (eg. pin to  the sim card, login/password to the dsl router) which weren't provided.

for the signal issue I have a blimp floating around who only obstacle to the elf is a glass in the room - it's true it's circling but the connection should be picked up on regular intervals, if it should be lost at all.