[ismilealot]

The file opens and suddenly the message she'd hidden in her business card appears: The card tells you that she's Delphine Marguerreta Cantu-De Los Santos de Smith wife of Seferino Chavez-Smith, President of Mil Milagros. When you crack open the file it contains a trid projection file. Downloading it to play you see her image standing before you. "My son is very special." She pauses searching for the words, "And his father is rich, powerful and very ambitious." "This friday at 3am his father is taking him out of the country on the company jet to one of Aztlan's secret research labs." "A fact I'm not supposed to know." Suffice it to say that my son let it slip, "The secret surprise for me between him and his father." Her voice is bitter at that. Delphine Marguerreta Cantu-De Los Santos. "How do I know it isn't just a surprise for me and that he will awaken me when the time comes?" "One, our schedule is full for the next 6 weeks. After which is when our regular family vacation is planned." "Two, I am very prone to nightmares." "I have been on a sleeping pill for years from which it is extremely difficult towake me." "Three, when I, smiling and thinking to tease my husband about his "secret surprise" approached him about taking my son away from his lessons for an extended weekend vacation at the beach this saturday he looked me straight in the eye and smiled back, a smile that did not reach his eyes and said, "That sounds like an excellent idea mi corazon. You make the plans and I will be certain to have the company jet available to you this saturday. But make it for the afternoon as I know it's scheduled for some important maintenance." "I smiled back, and then went to my son and as gently as possible so that he did not suspect and alert his father got the few details that he knows. That daddy is going to one of the research labs in the Gulf and that he gets to go to help daddy inspect." "My husbands company is currently working on trying to enhance bioware so that it enhances a mages abilities, rather than limits them." " A project that is fraught with difficulties and set-backs. But he is ambitious beyond belief, and I believe he is quite prepared to use even our son as a test subject to further his research." "He's only nine. Nine. And his father is a monster for even considering this." "I'm going to take him away. But I can't without help or his father will find us." "And that's when I remembered the tales of shadowrunners and their bold "extractions" of high value employees. And I contacted an old friend." "Suffice it to say that this is the job." "You will extract myself and my son before friday and take us to the Tir. I have a friend there who will help me further. I've attached my schedule and my son's schedule to this file, as well as the plans to the house and the security passwords I know. Not that I'm telling you how to do your job. I'm simply doing my best to give you what aid I can in the one contact with you that I could manage. When you access the file it shows

Tues lunch with Marion at the Broken Pot 13:00 Shop for dress for wed. 17:00 Dinner as a family.19:00 Attend Juan's first violin recital (Sef has promised to be there.) Wed 11:00 Lunch with  Cenobia 13:00 Hair 14:30 Nails 18:00 Attend company dinner with Sef  Thurs: 10:00 verify menu & flowers for dinner 11:30 Lunch with Iratze 13:00 Friends of the Library meeting to discuss upcoming fundraiser 17:30 Dinner with Erado y Colon 19:00 Attend symphony together. (Myself, Sef, Erado y Colon).

Juan's schedule Tues: Attend school 07:00-15:30, Violin Lesson's 15:15-16:00 16:30  Return home. 17:00 Dinner as a family 17:30 Leave for violin recital  19:00 Violin Recital 21:15 Return home 21:30 Bedtime
Wed : Attend school 07:00-15:30, Violin Lesson's 15:15-16:00 16:30 Jai-Alai practice 18:30 Return home. 18:45 Dinner 1930 Homework with tutor for MacroEconomics 20:15 Playtime 21:00 Bedtime
Thurs Attend school 07:00-15:30, Violin Lesson's 15:15-16:00 16:30 Equastrian Lesson 18:30 Return home. 18:45 Dinner 1930 Homework with tutor for Calculus 20:15 Playtime 21:00 Bedtime

File to show the floorplans of the home with details as to security control room and passwords that she knows

[Triskavanski]

"Well then.. Might I suggest the recital? It seems to me to be the one time they all get together." The professor looks to the others after veiwing the trid.  "Anyone else feel like Old Kanobi?"

[Csjarrat]

Sitting watching the deckers at work wasn't as interesting as he thought it was going to be. Just a whole load of faff and fidgeting as the van bumbled through the traffic
So gents, what we got?

[martinchaen]

Loki looked over the file with interest.

"I got a look at the wife during the meet, and this file confirms that we've got not only one, butvtwo awakened targets, and the bodyguard has some serious Aug work , not to mention  he's a natural born killer. House is warded, so that's out as far as I'm concerned; security there would probably be as tight as a... Well, anyway."

He pondered their options for a bit.

"Nothing to stop us from grabbing the mother at any time, though I suggest getting an eye on the kid and his security detail before we develop any further plans. No idea if the kids a prodigy or not, so I'm hesitant to make any further plans before we have more info."

[Csjarrat]

Figured these guys would only pay for the best. Did you spot any augs on that guys lungs, throat or nasal passage?

[martinchaen]

Loki looked at the grizzled man and thought about his answer for a second before replying.

"Not that I could tell, Chief. He's wired, for sure, and he's got some dermals and some skin grafts or something, all really high end so they barely even show, but I couldn't make out any breathing augs. Pretty sure I could easily drop this guy with a couple darts full of Narcojet, and nobody would be any wiser..."

He looked at the others before continuing.

"I'm worried about the kid, though. Unknown magical talent, unknown allegiance, somewhat dim at the very least, maybe just young. We definitely need some eyes on this guy before we make a move."

On his new and vastly improved commlink, he scrolled through the schedules again.

"Listen, I don't think the recital is a good idea. We should definitely try to get a hold of the fathers schedule, too, if possible. Ideally, we grab the kid at a time when he wont be expected somewhere for a good long time; school seems like the best bet to my mind. Scan this", he said, and grinned widely. "I could trade places with the mother during her lunch with Cenobia, don't ask me how, gotta have some secrets, cut the lunch short by claiming some sort of emergency and then direct the wife's car to the school where I'd pick up the kid. In the mean time, you guys pick up the real wife, tail the car from the school, at which point I'd probably need to sedate the kid and the guard and/or the driver. We make it look like the car crashed in a lake somewhere, even better if we can find some bodies to put in it, and hightail it outta town on the plane Siren provided."

Satisfied with his prelim, Loki sat back for a short while. "But this is all contingent on the kid not being some sort of prodigy. I also wouldn't mind getting a look at this guy's datastores; tech that doesn't impact magic? That's some seriously big bucks right there..."

[Csjarrat]

sounds sensible. We need to get eyes-on first, figure out how these guys get around and where their weak spots are. I agree with getting hubby's schedule, you two techies up to that task? We also need to get a tail or one of them recon drones on the kid at transit times too. Find out how many guards they got and what kind of vehicles they are using. Mr  mojo, you good to look the kid over? See what kind of talents he's got?

[Triskavanski]

"We can go on the road, but then they will know we have the kid. That is a problem. However, a recital, from what I know of music, there is a point in time where everyone goes in the back." He hmms. "But if you can get him at school as his mum, well then, I think that is probably our best course of action. Meanwhile, I'll try to make some things. Talk around, you know the deal."

[martinchaen]

Loki thought about his options for a little while before replying.

"Unfortunately, the kid lives in a warded house, and my bet is he's taken to school in a secure vehicle. If our tech guys can find me a spot with a clear vantage point of the school entrance, I could observe the kid as he enters tomorrow morning. I could go there Astrally, but I'd prefer to be able to observe him in the flesh if possible"

He looked through the notes they had received once more, then continued.

"Hey Shade, can you put some bugs in the air, monitor the entrances of the house to find out which car the kid uses and what his protection detail looks like? If there are any vantage points of the entrances to the house I can use, even better, but my guess is the school is our best bet. If you could also keep a tail on the mother we could ensure that her detail doesn't change around on us, or if it does, when shift changes occur."

The young elf cleared his throat and brought up a map, offering everyone a view of it by inviting a mark on his link.

"So, we're here", he said, indicating their location on the map with a blinking ARO. "The school's here, the restauraunt where the mother is meeting for lunch is here, and this is the closest lake. I'd suggest getting the faraday cage installed in the plane in such a way that the two will be comfortable for the 4 or more hours the plane ride will take if we go all the way to the west coast. That way, I can ward the exterior of the plane to deter magical tracking, which y'all seem so concerned about, and have one of my allies conceal the cage, the two people, or the entire craft, to make our journey just a little bit easier."

Loki reviewed the data he had recorded with the new simrig, nodding along the way.

"The bodyguards shouldn't be a problem, though we're probably going to have to ice them. Anyone have a problem with that, you can come up with a better solution yourself. I don't see a way for us to make the whole look like an accident where they live."

[Ericen]

I listen to Loki rambling along about his idea and decide I guess I will go look around a bit.
C'mon James let's go check out the house and see what we can find.
Hop up into the van and buckle in and slide the data cable into my control rig.
Matrix Command:
Find shortest route to 10 Johnson's Way
Input directions
Complete
Looking at James to make sure he is buckled in. Turn on stereo. Set song Highway To Hell.
Getting near to the home I will do a circle around the home checking for a safe place to pull off so we are out of sight and the smallest chance of being spotted.
Matrix Command:
Release All Fly Spies
Load To RCC
Autosoft:
Pilot
Clearsight
Stealth
Electronic Warfare
Set Noise Reduction: 2
Complete
Putting up the drone inputs onto screen so James can watch.
Check for guard checkpoints, Verify entrances and exit that match floor plans given. Check garage for number and type of vehicles. Look for a safe opening for the bug to be dropped into the house for more recon.
Looking for a opening to send in my crawling bug to check out the house.

[Celtibero]

Loki...that could be a plan.... but mostly it will have to depend on surveillance and from whatever intelligence we can gather from it

Being brought out of his reverie by the option to drive to the target house James looks at Shade That may be for the best, the faster we can gather information on them the better, and I personally need to check on the house to see just how tight the matrix security is.

>>reboot deck
>>set grid-hop: hack on the fly
  >>>Global

After a couple of attempts there it was, the Global grid and its speed on his AR, and along with it so many questions In James head.

Rebooting one’s deck regularly was the only way to make sure GOD did not converge on you, and that was the last thing a decker ever wanted.
On the way to the house James also pondered on a issue While I am not a bad operative all this matrix fuss is starting to worry me… drek…drek… wait… I wonder… a couple of guys did it in the service…hell... some of them where even good with that kind of thing…

Shade, how good is your software knowledge? If my theory is not outdated the drones dog-brain is still very similar, code wise, to the agents ran by decks… correct?

[Triskavanski]

The Professor offered out deserts to the various crew members, before they went off to their things, getting dropped off at the safehouse, he sat back in a cot resting, as he went over plans.

[Ericen]

Well I would assume so we use most of the same basic programs for deck maintence and utility. I have skill in software , hardware and computers. Why do you ask?

[Celtibero]

hmm couple of folks I know used to use the agents programs to run a kind of sub-routine application, basically the agent performs the task of auxiliary sub-processing unit in whatever you need to do, for instance when you run a matrix search, imagine you have a program that filters the information, saves you time, crunches data and the likes, that’s what some folks do with agents, they can basically do whatever you or me... maybe not you James chuckled but I can’t jump on drone can I? anyway long story short, if they can do what I do they can also filter raw information allowing me to do what I do in greater detail, the trick to it, is cracking the source code open and overriding a few lines and adding a couple more, which as you may well know is easier said than done... and i cannot crunch a million line alone... you up to refreshing that software knowledge or not?

[Ericen]

Sure sounds like fun, we get done here we can get to work on it. But your buying lunch.

Matrix Command:
Message to Siren, Hey boss any chance you can get your hands on LAÉS/LEÄL, advised it is very hard to get but we will need a very large sum of it for the job at hand.
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