[Zweiblumen]

Thanks for your time Scawire!  Totally understand when RL gets in the way.  Also thanks for letting us know.  Best of luck to you, it was a pleasure.

[Koshnek]

Sorry to see you go.

[Malevolence]

I hope that work is picking up in a good way (more opportunity/income/profit) and not just more work heaped on you for the same pay.


It was good playing with you and I hope you get the opportunity to stop back by again someday.

[Ryo]

Adios, Scawire.

Since Scawire is stepping out that means we're done with this scene. Shortly I will post in the IC with the detective's reactions to finish up this scene.

What is your plan from here?

[Ravensoracle]

Currently I am thinking of using Detectives high connection fixer to set up a face to face chat with Manticore. If the rigger is being setup then he may have some info on who. Or who piad him enough to change teh way he works. We may even find out why Eldan would be so valuable in that case. No violence planned for that, yet, Just a friendly chat.

I'm also thinking that if that doesn't pan out then we watch the reports generated by KE and get that blood analysed. KE may already have their own sample and can give us some more info. We also need to track the camera footage. Maybe we can get a face to place with the crew for identification.

[Malevolence]

Stix was digging through the footage from the street cams looking for the getaway van. Do you want to give us the results of that or say that he handed off the footage to Skynet and have him dig through it (I can task my Agent or a sprite to do it)?


But yeah, I think our next steps could be talking to the local gang leader while the Detective tries to chat up Manticore (though he shouldn't go to that meet alone). Though all things considered, they aren't likely to know much since they were caught off guard as evidenced by the state of the BTL den. But they might have their own surveillance that might have seen something suspicious that only makes sense in hindsight.

[Zweiblumen]

Waffle can talk to his KE contact about analyzing the blood.  Gonna get sticky with jurisdiction stuff, but they've a long history. So hopefully that'll help.

[Koshnek]

I think Thorn is probably the most face-y, so he should probably meet up with Manticore if we get that meet together. I think he'd be down for meeting the guy behind taking out Elden's team too.

[Ravensoracle]

Do we want to split up then and cover as many angles as possible.

1. Street Cams
2. Setup the meet with Manticore
3. Analyze Blood sample 
4. Monitor KE's investigation into the extraction

For the Detective, he could get in touch with his contact and arrange a meet with Manticore & Thorn. Then he could tag along for extra security.

If I can make a suggestion Gunter and SKynet could then get the blood analyzed, have a sprite track the camera feeds for our target van, and monitor KE's investigation and KE's own results.

That is just an option guys feel free to offer alternatives.

BTW Detective has a Americar tricked out in a discreet rigger style, so if we split each team would have wheels.

[Ryo]

Alright, so Stix exits stage left. On to the next step.

1: Stix was not able to find a roadmaster on any of the cameras. He did, however, find a blank spot in the camera feed to the north, about 20 minutes after Elden was grabbed. He suspected that the camera was hacked and disabled by someone.

2: Feel free to post IC calling your respective Contacts and making your plans for the next step.

[Ravensoracle]

I'd like to wait for some of the others t opost their opinions OOC of what I had planned changing the part that was checking the cams to Malevolence's to question the local gangers. Since Detective seems to  have taken a leadership role for the team doesn't mean I as a player want to start issuing orders or requests of other characters IC without talking to the players OOC.

[Malevolence]

Skynet doesn't have a KE contact, so getting the blood sample checked would be down to Gunter I guess. I think that the blood is probably better used for magic tracking, in which case time is paramount as the longer we wait the farther they get and the farther they get, the more difficult it is to locate them using magic. And I'm pretty sure that as professional as these guys were, the blood sample would not lead to any usable info from the SIN databases. We might find that the DNA is on file and linked to other crimes, but that'll probably be all that comes back. It almost certainly won't lead to a SIN or ID. However, if we have enough blood to do both things, then it can't hurt, but if we only have enough blood for one or the other I think that magical searching will provide the better results.


Of course, I also don't think anyone has the rituals needed, so we'll need to call upon a contact. My only magical contact is in the California Free State and so can't help here.


Moving forward, I'd like to scan the street camera footage prior to the abduction on the off chance that they didn't wipe that information. Do we have that footage (the previous hour), or am I going to have to get that?


I will assume that if I am asked to do something by a superior officer, that it is sanctioned. So if I need to hack the KE servers to keep tabs on the investigation, etc., it won't be a problem. Again, if someone has contacts that you can use to get that info, then that works as well.

[Zweiblumen]

@Ravensoracle: I'm fine with your suggestions.  Pretty much what I was looking to do anyway

@All: I'll get my message to Ralph finalized tomorrow.  It changes a lot if we decide not to send the sample to him.  I'm fine either way, but Mal makes a good point about the likelyhood of KE having any useful information on this DNA is slim.  That said, if they do have any SINs, criminal or otherwise, than this'll be a good lead.

[Ravensoracle]

Skynet still has the KE detective's comm codes. He could send a message to collect the blood and identify it STAT. That would leave us with a blood to to use for magical tracking. Anyone have a magical contact in Seattle or I can arrange to get connected with a mage capable of doing so.

[Zweiblumen]

I've just got a high ranking KE contact in Seattle that I'm excellent friends with (loyalty 6).  Probably fairly easy for me to get him to run the lab work on the blood, but I don't know about having a KE mage run a ritual on it, especially on short notice with little to no explanation.  He doesn't know I'm cygnus, so I can't pull that card... though someone else might be able to.  Dunno how much Ellis would like us making a big noise like that.  These two detectives are already going to know we were here, we should probably tell them to keep their mouths shut about it.  IIRC this was supposed to be "quiet."