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[IC] Road to Redmond -- Finished

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« Reply #255 on: <10-27-10/1146:23> »
Mercedes agrees going back to the car, checking her watch. "It's just after 9 pm now. I'd like to head back to the restaurant and get my bike, too. It looks like we'll be out all night with this. While we head out, I can check in with my contacts again."


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« Reply #256 on: <10-27-10/1632:37> »
@B.B.:
You start a matrix wide search for establishments associated with Bunraku.
[OOC: Datasearch 1 + Browse 6+ Nanites 3+Pushed 1=11
11d6.hits(5)=2
10d6.hits(5)=1
9d6.hits(5)=5
8d6.hits(5)=2
7d6.hits(5)=2
6d6.hits(5)=3
5d6.hits(5)=2
4d6.hits(5)=2
3d6.hits(5)=0...Critical glitch, search aborted....you found un-publicized data.

Rolling Conspiracy theories: Know.Skill 1 + Logic 7 + Nanites 3 + Pushed 1 = 12 (5) 12d6.hits(5)=5....wow.
]


You find the street address and matrix address for about 5 geisha houses which specialize in Bunraku.  2 are in downtown 2 in Bellevue and 1 of them is deep in Redmond.  You don't find any stories of unusual killings of Bunraku girls like Cynthia suggested.

You also remember a story which circulated the blog's a while back of Bunraku girls who's persona programs were being tampered with and they were being used for assassinations, drugs runs, and other illicit activity almost like a Manchurian candidate.  Once the task was complete and the person program would disengage, they wouldn't recollect a thing and any type of lie detection wouldn't pick up a thing.  Who knows if this had any truth to it but it's the first thing which flashed in your mind.

Jimmy Locke has just sent you a text message.

@Everyone
As you all push open the curtain to the booth and stroll out of the Chalice, the bartenders onyx cyber-eyes nervously whip in your direction as he watches you all step out.  The flow of foot traffic has gotten well underway and you make your way in between several rain-poncho wrapped figures of a variety of shapes and sizes which walk along side you.  

B.B. suddenly stops dead in his tracks and you see his eyes scanning over a private AR screen.  He just looks at the group dumb-founded like a star-struck teeny bopper at a Mercurial reunion concert, a smile slowly starting to grow over his child-like features.  He shoots you all the text message he was reading from Jimmy Locke:

Jimmy:"I finally got into the Courant VPN, admins are going nuts with delight, server was full for over an hour!  Dude, you are not going to believe who chimed in with their 2-cents on the subject of your little symbol!!  I'm gonna be famous now! ....I mean you and me both are gonna be famous of course!  Check it out ASAP! Here's the link"


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« Reply #257 on: <10-27-10/2301:44> »
[OOC: Flattery will get you everywhere] ;D

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« Reply #258 on: <10-28-10/1942:47> »
I think the Redmond geisha house is the place to look first.

So do you think that this legendary security guy is behind the chip or is in with a vampire cult? Or do you think someone else is hijacking his tag?

This is all kind of out of my area of expertise
"Walking through walls isn't tough..... if you know where the doors are."
"It's not being seen that is the trick."

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« Reply #259 on: <11-01-10/1032:50> »
On the drive back to check on/get my bike:

"It definitely looks like he may be part of it, whatever itis. I'm not sure about the vampire aspect yet, since we only have a goth club so far to go on. Using someone else's tag is tough to do, since if the original user or his 'friends' find out, unholy hell can be brought down on the thief."

As they get to the restaurant and Mercedes' bike is there safe and sound, she'll get out of the car. "Should we split up and check each of the parlors or stick together and go through them one by one? Or any other ideas?"

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« Reply #260 on: <11-01-10/1739:19> »
My vote would be to stick together. Whatever we are up against is looking more and more menacing, and we seem to work well as a team backing each other up and working off each others skills so I think staying together might be the better play at this point.

Also there is strength in numbers.
Does someone have a contact that might be able to find out more about the mystery man or what might have happened that night his life took a left turn. For some reason it just feels like he got jumped by some form of infected when I read the post of what happened or what wasn't said about what happened. Maybe dig up an old Lone Star report on the incident?

"Walking through walls isn't tough..... if you know where the doors are."
"It's not being seen that is the trick."

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« Reply #261 on: <11-02-10/0728:41> »
"Let's split up?!  What, are we in a twen-cen horror movie? I..."  He put his hand to his heart and exhaled.  "Ah, you were just messing with me because I think we're on the trail of a vampire...  We don't even have enough vehicles to split up and going into deep Redmond, alone and at night, would be suicide." 

Brian started to stretch his shoulders and weave a little bit just to burn off the extra energy from all this digital excitement.  The king badass of modern hackers talking their target up as the king badass of the days gone by.  B. B. was all wild-eyes and stupid grins.
"But let's take a look at the stacks of buttery goodness unexpectedly heaped on our plates by friend Flapjack.  We're talkin about a guy that Jack, (no spring chicken, him,) calls an old-timer.  If an Elf in his late 50s calls a dude 'old-timer,' then we're lookin for a septuagenarian easy enough.  Maybe older.  And if said dude is still kickin around promising eternity, I'm set to believe the son of a bitch.  Tack on that story about getting thrashed in Redmond and then disappearing a couple of days later, and Walks is right to think that sounds like infection.  I don't know shit about the infected or latency periods or any of that creepy garbage, but there ain't too many ways to live forever, and I can't think of one good reason to run off back to some place where you got your ass thrashed... Least none that don't involve gettin' payback.  But something drew old Olly back to the bad place and made him stay there.  I'll put a grand up says it was HMHVV.  I bet even Shiawase doesn't have the records from back then, so what say we go ask the dude in person?  Last known address was out Redmond way..."
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« Reply #262 on: <11-02-10/1844:58> »
Okay lets head out to Redmond. Anyone have any ideas on how to find him once we get out that way?
Could the puppet thing in the rhyme be talking about the BTL chip that the kids were running?
"Walking through walls isn't tough..... if you know where the doors are."
"It's not being seen that is the trick."

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« Reply #263 on: <11-02-10/1853:28> »
You make your way back west along Redmond Way back to Bellevue to go pick up Mercedes bike, and by the time you arrive back in Touristville, Woofer leading the way and Mercedes following on her bike, the time is 11:00.  The crowd of Seattleites enjoying the freedom of the club strip is now in full swing and all the neon lights and AR signs of the various establishments are lit up enticing pedestrians to enter and just let it all out.  Let out all the tension and anxiety that has become practically a natural part of life in the Sixth World.  Be it the dysfunctional legacy of families torn apart by goblinization or plague to the point where most goblinized metahumans don't even know who their grandparents were, or be it the constant fear of losing your cushy office job just because you failed a security mages mind read and thought the wrong thoughts.  Everyone's got something that keeps them looking behind their shoulder.  Touristville is where these two worlds meet, the borderland between the SINers and the SINless. 

The geisha house which was deep in Redmond is known as the "Pearl Tongue" and is still operated by the Yakuza but smack dab in territory which has been controlled by Crimson Crush for a number of years now.  Sheldon Yamani, the well known leader of C.C. is the ork who is solely responsible for the solid control they exercise over most of the neighborhoods.  Unlike most of gang leaders of Seattle who rise and fall in the matter of a few months, Sheldon has stayed on top for the better part of 10 years through his expansion of neighborhood aid which gives him rock solid support among the locals and his development of the C.C. Crushers.  Sheldon's philosophy has always been quality over quantity, and by investing huge percentages of C.C.'s drug revenue to create a small but elite force of soldiers which protect the neighborhood and carry out the heavy lifting of maintaining a turf, he has made C.C. the most powerful gang in the Barrens.  For this reason the Oyobun's have decided to compromise and instead of going to war, they pay protection and C.C. pretty much allows them to conduct business normally and guarantees safe passage of customers into and out of the neighborhoods. 

As you turn off of Redmond Way and head south, the level of infrastructure dramatically declines and street lights overhead start to look more like jerry-rigged strings of christmas lights but surprisingly the Wifi levels remain strong.  The location of the Pearl Tongue is not even given a street name but merely a GPS coordinate with an address that merely say "near doctor house" as is the custom in off-grid urban zones. 

Going south the street eventually reaches a T-intersection along a 10 foot high wall covered in CC graffiti and on the other side you see the upper-levels of tenements covered with tin roofing and clothes-lines strung up in between.  You turn east and drive along the wall which extends for blocks and blocks, all of the street lights burned out and the only illumination is your head lights and the moonlight since the sky has cleared up.

[OOC: -2 Visibility modifier for those without low-light vision, -1 for ultra-sound.]

  However, about 2 blocks away you see a group of about 3 figures standing in front of an entrance in the wall and further progress down the same street you are on now is impeded by 3 concrete blocks.  They turn their heads to face you when they see your headlights and just stand there, there stance not aggressive but ready, metallic caps on the tips of their tusks glinting in the moonlight, 2 of them carrying assault rifles.

[OOC: what do you wanna do? :)]
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« Reply #264 on: <11-02-10/1928:03> »
[OOC: Shoot the hostage. ;)]

Mercedes pulls her bike up, getting off to go over to the car, "See? I told you this place was here, didn't I? Now come on! It's time to have some fun for a change! We so rarely get out of the arcology anymore!"

Trying to give the impression that we're corp wageslaves out for a slummin' night of fun.

Con roll for security (18d6.hits(5)=2) - At least it wasn't a glitch...

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« Reply #265 on: <11-02-10/2142:54> »
"I never doubted you. Okay so just a bit, but we are here and ready to party."

Subvocalize "Any of them magically active Mercedes?"

O.O.C. can I use any of my security procedures knowledge skills to try and determine what their intentions would be at this time
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"It's not being seen that is the trick."

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« Reply #266 on: <11-02-10/2157:17> »
Mercedes will slip her sight to the astral to see what she can tell about them.

Assensing Roll (7d6.hits(5)=2)

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« Reply #267 on: <11-03-10/0441:31> »
@Cynthia:
[OOC: Ares Security Procedures i'll accept with a -1....Skill 3 + Logic 3 = 5 5d6.hits(5)=4.  Nice]

The one without an assault rifle stays back in a rear position while the two with rifles seem to take a more forward position which is typical for Ares on sight patrol teams which are based on a 2 gunmen 1 mage strategy.  It looks like Sheldon's been doin his homework.  The speed with which the forward guard's head turned suggests some sort of wired reflex.

@Mercedes:
Sure enough, the one without a rifle is lit up like a christmas tree and has the aura of one with The Talent.   
[OOC: Assensing armed guards 7d6.hits(5)=2 ]

You see that the guards have muscle replacements and a network of wired reflexes which come up as blackened streaks on their auras.

[OOC: opposed con roll, defaulting: Charisma 3 + default -1 + suspicious 2= 4 4d6.hits(5)=3.

The just stare at you and wait for you to approach as the the ork in a neo-tunic and face tattoos who is magically active starts to look even more intensely as he was before.

[OOC: assensing roll for ork: Assensing 2 + Intuition 4 = 6 6d6.hits(5)=2]



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« Reply #268 on: <11-03-10/0934:03> »
Mercedes nods to Cynthia, glancing at the ork with no gun. "Exactly! I mean how often do we get to hang out anymore? Ever since you and I went to work for Magical Theoretics and Linus and Rerun here went to Accounting, we don't see enough of each other! And with Linus' ", she nods to Woofer, "wedding coming up, a bachelor party is just what the shaman ordered!"

[OOC: Mercedes is trying to act the part of someone who started partying an hour earlier than everyone else and is dragging Woofer from the car toward the guards. If possible, can I just trade in the 16 Charisma + Con dice for four automatic hits? If not, let me know and I'll roll them.]

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« Reply #269 on: <11-03-10/1000:04> »
Woofer is drug, and gives the guards a smile, giving the impression of the boyfriend who really is just riding the wave.

 

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