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« Reply #15 on: <11-18-14/2245:43> »
While bnc jumps on the car, she reboots her beloved Novatech Navigator, taking up little enough space to compensate for Krestov.

"Already on the move, cobrat."
As soon as she's fastened her seatbelt, she leans on Krestov's shoulders and her body falls limp.

"I'm online, chummers. See you in a sec."
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« Reply #16 on: <11-18-14/2333:34> »
Slobbertooth turned towards the driver's cabin when bnc shut the door. "Punch it, J."

He turned to face the rest of the group. "I'll admit that I'm not happy with the parameters for this job. We don't know who the targets are, how well armed they are, who they are, or what their vectors of attack are. If they've pinned down Wasteland's crew, they're either heavily armed or in heavy numbers. "What I would give for some AK-97s (Or'zet) Maybe bnc can get us some more info on her vacation away from meatspace.

"Hopefully we'll have an element of surprise, and the noise of the trains and equipment will provide cover for our approach. Are any of you familiar with the area?"

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« Reply #17 on: <11-19-14/0032:24> »
The van's big V8 engine roared into life at BNC's electronic urging, the first sign of true activity in the neighborhood which the team resided. Right out the front door, the rest of the team was able to pile in through the side hatch and with a short squeal of tires burning on the footpath, they were off again without anyone in the street being so much the wiser about the true intent of this little late night road trip. With guns and ammunition loaded and at the ready, Jane put the van through it's paces, traffic lights and the gridlink be damned. They had somewhere to be and they had somewhere to be five minutes ago.

BNC worked fast, and the standard view of the team's commlinks had begun to change and morph, flickering to a new overhead display before it grew into life in the centre of the van through the technological magic that was Augmented Reality, where all could see it except Jane, the driver, as she had more important matters to attend to. The orange tinted commsat map was live, ripped from the commercial hunk of steel, metal and solar  panels in high orbit.

The trainyard itself was a beehive of locomotive activity, hundred tonne monsters forcing even heavier cargo back and forth until they linked up to other carriages to form entire trains that would be shippped out later that evening. A single road led up to a series of three brick structures with smashed out windows. Everything was intact. Nothing was on fire. And from the looks of it, there was no exchange of gunfire from the AR feed, either. In fact, with five minutes to go and memories of how Wasteland's team had performed during the Azzie heist still fresh in your minds, things were quiet. Way too quiet.

But, according to the map markers BNC was adding to the map at a rapid fire pace showed that this was the place. Down to a twenty metre margin for error thanks to the structure they had taken cover in, Wasteland's team was here, in the middle single story structure. Krestov knew this place, it was one of the first commercial freight yards to be turned into a drone only operation. It once employed over two hundred people between the signal operators, train drivers and paperwork filers but when the corps developed a drone that could drive a train, remove the signals and even do the paperwork digitally, all those jobs went right out the window. Now the structures and the train signals sat there abandoned, as they hadn't been used in over twenty years.

Around the last corner, the dull roar of the van was overshadowed by a helicopter buzzing above them and past them at a relatively low altitude. And then, silence as Jane brought it all to a stop. A break in the chainlink fence where this never used road lead up into the trainyard itself. You had arrived to the fire support request.

BNC got the comms dialed in. Silence, to match the night sky all around them.

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« Reply #18 on: <11-19-14/0101:17> »
After some 10 seconds you hear bnc's voice again.
"Hey, chummers, I got a Christmas present for you."

First, she produces a virtual map ARO which is pretty much a more detailed version of the one we already have - with a pin marking the exact position of one of the team members.
"That's their position. Or at least, one of their member's position. Jane, I already uploaded it to the van's innards. Now, here's another one:"

She creates another ARO, a cell-phone decorated as a Christmas present.
"I hacked their communication and redirected it to a second channel. Thought it might be interesting to be up-to-date regarding their momentary situation. Maybe it gives us a clue who, how many and which kind of jerks are attacking them."

She listens to the channel, then pauses. Nothing
„Goddammit, Chummers! Something is certainementwrong here. I’ll try to figure out, what it is.“
Immediately, she puts herself to work again.
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« Reply #19 on: <11-19-14/0130:22> »
Krestov gave a nod of approval as the decker's work unfolded before them, patting the shoulder of bnc's meatsuit.  "There we go...hmm...".  Panning over the map, the troll's brows furrowed, mulling the situation over.

"It is odd that things are this quiet.  The train yard will not have civilians...thank the corps for that.  Assume all nontargets are hostile". If our targets aren't the opposition, he mused gently as he loaded a mag of full-metals to his Crusader, racking the slide to load it.   As the van pulled away from suburbia and approached more industrial surroundings, a thought entered his head.  Instead of shouting over the engine, Krestov subvocalized, transmitting to the team that way.

"They might not be expecting backup.  I can try to reach them, but I won't do it without your approvals.  Recommendations?"

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« Reply #20 on: <11-19-14/0203:18> »
Torrent seems frozen for a moment as he studies the map ARO.
In what seems to be a reflection of his mood,the color of his hair changes frequently and tonight it is  a bleached white.
Then, responding to Krestov:

"I can  go and have a look.If bnc manages to spot any other  wireless mobile devices in the area,maybe  she can can keep me away from hostiles."

Then, turning to bnc
" Isnt that right,gorgeous?"

Irritatingly flirtatious towards a decker who's jacked in VR....well that was smooth Torrent
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« Reply #21 on: <11-19-14/0431:12> »
[All is sent directly over the matrix, but big blocks of orange just look ugly.]

In return to Krestov: "Don't. Not yet, that is. This stinks. If they are under attack, they'll have to communicate. There's nothing. I'm just about to find out whether they contacted Mr. Johnson at all.
Jane, don't enter the freight yard before I could confirm they requested our help. I already traced the commlink call before he hung up and it really came from our Johnson. Dunno how much you trust him - I don't."

She turns to Torrent. "Basically that's right, honey, but only if they have gear online. If there's a mage or adept without running commlink, I can't warn you"
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« Reply #22 on: <11-19-14/0844:41> »
Slobbertooth rakes his hands over his face, and then shouts. Even when one can speak many languages, cursing always comes from the native tongue. "This drek mission is already fragging fragged. Shit! (Or'zet) I didn't like any bit of this, and that's before we had a bird flying over us, and before we found out Wasteland's team probably already got geeked, if they were ever here in the first place." After some tense kneading of his brow, he calms down a bit.

"We're not going in the front, but," looking at bnc, "if that comm was genuine, we are going in. It's  no longer an evac, this is an intelligence mission. If our last job together pissed off the Azzies this much, we need to know that by yesterday so we can all buzz from Seattle."

With a toothy grin, "Wolf might want a bit of revenge, too."
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« Reply #23 on: <11-20-14/1108:28> »
"I see two entries at ground level,front and back.I think I should go and scan the yard for anything unpleasant, as soon as bnc checks the wireless activity.If it's clear, Krestov and Slobbertooth can go to the front.I will circle the building and cover the back entrance, with Jane's help.What do you think?"

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« Reply #24 on: <11-20-14/1132:46> »
Slobbertooth nods in agreement. "Ping us when you two are in position. We'll go in first, and draw fire form any expecting party. You move in on our signal, or if we give the all clear." He then looks over at bnc. "Will you be alright by yourself in the van?"

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« Reply #25 on: <11-20-14/1248:14> »
"Slobbertooth: Comm's genuinity confirmed. Last outgoing call was to Mr. Johnson, after that: nothing. No team conversation. This is either a strange trap or the assassination squad is real dangerous.
Maybe you can drop me some hundred meters away where I can hide somewhere which is not our van. I guess it would make for an obvious target.

I'll upload any online devices' location, except for non-armed drones, into our map ARO ASAP."
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« Reply #26 on: <11-20-14/1437:19> »
Krestov gave a curt nod, his Crusader disappearing under his jacket as he cracked his neck.  "Good girl.  I will set a couple sensor tags to keep an eye on you."

"Wasteland and her crew are normally armed to the teeth, and tough to kill.  bnc, their hacker has a a swarm of drones, so finding the location devoid of them is a high cause for concern.  Torrent, Jade, we will breach when you are in position.  Slobbertooth,  stay behind me on the breach; if they are baiting us, I take my chances with an M202 over yours, hah." As he spoke, one meaty hand gripped at his combat helmet, the other. Cleaning the visor of streaks and debris.
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« Reply #27 on: <11-23-14/0558:05> »
bnc stirs and stretches.
"No sensor tags on me, buddy. If I'm unconscious, my monitor will call you. Otherwise use the damn phone". She grins, dann puts on the helmet of her chameleon suite and hides in a hidden spot somewhere close to but outside the area, reboots her deck, then goes VR again.

"So far I can't see any icons safe for those we already know. I'll keep watching. I had to reboot so our private channel got lost. But since they were not communicating anyway, this is not going to hurt."
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« Reply #28 on: <11-26-14/0855:10> »
Everyone was ready to proceed. BNC was still in the matrix world, gather intel, providing a constant uplink of information to the AR map overlayed to the commlinks and tactical glasses of the team if they wore them. Positions of drones as they moved about the trainyard, and an alarming stillness in the all important location of Wasteland's team. Even their drone swarm seemed inactive, still, silent. The trainyard was... an area unlike any raid one had ever undertaken. Noise wasn't really an issue. The screeching of metal and thick rumbling of train engines made sure that even the most inept of sneaking souls could make it through here without making so much as a peep that someone might hear accidentally. In exchange, the visual cover *moved* with the times, almost like the trainyard had it's own heartbeat and bloodflow. Even 'at rest', one had to make slow footsteps with their backs against the boxcars as they slowly shifted across the yard.

Slobbertooth, as you navigate the last two tracks before actually reaching the old carpark and the middle building to which it is actually attached, something seems off to you about the enviroment. It's... a smell, rather than a visual thing. Something sits ill at ease within your mind until you make the very last train car and then you can see it, as well as smell it. Melted metal. And bullet holes in this box car. Further examination while stepping alongside it reveals a spotty pattern of bullet holes remarkably consistant with what you might expect from a shotgun blast loaded with 00 buckshot. There are four seperate impact areas, but this car is on the move, and could be from just about anywhere on the yard when someone took to the metal with a boomstick.

Torrent, Hoping the trains is much easier for someone of your size, well, compared to a troll that is. While your... larger companion makes for boxcars and otherwise carriages with actual cargo loaded to them, you are able to make use of empty carriages with your lower profile, ducking in behind poles and cargo cranes as they whine and rumble and lift their freight to trains awaiting. One of your footsteps is unsual, you could hear it. Looking down, it's blood. You've just stepped in a pool of blood, against one of the railway lines halfway to your destination door.

Krestov, http://youtu.be/d08cUCRqjS0?t=40s .Having said that though, you make it to your door of choice without issue.

bnc, You *know* for a fact that helicopter was an Ares Dragon, big heavy chinhook replacement when Ares realised they could massively undercut Boeing in the heavy lift department. But what you also know, is that when you attempted to grasp at it's matrix signal, it slipped away from you, like trying to grab onto a slippery fish. You manage to pull a partial tail number, 6638, before you lose it completely. Additionally, your fast acting mind now no longer restricted by that puny, weak meatbag of yours. You can fix the location of a biomonitor to a commlink of Wasteland's team. The long piercing beeeeeeeeeeeep of a flatline answers the questions as to why all the murderbots are inactive.

Lanazador, is following Torrent as NPC backup for safekeeping when he returns safe and sounds from his RL car accident.

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« Reply #29 on: <11-26-14/1127:09> »
Slobbertooth presses up against the wall next to the door with Krestov, deploying his HK-227s retractable stock. He takes a deep breath and steadies himself. Now to find out how fragged we all are.

"Slobberooth and Krestov in position. Go on your signal."
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