[Sabato Kuroi]

@GM

We''re going for shopping therapy!!!

I'll probably post my shopping list tomorrow

[SquirrelDude]

I'll have an order out for my fixer before the weekend, hopefully.

Will do.

Is there anything else, the rest of you want to do?

Btw: Don't forget that as part of your deal, you'll receive FN-AAL Gyrojetpistols. Those babys pack some serious punch. Get some armor piercing 6mm rockets and stop worrying about riot gear 

They're exotic weapons so none of us are trained in using them >.>

[SgtBoomCloud]

I'll get to working on my shopping list.  Lacking any fixer, I will have to get creative with my contacts to find the stuff I'm interested in (read: GEL ROUNDS, anyone else want some?!).

For the rest, I guess I'll have to rely on my own charming personality

EDIT: I do have a mechanics question for the GM.  Krestov has a bone density augmentation that changes his unarmed attacks from (STR)S to (STR+2)P.  Is there a way that he can deal Stun damage on unarmed, or is he stuck with lethal kicks of doom?

[Volker]

I'd like gel rounds please. And a drone. And yesterday I thought of something else but bnc isn't that far yet

Try and wear winter gloves 

[Jack_Spade]

They're exotic weapons so none of us are trained in using them >.>

I'd have said they are heavy pistols

[Volker]

Thanks for the research PM. I'm gonna share it with my group IT-wise as soon as we've finished playing out this scene.

Here's already an overview of how bnc's going to use her week (and what we have already dealed with).

• Order and brew a stock of drugs. check
• She's going to enter a shop and pretend she's looking for a 'link (not so much pretending since she really is, just not right now). She uses this commlink to send a message to her sister Kerstin that she's fine and she shouldn't worry if she doesn't hear anything within the next two months.
• I'm gonna book an online server for three months. I'll collect all compromising data we have about Schmitt, including the audio protocol of our recruitement. I'll install a route which is going to send this data to Kerstin, factcheck (the pirate trid programme bnc almost worked for), Lone Star, two newspapers, Ares HQ and Lofwyr in case it is not interrupted until then. I'll protect this file ( 17d6.hits(5)=3 ) and place a data bomb on it ( 17d6.hits(5)=6 ). Go to hell if you cheat on us, Dr. Schmitt!
  
• I'll download a good introduction into medicine, a standard university textbook for lower semesters or so, along with some good novels, textbooks and games to keep my mind occupied in case I want to stay awake for a while.
• I'll contact Dr. Schmitt and ask him again to invite my deck to place marks on his commlink or whatever device he's going to wear on his body. If he doesn't like the idea of me having marks on his deck I'll recommend a Stealth tag (10 Nuyen).
• I'll kiss Krestov's butt if he manages to get me a S-B Microskimmer.
• If I choose that we need a Biofeedback program (AVA 6, 250 Nuyen), I'll have to find another cheek on Krestov's body worth kissing.
• Oh, and there's the gel ammo.
• I'm gonna do intensive research: check
• I'll read the documentation carefully (PM me if there's something I should know) and prepare the routines we've already talked about.
• I'll urge Krestov to give Dr. Johnson-Schmitt the thumbs up and get the exact location and all the data about personnel and security he can get his hands on.
• If he does so, I'll try to find any device or host in the base, hoping that there is none safe for the work station. I'll also try to find the work station and have a careful look at it (infos about the workstation are appreciated: Especially: Is the workstation the only device in contact with the outside matrix or is it a kind of channel? In other words: Will GOD be able to investigate whatever happens down there? Is there any chance I can get into that thing from the outside? Will gear like smartguns work properly down there? It might be worth noticing that my dice pool in Matrix Security is really high.

Ah, and will wearing thick gloves do the trick for Krestov?

[Jack_Spade]

GOD won't be a concern down there - internal countermeasures of the host will.

If the host could be found from the matrix, it wouldn't be a very secret base
The workstation is the only access to the matrix and it is slaved to a mainland server through a direct connection to further obscure the location.

Smartguns and co. work, but if you don't wrap them as something harmless one of the spiders will catch on pretty quickly.

I take it, the databomb will defuse itself after a certain period, otherwise distribution could be problematic

The contact to Schmitt will be handled over your fixer - he'll be more than happy to give Schmitt the all clear. Afterwards the team receives the following file:



There is also an incomplete dossier on the staff:
The security team does not have a troll. They have two orks and a pair of dwarfs who happen to be the spiders and brothers, the rest are human. They all are trained to operate the base and the vehicles as well as dive outside the base.
The engineering team consists of 20 people. Schmitt delivers names, job interview pictures and short descriptions of their work and personality profiles.
The exec in charge is Thomas Chevalier, UCAS born of european descent. He is described as a competent delegater - not particularly smart but brave enough to make decisions and stick by them. Most of his time is occupied with repeating orders from up high to the staff and reporting back.
Dr. Carolus Craftylove is the head of research and Schmitts only superior. He is more of an administrator than a brilliant mind, but he is very organized and has good people skills - although he is described as a bit of a choleric. He has been at the base for two months and is supposed to take a vacation in about a month, leaving Schmitt as head of the department for a month.

The support staff has five people:
An ork janitor (male), an elf cook (female), two maintenance techs (male, human) and a pilot/diver (female, dwarf). There living quarters  are 302, 306, 310 and 314, the techs share a room.
Science staff shares 323A to E + 323-1 as well as 223C to F. Every room has a small "wet room", beds, and other amenities.

Schmitt lives in 523B, Craftylove in C, Chevalier in D. E is the workstation room.
Security lives on lvl 4, sharing rooms A, B, C. F is the armory.

[SquirrelDude]

@Volker/Everyone else: K is a Loyalty 4, Connection 3 Fixer. I can't tell you definitively, or even really guess with any authority, what the highest rating of gear he could get us is without paying a palm-grease premium. You'll have to run that by the GM.

Also remember that the more expensive something is, the longer it's going to take to get here. Off the top of my head, I wan't to say that anything over 5k takes over a week, without paying an expedite fee.

[Jack_Spade]

As a house rule, I generally say connection rating x4 is the dice pool for finding stuff. Buying hits, anything up to 12 Availability should be findable.

[Sabato Kuroi]

Which reminds me, I never updated my contacts for this campaign!

@GM

If you'd like to propose some contacts for Torrent, please do so!

[Jack_Spade]

Well, what contacts have you got?

Normally I'd recommend a fixer, a fence and someone who can provide you with relevant information (hacker, cop, barkeeper, etc.)

After the first contact with them, everyone in the team should share each others contacts with a loyalty rating of 1 (friend of a friend)

Torrent could have some Vory connections, a streetdoc for his implants and/or a hairdresser 

[Sabato Kuroi]

I got 12 contact points (chax3)

so

I guess I'll have a magical tattoo artist / talismonger contact : loyalty 3/connections 4

and a fixer  with loyalty 2/connections 3

[Volker]

I'm not looking for anything above AVA 6 and 1000 Nuyen, so it should be pretty easy to get hold of anything I need, fixer or no.

Shall we skip the IC conversation and move on to the data I dug up? bnc really is a bit unsure about that Biofeedback thingy and would like to hear her chummers' opinions so I'd like to roleplay that. But you seem to be keen on getting past this stuff OOC and get to the pods which I can understand.

Also, you skipped some of my questions:

Second question: Do you want me to try to break into 20kMUS's database It's quite a nut to crack and while I'm confident I can do it, it's not guaranteed. A failure might prove fatal because it would raise alert which we really should try to avoid.
I'm gonna start my intel quite soon. I'll check on the documentation, try to find out what I can safely find out about 20kMUS, Schmitt and their business. Anything else pops to your mind quite now?

If someone has to say something about that, please do so. OOC is fine, too.


Ah, and am I right to assume that the unresponded business (contact to Kerstin, marks from Schmitt's commlink, reading the documentation) goes smoothly and doesn't come up with any interesting surprises?

[Jack_Spade]

Yup. Your little insurance works without a hitch.

[Volker]

You have a gift for not giving answers to the posed questions 

I was asking for

contact to Kerstin, marks from Schmitt's commlink, reading the documentation