[Jack_Spade]

No convergence, just a massive alert from an abused piece of hardware. Beside that, the security team has other problems at the moment.
And the IC won't follow you outside the Blue Hades Host.

[Volker]

I wanna sure I got that right.

The system knows our physical location (Y/N)?
The alarmed security personnel is the facility's personnel (Y/N)?
The he alarmed security personnel is the intruders' personnel (Y/N)?
I got two damage each on my Stun and Matrix CM (Y/N)?

[Jack_Spade]

1:n
2:y
3:could be, depending on what they made the spider do.
4:y

[Volker]

So-ka. No Weißwurst for the game master

[Volker]

Just that I got that right. Matrix works normal within the closed system, but with noise 8. The IC hasn't spotted me yet but will feel me as soon as it does. The programs are actively looking for intruders.
I reboot my deck to erase any OS (I assume there is an equivalent to the OS)

[Jack_Spade]

Correct. You can use the matrix outside the host without a problem and you haven't been spotted, but inside Blue Hades an IC party has just started, There is at the moment a high noise level, that will subside in less than a minute (which means that the Intruders will definitively notice that something is right with the host.)

[Volker]

So there's matrix outside the host? That means we can use ask our great but I cannot attack any icons that belong to the facility. Right?

[Jack_Spade]

Yeah, there are three hosts + the Jonas Host that form the backbone of this private little matrix. All the external processing power your gear needs is divided over those hosts. The logic behind this is that this is an experimental weapons lab. So they want to test their gears wireless capability without the risk of being spotted.
Now that one host doesn't act like a jammer and spambot all standard capability will be restored - within the confines of the facility.

Not all gear is necessarily slaved to one of the four hosts - especially the new experimental stuff - but for example all locks, cameras, sensors, attack drones and sentry guns are slaved to the security host (Tartaros). Blue Hades is the Host responsible for personal, lifesupport, waste disposal, i.e everything to do with HR and facility management.

The intruder soldiers didn't use any wireless boni as far as you could tell, so they probably had planned to keep the jamming operational for the whole duration of their actions

As long as you are not within a host the only thing dangerous to you in this matrix could be an agent or an enemy decker.

[Sabato Kuroi]

@GM

As a Greek , I'd like to say that the names of the Hosts in an underwater facility filled with dead bodies, couldn't be more appropriate

As we climb the stairs to lvl 3 :
Sneaking (from 2nd to 3rd floor): 15d6t5 5

At the end of the stairs Torrent will use motion sense and the periscope camera befofe he enters the level

Perception through periscope[4]: 10d6t5 4

motion sense: 12d6t5 3

[Jack_Spade]

It's after all also an Ares facility 

Ok: through the periscope you see five of the intruders in front of the Elevator. They have muted yet hot discussion in Spanish. They have taken off their helmets and are gesticulating around. Only one of them faces in your direction and he is very agitated. On the floor in the middle of the group lies a female dwarf, bleeding from a head wound. 

[Sabato Kuroi]

Ok team how do you want to do this?
Surprise them and give them hell?
There might be more of these guys around and we're not going to learn much by killing them.

I'd like to spend some time among them and see  If can find out anything.Problem is  I don't speak spanish, otherwise I think I could  pull it off, they'd have threshold of 8 to break my disguise.

[SgtBoomCloud]

Without spending valuable seconds IC in hushed subvocals deliberating over what to do, I'll take Krestov's viewpoint and trust your judgment.  Options are:

-Torrent infiltrates and tries to acquire Intel despite language barrier.  Potential solution: if team member knows Spanish (bnc?) Have them listen and give Torrent things to say verbatim ("talking parrot" tactic).  High risk, high info potential

-we go in fast and snuff them.  No Intel, but keeps control of situation and keeps us moving

-attempt an arrest maneuver.  Like previous option, but meant more in act of surprise to take them down.  Riskier, but would still gain control and leave them alive for Intel.  Krestov has intimidate.


I'll jump on What is decided. My curioisity and concern with the description is the dwarf.  If hunch is right, she's the other twin spider the facility has, and a gold mine of Intel.  If alive.  Then again, the invaders might have dwarves.  I dunno.

[Volker]

I'm in favour of discussing thise IC since our characters have to make these choices, too.

[SquirrelDude]

Flash bangs are a good way to go hard and fast, if needed.

[Sabato Kuroi]

@GM

What mods does the helmet have?The one I'm wearing.I assume the rest of the intruders have the same mods on theirs.