[Nevyn]

To say the truth I have no idea what's going on. I do not know how to move forward. We seem to need a little more structure.  I'll drop  Deckert for now as he should definitely be an npc as we are starting mid run and I don't understand at all who we are tracking why, what is should happen, what are these SUV's and where are they why are they needed for surveillance ? (what is it that these guys are doing 'there') why two active one now. 

I feel that it is too much too fast. You should play the team leader and gradually tell the story.

Oh. Well - that's not what I mean at all.

Teams #2 and #3 are out: the reason why both is for standard (standard movie) tailing of a target.
3 the SUVs that just exited the hotel are the ambassador's cars.
You're tailing the ambassador because he is the father of the target, Michael Blumkvist

From the first post:
The job, which started already, is to find and tail Michael Blumkvist, the son of the Ambassador of UCAS to the United Kingdom, Jeff Blumkvist. Investigate both Michael and his father for links with NaN. It is known that Michael is in North America somewhere. It is not known where. Some days pass and information has been built up. Michael is found. Tailed. Lost. Found and tailed. He uses phones fast and burns them just as fast. He appears on a street and disappears around the corner. #3 and #8 find no trace in astral that he is enlightened or being hidden by anyone else. For the longest time he doesn't seem to hide the fact that he is hiding and he seems to be doing it by rote until suddenly he's nowhere to be found. The team splits into the 3 groups and searches. Atlanta, Minneapolis, Seattle and Denver are all ruled out until word reaches ears that speak with many  mouths that he is in London with his father.


It is now about 8pm on the 5th August. Teams 2 and 3 are on duty.

[gilga]

So we're after the father and waiting for the son, but who is this guy that want to investigate them what do we do if we find him? grab him ? kill him? let it be known?

[gilga]

Okay I read the first post carefully... how are we to investigate these guys? (kidnap? is that why we die in the end? I sort of missed the OOC post.

[Jayde Moon]

Matrix Infrastructure: 2 Hits

Is this something that is just a sort of 'natural' fluctuation that occurs in data movement?  Kind of like how our internet pings can shift a few points this way and that?  Or does it look specifically like someone is brute forcing (or sleazing) an intrusion?

If it's the latter, Software Knowledge: 2 Hits

Is there some Software that is potentially assisting this?  Maybe a type of Agent that does periodic checks?

[Nevyn]

This is not a scheduled job. The times are too weird.
This is also in no way a small fluctuation that you'd expect at busy vs quiet net time.

So that leaves agents...
Brute forcing into your network would take a bloody good agent "Even if I do say so myself..."

You ever hear stories about how it used to be before Crash 2.0? Like when AIs would be able to spoof your systems, sleazing their way into crap they had no right to? Its a bit like those stories. But there are no AIs. And why would an AI be tripping into your feeds... and hell if they wanted to.. why for 15 seconds? or 5 seconds even?

[Jayde Moon]

So, I'm gonna run through a list of questions.  At the beginning of the run, we would have probably exhausted all avenues to find the answers to these through Legwork.  A lot of this will probably help Gilga's sort of general desire to know 'what's going on'.  Of course, some of the answers to these questions will be, "You haven't been able to find that out."

1. Who is our Mr. Johnson?  I am sure he didn't say, "I'm Ted Winters of Saeder Krupp" or whatever, but any respectable team would have tried to figure out exactly who they were working for and what their angle is.

2. Who is Michael Blumkvist?  As in, how old is he.  Is he traveling around doing professional stuff or is he being a spoiled diplomats brat and partying everywhere he goes?  Does he have criminal ties?  Government ties?  Corporate ties?  How is his relationship with his father?  Does he have enemies?  Allies?

3. Who is Jeff Blumkvist?  How has his ambassadorial appointment been?  Is he respected by his peers in government?  Is he respected by his peers on the UK side?  Does he have criminal ties?  Government ties?  Corporate ties?  Does he have enemies?  Allies?

4. Have we found any links between these two and the NAN?  Why would it be important to know that an ambassador to the UK has links with the NAN?

5. You say that Michael has been disappearing as if by 'rote'.  What does that mean?  That he just fades away and reappears elsewhere and it's like he's just doing naturally and 'just in case' but not because he's been tipped off or alerted in any way (that we can tell)?  The way that the has been disappearing has been 'noteworthy'?  Like, it sees really strange and unlike anything we've seen before?  Does his disappearing act appear to be something that's beyond his actual ability to do (i.e. do we suspect that someone is helping)?

I may have some follow up questions based on the answers to these

[Nevyn]

So, I'm gonna run through a list of questions.

Awesome.

1. Who is our Mr. Johnson?  I am sure he didn't say, "I'm Ted Winters of Saeder Krupp" or whatever, but any respectable team would have tried to figure out exactly who they were working for and what their angle is.

Deckert knows or suspects.

2. Who is Michael Blumkvist?  As in, how old is he.  Is he traveling around doing professional stuff or is he being a spoiled diplomats brat and partying everywhere he goes?  Does he have criminal ties?  Government ties?  Corporate ties?  How is his relationship with his father?  Does he have enemies?  Allies?

Michael is a consummate politician's son. He lives a playboy lifestyle and is, quite simply a bum with connections. Dig a little deeper you find a student of immaculate learning potential who went to Yale and Oxford. While he was in UCAS he was all over the place and was meeting people quickly and quietly. When he's somewhere publicly he has invites to go to nightclubs and dinners etc... Lately you've seen none of that and he has disappeared from the scenes. You heard word of him in NaN territory but no amount of trace on separate tribes ever found a connection to MB. Enemies? He's a total nonentity; a rich man's failure to launch. He is about 30.

He doesn't have multiple personalities - just 2 - a public and a secret. (Green Arrow like)

3. Who is Jeff Blumkvist?  How has his ambassadorial appointment been?  Is he respected by his peers in government?  Is he respected by his peers on the UK side?  Does he have criminal ties?  Government ties?  Corporate ties?  Does he have enemies?  Allies?

JB is one of the foremost Ambassadors that represents UCAS. He has years of experience and has some serious political aspirations. He is pretty liberal with regard the meta-human question and stands for increased freedoms for corporate entities. There is a small connection to Ares and to Aztechnology for corporate donations for political office but those sit in an account untouched along with other donations from other, smaller, corporations.

4. Have we found any links between these two and the NAN?  Why would it be important to know that an ambassador to the UK has links with the NAN?

Well. No link found.
UCAS and NaN are not deadly enemies... But really.. A UCAS ambassador in the UK with ties to NaN... Weird.

5. You say that Michael has been disappearing as if by 'rote'.  What does that mean?  That he just fades away and reappears elsewhere and it's like he's just doing naturally and 'just in case' but not because he's been tipped off or alerted in any way (that we can tell)?  The way that the has been disappearing has been 'noteworthy'?  Like, it sees really strange and unlike anything we've seen before?  Does his disappearing act appear to be something that's beyond his actual ability to do (i.e. do we suspect that someone is helping)?

Initially you didn't expect him to have counter-surveillance skills. When you caught up to him you realise that he does it habitually when he is not being a socialite... Most of you shadowrunners will do similar things to avoid a tail, most likely you're better than Michael... But you didn't expect it from him.

Of course, the last time he just never turned up again.
 

I may have some follow up questions based on the answers to these

Hit me

[Nevyn]

Time has crept slowly on. It is now about 23:00. You know that the Ambassador is due to leave at about 23:30

#3 is still with the Ambassador's 3 cars.
#8 is with her.

#2, #6 and #7 are outside Brooks

#1, #4 #5 are at base

Where are you #9. I had you on a bike a couple of hours earlier. In my head you're outside Brook's watching #2s car

[Mercy Merchant]

#4 is leaving the base for a few minutes to stretch her legs.  Ole Bess is with her, bless her heart, hidden under Rita's coat.

[saithor]

Time has crept slowly on. It is now about 23:00. You know that the Ambassador is due to leave at about 23:30

#3 is still with the Ambassador's 3 cars.
#8 is with her.

#2, #6 and #7 are outside Brooks

#1, #4 #5 are at base

Where are you #9. I had you on a bike a couple of hours earlier. In my head you're outside Brook's watching #2s car

Yeah, on the bike watching the car.

[Jayde Moon]

23:10:10 Feeds have a slight fuzziness to them (is anyone watching the feeds, have a bot watching the feeds or anything like that?)

Mirrism most definitely is.  She hasn't stopped.

[Nevyn]

23:10:10 Feeds have a slight fuzziness to them (is anyone watching the feeds, have a bot watching the feeds or anything like that?)

Mirrism most definitely is.  She hasn't stopped.

and

Outlaw always had the feeds running to her mind, everything from weather sensors, biomonitors, audio visual, even a gieger counter. Moving closer she put her hand on the cars dash, and began to run FAQ on the machine looking for what was going on with it. "Alright bastard, where are you hiding?"
[/Spoiler]

Mirriam and Jade should roll some dice. Also 2072 era Google Fu wll help you.

(anyone that they tell may also roll any dice pertaining to Recent History... Crash 2.0... etc. Lacking an applicable area of knowledge? Then roll pure INT to see if you can recall it from past stories of stuff))

[Triskavanski]

Outlaw growled as she moved to the chair to sit back don again. "we have some Cerberus thing." She shouts to the two there, "Im taking control of the car now. Things are about to get hellish in here. Just hope he diesnt find the keymaster." Pulling up her respirator she had it begin to blow a contolled puff if nitro, her pain editor kicking in.
http://orokos.com/roll/305313

[Nevyn]

Excerpt from the Encyclopedia Britannica:
Cerberus (/ˈsɜrbərəs/;[1] Greek: Κέρβερος Kerberos [ˈkerberos]) in Greek and Roman mythology, is a multi-headed (usually three-headed) dog, or "hellhound" [1][2][3] with a serpent's tail, a mane of snakes, and a lion's claws.[4] He guards the entrance of the Greek underworld to prevent the dead from escaping and the living from entering. Cerberus is featured in many works of ancient Greek and Roman literature and in works of both ancient and modern art and architecture, although the depiction of Cerberus differs across various renditions. The most notable difference is the number of his heads: Most sources describe or depict three heads; others show Cerberus with two or even just one; a smaller number of sources show a variable number, sometimes as many as fifty or even a hundred.

In mainstream counter-culture the three-headed demonic hound is seen as an omen of ill by the hacker community as one of the first black software intrusion counter measures used the image as an icon.


The article does wear on... but noticeable at the end is an additional reference.

Other reading:
Encyclopedia Britannica: Article on Eliohann

[Jayde Moon]

Mirriam is working to find what she can, starting with her own knowledge as a baseline:

Matrix Infrastructure: 2 hits
Software: 3 hits

Any Tech Companies that had anything to do with it, where they are now and what might have happened with it:

Tech Companies: 5 hits

And then if she recalls any of the local London Hacker groups having anything to do with it:

London Hacker Groups: 1 hit.

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Once she's got her thoughts together, she's going to start a deliberate matrix search.

Her Deck Setting are:

A S D F
9 6 4 5

Programs: Virtual Machine, Browse, Toolbox, Armor, Shell

Data Search: 

1st Pass: 2 Hits /  2 total
2nd Pass: 2 Hits /  4 total
3rd Pass: 3 Hits /  7 total
4th Pass: 4 Hits / 11 total

I don't know what the time increment you want to use for those is.  The table is on page 241.  Obviously she only works on this until something else comes up at which time she'll have to stop, to either continue later or just count those hits lost.