[Mercy Merchant]

Pennies just smiles even though inside she is doing numerous high-fives.  **Yes!  In the big leagues.  If only Father could see me now.**  On the outside, she nods and reaches for Ice's hand.  "We can do that.  Give us the code to insert."

[Stoneglobe]

Xipe nods to give the plan his approval. "I will also provide you with some additional protection whilst you make the hack. That is, if you don't mind having a spirit watch over you as well senoritas. Perhaps you could pull up some images of exterminators so that I can familiarise myself with the uniforms before you go. I would do it myself but electronics and me don't seem to get on so well."

Turning to Div. "Do you have any contacts who could provide the required uniforms and equipment? I can always ask around but am not sure how much use my people would be for this."

[Mercy Merchant]

Pennies nods and immediately gets to work.  This is an easy task, but she wants to do well at even this.  She quickly looks up several extermination companies and browses their on-line brochures for pictures of their uniformed exterminators.  Pulling several of the images together, she feeds them to Xipe.  "There you go.  I hope that will do?"

[Jayde Moon]

Div shrugs.  "I just thought we'd pick up some vanilla duds at a local uniform outlet."

[Mercy Merchant]

Pennies keeps the smile on her face but feels a bit miffed.  Brightening, she tosses out a question, "Say.  What about image link?  If we can slave your image link devices to the decks we can all see what goes on.  Might not be a bad idea to slave everything to Ice or me, unless you have a real good commlink."

[Stoneglobe]

"Gracias señorita. These will be perfect as I can use them to help get the illusion correct when we make our entrance."

[ScytheKnight]

Ice twitches a little at the comment of slaving devices. Ohh dreck... this'll probably blow things... "Not a bad idea Pennies but... You'll have to be the one to handle that, I'm not really able to handle slaving other devices."

[Mercy Merchant]

Pennies looks over to Ice with an unspoken question on her lips but decides to let it remain unspoken.  She turns back to the others.  "OK.  That will limit me.  I can slave nine devices to my deck, so we should decide what the most important things are."

[Mercy Merchant]

Pennies looks around and says, "Any takers?  I can set a firewall of 6 to help us.  If you have a device that needs to be protected and your own firewall is less, let's consider this option.  I could use my link, too, but it is not very good.."

[Jayde Moon]

Div points to Requiem.  "Probably mostly from him?"

[schenn]

Divillian looks around the room and a thought comes to him, struggling to suppress his laughter he saysHow 'bout we wait til he get's off the clock, follow him out a bit and I keep him distracted long enough for someone to knock him out. Then the next day, one of you code slingers goes in wearing his face and aura. The rest of us show up during your shift, when you've got a good feeling for their internal security, the location of the prototype, and whatever else you think we might need to know.  We won't be too far outside the fence, so just go in, pretend you don't feel well enough to talk and take your station. I'll convince the guard you've replaced to be somewhere else at that time.

[schenn]

If you want, I'll do it, I just can't  get their systems to do what I want like you.

[Mercy Merchant]

Pennies looks at Requiem.  "Looks like you are the guy.  I only need to save one slot for myself, so what do you want to slave up?"  As she is waiting for the Elf to decide what he wants to slave up, she looks at the others.  "I do not think I need to slave the images links unless someone wants them protected.  But we should be able to just share the images, which just requires the codes to our own devices that are of a similar nature.  Who wants to set me up with codes so we can all share what we see?"

"In the meantime, it seems that we have two options on the table so far.  One is to have Div replace the guard on duty and allow us entry.  The other seems to be to gain entry as a crew of exterminators responding to a call.  I rather like the first better, but what does everyone else think?"

[Aria]

Requiem considered Pennies’ offer

“My Avalon has good matrix security but I’m not about to turn down the offer of additional protection.  I’ll pass you a list from my PAN and we can determine which systems might best be slaved to you.  I agree we should share image links but I would also prefer that our primary comms go through a microtransceiver net rather than directly over the matrix.  Do you all have suitable systems?  If not I am happy to bankroll that aspect.

As to the plan, I like the option Div has provided us with but to my mind there are too many variables, not least being the astral implications of running those spells…we can’t guarantee without access to their personnel roster when a particular guard will be stationed on the gate…and it wouldn’t do us much good to pick the wrong guy.  That is unless their protocols are lax enough that it is the same person day in day out, we may be able to spare an additional day or two of recon to determine that.

The exterminators ruse should give us access to the facility with the proper matrix trickery at the gate.  With a little prep we should be able to conceal weapons within the equipment we need to bring inside and reduce the need for someone to wait outside as emergency backup…”

[ScytheKnight]

Ice frowns a little and slowly nods "I'm admittedly not very experienced at this, but I think something that gets everyone inside in one go has less problems than a multi-stage infiltration. And i'm afrail I will need to take you up on your offer Requiem, I've never really worked with others much... not since, well.. not for a long time."