While we are waiting for life to stop slapping Jayde Moon around quite so hard, I thought I'd take advantage of the lull for a bit of table talk with the other players.
What I think we know so far is:
- One awakened human walking toward the motel office, astrally accompanied by two spirits. Looks similar to Kachina in magical power level. No cyberwear (or at least, none at a grade that Kachina saw)
- We don't know any details of the spirits yet (Kachina would have to make a sneaking roll to see more without exposing herself to being seen in turn, if I read that right), nor any mention if the awakened guy has any foci or sustained spells on him.
- The van showed two comm-links in it, one running openly and one silently. They were moving together, then the guy got out and started walking to the office. I think the implication was that they continued to move together (suggesting that he is carrying both), but I'm not positive about that.
- Nothing was visible inside the van once the driver left. Van didn't show either people or items in it. Note that this was just normal vision with a perception roll of 3, so conceivably there could be invisible people, astral spirits, etc in there.
So it
looks like the guy is alone other than the two spirits (i.e. he is still pretty dangerous), but we haven't quite eliminated the possibility of further back-up.
As for what is next ....I think we are all waiting for Kachina to call it, and Kachina is probably waiting for the last few results before calling anything.
(which is probably for the best -- Forty would probably just kick the van door open while calling on Henway to hit the mage with a metric ton of gel rounds, and trust numbers and fire power to deal with whatever happens. Kachina may have a more slightly more sophisticated plan 
)
