[Volker]

@Squirrel: We don't even need to change. Krestov and Slob were the only ones seen, since the SUV has opaque windows.

@Sabato: Is i just me or did you not append an image?

bnc sighs, still frustrated, and grinds her teeth. "It's just me who screwed it. The 'link was an ordinary Hermes piece of chunk. I just ... I just forgot to fucking redefine the extracted dummy authentification key. I will definitely not fuck up a second time, sempai. I don't even think they will be specially aware. Teenagers trying to hack the VIP list will happen every day, presume. N'est-ce pas?
Now, if you'd excuse, I'll be back in one hour or so. I'll need to recollect myself, sirs. No worries, I'll be sober in time."

With that, bnc opens the car door, reply or no, and leaves the driver's seat empty. She looks around for a place where she could find somebody to start a fight with, have fun with, or at least have a quite seat from where she could engage in some cyber fighting or other serious hot-sim overstimulation. bnc hates being beaten, and this feeling is not going to be numbed easily.

[SquirrelDude]

Slobbertooth slid into the driver's seat and pealed out away from the club for a couple of hours.

"Well then let's go get a shave and a haircut."

[SgtBoomCloud]

Krestov stayed silent and stoic as always...he was best at handling situations and dealing with threats...often the former in conjunction with the latter...so all this legwork and fenaggling seemed to make him of little use.  At least to his eyes.  Still, he muttered an apology to the team as his face was made by the bouncer, rendering him a potential threat.  "How say...game is off today.  Please forgive, Krestov not sure why"

When bnc stormed out of the van, he snapped his head up, eyes narrowing as he sighed.  He couldn't stop her, and following might escalate the situation.  Still, he opened up a private comm channel with the tiny decker.

@bnc{Krestov}: malyutka, only seen you behave this way once.  Was not good.  Want talk?"

A pathetic attempt to get back into the swing, I am several posts behind, it is finals week right now.  I am super sorry, and frankly surprised y'all didn't vote to kick me >.<

[Sabato Kuroi]

@bnc don't know what went wrong...let me try again :


@SgtBoomCloud
Don't worry mate, we've been playing for a year now...I think it's perfectly understandable if real life overwhelms us from time to time


@GM
So...let me see if I have any ideas about back entrances, security exits etc, if things go wrong
 Architecture: 4d6t5 2



When the wild  nightbirds of Seattle start to form a line outside the club, Torrent  goes to stand patiently at the back

[Jack_Spade]

@Krestov
Don't worry, this game is a Side Quest. No harm if you keep in the background

@Torrent
You are actually standing at a back entrance. Since this is a commercial building, you are sure there are at least two more emergency exits and a fire escape on the roof


bnc found her relaxation not far from their vantage point: A VR cafe had a vigorous deathmatch going on the MDK host with its Gothic Horror game: The Vampire factions were under assault of the Hunters who had finally unlocked the fabled Staff of Ra and were now dusting their way into the (un)holiest of (un)holys of the Vampire faction.

When the team returned, a long line of people had already gathered. The bouncers took a good look at everyone, but didn't seem to send away anyone yet.

When Torrent reached the front, the ork from earlier did give no sign of recognition, but checked for obvious weapons

3 bought successes at perception
If you want to smuggle anything in make an agility+palming check.

[Sabato Kuroi]

I'll take my pistol.
Palming+Agility (Limit 6): 12d6t5 5

[Jack_Spade]

Torrent had no problem to smuggle in his weapon. Despite the line, inside it was still relatively empty. The room was large - easily 30m long and wide with concrete columns as the only obstacles. One wall had a long bar with automated drink and drug dispensers, the other was divided between a wardrobe and the toilets. Illumination was provided solely by black light LEDs so that the people inside provided most of the ambient light. Everything was silent otherwise.

Turning on AR changed the whole thing completely: Flashing lights, and fast beats permeated the surroundings, while the whole room now looked like a mixture of Sci-Fi dungeon and a factory from the 18 hundreds.

A few elven ladies already had occupied a space that was clearly marked as a dance floor and moved rhythmically to the music only those with DNI could fully appreciate. 

[Volker]

After blowing some wind, bnc feels a lot better. After killing off dozens of vampires (almost without cheating - that is, if you don't count Golden Mirror as cheating), bnc managed to push away the frustrating experience for a moment. It would come back again, and more than once, but no one was an expert like her when it came to suppressing bad feelings. When she came back to the party, she was looking forward to it.

Standing in line with Torrent, bnc keeps babbling about the vampire hunt. She told him every detail of how she outwitted the undead creatures, beat them in single combat and performed some remarkeable (but nonetheless uninteresting) feats. Reminding him that a casual conversation was the sort of cover-up they needed in front of the bouncers, she gives him hardly a chance of changing the topic, before she enters the club alongside with him (unarmed, safe for the implanted, and authorized, shock hands).

"Let's do some party!"
"Let's find out about that bastard. Shall I finish what I began earlier? I know I can do it."

[Sabato Kuroi]

Τorrent knew bnc would be eager to  prove her worth.The girl was competitive even for decker standards but he didn't mind.If he had to get in a rave club with a decker he would easily pick a  hyperactive teenager over a socially awkward wirehead. But patience was at the heart of this game.

" Let's go get a drink first. I need to make sure I'm familiar with this place before we try anything."


Perception Test  (Limit 4): 10d6t5 4
Anything particularly interesting? I guess we don't have any kind of description for this "Geri" but maybe one of the elf ladies has an obvious datajack..?

[Jack_Spade]

Indeed, two of the dancing elven ladies sported a subtle data jack at the base of their necks.
One had long blond hair, was tall and quite muscular, the other had raven black hair, an abundance of facial piercings and wore a short vinyl-leather combo.

[SquirrelDude]

Slobbertooth looked through the image links of the team's comms, and was glad that he wasn't trying to blend in there. Not my kind of scene at all

[Volker]

"All right", bnc screamed over the tune of the music, "I'll go have a look myself!"

With that, she went to the bar and bought herself pepper plus, her favourite synthahol coke.

I don't have a description or even an image of the elf lady, do I? bnc checks for hidden icons and is ready to check each and everyone one after another, if must be. She's looking for decks or at least RCCs inside the club.

[Jack_Spade]

Nope, there is no description

bnc has 6 successes
vs. a hidden device with 4

Perception check: 2
- There is a hidden deck
- It's a cyberdeck Sony CIY-720

Additional Perception check: 6
- It's configuration is A4 S7+1 D5 F6+1
- There is currently no persona active
- Programms active: Encryption, Sneak, Stealth, Wrapper, Agent Rating 6, Configurator,
- Hardwired multi-dimensional co-processor / program carrier Virtual Machine
- It's a custom form-factor
- The agent is looking for MARKS on his PAN


The drinks are not bad, if a bit watery. Still, bnc nearly chockes when her AR search reveals that someone with a really expensive deck is inside the club - someone with a lot of matrix fire power.

[Volker]

bnc whistles softly, turns off her cyberdeck and instead boots her commlink. No need to warn anybody that there's a decker around. Her heart is pounding heavily. This is one heavily stuffed goose, carajo. She's biting her lips heavily in an desperate attempt not to stare at the image she drew from the now again hidden icon. She takes a gulp from her pepper plus before she texts her team.

"Lords and ladies. I dunno whether we found Mrs. X but we definitely found one knight in shining armor who's worth of a match for one of her reputation. Gear excellent, software amazing. She's somewhere in the room, or better: somewhere within a hundred meters or so. I can't exactly tell who she is. Her matrix defense is ... remarkable. Or his, to stay correct, since I haven't identified the owner.
I'm not sure whether there is any point in attacking her at this moment."

[Sabato Kuroi]

]At bnc's words , Torrent  takes his drink and his talents to the dancefloor.He descends upon the unsuspecting elves like a raving raven.

Now kid, this is called  "hacking the social OS"

He dances among the ladies, and lets eye contact and body language do the talking.

  Dancing:  Perform (Dance): 9d6t5 4
Flirting :Etiquette: 8d6t5 3
Edge for the Etiquette test: second chance: 5d6t5 1
Total Etiquette hits:4