[Haywire]

#19

Waywalker swiftly found what he was looking for. He exited the host, leaving the library to its business. Then he switched modes to AR, sent the files to the commlink of his teammates and reboots his deck. He moved a little before jacking in, just to avoid the cramps from VR.
The Matrix surrounded him again. With the pieces of informations in his hand and the dogs by his side, he started looking for a trail to the girls.

I reboot my device after sending a message with the files to my chummers.
My deck is A 2/S 3/D 4/F 5 and VM, Fork and Agent, not running silent.
Teamwork test from Sekretar: 6d6t5 3
Teamwork test from Deck: 8d6t5 2
Matrix Perception on Girls: 17d6t5 6

[Jack_Spade]

Scouring the matrix, Waywalker could swiftly identify one of the two commlinks: Elisabeth Maier's Renraku Sensai commlink was online and logged on to the local Cologne net. Her profile had been turned to silent running, but couldn't resist the combined search power of the agents and Waywalker.


Resist Matrix Perception: 8d6t5 3 [8d6t5=5, 4, 2, 5, 3, 6, 1, 1]


All they had to do now was run a successful trace to get her location...

#28

[Haywire]

#20

Waywalker smiled and his icon quirked, as his brain was processing all the new information.
"Chummers, I have good news, but we need to act very quickly in the meatworld. I found the commlink of one girl, and I'm attempting to trace her, but I don't know for how long I will have the trail hot. I think you three can get in my van, along with my drone, and I'll race to her position. Are you ready?"
Waywalker then lit the Armadillo and ordered it to go to their safehouse.
Flexing the muscles of his Persona, Waywalker started slinging code to the commlink.
Now, with the location of the commlink, he ordered his Fly-Spy to go there at full speed.

Now I'm running silent, in VR hot-sim, A 2/S 4(5)/D 5/F 3, running VM, Agent, Stealth.
I'll try to put 2 MARKs in one shot.
Teamwork test from Deck: 6d6t5 2
Hack on the Fly: 13d6t5 4
Edge (second chance) on HoTF: 9d6t5 2
Once I have the MARKs, I'll trace her:
Tracking Icon: 10d6t5 5

[belaran]

#15

Franck went back in his body for a while, but did not let the other know about it, using the time to meditate a bit, and try to quiet the hunger.

"We are on it, Waywalker, don't worry, keep digging if you can in the meantime"

Opening his eyes, he turns to Käse and Schöner:

"Fromage et Beauté - if you are not already on your way to the Loveboat, maybe we could chase down this lead together ?"

[k-sim]

Thank you Gusty, you may leave.

#7

"My spirit just informed me that the boat is heavily guarded on the astral, along with the possibility of heavy security I'm beginning to think it might be better for us to tr and catch the target outside of the boat. Schöner, is there a time limit to our access to the VIP lounge? If not, I'm all for tracking down the girl first. Though I'll take my own transport in case we need to split up at a later time.

[Haywire]

"May I suggest to simply order your vehicle to tag along? Mine is surely faster."
Waywalker responded with a smile.

#21

[Jack_Spade]

Resist HotF: 8d6t5 5
You might want to spend some edge on your roll...

Resist Trace: 8d6t5 3



The commlink proved to be not as easy to trace as expected. Waywalker had to invest a bit more effort...

[Jack_Spade]

It took a little push, but finally, the trace came through: The commlink currently resided at Konrad-Adenauer Allee 2, previously the seat of the Cologne fortification museum, now closed for the public due to budget cuts, with a relatively dense forest surrounding it.

#30

[Haywire]

#22

"Team, I have it. It's at Konrad-Adenauer Allee 2. I don't know for how long I can keep it traced, so please get in the van and be ready to take her or her commlink. Stay frosty."
Waywalker persona merged in the Icon of his Fly-Spy, pushing it at the maximum speed to get an idea of the surroundings of his target, while the van arrived at the safehouse.

I jump in the drone.
Pilot Aicraft: 13d6t5 3

[Jack_Spade]

The drone made its way towards the former museum in record time.
The old building only had narrow arrow windows, but after a minute searching, Waywalker found an open one. The commlink signal was slightly muted due to the thick walls and the drone also responded a bit sluggish due to the lag. The rooms contained covered display boxes and empty wall displays. Dust hung heavy in the air and no artificial lights were on.
Carefully moving from room to room, the drone came closer to the source of the signal: A medium sized, empty room with a bare stone floor. A young woman with ash blond hair was in the process of painting intricate patterns on the ground with a piece of red chalk, referring a large book now and then. So deep in concentration she was that she didn't even notice the slight buzzing of the drone.

[Haywire]

#23

"I like sending commands to my drones and agents to do my bidding. But being it is completely different. Maybe I could talk Franck into getting a control rig...he may like it."
Waywalker's legs and wings (or, at the moment, drone's legs and wings) moved silently to stay on a wall.
"How many people wanted to be a fly on the wall...well, I'm realizing it." He thought with a smile.
Waywalker sent the AR feed of the drone sensors to his teammates; then changed some settings on his deck.
"Mojo chummers, do you recognize what she's doing? I can only tell it's mojo."
While waiting for them to get in the van, Waywalker started looking around in the girl's commlink.
Just to be sure, he ordered one of his Rotodrones to come at the museum and estabilish a line of fire to the girl.

I reconfigure my deck to A 2/S 4/D 4/F 5, running VM, Agent and Baby Monitor.
Having 2 MARKs on it, I'd like to know what files are inside it, and if I can find something relevant to our job (Avascula's contact, their next arranged meet, something that could point us at the location of the samples).
Matrix Perception on the commlink: 10d6t5 4
Pilot Aicraft (Rotodrone): 9d6t5 6
Locking the girl (Sensors): 9d6t5 1

[Jack_Spade]

The commlink contained the usual stuff: Pictures taken of foodstuff, cute animals and party weekends - a few were protected and probably contained some nudes or other sensitive information.
More important was her contact registry: A.V. had called her two hours before at which point she had immediately gone here, according to her GPS profile.
There were no text messages there from this contact only calls, which had not been recorded.
But there was one other relevant message: Giselle had written to her only four hours earlier <<Eli, I'm sorry I can't help you today, but A. wants me back at the flat. I just hope this time the NJ works before the pig gets all grabby on me.
Oh and can you visit the pharmacy on your way back? We need fresh IV needles.>>

[Haywire]

#24

Looking in the commlink looted Waywalker some juicy information. Snooping through the texts, he saw one interesting.
Looking for the nickname she used for her friend, Waywalker commanded the device to send a message:
"Gis, sure, no problem. Could you remember me the address of the flat? My GPS isn't working today...Thank you!"

Control Device (Send Message): 11d6t5 1
Control Device (Send Message) Second Chance: 10d6t5 2
What is my current OS score?

[Jack_Spade]

Commlink Resist: 8d6t5 5 [8d6t5=2, 5, 1, 5, 3, 6, 6, 6]
You fail

Overwatch Score: 4d6 17
Add the current 13 from resistance and you have 30 Overwatch after half an hour.


For some reason, the commlink resisted quite effectively the attempt to send this message - maybe it was for the best. Waywalker knew that Giselle's commlink was probably offline at the moment. He even got the feeling that the girls might have been specifically instructed not to turn on their commlink when they went back to their master or rather his lair...

[belaran]

#16[∕rigth]
Frank discreetly leaves the van, to get eyes on the target. Well, at least cybereyes. Trying to be as sneaky, he gets close enough to attempt to assense her aura. Closing his (cyber)eyes, for a few second, to focus on the astral plane, the ghoul gaze into Giselle's aura...


Discreetly getting closer to Giselle: 10d6t5 2
I pre-edged my assensing test as I really want to know "secrets" hidden in her aura, not just basic stuff:
Assensing Test on Giselle (edged): 12d6t5 6
Got 3 "6", so added :
Extra dices from pre-edge on assensing Giselle: 4d6t5 1

So total of 7s on the assenssing.