[Kontact]

<<@Team: I'm thinking about just taking a cab home.  I'll astrally check out the locations Kage pulled up to see if I can find our guy's roost.  Once I narrow it down, we'll take it from there, yeah?  Any reason I shouldn't?>>

Dizzy decided to take a quick side trip to scope out the mark's car and see if there was, in fact, a spirit guarding it. 
[Assensing the car/lot. 9d6.hits(5) → [4,2,5,5,5,5,6,5,3] = (6)  yay!  loki's luck is rubbing off on me!]

[Crossbow]

@team: Uhhhh, YEAH! How about the fact that we are trying to follow what is, from your intel, a powerful mage, and we would probably like the closest thing to our magical back-up to stick around?  Another point, what if you go snooping and trip some kind of failsafe?  That backup thing works both ways, if you stick close.

On that note, hey Kage, since you are wanting to work remotely too, what is the address to that coffin you are in?  If you trip something nasty, I would like a chance at finding your body before the devil rats do.   

[Loki]

@Team: Sorry Smiley, matrix work is easier if done in VR. The EZ Rest by the Wilshire overpass, unit 115. I got a camera on my unit door from the inside so anyone who comes knocking and don't look like Suki Redflower naked will be greeted with a lead salad, hold the dressing.

(( My die rolls will go to shit once I have to resist damage or some such.))

[Walks Through Walls]

Dizzy walks back across the street and takes a look at the car from across the lot. You don't see any signs of a spirit around the car. You do see a lingering aura from magic having acted on the car. The shadow of a signature stretches into the bar. It looks similar to the aura you got from Vincent, but something looks different about it.

[Blue]

@Team=> Thanks for the loc information, Kage. Now we'll know where to send flowers.


Rat continues to keep an eye on Dizzy - not that she really needs it, but we can't afford to get tied up a fight when we're supposed to be doing a sneak job.

[Loki]

@ Rat: Fear not omae, Gridlinks local branch security is not as advertised. I'll see any traces and vacate, leaving wiped cameras and an empty coffin paid in certified cred. ((OOC: Or he would if the cocky bastard hadn't forgone setting up his analyze to get a hidden account first.))

[Walks Through Walls]

Let me know what else if anything people are doing before Vincent leaves.

[Loki]

After finishing up hacking the account a monacle takes shape over his persona's right eye. ((analyzing the node for other presences http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/2957716/ 7 hits oh gods I'm so screwed when Kage gets in a dangerous situation, law of averages is gonna F me in the A.))

[Kontact]

[OOC: Let's see which way Dizzy bends... Composure 11d6.hits(5) → [1,2,3,2,1,4,4,3,2,4,3] = (0) looks like the answer is no.]
<<@Team: I guess it's a good thing I don't have to listen to you, eh Smiley?  I just spent all the time after he scanned me setting up an alibi and distancing myself from the lot of you.  That's all wasted effort if I go with you now.  I will be around on the astral to help you, but I'm not trusting my body to your care.  The whole reason I'm going to scout these places out is so you don't have to keep eyes on him.  I'll leave eyes on you though.>>
[Summoning a watcher.  11d6.hits(5) → [2,6,2,3,2,6,1,1,5,6,4] = (4)  Let's just make that 2 hours for now.  Soaking 2S drain 10d6.hits(5) → [6,4,1,4,1,6,5,4,5,5] = (5)]
Dizzy concentrates and detaches a part of her mind, seeing it now as a simple form, like a child's drawing.  Looking over to where Rat waited by the door, she sent the watcher to him.  Follow this one. 

That done, she calls an autocab and waits.

[Loki]

@team: I think, as a team, many of us could do better at conveying our intentions to each other. Myself included. Dizzy, your distancing plan is solid and I understand wanting to control your meat's location while you're out, but Smiley is right that we should have a clue what's going on with ya or at least have a way to help keep you safe while you're out of your body. If you give me access to your com I can set the links up so your camera feed on your commlink, or any other sensory devices you wish to share, will go to this VPN. Same for anyone else, trying to link feeds into a different OS can be tricky.   

[Kontact]

<<@team:  Unless any of you know how to make powerful astral wards, I don't think you will be able to protect my body while I'm out of it, not from the threats that exist in that space.  I appreciate the sentiment, but this business is my business, and we are very near my home.  I will be with you later.  Try to remember, all we need to do is find a place we believe the man will stay for a period of time, and then make a phone call.  After that, our obligations are complete.>>

[Crossbow]

@team:  Hey Diz, I ain't nobody's mommy.  If you are pulling your weight, I am not going to tell you how to do your thing.  It hurts my heart that you wouldn't trust me with that fine meat body, I can provide quite the list of references that will let you know I am up to the task, 

Anyway, for the rest of you, settle in and keep your eyes peeled.

Kage, you might have to walk me through whatever link process you are thinking of, but I am down for it.  My link is pretty empty anyway, other than my little balck book and a few cocktail recipes I have been working on.

(ooc: Got nothing else I am doing GM, just chilling in the alley, probably taking nips of a flask as the mood strikes.)

[Walks Through Walls]

Just over an hour after he went back into the backroom Vincent comes out and goes right over to his car. He get in and heads East. He starts taking a winding path that doesn't seem to be anything special, but it is soon apparent that he is headed towards Auburn.

(OOC ok how are you guys following him? Anyone driving needs to make a shadowing roll for me.)

Dizzy is your only order to the watcher to stay with Rat or do you want to give it more instructions?

Anything else you are doing before he leaves needs to be said now or you forgot to do it

[Crossbow]

Kickz is trying to keep him in sight, Rat and Smiley will be hanging back or running parallel and taking turn cues from Kickz and Kage.  If it starts to look like he is driving in circles, like he is checking for a tail, we can swap in Rat for Kickz.

Best plan I got, any adjustments team?

[Loki]

@ Smiley: That's the kind of help I think she's lookin to avoid, killer.
@ Team:Sounds good to me Kickz. Everyone, this <link> will bring up an ARO with that will ping your system for sensor feeds and give you the option to tie them in. It will also cut the feeds at your request. You can grab each others feeds and open ARO to them from it as well. Or this <link> will slave your com to mine and I'll handle the link set up and security on your com until you say otherwise.
 


To kill time before the target hits the road Kage decides to switch to his persona in Shadowsea and run a quick search on their Johnson, Prolly get nothin if he is who he says but what the hell. ((data search roll 1 http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/2959587/ 4 hits, roll 2 http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/2959590/ 3 hits, roll 3 http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/2959591/ 2 hits, roll 4 http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/2959592/ 2 hits, roll 5 http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/2959593/ 4 hits ))

(( I got nothing else before he goes other than linking willing team members in a pseudo tacnet. Once Vincent's destination becomes apparent, Kage'll send a persona copy to the apartment building and hack a user account http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/2959602/ 6 hits, then he'll create a hidden admin account (unlike before he don't have clearance to set up the account so it's a hacking + edit (4/ 1 turn) test on the first test) roll 1 http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/2959608/ 1 hit, roll 2 http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/2959610/ 7 hits, second test hacking+stealth (firewall/10 mins) roll 1 http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/2959612/ 3 hits, roll 2 http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/2959613/ 3 hits, I hope 5 is enough. Kage will then switch to the hidden account delete the hacked user account and records of it's activity, and grab a feed of the buildings cameras to link to the VPN. Also he will check the listing of renters for Vincent or his lady friend's names. ))