[Kot]

"That's an ability some spirits have. She might have been swallowed by the toxic manifestation, and even then someone had to bring her down with a spell... Lightning. No, it might have been a Manabolt spell... No, a discharge from a tainted Air spirit. That's more likely. As for here, I didn't find enough, except for one interesting piece... O&O"
Griffin drops the connection, and turns of his commlink, touching the picture with his right index finger... Tasting the echoes of long withered and still blooming emotions on his fingertip, seeing through it the joys, tears and dreams of a virtuakinetic child that has an AI friend... He felt the smell of metal, hot and sharp, fluid and everchanging like quicksilver. He felt something... Grasped it with his seventh sense, and pulled his mind along, trying to open himself to the same feeling the author felt...

Intuition(4)+Assensing(2)+Psychometry(2)+Mentor(2) (10d6.hits(5)=3)
Edge Re-roll (7d6.hits(5)=2)
A Total of 5 hits.

[Sichr]

@Griffin: As you focused your whole concentratio, reaching for your deep reserves, eager to move forward with solving this puzzle, your inner sight range bellow the here and now. As you lay your palm on the image on the wall, to allow your aura directly connect co the autor, it cames all the sudden.
First, you just a little boy with the writing brush in your hand..
Then its is like you pull down the veil...
...and myriads of sensations fell heavy on you like the waterfall, stroboscopic stream of events, pictures, voices, memories....
...hours and days spent by conversations with someone who is both distant and close...
...semantics and symbolic strings even your magical sight is not able to translate, you are getting impresion of something completely inhuman, alien even to spirits and metaplannar entities ...
...months of sleeples nights, filled with hard work, trying to understand the message...
...every part, that is fully comprehended, became part of cypher...
...drawn on the paper, it also reflects its meaning to the partner...
...then the image...
...almost on the edge of subcounsciousness...
...distracting the concentration...
...makes the consonance with alien partner  much more difficult...
where it cames from
...trying to figure it out, trying to pull out its disturbing presence to the daylight...
...trying to draw it, to get it out of the mind...
...many attempts made, lot of empty papers crackled, disposed to the waste basket...
...notebook with many liney pages, sitting next to mom in the car driving on the streets...
...coloured lights, sounds, shops, advertisements, spam...
...Guarding the ramparts...
...fighting against creatures of night...
...seeking treasures in deepest dungeons...
...avoiding traps and solving mysterious puzzles...
...hunting in the forrests with ancient elves...
...killing great demon in the furrious battle, sparkling sword in the hand, with the protection of dwarven forged full plate armor...
...and that picture on the walls, floor, hiding amongst the stars, meaningless, nameless, inexpressible...
...like nobody is able to see it...
...
..
.

[mdp]

Harry slowly raised himself from the seet he occupied, walking up the stairs, he puts his head in the room and gently asks the rest of the crew:Everybody got what he needed?  I suggest we move to the lab with Griffin to investigate those samples, oh right Timmy can you check the wangs car?

[deathwishjoe]

"Ready whenever you are,  This seemed to be dead herring anyways"

[mwiland]

Wow Timmy thinks to himself, now this is an active area Ill have to remember this so that I can ask around later.  With those signatures remembered.  Timmy is ready to go onto the next step and get on to why they came here, what ever that is.

[Kot]

Griffin looked around, and finally fixed his sight on Timmy.
"Okay, what about the car? That's what we came here for, right?"

[Sichr]

@Timmy: After Griffins remark you the feeling run throught your mind
"Those guys who can walk, they are always such hasty.",
well you remain silent, continuing your wheeled way to the stairway and further down to the ground level garage.
What you find there is just another common Comet, two Spirits (of Honda) and GMC Bulldog StepVan. Last said looks well cared, but not much used, and it lacks any security upgrades, its just a big and safe van for a big familly.
You consider the Comet would be what you came for, and employs all knowledge, skills, sensors and drones into the search. Amongst a pile of junk and useles things found bellow seats, there are three things that you assume are relevant.

2 pieces of metal, found on the drivers seat. You quickly recognizes taser darts, with no wire, possibly one of more expesive models.

Real paper notebook, with real crayon attached, found in the compartement in the right doors. Quick scan reveals a lot of pictures simillar to those in the boys room, and on the last pages, you see developing versions of that strange image Griffin was assensing...you can see the developement of the quality and growing certainty in of the hand drawing the image.
On the last page, covered with drawing, is the most precise version of it, done almost with a single draw.

The physical search search done, you decide to look at the car`s "blackbox". Pilot and gridlink are saving every moment passed to most cars detailed by seconds.
LOG IN:
When you access the node, you let the stream of inputs flow throught your body and mind, becoming 150 HP beast for the moment...you shrug this feeling, you know that, it happens all the time you became the machine.
At the beginning there is wide stream of sensory inputs - radar, front and rear cameras, grid, engine performance, breaks, fuel, electronics, tires reports...every piece of it being like the common sense to you.
It rains, road surface is wet, so you are driving throught the city carefully, correcting some of commands driver gave you. Drivers reflexes are not bad...for a human...

when you`ve parkd at the mall, same place as ever, you became silen, waiting for passengers....maybe 15 minutes after, you are suddenly deaf. Blind...cut off most senses, floating in the silence and darknes...
The only think, that ypu Can feel, is your body. your both front doors opened. Then your receptors cathed hi energy electric discharge, so close to you that you are also hit...

[OOC: resist 3S damage]

5 seconds

Access ID: Authorized Driver (Possible spoof)
LOG IN
Command you to set signal transmition to unknown mode
[mode that you recognize as jamming-on-the-fly]
Driver LOG OFF after 10 seconds

73 seconds after that your senses returns...
There is uncounsciousness woman-driver, laying half body on the front seat. Doosrs are still open.
Grid link and Radar are off, you dont have any connection to wireless world...
You are still tansmitting.

Ten minutes..

HARDWARE RESET...
[OOC: 5S dumpshock]

Access ID: Authorized Driver
LOG IN
Login Grid
Checking Access ID
Gridlink ON

Command: Take me home

Driver LOG OFF
...you follow...
....
LOG OFF

Confused a bit, you look around, shaking your head slightly...

[Sichr]

Aftre this part done, whole team decided to move on. There are samples that need to be identified, puzzle that has to be solved...and boy to be found.

[mdp]

While driving to Griffins Laboratory to analyse the samples from the parking lot, Harry sends a message to Timmy "so Timmy, seeing as you are our matrix man, could you set up a network or something between all of us for secure communications?  That way we can go over what we got till now while driving.

[mwiland]

Timmy shares with the group the info he got from the diag on the car.

That shouldnt be any trouble.  They definitely have either a hacker or rigger on their team to work that car like that.

[mwiland]

VR Drain = Willpower 4 + Biofeedback Filter 3 (7d6.hits(5)=4)

Sprite Compiling Rating 4 = Compiling 2 + Resonance 5 (7d6.hits(5)=3)

[mdp]

Harry turns to Timmy If a hacker or rigger took over the car, is it possible for you to trace them?

[mwiland]

Unfortunately no.  Even if I saw the same trace again no.  I can tell you whoever did this hacked it the old fashioned way, this was not done by a technomancer.

[Sichr]

As you are leaving Wongs house,you all have the bad feeling about the whole thing. Clues, pieces of puzzle, are far too shattered and spread, it is difficult to make nay assumptions now.
Timmy has established secured communication channel, so you are able to discuss your opinions and plans online. You get on/into your vehicles, Griffin takes the seat in the van, as it temperature begans to fall after the sunset. Streets of Seattle never sleeps, shining lights, neons, tens of thousands of windows lining the streets...
Trid Boards, Holographic projections, laser shows fighting each other for the piece of place on the night sky, outshining threal stars with commercial flickering, huge bodies of LTA commuters and Zeppelins, with every piece of surface covered by logos and advertisement, and above that all, distant, shining unmistakable Needle in front of you. You follow Route 164 to the borders of Auburn and then you connect to the interstate 5 Express highway. As you close to the heart of Seattle Downtown.Needle become just one of many monuments, and as you close to ACEH, it remains just a silent memory, as the mass of former Renraku Arcology fills your whole field of view.
You feel like an insect in the shadow of megastructure, and when you enter the gate, that feeling multiplies as you are overhelmed with the vaste space of transit tunnels, with confusing echoes, strange shadows and the memories of dead imprinted in every inch of the structure.
You see some Heavy millitary vehicles, standing on the road posts guarding the entrances to some locations. In the very moment you enter the protected perimeter, Ford LEBD-1 security drone enters your field of view, transmitting the long list of directives, that Pilot programs of your machines is able to download and follow. Tunnels AR displays many couloured AR guidelines.

"SLOW DOWN TO 20 MPH AND PREPARE FOR SECURITY CHECK. STATE YOUR ID`S FOR CHECK AND STATE YOUR BUSINESS IN THE ARCOLOGY COMMERCIAL AND HOUSING ENCLAVE. IF OU ARE JUST PASSING BY, ALIGN TO BLUE LINE. IN CASE OF LOCAL INTERREST, YOU WILL BE PROVIDED WITH AR GUIDE. PLEASE FOLLOW HIS INSTRUCTIONS FOR YOUR OWN SAFETY."

Drone Perception: Sensor (3) + Clearsight(5,o) (8d6.hits(5)=2)

[Sichr]

@Harry: Travelling to laboratories takes some time, and when you are cruising the Downtown to reach the ACEH, you are receiving the call

Incoming feed: @Sphinx
Well my friend, I have some bad news for you...I will give you a discount for this, lets say 30% down from original price. Ive managed to convince one of my cowboys to hit the malls security feeds for the area you gave me, and what he foung is pretty fucked up security footage that revaals nothing. [Feed attached] More to it, i have him check the whole mall security szstem. The entering gate was fried by EMP, so its malfunction now for maybe 4 hours, and nobody cares, Seems like some inside missunderrstanding, on their security panels they are all green. Since the security cameras are hardwired and there are no edit or hacking traces, I assume that what you see on the feed is some fucking mojo. I feel a bit helpless now, but this interrests me a bit. Call me back iof you need anything, Ill try to give you some edge if I can.

When you play security cams feed you find out that:
Ms. Wong parked her car on the place 1157 at 3:15 PM, and left the car with the boy (Hao Wang is just another young chineese boy, about 12 years old, nothing special about him. He seems to be in the good mood, talking and laughing with his mom.)
4:02 PM: Something goes on, Cloud of nasty looking, unpenetrable fog appears on the garage level, moving towards place 1158. When it stops, Ms. Wongs Comet also disappears.
4:10 PM: Wongs entering the scene., like nothing is going on , they are walking towards theirs car. when they pass by 1158, the fog reaches out and swallows them. They dissapear.
4:18 PM: The cloud of mist moves towards exit. A few second after Wongs commet appears. Ms wong is lying on the drivers seat, lower body out of the doors,.
4:33 PM: Ms. Wong wokes up, managed to get in car, closes the doors. Car leaving.

End of Feed