[mdp]

While driving to the lab, Harry sends a message to Sfinx.
Thanx mate, I owe you one, payment will be drop in the regular manner, I'll pass by the locker this evening
Afterwards he transmits the video feet to his fellows
Hey people, got the footage from the mall security, Check it out and let me know if you can make anything of it, this seems to be on Griffin's alley
He then slows down to the requested speed and transmits his fake ID and licenses to the drone.  Stating I'm here on business, have some sample's I need analysed in a forensic lab downtown

[deathwishjoe]

what does a spirit have in common with a computer AI aside from simply not being alive like you or I?  And what would ether want with this child?

[Kot]

Griffin with a sigh pokes his commlink to produce an AR that will allow him to feed the drone with his licenses. He looks at Timmy for a second, his face shows that he's concentrating on something else at the same time.
"Everything legal here, no worries."
He takes a moment to make sure his spellcasting license is still valid...

[Sichr]

GOOD EVENING MR. MCBRIDE. YOUR AUTOMATIC APPROACH PROTOCOL HAS BEEN TRANSMITED TO YOUR PILOT. MR. ATOMBE IS EXPECTING YOUR ARRIVAL. PLEASE PARK YOUR TRANSPORTATIONS IN THE BLOCK 2 AND USE AN ELEVATOR TO SUBLEVEL 2. AROWS WILL GUIDE YOU TO SECTION RC12-CSA. PLEASE, TRANSMIT THIS APPROACH COODRINATES TO ALL YOUR COMPANIONS AND USE ASSIGNED CODES FOR EVERY SECURITY CHECK. HAVE A NICE DAY

With smooth acceleration, drone passes by to other vehicles...

[Sichr]

As you follow your instructions, you park your vehicles on the secured parking lot. On your way through the tunnesl, stairways, lobbies and elevators you may Admire the commercial beauty of former Renraku Arcology. Even after those years, in the district you are directed at, there are still visible traces of Deus presence. Small memorials of victims, AR Tagged on many places all around you, makes you remember those thousands of deaths quite clearly, doesnt matter if you were a child, student, russian gangster or anything else. Genius loci bridges your personal lives and memories of those days with overhelming

HERE AND NOW

Some of you, Lynx, Griffin, Timmy...feel quite uncomfortable on some places you are passing, to all of you this place gives you creeps. ARO leads you throught commercial area to more Maintenance looking parts of Arcology, and then the elevator takes you further deep into the place. Sometimes you need to look over your shoulder...just to be sure that there is anyone watching you...
You are passing throught 10 checkpoints on your way in, before you finaly reach the ARO:
SubLevel 2 Research Center
Before you make you next steps, sarcastic voice sound from the Corridor to your left

Hey, Griffin...looks like you have found some friends out there. Good to see that you are still able to talk with a normal people. Im expecting you. Please get in.


With this words, frame of light appears on one of the walls, as the hydraulic doors opens and allows you to enter.
Inside you can lounge with some expensive anatomic seats, bar, holotank and a few lower tables. It looks like the furniture is made from materials found in the Arcology, shaped to some weird curves...well it is absolutely comfortable...for now. Behind the bar there are larger opened doors, leading to the corridor, where you can see a few laboratory workers. At the bar, large, tanned man is mixing his drink, looking at you with the mix of curriosity and amusement...

Hi Griffin. Good evening gentlemen. Nice to see you. I`ve heard that you have some traces you need me to help you analyze. Please make yourself comfortable, use the bar if you need or want to, and tell me more. Ah. Yes..those samples...
Richard...
He calls over his shoulder.
Small drone, all arms, pincers, nano-mechanic tools and sensors appears from the laboratory, floating right bellow the ceiling...waits until you take out the samples, than approaches carrefully, scanning the plastic bags at first. Then it extends some of its arms to take it...
Richard, please, take this samples for the spectral analysis. Gentlemen would wait here for results, so consider this A+ priority task.
Drone leaves as quickly you managed to see just a flash...
Now...this would take a few minutes, so let us sit here and have some conversation. Griffin. Would you introduce me to your new partners? And what is the case you are working on. Im quite currious about what made you leave that cave of yours and brought you back to the daylight..

he looks around the underground lab
well, at least methaphoricaly...


@Sylvia Colindres:
NOTICE: EMERGENCY BLOG Updated.

...Breaking News. Young boy was kidnapped when visiting Auburn Supermall. Parking lot security systems are down, familly desperate. Is this the Case of emerged entity kidnaped again? Who is responsible for this? Corporation? Some Laboratory? No clues so far...but Im working on that. Stay with me, Ill stay with you.EB

The message breaks your normal evening. May it be another case? May it be connected with your brother dissapearance? As you know EB, he never blogs any unverified rumours, so he must have much more in his hand than just what he had posted to make the statement.

[Kot]

"Kidnapping. Literally. Well, I took it as a long shot at keeping the house and continuing my... rehabilitation... Yes, I know... And as I received more information on the case, something struck me. She'd take it without any hesitation. So why shouldn't I?"

[Sichr]

Hell, you are right. Emma was a golden girl with the brave and golden heart. Too bad we are not able to do nothing more now. I know that you have a hope...and Im not the one who will tell you to give it up. Most of my patients end up finding that it is not true the hope dies last. Because they outlived theirs hope at least for some seconds...
Well. World wasnt sleeping while you were away. You better take some time to see what it looks like today...not that it was different...when you feel ready, come back. We still have some relicts of that hive on ice...but I didnt wanted to distract you with memories...

[farothel]

Sylvia had just downloaded Water Margin and was all settled for a night of mindless entertainment.  It was always fun to see a movie about shadowrunner.  The way they were shown was always good for a laugh.  Sighing, she put the download on her 'link for later viewing and wrote a message to EB.  She has never him or her (even that she wasn't sure about), but (s)he has given her some good leads over the past years.  So she sends him a quick message:

Sounds interesting. I'll have a look into this.  Can you give me some more information?

Shadow.


She also had a look on the matrix to check some news sites to get information that way.

http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/3027753/: datasearch (browse 4 -1=3d6 → [4,3,5] = (12) )

[mwiland]

Timmy looks with mild excitement at the small drone that quickly appeared and disappeared.  Then looks at the large tanned man behind the bar, Is there a chance i could get the schematics for that so as I may make one for my own uses?

[mdp]

As they are waiting for the drone to get his work done, Harry walks to the bar and starts looking for wiskey. 

[Sichr]

@Sylvia: Not too much, baby. Im still searching for the for the boy`s identity, he looks like he doesnt exist. Not him, not his mother, not their car.... Yet there was some hum around the SuperMall and someone is after him...if its good or bad, I dont know. They don`t look like a warparty from what I saw...maybe rescue team or something. Im trying to dig some info on them also, yet I have no confirmed ID`s. Ill keep you posted if you are interrested...just give me what you find and we are OK, right

@Timmy: Well, Richard is quite special to me, I received him as a gift from the friend of mine...some years ago. Ive been trying...well...I never fully understood how it works. He is my little eniigma...and seems like he has a fun of my incompetence...

@Harry: You find it on the forst glance, nice, full, old Old Smugglers right at your reach. As you take it, you hold it to read the label, you are surprised by the date on it. Possitively surprised. As you pur the whiskey to the glass, Atombe is watching you...
You are a cop, aren`t you? Undercover, well trained. I can tell...from whatever...I saw a lot of your type...yet most of them lack that spirit in the eyes you got, eloquently he nods towards the "Audience room" tag on one of doors in the inner hallway. Other one tells simply "Light" and another one "REACTOR ACCESS SHAFT: KEEP OUT"
There are few others, unlabeled...and also some unlabeled bottles in the bar...
Atombe finishs mixing his dring and moves to one of those the comfortable looking seats. Richard pass throught "Light" a nd disappears with your samples, when they shut.
Well, you are a talkative group. Almost the same as most of my patients. Do you mind if I ask what you are up to? The story Griffin says seems interresting, and since my coleagues are mostly in the terrain, and only a few workers remains here, you need not to fear about any leaks....of course, I would respect your privacy, if you want to. We have probably 10 minutes before the analysis is done...
he leaves the sentence opened...

[mwiland]

Timmy politely probes the probe (with the permission of the probe itself) via AR to find out how it works for not only his own knowledge but also for our host.

[Sichr]

Timmy politely probes the probe (with the permission of the probe itself) via AR to find out how it works for not only his own knowledge but also for our host.

Well the probe lets itself probed for the moment before it leaves with samples...deffinitely it is amaying machine...mor to ii, there is sprite inside of it...and it looks like he is home in there. His resonance signature reads "Richard"
You dont know what Richard is, or where he came from. Maybe the rigger, trapped during the Crash, maybe the fragment of some AI, maybe code born. The important is that Richard is:
Very Clever
Very Systematic
Very Agile
Very Perceptive
Very Hardworking
Very Currious
Very Happy with his current task
(...he was almost boring before you arrived. Everyone else is in terrain and he was left behing with Atombe and his bodies...He saw thousands of them, and there was nothing more to discover...by his honest opinion...)

and doing it for free...
CSA Team best friend...

[farothel]

@Sylvia: Not too much, baby. Im still searching for the for the boy`s identity, he looks like he doesnt exist. Not him, not his mother, not their car.... Yet there was some hum around the SuperMall and someone is after him...if its good or bad, I dont know. They don`t look like a warparty from what I saw...maybe rescue team or something. Im trying to dig some info on them also, yet I have no confirmed ID`s. Ill keep you posted if you are interrested...just give me what you find and we are OK, right

You got footage?  Can you forward it to me?  Maybe I know some of those guys
It wasn't all that illogical, as she had been in the shadows for some time, and she did know some people.  Most not in person, but she did try to keep up to date on what happened in the shadows, including a sort of who is who.

[mwiland]

@Richard - So what kind of sprite is a Richard?