[Kontact]

Was he actually able to pull the fire alarm?

The fire alarms are all automated to avoid user error.  Unless the system tells the building its on fire, it won't go off.

[Xarin]

Oh hey, didn't think of it before.  Unless otherwise stated, assume that while shadowrunning Yuri is pretty much always running Biofeedback Filter, Analyze, Encrypt, and Stealth programs.  That leaves pulling up 1 other program at will without bogging down the system any.

Also!
Yuri's Matrix Icon in it's native environment
Icon in full matrix combat load

I didn't want to cram too much into the IC post.  It's already got about 2-3 combat turns worth in it, and there's that tension with Prettyboy closing in.  Granted that means she hacked the Gibson Hall system and ran amok with it's camera feeds in about 6-8 seconds without even going full VR.  Man, I gotta give this girl more credit after that first botched hacking job  Also, what would I roll to find the access link to another node?  Matrix Perception, or Browse?  Scan only picks up wireless.

[Paeniteo Azrael]

Assuming our rather proficient hacker can make the building think its on fire, I'll be happy to leave with Johnny. Otherwise, I was thinking about shooting out the closest fire sprinkler followed by the closest fire escape window and getting out of there that way (and hopefully there isn't some security system that locks the building down or something, and it should set off the fire alarm stick n' shock for the win), if it is possible. Don't want poor Dr. Leary suddenly exploding, and although I doubt the bomb would significantly damage the building and keeping civs alive isn't our job, it would probably be best if no one else died in this mess.

[funkytim]

If I wasn't busy I summon an air spirit to lift that bomb into the atmosphere.

Hey Kontact,  If I'm not rolling initiative, I'm going to determine how much time until those thugs get to Vanian's to determine my next step.

[Kontact]

Clean Steve is almost there.  The guys with the wires are swarming around back.

[Paeniteo Azrael]

If you send Johnny and I something about the danger you're in, I can get us the hell over there pronto, cover fire might get you guys out the door and not dead....

[funkytim]

Thoughts on this upcoming fight

My big question here is who summoned that spirit.  He could be on remote service but if Steve summoned it he is an initiate using masking.  I'm thinking I should try take out that spirit first and then help out with the goons.  The spirit could be providing spell defense for the goons.  I don't have any bullets but I got plenty of mojo.  Let me know what you think.

[Cato]

Makes sense to me.

[Psikerlord]

Yep take out the spirit then the goons will hopefully go down quick against your magic - then you can come help Jink! 

[Kontact]

Wow, all these assumptions.  Anyway, working some things out OOC. 

Clean Steve is about 15 meters from the front door.  The guys in the back alley were hustling forward.  The spirit did not react to Ghost's presence earlier and was still in the sky when Ghost made it back to his body.  If you want to try to spring on the guy, go ahead and roll surprise with +3.  So, that should be 13 dice for Jink.

Downtown, Neil's system isn't connected to the building's central node, but was accessible for the full 10 minutes where Johnny was searching the lab.  Any hacking which needed to be done could be done in that blank time.  It's got a firewall of 5 and analyze of 4.

When you set off the fire alarm in the building, where do you put the fake fire?

[Xarin]

A flick of her wrist in the AR display sent the message to the Gibson Building's system.  Fire Detected on the third floor.

So, the floor above the one Niel's office is on.  An out-of-the-way corner if possible.

At the time the office was getting tossed, Yuri was occupied with digging around in Vanian's, and no one mentioned they'd found Neil's nexus to Yuri, so she wouldn't have had a chance to hook up and hack it.  That's just the downside of splitting up, hard to handle supporting two teams at once with semi-sparse communication.

And by now, the looming threat of 3 wired goons, a spirit, and some cute guy she doesn't recognize but that seems to spook everyone else has her a bit preoccupied with not getting a case of kinetic lead poisoning.

[Kontact]

cool, sorry.  I'm trying to catch up. 

But, you could retcon the hack.  like I said, there was a dead space of time that got brushed passed where it could have happened.  I'll assume that the others might have thought that perhaps the computer expert had something on his computer. 

[Xarin]

I'm not a huge fan of retconning when avoidable.  I like to just try to roll with it.

That being the case, there is still the possibility of hacking it in the next couple of minutes before the bomb goes off.  It only takes a few seconds really.  Think there's any time (even just a combat turn or two) before hostilities begin over at Vanians?  Otherwise, well, combat tends to be very short and brutal in real-time terms.  Might even still have a chance after the fight's over.  Or even during the fight, in which case Yuri will have proven herself to be suffeciently hardcore..

[Kontact]

Neil's office has R6 wi-fi negating paint and a clandestine wired connection whose ID isn't public, unlike the Gibson Hall ID.  The only way to hack the nexus is from inside the room. 

Hostilities are about to begin big time if Jink is just blasting at a killer so infamous that whole criminal organizations are afraid of him.

[Xarin]

Neil's office has R6 wi-fi negating paint and a clandestine wired connection whose ID isn't public, unlike the Gibson Hall ID.  The only way to hack the nexus is from inside the room. 

But it seems that as long as Mary and Johnny are still hanging around with the door open, a signal can still get through.  Otherwise we wouldn't have been able to be communicating this entire time and Yuri couldn't have hacked it anyway.

In which case, we might be able to use the spare 'link they found as a dummy relay while they get out of there.

Hostilities are about to begin big time if Jink is just blasting at a killer so infamous that whole criminal organizations are afraid of him.

Yeah I get that impression   Diplomacy is not Jink's strong point it seems.  More of an aggressive negotiations type.