[funkytim]

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.

Yeah, I was only moving to attack to follow Jink's lead.  Guess we'll see what happens.

[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. 

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 was only moving to attack to follow Jink's lead.  Guess we'll see what happens.

I figure if a fight breaks out, the goon squad isn't likely to be picky about geeking us all.  So pitching in does seem like a good idea.

[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. 

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.

When they went in, their links were automatically routed through niel's nexus to his wired connection.  That's the magic of the wireless matrix.  Ad-hoc networking is built into the infrastructure.  The routing can't be turned off.

[Cato]

Yeah... I was slightly concerned about that.

I kind of get the feeling that the group at Vanians is about to be in trouble.  In a messy way.  Go out with a bang .  And who knows, maybe luck is on our side.  A lot of luck.

[Xarin]

When they went in, their links were automatically routed through niel's nexus to his wired connection.  That's the magic of the wireless matrix.  Ad-hoc networking is built into the infrastructure.  The routing can't be turned off.

Would it be safe to assume little miss hacker Yuri knows this? Because if the data stream got routed through that nexus, she can Track it right back to get the wired node ID to hack it directly.

Normally Track is used to identify a target's home node, but it does so by back-tracking the signal node-by-node.  Yuri could just stop when she reaches Neil's node and hack in.

[Psikerlord]

Haha! Well, Jink does have the reckless quality ... and also braggart...  so he is always looking for a way to up his rep - what better way than taking out notorious Clean Steve! Especially when he and his friends are coming to kill us! (Or, at least, are coming to check out Vanians while we're already there...). I guess Jink has the impression they are coming to get them!

... But ok, let me figure out how surprise works... perhaps  instead Jink could try to stick his gun out and demand that Clean Steve & his goons "Freeze!" Then we shall see if talking is possible.. ?

[Kontact]

Sure, you can try and trace the second to last ID in the chain of custody for the messages they were sending from the room. 

Good thinking. 

Roll computer + logic to see if you can dissect the messsage's routing path.

[Kontact]

Haha! Well, Jink does have the reckless quality ... and also braggart...  so he is always looking for a way to up his rep - what better way than taking out notorious Clean Steve! Especially when he and his friends are coming to kill us! (Or, at least, are coming to check out Vanians while we're already there...). I guess Jink has the impression they are coming to get them!

... But ok, let me figure out how surprise works... perhaps  instead Jink could try to stick his gun out and demand that Clean Steve & his goons "Freeze!" Then we shall see if talking is possible.. ?

Remember that the reason you know this guy is that he's the sort of guy that the mob would send to "talk" to a jacked-up runner about his debts...

But if you wanted to try and off him, surprise would be the way to go.  If you think you can catch a guy off guard when he's strolling down the street flanked by a crew of gunners.

You know, maybe you should roll a composure test to see if your thrill seeking nature will push you to action before you can think about it more.

[funkytim]

Haha! Well, Jink does have the reckless quality ... and also braggart...  so he is always looking for a way to up his rep - what better way than taking out notorious Clean Steve! Especially when he and his friends are coming to kill us! (Or, at least, are coming to check out Vanians while we're already there...). I guess Jink has the impression they are coming to get them!

... But ok, let me figure out how surprise works... perhaps  instead Jink could try to stick his gun out and demand that Clean Steve & his goons "Freeze!" Then we shall see if talking is possible.. ?

Well Kontact would have to let you take your actions back.  I don't think it's a big deal.  If Clean Steve dies though we can't get any info out of him.  Hey, It's my first SR combat since 1992.  Hope I live through it.

[funkytim]

Haha! Well, Jink does have the reckless quality ... and also braggart...  so he is always looking for a way to up his rep - what better way than taking out notorious Clean Steve! Especially when he and his friends are coming to kill us! (Or, at least, are coming to check out Vanians while we're already there...). I guess Jink has the impression they are coming to get them!

... But ok, let me figure out how surprise works... perhaps  instead Jink could try to stick his gun out and demand that Clean Steve & his goons "Freeze!" Then we shall see if talking is possible.. ?

Remember that the reason you know this guy is that he's the sort of guy that the mob would send to "talk" to a jacked-up runner about his debts...

Would he be bringing three cybered goons and a spirit to scare Vanian?   My question is if he's after us how does he know were here?

[Xarin]

Probably after Vanian, or anyone looking into Vanian.  We happen to be the latter.  If just the former, he probably still wouldn't mind geeking us for getting in his way.

[funkytim]

Whatever is decided is good with me.  I wouldn't mind hearing IF he has anything to say.  That might ruin any surprise advantage we MIGHT have.

The suspense is killing me though.

Yuri should still hack those commlinks though.

[Psikerlord]

suspense ended - let the talking begin (or is that shooting....!)

PS - I'm in Sydney Australia, and just by fluke I'm home today and able to post now. I would not normally be able to post for another few hours, after getting home from work. I get the impression you guys are all in different time zones to me. It's cool to be able to have a bit of immediate back and forth.

[funkytim]

The suspense won't end for me until Kontact posts what happens.

[Kontact]

In case it wasn't apparent, the hand signals were because Steve's whole team was on radio silence.