[Kontact]

[OOC: Gambling knowledge skill = Int 5 + 2 skill = 7d6.hits(5) → [5,1,4,1,4,1,1] = (1) HURR HURR ANOTHER KNOWLEDGE GLITCH.  Criminal knowledge (mafia) = Int 5 +3 = 8d6.hits(5) → [5,1,1,2,4,1,3,3] = (1)  and the hits keeps sucking..  BTW grim, street knowledge is usually intuition linked.]

[Chrona]

LJ: Sounds like an illegal casino... you think? Weren't they all shut down? Not belonging to  the Finnegans at least.

[GrimWulf]

OOC: Vory roll, assuming logic as the attribute   6d6.hits(5) → [5,6,3,4,2,3] = (2)

[Chrona]

OOC: Vory roll, assuming logic as the attribute   6d6.hits(5) → [5,6,3,4,2,3] = (2)

You might have heard Jinjou or Aki mentioned yourself actually but you can't be sure, you know nothing about the casino

[farothel]

Kitten was still thinking about how to defeat the magical security of the hotel.  The only advantage she had found so far was that its extra-territoriality made that help from KE wouldn't be coming, at least not fast.  She was still working on that when she heard a mention of a casino.

I have the gambling knowledge skill as well.
intuition 5 + gambling 3 =8 (8d6.hits(5)=2)

[Chrona]

Kitten was still thinking about how to defeat the magical security of the hotel.  The only advantage she had found so far was that its extra-territoriality made that help from KE wouldn't be coming, at least not fast.  She was still working on that when she heard a mention of a casino.

I have the gambling knowledge skill as well.
intuition 5 + gambling 3 =8 (8d6.hits(5)=2)

There are a couple illegal casinos in Seattle for those avoiding tax and scrutiny.

[Larzarus]

"We only need to find this casiono, and then we can send our own inventation to Mr.Aki. Space tries to come up with a notorious gambler from Atlantic City, someone who came to the Vory restaurant frequently so he/she would have meet Mr.Aki at least once. Memory: 2 hits
Thinking of Atlantic City, Space remembers that his fixer Gerad might know something, he is in Manhatten, though, but should still have heared one or two things around the west cost. [Gerad: Fixer, L3, C3]

>>@Gerad:"Hiho Gerad, need your help for something. Jinjou Aki [photo attached], won it big a few years ago in Atlantic City. Can you give me a overview what he did, those last few years? Specially in the last 6 month, from there on it seems he vanished from this earth."

[Chrona]

"We only need to find this casiono, and then we can send our own inventation to Mr.Aki. Space tries to come up with a notorious gambler from Atlantic City, someone who came to the Vory restaurant frequently so he/she would have meet Mr.Aki at least once. Memory: 2 hits
Thinking of Atlantic City, Space remembers that his fixer Gerad might know something, he is in Manhatten, though, but should still have heared one or two things around the west cost. [Gerad: Fixer, L3, C3]

>>@Gerad:"Hiho Gerad, need your help for something. Jinjou Aki [photo attached], won it big a few years ago in Atlantic City. Can you give me a overview what he did, those last few years? Specially in the last 6 month, from there on it seems he vanished from this earth."

"Hm, sorry Space, I don't have any contacts in Atlantic City

With connections 3 his area of Influence isn't big enough, sorry.

[Larzarus]

"Hm, sorry Space, I don't have any contacts in Atlantic City

With connections 3 his area of Influence isn't big enough, sorry.

"To bad, nevertheless, thanks man."

Monday August 13, 2073; 21:25, Habu, Whereever Habu is right now, Seattle
Space; PAN=Passive SIN:  Ivan Brok Rt.3

Space quickly stand up to get the two commlinks, the team had from the last run, and load a copy of his agent on both of them. Comeing back to the team: "As LJ said, we don't know much about Mr.Aki ... what did you call them ...  ancient, recent, and future histrory. I would say, call it a day, and tomorrow, in the early morning, I probe a little bit into the hotel system, Silk can play the interested visitor and walk a little bit around the hotel and then we all do a little bit more legwork. "

When Space is finish with talking, we connect to the safe house and call for the tea lady (search bot). He change the search parameter:

-last known location of Jinjou Aki (around 6 month ago)
-news/events at this location around the week around 6 month ago

"So, in around 2h, you can look at the safe house nexus and check the search bot folder, I send the agent to find us some info, whatt happend around 6 month ago. Will be a lot of news files, thought, so we probably have to look through them ourself again."

[Chrona]

Tuesday August 14, 2073; 00:00, A nice apartment, Bellevue, Seattle

A half naked and dressing Stasya calls up Noise, bang on midnight. In Russian, "Morning Sister," switching to English and looking of screen, gently kicking something that yelps. "I was what you paid for, not bed, gather clothes and go."
A man tidies his things and leaves, "That man you were looking for, Aki, he got a hefty loan out from our kin in Atlantic city a couple weeks ago, 100k. The shark is a beast of a man, Kork."

If noise is asleep this is left as a trideo mail.

Tuesday August 14, 2073; 01:00, Porter's Home, ??, Seattle

The call to Silk starts with a long yawn, "Sorry, Sorry, just got in from locking up. I asked around, seems he's been seen with some Yak types, buying them drinks in various bars, nowhere particular though. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm hitting the hay."

I'll remote control Silk if needed, consider Porters message relayed

[Larzarus]

Monday August 13, 2073; 21:27, Habu, Whereever Habu is right now, Seattle
Space; PAN=Passive SIN:  Ivan Brok Rt.3

"Andromeda, do you mind, giving me a ride tomorrow, I like to sit in a car in case someone tries to trace me, while I look at their system. Just give me a call, when we are ready to go tomorrow.

by the way," Space put the two commlinks from the last run on the table, "I loaded to agents on those comms, when activated, they will scan the area for the IDtag from the arm and also for the guns. I know, those codes, we found in the safe house. You never know.
When you give the agents a visual, eg camera-feed from your glasses or contacts, they also run a face regocnition an the feed.
I would suggest, that whoever goes into the hotel take one of these with him."

[Kouryuu]

Monday August 13, 2073; 21:27, Habu, Whereever Habu is right now, Seattle
Space; PAN=Passive SIN:  Ivan Brok Rt.3

"Andromeda, do you mind, giving me a ride tomorrow, I like to sit in a car in case someone tries to trace me, while I look at their system. Just give me a call, when we are ready to go tomorrow.

by the way," Space put the two commlinks from the last run on the table, "I loaded to agents on those comms, when activated, they will scan the area for the IDtag from the arm and also for the guns. I know, those codes, we found in the safe house. You never know.
When you give the agents a visual, eg camera-feed from your glasses or contacts, they also run a face regocnition an the feed.
I would suggest, that whoever goes into the hotel take one of these with him."

Using Comlinks as spying devices was not he only way they might do some spying inside the hotel, a microdrone would work as well, but this was again a department Andromeda lacked the tech to do her bidding.
TS@Team >Does someone of you know any Fixer that might have somethings in the Drone department? mine is a half days drive away and it would make sense to get someone closer.<
then she prepared a second message to her Friend
@Kouryuu Nagashima (junkyard owner) >Hoey, Old man, How's businesses? If you wouldn't mind making some buck, i find myself in dire need of some spy drones, would you have some in stock or if you do not mind, you could set me up with a supplier of yours in Seattle so i have not to travel to you this time, promise will go to see you after this job.<
Both have an attached file with specification the drone must fulfill.

MCT Fly-Spy (Minidrone) still looking for upgrades

[farothel]

Monday August 13, 2073; 21:27, Habu, Whereever Habu is right now, Seattle
Kitten; PAN=Passive SIN:  Maria De la Vega, rt.4

"Well, I can't really help with drones," Kitten said, "I was thinking on having a look around the hotel tomorrow, so I can go through the wards and then check the astral space.  They should have a restaurant or something we can use for that."

[Larzarus]

"Well, I can't really help with drones," Kitten said, "I was thinking on having a look around the hotel tomorrow, so I can go through the wards and then check the astral space.  They should have a restaurant or something we can use for that."

"I would assume that the restaurant is for guest only, but we will see. Let's say, we meet tomorrow, at ... 8am, around" [Space names a street corner a few blooks south of the hotel] "We can discuss new input, if we have anything by then. At 10.oo, we people are coming and going, guests ordering breakfast, make their check-in and -out, all this big confusion, Silk and LJ go into the hotel and play the interested guests, I look at the matrix and you at the astral side of this place, while the rest do some more legwork based on new informations. Maybe Andromeda already has can test the minidrone by then, too. What do you say?"

[Chrona]

The restaurant will take separate customers but is pricey, waiting on what mods for the drone.