[Kouryuu]

After finishing your drinks you get up and into the Rover. This time around you follow Ahuechei on his bike,  you take the I-10 till you see the wall.

I-10 Wall: After the Twins, a lot of downtown was submerged. Luckily most of the I-10 was still intact, being reinforced in case of earthquakes. Pueblo Corporate Council government used the freeway to lower large cement bricks under the freeway and started the process of draining Los Angeles. Since it was done rather quickly, there are still gaps between the freeway and the wall, allowing high tide and storm surges to occasionally spill over.

Not soon after reaching the wall you leave the highway and go gown to old downtown. The Cinderblock Motel is just few blocks further from the I-10 highway.

Cinderblock Motel: A single-story, twelve-room motel that rents rooms by the hour, no questions asked. No phone or trideo service is offered, and the bed sheets are changed every week. Simple maglocks hold the doors closed. The motel is beyond run down; most likely it was flooded after the Twins and since then only the furniture‘s been replaced. The rectangular building lives up to its name, with six rooms in the front and six in the back. A simple maglock secures the rooms, but since there’s faulty power it’s a fifty-fifty chance the room can be opened without a key. Each spartan hole is four by four meters with a narrow bathroom, furnished with just a bed, nightstand, and dresser. In any of the rooms, occupants can guess at the debauchery that left so many stains and smells.

Perception Roll please

After a few min Ahuechei speaks to the manager Sancho, after a few Nuyen change hands you are given access to the room where Daee was found.

[farothel]

Panther looked around for cameras.  If she could get that footage, she might get to know a bit more about what had happened here.  They had a timeframe, or at least something close enough.


If you want me to roll perception, you'll have to wait a bit as Invisible castle seems to be down.

[Xzylvador]

"Wow, what a classy joint. This is where the broad was found? Ya'd think people like her wouldn't be caught dead in a place like this. If the footage they caught is anything near as sleazy as this place, it'll be a huge matrix hit."
He looked around for obvious things like camera's and microphones, but considering the past events was more on guard for drones or suspicious looking people.

As mentioned by others, VisCast is down. Feel free to roll for me: 14 dice active audio/visual perception. Smells are 3 dice less, which is a good thing considering the location.

[Caramelle]

Freya looked arround and was shocked  - What an awful shack! I just can' t imagine Daee in here... Probably that's something about drugs - you know, she has had problems with addictions, at least that's what people talk about. As well as the fact that she acts like two completely different persons when Andre is arround and when he's not...

[Sparkling Dragonfly]

Yeah, Ahuechei muttered under his breath, imagine what it was like to come running following a comlink signal, ready for an attack - and end up here. And to think she actually played me to slip out of the party and come to this... place... He shuddered, as unwelcome memories assaulted him. I am never, NEVER again assuming the responsibility of safeguarding a spoiled star again. Ever.

[Caramelle]

I can understand that, Freya answered Ahuechei, this place is horrible... Actually I'm wondering how you lasted so long in this job. I couldn't do that, especially with a person like Daee. The more I find out about her, the more unpleasant things come up.

[Sparkling Dragonfly]

A job is a job, Ahuechei shrugged. Beats lurking around in a forest for months under pouring rains of monsoon. On a second thought, however, he thought about the events in the past few days, No, it doesn't.

Ahuechei tucked a loose strand of red hair behind his ear. It long overdue to get this mess cleared. He tossed in the air the magnetic key card that would open the door to where he had found Miss Daee that night, the card flipped, and he caught it again.

Let's go? Keep your eyes open and your thoughts to yourselves. You can never know who's listening. Or what, he cast a quick look at the ork.

[Caramelle]

I'm sorry, I didn' t get your idea... Freya faltered. But as to eyes and ears in the walls - that's true, one can never be sure he's alone in such a place...

[Sparkling Dragonfly]

I meant, this is better than a soaking wet forest, Ahuechei started regretting he had started the conversation.

Third room on the right, the door swung open lightly.

[Kouryuu]

Perception tests 5+ successful

As Rafa Enters the room he notices a few three-millimeter-wide holes in the ceiling and walls where a fiber-optic camera would fit. the cables themselves are going towards the roof.

@Phanther
But even after extensive testing you can not find any nodes, at least not any out of place, the hotel one is operational.

[Xzylvador]

"You know, one can be pretty damned sure there's eyes and ears in the walls if one would just stop trying to sound smart or tell me how to behave and actually pay some friggin' attention.", Rafa barked at Freya and Aheuchei. " 'sides, I ain't the one dumb enough to be talking about 'spoiled stars' or mentioning the broads name. Shitloads of sleazy home-made movies with 'broads' on the matrix, but very few of 'em have bodyguards to sneak away from and match the keywords you two just used."
He shook his head and sighed.
"See these little holes here?" he said, pointing to a number of places on the wall where the others saw nothing out of the ordinary, "Could easily be used for glass fiber wires hooked up to some camera.
And if tech-girl here ain't picking up any nodes, we might be in luck. If it's a closed system, what we're looking for might be on whatever these things are hooked up to. Takes a little more searching the old-fashioned way... wires are leadin' up."

[Sentinemodo]

For the future reference, in cases like this, we might do a teamworked searching.


Caretakers, sits in the corner and his ghostly body stood up, then ascended through the ceiling. I'll check the roof


Astral perception to check if anything out of magical order has happened here
10d6.hits(5)=2

[Kouryuu]

the ghostly image of Caretaker inspects the roof he finds no magic anywhere near, and has doubts there has been any magic here at all, he sees no meta's here as well just a few birds taking a nap on the building, it's almost 4:00 AM and they soon will go about their day again.

[Xzylvador]

"Be right up there with ya, ratman!", Rafa shouted at the transparent image that had already halfway shifted through the ceiling.
"Someone should probably stay here with his body.", Rafa said while already on his way out. "Maybe squeeze that manager a bit. He's got to know these rooms are bugged, no?"
Rafa ran straight past the receptionist, leaped to the edge of the roof and easily climbed up.

Will just buy hits on jump and climb, should be more than sufficient.

[Kouryuu]

"Be right up there with ya, ratman!", Rafa shouted at the transparent image that had already halfway shifted through the ceiling.
"Someone should probably stay here with his body.", Rafa said while already on his way out. "Maybe squeeze that manager a bit. He's got to know these rooms are bugged, no?"
Rafa ran straight past the receptionist, leaped to the edge of the roof and easily climbed up.

Will just buy hits on jump and climb, should be more than sufficient.

As Rafa Scales the Roof, he finds the cables bundled into a PVC pipe on the roof. The pipe goes across the roof, ending at a laser repeater device pointed to the east, somewhere in the direction of the Robertson Blvd. Checking all the roofs for the receiver would be very time-consuming and defiantly not doable in half a day, you are left with.