[farothel]

"Give me a second," Panther said, going into the matrix.  She took a guard she could see and checked out his commlink node.  Next she working on capturing the signals he was sending.  As soon as she got it, she started to listen in, copying Ahu as he knew about guarding, and recording what she heard.


matrix perception on a guard's commlink node (I'm going with the fact that the guards in this place are clearly visible as such and that they don't run hidden.
computer 4 + analyse 6 =10 (10d6.hits(5) =2)
firewall rating + analyse program rating please

capture wireless signal
electronic warfare 4 + sniffer 6 =10 (10d6.hits(5)=2, 10d6.hits(5)=7, 10d6.hits(5)=5)
It takes me 2 tries to get the signal. I need 3 hits, but they can't see that I'm trying to capture their signal.

if encrypted, first run decrypt (I'm going with the fact that these are not robust encryptions, which would sound way too much for guards in a strip joint.  If it is, let me know, then I know there is more than meets the eye here.
electronic warfare 4 + decrypt 6 =10 (10d6.hits(5)=2, 10d6.hits(5)=3, 10d6.hits(5)=1, 10d6.hits(5)=2, 10d6.hits(5)=4, 10d6.hits(5)=2, 10d6.hits(5)=5, 10d6.hits(5)=0, 10d6.hits(5)=2, 10d6.hits(5)=2)
It's an electronic warfare+decrypt (2x encryption rating, 1 combat turn) test.  So 1 turn for rating 1 encryption, 2 turns for rating 2, 3 turns for rating 3, 4 turns for rating 4, 5 turns for rating 5 or 6.

[Xzylvador]

Without a sound, Rafa pulled himself back over the ledge and approached the two chatting guards from behind. They had almost reached the door when they were made aware of his presence as he grabbed both their hair and slammed their heads together. Instead of letting go as they collapsed to the floor -well... roof, actually- dazed by the attack, he followed their slumping movement and hastened their decent, smacking them head first into the black asphalt roofing with an eerie sounding thud.

Standing up, he nudged them in the ribs with his feet to check if they were still responding and looked at his hands disgustedly. Ah, grosero!
"Right, lights out for these two. Panther, you in their comms? I'd like to know when their compadres notice they're gone and come looking.", Rafa asked while plucking stuck strands of hair out of his gecko grip palms.

[Kouryuu]

Caretakers, strides into the place and watch the girls on the stage. There is little of the old fashioned pleasure of inserting paper money inside the scraps of clothing. Nowaday you slot credstick into the table and press AR button to transfer amounts to the girl you like. He selected one and sent her 10 nuyen. As she closed in to express her gratitude in some special moves, his eyes flashed black for a blink. As if conteplating the body (which he actually do as well) his vision turned into astral and with a small gesture he ripped piece of her aura. I'll borrow just a bit of you he whispered. The bit took form of a wispy doll girl face. A thought order sent it into move. find dogs auras nearby, return, describe them, and their location

As this happens, the Dancer takes a few steps, almost falling on a quite well rounded dwarf few seats away from Caretaker, only a quick reaction on her part, catching the pole she was just dancing around saved her from the fall, in a few seconds, from the lively and youthful look of her face was nothing left, she looks like she had done BTL's for the last few weeks nonstop. This was the best she could do. she went down to the floor for a few moments,then regained a bit of strength and started to get back on her feet. As soon as she got her footing back she tried to get to backstage, on the way she fell over a few times, and one of the other girls came to help her in the end.

Returning Caretaker order five drinks, for himself synth-rum with soda and cola essence sprinkled with lemon juice, synth-tequilla, dry synth-wermuth and olive for Tipsy, energy drink for Panther, whatever passed-for-white-wine here for Freya and a glass of sparkling water for Freya also as she'll probably refuse to drink the pass-for-white-wine anyway.

To Caretakers surprise there were quit a few Real food and real beverage items on the menu, white whine being one of them, though the price seemed way to high, even for a night club.

Just as Caretaker had finished the ordering of the drinks, his watcher returned, proudly announcing that there are no dogs in the building, but there are quite a few outside the premises, though he had noticed a dog like creature somewhere around the backstage, but the aura had not been that of a dog, just dog-like, it could have as easily been a plant, at least it was just as plant-like as it was dog-like.
Confused?
yeah the watcher was quite confused of the nature of the creature.
One lucky edge roll you have got there

Meanwhile on the channel he asked around. Panther, you can tap on their commline? Ahuechei they'll talk bodyguardish, try to assess their number, positions and location of sec center. Freya, you think you could find out where the boss is if he is here. You could pretend you look for work.

"Give me a second," Panther said, going into the matrix.  She took a guard she could see and checked out his commlink node.  Next she working on capturing the signals he was sending.  As soon as she got it, she started to listen in, copying Ahu as he knew about guarding, and recording what she heard.


matrix perception on a guard's commlink node (I'm going with the fact that the guards in this place are clearly visible as such and that they don't run hidden.
computer 4 + analyse 6 =10 (10d6.hits(5) =2)
firewall rating + analyse program rating please

capture wireless signal
electronic warfare 4 + sniffer 6 =10 (10d6.hits(5)=2, 10d6.hits(5)=7, 10d6.hits(5)=5)
It takes me 2 tries to get the signal. I need 3 hits, but they can't see that I'm trying to capture their signal.

if encrypted, first run decrypt (I'm going with the fact that these are not robust encryptions, which would sound way too much for guards in a strip joint.  If it is, let me know, then I know there is more than meets the eye here.
electronic warfare 4 + decrypt 6 =10 (10d6.hits(5)=2, 10d6.hits(5)=3, 10d6.hits(5)=1, 10d6.hits(5)=2, 10d6.hits(5)=4, 10d6.hits(5)=2, 10d6.hits(5)=5, 10d6.hits(5)=0, 10d6.hits(5)=2, 10d6.hits(5)=2)
It's an electronic warfare+decrypt (2x encryption rating, 1 combat turn) test.  So 1 turn for rating 1 encryption, 2 turns for rating 2, 3 turns for rating 3, 4 turns for rating 4, 5 turns for rating 5 or 6.

You easily find the nodes of the guards, in fact they are not hidden, though quite secure, their firewall is 5 and they analyse prog is rating is also R5, as you attempt to encrypt their signal you notice that it;s strong, but still you crack it quite easily.


"...alm down Jack, Larry just went for a smoke, he will be back in a minute." You start hearing a voices over the com
"That Freaking Dreakhead, you better be on your way, or i will come and kick that cigarette of yours down your freaking throat!" you hear a angry voice over the com.
"The Freak, Jack, keep the line clear, we do not need to hear this!" one more voice added a comment on the channel.
"Larry come down quick, you had your 15 min, Jack has to go home, his shift ended 10 min ago." One more more voice was added to the conversation
"For Freaks sake, just keep the channel clear, Chief will have our hides if he notices!" A quite angry voice added
"I am Waitting Larry." Jacks voice added, in a bit calmer manner.



Ahuechei saw 2 guards leaving for the  the big area, but it was before Rafa started his attack, so this might not be connected, or even the same guards were involved. this is not yet determined by your knowledge.

[farothel]

Standing up, he nudged them in the ribs with his feet to check if they were still responding and looked at his hands disgustedly. Ah, grosero!
"Right, lights out for these two. Panther, you in their comms? I'd like to know when their compadres notice they're gone and come looking.", Rafa asked while plucking stuck strands of hair out of his gecko grip palms.

"...alm down Jack, Larry just went for a smoke, he will be back in a minute." You start hearing a voices over the com
"That Freaking Dreakhead, you better be on your way, or i will come and kick that cigarette of yours down your freaking throat!" you hear a angry voice over the com.
"The Freak, Jack, keep the line clear, we do not need to hear this!" one more voice added a comment on the channel.
"Larry come down quick, you had your 15 min, Jack has to go home, his shift ended 10 min ago." One more more voice was added to the conversation
"For Freaks sake, just keep the channel clear, Chief will have our hides if he notices!" A quite angry voice added
"I am Waitting Larry." Jacks voice added, in a bit calmer manner.

[/spoiler]

"They are waiting for one guard who went outside for a smoke apparently," Panther said to Rafa, "If one of yours was smoking, that's probably the guy, unless there's someone else out there.  They might start looking, I suggest you do your checks on the roof quickly."
She took the drink that was put in front of her and while sipping it, she looked around to see if she saw any of either those gangers or that one guy Bacchus in the club, comparing faces with their Pito feeds.  On a seperate channel she kept the guards commlink frequency open.

[Kouryuu]

"They are waiting for one guard who went outside for a smoke apparently," Panther said to Rafa, "If one of yours was smoking, that's probably the guy, unless there's someone else out there.  They might start looking, I suggest you do your checks on the roof quickly."
She took the drink that was put in front of her and while sipping it, she looked around to see if she saw any of either those gangers or that one guy Bacchus in the club, comparing faces with their Pito feeds.  On a seperate channel she kept the guards commlink frequency open.

If you make your comm-link analyse faces you see with the recordings, make analyse(10) 1 min extended test if you try to remember whether you have seen them, make a memory(3) roll = Logic+Will

[Sentinemodo]

Half-plant half-dog? What kind of movies this people watch here?

Ahuechei did you see what is in the rooms around the central part? How to get to the second floor from here? thought the backstage or using one fo the rooms near the entrance?
Panther, check again for the central node, if there are any cameras, lights or door management systems we could have a use of it.
Rafa, move the bodies out of the stairs and go down see what's on the second floor.


Caretaker tries to find an empty couch nearby Ahuechei, leaving girls and Tipsy to their drinks. Seating himself he observe people around and girls on the stage.

[Xzylvador]

Rafa was already in the process of dragging both bodies away so they wouldn't be immediately spotted by anyone coming onto the roof.
"Already on it.", he replied to Caretaker while searching the bodies for anything of value and something to restrain and gag them in case they woke up too soon.
Puta! They're already missing him?, he thought, when suddenly an idea popped in his mind.
"Yo Panther, can ya send to their channels too? I got an audio sample of these guys talking, can't ya use and edit it into something to lure some more of 'em to the roof?"

Satisfied with the way he left the bodies, Rafa unpacked his backpack and assembled his rifle.

If there's, like, a small elevation on the roof where the door is, he'll put the bodies on top of it so they're out of sight.

[farothel]

"Sorry, no," Panther said to Rafa, "I only receive, I can't put something on their channel.  Or wait, let me try something.  What do you want me to tell them?"

Looking around she didn't recognise any of the gangers, but ever the methodical one, she put her analyse program on it.


memory:
intuition 4 + logic 4 =8 (8d6.hits(5) =1)

not enough, so analyse:

computer 4 + analyse 6 =10 (10d6.hits(5)=5, 10d6.hits(5)=6, 10d6.hits(5)=2, 10d6.hits(5)=4, 10d6.hits(5)=2, 10d6.hits(5)=3, 10d6.hits(5)=5, 10d6.hits(5)=4, 10d6.hits(5)=4, 10d6.hits(5)=1)

I should have anything (if anything is to have) after 2 minutes.

[Xzylvador]

"Huh, I don't know. Why not something like 'Ah Jack, quit yar bitchin'. You never hear me complainin' when you spend twenty minutes in the toilets after one of the girls' performances. My break's over when it's over. You wanna make true on that threat, I'd like ta see ya try, ya perv!' How's that sound? I sure as hell would want to come up and beat the living crap outta that guy.", Rafa offered.
"If we're doing this, you all better get ready for action though..."

His rifle assembly complete, Rafa fired off a pulse with his UWB rader to get a reading of what he could expect the floor(s) below.

* That's assuming Rafa's found a comm on their bodies. If not, I'll edit. Edited out.

[farothel]

"If you have their comms, just let me in," Panther said, "much easier than hacking in, and it's more legit.  I'll sent a request right now."

[Kouryuu]

Rafa was not lucky, the search of the bodies gave him 2 shock batons and 2 predator IV Hpistols, but no commlinks,

The UWB Sensor revealed a lot about the club, even though the signal got weaker  passing trough the walls it was still strong enough to let you see the whole layout of the building. And most of the personal as well.
Make intuition+UWB rating+Any mental perception boost Roll that is make perception using your UWB sensor, to see what is different about the guards you see. every wall you have to penetrate and distance will increase the difficulty

Panther recognized 3 of the gangers here, 3 more are using the same colors. you assume they have yet not earned their spot in the show, or something.

[Sentinemodo]

Panther what about those cameras?
We'll go for the office anyway. Rafa any sign of the receiving equipment on the roof?
On my mark drop the guard close to the door.



Ougoun I need your services. Above, at the end of the corridor are four guards. One closer, two patrolling it and one at the farther end. When the two patrolling guards turn adn start moving toward the closer guard poses the one that is standing there, signal when you do and drop the two guards simultaneusly using non-lethal attacks.

The plan goes as follows:
Spirit (Force 4, 5 services, concealment additional power) possess the guard, using his enhanced stats and splitting dicepools. as soon as the spirit let me know he possessed the guard I'll signal Rafa.
The guard by the doors should observe the situation, but before he'll be able to react he'll be downed by Rafa (he should be distracted makign it even easier for him to be sneaked upon).

the above will cost me two services (one to possess the guard and one to disable them), the guard will get stat boost because of possession.
as previously on unsuccessful attempt I'd like him to retry

we'll see afterwards, it will take at least a minute probably before the guards be in position, giving time to Panther for making additional hacking is possible.

[farothel]

"Just a second," Panther said to Caretaker, "there's six gangers in here, plus a bunch of guards.  Maybe it's better if we do something else than 'charge'.  As for the cameras, this club seems to have a fracking high matrix security for a simple strip club.  Give me a minute."


Matrix security knowledge skill (to get an idea on what I need to beat here):
logic 4 + matrix security 3 =7 (7d6.hits(5)=2)

If someone can get me a picture of those dog-plant thingies, I can look them up, but other than that there's probably not much I know about it.

[Sentinemodo]

"Just a second," Panther said to Caretaker, "there's six gangers in here, plus a bunch of guards.  Maybe it's better if we do something else than 'charge'.  As for the cameras, this club seems to have a fracking high matrix security for a simple strip club.  Give me a minute."

Beside those six gangers here there are dozens of people around ready to mess upon. Above are only four guards sothey are outnumbered by Rafa at least three to one. We don't need to mess with plant dogs whatever they are unless we have to.

If you got a better plan than 'charge' tell me, but do so while hacking, 'cause Lua is on the move already.

[Xzylvador]

"Kinda seemed a bit early to go charging... Maybe could've picked off a couple more quietly. I was just gonna roll a gas grenade down the stairs if it came to that real fighting... But this saves me some cash I guess. Good call!
Uhm, you wouldn't happen to know how your creepy things respond to those? Or 'dog plants' for that matter?", Rafa's voice sounded over the comm channel.
"You guys did bring masks, right? I remember I asked."