[Sichr]

nope. If I want it to be off, Id make it that way. as soon as mouse puts himself together...

[Sentinemodo]

How's your test?

[Netzgeist]

Terribly bad. Not only I went bad in it, it was also poorly designed, and there's a general consensus among the people who had taken it that we feel cheated in having wasting our time and money preparing for it.

The worse is that this is the second test I made that was prepared by the same foundation; and both were awful. Well, guess shit happens, anyway.

[Sichr]

How's your test?

In case you meant this one:

http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/3906289/

(I told you Id have to make it happen )

[snake_eyes]

Out of curiosity is it possible to back door a bionode?

[Sentinemodo]

Snake,

I'll repeat myself:

GM note: that thread is not critical for the run, unless you insists to follow it will resolve it post the main run, probably in downtime. The only thing of note is that he is tagged as somebody's property, his location probably known, so a retrieval team is on the way.

I meant it, I had to somehow deal with Kour's character. This thread of your network being hacked is not critical to the current run. If you wish we can dig it further, but the run will end the moment the main thread will be completed anyway.

[Sentinemodo]

Out of curiosity is it possible to back door a bionode?

There is nothing about it IIRC in the books on that. However since the bionode is just a program like any other complex form, there is no reason there shouldn't be such possibility.
The difference is that it is probably rethreaded from scratch when restarted, so a simple restart should be enough. There is no way to have the backdoor imprinted on you anyhow.

[snake_eyes]

I understand about why the hack was made and that it isn't part of the main thread. I'm merely responding to events as they happened. Mouses main concern at the moment is that the intruder isn't in their network now. That is the immediate threat. I don't plan to do any further tracking after this point until later.

[Sichr]

welcome back

[Sichr]

To game:
By the look of map it doesnt seem that there is any hardened room in upper floors, so no chip there. IDN. Basement vault is just too obvious, and it puts the chip into risk in case someone (burglars) come just for money etc.
...but I may be wrong. Id love to have this alternative proven false, if you can find the way.
Without ninja, IMO distraction and chaos is the only way available for us, if the talk-fu fails. IDN if we are even able to open the doors that are locked. I  can, or at least I think I can, put the building to blackout and offline. With distraction at the entrance (car accident should be enought, if Mouse helps me to hack local grid or some of vehicles there) there is a chance Ill be able even to get one of dogs inside...best bet is Dobbey since it is chameleon.,  With the EMP and some shots fired downstairs there is a chance there will be lot of panic, in and out, and the cahnce for fractal and lips to get into hidden chambers. IDN what to do next, like I said, IMO if doors are locked we are screwed until we have any tool or option to get in. BTW. target datachip would be offline so it wont be harmed by EMP IMO. Entrance guards would possibly try to hold people inside since they dont want to loose the bills, would prefer to hold the position and wait untill inside guards deal with intruder...more panic, well this may be harsh a bit for the drone, well we cannot say for sure...
What would be your plan in such situation gentlemen?

[Sentinemodo]

I'll chime in:

Once settled on the floor, she start telling. The data that Tabitha is looking for are located on a server in an old building in a quiet part of Littleton, in the PCC sector. That building might be old but is well maintained and the Yakuza is discreetly running there an illegal brothel and casino. OOC: she provides you with detailed address The data are stored there temporarily, as after recent clashes with Triads, Yakuza lost their most secure Denver datacenter. Once they purchase and install new hardware, they will transfer them out.

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[Sentinemodo]

Snake, relatign to your earlier question.

a reboot of all nodes should deal with all existing connections.
setting it on alert, will not help dicewise, but you'll be treated as activelly percepting, and I'll notice you the moment (ie. same initiative pass) anything doubtful happens in your network (but will also imbue -2 to all other actions, due to heavy AR overlay)

if there are backdoors, they will allow intruder to hack in again, but you can prepare yourself by threading high level analyze complex forms and maintaining active connections to all higher signal nodes (slaving all commlink nodes might help but this enforce only +2 to the difficulty).

You can and should probably employ high level sprite (all of them have analyze CF) to patrol the nodes.

And of course you should start scanning all the nodes for backdoors prefereably employing several Browse/DataSearch sprites to do it independently.

[Netzgeist]

Since we are expecting the data to be on a server there, putting the building in blackout would not be a good idea before we have the data in hands, isn't it?

Anyway, maybe we could put into in blackout to facilitate the escape, if all else fails. I don't know what gear Lips have with him to see in the dark, but if there's no dwarf/ork/troll guards (and thankfully, that's an Yakuza house, so that's unlikely), they would need to rely on their optical advancements, all of which can be hacked by Omar, Mouse and Fractal. Fractal at least can find his way on the dark, and if necessary, can even engage in an advantageous fight (never the best option, but shooting blind and unaware targets may be easier).

Well, I don't have any idea for a plan right now...

[Sentinemodo]

no metas on duty in Yakuza. there are some among the customers (most notably one surged elf.

[Sentinemodo]

Lisp has contact lenses with thermographic