[inca1980]

Just let me know what you wanna do now.  I mean I assume you wanna walk to reception but let me know if there's anything anyone wants to do. 

@Walks:
The mage found the signature of your spirit and is actively tracking it back to you.  Even though it got disrupted the signature it left behind is still linked to you but due to your masking he couldn't see it right away.  After an hour I'll roll again.  Remember, any astarl barrier adds its rating to the tracking threshold. 

[Kontact]

So, computer issues are back on.  Expect another absence.

[Kontact]

Shorter absence, obvs.

Question on jamming.  I was looking about Arsenal and the massively shitty Sensor rules therein, and I noticed something bizarre/helpful.  It says on p 105 that sensors are susceptible to jamming, without any named exceptions.  Well, it says vehicle sensors, but any sensor can be a vehicle sensor just by dropping it in a vehicle sensor package.

Where I'm going with this is basically, a question as to what can or can't be jammed, sensor-wise.  Cyberware scanners make sense because they have a signal rating, but with Arsenals sensor jamming rules, I could bust static hard enough to screw with everything from cameras to barometric sensors.  If that's go, I'd like to try and jam the MAD detector before Walk's jumps through it.  If not, I'd like to do a signal scan to see if these guards have biomonitors giving off vital info.

[inca1980]

@BB:

Well, this makes sense with certain sensors which work on low infrared, microwave or radio frequencies....but with other it doesn't.  For example cameras work at visible light frequency bands and creating static in those bands is equivalent to making a strobe-light or something and a commlink or jammer definitely doesn't do this.  So we'll just make it case by case.  I remember that in the beginning when you were assaulted at Angels pad I did have the cops jammer jam your UWB radar and that's why BB couldn't see through the walls.  So I'll say that any sensors that operate in the frequencies from wavelengths as short as those used in Millimeters Wave scanners all the way out to those as long as radio wavelengths (i.e. radar) and beyond can be jammed with a jammer.  So devices Sensor rating must exceed the jammer's rating to not be jammed.

For sensor packages that include sensors of these wavelengths i'll use the optional rule to apply the Jammer rating as a negative modifiers to using the package.  For jamming on the fly we'll use net hits to determine the "jammer rating."  For jamming on the fly against devices we'll use Electronic Warfare Autosoft + Signal as the opposing dicepool.  If that autosoft isn't installed on the device, then it's just Signal.  For most scanning devices used in security settings this autosoft tends to be installed. 

@Walks:
The scanner is built into the doorway so if you go through the doorway you go through the scanner.  Is this what you're doing?

[Walks Through Walls]

The way you described it I thought there might be room between, but wasn't sure. If there was didn't want to just go through the scanner.

Yes I am going through the doorway. I want to do it before Mercedes gets there so if it goes off hopefully the guard will think it's a malfunction.

[inca1980]

@Walks:
It looks like BB's trying to work on a fix for the scanners so I was just wondering if you wanted to wait for that.  If you still want to go through then i'll narrate what happens.

@BB:
To specifically scan the guards roll Elec War + Scan (4) test.  If you want to do a general search for hidden nodes do an Elec War + Scan (15,1CT) but you'll get interrupted after 3 rolls by an impatient guard.   

[Walks Through Walls]

I'll give B.B. a chance to try and jam the sensor.

[Kontact]

So, jamming is possible for the MAD scanner and the guards are operating in hidden mode?

Rolling it up then.

[inca1980]

MAD's are jammable.  They are quite sensitive to electromagnetic fields so they can be jammed.  They just use the millimeter scanner so they can see what's on someone so people don't have to pass anything through separately.

[inca1980]

@BB:
The tapper drone is a crawler and can maneuver over most surfaces as if it were an insect about the size of a small scorpion. 

The actual roll to unscrew a vent grating I'll make a Pilot + Response (3) test for your tapper acting autonomously since it doesn't have an autosoft to deal with this.  You could remote control it and that would be a Command + Hardware (2) test.  If you're jumped into the drone then i'll make it a Sensor + Hardware (1) test. 

For the vent grating that's inside reception I'll make it a Perception Test (3) for the guards to notice it if the drone is acting autonomously.  If it's being remote controlled or jumped in to then it'll be an opposed Infil+Response test. 

The actual tap is then a Pilot x 2 (2) test.  If this succeeds then you gain Wifi access routed through the tapper's hidden node and can do an Intercept Traffic action (Hacking + Sniffer) and then hits are the threshold for the system to detect a tap.

Since response is not listed ...and i wouldn't really consider it a Security vehicle, we'll make it a Response of 3. 

[Kontact]

Remote control is typically Command +Infiltration +/– Handling with the contribution from infiltration capped by pilot skill.  For B.B. that would be 6 + 4(0) +1 = 7 dice.  Not too hot. Same as the 3 res + 4 infl though.  Question though on that one.  Would the guards get a significant penalty to see the drone due to it being micro size?

[inca1980]

@BB:
Yeah, that's what I meant for remote control...Command + Infil +/- Handling.  For jumping in remember that you get the +2 hotsim bonus.  The perception test I mentioned is for them to notice it unscrewing the vent grating and moving it with it into the inside of the vent so that's why it's a Percption (3) test. for them when the drone is acting autonomously. 

@Walks:

Manny, the one opening the door is G1. 

[Walks Through Walls]

Is the secretary standing in the doorway or just into one room or the other when she looks back at Mercedes and beacons for her?

[inca1980]

She entered the airlock and is about a meter in.

[Kontact]

Hey guys, I'm thinking about getting one of the guards to escort B.B. to the bathroom and dropping the drone off in there.  Less chance for a fuckup, and inca said that there's likely grates in every room.

Sound copacetic?