Post by Kagi on Jan 21, 2006 3:20:38 GMT -5
[8:43:21 PM] Kagi *****Recap of Last Session*****
[8:43:21 PM] Kagi The runners have gathered in a small cafe in dowtown Seattle and had the meeting with Mrs. Johnson, who turned out to be a striking white haired elf.
[8:43:36 PM] Kagi They have been hired to investigate a magical gestault that is pushing BTL out of a large, rundown, hotel in the Redmond Barrens. The Johnson requests that the leader of the gestault be killed and the reason for the gestaults formation be found out.
[8:43:58 PM] Kagi She has left a liason/hacker only known as "10" to help the runners. 10 waits in the other room.
[8:43:58 PM] Kagi *****End Recap*****
[8:45:03 PM] Kagi *Current seattle time is 12:15pm, it's a bit foggy out tonight
[8:47:53 PM] DC "well let us not keep this 10 waiting, shall we?"
[8:48:06 PM] * DC heads into the next room
[8:48:08 PM] * Manzazzuu steps out into the closed cafe, Rick close behind him. He moves to large table, and takes a seat, figuring there are a few more things they'd need to discuss before they left.
[8:48:10 PM] * Pele follows
[8:48:12 PM] * Butterfly nods and follows DC
[8:48:30 PM] * Doc heads out with the others
[8:48:58 PM] * DC once in the next room DC looks for the mysterous 10
[8:49:36 PM] * Cherub follow slowly the little group looking around for any threat that may appear...
[8:50:31 PM] Kagi *The counter woman and orc are gone. In their place now stands a late 60's human male. He is very skinny and sports a close cropped beard. Both the thinning hair on his head and beard are snow white. He wears a very expensive designer suit and glasses.
[8:51:39 PM] Manzazzuu "Well, at least 10 isn't an indication of his age." He says, with a bit of a smirk.
[8:52:46 PM] * DC walks up to the man
[8:53:15 PM] * DC bows and says "10 I presume?"
[8:53:58 PM] Kagi *10 ::frowns at the comment just slightly and picks up a briefcase off the counter:: "Yes. I'm sure you've been informed that I'll be working with you as your hacker."
[8:54:24 PM] Kagi *10 "You are....DC, yes?"
[8:54:38 PM] DC "yes I am"
[8:55:03 PM] DC "it is nice to meet you Mr 10"
[8:55:09 PM] * Pele walks forward and sticks out a hand
[8:55:11 PM] Manzazzuu Rick stands behind, and slightly to the side of Manzazzuu.
[8:55:17 PM] Pele "I am Pele."
[8:56:49 PM] Kagi *10 ::looks down at DC's hand and frowns, then shakes it rapidly and briefly::
[8:57:14 PM] Kagi *10 "I'm pleased to mack your aquantience DC"
[8:57:27 PM] Butterfly Butterfly slips a chip into her comm, and looks up with a mellow smile, "Oi. I'm Butterfly."
[8:57:50 PM] Kagi *10 ::Nods to Pele and Butterfly::
[8:58:19 PM] * DC smiles and get out of the way so others can greet the new guy
[8:58:29 PM] * Doc Grins "people call me Doc"
[8:58:51 PM] * Pele retracts his hand slowly, seeing as 10 does not like handshaking
[8:58:59 PM] Manzazzuu "Since you're the information expert, and knew who DC was, I'm guessing you don't really need introductions." Says the elf, hands tented in front of him as he ponders their dilemma.
[8:59:39 PM] * Cherub stays silent, observing the scene a little apart from the group
[9:00:49 PM] Kagi *10 ::Nods to Doc and pulls out a small bottle of hand sanitizer from his pocket and begins working it over the hand DC shook, as he speaks:: "Mrs Johnson has small files on all of you, so do I. You've all been personally selected with this run in mind."
[9:01:24 PM] Manzazzuu "I'm not sure whether that should be comforting or alarming."
[9:01:55 PM] Kagi *10 "If you had not already noticed, all of you with the exception of Butterfly are magically active in one form or another."
[9:02:08 PM] * Pele nods
[9:02:55 PM] Kagi *10 "Butterfly will handle your explosives and provide weapons back-up."
[9:04:16 PM] * Cherub think "yeah...that's another way to create a fireball"
[9:05:22 PM] * Butterfly smiles and winks when 10 mentions her.
[9:07:05 PM] Pele "Do you have any more information to share with us, 10?"
[9:07:11 PM] Kagi *10 "I have a detailed floor plan of the hotel, and dossiers of the memebers of the gestault. I am at your service. What is your first order of business?"
[9:07:40 PM] Manzazzuu "I don't know about everyone else, but mine will be to take a look at the file you have on Rick and me."
[9:07:46 PM] Kagi *10 "I only need your Matrix Comm addresses to send the information out."
[9:08:01 PM] Pele "Yea, I want to see what kind of trail I have left."
[9:08:21 PM] Kagi *10 "I'm afraid that information is unavaliable."
[9:08:48 PM] Kagi *10 ::his face goes dead-pan::
[9:09:29 PM] * DC claps her hands
[9:09:40 PM] DC "lets get down to the task at hand"
[9:10:28 PM] * DC turns on her comm to get the floor plan
[9:10:34 PM] Manzazzuu "You realize you're not exactly fostering much trust in our employer."
[9:10:37 PM] Kagi *10 ::the bottle of hand sanitizer goes back into his pocket and he straightens his suit::
[9:11:29 PM] Butterfly "Who cares about trust? Lets figure this thing out."
[9:11:58 PM] Kagi *10 ::stone faced he responds to Manzazzuu:: "In my experiance, trust in a Johnson is a luxery Runners seldom have. Your paid to take risks, this time your payed well."
[9:12:51 PM] * Pele shrugs it off
[9:13:07 PM] Manzazzuu "In my experience when Johnsons have a docier on you and won't show it to you, it's because they either want you to think they have more leverage than they do, or they want to hold it over your head later to blackmail you."
[9:13:27 PM] Kagi *10 ::You can trust that the information was not easy to come by and will not be shared::
[9:13:43 PM] Butterfly "So, all you wixards, how do we get inta the um...place people disappear. We need to figure that out, right?"
[9:13:54 PM] Pele "Not a wizard."
[9:15:09 PM] DC "It is a BTL den right?"
[9:15:48 PM] DC "I doubt that they watch them that carfully as long as they pay up and behave"
[9:16:26 PM] Butterfly "So we just walk in?"
[9:16:33 PM] DC "unless 10 has info to the contrary"
[9:18:31 PM] Kagi *10 ::shakes his head negative:: "DC is quiet correct. The hotel has no safe guards what so ever. Though residents tend to be of the lowest form of street scum. The basement is another matter."
[9:19:56 PM] Kagi *10 "Magical security is another matter. Some spirits have been seen lurking the halls of the hotel. It's uncertain what form they are or their purpose."
[9:23:14 PM] Kagi *10 ::looks about the group of runners for further questions and flicks at some imaginary dust on his sleeve::
[9:26:00 PM] * DC looks at the others
[9:26:01 PM] Manzazzuu "Question, oh great and powerful Oz. Can you check and see if the sewers come anywhere near the basement facility?"
[9:26:02 PM] Butterfly"Where's this lab I'm sposed to blow? You got a bluprint or sumin?"
[9:26:03 PM] * Butterfly gives 10 her comm addy
[9:26:25 PM] DC "even then we still have to kill one of the gesaults"
[9:26:30 PM] DC "and guessing from their attiitudes they would be twords the top of the building
[9:27:19 PM] Butterfly "ya. where's the blank hang?"
[9:28:16 PM] * Pele gives 10 his Comm address as well
[9:28:44 PM] * DC guesses you have her comm already
[9:30:30 PM] Kagi *10 "The BTL lab is on the second floor somewhere on the east side of the apartment complex"
[9:31:48 PM] Cherub "is their a way to access to the lab directly by a window ? or any spot around it that won't be guarded by spirits ?"
[9:33:14 PM] Butterfly "This kind of building usually connects to extensive sewer systems. We should be able to get into the basement that way if we want."
[9:33:25 PM] * Pele turns to Butterfly
[9:33:49 PM] Pele "Would that be a GOOD way to go?"
[9:34:16 PM] Manzazzuu "Less of their security, likely. More orcs and gouls, mind you."
[9:34:26 PM] Butterfly "Manny asked." ::Butterfly shrugs::
[9:34:45 PM] Manzazzuu "Glad someone noticed." He smiles at Butterfly.
[9:35:09 PM] Pele "Would you have to blow a whole in the floor for us to get into the basement?"
[9:36:12 PM] Butterfly "It'd be more fun that way, but we could probably just remove the grate." She says with the innocence of a child.
[9:36:43 PM] DC "ya we have to recon the basement not just blow it up"
[9:36:46 PM] Manzazzuu "I don't know about the rest of you, but I'd rather risk the orks and the ghouls. The first you can make a deal with, and the second are rarer. We'd have the element of suprise that way, with any luck, when we went against the Ghestault."
[9:36:50 PM] Kagi *10 ::Shakes his head slightly affirmative to Cherub:: "Yes the lab does have windows. They have been retro fitted with bars on the inside and the windows are painted black."
[9:38:18 PM] Butterfly "10, did you have anything on where that blank and the other haunchos hang out?"
[9:38:21 PM] Pele "The orks and ghouls seem to be a better way to me."
[9:38:40 PM] Kagi *10 "The structure itself is flimsy and a good pry bar should get the bars off. The labs are constantly working though."
[9:39:35 PM] Manzazzuu "Got a missle launcher, Butterfly? Think you could launch one through the window?" He asks with a smirk, half-joking.
[9:39:45 PM] Butterfly "How many people in the labs? And how big are they?"
[9:40:30 PM] Kagi *10 "The members of the gestault have chosen to block off a section of the third floor north side. They have taken this space for themselves."
[9:40:35 PM] Butterfly "I have a bunch a grenades n good aim."
[9:41:06 PM] DC "magic figures could help them reach there mark"
[9:41:18 PM] * Cherub think : "this girl is scary..."
[9:41:59 PM] Manzazzuu "Have to break the windows, and hope the grenades can make it through the bars."
[9:42:36 PM] Butterfly "We could just come in through the basement, n walk upstairs."
[9:42:43 PM] * Manzazzuu nods.
[9:42:49 PM] Manzazzuu "Might end up being better."
[9:43:23 PM] Manzazzuu "If we take care of the Ghestault first, there might be less in the way of coherant security on the way to the lab."
[9:43:27 PM] DC "we could also split up and try to do every thing at once, take them by suprize and get out of there"
[9:43:28 PM] Kagi *10 :: To Butterfly:: "Information on the labs are sketchy at best. A guess would be 7-15 people spread out over 4 or 5 of the apartment rooms. We think they have broken out the walls and connected several of the rooms."
[9:43:54 PM] Manzazzuu "We only have one explosives expert, DC, and she might be needed in both places."
[9:44:31 PM] Butterfly "Ya. Sounds like you need me to blow things up and shoot people in every part of the building."
[9:44:47 PM] DC "yes but only one place needs a delecet touch"
[9:45:42 PM] Butterfly "I'm gonna need help there though. It's too many people and too much space for me to keep them all from sounding an alarm."
[9:46:24 PM] Pele "I can take some out."
[9:46:28 PM] Manzazzuu "We also might need all of us against the cadre of spellcasters."
[9:47:02 PM] DC "that is what I am worried about"
[9:47:08 PM] Butterfly "I mean. I can deal with it, but you all seem to want discresion, and I can't do that alone."
[9:47:47 PM] * Cherub think about how happy he was back in his forest
[9:48:13 PM] Pele "Discresion, destruction... little difference."
[9:48:18 PM] DC "if we split up into teams of two and each one do one part of the job we could do this job before they knew what hit them"
[9:48:23 PM] Pele "As long as we get it done."
[9:48:45 PM] Butterfly Butterfly is staring intently at what seems to be a blanks spot on the wall, "oh here. we can take the elevators up too. They don't work so no one'll be in em. Just go up the shafts."
[9:49:31 PM] Kagi *10 ::Clears his throat to get the runners attention:: "This gestault is of unknown power, but we assume that what ever they are doing in the basement is very powerful indeed. Mrs. Johnson suggest against going into a head on fair fight with them magically. This is their home ground after all."
[9:50:04 PM] Manzazzuu "I don't like the odds if we split up against the possibility of the entire Ghestault."
[9:51:29 PM] Manzazzuu "Especially considering they've been working together longer than the rest of us."
[9:53:06 PM] Pele "So, are we to take on them head to head first? Or sneak up and get the first strike?"
[9:53:46 PM] Butterfly "Ya, and a couple of the elevators run all the way to the basement, too. That's like all descrete n stuff."
[9:54:11 PM] Manzazzuu "I think our new friend Ten has suggested against taking them head on, and I rather agree."
[9:55:50 PM] Butterfly "Oh! Damn! Look at this! THere's a cellar door into the basement!" She exclaims, pointing at the blank spot on the wall.
[9:56:00 PM] DC "10 do they have any active security camaras in the place?"
[9:56:53 PM] Manzazzuu "From the outside of the building, Butterfly?"
[9:57:03 PM] Kagi *10 ::to Butterfly:: "We have been unable to properly recon those doors. We are unsure if they work, are welded shut, bricked up on the inside, or wide open."
[9:57:08 PM] Butterfly "In the courtyard"
[9:58:37 PM] Manzazzuu "This job just keeps getting better by the minute."
[9:59:27 PM] Butterfly "I can get throuch locks n welding sly, but I'd have to blow the bricks.
[10:00:10 PM] Manzazzuu "We have some time. Maybe we should consider doing this in stages."
[10:02:01 PM] Butterfly "I thought we were. First the recon, then set charges, then a blank, then blow the place."
[10:02:37 PM] Kagi *10 ::To DC:: "We are uncertain. We think they might in the area of the BTL lab, to keep workers from stealing the product, perhaps other places too. The cameras would be close circuit if they are there. You'll have to watch for them as you go. I should be able to get you some EM sensing equipment."
[10:04:42 PM] Manzazzuu "I was thinking maybe doing them on different days. It's a shame we don't really have time to stake out the place and try to get a ritual link to our target or catch him alone out of the building."
[10:04:50 PM] DC "I could make some of the team invisable to camaras but i would be useless in a fight while I was sustaining the spells"
[10:06:02 PM] Butterfly "You think it's worth the risk to try n get more recon before we hit it?"
[10:06:50 PM] Doc "for what it is worth I can also make some of us invisable if need be."
[10:07:05 PM] Butterfly "That'd be wiz..."
[10:07:41 PM] Doc "that way if we do split up some we will be covered."
[10:07:59 PM] Manzazzuu "Only problem with that is the spirits. It'll set off alarms with them, if they're agents of the Ghestault."
[10:10:13 PM] Kagi *10 "Again, your miss informed I'm afraid."
[10:10:42 PM] Manzazzuu "Do tell."
[10:11:29 PM] Kagi *10 ::Looks a bit uncomfortable:: "The spirits are of an unknown type and unknown function. Our..." ::Looks very uncomfortable::
[10:11:47 PM] Manzazzuu "Continue."
[10:11:59 PM] * DC looks at 10 with intrest
[10:12:10 PM] Kagi ::Sighs, his jaw muscles work for a moment then he continues::
[10:14:10 PM] Kagi "This is more information then you are supposed to recieve, so step carefully with this subject. We have attempted to scout the building before, magically. One of our operatives....he came back, raving insane."
[10:14:34 PM] Manzazzuu "Better and better."
[10:14:42 PM] Butterfly "Hot damn. Fun drek"
[10:15:00 PM] * DC thinks "ohh great" and lets it seep into her face
[10:15:51 PM] * Pele stays quiet, and thinks to himself
[10:16:27 PM] * DC switches to astral sight for a moment to assess the team's magical potential
[10:16:36 PM] Manzazzuu "Tell us what you -do- know about the spirits. Maybe one of us can identify them."
[10:17:12 PM] Cherub "I could eventualy get butterfly to reach the lab's window so she could set some kind of explosive thought the window that could be activated when the time come, considering that space between bars is big enought to let the bomb come in and that no one is in the lab at the moment that we set it . That may fit for a part of the job."
[10:18:22 PM] DC "we could just float the charges over there as well
[10:19:31 PM] Cherub "err...i'm really not very good with that kind of stuff....Not sure i want to use them beside."
[10:21:35 PM] DC "we could just have her set up the charges then set them on the window with magic, then Butterfly could detonate them by remote"
[10:22:00 PM] DC "we don't even have to get near the charges"
[10:22:02 PM] Butterfly "Well, do mundanes get glitched too?"
[10:22:58 PM] Butterfly "Cause it'll be easier to set the charges myself, I think."
[10:23:00 PM] Kagi *10 ::Notices Doc staring at him, hard:: "Can I help your with something?" ::Looks a bit unsettled and ticked-off::
[10:24:23 PM] * DC was looking for magical potental.. probibly wouldn't look for it in the decker
[10:24:29 PM] Doc "just wonderin what other infomation you may have and not shareing that may help."
[10:25:45 PM] DC "my appologys 10 I thought I saw something in the other plain"
[10:26:58 PM] Manzazzuu "Tell us what you know about the spirits. You've already noted that the majority of the group is magical in nature, that gives us a decent chance of recognising them, or come up with a half decent theory."
[10:27:35 PM] Doc "Just sounds to me like you have had a bit of an idea of what we may encounter inside and that make a difference to our success."
[10:30:10 PM] Cherub "hmm...about those junkies that they host to make their drugs, do they keep them all inside or can they acess to the city. What kind of folk is regularly entering/geting out of the building ?"
[10:33:00 PM] Kagi *10 ::still a bit uncomfortable, he figits from foot to foot before answering:: "I only know what I am telling you about the spirits. As to the residents of the building, they are free to come and go as they see fit. Many lounge outside of the building. Most are locked away in privacy inside the building chipped in and virtually catatonic."
[10:33:56 PM] Cherub how do they recognize which are those junky and which aren't , do they have some kind of ID card ?
[10:34:59 PM] Kagi *10 The BTL is only sold inside the building, so residents must enter to make purchases. The gestault discourages useage of BTL outside the premises and no one but the worst kind of street scum would enter that hell for any other reason."
[10:35:56 PM] Manzazzuu "How do you know the spirits are of an unknown type? There must be some anomoly that makes them different from other spirits."
[10:36:41 PM] Doc " I agree why else would you say they were different otherwise?"
[10:37:33 PM] Cherub but they are using those junkies to make the BTL right? Do just anyone looking a little bit like a junkie can acess to their lab to make the BTL or do they have some kind of way to recognise who are their crew and who aren't, I imagine that they don't bother trying to know some junkies that well
[10:40:42 PM] Kagi *10 ::Regains his composure:: "The lab personel are hand picked by the gestault. They are recognized on sight. they work in shifts and are well payed. They are also screened to make sure they are not using the product. Most of them are gangers from redmond."
[10:41:59 PM] Butterfly ::her face scrunches and she kind of grumbles out:: "I've got an interntal Sim Mod. I could maybe pose as a junkie easy enough I guess. To get in."
[10:42:29 PM] Cherub "do they have some access card to open doors or is it perssonel inside who open doors for them?"
[10:47:23 PM] Kagi *10 ::To Cherub:: "Personel. Several armed guards are stationed at one end of the lab. The other end of the hallway has been bricked up. A counter blocks off the open end. Transactions are done over that counter. Like a BTL drive through."
[10:49:44 PM] Cherub are they making BTL 24/7 or do they make it in the day and labs are empty at night ?
[10:52:26 PM] Kagi *10 "The labs run day and night, but the majority of the production seems to happen during the day, with the majority of the distribution at night. But the Labs always have someone in them."
[10:53:49 PM] Pele "Are the members of the gestault there day and night?"
[10:53:57 PM] Pele "Or, at least most of the time?"
[11:00:06 PM] Kagi *10 ::to Pele:: "To our knowledge they members of the gestault seldom leave the building. Since the resent increase in magical activity in the basement they haven't left. Perhaps a month. What ever they are up to seems to be draining for them."
[11:00:41 PM] Manzazzuu "That's the first good news I've heard all day."
[11:01:10 PM] DC "but we don't want to fight the whole gestault
[11:01:43 PM] Manzazzuu "Something tells me we won't end up having much of a choice."
[11:04:20 PM] Kagi *10 ::sighs:: "It's getting late. I would suggest we take a room at a motel near to the Building and you can do any recon of the building you may need. If I can find a place to get comfortable I can look into the sewer schematics if you like."
[11:04:54 PM] DC "sounds good"
[11:05:28 PM] Manzazzuu "It would be good to know if we'll need to go through a wall to get into their basement."
[11:05:35 PM] Doc "works for me"
[11:06:06 PM] DC "two of us can scout in astral"
[11:07:01 PM] DC "for the door down there"
[11:07:15 PM] Pele "Didn't that other guy go insane though?"
[11:09:35 PM] DC "yah, but that is why there will be two of us, and it will be in the sewers"
[11:11:26 PM] Manzazzuu "I've an idea. Any chance of shutting down power to the building?"
[11:12:23 PM] Cherub "butterfly , could you make a device to make the window fall inside with some kind of bomb on it's borders and once the window fall inside the main bomb explode and blow everything out ?"
[11:12:53 PM] DC "10 can you arrange for those apartments?"
[11:13:08 PM] Cherub "knowing that windows are painted black they may not see you setting the device as long as you're silent enough."
[11:13:38 PM] Kagi *10 ::after a moment he nods and speaks up:: "Reservations are made at the Low-Nuyen Inn just outside of the redmond barrens. The rooms are automated. entrance is by slotting your credstick. I've doubled up on the rooms, two to each."
[11:14:12 PM] Butterfly "Probably, but if I try to take it out with just one bomb, I'll have to take out most of that section of the building. We're talking about 4-5 apts, and there are bound to be several walls left intact."
[11:15:00 PM] Kagi *10 ::Looks to Manzazzuu:: "I'm sorry, I was VR. Could you repeat that question?"
[11:15:10 PM] Cherub "well the operation can be made on more than 1 window"
[11:15:19 PM] Manzazzuu "I asked if we could cut power to their building."
[11:17:16 PM] Cherub "hmm...thought their is still those metal bars behind , i'm not sure if it may work..."
[11:17:25 PM] Kagi *10 ::A ghost of a smile touches his withered face:: "I'm not sure. We had not thought of that option. Powerlines would run through the basement and into the sewers most likely. I can find out for sure when I get the sewer schematics."
[11:17:48 PM] Manzazzuu "That would take out a lot of their security."
[11:17:57 PM] Butterfly "When dropping a bomb on one side of a room and expecting it to take out everything in the room, it will definately take out the wall it's nearest and the floor of it's room and the one above it. Several through the windows won't take out as much of the building, but it will still create very noticable collateral dameage. I'm OK with that, but Mrs. Johnson didn't seem to be." Butterfly doesn't have a trace of smile left anymore.
[11:18:00 PM] Cherub "but that would also alert them"
[11:18:22 PM] * Pele nods towards Cherub
[11:18:48 PM] Kagi *a eurocar west wind 2000 pulls up to the curb outside
[11:19:09 PM] Manzazzuu "Look people, I think it's obvious we're going to have to go into the building to get all facets of the job done." He frowns, and turns to watch the eurocar.
[11:19:13 PM] * DC looks at the car
[11:19:14 PM] Manzazzuu "Expecting anyone?"
[11:19:28 PM] Butterfly "The optimal placement for the desired effect is near the center of each section, destroying only the portion of lab desired."
[11:19:35 PM] Kagi *10 ::Raises his arm in the direction of the door:: "Shall we continue this in our rooms?"
[11:19:49 PM] * DC nods
[11:19:51 PM] Pele "I shall take my bike."
[11:20:05 PM] Butterfly "I gotta ride. I'll follow."
[11:20:31 PM] DC " if anyone has some room I could use a ride"
[11:20:31 PM] * Pele walks out of the building and jumps on his bike, and waits for the eurocar to pll away
[11:20:40 PM] Kagi *****End Session*****
[8:43:21 PM] Kagi The runners have gathered in a small cafe in dowtown Seattle and had the meeting with Mrs. Johnson, who turned out to be a striking white haired elf.
[8:43:36 PM] Kagi They have been hired to investigate a magical gestault that is pushing BTL out of a large, rundown, hotel in the Redmond Barrens. The Johnson requests that the leader of the gestault be killed and the reason for the gestaults formation be found out.
[8:43:58 PM] Kagi She has left a liason/hacker only known as "10" to help the runners. 10 waits in the other room.
[8:43:58 PM] Kagi *****End Recap*****
[8:45:03 PM] Kagi *Current seattle time is 12:15pm, it's a bit foggy out tonight
[8:47:53 PM] DC "well let us not keep this 10 waiting, shall we?"
[8:48:06 PM] * DC heads into the next room
[8:48:08 PM] * Manzazzuu steps out into the closed cafe, Rick close behind him. He moves to large table, and takes a seat, figuring there are a few more things they'd need to discuss before they left.
[8:48:10 PM] * Pele follows
[8:48:12 PM] * Butterfly nods and follows DC
[8:48:30 PM] * Doc heads out with the others
[8:48:58 PM] * DC once in the next room DC looks for the mysterous 10
[8:49:36 PM] * Cherub follow slowly the little group looking around for any threat that may appear...
[8:50:31 PM] Kagi *The counter woman and orc are gone. In their place now stands a late 60's human male. He is very skinny and sports a close cropped beard. Both the thinning hair on his head and beard are snow white. He wears a very expensive designer suit and glasses.
[8:51:39 PM] Manzazzuu "Well, at least 10 isn't an indication of his age." He says, with a bit of a smirk.
[8:52:46 PM] * DC walks up to the man
[8:53:15 PM] * DC bows and says "10 I presume?"
[8:53:58 PM] Kagi *10 ::frowns at the comment just slightly and picks up a briefcase off the counter:: "Yes. I'm sure you've been informed that I'll be working with you as your hacker."
[8:54:24 PM] Kagi *10 "You are....DC, yes?"
[8:54:38 PM] DC "yes I am"
[8:55:03 PM] DC "it is nice to meet you Mr 10"
[8:55:09 PM] * Pele walks forward and sticks out a hand
[8:55:11 PM] Manzazzuu Rick stands behind, and slightly to the side of Manzazzuu.
[8:55:17 PM] Pele "I am Pele."
[8:56:49 PM] Kagi *10 ::looks down at DC's hand and frowns, then shakes it rapidly and briefly::
[8:57:14 PM] Kagi *10 "I'm pleased to mack your aquantience DC"
[8:57:27 PM] Butterfly Butterfly slips a chip into her comm, and looks up with a mellow smile, "Oi. I'm Butterfly."
[8:57:50 PM] Kagi *10 ::Nods to Pele and Butterfly::
[8:58:19 PM] * DC smiles and get out of the way so others can greet the new guy
[8:58:29 PM] * Doc Grins "people call me Doc"
[8:58:51 PM] * Pele retracts his hand slowly, seeing as 10 does not like handshaking
[8:58:59 PM] Manzazzuu "Since you're the information expert, and knew who DC was, I'm guessing you don't really need introductions." Says the elf, hands tented in front of him as he ponders their dilemma.
[8:59:39 PM] * Cherub stays silent, observing the scene a little apart from the group
[9:00:49 PM] Kagi *10 ::Nods to Doc and pulls out a small bottle of hand sanitizer from his pocket and begins working it over the hand DC shook, as he speaks:: "Mrs Johnson has small files on all of you, so do I. You've all been personally selected with this run in mind."
[9:01:24 PM] Manzazzuu "I'm not sure whether that should be comforting or alarming."
[9:01:55 PM] Kagi *10 "If you had not already noticed, all of you with the exception of Butterfly are magically active in one form or another."
[9:02:08 PM] * Pele nods
[9:02:55 PM] Kagi *10 "Butterfly will handle your explosives and provide weapons back-up."
[9:04:16 PM] * Cherub think "yeah...that's another way to create a fireball"
[9:05:22 PM] * Butterfly smiles and winks when 10 mentions her.
[9:07:05 PM] Pele "Do you have any more information to share with us, 10?"
[9:07:11 PM] Kagi *10 "I have a detailed floor plan of the hotel, and dossiers of the memebers of the gestault. I am at your service. What is your first order of business?"
[9:07:40 PM] Manzazzuu "I don't know about everyone else, but mine will be to take a look at the file you have on Rick and me."
[9:07:46 PM] Kagi *10 "I only need your Matrix Comm addresses to send the information out."
[9:08:01 PM] Pele "Yea, I want to see what kind of trail I have left."
[9:08:21 PM] Kagi *10 "I'm afraid that information is unavaliable."
[9:08:48 PM] Kagi *10 ::his face goes dead-pan::
[9:09:29 PM] * DC claps her hands
[9:09:40 PM] DC "lets get down to the task at hand"
[9:10:28 PM] * DC turns on her comm to get the floor plan
[9:10:34 PM] Manzazzuu "You realize you're not exactly fostering much trust in our employer."
[9:10:37 PM] Kagi *10 ::the bottle of hand sanitizer goes back into his pocket and he straightens his suit::
[9:11:29 PM] Butterfly "Who cares about trust? Lets figure this thing out."
[9:11:58 PM] Kagi *10 ::stone faced he responds to Manzazzuu:: "In my experiance, trust in a Johnson is a luxery Runners seldom have. Your paid to take risks, this time your payed well."
[9:12:51 PM] * Pele shrugs it off
[9:13:07 PM] Manzazzuu "In my experience when Johnsons have a docier on you and won't show it to you, it's because they either want you to think they have more leverage than they do, or they want to hold it over your head later to blackmail you."
[9:13:27 PM] Kagi *10 ::You can trust that the information was not easy to come by and will not be shared::
[9:13:43 PM] Butterfly "So, all you wixards, how do we get inta the um...place people disappear. We need to figure that out, right?"
[9:13:54 PM] Pele "Not a wizard."
[9:15:09 PM] DC "It is a BTL den right?"
[9:15:48 PM] DC "I doubt that they watch them that carfully as long as they pay up and behave"
[9:16:26 PM] Butterfly "So we just walk in?"
[9:16:33 PM] DC "unless 10 has info to the contrary"
[9:18:31 PM] Kagi *10 ::shakes his head negative:: "DC is quiet correct. The hotel has no safe guards what so ever. Though residents tend to be of the lowest form of street scum. The basement is another matter."
[9:19:56 PM] Kagi *10 "Magical security is another matter. Some spirits have been seen lurking the halls of the hotel. It's uncertain what form they are or their purpose."
[9:23:14 PM] Kagi *10 ::looks about the group of runners for further questions and flicks at some imaginary dust on his sleeve::
[9:26:00 PM] * DC looks at the others
[9:26:01 PM] Manzazzuu "Question, oh great and powerful Oz. Can you check and see if the sewers come anywhere near the basement facility?"
[9:26:02 PM] Butterfly"Where's this lab I'm sposed to blow? You got a bluprint or sumin?"
[9:26:03 PM] * Butterfly gives 10 her comm addy
[9:26:25 PM] DC "even then we still have to kill one of the gesaults"
[9:26:30 PM] DC "and guessing from their attiitudes they would be twords the top of the building
[9:27:19 PM] Butterfly "ya. where's the blank hang?"
[9:28:16 PM] * Pele gives 10 his Comm address as well
[9:28:44 PM] * DC guesses you have her comm already
[9:30:30 PM] Kagi *10 "The BTL lab is on the second floor somewhere on the east side of the apartment complex"
[9:31:48 PM] Cherub "is their a way to access to the lab directly by a window ? or any spot around it that won't be guarded by spirits ?"
[9:33:14 PM] Butterfly "This kind of building usually connects to extensive sewer systems. We should be able to get into the basement that way if we want."
[9:33:25 PM] * Pele turns to Butterfly
[9:33:49 PM] Pele "Would that be a GOOD way to go?"
[9:34:16 PM] Manzazzuu "Less of their security, likely. More orcs and gouls, mind you."
[9:34:26 PM] Butterfly "Manny asked." ::Butterfly shrugs::
[9:34:45 PM] Manzazzuu "Glad someone noticed." He smiles at Butterfly.
[9:35:09 PM] Pele "Would you have to blow a whole in the floor for us to get into the basement?"
[9:36:12 PM] Butterfly "It'd be more fun that way, but we could probably just remove the grate." She says with the innocence of a child.
[9:36:43 PM] DC "ya we have to recon the basement not just blow it up"
[9:36:46 PM] Manzazzuu "I don't know about the rest of you, but I'd rather risk the orks and the ghouls. The first you can make a deal with, and the second are rarer. We'd have the element of suprise that way, with any luck, when we went against the Ghestault."
[9:36:50 PM] Kagi *10 ::Shakes his head slightly affirmative to Cherub:: "Yes the lab does have windows. They have been retro fitted with bars on the inside and the windows are painted black."
[9:38:18 PM] Butterfly "10, did you have anything on where that blank and the other haunchos hang out?"
[9:38:21 PM] Pele "The orks and ghouls seem to be a better way to me."
[9:38:40 PM] Kagi *10 "The structure itself is flimsy and a good pry bar should get the bars off. The labs are constantly working though."
[9:39:35 PM] Manzazzuu "Got a missle launcher, Butterfly? Think you could launch one through the window?" He asks with a smirk, half-joking.
[9:39:45 PM] Butterfly "How many people in the labs? And how big are they?"
[9:40:30 PM] Kagi *10 "The members of the gestault have chosen to block off a section of the third floor north side. They have taken this space for themselves."
[9:40:35 PM] Butterfly "I have a bunch a grenades n good aim."
[9:41:06 PM] DC "magic figures could help them reach there mark"
[9:41:18 PM] * Cherub think : "this girl is scary..."
[9:41:59 PM] Manzazzuu "Have to break the windows, and hope the grenades can make it through the bars."
[9:42:36 PM] Butterfly "We could just come in through the basement, n walk upstairs."
[9:42:43 PM] * Manzazzuu nods.
[9:42:49 PM] Manzazzuu "Might end up being better."
[9:43:23 PM] Manzazzuu "If we take care of the Ghestault first, there might be less in the way of coherant security on the way to the lab."
[9:43:27 PM] DC "we could also split up and try to do every thing at once, take them by suprize and get out of there"
[9:43:28 PM] Kagi *10 :: To Butterfly:: "Information on the labs are sketchy at best. A guess would be 7-15 people spread out over 4 or 5 of the apartment rooms. We think they have broken out the walls and connected several of the rooms."
[9:43:54 PM] Manzazzuu "We only have one explosives expert, DC, and she might be needed in both places."
[9:44:31 PM] Butterfly "Ya. Sounds like you need me to blow things up and shoot people in every part of the building."
[9:44:47 PM] DC "yes but only one place needs a delecet touch"
[9:45:42 PM] Butterfly "I'm gonna need help there though. It's too many people and too much space for me to keep them all from sounding an alarm."
[9:46:24 PM] Pele "I can take some out."
[9:46:28 PM] Manzazzuu "We also might need all of us against the cadre of spellcasters."
[9:47:02 PM] DC "that is what I am worried about"
[9:47:08 PM] Butterfly "I mean. I can deal with it, but you all seem to want discresion, and I can't do that alone."
[9:47:47 PM] * Cherub think about how happy he was back in his forest
[9:48:13 PM] Pele "Discresion, destruction... little difference."
[9:48:18 PM] DC "if we split up into teams of two and each one do one part of the job we could do this job before they knew what hit them"
[9:48:23 PM] Pele "As long as we get it done."
[9:48:45 PM] Butterfly Butterfly is staring intently at what seems to be a blanks spot on the wall, "oh here. we can take the elevators up too. They don't work so no one'll be in em. Just go up the shafts."
[9:49:31 PM] Kagi *10 ::Clears his throat to get the runners attention:: "This gestault is of unknown power, but we assume that what ever they are doing in the basement is very powerful indeed. Mrs. Johnson suggest against going into a head on fair fight with them magically. This is their home ground after all."
[9:50:04 PM] Manzazzuu "I don't like the odds if we split up against the possibility of the entire Ghestault."
[9:51:29 PM] Manzazzuu "Especially considering they've been working together longer than the rest of us."
[9:53:06 PM] Pele "So, are we to take on them head to head first? Or sneak up and get the first strike?"
[9:53:46 PM] Butterfly "Ya, and a couple of the elevators run all the way to the basement, too. That's like all descrete n stuff."
[9:54:11 PM] Manzazzuu "I think our new friend Ten has suggested against taking them head on, and I rather agree."
[9:55:50 PM] Butterfly "Oh! Damn! Look at this! THere's a cellar door into the basement!" She exclaims, pointing at the blank spot on the wall.
[9:56:00 PM] DC "10 do they have any active security camaras in the place?"
[9:56:53 PM] Manzazzuu "From the outside of the building, Butterfly?"
[9:57:03 PM] Kagi *10 ::to Butterfly:: "We have been unable to properly recon those doors. We are unsure if they work, are welded shut, bricked up on the inside, or wide open."
[9:57:08 PM] Butterfly "In the courtyard"
[9:58:37 PM] Manzazzuu "This job just keeps getting better by the minute."
[9:59:27 PM] Butterfly "I can get throuch locks n welding sly, but I'd have to blow the bricks.
[10:00:10 PM] Manzazzuu "We have some time. Maybe we should consider doing this in stages."
[10:02:01 PM] Butterfly "I thought we were. First the recon, then set charges, then a blank, then blow the place."
[10:02:37 PM] Kagi *10 ::To DC:: "We are uncertain. We think they might in the area of the BTL lab, to keep workers from stealing the product, perhaps other places too. The cameras would be close circuit if they are there. You'll have to watch for them as you go. I should be able to get you some EM sensing equipment."
[10:04:42 PM] Manzazzuu "I was thinking maybe doing them on different days. It's a shame we don't really have time to stake out the place and try to get a ritual link to our target or catch him alone out of the building."
[10:04:50 PM] DC "I could make some of the team invisable to camaras but i would be useless in a fight while I was sustaining the spells"
[10:06:02 PM] Butterfly "You think it's worth the risk to try n get more recon before we hit it?"
[10:06:50 PM] Doc "for what it is worth I can also make some of us invisable if need be."
[10:07:05 PM] Butterfly "That'd be wiz..."
[10:07:41 PM] Doc "that way if we do split up some we will be covered."
[10:07:59 PM] Manzazzuu "Only problem with that is the spirits. It'll set off alarms with them, if they're agents of the Ghestault."
[10:10:13 PM] Kagi *10 "Again, your miss informed I'm afraid."
[10:10:42 PM] Manzazzuu "Do tell."
[10:11:29 PM] Kagi *10 ::Looks a bit uncomfortable:: "The spirits are of an unknown type and unknown function. Our..." ::Looks very uncomfortable::
[10:11:47 PM] Manzazzuu "Continue."
[10:11:59 PM] * DC looks at 10 with intrest
[10:12:10 PM] Kagi ::Sighs, his jaw muscles work for a moment then he continues::
[10:14:10 PM] Kagi "This is more information then you are supposed to recieve, so step carefully with this subject. We have attempted to scout the building before, magically. One of our operatives....he came back, raving insane."
[10:14:34 PM] Manzazzuu "Better and better."
[10:14:42 PM] Butterfly "Hot damn. Fun drek"
[10:15:00 PM] * DC thinks "ohh great" and lets it seep into her face
[10:15:51 PM] * Pele stays quiet, and thinks to himself
[10:16:27 PM] * DC switches to astral sight for a moment to assess the team's magical potential
[10:16:36 PM] Manzazzuu "Tell us what you -do- know about the spirits. Maybe one of us can identify them."
[10:17:12 PM] Cherub "I could eventualy get butterfly to reach the lab's window so she could set some kind of explosive thought the window that could be activated when the time come, considering that space between bars is big enought to let the bomb come in and that no one is in the lab at the moment that we set it . That may fit for a part of the job."
[10:18:22 PM] DC "we could just float the charges over there as well
[10:19:31 PM] Cherub "err...i'm really not very good with that kind of stuff....Not sure i want to use them beside."
[10:21:35 PM] DC "we could just have her set up the charges then set them on the window with magic, then Butterfly could detonate them by remote"
[10:22:00 PM] DC "we don't even have to get near the charges"
[10:22:02 PM] Butterfly "Well, do mundanes get glitched too?"
[10:22:58 PM] Butterfly "Cause it'll be easier to set the charges myself, I think."
[10:23:00 PM] Kagi *10 ::Notices Doc staring at him, hard:: "Can I help your with something?" ::Looks a bit unsettled and ticked-off::
[10:24:23 PM] * DC was looking for magical potental.. probibly wouldn't look for it in the decker
[10:24:29 PM] Doc "just wonderin what other infomation you may have and not shareing that may help."
[10:25:45 PM] DC "my appologys 10 I thought I saw something in the other plain"
[10:26:58 PM] Manzazzuu "Tell us what you know about the spirits. You've already noted that the majority of the group is magical in nature, that gives us a decent chance of recognising them, or come up with a half decent theory."
[10:27:35 PM] Doc "Just sounds to me like you have had a bit of an idea of what we may encounter inside and that make a difference to our success."
[10:30:10 PM] Cherub "hmm...about those junkies that they host to make their drugs, do they keep them all inside or can they acess to the city. What kind of folk is regularly entering/geting out of the building ?"
[10:33:00 PM] Kagi *10 ::still a bit uncomfortable, he figits from foot to foot before answering:: "I only know what I am telling you about the spirits. As to the residents of the building, they are free to come and go as they see fit. Many lounge outside of the building. Most are locked away in privacy inside the building chipped in and virtually catatonic."
[10:33:56 PM] Cherub how do they recognize which are those junky and which aren't , do they have some kind of ID card ?
[10:34:59 PM] Kagi *10 The BTL is only sold inside the building, so residents must enter to make purchases. The gestault discourages useage of BTL outside the premises and no one but the worst kind of street scum would enter that hell for any other reason."
[10:35:56 PM] Manzazzuu "How do you know the spirits are of an unknown type? There must be some anomoly that makes them different from other spirits."
[10:36:41 PM] Doc " I agree why else would you say they were different otherwise?"
[10:37:33 PM] Cherub but they are using those junkies to make the BTL right? Do just anyone looking a little bit like a junkie can acess to their lab to make the BTL or do they have some kind of way to recognise who are their crew and who aren't, I imagine that they don't bother trying to know some junkies that well
[10:40:42 PM] Kagi *10 ::Regains his composure:: "The lab personel are hand picked by the gestault. They are recognized on sight. they work in shifts and are well payed. They are also screened to make sure they are not using the product. Most of them are gangers from redmond."
[10:41:59 PM] Butterfly ::her face scrunches and she kind of grumbles out:: "I've got an interntal Sim Mod. I could maybe pose as a junkie easy enough I guess. To get in."
[10:42:29 PM] Cherub "do they have some access card to open doors or is it perssonel inside who open doors for them?"
[10:47:23 PM] Kagi *10 ::To Cherub:: "Personel. Several armed guards are stationed at one end of the lab. The other end of the hallway has been bricked up. A counter blocks off the open end. Transactions are done over that counter. Like a BTL drive through."
[10:49:44 PM] Cherub are they making BTL 24/7 or do they make it in the day and labs are empty at night ?
[10:52:26 PM] Kagi *10 "The labs run day and night, but the majority of the production seems to happen during the day, with the majority of the distribution at night. But the Labs always have someone in them."
[10:53:49 PM] Pele "Are the members of the gestault there day and night?"
[10:53:57 PM] Pele "Or, at least most of the time?"
[11:00:06 PM] Kagi *10 ::to Pele:: "To our knowledge they members of the gestault seldom leave the building. Since the resent increase in magical activity in the basement they haven't left. Perhaps a month. What ever they are up to seems to be draining for them."
[11:00:41 PM] Manzazzuu "That's the first good news I've heard all day."
[11:01:10 PM] DC "but we don't want to fight the whole gestault
[11:01:43 PM] Manzazzuu "Something tells me we won't end up having much of a choice."
[11:04:20 PM] Kagi *10 ::sighs:: "It's getting late. I would suggest we take a room at a motel near to the Building and you can do any recon of the building you may need. If I can find a place to get comfortable I can look into the sewer schematics if you like."
[11:04:54 PM] DC "sounds good"
[11:05:28 PM] Manzazzuu "It would be good to know if we'll need to go through a wall to get into their basement."
[11:05:35 PM] Doc "works for me"
[11:06:06 PM] DC "two of us can scout in astral"
[11:07:01 PM] DC "for the door down there"
[11:07:15 PM] Pele "Didn't that other guy go insane though?"
[11:09:35 PM] DC "yah, but that is why there will be two of us, and it will be in the sewers"
[11:11:26 PM] Manzazzuu "I've an idea. Any chance of shutting down power to the building?"
[11:12:23 PM] Cherub "butterfly , could you make a device to make the window fall inside with some kind of bomb on it's borders and once the window fall inside the main bomb explode and blow everything out ?"
[11:12:53 PM] DC "10 can you arrange for those apartments?"
[11:13:08 PM] Cherub "knowing that windows are painted black they may not see you setting the device as long as you're silent enough."
[11:13:38 PM] Kagi *10 ::after a moment he nods and speaks up:: "Reservations are made at the Low-Nuyen Inn just outside of the redmond barrens. The rooms are automated. entrance is by slotting your credstick. I've doubled up on the rooms, two to each."
[11:14:12 PM] Butterfly "Probably, but if I try to take it out with just one bomb, I'll have to take out most of that section of the building. We're talking about 4-5 apts, and there are bound to be several walls left intact."
[11:15:00 PM] Kagi *10 ::Looks to Manzazzuu:: "I'm sorry, I was VR. Could you repeat that question?"
[11:15:10 PM] Cherub "well the operation can be made on more than 1 window"
[11:15:19 PM] Manzazzuu "I asked if we could cut power to their building."
[11:17:16 PM] Cherub "hmm...thought their is still those metal bars behind , i'm not sure if it may work..."
[11:17:25 PM] Kagi *10 ::A ghost of a smile touches his withered face:: "I'm not sure. We had not thought of that option. Powerlines would run through the basement and into the sewers most likely. I can find out for sure when I get the sewer schematics."
[11:17:48 PM] Manzazzuu "That would take out a lot of their security."
[11:17:57 PM] Butterfly "When dropping a bomb on one side of a room and expecting it to take out everything in the room, it will definately take out the wall it's nearest and the floor of it's room and the one above it. Several through the windows won't take out as much of the building, but it will still create very noticable collateral dameage. I'm OK with that, but Mrs. Johnson didn't seem to be." Butterfly doesn't have a trace of smile left anymore.
[11:18:00 PM] Cherub "but that would also alert them"
[11:18:22 PM] * Pele nods towards Cherub
[11:18:48 PM] Kagi *a eurocar west wind 2000 pulls up to the curb outside
[11:19:09 PM] Manzazzuu "Look people, I think it's obvious we're going to have to go into the building to get all facets of the job done." He frowns, and turns to watch the eurocar.
[11:19:13 PM] * DC looks at the car
[11:19:14 PM] Manzazzuu "Expecting anyone?"
[11:19:28 PM] Butterfly "The optimal placement for the desired effect is near the center of each section, destroying only the portion of lab desired."
[11:19:35 PM] Kagi *10 ::Raises his arm in the direction of the door:: "Shall we continue this in our rooms?"
[11:19:49 PM] * DC nods
[11:19:51 PM] Pele "I shall take my bike."
[11:20:05 PM] Butterfly "I gotta ride. I'll follow."
[11:20:31 PM] DC " if anyone has some room I could use a ride"
[11:20:31 PM] * Pele walks out of the building and jumps on his bike, and waits for the eurocar to pll away
[11:20:40 PM] Kagi *****End Session*****