After deciding on a destination, he spends most of the ride quiet, searching through his commlink for more clues as to his identity or history and debating whether to let the rest of these murderers know it's probably his fault they woke up in a van hanging off a cliff or not.
After digging further into your commlink and the history you can find on your own identities, you come to the conclusion that both SINs you have are fakes. (Rating 3).
You find some interest in your call history. Now that you've set yourself up on a network call with the group, you see in your call history a number of similar calls, with several other commcodes subscribed to the network. You notice quite a few with the same repeating numbers, two of which you recognize as belonging to Chino and the Dwarf, judging by the commcodes you're currently connected to. You guess by the history of calls that you've been working regularly with them for at least six months. There are other commcodes in the networked calls that you don't recognize, with a few that come and go, and one that was consistent up until yesterday. You do not see the current commcodes for Ace, The Masked Woman, The Elf, or The Crumpled Man in any of the networked calls prior to yesterday.
Ace fiddled with his link all the while. He looked through all the data that could be found – contact list, calendar, recent messages, pictures, browser history, logs… he suspected it would probably take quite some time but he wanted to be thorough. Any bits of information had to be collected that could explain the situation they were in.
You find two SINs in your comm.
>> James Anderson
>> UCAS National SIN
>> Age: 32
>> Sex: Male
>> Metatype: Human
>> Race: Caucasian
>> Concealed Carry License
>> Ares Crusader License
>> Ares Lightfire License
>> Smartgun License
>> Agility Enhancement License
>> Shock Hand License
>> Synaptic Booster License
>> Security Clearance (Lifescape Pharmaceuticals)
James Anderson appears to have a full life, and a lengthy history. You find all the same info The Elf found on you, and your contact list and call history fully supports it. It looks like you work for a Pharmaceutical company in Denver called Lifescape Pharmaceuticals, an Ares subsidiary. You've got a wife and kids back in Seattle, but it doesn't look like you talk to them anymore. They're in your contact list, but the last time you called any of them was two years ago. You also have a number of coworkers, people you knew in college, some ex-girlfriends with less than favorable nicknames in the profiles on your phone, and a laundry list of purchasing history dating back for years.
Despite all this, you're pretty certain this is a fake SIN, although a very well made one (Rating 6). Someone went through the effort to make it look like you had a full history, and you've probably been using this name for years, but you can see a noticeable change in the quality of the info the further back you go.
You check the second SIN, and notice this is the one that you've been more actively using lately.
>> Josh Adams
>> Pueblo Corporate Council National SIN
>> Age: 28
>> Sex: Male
>> Metatype: Human
>> Race: Caucasian
Josh Adams has a fairly thorough data trail as well, although of obvious lesser quality to your James Identity (Fake SIN rating 5).
You notice that The Elf's commcode is in your contact list under "Susan", as well as the Masked Woman, under "Ileana."
You also have a contact for someone named "Rhodes," located in Aspen. There are no messages between you, just phone calls, that never seem to last more than 30 seconds. The last call was from three days ago.
Chino's suggestion of scanning the crate reminds her that she has a cyberware scanner in her mask. She glances up and activates it, trying to get a sense of what's inside. She had already seen that it was metallic, but maybe the scanner can cross-reference it with an online database like it did with the hunters' cyberware.
You fire up the scanner and sweep it over the crate, penetrating the wood to get a reading on what's inside. The scanner reveals the outline of something almost as large as the crate itself, with a large octagonal base and a thinner, flatter pillar on top. The scanner picks up large amounts of gold, iron, copper, mercury, silver, platinum, osmium and silicon. It appears to be a solid hunk of a strange combination of various elements and metals, which would explain why it was so damn heavy. The shape is also weird, being mostly geometric. The cyberware scanner can pick up indentations across the base that suggest it is etched or engraved, but it can't pick up the fine detail through the thick wood of the crate.
Your best guess at a glance, without opening the crate, is that it's some kind of sculpture or art piece.
