[inca1980]

@Everyone:
Remember, this isn't a night club.  It's a castle and this is a masked ball in the ballroom inside the castle.  Like i IC'd, think baroque style masked ball.  Here's an idea of where the places are.  You're in Eyllin castle.

Tir Taingire

[Sichr]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrOeGCJdZe4&ob=av2e

Ok back to black asessing situation and the map. Can you please one more time describe where Zach and Brick is possitioned? On the roof? Some kind of balcony beneath the ceiling? What approach we have down there? Any obstacles in the way (like bulletproof glass or something

[inca1980]

@Sichr:

On the roof of the ball room, looking through a sky light (glass window in cieling)

[Sichr]

@Sichr:
... (glass window in cieling)

Now it makes sense
Glass thickness (barriere rating ? Professional guess?

[inca1980]

@Sichr:
We'll just say it's trivial to break.  But it does make noise.  The only resemblance that this has to a night club is that the music is recorded and not live.

[SeriousOne338]

I am starting my hack and I noticed that Chummer did not include which programs are ergonomic...... I need to update that. 

[inca1980]

@Serious:
Great job laying it out man, you're a natural at UB!  I did mention though that you do already have a backdoor to the system that you made.  All you would need to do is log on and the system gets a analyze check.  So i'll just log you on to the system and roll that. 

[SeriousOne338]

Right I edited my post to show his hacking method please remember he's running stealth 5 so if the firewall tries to find me it's at -5 to the dice pool.

[inca1980]

@Serious:
When you log on with the backdoor then the system rolls Analyze + Firewall (5), so your stealth is the threshold to be noticed.  Then once you're in the system it's just an opposed System/Analyze+Firewall vs. Hacking + Stealth.   So i don't know what you mean by the -5 to the dicepool.  Show me some RAW if i'm mistaken.

[inca1980]

@Everyone:
...Time out...
Ok, so in this ballroom there are NO smoke machines....let me reiterate that, NO SMOKE MACHINES.  Again, think like beauty and the beast style ballroom with lot's of elves waltzing in steampunk attire.  The only special effects are those generated by the illusionists.  This is a private event hosted by Tahldrin of House Eyllin.  There is recorded music though, also controlled by the sound system which is probably accessible.  Again, if you have a question about a certain feature or detail, just ask if you're not sure it's part of the scene.
...and SCENE!...

[SeriousOne338]

I was reading somewhere when the system starts searching... let me check... whoops it just makes the threshold to find me higher.

[Thermo]

Inca, still waiting on responses to my assensing and knowledge skill rolls

[SeriousOne338]

OK I can try and start a security alarm in another part of the castle to draw off part of the security. Also I could disable the cameras and other stuff.

[Sichr]

how many people elves is in there? Are there any other escape routes than those visible on map?

[Thermo]

What do you guys think about some distractions/diversions right as the action goes down? If Dos Boot can set off some alarms elsewhere and disable the cameras that would be a huge start. Getting control of the locking system for the doors wouldn't be a bad idea either.

I was thinking that Storm could try to convince the other two mages to do some kind of event in unison it might keep the partygoers in the dark until it's too late. Maybe something like "at the right cue, we'll wash the crowd with illusionary flames and call it the phoenix song" and Storm wastes the target with REAL fire. Or all three illusionists go invisible at the same time (allowing Storm to levitate out while her Valkyrie guardian spirits hack the target to pieces).

Brick and Zach, if you guys are up for it some suppressive fire on the guards while Storm gets the hell out of there would be great. If you've got any flashbangs I'd say toss em into the room through the skylight and cause mass confusion and panic. Storm can cast Foreboding while the grenades are going off to REALLY put the terror into people.

Any other ideas??