I think we have plan now? If I grasped everything (and I may not have) plan A looks like this:
1- Bobby turns into something that flies and flies onto the roof of the tenement
2- Mato(?) goes into Stuffer Shack, buys some crap and sees if there is anything that might distract a normal cat, and if there is he goes in between the storage containers and the ‘abandoned’ squat and tosses it on the ground.
3- Mato goes and buys a hit a from the dealers under the gazebo
4- Mato takes the hit and the junk he bought at Stuffer Shack and heads to the tenement apartments (probably going up the fire escape on the north side?), and heads up like he’s meeting someone.
5- AM/Jawsey open up the smuggling compartment (I presume it is the classic ‘under the back seat’?)
6- Jawsey summons a spirit of man
7- AM casts and sustains increased intuition on Jawsey (and maybe also on his spirit?) Jawsey maybe also pops a dose of Psyche, then goes astral and keeps an eye on Mato’s progress.
8- When Mato is on to the fourth floor walkway, Jawsey astrally enters the apartment and attacks the hellhound, hopefully killing it but at the least weakening it.
-If kills it and has time before Mato comes in, manifests and tells the kid that help is coming.
-If he is too hurt and can’t finish it, will manifest and warn Mato/Bobby
9- Mato hurries to the door, and opens it (picks the lock, mini-welder, kicks it in … whatever works).
10- Bobby turns into a gorilla or something else good at climbing/carrying, and quickly drops down to the fourth floor walkway.
11- Mato and Bobby enter the apartment, finishing off the hellhound if necessary. At this point Jawsey returns to his body, tells AM she can drop her spells, and she drives the car closer (near the tenement offic?)
12- Mato and Bobby deal with the situation in the apartment, taking care of any other issues and freeing the boy if he is chained or whatever. Then they get the boy out, either under his own power or carried by Bobby. They signal if they’ll need a levitate or have it under control.
13- Exit A is down to the roof of the tenement office (Bobby can probably jump down far (~six metres?) and catch the boy if Bobby dangles and drops him? Then they can repeat to the ground beside the car. Else they call for the slower levitate option on the boy or one or more of them. AM stays sharp on where she may need to move the car, depending if they have to take a different exit (along the walkway, up and over the roof, etc). She also gets ready to provide counter spells if their sorcerer shows up.
14- If no levitate was needed, Jawsey crawls into the smuggling compartment while the others come down the building, to clear a seat for faster loading of the car. If levitate is needed Bobby changes shape again maybe, either to something small that can squeeze in or something that can fly and get out of here on his own.
15- AM guns it and gets away from the area
16- Profit.
Questions:
a) I forget what features the car had besides a smuggling compartment, I think a license spoofer? I presume we are running that already?
b) Is there a better extraction point than right beside the office (which is also near the gazebo), where extra forces may be quick to respond? What are the trade-offs?
c) If Mato is intercepted on his approach, does he turn back, or fight his way through?
d) Do we have a way to scrub the whole operation if things start going sideways for one of us?
e) Are we worried about the one person with the fancy matrix persona? Could be a decker/'mancer on the 'Weeners side?