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« Reply #645 on: <11-13-13/1346:36> »
@Judah: As the beast took over the controll, you feel the endless urge for the hunt. It seems there is lot to do around here. As your and spirits thoughts and auras overlay, you feel the animal furry streaming into your veins and mind. Suddenly, even your dark friend disapperas somewhere behind the field of view. You are not sure what plan is it preparing, but with its presence suppressed you feel much more comfortable. As there is only little need for the spirit to act right now, it lets you in controll, not even fights for it. It knows that its time will come. Soon enought...

@Sylvia: You can see the housing is quite safe, possibly due to its neighborhood. The ground level windows are enforced with artist designed, almost rustical, but obviously quite firm gratings
Above the ground level you can see ring of laser beam detectors, that would possibly raise alarm every time somebody is trying to climb the wall. Above, you can see almost randomly placed clusters of cameras and motion sensors, covering most of outer layer. Since they are above street lights level, you are sure they have thermographic or low-light enhancements instaled. While it seems inpenetrable for the rookie, you know that this density of sensors is:
Pretty difficult to handle without hi-powered Nexus
Pretty cahllenging for maintenace
No so reliable due to weather and agressive nature of the envinmental polution. It is possible that acid rain like the one currently falling from sky puts some of this clusters out of service
The price of this sensor field would be astronomical if at least some of those are not dummies of whole field is equiped by low level sensors. You expect average sensitivity at best.
Bad thing is, that this clusters seem to be all ported to hardwired racks built in the plaster.
From this point the best sensors you notice are surrounding Garrage entry and main entrance of the building, which seems to be equiped with either low-grade UWB or at least weapons/cyberware detection frame.
The company providing security to this building had done good job, well aparently the budget didnt allowed them to turn the place into corporate-like stronghold.
Educated guess: SR:4 + 3 additional sensors
What you dont know how good their spider is, and he can shuffle the cards a bit. In the field like this, the intimate knowledge is essential, as you need to know the blind spots to be able extrapolate and also some "bad habbits" whole network or its parts has.

@Brian: Those two military grade drones increase threat level drasticaly in this situation, and you cannot see theat black car Homolka and Kukac were using. If your oponents are in charge of the operation the way Nick described it, they would hardly allow local security crew to wander around the building with spider in hi seat. No. They would use their authority to set guards to firm possitions to allow them to run their own game on this turf. In that case, whole personel would be on site and they wont rely on distant support. Also...with legal access to almost every network around, they wont need a hacker,  while the drones and the car would suggest the presence of rigger. He may be able to cover both fields, but you know one cannot excell in both fields. Some of your good friends being parts of mechanized crew, you know they prefer safety of their own armored seats instead of running around the battlefield.

@Fang ...working...

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« Reply #646 on: <11-18-13/1600:47> »
@Fang: You are watching the list of nodes reducing, as Navi triangulates theeir possition and eliminates those outside given perimeter. You end up with surprisingly short list. as it looks like the wireless inhibition woks quite well and most appartments take advantage of the opportunity to set up secured home network. This private networks seem to be linked to meshwork through hi-powered satelite uplink antena on the roof. Transceiver is using strong encryption procedures, well cryptologic algorithm are just a nibble above the street level..
A few more nodes appear on AR overlay as you watch the window, Some belongs to more frivolous residents.
Two of them being previously identified Nimrods. You cannot find that grid supported tactical network used for their controll, but you locate different node with similar signature as those drones.
You calculate that this node was previously offline or was using grid as cover, now Navi`s search pinpoint its location in the underground parking lot below the building, where the G.R.I.D doesn`t extent.

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« Reply #647 on: <11-23-13/0426:20> »
How curious... I wonder what that node below is... Fang's icon frowned briefly as it began sending threads of Resonance to investigate the node underground.

[spoiler]Matrix Perception test on underground node:Analyze (8) + Computer (4) + HotSim (2) + Technomancer (2) - Sustaining (2) (14d6.hits(5)=5)
1. What are you?
2. Do you have a Data Bomb attached?
3. Are you encrypted?
4-5. NULL[/spoiler]
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« Reply #648 on: <11-23-13/0900:06> »
Stealth (12d6.hits(5)=5)

You are not sure if you can trust your eyes, but you are not able to gain any info about the node so far.

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« Reply #649 on: <11-24-13/1837:54> »
Fang frowned. This level of difficulty garnering information was rather unusual... Perhaps another try? Resonance strands once again looped toward the node, investigating it.

[spoiler]Analyze (8) + Computer (4) + HotSim (2) + Technomancer (2) - Sustaining (2) - Trying again (2) (12d6.hits(5)=6)

Take that!

1. Do you have a Data Bomb attached?
2. Are you encrypted?
3. What are you?
4-6. NULL[/spoiler]
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« Reply #650 on: <11-25-13/0159:25> »
Sylvia came back to the rest of the group.
"I have good news and bad news," She said, "The bad news is that security looks like it has been put there by competent people, with multiple sensors and stuff like that.  The good news is that this is probably just advertising and half of the sensors are dummies.  Otherwise they have the same type of security triple A's put on their top secret research facilities.  Which is a lot for a simple apartment block.  But I think it's doable, if we move carefully.  Now, who will go with me to take over all those fancy cameras and such?  Preferably people with some experience in this kind of work."
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« Reply #651 on: <11-25-13/0449:15> »
”I won’t let you go alone, and I have experience in this kind of thing, even if I used it mainly in the jungles.” Bulldog’s reply was immediate. ”Judah, I remember something mentioned about some background count. That means a watcher won’t cut it, can you send one of your spirits in with us? Shadow, I know you can see what happens in astral but we need overwatch that can do something about the astral guards.”
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« Reply #652 on: <11-25-13/1408:11> »
@Fang: 1) Yes.
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« Reply #653 on: <11-25-13/1543:11> »
Sylvia took out her dagger.
"This can cut through spirits just as well as metahumans," she said, before putting it back, "but some extra help can always be useful.  I won't have the time to check the astral contineously, so a spirit would be useful.  And with a spirit we can keep the concealment up while on the inside."
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« Reply #654 on: <11-26-13/0437:47> »
Perhaps when I get more time I might explore that later... Fang thought to himself, discounting the underground node. He didn't feel like dealing with not-immediately important data bombs. He instead turned his attention to the two above-ground drones.

[spoiler]MPT on drone 1: Analyze (8) + Computer (4) + HotSim (2) + Technomancer (2) - Sustaining (2) (14d6.hits(5)=4)
MPT on drone 2: Analyze (8) + Computer (4) + HotSim (2) + Technomancer (2) - Sustaining (2) (14d6.hits(5)=4)[/spoiler]
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« Reply #655 on: <11-26-13/0724:00> »
Same results as in previous attempt when you meet those drones for the First time, near Auburn bus station.

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« Reply #656 on: <11-26-13/0732:31> »
Quote
Nodes are equiped with some military grade masking routines, but you are able to bypass the camouflage and get detailed observation about their node.
Protected by Firewall that not even hit the streets yet , the drones node is also encrypted, and so is their signal. Even without cryptoanalysis you are able to see that node is protected by virtual minefield and IC operates within the node. Both nodes shows traces of Resonance signature.
Without decryption, further details are unknown to you...

Ok. Sorry for repast, this was the best I can do on my phone. Everything that has been said before applies on nodes now.
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« Reply #657 on: <11-28-13/0219:47> »
Fang's persona scowled. @All: There isn't much I can do about the drones unfortunately. They're extremely heavily encrypted and data bombed. I can try to hack their master node, but chances are that's going to be even more impossible. You're on your own for this unfortunately.

@Navi: Can you decrypt the communications between either of the drones and its master node if it has one?

[spoiler]Initiate Cryptanalysis: Electronic Warfare (6) + Decrypt (6) (12d6.hits(5)=0) 0/?
Electronic Warfare (6) + Decrypt (6) (12d6.hits(5)=4) 4/? (R1 and R2 encryption down after 6 seconds)
Electronic Warfare (6) + Decrypt (6) (12d6.hits(5)=3) 7/? (R3 encryption down after 9 seconds)
Electronic Warfare (6) + Decrypt (6) (12d6.hits(5)=4) 11/? (R4 and R5 encryption down after 12 seconds)
Electronic Warfare (6) + Decrypt (6) (12d6.hits(5)=3) 14/? (R6 and R7 encryption down after 15 seconds)
Electronic Warfare (6) + Decrypt (6) (12d6.hits(5)=7) 21/? (R8, R9 and R10 encryption down after 18 seconds)[/spoiler]
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« Reply #658 on: <12-05-13/0147:08> »
From Nick they knew what kind of security they had on their doors, down to the model of the card readers and such.  It was always useful to have insider knowledge and this time she didn't even have to intimidate or seduce people to get it.  Waiting until there was a gap in the drone coverage, they ran towards the backdoor.

Having spotted a number of cameras, first of all Sylvia put up her camera neutraliser so it could do it's magic, setting it up at a spot she had selected before.  It should have to block the cameras pointed towards the back door.  With that done she moved on towards the door, checking if Bulldog was still following and then she started her magic on the door, first checking for any fancy stuff with her Non-Linear Junction Detector.  It wouldn't do to bypass the maglock on the door only to find that there was another device that triggered an alarm.  Better to scan first.


[spoiler]
I have 2IP/CT.

infiltration roll:
agility 6 + infiltration 4 =10 (10d6.hits(5)=4)
so that's 4 dice extra for Bulldog (from which he can only use 3 if I'm right).

camera neutraliser (device rating x2 =8):
camera neutraliser 4 =8 (8d6.hits(5)=3)
treshold is 2 (3 for microcameras, see arsenal p59) so it will block the camera at the door.

Non-Linear Junction Detector (device rating x2 =8):
Non-Linear Junction Detector 4 =8 (8d6.hits(5)=4)
again arsenal p59:
Th is handheld device emits microwave signals and detects the refl ected harmonic signals given off by electronics. It is commonly used to scan for RFID tags, microsensors, microdrones, bombs, and other hidden devices, and can even detect electronics that are not powered. Th e range of this device is limited, however, to only 2 meters.

I've chameleon armour + thermal damping, I've normally neutralised the camera pointing at the door and I check for any funny electronics (even optical) devices before opening the door.
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« Reply #659 on: <12-05-13/0618:00> »
Bulldog followed Shadow at the appropriate distance – not too close to bump into her if she suddenly stopped but not too far so he could help her out immediately if she needed it – in a half-crouch. He knew the drones represented the brunt of the threat outside, so he watched the sky carefully, keeping the gun at his chest, while she fiddled with her gear.
The weather was making their approach somewhat easier. The rain reduced useful visual range, as well as reducing thermal signatures. It would be a different thing inside, as they would leave easily distinguishable, wet prints on the ground. They had to be quick about their jobs, lest some guard noticed this prematurely.
[spoiler=infiltration]Notes: I have 3 IPs/CT. I have urban camo (-2 on visual). If this is already part of the test to beat the Security rating, I’ll spend Edge to reroll; if not, please disregard the Edge spending.
AGI(5) + Infiltration(3) + Home Ground(2) + Teamwork(3) + TacNet(1) (14d6.hits(5)=4)
With Edge: AGI(5) + Infiltration(3) + Home Ground(2) + Teamwork(3) + TacNet(1) - hits(4) (10d6.hits(5)=2), 6 hits altogether.[/spoiler]
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