For Love of Money (Shadowrun 4e)

Game Master dickie

"So, we whomp dem guys, take deir van, and bring all da boxes a' drek inside. Once we're in, you two," CB points a thick, calloused finger towards BlackLyst and Val, "Sneak and hack and find da doohickey take snag. Den we beat feet outta dere. Sounds wiz take alla you?"

"Except that this place usually only comes in with a crew of two. It'll be suspicious with a lot of us there. Unless some of you stay in the van or I manage to sneak away into a maintenance closet." Lyst drums his fingers and ponders for a bit, then continues. "I think we can make it work. Val, can you fake some uniform requisitions? Otherwise we'll have to buy these custom, and I don't like the the data trail that leaves."

If anyone here is to stay out of sight, i suppose it should be me says Venom.

[B]"Lad me chum, we all want to stay out of sight. That is kinda the point."/[b]

"It's not always about staying out of sight. It doesn't matter who sees you as long as they don't notice you. But you, my friend," Lyst says to Bullet Catcher before turning to Venom, "And you, will certainly be noticed."

Venom laughs, And you obviously don't know how skilled I am in the art of disguise...

"Uh, yeah, BlackLyst ain't wrong here. Da big guy, he ain't gonna blend in nowhere but a Concrete Dreams reunion, and me, I ain't much better. Couple a breeders, in da right getup, now dey won' get a second look, ya do it right. Den, once ya's in, ya pop a door like fer a smoke break, an' we sneak on in. Grab da loot, den beat feet. If da delivery folks is smart, we give em a couple hunned nuyen, dey forget about da inconvenience. If dey feel dumb, we smack dem around and take it."

Okay, I hate interrupting when things are still being discussed, but I think we can move forward, and CB is really asking the pertinent question about the next scene...

Seattle, UCAS
07:30, February 18, 2073

The morning is typical of Seattle this time of year. A bit cool at 7 celsius with skies that are mostly clear. There are no unusual security or traffic alerts, only the standard delays and expected level of gang activity.

The delivery van leaves the warehouse on schedule. According to the manifest Val pulled off the Matrix, the crew, a human male and ork female, is scheduled for two morning deliveries before returning to the fulfillment center around lunch. SCES! is the second delivery, scheduled to arrive at 11:00.

They'd all huddled into a restroom on the parking level, and some cheap "caution" tape assured they would remain unmolested while making preparations. The van was scheduled to arrive in a few minutes, but the team had all arrived early. Which was right on time.

Lyst zips up the bulky plasticanvas overcoat and spares a glance down at the company logo stitched on the chest. He pulls the bottom down to straighten it but finds the wrinkles seem to be pressed in. He fixes his hair in the mirror and frowns. "Classy." He says sarcastically before he turns to the others. "Are we ready?"

Catcher yawns with am air of boredom. "Yep."

CB wraps his chain around his fist, and makes sure his oversized Dragoon pistol is just barely visible under his synthleather armored jacket.

"So, ya get deir attention and I step up behin' em? Make 'em decide ta hand ovah da keys n'xchange fer dis 'stick. Course, if dey wanna get laid out, I kin do dat, too."

He waves a standard credstick, with ¥200 showing on its balance screen.

"Figger dat'll do it, neh?"

"I prefer to be unseen when I take someone out, but you're probably right about the bribe. I'd cover your face though so they can't sell you out later." Lyst says as he taps around on his 'link screen. "But I had an idea on the way over here. Say Val, think you can whip up an ARO indicating a tow order for illegal parking? While those two schmucks try to figure out where their van went and how to get it back, we can be off taking care of business. They'll be arguing with the tow company for hours. We'll have the van back before anyone's the wiser."

They'd find it suspicious if that happened without the ARO being real legit looking, since they're supposed to be making a delivery run. I would say there are two options here. First, Val could hack the parking structure system to command it to display a standard, vague tow notice. You could consider the system to pretty much be rating 3s across the board. Alternatively, you could use a sprite to edit an ARO of it's own outside of the parking system. In that case, you or the sprite could craft an ARO icon using Edit. Successes would be used to set the difficulty the crew would have to realize the notice is a fake. Or you could just try the "bribe or bash?" game. It is an oldie, but a goodie.

Lyst doesn't like getting his hands dirty/doesn't want to risk Cinder Block accidentally killing someone. Hacking is so much cleaner.
But yeah, hacking the parking system might be a better idea. Heck, Lyst can probably handle that.
I'll wait for the rest of the team to weigh in though. Val, most notably.

Venom picks his teeth with a toothpick, fingering the gun at his side. his belt has four clips hung from it, two with red tape marking them, under his arm is a biker helmet, one that fully covers the head when worn. I could come along, I'm quite excellent at scarring the living hell out of poor saps. Might be a good idea if they decide they wanna rethink the deal...

He looks at the credstick Cinder is holding. Ahh... if we need to I could provide the funds... I'm quite wealthy. he says, as if that was no big deal.

the clips with red tape are loaded with explosive rounds. other than that, he's only carrying his handgun and katana, his shotgun is on his chopper

Lyst rolls his eyes. "Again, I don't want you seen by anyone. You're pretty easy to recognize. If you want to bankroll Cinder's plan, that's fine." He gives Venom a glance up and down. "And I hope you're not thinking of going into a corporate facility looking like that."

Venom sighs, looking at Lyst. "of course not, I'm not an idiot. but unlike you, I can walk around with these out and cameras wont notice. mostly it keeps the Halloweeners away. Cant go ten feet down here before ya run into the scum." he puts the helmet down. "Besides, I plan on staying hidden. We could figure out where when the time comes, eh?"

Lyst raises his hands innocently and nods. "Alright, alright. But it's not just cameras I'm worried about."

Faking the ARO for the van

Edit: 9d6 ⇒ (3, 6, 5, 5, 3, 5, 2, 1, 1) = 31 4 Successes

Val pulls up a decent forgery indicating the vehicle was recovered by the bank as a repossession. It is likely that the crew will end up contacting their managers first, who will waste time escalating it to their managers themselves. Assuming they buy the forgery, of course.

The van itself has light security. Everyone can easily produce some method of breaking in and taking control of it, and after a few seconds manages to decide on an easy method and separates into their respective teams.

Lyst naturally hops behind the wheel, thankful that there are manual controls in the vehicle. Nonetheless, he mostly ignores them and pulls up the AR displays to set a scenic route to the target; He doesn't want the timing to be off and doesn't want the truck seen too much on the main roads.
"Val, you're up front with me. The rest of you, keep your third eyes peeled back there... or whatever."

The next phase of the plan was simple: show up for the contract, get inside, then pop a door for the team in case they needed to make an entry while Val locates the data store.

You mentioned there was a human male and an ork female on the travel manifest. Was that an internal manifest to the contracting company, or was it shared with our target?
If it's shared, Val needs to edit that on the way.

"Wiz. I'll hang back, keep an eye out fer any baddies er sometin. Keep in touch, use yer radios, mebbe we kin pull display drek out wit'out geekin' nobody."

Paizo gremlins ate my post.

"Quick, quiet, no problems."

Venom remains back with Bullet catcher, a little Disappointed he couldn't use his magic to help...

Ok..well I am going to pull out of this one...there seems to be very little action, but thanks for the opportunity to play for awhile.