Never seen a true dragon wear armor outside the Draconomicon or Isle of Wyrms setting.
When you have as much time on your hands and as much reason for (thugs) Adventurers to come to kill you and take your stuff, why not make some custom armor for yourself? Sure you'll have to replace it when you go up an age category, but that's going to take decades if not centuries. (Also I seem to remember magic armor re-sizing itself to the wearer)
"Chummer, I knew a Gillette that went on a little biz down in Aztaln. Easy the Johnson said, its always easy biz if you ask the Johnson. But you take the cred and take your chances. Anyhow, those bloodbos will wire anything. The poor slots that got out yak on about a chipped dragon with body armor and mounted panther cannons if ya believe that."
Spider ready s his weapon, gripping it just in case, as the rush of adrenaline kicks in. He moves behind Thomas,and looks past what others see to perceive the matrix
I did not roll as in VR, I just rolled my standard Init, switching out of VR is a free action, so that could be done after loading up the forms. He can always go full vr again if needed and he needs to be inside anyhow
Not much left for spider to do out here, alarms are down, he crashed the security system so cameras are dead. Think I am done for that round. He will load up his armor and attack forms just in case
Spider pays little mind to the gunplay having found his "in". He finds his mind drifting though screen after screen his hands moving though the ARO's faster them most people would notice, shifting from one to the other. He settle on two things the alarm systems and the security systems . Aim lunches his forms at them looking for an "in " to shut them down
Hey I use a virtual table to in my pbp to make maps and thought I would point you toward it as like me your having to make do with what you have.
TTOP I use this it makes very nice grid maps , you can load any pick or floorplan into it use avatars from this massage board as icons,
Anyhow I thought you might want to check it out long as ya don't use a mac anyhow. Pygon from the boards wrote the programed and he often walks folks though it on the Paizo chatroom
Anyhow I thought I would point you toward it , can't tell ya how useful it has been to me.
Neonspider triggers his submic 'front doors maglocked, back has a key which we hitting" And then Looks for a way into he alarm system, probing for an opening
"I could try and take control, we may be able to use it. If I fail you can blast it, either way they will know we are here and we'll have to move fast'
"Heads up, WE have a drone above the building. VTOL, or the like. The place seems to have 2 camera's on the front and on in the back. We will need to try and take them out, but the drone worry's me. You can load a lot o' nasty in the little bastards. And where you have a drone you have a Rigger, and another question, they working for the corp? or do we have more runners looking for our prize?"
Neon sits forward "Heads up chummers, somethings up. The guards are more active and watchful the the data, says"
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Thanks I wasn't asking to reworked em just had not noticed I had done that, But don't want to hurt the rest of the group so will do a small amount of reworking to take the needed skills
Kinda funny, but when I rearranged spiders skill I forgot to take the computer skill group again. Guessing I left it off when I moved em around..sigh such is life, his matrix perceptions sucks as a result
"Well chummer I would dearly love to be all safe and cozy in the van, good chance you'll need me on the insde. Labs like this tend to keep things off the grid. Just make sure they don't scag me is all"
Does neon need to make a check to see if there is anything active in the area or could he just see it?
"I may be able to round up some spirits to keep some of the network traffic down. Maybe jam outgoing signals , compile something to hijack drones just in case."
"Well chummers we knew the stuff was hot in the shadow, we just need to make sure we get the paydata. You want me to try and run em down, be hard and might lead them to us or you want to move fast before someone else can?"
Neon settles into his seat looking the room over to see how much data is coming in and out, It looks moslty sercure so he watches the others.
'I travel light compared to you. I have my colt, some data chips and something to store them on. " He shrugs 'If it goes to hell I'll shoot, but that isn't my Thang. Any one of you are better gun jocks then me. I'll take care of the computer stuff." He grins a little "You chummers can handle shooting people and blow things up"
Sorry had alot going on and am trying to stay up to date on my games
After waiting for the other to show up, or even just splicing com calls Neon lays out what he has found so far.
"Well chummers, seems like the good Governor has his hands in this pie. MetaRx is funded by him heavy, he also owns the chem corp that supplies them. The rabbet hole goes pretty deep into the shadows.
As for ISIS well,a few theories, but they are very wide ranging, from it being a designer chemical weapon to people claiming that it could be the cure for HMHVV or even goblinization itself. There seems to be a following among conspiracy theorists that the codename ISIS refers to the fact that it is made for mothers during pregnancy, but the arguments devolve from there whether the company's Meta name may help Meta's somehow, or if Brackhaven's involvement may imply the chemical ensures pure human births.
And not to leave out the shadows are actively looking at this thing with great interest. We need to watch steps here chummers"
Neon, Puts on his lined coat, loads his colt, before sliding it into the arm slide. He rolls up his elcto paper and five data clips into one of the wide dusters pockets.
Crusher is in the lot as he rolls up on his scoot, while not stylish. It was off the grid and it ran. He nods to Crusher as he pulls along side
"First one here it seems. See anything worrisome? And did you get the stuff for your cake?' He says with a grin
Sorry for not being around guys, trying to catch all my games up
"Well, as we have the info on the guards, and the company they work for, we could replace the 3rd shift crew. Should be simple, given time for me to hack some ID's and profiles into the seccomp's data base, we should be able to find someone to make a passable ID card, with the database backing us up , we could just switch shifts. Makes it alot easier to avoid the guard when you are the guard And even if the security is to tight to hack the info, I can get the names and addresses of them. All we would need to do is take out the replacement guards."
As the others enter Spider looks up. "How did the hunt go?, I found out a little info myself.I did run down MetaRX's security contract info. Not alot there but, It looks like they have contracted for three shifts of three guards so that they are covered around the clock. Looks like each shift is supposed to have at least one rigger on hand, though they opted out of any clauses that would give them really flash talent. The other two guards appear to be standard wage slave level grunts from their salaries. Not alot so far but I can keep digging, However it may give use an in.. How do you feel like playing Security?'
"Chummer, data search is never done, ever. There is more data floating about then we have time to find it....Politics , ugh we need to watch our steps on this one or we wind up replacement parts in some street docs freeze'
"Oh the pizza is from degazzi's a few blocks over, they make the best stuff, don't as questions about odd locations and the see nothing., Humm ok what I have been able to find so far is, well nothing new on the drug but, MetaRX was founded about a year ago as a think tank to create new designer drugs with an influx of anonymous cred, not sure of where it initiated but it was funneled through Brackhaven Investments.
BCC how makes the deliverys also are a subsidiary of Brackhaven, its a smaller chemical division which mostly deals with the transportation and disposal of hazardous chemicals.
word on the street has hit about this Isis drug being on the eve of coming to market there are a handful of corporations looking to acquire them but so far they have not given sign to wanting to sale
so it seems to me that Brackhaven wants to keep it's hands clean, were talking circles in side circles here boy's and this is not some simple street drug you can bet your guns on that.
If you gave give me till noon, I'll look deeper, and I'll see about them patrols and so on."
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Ok I am looking for info on , MetaRX, brackhaven, BCC,the drug, patrols and anything connected I can find.
Spider looks up around the glow of windows "Sure pizza is on the way, hummm , Well there is not much info on the company it's self. It's lables a "medical think tank" .Delivery and disposal seems to be done through a small chemical company called 'BCC',I say it is a shell company of some type. Nothing else jumps out. project Isis does have a buzz on the street however, but I got little info on it now. If you give me a day or so to run the havens I may be able to dig up more into, but on short that's all I got"
"Right, good plan, Iam not sure on hitting them first however. But I am not really the blow em up skill set now am I?'
With that spider keys ups a small swarm of spider of many colors and sends them scattering thought the matrix looking for info on "project isis" the company, employee list, garbage pick up, who they order stuff from anything and every thing he can find
he sips at his drink and keys up a few more tabs, checking his mail, massages and bringing up a menu from a pizza joint close by
Looking up at the group though the maze of ARO's and windows he asks "Pizza anyone?"
Spider Walked with the others but said little, his mind busy elsewhere with forms flying about hunting info and taking care of other deals. He does order a bourbon, and fallow the rest to the room. After skull crusher talks he speaks up
" Neonspider, is my handle, but spider works as well. I am a hacker, I retrieve data. Specializing in system exploits.I Make a little cred here and there on data steals, but won't turn a bigger payday down. I really do not care what they want us to steal. Data is data and Nyen is nyen, We do the job give the Johnson his data , get paid and scoot.
with that she sits back in his chair and drinks his bourbon
Spider, gives his account , nods his agreement for the new meeting and leaves the dead room. As he walks though the bar he is greeted by the wash of the matrix all round him. It's like air, likeing being in the dark and seeing the sun. The very touch and humm and constant buzz fills him with joy. He reaches out and toggles up his account then routes the cred though 5 other accounts before moving it though 3 move over seas and routed though 2 more. It ends up in an unmarked shadow account somewhere off the grid. As he hits the street he thinks that should be safe he had seen to many people hack a accounts to just leave his cred in the open. He'll get it to a cred stick later but that should be safe. With that he goes off for a meal and to crash tomorrow is another day
'I say we know what he is gonna tell us. And it's best for us and for him if we did our planning without him knowing it." Spider nods toward the Johnson
