"Hey, there's no need to pulp everyone who chases after us. After all, people usually stop after getting shot a few times, whether they're alive or dead."
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Thomas, Winston called things pretty well in terms of Lone Star's likely response. If there is any sort of real noise, whether an explosion, a firefight involving Lone Star agents, or reports of magical activity, then a mage will likely astrally assess the threat in advance of the foot troops. That will determine the rest of the response, whether a couple squad cars for a more mundane threat, a high threat response team comprising mostly of drones, snipers, and bomb squad for explosive threats, or a Lone Squad mage led force for any real magical threats.
Astral perception isn't very likely for something as simple as a tripped alarm unless the company is chipping in extra to the star under the table.
Crusha - 4 dice
Winston - 3 dice
Neon - 5 dice
Thomas - 8 dice
Rick - 3 dice
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Thomas
"Everyone, one word of warning. If the top brass knows who's financing this, they're not going to just send a couple cars. They're going to be sending good, old-fashioned SWAT teams. Since we're blowing a hole in the place anyway, well, let's just be sure get out of there as fast as we can.
t is true thomas, people USUALLY stop chasing you once they get a couple rounds in them. Why give them a chance to chase you when you shoot a grenade into their chest cavity? nothing says "chunky sulsa" than a HE grenade to the face, LMAO!!!
ok, so there is the potential for the law to get involved with this... i think we will need neon to watch the wire for alarms that go off and get sent out. he'll have to stop them before they are heard.
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Crusha
"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."
ok. sounds like a plan. make sure to keep an eye out for any alarms that come out of the building. mr. mage? any chance you can cover us in the astral realm?
also, something everyone knows. we hit this, we are making ourselves enemies with the one and only mr.buckhaven (however you spell his name). lonestar owe alot to this guy cuz he resigned the contract for their services to protect the populace. if the other guy had won, then knights errant would be the norm for police protection. so we will become an enemy of this guy. and if he has invested in this stuff, then i am sure he will hear about this hit with his sunday morning coffee. we need to keep low profile with this. nothign to flamboyant...well, except for the fireworks display. and whoever comes up against us tonight...
ok, so we good to go? i got my gear. i got the powder kegs ready to give to you guys, anything you need to take care of? weve covered the basics, we have a plan, we have the gear...what else do we need to discuss?
winston, dont you have someone to be friendly with before tonight? my treat! i finish with a chuckle
i say we stick together. itll be better to have 5 guns on hand than just one and being cornered by a posse of these goons. we get the data and zip out. what i wouldnt give to have a van or trans-truck for all of us to roll in on.... hmmmm, anyone know anyone who can get us a POS van real quick?
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Winston
She considers the request for the vehicle "Hmm. I can make some calls and see if I can work something up for you, but I don't have one in the shop right now. How quick you need it?"
meh, im gonna amuse myself by giving winston tips on handling the troll matroness
...and then, when when you got her moaning like a river district whore, you-i pause when winston puts out the info on the vanahh, excellent. lets head out and ill hand out the cakes i made for everyone to enjoy
i stand up and make my way to the door
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When you leave the room and make your way downstairs, the troll woman gives a nice grin to Winston. "Come back and see me sometime, without your friends. I'll keep you company."
Heading east into Auburn, you make your ways through the thick haze of smog and noise given off by the various manufacturing plants.
Winston's contact runs a quick fix-it shop with its back pressed up against a large scrapyard, the heaps of junk rising up above its fence.
When you pull up there is a step-side van parked out front with its hood up, which looks to be more rust then van. A grease covered dwarf woman peeks around the side of the hood and gives a grin, making another quick adjustment and then closing the hood.
"Hey there Win, fellas. She ain't pretty by any means, but she'll get you where you need to go around the city. Might have prettied her up some if I had more time, but I got her purring real nice when it comes to cruising around. Probably wouldn't go taking her to the track though, she has seen better days."
when we get to delsa's, ill hand out the special creations to everyone.
ok guys, what you hold in your hand is the homegrown version of tear gas. like i said before, its real simple to use. the one gallon jug holds roughly 1/2 gallon of hot sauce. when you plan to use it, dump in the bag of ground up chemical thatll cause a exothermic reaction and will rapidly create a pressure buildup in the tanks. dump it in, screw the cap on tight, and throw. not sure how long itll take to pop these plastic containers(could be 5 seconds, could be 5 minutes) but when it goes off, itll spray a person with the hot sauce, making them hate life for a few moments, long enough for you to waste them.
the other thing is a lil more fun. its the smoke screen with a twist bomb. you have your household baking ingredients, flour, salt, sugar, baking soda, all mixed in various ratios inside plastic bags. these bags are taped to a can of condensed air. the condensed air container has a det cap on it, and it is keyed to a special frequency which i will give you when i hand it to you. to use, just set it on the floor, or hang it from a wire, key the frequency and boom, instant cloud. best if used when the guy is under it, since the stuff doesnt linger in the air very long.
a word of warning.... dont keep this one on your person any longer than neccessary. a detcap can blow off a chunk of your body.
the way in...
van will lead the charge in, bikes will be in back. we all will park by the back door. i want neon, if he can, sit in the back of the van and hack the building from there. if not, then he comes in. We will stack on the door and open it real fast, either by use of a pair of chainsaws on the hinges, or someone busting the code.
once inside, well go from there...any questions?
Skullcrusha, just let me know where you need me, you seem to have the tactical lead on this one.
"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"
"Gladly. I could turn some of us invisible, but I could only manage one person, maybe two tops. I'm guessing you're the best candidate for this part, Winston."
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Neon
Using your matrix perception check, you can spot a few different glimmers. There are several cameras within and the front door at least has an electronic lock on it. There is some sort of alarm running through the building, but it has some sort of cheap signal dampener in effect, so you can't see too clearly where everything is positioned from outside.
Thomas
Looking over the pack of gangers who are hanging around the back, you can see 4 people. One is mildly magically active, and looking him over you see that he appears to be a pretty low grade shaman who has some sort of drug flowing through his system. Two of the other gangers are very minimally cybered, while the last one seems to be fairly wired.
Everyone make two visual perception checks for me. First is at -2 unless you have low-light, second is at -2 unless you have thermographic.(Thomas, you only need to make one since you are astral, no penalty on it.)
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Neon
One thing you do notice when you guys pull up in the van is that the two guards who are positioned in the shack by the dock across the way seem to be paying a fair amount of attention tonight, rather then the inattentive duo the others saw on the scouting trip. From their focus, they seem more professional then you would have been led to believe from the quick checkup you did on them earlier.
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4d6.hits(5)=1 with low light vision
4d6.hits(5)=2 for thermo.
hmmmm....ahhh, interesting...what the frack am i looking for?
Neon sits forward "Heads up chummers, somethings up. The guards are more active and watchful the the data, says"
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