Wire 2015/07/08(Wed)23:55 No. 654199 ID: f68a09
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"OK," Monica says. "Killing Sandman. Sara and I have agreed to call this one Operation Fuck Politics."

Wire 2015/07/08(Wed)23:56 No. 654201 ID: f68a09
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"Andrew Sandler is going to be giving a campaign speech. One of a circuit. He's the incumbent; he's gonna get reelected; still the dog and pony show must go on.

Now the speech itself is gonna be on the ground floor of" Monica hits a few buttons. "THIS building."

A blocky concrete building fizzles into being on the table.

"Some community center or something," Monica says. "Speech'll be on ground, but the COUNCILMAN is gonna be on the top floor instead, projecting a hardlight hologram of himself down to his supporters from a secured location. He ain't dumb. The whole place is souped up extra with security for the good councilman's visit."

"what kind of security?"

"Portable stuff, mostly," Monica says. "Nothing like his office but he has some tricks. Chief among them two automated turrets. One for the front one for the back. Together they have the sweep of most of the building. They got blind spots, though, most crucially the roof and the fire escape, which isn't legally allowed to have automatic countermeasures zeroed for it according to Sprawl Fire Code. Not that that stops most people, but this is a councilman. Instead, they just got the fire escape wired up with cameras, but those belong to the community center, not the councillor. The cameras should all be easy to hack via the center's mainframe, which you can get to easy from inside or heck maybe even the roof. Once you do that, someone can crawl up the fire escape and deposit themselves handy dandy on the secondary roof, away from the turret's influence and in through a window.

Now the TURRETS are probably not going to be wired into the community center proper, and they have their own secondary cameras and motion sensors, with which they will ID you, ring the alarm, and blow your shit off if they see you.. Gonna have their own console inside. That's rough for us, but hey. There's ways around it."

Easy way in is the garage. Center gets a regular delivery of canned food for its pantry. Sneaking into one of those trucks is a surefire way inside and then you're golden. Only security within is foot mobiles, and we all know of your gentle ways of dealing with them.

Another way in is the roof. That might be tricky. Gonna have to zipline from a neighboring building. They WILL have eyes monitoring those skies, but only eyes, cuz you can't put pressure alarms in the sky. So a distraction of some kind will be in order. Something disturbing enough to get their cam-watchers looking away from the skycam but not enough to set off the alarm. Advantage here is that if you get up to the roof you're only one floor from the target.

There is also the front door, obviously, if you can swing a way to get in through there. With your face thing there's a slim chance. You're not exactly the smoothest of talkers, sev-three. If I'm gonna be honest.
You have command of all our reconstituted assets, Sev-Three. I'm making the hovercraft and that copter you stole from the Fantomas available as well. Anything else you need we'll have to get quick. The speech is this afternoon. Starts five hours from now.

>>654197
"Are you ready?"

>>654201
>all our reconstituted assets
...we could take every drone out on the mission, then beat them back to base, evac the people we want out, and get out before the drones come home. I can't think of a *reason* to take every drone out at once though. Also I don't think we've put DA in the system yet and talked to him about how to whack Sosa. So that'd be jumping the gun.

Instead, let's just focus on the mission.
How about this: Sev sneaks in through the garage, disables the cameras, 88-1 comes in through the fire escape and sees if he can snipe the target. If there's no clear shot, then we'll have to meet up inside for a breach. Tactics should be a little cleaner with two people.

Get it done fast, zipline on to the roof. For a distraction... how about an automobile accident? Gang (Fantomas) violence?

If you want to be completely insane you could deliberately crash a vehicle directly into the floor above the Sandman and then cut your way out and kill him.

It'd probably be one of those WHAT THE FUCK moments, but it'd ruin the vehicle and would have to be pretty well-armored; not too much since this is just a community building and not an armored bunker.

Wait, do we have a cheap flying vehicle? Or just... drop a bomb on the roof, then fly in through the hole? Kill him, fly out, or just have one of the reconstituted assets snipe him and never bother entering the building.

I would like to say that it would be nice if 88-1 could get inside by faking being lockjaw, but it seems unlikely that the fantomas would be stupid enough to fall for him being 'alive'. I think going in through the garage is the safest bet, and playing safe is the smart choice right now. Have someone make a distraction, mid op. Having 88 use the fire escape works, or the roof if that seems like a better idea. As far as sniping goes, i bet he has some reinforced walls or something? Hopefully not.

Can we just fly the copter in and set an antitank mine upside-down on the roof over the room he's going to be in? Built-in Fantomas IFF neutralizes turrets for the entry. Pen can hop down the blast hole to confirm the kill, then jump back up and leave either with the copter or on foot with her shinobi thing. Might even taunt the turrets, since she's been itching for a chance to deflect full-auto fire.

We'll need to run by the Black Stalls real quick to grab an antitank mine and remote detonator. Having checked the armory just yesterday, Outpost Jericho doesn't have a suitable bomb in stock. (Hack the inventory if necessary to justify a shopping trip.)

>political speech
So there's gonna be a lot of trucked in civies in the speech room, there to cheer and look enthused on cue. That rules out a hard hit, we don't want collateral.

>what do
Sneaking in from the garage works, but it's the slow approach. The roof is quicker, but I don't see that we have all the tools to get in and out quick.

Honestly, the sneak up from the floor seems more Sev's thing. The ninka in from the room seems more Pen. Although she's also the best bet for making a distraction.

If 88 is support, how are we looking for possible support locations? What buildings are around this one he could be set up in?

>hardlight hologram
Any chance we could hack that? It would be a heck of a distraction if there's a glitch in the transmission mid-speech. Everyone would be working to get that fixed in a hurry. Guards sent quick to check hard line connections, techs desperately checking systems. (Also, if we could steal the hard-light thing on the way out, we could maybe use it as a tool against 38-3? Interfere with one hologram with another, or experiment with what disrupt them, or if we can hack together a means to detect them).

Are we even using Pen here? She should in theory be too pissed off at us to bring on a mission. I mean she's not actually pissed off but Monica might think it a BIT strange.

>>654359
>So there's gonna be a lot of trucked in civies in the speech room, there to cheer and look enthused on cue. That rules out a hard hit, we don't want collateral.

Civilian crowd would be around the projected hologram out front, not the man himself. Anybody in the actual secure room Sandman trusts enough that they can't be considered neutral bystanders.

We had a lot of tricky plans worked out for the last job, but it all crumpled up into clearing one room. If that's going to happen again anyway, let's save time and bullets with a directional mine, and save face by making it maybe look like the Fantomas Vengadores tearing themselves apart, instead of the Bureau blowing up an elected official.

Wire 2015/07/11(Sat)00:51 No. 654918 ID: f68a09
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"all right." 73-6 waves his hand across the table and the building hologram sticks to it. He manipulates it with a turn of his wrist and zooms with the flex of his fingers.

"that hardlight hologram," he says. "there a chance we can hack that? it'd be a hell of a distraction, get the guards down to the conference room and away from the target."
"Good thinking, Sev-Three," Monica says. "It'll probably be controlled from the same console the turrets use, since it's Sandman's property."

"what kind of support can 88-1 give me? there any good buildings around?"
"Office blocks on either side," Monica says. "We can stage some kind of evacuation to empty them out. Gas mains are really fragile this time of year."
"I'll find a high place," 88-1 says. "I can link with your optics, Sev. You mark the targets for me and I'll knock 'em down. Long as it's not behind too much reinforcement. I'd say any room lining the exterior is a definite effective zone."

"very nice." 73-6 zooms in on the roof. "we couldn't drop a bomb on this shit, could we? maybe breach directly into sandler's hidey-hole?"
"I have no idea where we'd find a bomb like that on such short notice," Monica says. "But if we do it's yours. And that Fantomas flyer would be the perfect cover for it, it's true.

"i'm open to suggestions as to how you guys want to play this," 73-6 says.
"By the book," Monica says. "We come in through the garage, you make your way up to the top floor as you so admirably do with 88-1 there on the outside to support you, and we breach Sandman's little conference bubble and kill him. Just like our old missions. Simple as pie."
"what about penelope?"
"Penelope?" Monica tugs her collar. "Is not mission-ready. Doesn't seem it to me, anyway. I guess if you REALLY wanted to use her she'd be good on wetwork, but I really don't know if she's the subtle go through the garage type. I'd hack out that fire escape camera and then let her use that, link up with her on Sandman's floor where the security guys'll be thicker."

"what do you think, 88?"
88-1 shrugs. "I like the idea of Pen causing some kind of distraction for the camera guys, us coming in roofside, then hacking the building to shit. Seems like what you do best. Buildings like this usually got some kind of upper-level comms center you can really sink your teeth into, and it makes sense that they'd keep their security console topside, close to the chest. If you can find some way to lure Sandler out of his command center and I can line up a shot on him we've got a good clean kill."
"That's a vague plan," Monica says.
"We ain't bad at improvising," 88-1 says.

"and then there's the unorthodox approach with the flyer and the bomb." 73-6 taps his chin. "hm."

You da bomb, Sev-Three. This is a really handy excuse to run to the black stalls and pick up some extra shiz too. Although, if the flyer had some sort of skycrane and this were a particularly insane video game, I would find an improvised explosive nearby, like an oil tank/tanker, carry it to the roof, and shoot it. *Shrug* Video game logic. It's weird.

>>654921
Well, if the stalls have a spare 50 pounder on sale we could pick up that.

>>654934
With the kind of funds we have available now, there's no way we won't be able to find SOMETHING in the Stalls. Explosives aren't exactly a rare item to be wanting to purchase.

Yeah well the plan is the first casualty of war, and I'd like to be as close to the target as I can be before things go to shit. Let's get a distraction in line and go in roof-side.

The problem with the bomb plan is we only get one shot. If we fail to kill him (which is never a guarantee), we'll be hard pressed to make a second attempt.

I like Monica's or 88's approach. Sneak in, roof or garage, do your thing. Which way depends on how good a rooftop entry or distraction we can find.

>"Penelope?" Monica tugs her collar. "Is not mission-ready. Doesn't seem it to me, anyway.
That seems like a good excuse to leave someone behind to watch the base in case 38-3 shows up early, and who can try to keep our non-coms alive. Maybe we even give her a way to activate the lockdown and stuff if she needs to.

>The problem with the bomb plan is we only get one shot. If we fail to kill him (which is never a guarantee), we'll be hard pressed to make a second attempt.

If we bomb the wrong room or something, the second attempt is dropping somebody out of the copter and through the crater in the roof to run around inside their perimeter murdering the entire top floor with our usual close-quarters techniques. The third attempt is 88-1 sniping Sandman as he flees. Wait, does this place have any tunnels leading in and out?

73-6's close quarters techniques will not be as useful when guards are swarming the impact site.

I honestly just want to go for the by the book approach.

So uh.

Instead of bombing the building or whatever, can we just hack the cameras to locate the target and then off him with our wallhax laser rifle?

I mean, it depends on if they've gone to the effort of reinforcing the walls or whatever, but it might be possible to do this without ever entering the building.

>>655444
Or if the range on the rifle isn't good for that, we could get 88 on the roof of the target building and have him shoot down through the ceiling. That'd put him within like 10 feet of the target at worst, and that should be well within wallhax range.

>>654921
Right, so,since this *isn't* a video game, we should stick to our true field of expertise, which is stealth. And killing everyone in this apartment. We'll go in through the garage to gain roof access for one of our assets. Pen can clear out guys, but we're here for just one guy, and 88 has a wall(or roof)-hacks gun... For the first part of the op at least we should have 88 ready as sniper support and there probably won't be time to move him to the fire escape, so I guess 108-1 is left to serve as the roof insert.

The roof entry might be feasible for Penny, even without the zip-line, with her 40 foot jump thing. (Although then I don't know who would be on distraction duty).

>>655466
Explosives are, I think, at least enough in our area of expertise that we should keep an eye out when visiting the stalls. We may not be a specialist, but when you have enough cash that's not the highest concern.

And even if we purchase explosives, we don't necessarily have to USE them. It's good to have options.

>>655468
Would we even need a distraction if we used that?

Enemy 2015/07/12(Sun)22:09 No. 655565 ID: f68a09
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"sounds relatively straightforward," 73-6 says. "i'll see what kind of distraction i can set up but otherwise i'll take the garage, 88 posts up in a building, pen breaches when i make the hole for her. play to each of our strengths."

Monica sucks air through her teeth. "And you're sure you want Penelope on this."
"it'll be okay."
"Your call, Sev," she says. "Back here in four hours. Do whatever you have to do beforehand."

She spins on her heel and heads out. "Gonna crack some skulls, boy. Do some good! Finally."
"right."
"Put all this behind us."
"Sure thing," 88-1 says.
Four hours.

Go talk to your robot crush. She said maybe come over to her room so take her up on that offer.

Robot friend visit!

Enemy 2015/07/12(Sun)22:34 No. 655571 ID: f68a09
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73-6 visits Sara in the control room.

"sara?" He knocks on the door. No response. "sara? you there?"
"Yeah," Sara says, from the other side.

73-6 lets himself in. Sara's turned away from him, facing the orange glow of the mission monitor. There's a countdown on it to go.

"hey, sara," 73-6 says. "any luck with the transmitter?"

Sara doesn't look at him. "Keisha isn't coming back, is she?"

Looks like Monica didn't tell her right hand man shit.

Tell her "Maybe someday." If pressed, tell her you let her loose in the desert. It's far enough from the truth that they can't confirm it for a couple days at least, and it at least correctly gives the impression you didn't kill her.

Not to Outpost Jericho. (Secure connection) We were setting up an exit strategy from the bureau, and we messed up. Our bosses told us to kill her as a punishment, but we didn't. The Bureau won't stop there, though. We need to get out, and kill Sosa before he kills us. The final phase of our "plan" is happening, uh, basically as soon as we kill the Sandman. We're planning to keep you, Monica, Keesh, and Penelope/88 safe.
This is our chance to be more than just a reconstituted asset. We had to take it.

As our handler, any ideas for things to do on your end?

"...No."

Walk away while making your secure connection.

Uh, just to be sure, if we make a secure connection, we CAN tell its not the face thief, right? I would assume so, but considering how powerful and intuitive, just wanted to make sure we dont just try to make a connection and not notice its not really her.

Oh, of course, make sure this is really Sara by checking for your ICE.

Problem is even if this is Sara, can we trust her with the truth? We can't have her blowing this.

>>655571
Say no, Keisha is never coming back to Jericho.

Keisha sure as hell isn't coming back to Jericho, that's for sure, so it isn't a lie but she probably will just take it as we killed her. We can always tell her the truth later but right now she can't know.

Check for Sara's ice too.

>>655571
Just say no and check the ICE.

"She's not coming back, but the way things are going, we'll all see her again soon."
Morbid doom outlook, or plan to escape? who can say?

>>655571
No is an honest answer.
Say the honest answer, only the honest answer.

Keesh is in a better place now. I'm trying to make sure the rest of us at Outpost Jericho don't have to meet her there before monday morning, and you should be too.

>>655707
Oh, I like that. Changing my vote, and of course, checking her ICE and other things.

I think there's an interesting, albeit creepy mind-control, option: set up a speech-to-text keyword recognizer and a script linked to Sara's hormone regulators and whatnot so that whenever somebody mentions her former roommate she gets super sad and wants to change the subject. Artificial yet intensely sincere mourning, with an off switch.

Wire 2015/07/13(Mon)14:40 No. 655719 ID: f68a09
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73-6 just talked to a disguised 38-3 over video communications like less than an hour ago, and he's not even sure if 38-3's face theft could work on a robot. He scans her just in case. It's Sara.

"no," he says.

Long pause.

"Right," Sara says. She walks over to the console in front of the screens and rests her palms on it. "I'll get to work on prepping control for the mission, 73-6."

"thanks," 73-6 says.

Sara doesn't respond.

73-6 just stands there for about 30 seconds, trying to think of something else to say, then he leaves.

He misses when they were friends.

Anyway that didn't take long. He still has four hours to prep.

yeah. think we may need to kind of kidnap her when we escape. once she sees keesh she will be too happy to be pissed at you.

Hit the stalls with 88. You need to get shell-shocked, bro.

>>655735
We have enough money. Bring pen too.

>bring pen too
But that would be super suspicious. Better to just ask her for a wish list.

Wire 2015/07/13(Mon)21:07 No. 655800 ID: f68a09
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The elevator ride down to the stalls, 73-6 repeats the massive guards' ominous warnings limply and only half paying attention.

"You all right?" 88-1 wires.
"yeah."
"You sure?"
"it's just more sara stuff. she thinks i killed her roomate."
"Lack of communication's a pisser, huh?"
"yeah."
"Why haven't you let her in on it yet, anyway? Just curious."
"i don't know how she'd react."
"You don't trust her?"
"i don't know, dude. it's complicated."
"Don't let it get too much to you, Sev," 88-1 wires. "Pen and me are counting on you."
"right."
"Need another bro hug? To focus?"
"i'll keep you posted, dubs."

Those black market shell upgrades pack a strong punch, but 73-6 suspects that the toll of taking two of them would adversely affect mission performance. One upgrade knocked him on his ass already. Shell overdosing is not something you want to deal with.
He predicts that each agent can either have 1 superpowered shell upgrade or 3 normal strength ones.
As far as gear or other amenities, if he can think of it at this point he can buy it, provided he finds it in time. They've got 4 hours and the Stalls are huge. His normal gun salesman has packed up and moved on at this point, too; if he wants equipment he's gonna have to shop around.

Is there anything we can do to prevent getting more backdoors installed if we get shell upgrades? It's only worse if we compromise more of our people.

>He predicts that each agent can either have 1 superpowered shell upgrade or 3 normal strength ones.
Probably go superpowered for Sev and Penny, 3 normal for 88? He's gotten the least upgrades so far, he would benefit the most from cleaning up 'normal' bonuses.

...did Monica give us any spending money? Or did she just let you run off to the stalls with nothing, because she knows you've got money hidden from her at this point.

We should be able to trust Sara, but honestly we are straining that trust and it could become unrecoverable soon if we keep doing things behind her back. Also trying to plan a rescue for people unaware they need rescuing is pretty hard, ya know?!
Let's hit up a reputable store such as Hoxton's Emporium for 88's shell slurrys. Then we can hit up a not-so-reputable store for super shell upgrades!
Finally, let's find a store that carries small arms, to get an upgrade for either us or Penelope.

>>655800
Let's have a refresher on what the rules actually are:

"You acknowledge that you must wear a face covering or mask in the Stalls at all times. if you have not brought a covering, one will not be provided to you.
"You acknowledge that you will not speak to other Stall customers."
"You acknowledge that you will not brandish or discharge a weapon in the Stalls."
"You acknowledge that refunds are not guaranteed, and any harassment of Stall Vendors is grounds for immediate removal."
"You acknowledge that the authority of the Stall guards is absolute, and you will obey them at all times."
"You acknowledge that the violation of these rules can result in your immediate execution, and waive all responsibilities and rights not afforded you."

>>655803
I kindof agree with this. I'm a little worried about putting everything in one basket for Sev though, and 88-1 actually came with a shell upgrade suite for some reason. He's got support stuff. Some defensive/CQC shell upgrades for sev would be nice since that's his biggest weak point, and I doubt we're getting that from another super. We'd probably just be offered combat hacking and invisibility+ again.

Another question is what are we going to do about the shell upgrades being detected? How did we explain the acquisition of the laser rifle anyway?

> How did we explain the acquisition of the laser rifle anyway?
We mentioned that our gun contact was leaving, and lied that he sold us the rifle on the cheap.

Don't do black shell upgrades for Pen or 88, they don't have the DA upgrade that makes those undetectable. Normal shells for those kids. Maybe Pen should get that upgrade that lets her be a hacking relay for Sev, while she is chugging them.

(The only reason I ever heard for not telling Sara things was the fear that she couldn't keep a secret. I am honestly not sure where that worry came from, she has been nothing but competent in all situations. We should tell her about Keish, at the very least, and letting it go to the level of >>655722 is just ridiculous)

Even given the usefulness of Yank(it is amazing), I feel like this time everyone should spring for the standard variety. If anyone would be watching us down here, now would be the time, and 3 standard upgrades is still a LOT of punch. Especially in the areas where Sev-Three is lacking. Really it's kind of a choice between Combat Hacking or three upgrades to improve his non-hacking versatility. As far as the other two, yeah, they don't have any upgrades preventing the illegal upgrades from being detected, so it's gotta be the normal kind unless you want to tip off Monica immediately that we've gone fully rogue. Which is fine, because normal upgrades still let Pen BLOCK BULLETS WITH HER SWORD.

As far as gear to look for: start by heading straight to Hoxton and asking him for recommendations for firearms, explosives, toys for hackers(these could be things like drones, auto-turrets, basically laptops I dunno I'm not a future hacker in a dystopian world), possibly body armor? If he doesn't have specific recommendations, he might have recommendations on where we can buy that sort of info, which in this case is going to be a better deal than doing footwork, because we have money but we do not have time. Hoxton seemed like a useful guy in that regards. We also might see if we can find out what the deal is with purchasing a location down here? Do you have to go through some sort of primary authority? That doesn't seem to fit with the way the place is handled. We could use some info on just the way things are down here, because currently we have one not so amazing safehouse and like one useful connection(AI sev-three.)

>>655815
Personally I was worried Sara might decide she's better off with the Bureau. Like, do we know she's that into Sev?

Then again the promise of FAT STACKS OF CASH might nullify any reason she had to stay with the Bureau.

Three normal upgrades, one to Pen and two to Dubs.
get them both new equipment, not sure what kind of equipment, we'll wait and see.
And for the love of Gard combined the whip and shock spike. Pwease

>>655831
We know she isn't THAT into the Bureau. She liked it because it was just a real job she could get with the prosthetic body she is self-conscious about. She liked feeling like she was helping people too, but the Keisha situation probably dulled that motivation.

So yeah, it's a good bet she likes Sev more than the job.

>>655827
huh. A stall in the Stalls would be an amazing fallback option, if we can secure one. No other neighborhood is going to be as capable and willing to defend their neighbors from a coordinated assault. I bet we need something to ostensibly sell though. Maybe information services.

black shell upgrade for sev, normal shell upgrades for everyone else.

did the Bureau give you a budget for this part? dipping into all that money we aren't supposed to have is going to raise red flags. Especially since they know you not-to-recently killed a bunch of rich folks, and their drained bank accounts are going to be noticed eventually.

Wire 2015/07/14(Tue)19:28 No. 655942 ID: f68a09
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73-6 loads up on shell upgrades at Hoxton's. Six of them, three each for Penelope and 88-1. They are going to be shelled the fuck out.

"And now that you've done your business," Hoxton says, "I'd like you to leave, please."
"wait but i had questions about where to find things," 73-6 protests.
"You'll have to find them yourself, Agent," Hoxton says. "I have given you these upgrades to acknowledge your previous patronage. I am severing our client / vendor relationship."
"why?"
"I will not support a rogue agent." Hoxton rearranges his upgrades. "The Stalls are changing; growing popularity allows me to be selective with my merchandise. If you desire upgrades, you may associate with your fellow insurgents. Such as the Holden woman. Goodbye, agent."

Shit. 73-6 has 3 and a half hours before the mission starts and he has no idea where anything is except Cybranicon and Holden's store. Finding anything else is going to take time commeasurate with how rare it is.

>Huh, wonder how he found out.
Maybe the fact that non-rogue agents can't afford to buy six shell upgrades at a time. The bureau doesn't dole out rewards all at once like that.

>Goodbye, agent.
Goodbye, Hoxton.

Yeah he knows you would not have the funds to buy this sort of gear normally so you obviously are about to go rogue. Thank him for everything over the years and wish him well.

I guess then book it to Holden's store. She might be able to point you in the direction of some other stuff.

Let's go get some combat hax from the deep black market, unless a different set is available this time. No Holden back!
After that, go searching for a charming and legitimate small arms store. Good things come in small packages (except for shell vials. Blehh.)

Wire 2015/07/14(Tue)21:26 No. 655973 ID: f68a09
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73-6 visits Holden again, jogging ungracefully to get there. 88-1 keeps up, despite his stature.

"The fucking rogue moldie lives." Holden raises her eyebrows. "I take credit."
"that was good stuff you gave me last time."
"Wasn't it?" She leers. "You come here to sip from my poison cup and get fucked up? 10,000 a pop, just like last time."

"can i actually also ask you some questions about where i can find gear?" 73-6 asks.
"Whatcha gonna do with it?"
Why lie? "bust out of the bureau."
"Sick." She nods approvingly. "I knew I liked you."
"thanks."
"Aight, corpsie. What are you looking for? Rifles? Concealables? Explosives? Vehicles? Lingerie? Experimental weps? Armor? Food court? Gadgets? A handjob from a homeless dude? Because there's one in West-6 stack I'm told spits on his palm."

Experimental weapons, armor, gadgets, stuff we can keep on our person that won't be immediately obvious.

Explosives, concealables, and experimentals.

Armor. Only need to be shot once to be dead.

Hologram countermeasures.

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Guided by Holden's sure direction, 73-6 goes all over the stalls on a black ops shopping spree.

He inquires into something that can get rid of holograms but everything he can find for that is just an EMP, which would fry his systems along with 38-3's.

He buys himself some bodyglove armor to go under his already bulletproof trenchcoat. It moves like it's hardly there. 88-1 and Penelope both get that as well.

As far as experimental weaponry, 73-6 finds a Mosquito Biter. It fires off a nerve-deadening laser followed by a tiny dart full of neurotoxin with a timed release 73-6 can set. The guy on the other end won't even know they've been stung until their brain starts hemorrhaging and then they have about 3 seconds to do anything about it. The salesman only had a pack of 5 darts available; 73-6 bought them all. The Biter's about the size of his hand.

And finally, he buys this: http://tgchan.org/kusaba/questdis/res/68983.html#74034

as well as all the claws he can find. It's designed for a triad member, so the weapon folds up and the claws are all in sleek, ultra-concealable bandoliers one could easily mistake for a belt.

By the time they're done there's about 90 minutes before the op starts. The ride back to Jericho is going to take that half hour; 73-6 has 1 hour left before what might well be his last mission for the Bureau.

"i can't fucking believe i own this thing," he says, as 88-1 and he leave the stalls.
"Is it really the most logical purchase?"
"dubs sometimes you have to go with what you feel, ok?"

Use this time to tell Sara what's happening. It's your last chance Sev. Shouldn't have delayed it this long but there's nothing you can do about that now.

Oh right, uh, gotta actually drink that stuff to get its benefits. Give 88 the shells to split with Penelope, and *then* go speak with Sara. You totally chugged that illegal shell upgrade in the shop and not in the Outpost, right? Right.

>>655987

Yeah, we can't leave things like this.

You uh... you DID get that super shell upgrade for yourself, right?

Wire 2015/07/14(Tue)23:30 No. 656001 ID: f68a09
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Oh right.
He has to drink the thing.

88-1 keeps watch as 73-6 heads down an alley for his date with Holden's shell upgrade.

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++FUKC++++++++++++
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++


It hurts so bad he has to smack himself a couple times to keep from screaming and then double over to keep from vomiting. He stays on his feet this time, though. Maybe Holden's decided to let him off easier.

PICK IT MOLDIE >:D

+COMBAT HAX AGAIN+ Same as what before. 73-6 gains a suite of combat-oriented hacking subroutines, making hacking in the middle of a firefight viable. Hacking is now instant, wireless, and requires no interfacing software, allowing 73-6 to use it in combat scenarios to jam electronic weaponry, haywire systems, and cause various other forms of havoc. In order to gain the effects of +Silent Running+, 73-6 sill needs to be touching the object, however.

+JUGGRNAUT+ Tired of the architects deciding where you're allowed to enter a room from? Get JUGGRNAUT and do some radical redesign. Also gives you a punch that can literally lift people off their feet and send them about 20 feet across the room and the muscle mass necessary to flip a car over.

+R U LYIN?+ A suite of social modifications that allow 73-6 to come the closest to mindreading anyone's figured out. Hormone readers, heartrate monitoring, remote electrostatic imaging, and good old fashioned guesswork allow 73-6 to have some idea as to what other people are thinking about.

I vote for R U Lyin'?

We've had enough problems of people lying to us as is.

>>656001
Combat hax is gonna help us out more often when the bureau wants to kill us dead.

Super hacker sev.

>>656001
Juggernaut has nutritional problems later on down the line.

>>656004
Nah, we've had problems with being dumb. I'd go with the combat hacks - I find all this misguessing kind of charming (as a character).

Lie detecting is useful. Not dying is more so.

I cast FIST. Juggernaut baby!!!

R U LYIN?

Lie detection is important!

>>656001
Yeah let's go with the polygraph upgrade, remember that all that information is no use without alertness and mindfulness, though.
In this kind of business you can't rely on tools solely for watching your back.

R U lying

I think R U LYIN might be useful. However, "might be" is not worth spending a super upgrade on!

COMBAT HAX will definitely be useful, so let's get that. (sorry, JUGRNAUT. I like you, but it cannot be.)

WHY DO YOU MAKE ME CHOOSE FUCK, um er ah fffffffffine combat HAX.

R U lying counters disguised 38-3, unless he has perfect control over the biorhythms we'd be checking.

If we don't get that though, there's always a use for Hax.

We know that 38-3 is Sosa's tool, we know they can spoof everything from their appearance to pretend to be someone we don't know, and combat hax will more likely let us know if someone is 38-3 than something designed to detect the biological responses they're faking anyway.

combat hax

R U LYIN'?

Jugganaut!

Combat hax. Let's max out that branch.

>>656001
combat hax. i've been regretting not taking this one for a good while now.

r u lying is a close second but i bet it wouldn't work on 38-3 anyhow.

Wire 2015/07/15(Wed)12:28 No. 656089 ID: f68a09
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"You all right?" 88-1 asks, as 73-6 emerges from the alley.

73-6 blinks. Lines of hazy ghost code swim through his UI. Everything in a hundred foot radius bristles with tiny prompts and split-open data. He's not necessarily a hacking god; Hacking Messiah might be a better term.

"i think i am," he says.

84 minutes until go time.
The uncertainty in the back of his mind doesn't mesh with the potency he feels at his fingers; Does he tell Sara? Can he trust her?

Yup-a-dup. But now you have to do it with extra style. Matrix style!

>>656089
Such pretty orange light. Yes i think this will do nicely.

I think its time to look at those shells you got for 88 and pen and see if we can do some harmless silent tampering on them to make them a bit more discreet. Make it so when taken the signal does not change, nor will it give any data away, don't need people knowing pen and 88 have bonus upgrades in them.

If that is a simple affair i think next thing to do is get in contact with Deneb and other us using our modded board.

Remember that Sara was friends with Kesh long before you entered the picture. I don't think you can afford not to tell her.

Ultimately this whole mess hinges on you all working together and trusting each other. Yes telling her is a risk but I think its a bigger risk to keep her in the dark for the endgame.

With Monica its better that she has plausible deniability until the very end. But with the work you have done securing Sara's systems she should be able to handle the truth. Don't underestimate Sara.

>>656095
I would support this, it will be weird to do after telling her otherwise a couple of hours ago.

I still think we should go for it.

>>656101
We didn't tell her otherwise, we told her Keisha isn't coming back. which is still true. Keisha is underground until such time as we are somehow in complete control of the Bureau.

I hate to say this, but in addition to being able to tell Sara... If she doesn't comply we can hack her.

It's not what I want to do, but it CAN be done if we need to.

Wire 2015/07/15(Wed)20:43 No. 656188 ID: f68a09
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73-6 finds Sara again.

She's got an overlay of the target building up on screen, and is going through it assigning room number shorthands for her own reference.

"hey sara?"

"Yes?"

>>656188
Just give her a hug.

Plus it'll give you the option to put you in close contact and tell her about Keesh.

Determine if this is 38-3 first, Neo. It would be embarrassing to be caught on record disclosing that Keisha isn't dead NOW.

>>656188
Now that you have wireless hacking can you hack in a secure line to her? Avoid using any DA subroutines. We don't have to worry about silent running because we don't need to hide the fact that we're hacking her.

Here's what you should do. Say "I'm sorry." while wiring to her that Keisha's not dead and for her to pretend she's still mad at you. Same kind of thing you did with Pen. Before you get into telling her you're gonna break out, ask her if she'd come with you if you escaped.

>>656192
It's not friggin' 38-3 he can't do robots and she's loaded up with our ICE

"I messed up." (Secure wire talk: Get her attention with "Keesh is alive." I've gotten you and Monica and everyone in danger and I'm gonna get us all out of it I promise, but- I want your help. If you can't forgive me for what I've done, well, I probably deserve that, but you've got to trust me for this to work. Do you?)

Option A: She agrees. We tell her to get ready to deal with 38-3, see what she can do about gaining access to the security mainframe.
Option B: She disagrees. She forgets the past minute of conversation, and we ready a lockout of her terminal.

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"i'm sorry," 73-6 says.
He wires: "keisha's alive and i'm getting us all out of the bureau but i need your-"
And then Sara dive-hugs him.

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"help sara and you gotta act totally like you're still pissed at me.

"eyes too."

Wire 2015/07/15(Wed)22:16 No. 656203 ID: f68a09
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"Sorry," Sara whisper-wires. "Sev but what's going on? Why the heck didn't you tell me???"

>>656203
You've been screwing up and you're pushing the limits of how much you can get away with. One false move could be the end of everything. Someone could have put monitoring software in her, and besides she's Monica's right hand man now so it seemed like there was some risk in telling her... but you couldn't keep her in the dark anymore. Keisha is her friend.

"I panicked."

We own this base's security cams right? Make sure no one saw that.

>Sev but what's going on? Why the heck didn't you tell me???
Um. Well, you know, my not killing someone my bosses tell me to is pretty much treason.

...also Monica had to believe I did it. She feels terrible about it, but she didn't think we had a choice.

I've made mistakes, lately. I was afraid of making another one. What could happen if telling you was the wrong call.

>what's going on
Remember that politics thing between Sosa and Tai? It was a trap. There is no Tai. It was all 38-3 and Sosa, and now they're gunning for me.

This is bad, Sara. We're basically bugging out after this mission.

>>656203
Because, we needed you to act pissed off at me.

(hack her eyes to say 'poop' again, it's a classic)
Oh, phew. We were worried about how you'd react but honestly I can't remember why right now. So uh our boss laid a trap and we fell for it hack, wire and sinker and now he's sent 38-3 to hang us all for treason. This has accelerated our timetable for forging a retirement plan and also I kind of need to kill him too.

>>656203
There is no Tai, it was all a trap set up by our lunatic boss, who we pretty much have to kill now. He hasn't exactly left us with a choice. Also his face stealing crony could try and infiltrate at any time and it's making us super paranoid even when the paranoia makes no sense, because his face stealing crony is REALLY GOOD at that. Also how the heck are we supposed to get Monica's family out guys do we even know where/who they are?

Survival's sake.
We don't know how good of an actor you are. Penn's pretty good, and the one person that I needed to let know immediately to survive.
Basically, it really was need to know basis, but we couldn't take it. We were hoping to keep you in the dark until you were safe, because, lets face it Monica's family is in danger because the Bureau suspects we're going rogue, and we are, so if we aren't careful, both your family and her family would be dead and it'd be all on us.
So... sorry, but... your family might die if they think you're in league with me, and they might purge you and them anyway just in case. So... we really really shouldn't have told you because it makes it getting out safely that much harder and significantly just lowered our odds. So very very sorry, we're selfish idiots that wanted to stay friends way too hard.

>>656203
because you're an awkward goof is why. did anyone see the dive hug?

Wire 2015/07/16(Thu)01:17 No. 656238 ID: f68a09
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"i basically did treason by not killing keisha," wires 73-6. "so now i have to retire. after this mission we're bugging out."
"We're leaving?"
"we are leaving."
"All of us?"
"all of us i can get to."
"Where are we gonna go? What are we gonna do?"
"i have a safehouse we can lay low at and after that i don't know. also i need to kill sosa."
"Oh gosh."
"and after that..."
"You don't know?"
"no."
"Sounds like you need help."
"i do."
"Well you should have freakin' told me, Sev-Three! I wanna help!"
"you're not mad?"
"Why would I be mad?"
"i just thought maybe you would want to stay with the bureau. keep a job, save the world..."

"Sev I've done some thinking," Sara says. "I've tried and tried to do the right thing. And it blew me up and it blew up my apartment and almost killed all my friends. I mean I'm not gonna have kids ever. I'm really tired of trying to save the world. I don't think it wants to be saved. Not by me, anyway. I think it's time to accept that. It can be someone else's turn to give it a shot. I kind of want to do the me thing now."
"i agree entirely."
"You want to do the me thing?"
"i um no the me thing. the us thing. all of us."
She wire-giggles. "I'm pullin' your chain, 73-6. We're getting out."
"we are. you, me, dubs, penelope, monica if i can swing it. one step at a time."
"One step at a time." Sara looks to the hologram building. "And Sandman's next for the boot. I'm with you, Sev-Three."

Wire 2015/07/16(Thu)01:17 No. 656239 ID: f68a09
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A bit of shell upkeeping before the pedal hits the metal:

88-1 drinks 3 upgrades and says he wants to die. Pick his path:

Sharpshooter: 88-1 gets tracking stabilizers and movement-based predictions. Human error is removed from his aim. He will no longer miss, ever, with anything accurate enough. In addition, he gains an internal smokescreen in case of discovery and the ability to stick to walls and ceilings, the better to climb to a vantage point or set up a roof-based sniper nest.

Support: 88-1 gets a suite of upgrades to support 73-6 and Penelope in the field. He can now see out of either of their eyes, including targeting data in relation to his target from their perspective. He no longer needs line of sight to shoot someone; as long as his penetration is good enough, he can fire using his friends' vision. He also gains the ability to selectively jam enemy communications and has motion tracking in a thirty-foot radius around him.

Penelope drinks 3 upgrades and calls 73-6 a fucking puta. Pick her path:

Swordswoman: Penelope's sheath integrates seamlessly with her arm; her sword is springloaded and literally an extension of her hand. She can conceal it perfectly and fire it off with lethal force. The sword itself is guided, and she can curve it around corners to kill people on the other side. She'll need to retrieve it manually, of course, but this path also grants her wolverine claws. So that's good.

Shinobi: Penelope gains 73-6's ability to turn invisible when standing still. In addition she can now create a hologram clone of herself to further confound her enemies and her striding and springing upgrade is enhanced to include a batman-esque glide.

Sharpshooter and Shinobi.

Mobility Matters.

Can she block bullets with the claws? Is so swordsman.

Sharpshooter

Support and Shinobi
We need the ability to shoot targets through walls and give 88 some tracking power to protect himself from unexpected threats, and the jamming is a big plus against the goddamn Bureau.
Also, throwing away your sword is stupid, and we need stealth backup to shadow and counter-ambush attempted ambushes against us.

>>656239
Shinobi for Penelope (i'm pretty sure female ninjas are called kunoichi)

88-1 is a harder choice.

Shinobi, no question.

If 88 gets support upgrade, what determines what an ally is for purposes of his senses? Can we hack people with UIs to grant him the ability to see from enemy perspectives?

> 88-1 drinks 3 upgrades and says he wants to die
A bit too late for that, Dubs.

Shinobi for Pen.

88-1 though... I do like the ability to bypass obstacles designed to stop people who can't walk on walls and ceilings, but... no line of sight is just too useful. Support.

>>656239
For Penelope, SHINOBI. Seems more versatile. I admit had dexterity (Perfect dual wield) been on swordswoman i would want it. On the off chance pen gets another shell i REALLY fucking would love to see true dex again.

For 88 i say SHARPSHOOTER. I feel like having this would be great with any gun whatsoever, and just imagine 88 taking out a room with a low recoil automatic and getting perfect bullseye headshots on all of them. They can't even dodge if they see it coming. Smokescreen and spiderman are a plus.

Support for 88 only if we have the ability to like him to cameras and people with augs, else Sharpshooter.

You had to mention Batman didn't you! Shinobi out the fucking ass!

Sharpshooter, Shinobi.

88-1 can already kindof see through walls, and sev can do jamming. Sharpshooter rounds out his skillset so that if he has to clear rooms on his own he'll be good at it.

Sharpshooter, Shinobi.

If we've successfully recruited Sara, maybe we should give her secret access to our hacked base emergency options. Someone has to trip them in case of emergency, and as a handler, she'll be in position to do so.

Support and shinobi. Squadsight all the way!

Support and Shinobi.

Sharpshooter and Swordswoman.

Support and Shinobi.

Wallhacks and invisibility, all day erry day.

Shinobi for Pen. Invisible flying sword vs. invisible flying entire body plus sword, is no choice at all.

Support for Dubs. Gonna get cut off from the Bureau's resources soon, and then we're going to need to count on each other as a team.

Sharpshooter, Shinobi

Support and Shinobi.

Support and Shinobi.

>>656420
Sharpshooter, shinobi.

Wire 2015/07/16(Thu)21:37 No. 656429 ID: f68a09
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Penelope is a shinobi[/i]. When 73-6 suggests that female ninja were, in reality, called kunoichi, she tells him to kunoit her ass.

88-1 is [b]support. He doesn't have flawless accuracy, but promises 73-6 he's still a hell of a shot without it.

Time to finalize the entry plan.
Your assets include:
73-6, master hacker
Penelope, master hacker but the sword kind not the computer kind
88-1, support/sharpshooter
Available positions for the agents include:

The Garage, snuck in through a van.
+ Great way to get past the cameras and turrets; Very secret agent
- You're on the ground floor and your target is on the top floor

The Roof, sliding in on a zipline or (in Penelope's case) gliding
+ Right on top of the target and targets of hacking opportunity; Penelope has a better chance of a covert entry due to her Shinobi power
- Cameras necessitate distraction for security watchers

The Front Door, just waltzing right in.
+ Technically not trespassing
- You are wearing a black bulletproof trenchcoat and have a bunch of weapons; turrets have you zeroed in; bad idea

The Opposite Building, by dint of a lucky gas main emergency evacuating its occupants.
+ Great sniper spot
- Not great katana spot

The Fire Escape
+ Will deposit you right into the blind spot of enemy turrets and within reach of the top floor windows; lower profile than a rooftop zipline
- Same problem as the roof; there's a camera here.

The Turrets are automated and are based in a high-security network Sandman has brought with him.
The Cameras are monitored by underpaid security guards and are based in a low-security network owned by the conference building.
73-6 isn't sure where either of these networks have a vulnerability he can hack into, but 88-1 has posited that the top floor is a good bet.

>>656429
73-6 gets in via the garage, hacks the cameras so that Pen can get in through the roof. Maybe 88-1 can get in through the fire escape to support her.

I look forward to seeing Pen act as bitchy as possible.

So what I'm reading here is the very first thing we need to do is hack the shit out of the cameras so they're not messing up our options.

>>656431
This, but i think it would be nice for 88 to be in the opposite building, THEN zipline or something over to the fire escape, would be perfect as he could spot any nasty surprises before coming in to support sev and pen.

Sev, you're best suited for the garage deployment. 88 begins in the opposite building and ziplines over to the roof when the cameras are disabled. Penelope is on standby to glide to the roof for sneaky-stabby.
Let's get Keesh to distract the- ooh, right. Well then, if we need to bring Penelope in, I think it'll be up to Sev to provide a distraction from the inside. Remotely causing a vehicle to crash will direct security watchers' attention as far from the roof as possible.

73-6 goes in through the garage. Between his holographic face and invisibility he probably won't even have to kill anybody, just pretend he's a volunteer to help unload canned goods.

88-1 sets up on the other building, because sniper, obviously.

Penelope waltzes in the front door. Turrets you say? She can dodge at 40 mph, parry full-auto fire, and that trenchcoat is bulletproof for a reason.

Basically, Pen and Sev are racing each other toward the target. Whichever one hits more resistance gets to play distraction, using hax or flashy swordplay to draw attention away from the other. Dubs's job is to keep the defenders from concentrating overwhelming force on that distraction, until somebody puts eyes on the target, then he gets to help finish the job.

Save Penelope's gliding for her exit, like Trinity jumping across a street in The Matrix.

Wait... with combat hacking, can Sev figure out Sandman's exact position just by getting line of sight to the public-facing holoprojector, examining what the recording end can see of the rest of the room, and comparing that to blueprints? Feed that targeting data to 88-1 for a sniper shot and they might not need to go inside the building at all.

Incidentally, this would also present a chance to hijack, not just a news story, not just some minor politician's voice for a routine speech, but this corrupt bastard's soon-to-be famous last words, on live TV no less. That's so many orders of magnitude beyond tweeting 'wark,' it should really be taken seriously.

We could, for example, have Sandman explicitly accuse Sosa of various atrocities, with considerable basis in fact, and on those grounds call for the Bureau's federal funding to be suspended pending a full investigation. If the idea gets any traction (well-documented martyrdom can achieve some remarkable things), suddenly some loose-cannon moldie is a lot lower on the CEOs list of priorities.

88 Opposite Building
Penelope Roof
Garage for Sev

>>656455
You realize when we kill him he is gonna die saying 'wark' now, on a public broadcast.

God i hope so.

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73-6 takes the garage, 88-1 the building, and Penelope's on call to hit the roof as soon as 73-6 finds his way to the cameras.

The asphalt crunches under the tires inches from 73-6's head as he coasts into the building.
It was a simple matter of lying in the middle of the street invisible then magnetizing to the bottom of the truck as it rolled over him. A little nerve wracking, but effective.

"We got you movin'," Monica says into his ear. "Good stuff. I'll give you the last brief then hand it over to Sara. She's handling you directly. I'm running coordination."
"sounds good."
"So guess what, Sev? You're killing agents tonight. Sandman is protected by one of our competitors: The National Defense Collective, NDC. Basically a bunch of merc thugs who suit up in official gear on the weekends to go beat up picket lines for extra scratch, but that still puts them head and shoulders above the Fantomas in terms of experience, and they're kitted out by taxpayer dollars. These guys ain't fucking around, so use caution."
"do they know their boss is crooked? why not just tell them?"
"Because then they get him before us and they get the credit. And this way we have the retroactive authority to kill them. Everyone you put a bullet into is one less member of the competition."
73-6 smirks. "great."
"They're bastards, Sev-three. This is the kind of Agency that isn't used to shooting anything that shoots back. That's the Monica guarantee. Now go forth and kill. Your orders are to eliminate Sandman and anyone else who gets in your way. Big blowout on this one, Sev-Three. Move methodical and silent or fast and loud. Your choice as long as Sandman dies. If civvies see you you're cleared to let them live. Bureau is sitting on all the incriminating stuff we need to twist ourselves into the heroes. Call it free publicity."
"gotcha."
"Cool. I'll be here, agent. Handing you over to Sara."

"Hey hey!" Sara comes on the line. "All things green here. You in yet?"
"about to be." 73-6 feels the truck coasting to a stop. "how are we all?"

"Sword sharp and invisibility bitching," Penelope wires. "I don't see why you ain't like this all the time."
"i can't move and be stealthed at the same time."
"So become an invisible fatass."

"Setting up on the floor opposite Sandler's," 88-1 wires. "Uplinks to you working like a charm. Pen, Sev, your eyes are my eyes. Uh with your permission."
"granted."
"Ay I need to grant permission each time, right?" Pen says. "You can't just snoop in whenever?"
"No ma'am."
"OK. Good." 73-6 hears the hiss of Penelope sharpening her katana. "Chica needs some me time sometimes."
"Sev-three I think it'll work with cameras you hack too," 88-1 says. "As long as you have the visual feed up in your shell I can piggyback off it and snipe the dudes on the other side."
"that is actually really cool."
"Right?"
"We some badasses now, amigos," Penelope says. "Let's use it."

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The truck is parked, now. 73-6 feels the springs shift as a man gets out next to him.
"ugh."
"What's up?" Sara wires.
"dude's wearing crocs."
"He shall be the first to go. OK Sev check it out."

A map beams to 73-6's HUD.
"88-1 is feeding me thermals from the building," Sara says. "Thanks, dubs."
"No problem."
"So two trucks in here. You're under the right one. You see that?" A blip appears. "You!"
"cool."
"Here" two more blips. "The bad guys. One directly next to you, one on a six foot ledge with guard rail. Stairs to your right. No cover but the truck ya rode in on, cowboy.

But you're invisible. Forgot about that."

"This room's hittable, Sev," 88-1 wires. "Get me eyes on and I'll get you a corpse."

"I'm listening to you all being super spies and I'm sittin here with my thumb up my ass," Pen wires.

>>656484
Welp, getting access to the building's cameras so 88 and pen can murder errybody is priority #1.

For right now, uh.

We can't do anything to guy next to us from underneath the truck without the guy on the railing noticing (unless we use the fancy mosquito gun, and we only have five shots for that), and we can't do anything about railing guy from underneath the truck, so.

Uh. I guess crawl out from underneath the back of the truck out of sight of the two dudes, then combo-murder their asses with 88?

Unless we can just hack shit from underneath the truck. I mean. We're not supposed to have ranged hacking, but 's probably a good idea to see what we have access to from here, even if we don't do anything with it yet.

And yeah, 88 isn't supposed to have wallhax right now, sev will have to call in any kills as his own or whatever.

>>656484
We can silent takedown these guys easy. Sneak out from under the truck and do a simultaneous kill with 88-1. You take the crocs, he snipes the guy on the ledge. Then it's onto the next room. At some point we're probably going to have to go fast and loud, but we should at least try to get to the cameras first.

>>656500
>>656495

Pretty much this, nothing wrong with it.

>The National Defense Collective
Their heads are unprotected

>wearing crocs
He must die now.

Keep your professionalism and just penetrate past, damnit. He's wearing crocs, crocs! There is just no way that karma will allow him to survive unpunished for long so you don't have to take care of it personally you know.

Reach over and touch croc guy's ankle with your icepick. Taze, but don't stab. While he's convulsing and maybe going into cardiac arrest, the other guy (maybe even anyone watching the cameras) will be distracted by that, so you can roll out from under the truck on the other side and leave the garage. Not perfect stealth, but it's a lot quieter and more accident-like than wall-penetrating gunshots.

>>656484
>88 isn't supposed to have wallhax right now
Did we hack their consoles to not beep on upgrade or something?

>fancy mosquito gun, only have five shots for that
Don't fall into the RPG trap and finish the game with unused assets that would have made your life easier. If you find a situation where time delay kill will be useful, take it.
Might even be worth it to use one now for >>656569 plan. Depends on if electrocution or deadly neurotoxin is the less obvious cause of death.

>>656569
good plan.
>>656565
better plan.

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73-6 slides out from under the truck to side opposite Mr. Crocs.

He peeks around the cab and spots the NDC on the balcony.
"dubs, see him?"
"Roger. Got the shot."
"cool." 73-6 creeps to the other side of the truck and readies his flechette gun. "go on my mark. ready..."

Wire 2015/07/17(Fri)13:04 No. 656587 ID: f68a09
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"mark."
"Shot."

73-6 evaporates Croc's torso. He'll never hurt you again, fashion.
A pinprick hole appears in the opposite corner of the parking garage, tracing a straight line to the head of the guy on the balcony, which explodes. The head, not the balcony.

"2 down, monica. on me."
"Roger dodger. Logging. Might behoove you to hide those corpses."

"3 exits, Sev-Three," Sara reports. "Stairwell up to the first floor from the basement, hallway into some receiving offices, and the garage door you entered from."

Hackable targets in here include:
+Both Trucks
+Phone in the Headless Corpseman's pocket
+Radio at his belt
+Gun in Crocs' holster. Some kind of smart pistol.

Stick the bodies in the back of the truck and lock it. Tap into the frequency on the radio and see what you can't do with the pistol.

Search phone for enemy communications. Get the truck you came in on ready to reverse through the garage door and make some noise, if they got cameras facing the outside of it. Pick up the smart pistol for use later as a smaller distraction. Can the radio be silenced? If not, just get what frequencies it's using and have Sara monitor those.

Wire 2015/07/17(Fri)13:57 No. 656597 ID: f68a09
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73-6 stows the bodies in the back of one of the trucks. He cleans up the blood as best he can. As long as nobody looks too close it'll be OK.

The trucks he came in on can be hacked to remotely start and crash through the garage door on a trigger. He goes ahead and does that. This will be a good distraction.

The smart pistol has a lock that refuses to let him fire it if he doesn't have the right handprints, which he disables with ease. It can now fire a shot remotely, semiauto or entirely full auto. 73-6 can also set it to fire as soon as it detects something move past its muzzle.

"sara, can you monitor their radio for me?" 73-6 asks, linking the frequencies up to his shell.
"Roger that, Sev."
"dubs you can jam these comms if i need it, right?"
"Yessir."
"Three minutes to conference start, Sev," Sara wires. "Sandy's constituents are getting seated upstairs."

73-6 scrolls through the phone. Someone's been sloppy with their low-sec texting.

>heads up theyve moved our kiosk to the 1st floor exec office
y
>idk
>optic lock on the office door = better security?
R u telling me i have to take my aviators off to punch in now??
>dude.......
Theyre soldered to my face this is bullshit

Otherwise this looks like a personal thing, not a corporate one. That's all he's getting out of it, except for maybe a couple thousand credits belonging to the deceased. Chump change at this point.

>support sense jacking
I wonder, does that mean we can use 88-1 to check if people are really themselves or if it's 38-3? If we make sure he's got permissions on with everyone in the group today, it should be a big red flag if he can't see out someone else's eyes. Of course, that doesn't block him from replacing 88.

...we really need to set up trust passwords with everyone. ASAP.

>The smart pistol has a lock that refuses to let him fire it if he doesn't have the right handprints, which he disables with ease. It can now fire a shot remotely, semiauto or entirely full auto
That seems like it would be really useful to slave to 88. He's the one with the onmi-perception skills. It's functionally a small turret. And you can carry it into areas where a wall-shot might not penetrate.

>what do
More hacking. The trucks can be started up or exploded remotely if we need a distraction later (just send them crashing into something). The radio we can patch through to our handlers so someone can monitor chatter for useful info.

>3 exits
Well, we don't want to go out the way we came in, and we want to go up, so probably stairwell. Unless we have reason to think the cameras we need to hack are past the receiving offices.

>>656599
>That seems like it would be really useful to slave to 88. He's the one with the onmi-perception skills.
Why bother? He'd just be using our senses, and he can't aim it himself.
>The trucks can be started up or exploded remotely if we need a distraction later
We just did that.
>Unless we have reason to think the cameras we need to hack are past the receiving offices.
We just read that they are.

To the offices for a pleasantly shorter-than-expected route to security.
Can holo-projectors fool an optic lock, or do we need to bring this guy's eyes with us? ...Ick. We'll just find someone closer to the office.

>>656597
So I guess we have to grab a guard's head to get through the office door and to the security.

Can you hack similar smart guns to not fire at all? That'd be useful in a firefight.

I guess we don't have a map yet, so just peek out the exit.

>>656604
>We just read that they are.
No they aren't. They're first floor executive offices. We are in the basement and they are receiving offices. Learn 2 read.

>>656612
Yes, I was just coming back here to change my vote to stairs when I realized my mistake. As we're all at a shared base level of reading comprehension, let's keep it friendly buddy, eh :)

Can you use those inventory-management magnets to wear the smartgun like a hat, so it's pointed straight behind you, and share the gun's sensor readings with 88-1? Looks silly, but you get a personal rear-facing turret and 360 situational awareness.

Regardless, set it to fire a single shot any time somebody with a National Defense Collective IFF tag passes the muzzle.

We can probably use the pistol to set up a decent trap once we get some cameras under our control, but at the moment mostly just seems like an extra weapon which could be handy but we kinda have plenty of gear. Hold onto it for now. The idea of slaving it to 88's systems is fine if we can set it up with the hacked camera system.

Can our hardlight face mimic thing do eye mimicry? If so, copy down the guards eyes or whatever, if not, we'll handle it when it comes up. Still, first floor exec offices sounds like our current target probably?

Also, since we have combat hacking now, just a reminder that anything we want to do stealthily and doesn't REQUIRE combat hacking should be done with contact to get the effects of silent running. If we are making a distraction by hacking some lights or something, combat hacking is great, but anything sensitive, like major security systems we want to be careful with. They could have cybersecurity of their own, and even if they don't, we don't want to leave unnecessary traces when we don't have to.

Could compromise their security system through that radio.

Wire 2015/07/17(Fri)17:26 No. 656637 ID: f68a09
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73-6 pockets the smart pistol and heads upstairs.
As he goes he whips up a quick shutdown hack. He'll be able to lock any other smartgun down (or fire it) at will.
He's not that worried about the optic lock. Maybe a week ago he would have had to do some eye harvesting but now he reckons he'll be able to hack through it without a problem.

"nearing the first floor just up from the garage. what am i in for?"
"Entrance checkpoint," Sara says. "88, we got thermals?"
"Roger. Four signatures. Give me ten seconds and I'll shift position to a spot I can hit them."

73-6 takes a peek through the stairwell door.
Three NDCs, two on the far wall and one behind a desk, talking to a frail, grey-haired civilian.
The one without a helmet has a smart gun at his belt. Mr. Riot Gear in the corner has a HUD on his visor 73-6 can fry to blind him until he takes it off.

"Give me a chance," she says. "I can clap. I can clap like the dickens."
"You're not on the list," Hat Guy says. "Missed your chance."
"Please. I need the money. My son-in-law--"
"Is none of our business. Out the way you came."

If Sev locks up the one's smartgun and blinds the other's visor, he should be able to take out at least one of them while 88 takes out the third we can't hack to mess with. Probably should have a good chance to take out both of them, but I don't have any bright ideas.

One of the four is a civy.

Neatest solution: wait till one of them escorts her out, then kill the other two (fry visor guy, shoot other guy, shoot visor guy) then shoot the escort when he gets back.

Only problem is if they don't escort her out quickly. Then our timetable forces us to engage with her in the room. We can clear the room (hack smart gun to shoot one guy in the leg, and/or lock it up if he draws fast enough, coordinate with 88 to shoot the other two) but then we have the problem of a civy who saw us.

Hmm. We could wear the holo-face to be less terrifying and just pay her off, I suppose. She does need the money and we can tell her these are the bad guys. And she'll believe it when she sees our cover story later. National security, ma'am. Sorry for the inconvenience, here's the money you're owed.

Ooh, if we go in hot, throwing the whip out to the right to wrap around hat-guy's head is an option. He's right next to the door, we can get him around the corner as we step out to shoot someone else.

...although she's an old lady. There's always the chance we'll give her a heart attack or something even if nobody shoots her.

>>656637
Wait until 88 is in position.

Fry the visor, let 88 take out the guy with the gun (but jam it anyway), kill the hat guy and then the visor guy. We don't want to give any of them the chance to sound the alarm, and visor guy can be killed last because he won't be aware the others are being killed.

Oh, I don't suppose the woman has a cell or something? If she doesn't just leave, you could fake a call from her family to get her out of there (caller ID shows one of their names from the contacts, fake scratchiness for terrible reception to get her to step outside, make it sound important through static).

Wait for that civilian to get clear. then coordinate a headshot on the guy harassing the civilian from 88, killing the guy with the visor with your flechette, and the smartgun going off in the helmetless guy's leg.

Get the woman to leave by transferring the money you got from the guys downstairs to her account. Say she won the lottery or something. Make sure she gets a email letting her know.

Disable that guy's smart gun if possible. 88 takes him out, you blind riot gear and drop the guy at the desk, followed by riot gear.

No cameras in here?

Tell 88 the heat signature in the center of the triangle is a civilian. Disable the smart gun, and leave him for last. Organize a simultaneous takedown with 88. Stab the close guy while 88 shoots the far one. Keep the noise down, and be nice to the old lady.

Wire 2015/07/17(Fri)22:30 No. 656657 ID: f68a09
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73-6 waits for the conversation to stop.
And waits.
She's very insistent and it sounds like they're on the verge of hurting her. He goes for it.
"blinding the one with the helmet, 88," 73-6 wires. "take the far hatless one quiet and i'll handle the talker."
"Gotcha."

"Oh, shit." The NDC merc taps the side of his helmet. "Guys I'm fuzzing up. Fuzz. Is anyone else--"

Wire 2015/07/17(Fri)22:31 No. 656658 ID: f68a09
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73-6 leaves the whip embedded handle deep in his first target and pulls his flechette gun right as the merc takes his screwy helmet off.
The darts shred through the kevlar, through his heart, and out the other side.

The old lady screams.

Cover her mouth before she attracts any attention. Tell her she needs to stay low and quiet. Try not to be too spooky.

>>656658
Sorry ma'm. Bureau business.
Wire her some money, for her son in law. Just because.

Time to go fast and loud! Look around for the offices, get moving.

Throw some money at her, tell her to quietly exit the building and tell nobody what's happening. National security matter.

Put on the holo-face and be all polite and charming. Sorry, ma'am, official government business. I'm sure you could have clapped quite nicely.

88, watch heat signatures, do we have incoming from the yell?

>>656658
Ma'am, could you be very quiet. You're in the middle of a dispute between two corperations, so please vamoose in a calm fashion.

All this is very normal for both me and these dead fellows, except for the being dead part, they were always on the other end. I understand this is very shocking for you though, so please go home and scream into a pillow and not contact the authorities, because we are the authorities, but we're different authorities, and we will kill the other authorities that will be sent if you call them, because we are very good at our jobs.

So be a good citizen, and continue to not care about what goes on when a bunch of thugs, zombies, and mercs are killing each other for whatever's sake.

Give her a warning gesture. "Not a sound! This is just some, (retrieve whip) Official Government Business, ma'am. Take your credits and be on your way. Please exit the building and do not mention this to anyone, you got it? Good. Remember to vote early and vote often."

Wire 2015/07/18(Sat)00:56 No. 656675 ID: f68a09
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73-6 puts on his holographic disguise and claps a hand over the woman's mouth.

"Sorry, ma'am. Government business. I'm sure you could have brought the house down in there."
She mmphs. 73-6 fishes into his pockets and pulls out a wad of credits. He puts them in her pocket.
"Leave the building as quickly as possible. Stay quiet and low and tell nobody what you saw. OK?"
She nods.
"OK." He releases her. "Have a great day. And if professional clapping doesn't pay the bills try opera. You have the pipes for it."

She bolts for the exit.

Wire 2015/07/18(Sat)00:57 No. 656677 ID: f68a09
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"ok, team. three kills."
"Logged!"
"Ay save some for me, Sev."
"that might have been our cue to pick up the pace. sara, exits?"
"The door behind the desk is a side hall," Sara supplies. "Break rooms and lockers for the normal employees. The one behind you leads further out into the foyer. In front of you's the doors to the venue hall and first floor offices, and down the hallway hang a right and you'll hit the bathrooms and stairs to floor 2."
"dubs, what are we looking at with heat? anyone hear that scream?"

"Guards further in probably didn't hear it," 88-1 wires. "Soundproofing here's pretty good and there's a healthy crowd in there. Five heat signatures from the side hall might be compromised. Two currently in motion. Four blips in the bathroom hallway, mostly stayed put. Hard to get a headcount through the office doors cuz of all the people clustered in for the rally. It's all a big smudge."

"I hear chatter about a possible disturbance," Sara says. "They're asking for a response from an Alpha Six. That might be one of your kills."

>>656677
Could try faking an answer over the radio. Probably won't buy it though.

In any case, gotta handle the incoming bogies. Go invisible with a line of sight to the doorway, let 88 take a couple of them out then pop out of invis to shoot the rest.

Drag that one body visible from down the side hall out of the way. We'll wait for the two moving guards to come to the side hall and kill them too. Can't impersonate alpha six, don't even know who it is, so just wait and see who they send to investigate him.

Anything in this room making com alerts? Check helmet guy's helmet. You've heard at least two of these guys talking, do what you can to mimic it.
Reply with "This old bird won't LEAVE. Had to get physical."

Make sure you recover your whip.

>They're asking for a response from an Alpha Six. That might be one of your kills.
It's an open channel? Do any of the bodies here have an alert or something going "hey, you, respond to that?".

Probably safest to grab the radio from whoever in the room has the most rank pips. Growl into it. "Old bitch wouldn't just shut up and leave. All clear here."

Nothing to lose by trying. If they come in here and see the bodies, or if they don't report back, the alarm will be raised anyways.

>which way
The text before said their stuff is behind the 1st floor offices. So the door we want is the one is front of Sev, if we want to hack the cameras so Pen can drop in the roof.

Might have to kill the two incoming, first, if the radio thing doesn't work.

Wire 2015/07/19(Sun)00:17 No. 656897 ID: f68a09
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73-6 gingerly picks up a radio from the guy with the hat.

"This is Alpha Six," he says, attempting to bend his shell-granted voice into an approximation of what he heard before. "Old woman wouldn't leave. Had to get physical."

Pause.

"Remain at your post," the reply comes. 73-6 has no idea how to parse that.
He goes invisible just as he starts to hear the footsteps coming from the door behind the desk.

Do you have thermals on that door, 88?
Be ready to take cover, they might plan to spray the seemingly empty room.

Dang. Our options are to either stay stealthed and let them pass, or kill them before they call it on, and then move on quickly.

I sorta favor the later. Waiting out a search of the room isn't something we have time for.

Time to boogie, you're never gonna get to the VIP in time if you get bogged down in here.

You might have to use YANK to block incoming fire. Warn sara that your comms are going to be down for a minute.

I wonder if 88-1 will still be able to see through your eyes while your comms are disabled?

Uh, duck? Get 88-1 to jam comms, let them get inside the room and then take out the first two before they know what's hit them.

Wire 2015/07/20(Mon)00:40 No. 657067 ID: f68a09
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"dubs. jam their comms on my go."
"Roger."
"guys my comms might drop out in a second," 73-6 wires. "be ready."
"Why would--" Sara starts.

The door swings open. Two NDC come out and find spacing, guns raised. They scan the room for a second then one of them straightens, staring at the mulched corpses of his friends.

His finger fumbles for the button on his radio. "What the fuc--"

"go." 73-6 drops out of invisibility and splatters him.

Wire 2015/07/20(Mon)00:40 No. 657068 ID: f68a09
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"Comms dis--" 88-1 begins.

The other NDC moves fast. A lot faster than a Fantoma. He sprints toward his falling friend and fires off a burst at the same time.

73-6's hand shoots up and freezes the bullets in midflight. He blows the second man's head open.

"dubs what are we looking at for heat signature response to that burst? dubs?

oh, right."

even if Yank burns out our comms and connection to 88, he can still monitor the situation.

Hello? Test test. Wire's on the fritz again. Totally not an illegal shell upgrade.

Assume your cover isn't going to last long, move extra quick to take out their security kiosk.

>>657068
Fast and loud time. ...I remember last time yank broke your comms for a good while. We'll be solo until you hack the cameras-oh great you can't even tell them that you've hacked the cameras. Oh wait! We have a workaround. Use their radio- wait it's jammed. HAH.

Figure out a way to hack something so that you can tell Pen she has an entry once we're in there. Meanwhile, time to clear the next room... or do we need to? All we know is there are heat signatures, not that they're agents. Could be some civvies in there.

To be safe, shove the desk in front of the door. Then let's boogie.

Hopefully 88's connection is on a different channel from wire comms. Thumbs up, to your invisible eyeball snoop.

And you know, if you had dubs take one of those guys, we wouldn't have needed YANK.

Work on rebooting that asap. Head through the door to the offices. That's where we gotta hack.

>>657082
Yep. The sooner we hack in, the sooner we can get some backup in here. Make your way to the terminal.

88's commlink is through our shell, so he should be able to see our UI, right? Bring up a textbox to see if you can establish one-way communication. Ask him to give you a signal if it's working, probably by shooting something near you.

Wire 2015/07/20(Mon)14:27 No. 657160 ID: f68a09
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73-6 drags the desk in front of the door and kicks it into place. That'll hold them for a bit. It's time to move.

"88 can u see this?" he splashes across his hud, as he hustles to the door. "shoot corner doorframe"
A tiny pinprick burn singe gratifyingly appears right above the door, widening into a clean, nickel-sized hole.
"（´∀`）ｂ" 73-6 wires, and slips through to the venue hall.

He scans the room on the other side, catches a flash of incoming blue, and scuttles to cover.
"No response."
A man in an exoskeleton stalks in front of his vision just as his invisibility kicks back in.
"Any of you?"
"Negative."
"Brentwood, get to the security desk and tell them what's happening. We got a guest."
"Sir." 73-6 hears a door closing.
"Shouldn't we tell Sandler's people?"
"If Shifty decides he decides but that's his call. We need to see if we can handle it before we try to move him or what are we here for?" Exoskeleton waves his pistol at the opposite hallway. 73-6 can see it's a smart gun. "Stack up."

Shoot, 3 of them and 2 of you. You can only see the guy with the smartgun? While he's waving his gun at his friends, instigate a little "friendly fire" and see how many of each other they take out. Does Sev-three actually know the other two are there? If so, designate the lighter-armored one as 88's target after he's killed Exoskeleton or everyone's stopped shooting. Your target is the guy in "armor" with the flechette gun, or the filament whip if you think the fancy paperweights he's wearing might actually do something, or Exoskeleton if he doesn't take return fire.

>>657160
Can you hack that exoskeleton? At an opportune moment, hack it and his smartgun, make him shoot his allies. Then shoot him.

>"Brentwood, get to the security desk and tell them what's happening. We got a guest."
>"Sir." 73-6 hears a door closing.
We should have 88 kill the guy who just left the room (Brentwood) before he can report to the security desk. Leave them in the dark a little longer. Hurt their response time and coordination while we're jamming their comms.

>While he's waving his gun at his friends, instigate a little "friendly fire" and see how many of each other they take out.
I like that, if we can. Than Sev and 88 take the two still standing. Worst case, if the smart gun owner doesn't do anything careless, you hack his gun not to work, and Sev and Dubs kill the other two first.

Um. We can hack the gun, right? Did yank mess that up? Test that you can still do remote hacking before coming out of cloak.

its an exOSKELETON TRY TO HACK THE EXOSKELETON
BAM MEAT PUPPET THAT U KILL THE OTHER DUDES WITH 000:
have dubs kill the one trying to report things!

The more casualties we cause before reaching the target, the more likely that their defensive posture is tuned against what we can do and that the target has left before we get there. Disable their communications, make exoskeleton guy spaz out and distract the others, and MOVE ON.

Wire 2015/07/20(Mon)17:55 No. 657207 ID: f68a09
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"we have runner," 73-6 writes across his hud. "can u shoot it?"
He's aware that it'll be hard without access to his line of sight, but there's a chance that Brentwood will pass a window on the way and that'll be the chance 88-1 needs. They still aren't aware of him.

73-6 hacks the exoskeleton.
"Peter leads," the NDC is saying. "Slice the pie and keep on your toes. Chances are that the radio's their doing so they might-- uh--"

His arm raises. "What the--"
He shoots one of his buddies in the head. No idea on what kind of noise that generated and whether they can hear it in the conference room.
"COVER COVER COVER" he yells

Wire 2015/07/20(Mon)17:55 No. 657208 ID: f68a09
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And then the dude with the shield tackles him.
They skid to the floor at the feet of a once-more invisible Sev.
"IT'S THE SUIT," the leader is saying. "THEY'RE DOING SOMETHING TO THE SUIT"
"TAKE IT OFF" His surviving man plants a knee on the shield and tries to pull the gun from his hands. Neither of them are on the right end of the barrel.
"I CAN'T GET THE FUCK OFF ME"
"TAKE IT OFF"
"IT'S A HACK YOU'RE GONNA HAVE TO STRIP ME YOU NEED TO STRIP ME"

>>657208
Use that cool new weapon you have.

apply magic ice-pick to inviting neck.

Ok shoot the guy on top off of him and then lead the exosuit around in front of you to absorb bullets. Just make sure the guy in it does not see you or he will go yelling.

Actually if the exosuit can move on its own just shoot them both and you can still do that.

>>657211
Yes, do this.

I don't think we can use exo-guy as a meatshield. If he's alive he's gonna yell. And if he's dead, his legs won't work, cause it looks like the exo is upper body only.

Yeah, claws is a good idea. Take the shield for at least the hallway, don't want to get caught in the open with no cover.

How many claws we got? If not a lot just shoot them tbh who knowws if well have time to restock before shit hits the fan 2: Electric boogaloo
but then again, speed is priority...

Shank the guy on top, clap Exoskeleton's hand over his mouth, then shank him with your other melee weapon.

>>657215
Then he shall crawl. A gruesome but effective distraction, should we need it.

>>657207
Sev, do you have DVR on your sight, I want you to save this comical moment for eternity.
Never again on a mission will you ever hear someone on the battlefield ask his comrade to strip him in an emergency situation.

It seems you've accidentally walked onto the set of a porn movie. Can you stab the whip through both of them? If not shock spike one, whip the other.

Use THE CLAAAAAW on his neck. After that make sure exo cant move and then blow his skull open, or just claw him too in the face.

Wire 2015/07/21(Tue)19:55 No. 657430 ID: f68a09
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73-6's Tiger Claw bites through the shield guy's back, pierces his heart, and kills him instantly.

He steps on the shield and punches where the Exosuit guy's face was. Three clean holes in the shield like it wasn't even there.

This thing rules. That was just with the default stuff. 73-6 has the neurotoxin claws, the explosive claws, and the microfilament claws all ready to go.

Anyway there's two exits here. One a large, tiled hallway leading off and around a corner, and the other a small, plain door at the far end of the room. Without his eyes in the sky 73-6 has no idea what's down either of them.

>>657430
oops should've interrogated one of them
OH WELL!

Go to the door the guy was gesturing towards.

Peek through the door Mr. Teamkiller was not waving towards.

Okay. We know which door Brentwood went through, and we know that leads to the security desk.

Question is if we want to go that way. Do we think the cameras monitoring station is there, or just some guys coordinating coms with a bunch of backup.

Hmm. Supposed to be an executive office. That's probably a corner office, right? Maybe the door that goes around the corner is it.

Will the fact that you used weapons you aren't supposed to have come back to bite you in the future?

Put on that helmet from the previous room and grab the riot shield, then barge into the security desk room. They'll hesitate to shoot somebody who seems to be in a friendly uniform, or if they don't, hey, free armor. Either way it buys some time.

>>657450
I think Sosa is far beyond the point of tracking individual demerits.

>>657450
>>657489
If we actually cared, we could've picked it up off a dead body or whatever. The point is moot, since Sosa is a dead bitch anyways.

Can you turn on your wireless hacking to see if there's anything important looking behind those doors?
Failing that, the security desk is probably somewhere behind the unobtrusive looking door instead of the main thoroughfare.

Wire 2015/07/25(Sat)22:21 No. 658090 ID: f68a09
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73-6 picks up the helmet and shield and busts through to the next hallway beyond the nondescript door.

Three windows, two columns suitable for cover. Looks like Brentwood wasn't so lucky as to get to use them. His corpse is here, head melted through. Two spiderwebbing holes in the glass, dribbling down molten rivulets where 88's laser did its work.

It took two shots, though, which means Brentwood may have had time to holler something to the door at the far end of the hallway. 73-6 listens, and hears hurried movement from within.

The shield and the helmet are both too bulky and keyed off his silhouette to go invisible. If he wants the cloak he'll have to drop them.

Hide them behind the column closest to you, run for the second column and cloak there.

Prepare to ambush the response coming. Place the hacked smart gun in a position to fire, ditch the helmet and shield near the body (so they don't give away your position) and go invisible.

When it comes time, you shoot, the gun shoots, and maybe Dubs gets a shot through the window too. (You could text "now" or "support fire pls" across your eye when you ambush them).

>>658090
The shield is good protection. Keep it on you for a while. Heck, we could just kick the door down using the shield as cover, and shoot everyone in a very direct firefight.

>>658096
They'll know that's not his equipment, better to try to hide it. Using the smartgun as a distraction is good though, though we aren't going to hit anything with a gun on the floor the noise will be startling.

>>658092
this

Is your wire back up yet?
Keep the shield and helmet. Take cover behind the first column. Toss the smart pistol behind the other column to use as a distraction. Signal Dubs to fire on your mark.

Wire 2015/07/29(Wed)00:35 No. 659086 ID: f68a09
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73-6 chucks the smart pistol behind the far pillar to serve as a distraction.

The moment the NDC come in it goes off, and instead of seeing the zombie behind the pillar with a flechette gun and a riot shield they all jump back into the doorway, trying to take cover from the phantom shooter behind the second pillar.

73-6 hoses them with metal.

Two go down in the doorway. The third gets behind one of his dying friends to hide from the storm then bolts for the other pillar, firing at 73-6 on full auto. The shield absorbs the bullets.

"-ss? Boss? Bossman. Hey. You back yet?" 88-1's voice crackles into life in 73-6's ear.

>>659086
Yep. That YANK ability is handy, but it sure does a number on the wire. Maybe we can figure out a way to shield it later.

Ask if he can pop that guy behind the pillar since we know where he is.

>>659086
Hey Dubs, just in time. Can you shoot a guy for me?

paint the target. use that fire support.

"Yep. Nearing the office. Another target, near where the runner was."

>"-ss? Boss? Bossman. Hey. You back yet?"
I read you, Dubs.

Mind putting a laser through dude?

>oh, also
7 kills we didn't call in yet. (2 yank fight, 3 exo-hack, 2 just now). 8 if we count Brentwood, although that was Dub's kill.

Wire 2015/07/29(Wed)11:00 No. 659158 ID: f68a09
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"read you, dubs."
"He's back, guys."
"Bienvenidos, Sev," Penelope wires.
Sara sounds relieved. "Oh thank goodness."

"7 more kills, sara."
"Jeez, Sev-Three. You're a machine."
"dubs can you blindfire at the guy behind the opposite pillar, my location? should be in the lower right corner of the leftmost window from your perspective."
"Roger.
Shot."

73-6 peers over his shield and is rewarded by the sight of a jet of arterial spray and brain matter from behind the last guy's cover.

"think that got him."
"Offices through that door, Sev-Three," 88-1 says. "Their radios are still down but we just kicked the hornet's nest in there. Lot of activity. 11 heat signatures across about 4 or 5 rooms. Spreading into clumps of 3 and 4, heading your way. We got one guy going for the stairs. Think he's going to alert the rest of the building. I'll hit him if I can."

Well, hopefully I'm almost on top of the control center I'm supposed to hack. Although if they get distracted enough down here, Penn might be able to make her entrance up top anyways.

Get ready to go full auto. Grab the shiniest gun on the floor and reload flechette and smart pistols. Ditch the shield and helmet so we can stealth past patrols again.

88, if the runner's movement is a problem when lining up a headshot, take out his legs first. If you miss, signal us to cause "the distraction" so we can get Penelope onto the scene.

Definitely keep the shield since it blocks bullets.

I say grab the smart gun again, keep using it as a distraction. They can't adjust to your tactics if nobody is able to use the radio to tell anyone what your tactics are.

Although if we're at the offices we can probably just hack the cameras and go invisible somewhere out of the way(or on the ceiling). Let the hornets buzz around with no idea where we are, while Pen finishes the mission. Then shoot our way out. Or let their radios come back up so they realize there's no point in sticking around. Once things are calmed down a little we can mostly walk out.

>>659158
Ditch the shield and helmet for stealth, and grab a smart gun to take with you.

Have pen get ready to move.

Keep the disguise for now, spread some FUD. Barge into the next occupied room and shout "Three more hostiles coming up the fire escape! Go to radio silence, comms are compromised!" or something like that, and give them a chance to relay the maliciously inaccurate intel before opening fire.

>>659373
We already failed to fool them once, their radios are shot anyway, and we'd throw away the element of surprise. How about we not do that.

Wire 2015/08/04(Tue)01:22 No. 660205 ID: f68a09
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73-6 drops the shield and the helmet and moves up to the door.

"sara we got schematics?"
"Roger Dodger. That's a, uhhhh, hub space up ahead. Left door custodial and security. Cameras will probably be through there. Right door administrator offices."
"what we got for heat signatures, dubs?"
"Four, boss. Something else: listen to this."
73-6 creeps toward the door to get a visual while 88-1 keys him into the jammed communications.

"All NDC this is Papa 2. Move VIP repeat Move VIP. Put the pre rec on and drag him out if you have to. We are compromised. Repeat: Move VIP."
"They've got like a dozen channels," 88-1 says. "I think this is emergency protocol. I'm trying to keep everything gummed up but if they've slipped through we gotta ratchet it up another notch."

73-6 takes a peek into the next room.

We need to pick up the pace so Pen can enter/

There's only one guy covering our door and I don't know if we're fast enough to kill them all without one of the getting a shot of at us.
We're gonna haveta guns akimbo

There's a window. Possible fire support? Alternatively you could go for a grenade at this point. Chuck it behind the cover they have, then ice whoever's left.

What's that guy back there working on?

>>660205
Anything hackable on these guys?

>>660251
Check this. What's the guy standing behind the barricade holding?
Distraction is a go, move your feet Pen!

If we have to storm the room, we probably shouldn't hold back. 88 support, and going all in. Would crazy claw weapons be more effective than the fletchet? Not sure how big the explosives are, or if one of the claw types are specialized to bunch through barricades. But now is not the time to conserve special claw ammo if it will help.

...is the barricade metal? We might be able to use YANK to crush 3 of them against the wall (we can push as well as yank, right?) while 88 snipes the last one. That would mean we'd be com dark as we rushed and hack the security room, though. We'd have to give Penn the go signal via 88. And if anything else happens, we might not get word in time. (Unless we hacked ourselves a backdoor through the systems here to talk while the wire is down).

Then Penn crashes the roof and goes full shinobi on a nest of stirred up renta-cops.

>What's that guy back there working on?
I think might be the backside of a barricade, just in case anything comes from the window.

Tiger time. Punch a neurotoxin claw through an appropriate spot in the wall, then launch it pneumatically to hit that guy covering the door. After he's incapacitated but before somebody else moves to replace him, step inside and sweep. Remember to use the barricade yourself.

Wire 2015/08/05(Wed)00:37 No. 660393 ID: f68a09
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73-6 scans the wall, squints, and punches a clean row of holes straight through it.

He launches a full rack of neurotoxin claws into the guy covering the door.

"What the--" he gasps.
"Five?" His friend behind the barrier looks up at him. "Are you--"
"I smell green," the stuck NDC mumbles.

Blood trickles out of his ear.

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As he hits the ground 73-6 spins out of the doorway, cutting a scythe of flechettes across the room.

The guy holding the weird device thing behind the barricade is winged in the shoulder before he dives for cover.
The one in front of the door shoots instead of running.

The bullet squashes itself flat against 73-6's trenchcoat then dissipates its force against his new bodyglove armor. It tinkles to the ground. A sustained burst from the flechette gun and the NDC's brains slide down the wall behind him.

Two behind the barricade alive and one right over 73-6's left shoulder, rising from some terminal he was working on.
73-6 is in the open. He has to be quick.

>>660393
What the heck there's five people here, not four. Guy with the baseball cap wasn't clearly visible from the door, and there's three others.

>>660394
Can't use the barricade with two people behind it. Also, one of the guys not showing up via heat signatures makes me worry.

Unless you can combat hax that weird device and make it do something cool, best bet might be to dash to the right so that the guy by the terminal's LOS is blocked by the corner, while hosing down the barricade to keep the dudes behind it suppressed until you can shoot around it.

Could we flechette/claw the two guys behind the cover and then us the cover against terminal guy?

Spike filament whip through the cover to get that guy, give terminal guy a terminal case of face metal. Send spam emails to the mysterious device or something, make it go haywire.

>>660445
Whip around cover, not trough. It goes around corners.

If 88 could pop one of these guys that would be great. Does he have an angle?

First, duck, while hacking all the smartguns. Flip IFF around so they refuse to fire when pointing at you, but discharge automatically when any NDC agent passes in front.

Then move right, through the door to the admin offices. As you pass, make sure the corpse next to the door lands with his gun pointing at the two behind the barricade. Once you're in the offices, turn around to stab whoever managed to chase you without getting cut off at the knees by friendly fire.

Finally, double back and head for the cameras.

Wire 2015/08/07(Fri)20:00 No. 660925 ID: f68a09
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"dubs barricade standing hit him!"
"Roger!"

73-6 slides across the floor to the barricade, scrambling for his whip.
He swipes it across the side, slashing a groove into the metal side and cutting the crouching NDC behind it nearly in half.

The other one drops his device, pulls out his smartgun, and points it at 73-6's head.

It goes beep-click.

He doesn't even have time to register surprise before 88-1 shoots him through the heart.

Incoming grenade! Get on the other side of the barricade from it. Try not to expose yourself to the remaining soldier, or if you do, shoot him first.

Dang. Did not expect the whip to slice right through a riot barricade. I thought it would whip around the edge. We got impressive hardware. (Well that, or these guys really don't).

>>660926
Yeah, this seems the right plan of action. Use the barricade to shelter from the nade. Careful of the groove your whip cut in it- the rest of the baricade might snap along that line.

Four down, one to go, then head for the camera room.

Any chance that grenade has some fancy smart fuze you can put on hold with combat hacking? Never know when an extra grenade might come in handy.

Wire 2015/08/07(Fri)20:33 No. 660937 ID: f68a09
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73-6 vaults the cover to get away from the grenade.

The NDC on the other side has a gun pointed at him but it's a smart gun.

He charges 73-6, who plugs him in the head.

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The grenade explodes behind him with an earsplitting BOOM.
If the conference wasn't aware of them before they sure as shit are now.

73-6 blinks, rattled by the explosion, and the NDC's hands close around his neck.

Aaaaaaah it's a fucking robot

>>660938
Can't you hack it?! If not, your spike should have enough volts to fry it.

He's touching you. Physical contact means you can use the highest level of hacking. Hack it, obtain robot bodyguard / meat-shield. (Then order it to show you to the camera controls).

Or if for some reason you can't hack it, stab it with the good old spike and turn on the electricity. Fry that sucker's circuits.

good thing you have all those ranks in computer science.

Make the robot go limp, then patch it's command codes through to Sara so she can use it as a telepresence rig.

Hack him, make him report the tango is down.

Ring ring, calling hax! E-murder this guy and puppet his lifeless electronic corpse.

Wire 2015/08/08(Sat)00:28 No. 660993 ID: f68a09
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Oh, right, he's a master hacker.
73-6 wipes the robot clean and stops its brain activity, killing it instantly.

That's kind of fucked up.
Well it's also basically what he did to everyone else. Maybe it's because he has a robot girlfriend.
Or like friend. Is she?
But she called him Boo and stuff. There were those heart eyes. But maybe that doesn't mean anything.
He probably shouldn't refer to her as his girlfriend. 73-6, you've chosen a really bad moment to think about this. Focus.

OK:

>>660958
Good plan, but a cursory investigation of the systems indicates Speech is down. The synthesizer must have been in the head. It's not detachable like Sara's grade-a model.

With his super duper ultra masterclass hack-god hacking, 73-6 can:
+ Slave the robot to his own systems, giving him complete control. It'll obviously be a huge distraction if he tries to control both himself and the robot at once.
+ Reprogram the robot with a complete AI overwrite, giving it an entirely new personality, which will probably take like a week to do.
+ Rig the robot to explode
+ Slave the robot to anybody else he can contact: Sara, 73-6-2, Dartline...
+ Basically most anything else he can think of. Too bad about the face.

A lot of these options will really compromise his cover with the Bureau. 73-6 wonders if he even cares about that anymore.

>>660993
slave the robot to.. YOUR OTHER SELF! the one copied by that crazy AI. you can then honestly say that you were the only one controlling that robot.

>>660993
Just program it enough to walk and enter a room and then dance the robot. Oh! Or, like, moonwalk into a room backwards and do some classic Jackson dance moves. Not that the effect work too well minus an appropriate hat.

>>660993
I'm pretty sure heart eyes mean something.

Do whatever won't immediately blow your cover. I like the idea of slaving it to 73-6-2, but I can see how that would be a problem. Also I'm not sure the Deep AI would appreciate the distraction. Discuss it with Sara, maybe? First priority is getting to the cameras though. You can mess with the robot afterwards.

If you are going to blow your cover do not let everyone know you are a master hacker. If that becomes known they will take countermeasures against you. Your hacking abilities are your ace in the hole for the endgame here.

Could you slave the body to your ai counterpart and then have him book it out of the building when no one was looking? Would not be useful for this mission but he could go have it repaired and then would be able to help out when Sosa gets here. Another set of hands would be awesome.