Wire 2015/09/20(Sun)21:59 No. 671232 ID: d78cc1
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"Have you thought about what you're gonna call yourself?"
Sara strokes his arm.
"After all this?"
"i hadn't, actually. 14-1 goes by 14-1 still i think. i dunno."
"Severus."
"hmm."
"Sevastian."
"getting warmer."
"You just gonna keep your numbers?" Sara asks. "If we get hitched do I call myself Saraty Three Six?" She props herself up a little on his shoulder. "Not that we need to get hitched or anything."

i think the whole point of this is that when this is all over we're not going to HAVE to do anything. we can do whatever we want.

(one of those things might be getting hitched)

>Saraty Three Six
If I don't have a name and we got hitched, wouldn't it make more sense if I took yours than made something up?

73 Dalton? Uh, that makes it sound like a street address. Sev Dalton?

>gonna keep your numbers
Not sure if that's really something I can answer till we've dealt with the bureau. Until we finish that, it's still kind of part of me.

Sev is a name.
I'll just go by Sev.
Just Sev.

As for last names, ehh, DA gave me this body's one. Could maybe try out an African remix of that name so I can't be tracked. I'll have to go on some name site and hope it doesn't give me malware though. Did you know name sites swim in malware? They do.

It's terrible, because names are awesome and they should be researched.

Just take Sara's last name, on account of her actually having one. "Sara and Sev Dalton."

Although, maybe you could check in with that man in the hospital Dartline told you about, first? Just walk in like you own the place, with the hologram disguise on and everything, EMT outfit for Sara, and say "hi dad, 'cause of spy stuff i'm less dead than you heard, anyway, i found this awesome lady, and i wanna know if you approve of the marriage even though we can't have kids the usual way."

Probably trigger some ambush that way, but, strategically, anything Sosa's throwing into that ambush is resources he's not holding in reserve to defend his own hideout, and shooting up a hospital to take down a rogue agent hurts the Bureau's rep on a number of levels. You've walked into, and out of, way stupider setups.

Seversky has a nice ring to it.

What about the name Sheev? As in Sheev Palpatine. But also as in Kashif.
Speaking of which, Kashif really gott liebe tonight!

I said it before and I'll say it again:

You two are going to get married and have cute undead robot babies and it's going to be so cute.

Tell her about the body's name, but I vote no on that. That guy's dead and we don't really have a connection to his life. Sev Dalton would work fine.

We've got time. Besides, who says we'll go with just one answer about who we are for the rest of our lives? Normal people change jobs, move to different places, and change beliefs when they learn new things and circumstances change. We don't know what kind of people we are a year from now--whether we'll be chilling on a permanent vacation like 14-1 or if we're instead doing something much, much different.

No more questions.

It's time.

Wire 2015/09/21(Mon)23:04 No. 671555 ID: d78cc1
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"if this works out right we won't have to do anything."
"Amen."
"i like sev. that's my name. sev sev sev."
"Sev. Good mouth feel."
"sev dalton, maybe. if that's what we want."
"Mondo progressivo. As Pen would say."
"so what now?"
"Best part." Sara curls up on 73-6's chest. "Cuddle till we fall asleep. And then: Cameroon."
"cameroon."
She sings softly under her breath. "Ma ma ko, ma ma sa, ma ko ma ko sa."
"is that the anthem?"
"Naw. Just a thing we learned in grade school. It means I dance in Cameroonian. Or whatever they speak in Cameroon."
73-6 blows a lock of her hair, just to see it move. "we should probably look up what they speak."
"Is my 'do bugging you?"
"no. i like it."
"It's made of like some kind of anti-itch material. Very high tech." She shakes her head a little and swishes her hair across his chest. "I guess I can afford to keep this body up to date and stuff now. Get some boobs again."
"do you want to?"
"I dunno. I miss them but it's kinda nice not to have 'em in the way."
"you're pretty. with or without boobs."
"You're pretty."
73-6 scoffs.
"You are!" Sara affects a terrible, indeterminately european accent. "You are byootiful, dahlink."
"is that supposed to be transylvania?"
"French."
"have you ever met a frenchman?"
"Je suis le don't know." She kisses him. "You are beautiful. To me."

They hold each other.
73-6 tries not to think about tomorrow.
Before Cameroon, he has to get through tomorrow.
What'll he do come morning?

>>671555
ask mom for 5 more minutes.

then get ready to kill a psychopath.

Try to figure out what was buzzing.

Hum some showtunes.

>>671584
oh we found out what was buzzing ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

What happens tomorrow depends on whether 38-3 survives. If he doesnt, we go back to the ruins and retrieve his body. If he does, we scramble the hovercraft, track him down, and kill him then. Base defences should target his transportation to make sure that even if he lives you can outrun him.

>What'll he do come morning?
Hack himself access to Dartline's coffee delivery robot. And his breakfast in bed robot.

>>671770
what can't hack dartline with his own shit

Call up 90-2, get the whole gang in on this plan.

>>671878
I think 90-2 (=88) is already aware of the plan. He was there when we made it, after all.
Hardcoded. Bureau. Loyalty. Stahp.

First we must be aware we are no longer virgin. Then mental high five.

Wait and hope 38-3 falls for the trap.
We can't do much till then.

Gather the team and get yourselves ready.
It's gonna be a long day.

>>675437
Seconded

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"You don't need him," 38-3 says. "I'm better than he'll ever be."
"So prove it," wires Sosa.
"I have."
"Impress me."
"He'll have turned, and I'll end him." 38-3 descends the steps to Outpost Jericho's subterranean entrance. "You'll see."

He stands in front of the door.
"It's time to face the music, Monica.
Open up."

Brom 2015/11/05(Thu)00:52 No. 681512 ID: 12b34c
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"Welcome to Jericho, Agent 38-3."
Monica's voice echoes through the halls, through which 38-3 stalks like a shade.

"I was expecting more than your drones to welcome me, Monica." 38-3 pauses mid-stride. The drone haltingly follows suit.

"73-6 has taken the others on-mission," Monica says. "I'm looking into where."
"You don't know?"
"I think it had something to do with the reconstitution chamber. Repairs? Or something?"

38-3 starts walking again, fast. "What makes you think that."
"He was fiddling around with them earlier. Told me he was-- hold on--"
"What?"
"38-3, uhhhh, you might want to get down there. Something's-- hold on-- oh no. I think 73-6 did something not good."

38-3 is running now.

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He slams open the door to the reconstitution chamber.

"38-3." Sosa's voice is sharp across the wire. "What's happening?"

"The reconstitutor." 38-3 scans the room. "It's gone."

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"Automated defense system engaged.

Target acquired."

"God Dammit."

Brom 2015/11/05(Thu)00:54 No. 681515 ID: 12b34c
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"Jesus."
On a bank of monitors in DA's secret Rhode Island headquarters, Monica watches the camera feeds winking out one by one. Jericho devours itself before them in a blaze of cooked ammunition and fiery explosions. "Rest in peace, Jericho."

"rest in peace, monica," 73-6 says. "you're burning up in the control room."
"That's touching, Sev-Three. Thank you." Monica squints. "Jesus," she repeats. "If this doesn't kill him I don't know what will."

"Why you gotta say that cracker in a horror movie kinda shit and jinx us," Keisha says.
DA folds his arms. "I'm not convinced. Get a street view."

Brom 2015/11/05(Thu)00:54 No. 681516 ID: 12b34c
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The windows in the surrounding cars and buildings have blown out. Broken glass is all over the ground. The conflagration that was once Jericho has risen up through operational secrecy and the Earth's surface to burn on street level.
Civilians flee or hyperventilate or take pictures on their phones.

And from the wreckage staggers the gaunt cyberzombie frame of 38-3.

"Zeetus Lapeetus," Sara says.
"Told you," Keisha says.

Should have known he was too creepy to die.

Welp, so much for plan A. What kind of guns are there on that vtol we stole from the Fantomas, and how easy is it for 73-6-2 to pilot remotely? If Sosa knows the rez chamber is missing, not just subverted, we should probably put that face-stealer the rest of the way down before he blends into the crowd.

That had to have slowed him down.

Let's finish him off now. No chances taken!

Damn. He's got skills to have dodged those guns and explosions. ...the first explosion really should have been set to take out the exits and trap him underground. Oh well.

>>681516
Can we get him off those cameras? Hack to blackout the area from Sosa?

He only stops trusting 38-3 if it's plausible we've killed him and made 38-4. If he's seen walking away immediately that breaks that. Sosa can't know he's alive until it's too late to trust.

Can we jam Bureau communications? Put some static on 38-3's wire?
We'll lose track of him too if we jam surveillance. That means we need to send a response out *now*.

Blow up Jericho again. Can you do that? Can you explode... twice?

You know what I just realized, we should have had Dubs on one of the buildings out there to snipe him.

He SHOULDN'T survive a headshot.

You know, I forgot about it, but WE DO have that robot corpse that could be useful in killing him.

>>681587
lol no, we need to get rid of him right the fuck now. Y'know what they say, strike well the zombie is hot.

>>681516
shoot him again

Wire 2015/11/05(Thu)23:42 No. 681747 ID: 12b34c
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"ok." 73-6 scoots his chair back and stands up. "i'm going to go shoot him."

Dartline follows him out of the room. "How?"
73-6 pulls out his flechette pistol. "with this thing."
"We getting 38?" 88-1 ducks out of his room, laser in hand. "Knew that trap wouldn't get him."
"how?"
"Not thematic enough. You seen Pen?"
"have you?"
"Naw."

"How are you getting back into the Boston Sprawl?" Dartline asks.
"with the vtol or something," 73-6 says.
"You want the entire city firing up your ass?"
"maybe the hovercraft."
"Or just a rental, 73-6," Dartline says. "Panel van or something."
"i can't exactly get one of those."
"I can," Dartline says. "Tinted windows and I have spook plates around somewhere."
"I still vote VTOL or hovercraft," 88-1 says. "I like to feel tall."

Discretion is of the essence.
The VTOL and hovercraft will attract too much attention.
Take the rental, ghost back into the sprawl, and end him.

>>681747
Spooky van
But if Dubs REALLY wants to, he can go hovercraft.
We're still running in the van though.

Nothing like a double strike.

Keep in mind we'll have to figure out a way to either kill him without anyone witnessing it, or get away without being followed back to base.

Personally, I think the van is more thematically appropriate for a drive-by.

Van it.

Also I'm hoping you cut his comms right? Right? Because if he reports to Sosa goodbye surprise round.

Yes>>681819

Also check where pen is??

Take the Ghostbusters van. I don't know why Dartline thinks that's less conspicuous, but I ain't afraid of no ghost.

>>681830
>Also check where pen is??
This almost escaped me. Definitely do this.

>>681830
>>681851
>Inb4 'in yo crotch' jokes
But why don't we do both? We take a van, while a decoy kamikaze flyer/hover makes a delivery of high explosives. Send the kamikaze in first, make it look like it's about to land, when BOOM! You zap his ass to kingdom come with a crude EMP. Then you unload whatever ordinance you got with you and jet.

>>681747
Wait. How are we gonna find him. Won't he have hologrammed up and disappeared into the crowd by the time we get there? He'll see you before you see him, assuming he doesn't run.

I thought the whole point of this was to possibly kill 38-3, and failing that, make it so Sosa can't be sure we didn't. Doesn't that mean we should be hacking to black out the area so Sosa doesn't know if he's alive or dead?

Please tell me we jammed the shit out of Sosa and started messing with all cameras in the are as soon as the first bomb went off.

Wait a sec... Sev, you have ludicrous amounts of money, right? Buy one of those trucks that car dealerships use to transport their merchandise, with all the cars still on it. Load the spooky van into the back. Boom, decoys.

Also check in with Deneb. Has 38-3's wire been compromised yet, or is Sosa still getting a live feed?

>>681747
Spooky van, but the thing needs a fucking turret in the back.

For reasons. And MURDER.

>>682191
I second this. Can we get a BIG fucking gun on a bipod bolted onto the back? Also hopefully the trap at least DAMAGED 38. Nothing could survive that without at least some damage. We can only hope. Follow up with check on Pen. I have a feeling she's trying to do something stupid and dangerous, with an emphasis on the STUPID part.

is he immune to bombs, or is he immune to nine bombs?

Wire 2015/11/08(Sun)22:49 No. 682650 ID: 12b34c
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"maybe the van," 73-6 says. "maybe we put a big friggin gun in it."
"That defeats the whole point," Dartline says. "Subtlety. We use a stolen vehicle we let every Bureau gun in the city know we're home. Especially one that flies. Common goddamn sense."

"Yeah but how long's a normie car gonna take to get there," 88-1 says. "Hours, with the traffic. How would we find the guy who can change his face?"
"You leave that to me," Dartline says.
"That doesn't comfort me like it should," 88-1 says.

"you did cut off his feed to sosa, right?" 73-6 says. He looks around for the hallway to the bedrooms. The place is a labyrinth. "that worked, right?"
"Of course it worked."
"ok. pen? hey, pen?" 73-6 raises his voice. "where'd she sleep."

"Sorry. Sorry. Sorry hi."
Penelope slouches around a corner. She looks terrible. "Hi. We rolling?"
"pen. jeez. are you ok?"
"Why what."
"you look like shit."
"Oh. Do I? I--" She burps, wetly. "Am good. Estoy bueno."
"What's going on, Pen?" 88-1 asks.
"Nothing."
"pen."
"Cage en diez." Penelope steadies herself on the wall. "I think I'm fiending, dudes."
"you're what?"
"Bureau was giving me some stim stuff. Diluted, 90 told me. To try and wean me off it. If I'd stopped all at once it would have killed me. I thought I was good to go more or less but I dunno." She hiccups. "Going cold turkey's kicking my shit in."

Aw shit we forgot about that. Is it in any of the stuff we stole? Oh well we can't use Penn like this, not without some raw materials we can use to dilute or something. Penn wouldn't JUST COINCIDENTALLY know where to get some would she

hint hint she has a secret stash I didn't forget

>>682650
Do we need to get you some Monster and a tiny dash of cocaine?

>>682650
No offense Pen, but I don't think you're up to going toe to toe with a guy who could shrug off a building blowing itself up in his face fight now.

I think we gotta bench you.

>"Of course it worked."
Cool. Then we just have to make sure none of the security cameras or cell phones that caught 38-3 have their data get back to Sosa.

>>682651
Seconding this and having her sit this one out. New secondary objective: Acquire a new source of vitamin D (for Drug). Got any fingers in that lucrative pie, Mr. Alchemist?

Please tell me we didn't pillage all that medical gear and high-value-density stuff from Outpost Jericho, yet somehow forget to bring along the stock of knockoff murder drugs.

Sara, you're our field medic. This falls within your area of expertise. Can Penelope's meds be found and administered quickly enough to get her ready for this mission, or should she stay back at base, watch the perimeter, and use her katana to peel potatoes?

Yep, she's benched.

See if the gang can scrounge something for her, then see to acquiring a car.

Wire 2015/11/09(Mon)23:29 No. 682891 ID: 12b34c
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"i think we gotta bench you, pen," 73-6 says.
"Nooo. Come on. I can-- fuuuuck." Penelope slides down the wall and ends up hunched against it. "Pensé que había terminado con esta mierda."
"what does--"
"I thought I was done with this shit, man," Penelope says. "Like I was out. Please don't tell Keesh."
"it's kind of obvious."

"She thinks I just got a bug. OK I can go back out there, OK? Medicated."
"how? we don't have any of the stuff."
"You just gotta get me something else," Penelope says. "Other shit can keep a cap on the withdrawals. We were all tweaking at Tribranch whenever we couldn't afford the stim fix."
"you had to pay for them?"
"Company store, amigo. It was stims or you go full junkie." She sniffs. It sounds like a dying water buffalo. "Get me some smack or some weed or some coke and I'll be good to go."

"you want to get high?"
"I've done it before," Penelope says. "It works. Dope makes me sleepy, weed makes me loopy, and coke makes me crazy but maybe I should be crazy."
"I have a bump or two I can spare," Dartline says.
"you what?" 73-6 grows increasingly bewildered.
He shrugs. "Beats coffee."
"Pen I love ya but I don't know if I want to work with you on snow," 88-1 says.
"I can't just sit on my ass while you guys are out there." Pen manages to sit up more. "I wanna fuckin' kill this guy."

If Pen wants to hide from keesh, she can come, but she has to stay in the fucking van.

If she were support, it would be a different matter. She's front-line though. Her judgement has to be sound at every moment. This guy's too dangerous for an unpredictable element, sorry Pen.

>>682893
Basically.

Sev and Dubs can deal with 38. Pen can come, but she is -not- going into combat like this -or- if she's coked up.

Pen on combat stims was scary. I do -not- want to see cokehead Pen.

Should we try a dope and coke mix?
Dangerous, but it SHOULD counteract the effects.

What about amphetamines like adderall, or analgesics less dangerous than opioids?

I think she should do the drugs, she only has to be conscious enough to flip out and kill this dude.

No drugs. Pen, I know you wanna kill this guy, but we ALL wanna kill this guy, and you got to do the final assault last time. 38-3 pretty much just does the social thing, he won't be nearly as much fun to stab as that guy in power armor was. Take some time off, give your bloodstream a chance to unfuck itself the rest of the way. Then you'll be clean and ready for action when we go after Doctor Wily Sosa.

Besides, this probably isn't even going to be job for swords. Out in the open, Dubs could just laser a fist-sized hole through 38-3's pelvis from two blocks away.

>>682891
Penn, we're just asking you to sit one game out, not the season. We still gotta get to Sosa, and through whatever protection he's got. We'll make sure this shit is out of your system by then.

Plus I'm pretty sure if your girlfriend found out I'd drugged you and brought you into a fight she'd kill me.

guys, guys.
what if,
88-1 took the drugs instead, and you rode the secondhand high?

Not today Pen. This is the kind of situation where she might make a mistake, running on fumes with an imperfect fix...and given that she's a melee/stealth combatant, she's likely to be in a high risk situation.

We need to bring her to bat in the end game against Sosa, and we can't do that if she gets an injury here...especially when it could get her killed.

>>682979
that makes perfect sense

>>682891
I'm not sure it's safe for her to be taking drugs while on cold turkey from the super drugs that are making her sick. She can come, but she needs to sit in the back rather than be a star player.

Guys, if we take her along, I don't think we can trust her judgment enough to stay in the van and not get herself killed at an inopportune moment. How horrible would that be? If she were to try to prove herself or something? No, she stays here. No two ways about it.

>>683338
(Obviously, don't share that thought process with her.)

>>683339
Obviously.

Wire 2015/11/30(Mon)22:40 No. 686433 ID: 2a2f8a
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"if you want to come you can," 73-6 says. "just to hide from keesh. but you have to stay in the van."
"C'monnn."
"no. stay in van."
Penelope looks miserable. "This is donkey shit."

The agents prep for their mission.
>animated

Wire 2015/11/30(Mon)22:42 No. 686434 ID: 2a2f8a
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73-6 flies the hovercraft carefully out of dock.
"so where are we picking up this van?" he asks.
"Closest place is two blocks from here," Dartline wires.
"Ay we don't want to be close to here when we switch we want to be close to thirty eight," Penelope says. "Motherfucker is a shapeshifter in the sprawls. You give him time to recuperate he's gone. And this thing at max is ten times faster than a frickin' mini van. It's a good plan for the pickup but not the commute. You know any rental places in Boston?"
"You want to drive Bureau hardware all the way to Boston?" Dartline hisses.
"You want to drive a creepy panel van with a fifth of the horsepower?" Penelope rolls her window down and spits an off-color gob out. "We had time to be sneaky before we blew our hosue up, Sev-Three. Now we just need speedy."
"I can track him," Dartline says.
"Tracking him's gonna be a lot easier before his nanomachines fix him up," Penelope says.
"I have no strong feelings one way or the other," 88-1 says.
"Pussy," Penelope says.

>animated

>>686434
Choice .gif work.

I agree with DA. We need to be careful and avoid attention.
Besides, 38 can't be in good shape after all that. I think we bought ourselves some time.

Dartline, I know you're used to working solo, but the details of how you're tracking our target do kinda have tactical significance here. We already murdered that last pedophile, your decade-long quest for revenge is complete, we're all friends. You can afford to open up to us.

Speaking of which. Our priorities are catching 38-3 quickly, and avoiding Bureau (or miscellaneous-other) surveillance as we do so. Best plan for stealth is the van, best plan for speed is the hovercraft. Can we split the difference? What are our options for van-rental places between here and there, and how would you say they stack up in terms of keeping secrets, and likelihood of giving us back the hovercraft when we return rather than selling it off for parts?

As an outside-the-box option for combining stealth with speed, can we swing around to pick up Jericho's non-compromised personnel? Tell them their bullshit assignment is cancelled because something more urgent came up, Monica confirms over the wire, and it's not even a lie. We hide in the back, tell them to drive back to Jericho. When they arrive, 38-3 sees a couple of non-traitors pull up, stare at the wreckage in slackjawed horror, ask who did this 'cause they genuinely don't know. He'll think they're his extraction.

Admittedly, maybe he figures out in time that we're doing the same thing to him as he and I did to Lockjaw, but if he fights he's badly outnumbered, if he runs we'll have an easier time chasing him with a milspec vehicle and no head start, and even if he gets away he's going to be that much less likely to trust any other Bureau assets that make contact, which furthers the goal of driving a wedge between him and Sosa.

Another advantage of the fake extraction plan: some lucky murder-cyborg gets to say "come with me if you want to live."

>>686442
We're not friends just because our murder targets happened to match his murder targets.

Okay, let's take the subtle approach.

How about we meet halfway?

>>686441
This.
<Stealth Mode>

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The rental van coughs and trundles its way through the sprawl.

The agents inside are getting antsy.
73-6 feels like they've been driving forever.

"Dubs."
Penelope pokes 88-1 again.
"Dubs."
"What, Penelope."
"Can I borrow your hat?"
"No."
"Please, man." Penelope is shiny with cold sweat. "This is my fucking last wish."
"Fine." 88-1 passes his beret into the back seat. "I don't know how it's gonna fit over your hair."
"I'm not wearing it," Penelope says. "I'm puking in it."
"You are not puking in my beret."
"I aint puking on the floor."
"Use a window!"
"That ain't stealthy, chico!"
"Sev!" 88-1 is twisted round in his seat, trying to get his hat back from Penelope, who's hacking with laughter and using her superior wingspan to keep it away from him. "Pen's gonna puke in my fucking beret!"

"Kids stop it or I will turn this car around I swear to God."

Make the sacrifice 88. Pride ain't worth getting blindsided by some lucky sniper peeking our way.

There's an ashtray isn't there? Puke in that.

>>712361
Puke in my shoes, Pen. Then give me yours.
If this goes Die Hard, my feet will be bleeding everywhere.

>>712367
Can't she just puke in her own shoes then?

Use your shoes Pen. Those boots ain't made for walkin' today, that's what you're gonna have to do. One of these days these boots are gonna puke all over you.

Look if someone spots someone leaning out of a van window to puke they're not going to think it's full of badass cyborg assassins. It's fine. Also didn't you already get everything out? You were upchucking earlier.

>>712470
This.

>>712470
Unless they match our faces to a database. Dystopian cyberpunk futuuure

Pen, either quit screwing around, or get out and walk. You're faster and stealthier on foot anyway.

>>713493
Please do not make the puking agent going through heavy withdrawal get out and run alongside our innocuous rental van.

Fuck, just puke on the floor or in the cupholders or some shit.

Who cares. No shoes will show her down, and that is a pretty nice hat. A little puke on the upholstery isn't he worst thing that could happen tonight.

Hey Y'all!!!
updates for all my stuff are on hold for a while as I've lost my tablet pen and don't have the money to get a replacement one.
Next paycheck it's Priority One.

>>713774
Bummer.

That's a bit of a downer, only recently caught up as well.

Just puke on the floor, it's a rental van, worst they can do is charge for cleaning, and we can cover that.

Check the glove box. There might be a bag or something.

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"just.... use one of your shoes, pen."
"I can't use my fuckin shoe! I walk in those!"
"is there a bag or-- shoot--" 73-6 rifles through the glove compartment.

Penelope swallows hugely.
"Never mind," she says.
"Uch, Pen," 88 says.
Penelope burps.
"UCH, Pen."
"Shoulda let me use your hat." Penelope lays back in her seat. "Where are we going, Sev-Three?"
"where dartline tracks 38," 73-6 says.
"Left at this upcoming intersection," Dartline wires in his ear. "And tell your people to keep their edge."
"they're frosty, da. get us a target."
"Upcoming building, three doors down to the left."

"Oh, fuck." Penelope squints out the window. "This is giving me deja vu. In a back seat, going through withdrawl,

and driving up to the fucking pigpen."

Wire 2016/04/14(Thu)23:35 No. 716665 ID: 2a2f8a
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"dartline we have eyes on. it's a police station. 38-3 is in a police station."

"Looks like you've got a problem, 73-6," Dartline Alchemist wires. "You kill any cops and you move from being on the Bureau's shit list to being on everyone's shit list."
"so we don't kill any cops."
"For all we know 38-3 is a cop right now."

>>716665
Abort. We can't go in there without being made, and we don't know what disguise 38-3 is using.

Well this is a fine mess! The rat's hidden amongst the cats!

There's got to be a way to ferret him out! He's hurt, cut off, and alone! He's vulnerable!

We can't blow this opportunity! Consult with the team and come up with a plan. There must be a way!

Options
-Sneak in and try to hunt him down.
-Try to lure him into an ambush.
-Retreat, regroup, and restrategize.
-Charge in, guns blazing.

...it occurs to me we could just wait for him to come back out. He couldn't possibly be planning to sleep in there.

Are there any scans his disguises can't fool? Can we do that thing in movies where they scan for a suspicious void instead of a heat signature?

Can't you just hit the fire alarm and then hack all the computers while the cops are out?

>>716710
>>716716
?

Dubs, get on a roof across the street. Pen, alley by the fire escape. Sev, put your pretty face on, walk in the front door. Anybody asks, you're here about a parking ticket. Start hacking cameras, looking through the archive for who walked in when Dartline says the target arrived.

Target leaves out the front door, gets shot by Dubs. Target leaves out the back, gets stabbed by Pen. Target stays put, disguised as a cop, Sev finds him and hacks his implants.

If we're very lucky, the target is currently under arrest (I mean, it sure looked like he was involved with a blown-up building), in which case Sev might be able to simply post bail and walk out with the target in custody, nice and legal.

>>716716
I am liking the sound of this, but how many exits are there? There could be more, is there any way to get the specs of the building?

>>716665
Our best bet isn't to go in there after him. It's to find a way to blow his cover so the cops turn on him. Then either the cops kill him for us, or he's forced to flee into our waiting bullets.

We got two super hackers- can we get eyes inside the station?

>>717016
If he gets killed by cops, how do we take possession of the body?

>>717119
Easier to rob a morgue than a riled up police station.

Think we could get some blueprints of the place and camera views? His disguises aren't perfect, he needs a face (to either digitally copy from, or tear off), and he needs a physical uniform. If 38's KILLED a cop himself, we could destroy the Bureau that way. Good blackmail material.

>>716842

Hacking the cameras is brilliant. Don't leave your suspicions to just policemen, though.

>>716699

> He couldn't possibly be planning to sleep in there.

Why not? Imagine a homeless guise. The drunk tank is the perfect place to get a little R&R while under police protective custody, maybe just long enough for a reconstituted agent to activate their self-repair. I'm doubting 38 escaped from Jericho unscathed and this is an awkward place for 38 to fight Sev and pals. This seems like a purely defensive measure.

The only alternative I can think of is buying time to reestablish contact with Sosa. Hopefully that gets kept under control.

...oh, another possibility is that he just got taken in for questioning since he walked out of an exploded building.

Wire 2016/04/17(Sun)21:23 No. 717526 ID: 2a2f8a
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>>716710
88-1's new thermal vision will be able to see through 38-3's disguise. Unfortunately the walls are made of stern enough stuff that he can't get anything more than a fuzzy picture right now. He'll probably need eyes on to identify 38-3.

73-6 can't hack the cameras in there without a line of sight to a terminal he can do it on. Which requires getting inside the building and knowing where exactly that would be.

Fortunately he knows just who to call for that one.

"monica? sara? you read me?"
"Loud and clear, Sev-Three."
"are you eating something, monica?"
"Yeah. It's a protein bar thing. We only have this and like bananas. DA what's the address of this place so I can order something delivered?"
"Don't dare, Bureau."
"So Dartline still can't take a joke and I have burrito cravings," Monica says. "How are things on your end?"
"can you guys find the floor plan for--" 73-6 squints. "precinct 563 a."
"On it," Sara says. 73-6 can already hear the clacking of a mechanical keyboard. "I'm assuming DA has this kind of thing on file somewhere."
"I do," Dartline says. "Don't poke around too much in there."

"563 A. Ok. Main entrance front, subterranean entrance from a garage at the end of the block with security and a civ presence. There's a fence in back wired to cameras and motion but you can hack that. I'll find you some kind of exterior terminal but I think those cameras are local and the cams inside are going through a central office thing. So like we can only really mess with the security outside the building from outside the building."

"Yknow Sara usually the briefing kind of thing is my department," Monica says.
"Oh sorry! Do you want to take over?"
"Nah." Monica chews. "Looks like you got this."

"Right. OK so garage entry has living eyes. Back door entry has digital ones. There's a rooftop entryway too with nothing guarding it but that one you'd need to infiltrate another building to get down to cause there's no way you're climbing up; and the buildings around it are all populated offices. If you waltz in we can play it by ear but they're already going to be really skittish in there on account of the explosion. I think a lot of their officers are out on the scene right now."

"So why don't we just wipe out the ones inside?" Penelope asks. "Just hack all their cameras off and clear the building out till we find 38. Not like pig iron's gonna give us much trouble."

How are you going in?
+Front door!
+Back fence!
+Garage!
+Rooftop!
+Not at all!

[b]And you're entering:
+Guns blazing!
+Stealth-like!
+In disguise!

>>717526
Excuse me? I thought we were supposed to be the good guys. Let's not start killing cops.

...we could just waltz in and outright bribe the cops so they let us have 38-1. So long as no cameras record our faces it should be fine.

>+Back fence!
>+Stealth-like!
The cameras should be child's play. Once we're in we'll hunt down 38-3 and end him quietly.
Let's try to keep the casualties to a minimum. Things are messy enough as is.

Back way
Stealthy

Our best bet is to sneak in, locate 38-3, secure him by whatever means necessary, then extract. Sev's pretty much the god of hacking, so bypassing those fence cameras will be nothing.
88-1 is MVP for tracking the target, so he's a must have.
38-3 won't go quietly. We still have no idea how capable he is right now, and a fight between super cyborg zombies in a police station is the kind of attention we don't need. We need to drop him quickly and quietly.
Extraction is the hard part. Getting past internal security will be a pain, so I'd suggest disabling it. Avoiding conflict with the cops will help keep things quiet.
Once we're out, we head back to "base" for drinks.

[a]Backdoor. We'll scout that path out so Dubs can enter the building for target ID if needed. Hack the back door cameras and keep an eye on them so we know if anyone goes out that way, and have Dubs keep a close eye on the building exterior. I don't suppose his special eyes work through shared vision?. You got the van, Pen.

[b] Stealth-like, no killing. This was literally just covered.

>>717534
Does Monica think they would they go for it? Cops do seem really strapped for cash with all these private sector competitors.

Front door, in disguise.
Best case we can post bail for the john doe they picked up outside the exploded building, tell them it's Bureau internal affairs (that's not even exactly a lie), walk out with 38-3 on an armored leash, mission accomplished, no muss no fuss.
Less optimistically, the front desk could have a hackable terminal.
At the very least, it's cheap recon. We want to do this fast, but there's no hard deadline.

Back fence, stealth like

guns blazing has never and will never work

>>717611
Well, we sort of didn't really set ourselves UP for guns blazing. Penelope kinda did, but she's not in shape for it and anyways we don't want to kill a bunch of cops. We have tricks in a firefight but we're at our best when noone knows where we're coming from. Although 38-3 certainly knows we're coming.

Hmmm... How fucked would the Bureau (or Sosa in particular at least) be if 38-3 were seen ploughing through a bunch of LEOs? Because Sev can do his face-morph thing, and 38-3 is actually really in the building anyway, which may have some papertrail eagerly upward-moving Bureau manglement could dig up in a vain attempt to oust Sosa.

>>717871
We really need the stealth element right now. But maybe your idea would work if the situation gets hot.
Maybe have Sev walk in the front door in disguise as another Bureau agent (could Dartline have a dossier of impersonable guys?), so he can hack things on the inside. Once we get a feel of what the situation is like (and access to cameras and shiz), send Pen into the garage, maybe use her speed to exploit a lull in the guards' vision. If she's seen we could easily tamper with the live feed. 88 would act as the sniper support, lookout and getaway driver all at once. Monica & Sara could be our extra eyes in the sky (or data network once Sev hooks us up with the precinct's network).

So, to reiterate, we're going to have disguised Sev ask about the blast, and if the police have arrested anyone. During this time, he'll hack into the police network, connecting that network to Dartline/Sara & Monica. Then we fake a cyber-attack by... idk, Fantomas? that locks down the building. Right before the cyber-attack, Pen infiltrates the building and Sev finds out where 38-3 is. 88 makes sure anyone that walks out is dead. After we find out where (or who) 38-3 is, we kill him, then say that the internal affairs business is done. Erase or tamper every electronic records afterwards, and say to the cops that this is strictly a hush-hush business, that nobody leaks this secret and lives.

I would point out that this is different from our other missions. This time, our target is almost certainly expecting us, and he's had access to our files. Except for the things we tried to keep secret, he should know our tricks.

He's picked the police station because he thinks Sev is trying to be a goody goody. They're not only protection- they're hostages. He expects Sev to be unwilling or unable to go in guns ablazing.

He knows Sev favors sneaking into places and hacking them. The most obvious or accessible points to hack the building are probably traps. He wants us to come in, and then turn this into a no-win situation where Sev either has to die or shoot a bunch of cops.

>+Not at all!
We can't play the game he wants us to play. Not blind.

I think we need to run counter to our usual instincts. We don't want to infiltrate- we want to mess up someone else's infiltration. We want to stir the cops up, to cause trouble for whatever role 38-3 has assumed. He'll be forced to bug out, make a stand, or take the reigns and control or manage the situation- any of which will give him away to us, if we're watching.

>>718031
If we're going to run counter to our usual mode of operations, it should still be something we can pull off well, and without cop killing. Like bribery.

I'd second going in with some kind of mask (maybe not our holo-face) and just bribing our way up. We have money, money they theoretically don't know about, and which we have never had before. We have never used our money before to do anything besides buy information and weapons. It definitely seems sufficiently pattern breaking.

>>718031
This is also a good strategy. Ask Dartline if he has dossiers of other Bureau agents other than us, and perhaps if he knows their usual modus operandi. We steal that modus operandi, and run with it until we identify 38. Then we switch to our rules, our game.

Wire 2016/04/23(Sat)22:48 No. 718730 ID: b1960b
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"ok. we're sneaking it."
73-6 coasts the van past the station and pulls into an alley on the next block. "pen, stay with the van."
"Aww c'mon."
"what are you gonna do, puke on them? let's go, dubs."
"Word." 88-1 slides the passenger door open and hops out.

The agents keep to back routes and byways on their approach to the police station.
73-6 feels out in front of him for the bobbing signals of its outdoor cameras and traces them back to their source, which he hacks as effortlessly as breathing.

73-6 can now:
+See through the outdoor camera feeds
+Deactivate all cameras or any individual camera, or put in a loop
+Put out an automated APB signalling for police backup to this building
+Put out a false positive motion alarm at any point on the outside of the building

"swish." 73-6 presses his back to the wall of the precinct, just around the corner from the chain link fence. "that was some paper ice."
"Awesome, Sev-Three," Sara says. "The fence should be-- oh-- uh Keisha is coming in to--"

"Give me that mic. Ayo SEV."
73-6's ear rings.
"What the FUCK you thinking taking my sickass girlfriend out on your FUCKING spookrun, Sev-Three?" Keisha says.

She insisted on coming, but we're making her wait in the van. We couldn't say "no" after everything that's happened!

Don't touch that camera system. The cameras may be set up with loops already, or possibly looking at rooms that are filled with actors.

Also, well, we tried to tell her not to come, but Pen wasn't having it.

She's benchwarming, Keesh. She wanted to come so I figured I'd have her do something low-intensity.

You could tell if the camera's already looped with your godlike hacking, couldn't you? You can at least test it by feeding a loop to a camera and looking through it yourself.
Are there security cameras on other buildings watching us?

So, uh, let's go in.

"Keshia, which would you rather have us knowing where she is or having her go off of our grid, because i assure you that she would have followed us anyway.

Skim the feeds quickly and check what spots have poor coverage. Be best to loop back as few cameras as possible.

Look Keesh: she insisted, she's on backup and we're busy spooking right now. Can you chew us out when we get back?

>>718730
Maybe you should talk about that with your girlfriend instead of me. She insisted. She's defending the van right now, so she's not going to take the full brunt of the action, even though she wants to.

I can't fight people who are insistent. At least ones I don't want to kill. I don't have the balls to say No to Pen.

>"What the FUCK you thinking taking my sickass girlfriend out on your FUCKING spookrun, Sev-Three?"
I'm an undead hitman, not a doctor, Keesh.

Start mentally flipping through the camera feeds while you're getting chewed out. Let's see what there is to see.

>>718741
Let's not put her on the line with Pen.

>>718762
lmao solid line.

Ah, can't access old feeds from here. The recordings must be protected, inside maybe? Shame. If we could've coordinated with an inside feed, might've found the face-swapper right here, or at least gotten a lead. Guess it's on to legwork.

Figure out what cameras cover your approach to the facility. Make a blind spot via looped video feeds on the necessary surveillance equipment. Walk in. No idea what's on the other side of the door though, right? Yikes. Bonne chance.

You can hold on to the hack link, right? If things start getting dicey in there, that false positive motion alarm could be useful for drawing attention away from you. If you can't hold it, maybe pass it off to someone else? That said, with DA on our side, feeling pretty confident he can whip up something like that if we need it.

>>718730
Yeah, that seemed preeeeetty easy for a police station chosen by 38-3 to hide out in. I'm thinking Honeypot.

Hack the cameras to set up loops in sequence, timed to follow how you'd infiltrate the building. But sit tight and watch what happens when that theoretical you reaches the entrance.

What do 88's thermal cameras tell him about our intended entrance?

Brom 2016/04/25(Mon)21:51 No. 719238 ID: b1960b
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“i tried to talk her out of it but she insisted.”
“And you fucking let her?”
“how was i gonna say no?”
“By saying it, motherfucker. What kind of friend are you, Seventy Three Six? You didn't even tell me? After the fact? Who even the fuck am I to you people. Ruin my fucking life. PEN. I know you listening, bitch. Penelope.”
“They need me, Keesh! I’m on the team!”
“Need you? The Fuck they need you for? I NEED YOU, PENELOPE. HERE. You can barely fucking walk! Does crackers waving they fucking guns at you really get your dick that hard? Jesus Christ. What a wicked fucking way to treat the girl that loves you.”
“Perra loca we are on mission here.”
“Aight. Aight. I'm gonna keep it short. ALL of you need to check your fuckin realities. Is it at all important to you what happens after this shit is over? Are you out there killing because you want to STOP someday? Do you even WANT to stop? Cuz this is the future calling motherfucking collect, Pen, and you ain’t fucking here. And fuck me really cause I thought just cause you ain’t a man this kind of shit wouldn’t happen. So fuck me, basically.”
“Keesh--”
“No. No. It's cool. I'm done. Make sure she comes back alive, Sev. So I can fucking kill her.” 73-6 hears the smack of Keisha dropping the mic.

Brom 2016/04/25(Mon)21:54 No. 719241 ID: b1960b
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“Fuck,” Penelope says, quietly.
“Um, so those cameras,” Sara says.
"Cage en diez," Penelope says.
“pen. i'm sorry but focus up.” 73-6 flicks through the camera feeds. He finds one mounted on the corner of the building, facing the back door.
Two cops leaning in the doorway.
“So I come in and the junky from the phone is freaking out like he's speaking in tongues! Over his friend who's zonked out, right? And it looks like he's ODing. But I realize yknow what he's actually saying?”
“Shoot.”
“He's reciting pi in Finnish.”
“What?”
“Swear to God.”
“How'd you know Finnish?”
“My girlfriend was Finnish. Remember Suzy?”
“Suzy with the tits?”
“Yeah, with the tits. So it turns out these junkies were on the hunt for a re-up and they accidentally found a tube full of that shit they give Corp hackers. To zap their brains into overdrive. But that shit is crazy expensive and you're only supposed to take a drop and he took a whole fucking syringe. Now you tell me how the fuck 2 junkies find something like that.”
“How?”
“The fuckin trash, man! Can you imagine-- like who throws something like that away? And who the fuck just shoots up something they found in the garbage? Fiends, man."
"So what happened to him?"
"He's a fucking savant now, man. He can do any math problem like that. But he forgot how to feed himself and he shits himself all the time. He needs diapers."
The other cop puffs on a cigarette. "Jesus."

73-6 flicks through the other channels. These cops are the only ones on the perimeter right now.
88-1 can't use his thermal vision through a camera feed, and the walls are too thick to see through anything more than one layer in.

>>719238
Keisha needs some perspective. If we don't finish what we started, then these bastards will never stop hunting us. I know she's scared and hurt, but she needs to understand. We are doing to protect our future.

>>719241
Either a distraction or a non-lethal takedown. Maximum stealth, minimal casualties.

Too bad the Bureau's nonlethal arsenal is rather limited. Any combat hacks on these meatbags?
(For later reference, Bureau grenades can be set to concussion mode. But that's loud, obviously.)
Ooh, a sewer grate. Where does that connect to?
>>719245
Nice line, but doesn't really apply to taking an incapacitated agent in the van with us. Which we (Sev) were originally against.

Cloaking and luring them past you with a false ping seems like it could work, but a distraction lets them know we're here.

Quick and quiet, non lethal knockout and put them somewhere the cameras can't see them. Take any useful gear they have, in fact would it be wise to put on the uniforms over your trenches, or would that complicate things more? Your call sev.

While doing this, if any of this takedown will be in front of a camera, loop some nothing for the bored guard to watch.

Hack the guy facing your direction's phone and make it ring, then when he answers have something stupid and innocent play like an ad or a prank call.

Then merc them and knockem out while they 'wtf' about it.

What we got for equipment here? Anything good for nonlethal that won't make a huge amount of noise?

88-1 can jam their comms so they can't immediately alert the station, at least.

>>719250
>Nice line, but doesn't really apply to taking an incapacitated agent in the van with us. Which we (Sev) were originally against.
True, but if Keisha is considering ending her relationship with Pen over one instance of poor judgment, then that's awfully petty of her, especially considering everything that Pen's put on the line for her.

>>719266
I don't think she is, exactly. She's chewing Pen out.

Also Brom's using her as the voice of the author or some shit.

Hack the storytelling cop's phone, look through his contacts list. Call him, spoofing the caller ID so it seems like you're calling from Suzy's phone. Tell him she won't be harmed if he cooperates with some simple instructions, starting with moving away from the door.

>>719272
This, but instead of the door, give him a random address. Tell him to come alone. He won't. Cops will be dispatched from the facility to respond, and you can guarantee he'll be going too. This will not only clear the door, but thin out the inside and make things easier. Hell, if your lucky, 38-3 will be in that dispatch, and you'll be able to pick him off from the outside.

>>721559
But this will alert 38-3 to our presence. He's not dumb.

Looping the camera to show them standing guard and taking them down non-lethally is preferable, I think.

>>721604
Yeah. The other idea is too much of a gamble.

>>721604
>>721642
You also assume he doesn't already know were here.
He will be prepared either way. We're probably walking into a trap, if a hastily prepared one one.

>>721853
All the more reason to give him as little warning ahead of time as possible.

>>719241
It's clear neither of these two is 38. They both know each other too well. 38 wouldn't know anything about any cop. They're clean.

>>721604
Put the camera on a loop then throw something to get them to look away, then take them both out. Hide the bodies, then get inside.

>>726193
No dead police, please.

>>719252
This.

Wire 2016/08/27(Sat)14:37 No. 744748 ID: b1960b
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The cop whose Finnish girlfriend had tits suddenly has AC/DC playing in his pocket.
"Shit hold on," he says. He fishes his phone out of his pants and half-turns away from where the two moldies hide. "Hel

"You two having fun over there?" 88-1 asks, as 73-6 tightens his sleeper hold and waits for his mark to stop struggling.
"not all of us have to compensate for how short we are with a big heavy rifle," 73-6 says.
"Predictable, brother."
"well i'm a little busy-- dude c'mon--" 73-6's cop finally goes limp and unconscious. "god finally. there we go." He unceremoniously drops him like a sack of potatoes. "you see any heat sigs on the other side of this door now?"

"One faint one, must be far side of the room." 88-1 squints. "Must be down a hallway or something. It's getting a little stronger."
"what's inside, sara?" 73-6 wires, dragging his cuddle-buddy out of sight from the building.
"Looks like you got a sallyport," Sara says. "Electronic locks, thumbprint scanners, and a high-angle closed circuit camera. From there you have a hallway with doors to secure interview rooms, storage, janitor, and the john, leading out to detainee processing."

73-6: stand outside the door until your invisibility augs kick in then hack it unlocked and have 88-1 crack it open until the camera's in your line of sight, then hack the camera. Easy peasy.
After that we should check the interview rooms. Maybe we're lucky and 33 is in one of them.

Oh, yeah. Use invisibility right here and hack the camera through line of sight. Electronic security is no problem to you.

If the sallyport blocks the camera: use your holo-guise to peek around the corner before hacking.

Okay. Maximum effort.
Cloak and crack the door.
88-1 eases the door open.
Hack the camera.
That heat signature?
Possible issue.
Be prepared.

>>744754
This.
Be mindful of the heat signature.

>>744771
Second.

88-1: Keep tabs on that signature.
73-6: Get that door open, and deal with the camera.

>>744754
This.

Hack the door, hack the camera, and enter slowly. Don't want to risk someone hearing the break in.

Wire 2016/09/01(Thu)20:48 No. 745598 ID: b1960b
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The door hack is child's play. That's public servants for you.

They wait until 73-6's adaptive cloak kicks in, then 88-1 reaches over and creaks the door open, pulling back as he goes to stay out of the camera's eye.

73-6 looks around the sallyport, sees the camera, and faster than it took for him to spot it he's in.

From here, 73-6 can:
+Shut down or loop any camera in the building
+Look through the camera feeds for:
=Secure interview room A
=Secure Interview Room B
=Detainee Processing
=Armory Storage
=Break Room
=Public Lobby
=Records
=Admin Conference Room
=Evidence
=Investigations and Reports Offices
+Set off automated proximity alarms localized to any part of the building where a camera is located
+Deactivate the autodeterrent for any noncoded weaponry
+Overload and physically destroy any or all cameras
+Overload the entire security center, blacking out all lights, electric locks, computers, and security systems, and sending a distress signal to Sprawl PD Megacentral.

If they have an autodeterrent in place, they'll have some kind of mainframe in the building which 73-6 would be able to reprogram if he finds it to wipe the codes and cover anybody with a weapon in camera view with rapid hardening riot foam. He can't reach it here.

The security center overload would work on blunt force destruction; there's no way to prevent the outgoing distress signal if 73-6 takes that option, which means time would be very limited.

Deactivate the autodeterrent, check all cameras for people or signs of suspicious activity. Start with the interrogation chambers.
Next, move inside and use your view of the interior to get a better idea of where that heat signature is heading. It's impolite to stand in the doorway, Sev.

+Look through the camera feeds for: All
+Shut down or loop any camera in the building
+Deactivate the autodeterrent for any noncoded weaponry

That gives us intel on the building, gives us an unobserved and silent entry, and frees up our weapons.
Not a bad deal.

Live camera feeds only, or can we look back through the records? I mean, if we know when 38-3 arrived, we should check what face he was wearing.

>>745606
This.

Hey don't move without looping the camera that's currently pointed at you.

Shut down the auto-deterrent, then check the feeds. Once we've got a feel for the field, then we can make a move.

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73-6 loops the camera feed in the sallyport and makes sure the autodeterrents are down.

He starts flicking through the cameras. Place seems pretty empty, even for a precinct. Most of the cops are probably out dealing with the explosion.
Two guys in the break room just sitting and on their phones.
Another two in the Reports office. One of them is at a cubicle, dictating to a desk computer. 73-6 turns on sound.

"...sweep of Mercantile, came across a visibly inebriated party in an alley. He refused the officer's offer of assistance, so was obliged to enter the squad car by order, which he agreed to. Subject is logged as a Doe and sleeping it off in B."

Another cop is leaning on a cubicle at the end of the row. "Big day, huh?"
"Pulse-pounding."
"You not on the detonation?"
"What do I care? It's just Bureau. Creeps and moldies."

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73-6 switches to the Secure interview room B feed.
The lights are out. A figure in a heavy coat is seated at a steel desk, laying face-down.

If I recall correctly, 38-3 doesn't have a face without stealing someone else's, just a series of holograph discs instead. So if that was him that would explain why he's lying face down.

Does this camera have a thermal setting that we can flip to? I remember something about the heat signature giving 38-3's disguise game away.

Can you rewind the video feed and check for any face ripping action, or is it live only?

If the guy has been defaced, there should be records or who was in the interview room at the time. You just need to move a bit further in and hack the right computer. Then you'll know whose face 38-3 is wearing.

Good lead, but nothing definite.
Time to ghost their way in and get to hunting.
Proceed to interview room B.

Multiple potential targets.
He could be anyone. This needs to be handled carefully. It's tempting to split up and cover more ground, but don't. 38- 3 could be anywhere. Check the interview room first, then move on from there.

If we get to the room and he's seemingly disguised as a homeless bum how will we know if that's him or not? Do we even know the limitations of his disguise?

Wire 2016/09/08(Thu)20:53 No. 747148 ID: b1960b
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73-6 slips through the sallyport door, 88 on his heels.

The door to B is unlocked. It pushes open.
The figure at the table doesn't move.

>>747148
This seems like an obvious trap

>>747148
This seems like an obvious trap

>>747148
Thermal vision, who has thermal vision?
Also ready your monofilament whip. You brought it with you, right?

This is too easy.
Something's up.

Well, that's either him or it isn't. Time to find out. Proceed with caution.

>>747159
Well, the room has a suspicious person. It could be him, it could be his distraction. The camera may even be looped. I wonder if our hacking is robust enough to detect other hackers.

Use Heel-Face Turn to disguise your voice, knock on the door and say "Wake up, John Doe. A 'Ms. Jiyang' posted bail, so you're free to go."

>>747175
That's no disguise at all. 38-3 already knows our voice and face. We're not even dressed like a cop.

So, updates on that heat signature?

>>747181
Hey, y'know who we know that can hack Bureau comms and perfectly imitate voices? Deneb.

Anyway, check whether that's the moldie you're looking for, by as many independent means as reasonably possible, before closing to hand-to-hand range.

Oh just put a bullet through this fuckers head! If it's 38-3 it probably wont kill him and if it isn't who cares, we've killed plenty of random schmucks before.

No wait having some guy die from bullet head will alert the whole precinct, so have dubs thermal vision and keep his gun trained on him.

Wire 2016/09/09(Fri)22:38 No. 747233 ID: b1960b
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"88-1, you got thermal vision?"
"Yessir. Should spot out 38-3 through his holographic disguises."
"use it on that guy. i want to know whether or not i should just shoot him now."

88-1 squints.
"Well, you definitely don't gotta do that."
"why?"
"Whoever that was," 88-1 says, "He's dead as fuck now."

Yeah that sounds about right. Go get a look at his face then find his doppleganger in the security feeds. Go shoot the doppleganger and we're done.

It's a decoy.
Search the feeds again.
There has to be some way to nab this bastard.

We may want to take a look at his face so we know who we're after.

>touching suspicious dead bodies
let's not do this, no. Keep searching, flip through the feeds.

Hack the cams again, rewind to when this guy was booked. Get a look at his face.

Thankfully there aren't many other people for him to disguise himself as in the building.
My money is on that one guy at the computer.

The cop who knows that this a moldie affair is pretty fucking suspicious to me.

>>747281
Wait. Yeah.
Wasn't Jericho a secret base?
And how would he know it was bureau anyway?

>>747286
I mean once a secret base explodes and a bureau moldie staggers out of it it's not really a secret anymore

I think it's most likely to be the cop that was dictating the incident report. He is the only one that we know was linked to the corpse.

Reconfigure the autodeterrent, same way you did that Fantoma turret, so it sprays riot foam on anyone carrying a legitimate police sidearm but nobody else. Lock all the doors except the one you came in through.

What's that 1 px line in the bottom left of the image? Check for tripwires.
In b4 it's just an art error

Wire 2016/09/11(Sun)14:30 No. 747502 ID: b1960b
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>>747245
73-6 can't rewind anything unless he gets to the security center. Sara could show him the way but it would require sneaking.

>>747369
He can't do this unless he finds the mainframe first, and he doesn't know where that would be.

>>747467
That is exactly what it is.

Looks like a crudely jury-rigged tripwire that would pop out the cap of a Bureau grenade taped to the wall just inside the door.

We must have really spooked him if he's this sloppy!
That, or he's going for obvious ploys to lull you into a false sense of security.
Stay on your guard, and aware of your surroundings.
Give the cameras another sweep, and see if it's safe to recover that grenade, if it is it could come in handy.

Cool, free grenade!

Since our target has obviously mistreated the police force here, you may be able to get their assistance in taking him down AND keep quiet about it.

>>747502
Do you feel confident in your trap disarming abilities? We don't want cops dying to a Bureau weapon.

Alright sneak to the security center, but try to be quick about it. If I was an injured undead cyborg trapped in a police station while being hunted by a team of elite rogue assassins, I'd want to know everything that's going on in the building, and the security center is the place to do it.

He's probably holed up there, and if you move you might be able to get there before he realizes the cameras are looped, deletes the saved footage, and tries to escape.

It might be helpful to hack the security feed again and display the camera showing the security center door on your hud as you move.
If anyone leaves that room in the next few minutes, there's a good chance it's 38-3.

Well, isn't that cute.
Cut the wire and take the grenade.
Time to move on the security center. Once that's under control there's nowhere for him to hide.
Keep on guard for more traps.

>>747504
Enlisting their help seems like a very bad idea. Especially when 38-3 may be hiding among them.

Check the traps for traps and then disarm it for a free concussion grenade.
Turn 88's thermal tricks on the chatty cops next.

Check the face on the corpse. If it matches any visible officers, that's probably your target.

>>747701
Im fairly certain he cuts peoples faces off. I may be mistaken as a lot of people are asking to look at it.

>>747706
It would be those people who are mistaken.
>>/questarch/586812

>>747713
It's all a hologram. We saw it dissipate; he didn't peel off the face.
>>/questarch/610444
He cut the last guy's head off, why is this one's attached?

This is just sloppy. Take the grenade, check the body (beware of more traps), then sneak off to the security center.

Wire 2016/09/13(Tue)20:58 No. 747898 ID: b1960b
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Psh. What is this, amateur hour?

73-6 effortlessly disarms the tripwire trap.
And this guy's supposed to be Sosa's right hand man?

What was this gonna do, give 73-6 a free grenade?

Wire 2016/09/13(Tue)20:59 No. 747899 ID: b1960b
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The end of the Bureau grenade falls off, revealing the inside to be hollow.

A decidedly non-Bureau frag grenade slides out, and as it clears the confines of its cylindrical housing its safety lever releases.

Shoot.

>>747899
AH SHEEIT GRAB IT, PUT THE PIN BACK ON, SHOVE IT INSIDE THE CYLINDER AGAIN

Chuck it into the hallway and HIT THE DIRT!

KICK IT!!!
then duck and cover

Well things are about to get loud, obnoxious and deadly. Biggest problem first, toss/kick/whatever the (real) grenade away... maybe at the corpse?... and dive for cover somewhere the opposite direction.

After that, we're on a time limit now. The grenade going off may actually distract the cops for you, but 38-3 is going to know what's going on and generally where you are, and you need that information to be out of date ASAP.

I don't suppose you can electromagnetically rip apart the grenade to get at the fuse?

If not, just... drop it in the room and shut the door, then take cover.

Okay.
They have a split second to react here.
Sev could try to grab it and hold down the lever. That might buy them some time. But there's no guarantee that would work.
Sev could grab it and throw it into the hall. Less chance of it killing them. But the entire station would hear it.
They could just run. Abandon stealth and just leg it. Their cover is about to be blown anyway. Quite literally.

>>747899
Quick! Throw it under the corpse! And hack the station offline, I doubt there's much point to subtlety now that a grenade's gone off in the cophouse!

Damn dirty knockoff grenades.

Kick it and head for the garage. 88, cover the front exit.

Aww damn. Bat it away and make it to the nearest empty room you remember from the security feed. The sound here is the dangerous part. Not only will the cops be alerted to your presence, but your opponent will be alerted of your security hack. Time to do this the hard way. Make your way to hr. If he's using this guys face, you'll need a database of all the faces actually employed here to compare to.

>>747909
I vote for this.

>>747899
Also, everyone remember...the lever is OFF. There's no way to stop a fuse after that unless you have ungodly reflexes and can pierce a grenade's shell.

>>763638
>ungodly reflexes
Like some sort of undead ninja super-cyborg?
>pierce a grenade's shell
With, say, a monofilament whip designed to shred targets from the inside? Or various other high precision armor-piercing weapons, going all the way back to the electro-icepick? Probably shouldn't activate the electricity if we use that, but it could work.

Yeah, let's do this.

>>763725
The monofilament whip? You're suggesting we use a hammer when a scalpel is required. Nope. Noooope. N, O.

Now stop necroing a thread about a zombie.

Wire 2017/02/20(Mon)22:57 No. 781669 ID: f6ba27
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73-6 kicks the grenade back into the room and dives.
Whoever the dude in there was, he's about to turn into tomato soup.

THWUMP

Wire 2017/02/20(Mon)22:58 No. 781670 ID: f6ba27
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73-6 tries to will his ears to stop ringing.
"dubs? are you--"

A bullet smacks into his chest. Much too low-caliber to penetrate his trench but if the next one gets him in the head he--

He snaps his arm up to his face and it saves his life. The next shot slaps his forearm and makes him whack himself in the head. Great.

He fires blind with his flechette gun.
But the guy who fired the pistol is already gone.
That was definitely not a cop.

Wire 2017/02/20(Mon)22:58 No. 781671 ID: f6ba27
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"Fuck," 88-1 remarks.
"fuck," 73-6 agrees.
The siren starts up.
So do the footsteps in the hallway, coming this way.


Hijo de puta me cago en la leche Penelope's head is killing her.
The THWUMP that she just heard is not helping.

Wire 2017/02/20(Mon)22:59 No. 781672 ID: f6ba27
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She blinks in confusion at the police station, then watches a cop come stumbling out, gun drawn. He's moving like he's hurt, though there are no visible wounds.
He staggers into a cruiser and slams the door behind him. The engine starts up.
"Uhhhh, boys?" Penelope wires. "Who just left the party?"
"38 fucking 3." 88-1's voice is punctuated by the unmistakable sound of gunfire.
"He's, uh," Penelope is trying to process this. "He's about to fuckin leave."
"pen our hands are full." This is 73-6. "are you fit to drive?"
"Uhhhhhhh."
"that better be yes because you gotta follow that car."
"Can you drive, amigo?"
More gunfire.
"little busy."

Are you going to be in charge of

73-6 as he and 88-1 battle their way out of the precinct?
or
Penelope, chasing down 38-3 in the middle of the worst Oscar the Grouch session of her life?

Penelope.

Can 73-6 and 88-1 get outta there unassisted without causing casualties? Maybe. They're smart fellas.
Can Penelope avoid crashing into a wall without guidance? Ha ha nope. Backseat driver time!

>>781672
38-3 is an elite deathtrooper assassin with magical holodisguises capable of surviving a building falling on him.

Cops receive 12 weeks of training and are paid a moderate sum, and are equipped with handguns and optional light kevlar vests.

I think Penelope's gonna need the help on this one. Pen all the way. 88-1 and 73-6 can beat down, choke out and hack distract cops all the live long day but if Penelope gets zapped by 38-3 she's completely fucked.

Gotta go with Pen.
Sev and Dubs are bad enough dudes to get out of there without turning it into a bloodbath.
Penelope, on the other hand, ain't exactly in top form and can use all the help she can get.

Pen-pen.

73-6 can handle himself.
Penelope needs us!

>>781673
>>781678
>>781679
These.

Sev is a big boy. Pen needs the help.

Sorry boys, you're gonna need to appropriate a new set of wheels. Andale, 104-1!

Wire 2017/02/21(Tue)22:41 No. 782003 ID: f6ba27
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Penelope turns the key in the ignition.

"Keesh," she wires. "Baby..."
The cop car roars into motion.
"Lecture later, bitch!" Keisha yells in her ear. "Floor it!"
Penelope floors it.

The siren is screaming on the car up ahead as it takes a wide turn and nearly slams a sedan into the side of an overpass.

38-3 isn't driving like he knows he has a tail yet but it doesn't exactly matter. He's clearly in a fucking hurry. The cars are giving way for the cruiser; for the panel van they are not. That, combined with the jankiness of this car and her killer fucking headache, is making her lose ground on him anyway.

>>782003
Get our hacker friend to start hacking some streetlights or something, slow him down!

>>782003
Find out, via Keisha, where he's going, then take an alternate faster route (go offroad?) and cut him off. Maybe get some traffic lights hacked via our new friend so that 38-3 gets tied up behind people that are stopped at red lights.

You might also be able to get a hacked police report out saying that someone has stolen a police vehicle.

Kick out the windshield, slam the car into the divider, use the momentum to go flying OUT the windshield and glide your way high up so you can drop on the car from above. NOTHING will go wrong with this plan.

DA: Cause traffic MAYHEM. Initiate Carpocalypse along the cop car's route. Raise dividers, lift bridges, host impromptu traffic light raves. Sometimes, you gotta break a few eggs to make a 38-4 omelette.

Penelope: Worst comes to worst, just don't lose sight of him. We might have to send in the hovercraft now that we've lost all surprise.

Have Pen project her hologram and make it appear as if she lept onto the hood of 38-3's cruiser from above and is now trying to hang on and get inside. His vision will be blocked even if he sees through the deception.

>>782017
This.

We need surveillance on this guy.
DA needs to get some cameras or something on him before he vanishes.
Not that I don't have faith in Penny.

>>782003
Ask our friends back at the ranch if they can lend a hand.
Otherwise, just do your best to keep on him.

Wire 2017/02/22(Wed)23:38 No. 782312 ID: f6ba27
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"Pit crew. Hey." Penelope blinks the cold sweat out of her eyes and tries to focus on the road. "Dartline. I need mayhem, hombre. You gotta get this guy cut off."
"How do you propose I do that?"
"I don't know. You're the fuckin' plans guy."
"I know." DA says. "I just like to be reminded. Get ready for some evasive driving."
Penelope hiccups and tastes something bad. "Some mmmh?"

The traffic light up ahead blinks, then shorts out.
So do the rest of the lights on the street.

The cruiser rams straight into a squat agro-cab at the intersection. Penelope can hear yelling up ahead, then the squeal of tires as 38-3 steps on it and tries to ram his obstacle out of the way. But there's already a growing jam of vehicles ahead of him. The lights come back on and whoop a big glowy fuck-you at the knot of vehicles around him. They're trying to back out of his path, but there's no room.

Penelope swerves to avoid a suddenly stationary semi, its horn bellowing down the block.
She's close enough now to see the silhouette in the cruiser, leaning on the gas.
Hey there, lil' cabron.

Time to get on foot and take him out. Open up on his car from cover to flush him out, then you can chase him down on foot and slice him in two-- you're definitely still faster than he is.

Hrm, I don't know how bulletproof police cars are, though. Would shooting work at all? Maybe you should jump straight onto the roof above him and jam your sword in there to spike his head.

>>782312
Hit him with the car, project a hologram of you leaping out the side window while you leap out the windshield and cut his head off. We only need a partially intact brain to revive him.

Abandon the van, preferably across at least two lanes of traffic. Get out and walk, and when I say "walk," I mean kick in that 40 mph running speed while jumping on top of cars. Bring your sword. Anybody shoots you, deflect the bullets and stab their chest vitals.

Make the jam worse with the van, go invisible, and shinobe dash to him. I doubt the roof of the car is bulletproof. Or swordproof, for that matter.

Block him in, prepare to ninj him. Beware of the inevitable booby traps.

>>782312
I'm not sure if Penny is in a condition to engage, but what choice do we have?
Just be careful, Pen.

Camo only works when standing still, unfortunately.
Take a leap from behind that big van onto the top of his car and SORD the roof. Avoid the rearview mirrors! If he shoots back, you and your hologram split up and run.

>>782361
Penelope also doesn't have invisibility iirc. Isn't that only Sev?

>>782373
Wiki says they both have it, but only states that Sev's turns off when he moves.

Dubs, progress report? Once you're out and on wheels you can take the shot even if Penelope's incapacitated, as long as she's got eyes on.

Wire 2017/02/23(Thu)22:18 No. 782517 ID: f6ba27
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Penelope puts her foot through the windshield.
Two Penelopes leap out onto the hood of the panel van, clicking two swords free from their scabbards.
One Penelope kind of feels like she's gonna puke again.

Choke it down, cabron, we got a job to do!

Wire 2017/02/23(Thu)22:20 No. 782519 ID: f6ba27
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As soon as she leaps, she feels the great big pendulum of fuck you in her head swing sideways. she slips a little on the landing and has to regain her footing.

38-3 is out of the car now, vaulting over the one in front of him. Penelope separates herself as she chases him.

"Can you shoot this motherfucker, Dubs?" Penelope wires.
"Give me--" Blam Blam Blam Blam. "Give me a second."

He yanks the guy he crashed into out of his driver's seat and pins him in front of him as a screaming human shield, firing over his shoulder at one of the Penelopes.
She tries to juke but the bullet fizzles right through her. His eyes swivel the real Pen's way under his dark visor.
"Dubbbbs!"
Bang Bang Bang. "Kind of fucking-- kind of busy!"

COVER! NOW!

>>782519
Quick, do your matrix shit and dodge that bullet!

Deflect the bullet!

38-3 has made a serious error in judgment if he thinks a human shield is going to make us hesitate. On the other hand, he might assume that's the cause of our subpar performance instead of withdrawal.

>>782519
You can deflect a handgun witch your sword even in your current state. It'd be tough if he had an uzi or something.

>>782519
Deflect bullets drunkenly! You have Genji skillz now!

Also I wonder if Penelope ever watched one of those wuxia movies with drunken master style? Would come in real handy right now.

>>782519
Either do some fancy shit or get behind cover. Both options are good.
>>782523
It would be far more impressive and satisfying if we could get him without harming the human shield, though.

>>782519
Okay, use your JONESING abilities to deflect the bullets into the OTHER bullets! Also he seems REALLY accurate if he can hit a dodging hologram so uh, if you can't deflect, take cover. Your girlfriend ain't gonna like it if you turn Moldy.

Wire 2017/02/23(Thu)22:53 No. 782532 ID: f6ba27
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Penelope's sword flashes.

She deflects a bullet.
She snaps the blade down and deflects another.

38-3 plugs his human shield in the gut and flings him at her. He's already sprinting to find cover behind another car in the jam as the man staggers into her arms.

What a fucking dick!!!

>>782532
No don't even bother with the civvie, just keep chasing the target. Someone else can call 911 or whatever.

>>782532
'shot civilian' might be 38-3 if we're not careful. Hit with handle, back of neck, sidestep away, and chase after the runner.

She should get herself and the guy into cover first, then call in the situation. She's in a one-sided shootout with 38, she's got a wounded non-combatant on her hands, her backup is preoccupied, and her head feels like it wants to fall off. She could use some help.

Deflect civilian! Uh, I mean, dodge civilian!

>>782537
It's not one sided, it's a stalemate. He's got a gun, she's got a deflector. She keeps him in sight, 88 can make the killshot. Eventually.

Your Shinobe will deflect bullets and your Striding and Sprinting will allow you to tail him easily. Keep the acrobatics and matrix shit to a minimum. Play this easy on yourself. Even in your current state, he is a prisoner within your element. He cannot escape on foot. Calmly close distance, and execute.