Legwork
@Venom
Citation Needed
09:56, Today: Mr. Johnson, on behalf of Venom, rolled 13 using 2d6+1 ((6,6)).
Boxcars! something good happens…
Hit the Books take 1 Prep
Mr. Johnson:
>>>>>Well, well, well. Look what’s recently floated to the surface. Not sure who dug this little gem up, but those tech specs at the end are going to make travelling in the shattered hosts of SAC LTG a lot easier. Have fun and play safe shadow kiddies!<<<<<
-posted by GhostXero
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@Venom - anyone in the crew may take +1 forward to Sling Code or Rock and Roll against any construct containing Lights Out payload code while travelling in SAC LTG
@Splinter
1 0:01, Today: Mr. Johnson, on behalf of Splinter, rolled 9 using 2d6+2 ((2,5)).
Weak success
One thing is for sure, Rourke leads a mind numbingly boring life. The guy is the stuffiest of stuffed shirts. He literally lives at the office in a luxury apartment housed in the Mercury Transport facility in SF. He leaves his suite early, puts in long working hours, gets home late and pretty much falls into bed.
He is involved in an online romance, but even that is pure vanilla. Nothing steamy or scandalous. It takes a day or so of snooping, but due to the lax security in his personal communications you are able to glean a couple of passcodes. More importantly, you notice that the codes haven’t been updated for years. Mr Rourke’s personal security hygiene seems a bit wanting. Maybe these codes are still in use elsewhere…
@Splinter - When you try to crack any password used by Rourke you are boosted.
>> FF two days later…
In the host in the edge of the SAC LTG wasteland, you find a blue crystal skull, it’s eyes flashing with toxic yellow fire,
”Mercury Transport run went south.” comes Kali’s voice from the chattering toothless grin of the skull.
”The Mercury host itself isn’t a tough hack, I just got ahead of myself and triggered a trace from a link to the Ares main host. There is a hidden datastore in the Mercury system but I couldn’t get to it before the Trace. I’m bouncing my signal all over the place now to confuse this tracker, should be clear in time to hit the SAC LTG if you want to take a run at Mercury. Or if you go into SAC, I’ll meet up with you at Ares’ fragged old host. Let me know which way you go and I’ll follow as soon as I shake this Trace”
There is a datafile that includes a partial map of the Mercury Transport matrix host. It’s an orange-level host with mostly white IC. Deep in the system, there is a red-level SPU that connects to a hidden datastore. That must be where Kali tripped up.
Curious about what’s hidden in Mercury Transport or are you itching to get into the electron wasteland of SAC LTG?
This message was last edited by the GM at 05:34, Fri 11 Feb 2022.