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(Quest/Setting) AT-SARA Heist: Meet Me IRL - Plans Crystalize
| >Yss clears her throat.
"If we want to use these suits, we'll need our own crystals. They have to be custom grown to fit the wearer from med data. There's an Impolex Lab in the south part of the Shadow District manufacturing the things. Suppose a few "technicians" go overtime and grow extras. That's you guys. We'll need some inside help."
| >Image of a slender brunette in a labcoat and goggles. Contact info.
"Dr. Ankara is one of Medusa's assistants. She can fill you in on how to use the equipment. I hope."
| >>305930 >>305931
"hmm since wendy and lilly are spearheading the hospital how about i deal with this?"
>Cyrus pipes up
>>305929
(you know we could have just continued on the other thing.)
| "She's not a cat burglar or a fraggin shadowrunner, and we might not even need her depending on how this goes down. I just thought, well, if one of us trained to use the growers we'd have a little room to work. Scaring a tech into it was the only other thing I could think of... so yeah."
| >>305944
(Easier for me to focus the discussion this way and track it later. Hope you don't mind.)
"I thought you were going to be the getaway man on that little caper, but sure. What can you do for us?Help case the joint? I don't have images from inside the lab."
| >>305949
"no better.
I have a...friend...if my tech is particle manipulation, his is mind control.
Plain and simple he goes in and hijacks the damn place."
>he shudders at the thought of this "friend"
| >>305952
"Whoa! Whoa! That's not a plan it's a war crime! I meant like... ummm... okayyy... you want to be the guy to use the machines? Or...
Blink behind fences and unlock them for us? Tackle p-sec and blink them into the flooded district? I dunno, let's not give me panic attacks... kay?"
| >>305956
"The needs are we don't get caught, we don't get hurt or killed, and... and we don't do anything too godlike because it would give my dad's company ideas. Teleporting a little, not godlike. You can deny that kind of thing ever happens. Relying on your item of power for everything, like jumping straight to the take, way godlike!"
"There's a lot of ways to get those crystals just by being resourceful, if I have a minute to explain what we're dealing with."
| >>305964 >>305956
"We also have to be careful and not leave a trace. If they raise an alarm, they might lockdown other facilities. That would make life a lot harder" -Petra
| >An bird's eye view of the target block appears. The neighborhood is full of fences and barbed wire. It's hard to tell a parking lot from a military compound from a prison. Litter covers every corner, and every empty lot is filled with rubble.
"Still, I'd feel safer here than locked up in a fraggin burbclave. Look at all the free security. Hard to tell which building is the lab."
| >>305973
"hmm is the building linked into any network?
I could get a hacker friend to take a look."
| >>305973
>A patch of gray-brown tiles fills the screens. It resolves into a single lot with a main gate, and a rear entrance for deliveries. The dull rectangular lab stands next to a complex mess of spheres, cylinders, hoses, and 'no smoking' signs."
"Sooo, turns out you need a lot of liquid boom boom to grow these things."
| >>305978
"There's always a security host. And lookie here..."
>The image zooms on a pair of silvery streaks.
"Cyberdogs. At least as smart as people. Bet they're on the host, too. A good hacker might know how to keep thrm busy."
| >>305980
>immediately the screen goes dark
>it was hacked
>the image is replaced by an image of a small wall breach
>it begins to convey a message
"i can do that e-a-s-y!
Heck i can even take full control"
>>305978
"you called cyrus?"
| >>>305984
"My host is swiss cheese so I dunno. But it's unregistered so how did you find it? Classy. Now please give me back my admin access."
| >>305987
"done"
>the screen reverts back to its original settings
>although there is a tiny panel of the picture representing the hackers logo
| "Thanks."
>YSS smiles, and unplugs the biogenerator. The screens and the AR display flicker off. Beethoven's 3rd, and the whirring of the old host, cut off. The room is silent and blue under the glow of the sunlit tarp.
>She drains a can of Stim! Cola, crushes it beneath her foot, and hyperventilates into a bag of silver vine.
"Cyrus, tell your friend this was a power outage. We'll meet at the site, but not until we've decided what to fraggin do. You see..."
| >>306046
"Someone like my ex could have sleazed onto that signal and impersonated your friend. That's why we meet in person. Now, please, I'mma reset the host. NO MORE DISTRACTIONS!"
>The presentation flickers back on, without the com window in the corner.
"Where were we..."
| "So yeah, we'll need more hackers in case we have to deal with the dogs. They're like security hackers who can bite your legs off."
"But what else can we do? I got it. Brainstorm. I'll put up a board; start with some of mine, let's hear yours"
>IDEAS
>-Steal uniforms, pretend we're lab techs
>-Get hazmat suits, fake spill, evac everyone
>-Blow a hole in wall, be like "chemical explosion! Everyone out!" and play cleanup crew
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"Sky's the limit, chummers."
| >>306177 -Petra
"I can fab some firefighter bots for better control and to make it seem more real."
| >>306185
>Yss bounces and pretends to wag her tail.
"Kin you make firetwuck? Kin I fly it? Kin I honk the horn? Kin I pet the dooooggie?"
>She calms down a bit.
"But seriously we could pull it off, if we could raise the alarm without GCFD finding out. We stand outside while a team searches the interior. Aaand I just realized we're missing a big part of the puzzle..."
| >>306193
>She flips open a disposable smartlink and contacts "DDdd."
"Heyyy, it's you-know-who... yeah real wiz. How long do I need to bake the dog collar? ... How many penguins in the studio? ... Nono penguins. Ohhh... Sorry I didn't ask sooner."
"Ankara says it's three hours to make a crystal from biometrics. But there are scanners in the lab that can speed up the process to a half-hour. Six fabricators, six chairs."
| >>306204 -Petra
"Ah, alright then. So we gotta actually sit in the chairs while the crystals are being made?"
| >>306204
"Also she says an operator with small hands can speed it up even more... we need another loli."
| >>306208
"i can just use a drone or light clone"
>cyrus says
>you do not know what a light clone is yet though
| >>306207
"Which means there's gonna be a line of strangers headed to a possibly restricted area... fire or hazmat, we'd really need to sell it."
| >>306216 -Petra
"Alrighty, just point me towards a junktown or scrapyard that won't be missed and tell me how many bots we may need. They are roughly human sized. Pretty durable and look like firefighters. Plus they have the equipment for it. I can also make a few police bots if ya want."
| >>306218
"Take your pick from the neighborhood around the site. Every empty lot looks like a landfill."
| >>306223 -Petra
"Alright, thanks. But still, how many bots do ya want? And do you want and polic bots?"
(Also, I am gonna be gone for about a day irl, so this would be a good time for me to exit for a bit while you gather everybody)
| "wait it just hit me.
Why are we doing a forceful incursion?
Like whats stoping us from doing this covertly?"
| >>306230 -Petra
"Since we have to sit in the chairs to grow the crystals, it would be pretty difficult to do that steathily."
| >>306233 -Petra
"A lot could go wrong in the aftermath of that, and using a fire would allow us to destroy the machines afterward and pretend they were damaged in the fire."
| (Hi, Jhensen/AM here. I guess I'm pulling my charechter, I'm just not able to do this.)
>Jhensen leaves a loaded cred stick for the celling, and quietly heads out.
| >>306403
(You sure? This isn't the only op! We still need him at the Dome facility. And anywhere wherever things don't go as planned and we need to shoot someone. Hate to spell it out but plans rarely survive contact with the enemy.
This is a big heist and you don't need to be present for ALL of it. You just need to turn up where you want. We can just assume we smuggle you into one of the chairs once we have access.)
| >>306235
"Hang on, I'm open to any suggestions that don't involve starting fires near explosive chemicals. At least not until we're out of there."
| >>306830
"i still think the diplomacy route is a good idea.
We get them to *let* us have some Crystals and *then* we dispose of the evidence"
>cyrus pipes in
| are we still doing this OP?
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| (A continuation of the earlier discussion, here:
https://boards.dangeru.us/cyb/thread/303611
A certain lab grows disruptor lattice crystals for the AT-SARA suits. A lattice crystal only activates for the user it's bonded to, so we're going to use the lab to make ones that bond to us. Here, we formulate our plans.
The heist is still open, if anyone wants in. Nbd if you want to step in right here.)