SPYCRAFT: Blood Money (Road to Binga)

GEAR:

In the other jeep, GhostFox is decked out in her camouflage fatigues and standard liner.

"I suggest doing a quick drive around the neighborhood of the barracks and get a lay of the land. I hope we can spot a few good areas where we can observe barracks and the comings and goings without being observed ourselves. If we're lucky, we might get to spot Balladur on our little safari tour."

((OOC: Depending on the surrounding environment, we should drive closer or further away. The bottom line is we will drive as close to the barracks but make sure we stay far enough so as not to encounter any armed patrols. But for now, a quick survey will do making note of good spots to hide and conduct surveillance.

Here is the gear that GhostFox will be bringing:
camo fatigues, standard liner, All-weather lighter, Cell-phone
9x19mm service pistol with machinie pistol gadget mod, lasersight and silencer
+ silencer
+100 bullets
2 tactical radios, Holster, Lockpicking kit ,Night Vision Goggles, Knife, Binoculars
Gas Mask, Ghillie Suit, Echo tracer package

If no one else has taken them yet, an audio, video and memory bug.
Hopefully, Mr Roman will be coming along so he can bring his photo equipment.

There rest of her gear is packed away in the trunk of the jeep.
Climbing kit
Electronics Kit
Snoop Spray
1 set plainclothes
10 chemical lightsticks
5-day supply of field rations
digging/entrenching tool
GPS receiver (hand-held)
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More Suggestions

"There might be some plans of the barracks at the city hall archives. But I wonder if we're tripping alarm bells by asking for them in broad daylight... should we arrange a late night visit?

Oh, and if the barracks is in Binga, perhaps we can bribe some of the locals and setup surveillance positions in a building or two."

[ OOC: I was going to take the Audio bug and memory. See if I can get it in Dr. Gournay's "office" ]

-Luddite

[ooc: Isn't there more than one of each type? I'm sure you can take two of each and leave one for the other group.]

[OOC: Ghost, you can drive by the barracks just as you would drive by a mall or a grocery store. It's in Binga. There are appartment blocks (triplex) in the area of the barrack, there is a poorly stocked general store in front and an elementary school on the other side.]

((OOC: Thanks for the Map, Control. I'm glad that my paranoia and caution were unwarranted... sheesh ... GhostFox suddenly feels a bit overdressed for the occassion. Ghillie and Camo outfit indeed! Totally missed the marks during the gearing up phase this time round...))

Codename: GhostFox said:

If no one else has taken them yet, an audio, video and memory bug. Hopefully, Mr Roman will be coming along so he can bring his photo equipment.

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-You must have read my mind, I'd be happy to join you.-

Roman rummages through his gear picking select items out of it.

Gear taken:
Cell phone
Average Clothes (Worn)
Professional grade digital camera + 2 professional grade memory chips
Lock Picks
Multi-purpos tool/pocket knife
IR Lens for Camera
Super-Telephoto Lense
Glock 17 (9mm Pistol) + 2 15 round magazines.

-Ok. I'm ready to go.-

Game Control said:

[OOC: Ghost, you can drive by the barracks just as you would drive by a mall or a grocery store. It's in Binga. There are appartment blocks (triplex) in the area of the barrack, there is a poorly stocked general store in front and an elementary school on the other side.]

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Roman snaps some discreat pictures of the outside of the barracks by holding the camera in his lap and aiming it by using the adjustable LCD screen on the camera.

He glances at Ghostfox and grins, -I love these things. Don't even have to hold them up to your face anymore!-

After a couple of passes, he looks at the apartment buildings across the road from the barracks.

-Could you drop me off around the corner? I'd like to get up high and see what I can take a picture of. I'll give you a call if I need extraction. That's soldier speak for a ride home - Smiles widely.

Once they pass around the corner, Roman leaps from the vehicle and heads down the alley behind the apartment buildings. Keeping his eyes and ears open for trouble (Spot 4, Listen 5, Surveillance 6), he draws up to the apartment building next to the general store. He looks around to make sure he isn't being watched, then examines the back entrance to the building.

[OOC: Sorry it took me so long to get involved in the new threads. I had to take a final. However, on the good side, I think I made a high A on it. Anyway...

Game Control: What Roman is trying to do is make his way into the building, sneak to the top of the building, hide up there as best as possible, attach the Supertelephoto lens and snap as many beautiful and helpful pictures as possible of the barracks, comings and goings, soldiers, traffic, etc.

Possible useful skills: Hide 7 (19-20), Listen 5, Move Silently 7 (19-20), Spot 4, Surveillance 6, and, maybe Climb 3.

Possible useful feats: Traceless (Stealthy is already in use with the Hide and Move Silently skills.) ]

GhostFox lends Alexander a tactical radio.

It's early afternoon in Zimbabwe. This means of course that the courtyard of the triplexes are filled with bored women yakking away with whomever will listen while using their clothesline or some other chores, toddlers playing with last decade's toys and unemployed men drinking whatever cheap alcoholic beverage is available around those parts. Each of these apartment blocks is clearly overcrowded. And these aren't even for Binga's downtrodden.

[OOC: I doubt that's what you were expecting, but that's what you see. It's hardly possible to climb discreetly on the roof with literraly hundreds of bystander. In my experience, these kind of triplex in poor areas are always busy. In Binga it gotta be much worse.

Doesn't mean it's impossible, but Hide and Move silently are not the way to go. Just too damn many people everywhere.

Concerning your pictures of the barrack; three stories high, 120 feet wide, red bricks, old, large windows with rusted metal grating fixed over them and three soldier smoking and chatting in the entrance. That pretty much describes what you see from ground level.


Ghost, Kareem and Ronin; what do you do?

BTW it's not too late to say you are at MSF with Kim and Luddite]