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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mosier" data-source="post: 6553329" data-attributes="member: 6776381">Heartbreak engages hot-sim mode on his cyberdeck, and immediately a rush of excitement washes over him. The landscape of the Matrix opens wide before and above him, and he notes with satisfaction that there is even more form and substance in the Matrix than the last time he hot-simmed. In the real world he was crushed, his life ruined because he just wasn't quite good enough. But here, he's a titan of raw, unstoppable power. Power feels good. With an act of will, Heartbreak's icon changes, and he becomes an old-fashioned baseball player, with tall socks and cleats and a cap, and a bat resting on his shoulder. Against a stronger host, he would have to find a vulnerable point in the real world to gain unauthorized access to their network, or smash through a firewall, but here Heartbreak is able to stroll lazily onto the Crash Test Industries network, which looks like a series of interconnected sports game fields, carefully designed to look old-timey with 16-bit graphics and fun blocky sprites. After today, CTI will certainly spend the money for real network security. Heartbreak can't help but smile with satisfaction of the knowledge that his cyber-attack will be analyzed over the coming days by a group of panicked guys in suits, wondering just what in the hell could have gone so terribly wrong!Heartbreak obtained 6 successes with his roll, however due to his comlink attributes, his Sleaze limit is 3 and therefore three successes are discounted. The CTI network obtained 1 success with its opposed roll. Heartbreak successfully marked the CTI host using "hack on the fly" complex action. Heartbreak also confirms what he had suspected all along. The emergency exit doors are alarmed. Not obvious alarms that blare loudly and alert crowds, but rather they're designed to send a silent signal to the CTI Security team, alerting them when the doors are opened from inside the underground garage or the building. Each of the doors has a camera watching from the other side, so CTI will be able to see the intruders the instant they open a door. The hacker attempts to put marks on the garage emergency door, to disable the alarm. The effort again goes swimmingly, and Heartbreak is able to command the alarm on this door to shut down. However, as soon as any of the CTI agents (including IC programs) notice the alarm is down, they will immediately be able to bring it back online. Heartbreak again obtained 6 successes with his hack on the fly roll to obtain a marks on the garage door alarm. Again, his limit reduces this to 3 successes. This time, the device gets zero successes, and Heartbreak easily obtains his mark, allowing him to spoof the command. The door is not locked, so no spoof was required to open it. For his final trick, Heartbreak also spoofs a command on the security camera watching the door from the other side. This is as easy as his last two hacks, and the camera silently obeys the spoof command and shuts down. Heartbreak cannot know how long the downed camera will go unnoticed by CTI, however. Heartbreak gets a sudden ominous feeling. He realizes that he has neglected to switch his icon to silent mode. At the exact moment of this realization, he spots a patrol IC zipping from icon to icon in the host, examining them at random. The patrol IC looks like a referee with a whistle. If it spots Heartbreak, the IC will almost certainly recognize him as not having authorized access to this host. Heartbreak has a quick decision to make...will he switch to silent mode and hope to be overlooked by the IC? If he does so, his Matrix dice pools will be reduced by 2, but the host will have a much harder time finding him. Or, he can decide not to run silent, and just count on brute power to smash through the host's defenses while using his full dice pools. The back doors and cameras on the main floor (where Skinny and Casper are) have not been tampered with yet. If Skinny and Casper go through these doors, they'll be spotted by CTI security instantly. Heartbreak can see the AR icons and interact with his entire squad, and can easily communicate with all of them.</blockquote>

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