Gaming w/Jemal: Mutant Apocalypse Issue 1

[Jemal]

Grid manages to tap himself into the cameras and radios. The cameras don't show the girl anywhere, but that's to be expected if she's inside, they are aimed at all the possible exits.
He spends a few minutes listening to the radios trying to figure out what they're talking about, though the chatter is minimal. From what he can tell, there are at least a dozen agents watching the place, 6 to 8 from around the area, and about 4 inside the van. He is unable to find any inside the hotel.

William looks to Uomo "I can show them around some stores and Translate for them if you will keep our hacking friend some company." He turns to Frost and Cass "Shall we?"

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Sorry Jkason, forgot about that aspect of Comprehend. Tech check'll do fine, but you'll have to roll that one (DC 30).
Also, unless you speak Portuguese, you'll have to try relaying some of what you hear so it can be translated. If you have Eidetic memory that'll be easy, otherwise I'll need an Intelligence check to see how much you can get translated.

ALL - OK, William will go with the shoppers to translate, and since he knows the city better. I presume Uomo is staying to help Grid, so each group can speak the language, so Group A(Recon) = Grid/Uomo. Group B: Supplies = William, Cassandra, Frost.
What kind of supplies/Costumes are you looking for? (Resources won't be much of a problem unless you want something expensive)
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[Voda Vosa]

Uomo nods. "That would be most helpful misterr William." notes the fake russian.
After the others have left, Uomo drops the russian facade. He places a hand on Grid's shoulder, and gets down to his stature. Uomo is a large man. "Alright mio amici Grid, lets see what we can find out..." he says, and Grids is again transported to the Good Fellas movie.

[sblock= Hacking...]
Uomo has the next advantages and skills that might prove useful for hacking and gaining access to the security system, hacking and foiling the agents.
Benefit: Ambidexterity
Benefit: Cipher
Benefit: Security clearance
Connected
Contacts
Well informed
Ediatic memory
Jack of all trades

9 Perception
8 Intimidation
6 Investigation
11 Deception
6 Insight
9 Persuacion
8 Technology[/sblock]

 

[Walking Dad]

Frost

Frost feels somewhat ironic today and will look for a mafia/goodfella costume for Uomo, a snowman for himself and a Neo/Matrix for Grid. But he will look for functionality over style. Everybody shall still be able to move without to much restrictions.

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Frost

HP 1

conditions: normal

defenses:
DODGE 7 (1)
PARRY 7 (1)
FORTITUDE 9 (7)
TOUGHNESS 12 (10 Impervious)
WILL 8 (6)

Immunity (poison, disease, crit, suffocation, cold)

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[jkason]

OOC: Grid does, indeed, have Eiditic Memory, so he'll do the passing along for translation. And since he has to pass the info along for translation, I'll just assume the others know what he knows rather than re-stating.

Having done a first pass to get a feel of the lay of the land, Terry reaches out a second time, doing his best impression of computer-charm to see if he can get the military computers to make nice, unfortunately, the system stonewalls him.

"Damn. Okay, so we're not getting easy access that way," Terry says. "Looks like the military system doesn't feel like playing nice just because I ask. We may need to hack this the old-fashioned way. Though, if the others are out shopping, anyway, might have a better time just picking up components and trying for a reasonable jammer, since if the comm-chatter is any indication, they don't have direct eyes on our girl, anyway."

 

[Voda Vosa]

"Well I do know some old security clearance protocols. They might be a little rusty, but let's face it, they don't invent anything new these days..." Uomo says, giving Grid his security clearance protocols.

 

[Shayuri]

For herself, Cassandra just picks a long overcoat that conceals the specifics of her clothes and figure, a ski mask with eye holes but no mouth or nose, and a pair of light-tinted sunglasses that shouldn't mess with her sight, but still make it hard to see details of her eyes.

"You know," she murmurs, "You'd think after all this time, a costume would have occurred to me. I guess I just don't think of myself as a 'super hero' you know? Or even a crime fighter, really. I guess I'd better start waking up."

 

[Walking Dad]

Frost

It seems Cassandra spoke just loud enough for Frost to hear her.
"I always felt more like a persecuted minority... Now I'm trying to extract a 'sister'. Not sure if this will be a kidnap or a rescue. But I don't feel heroic about it."

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all costumes should be disguising, of course, complete with a Scarface and Neo mask.

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Frost

HP 1

conditions: normal

defenses:
DODGE 7 (1)
PARRY 7 (1)
FORTITUDE 9 (7)
TOUGHNESS 12 (10 Impervious)
WILL 8 (6)

Immunity (poison, disease, crit, suffocation, cold)

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[Jemal]

Uomo and Grid work on the comms, but unfortunately, Uomo does not have up-to-date Brazilian secret service codes. They do listen in and confirm that the watchers have not seen the girl in over a day, though she is still in her room. They seem to have been instructed only to observe and report, and tail her if/when she leaves the building.

The others return with their purchases and William looks around "So disguises check. Is there any more to the plan yet?"

 

[jkason]

Terry Quinlan, The Grid

Terry chuffs out a large puff of air and leans back in his chair.

"No dice on hacking their surveillance and disabling it, I'm afraid. Shot down going both the normal and the mutant-powered route.

"We can confirm they don't have eyes on our girl, though. Which means there's no surveillance inside her room, at least. The 'ride the power lines to the room next door' plan might still work for getting a message in to her, though I don't have a ready way to get her out. Or, if I'm being honest, to do much to convince her I'm not just another part of her nightmare; I'm a lot better at talking computers into liking me than people.

"I can try building something to mask us from the surveillance tech, but it'll take me at least a day. And that only covers us from the machines. We'll still need to avoid drawing the attention of the organics."

[sblock=ooc]Okay, looked up the Inventing Advantage. Improvised Tools makes things less complicated, since as long as Terry has something to work with, I don't need to worry about if they're 'the right' tools. It's still a bit of figuring, so my process below for sanity checking:

Inventing requires both a Design and a Construction Check. Both have a DC of 10 + the PP of the invention. Designing takes an hour per PP; Constructing takes 4 times that. Each of those can be reduced by one time rank per -5 the inventor is willing to take on the relevant check. Time ranks include the full range of time from the upper limit of the previous rank to the upper limit of the new one. Okay, so:

Concealment (visual and audio)

2 ranks all visual, 1 rank normal hearing = 3 ranks

Base cost / rank = 2

Advantage: Affects others +1/rank (so we can all be masked)

Advantage: Range +1/rank (so we don't have to conspicuously all be touching the Gizmo)

Flaw: Limited (technological sensors only) -1/rank (we can still be observed by agents in a position to eyeball us)

Flaw: Blending -1/rank (since we don't want to draw attention to ourselves, I don't figure slowing down a bit hurts us)

+1+1-1-1 = 0 net change to base cost

Total cost: 2/rank x 3 ranks = 6

Check target: 16

Terry's Tech bonus = +17. Routine check = 27

6 hours design (rank 12). Reduce to 1.5 hours (rank 10) for -10 to check (still succeeds by 1)

24 hours construct (rank 14) Reduce to 9 hours (rank 12) for -10 to check (succeeds by 1).[/sblock]

 

[Voda Vosa]

"Hm... Have you considerred that, being able to trransporrt yourrself into that rroom, you could crreate somewhat of a porrtal to it? Of courrse, such a task will demand it's toll on you, but I can go with you, talk to the girl. I have higher social skills. With people that is, ha!" Uomo says. "It would be faster."
The "russian" gets distracted by the outfit the others got for him. "How verry amusing. What am I supposed to be? Al Capone? Hahaha!" the man laughs a hearty laugh. "Though I knew him well..." he thinks to himself, as he starts donning the costume. When he's done, he does looks like freaking gangster. Real weapons and all. He takes his time to load and ready his big pistol. With a "Clink" the weapon is loaded and ready, and he returns it to his holster under his left arm. "Betterr be rready than sorry my matrroska used to say."

OOC: Uomo is suggesting that you stunt your Teleport power to make it a portal teleport, so several of us can o in and out. You'll be fatigued, or you could HP it.