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<blockquote data-quote="Andor" data-source="post: 3149456" data-attributes="member: 1879">Well Ishimura is obviously a fake name if you couldn't find anything on it with your resources. So far you have 2 contacts with him. 1. the Mole at Lawson and 2. The Lawyer.And 3. He was in the pool of people who knew about the armour. Since the suit sounds like a black project that's a fairly small pool of people. So You can start searching a fairly small pool of people, and see where they intersect the Lawyer. Can you charm the lawyer and pump him for information? Now there is the question of motivation. If this is some enemy of yours (Or friend (you thought)) then the armour is just a red herring. If the armour is the actual point of this exercise then he has to be somebody who can actually benefit from having the armour. That means someone with the resources to analyze and replicate the suit, since a single suit is a nifty toy but not worth the risk of incurring the wrath of your group and your impressive list of friends. It's probably not someone with a grudge against Lawson, because stealing the prototype is meaningless in the long term. They still have the plans, scientists, and prototyping hardware so Lawson can just make more, his worst case scenario is that he has to push back a demonstration date, with a rather clear cut excuse of industrial espionage.All of this of course assumes the GM has thought things through this far. (I once had a GM look surprised and say &quot;Huh. I never thought to give him a motivation.&quot;)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Andor, post: 3149456, member: 1879"] Well Ishimura is obviously a fake name if you couldn't find anything on it with your resources. So far you have 2 contacts with him. 1. the Mole at Lawson and 2. The Lawyer. And 3. He was in the pool of people who knew about the armour. Since the suit sounds like a black project that's a fairly small pool of people. So You can start searching a fairly small pool of people, and see where they intersect the Lawyer. Can you charm the lawyer and pump him for information? Now there is the question of motivation. If this is some enemy of yours (Or friend (you thought)) then the armour is just a red herring. If the armour is the actual point of this exercise then he has to be somebody who can actually benefit from having the armour. That means someone with the resources to analyze and replicate the suit, since a single suit is a nifty toy but not worth the risk of incurring the wrath of your group and your impressive list of friends. It's probably not someone with a grudge against Lawson, because stealing the prototype is meaningless in the long term. They still have the plans, scientists, and prototyping hardware so Lawson can just make more, his worst case scenario is that he has to push back a demonstration date, with a rather clear cut excuse of industrial espionage. All of this of course assumes the GM has thought things through this far. (I once had a GM look surprised and say "Huh. I never thought to give him a motivation.") [/QUOTE]

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