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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kwargrow" data-source="post: 7625664" data-attributes="member: 6855382">Weekly post: 2 xp  Prep Work for the Fight  [sblock=VR Manipulation]  Hawkeye: 23(Obscurative)+86(d100)=109 [/sblock]  Hawkeye slips his headset over his eyes and directs his mind into the VR.  At once the vibrant colors greet him as they always do, and he finds his avatar standing outside of a small rough-cut timber house with a green tile roof, and smoke drifting out of the brick chimney.  A sign over the door of the house reads ‘Timber’s Custom Metal Shop’, naming the business that inhabits Skyscraper 451278 on floors 25 through 60.  Although the house appears made of wood, everything else around it looks crafted of metal, even the ground and square clouds in the shiny blue sky.  Hawkeye goes into the metal shop as a customer, copies his avatar to browse previous works and peruse the reforging process for metal, and moves his real self to the residential area of the skyscraper.  He locates the registered floor layout and sends it to Syd and Trollick.  Apartment 3-19 is down the hall to the left of the lift and has four people in it.  He checks to make sure two of them are Pinkins and Glitterface and verifies their identity, finding that three of the four are in the VR.  Hawkeye deals with the drone last, seeing it as a large metal ladybug sitting on a fencepost.  With their VR security actively monitoring the drone, he cannot shut it off, but he can distract it.  He identifies two people leaving the skyscraper as having suspicious intent and sets the drone to watch them as they walk down the street.  Once that is done Hawkeye pulls off his headset, having been ‘gone’ for less than five minutes and leaves the sedan, telling the other Runners, “We should be able to walk in now without notice.  There’s four in the apartment but three are in VR which means they won’t have the faintest idea what’s happening until it’s too late.”  Everyone can see that two women have left through the main entrance of the skyscraper and the drone is turned to watch them as they walk away.  As good as Hawkeye's word, the Runners plus Obrik calmly stride past the obtuse outside guard and into the skyscraper lobby, a medium sized room decorated with metal sculptures.  Two more guards are inside, but they merely nod and otherwise ignore you.  You take the lift to the third floor and easily find 3-19.  There is no one else in the hall with you, but plenty of other closed doors.  State intentions for eliminating your targets.</blockquote>

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