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Ive looked into the astral scrubbing thing, and basically it goes like this:

Only spells give enough of a significant astral signature to bother with cleaning up. Other things do leave a trace (emotional events etc), but they are the faint background noise to a spells loud car stereo. There's no test involved to clean up, but it takes one complex action per point of horse used, and you would need to clean up after all the spells.

So basically; yes you can do it, no its not difficult, but it does take time. Only a few seconds, but you probably only *have* a few seconds.

Well, I will just leave then. There's no point in trying to clean up if it will get me caught anyways.

N-zo wrote:Riht, I have a cunning plan boys.

I know the room we need, our Lady is in apartment 3a of the complex. Al, if you and the boys work your way in to the contact you got and shmooze a bit, the rest f us can do some work.

Nik, if you get your big drones round to take out the camera's on the other side of the complex, Chopper and I can jump fence and try run for the complex, once in I can try and erase all presence we all have and open more doors than talking can

Frank, you happy to keep us under cover up there?

Al wrote:It's gonna take some pretty sweet talking to get me in there now. They're going to be locked down tight.

Frank wrote:Bit bored but this is one of the comfiest sniper perches I've had fella. I'm not shitting in cling-wrap whilst covered in bugs the size of my fist or eating soy contaminated with nerve agents using my dead spotter as a table so it's all apple pie and custard.

Maybe talk to the guard out front, record his voice so you can send a message up to the house saying everything is okay in his voice, get any alert stopped? Sound good?

Al wrote:Good thinking Frank. I think I can do that, but I reckon it'll be the mage who gives the all clear.

Nikolai to all wrote:Good plan, I like. I will take out cameras at rear to clear your approach.

Al, my fliers have facial recognition, I can take snap of doorman and give you name to work with, perhaps pretend to be friend of his he met when drinking too much vodka? Make story up. I don't know.

Lenin and Stalin go flying out the back of the van with a faint woosh.

I'll give Lenin the order to fly over to where Frank is and keep out of sight while I jump into Stalin and make a super stealthy approach to the front gate, trying to keep as hidden as possible as I take snaps and pass them through the recognition software for names or details.

I will keep watch for the wagemage or any more spirits showing up.

We have to move guys, the click is ticking.

I'd like to assense the guard that is there.

Assense (4) + Intuition (4) = 3, 1, 1, 1, 4, 6, 5, 2: 2 hits. almost a glitch

N-zo wrote:We don't lose anythin by trying, go for the gate and make ure Jon is ready to hightail it away should it all go south

If this don't work, then we have to all do the fence jump.

Frank, we get out of this, what's your poison? Bottle's on me.

I'm a tad confused as to what's going on now. We're building up to distract the guard at the front to get Al and Leland in the front and Chopper and N-zo are jumping the back wall yeah? Jon is ready to receive the girl and put pedal to metal if she's in there. Is Chopper in a fit enough state to do this yet?

Frank wrote:I tell you what you can do for me. Beef up my pan so no-one can just jump in and switch my senses off. That was some fucked up shit.

And try and work out what that message is we need to give to sensei fucking about with us.

After this, I'll take a drink of anything, up to and including de-icer.

Joose - updates on drone and security guy if you please. Plus any signs of extra activity as a result of Leland stomping the spirits.

I was going to hang out with you to take care of any more magical or astral interruptions. I'm not sure what Al was doing.

Right plan is thus -

Al and Jon go in the front to Al's new contact, once in, they make thier way if they can, to our girl.

Frank is on overwatch

Nik takes out the cameras at the back of the compound

N-zo, Chopper and now Leland will jump the fence at the SIDE whilst the camera distraction is off and try get in to open the doors to the girl we want.

why am I jumping the fence? I mean if I'm absolutely needed to go with them yeah, but I can't keep an eye out for spirits and whatnot when I am inside the buildings.

Jon floppifies his sword and resheathes it.

The Shutting Downs wrote:Right plan is thus -

Al and Jon go in the front to Al's new contact, once in, they make their way if they can, to our girl.

Frank and Leland are on overwatch

Nik takes out the cameras at the back of the compound

N-zo and Chopper will jump the fence at the SIDE whilst the camera distraction is off and try get in to open the doors to the girl we want.

Fix'd for Deej.

Al wrote:Umm, I don't know where the idea came from that I had a contact in here, but I don't. I was trying to get one but the courier never showed up so I didn't get a connection. I might still be able to blag my way in, and I can probably get a conversation out of the guard, but like I said they're going to be on their guard now so the chances of me bullshitting my way in are dramatically reduced.

Leland wrote:Fuck it, go in as stealthily as possible and if we need to, we can rock and roll. The longer we sit here and talk the more time we give security a chance to shore up. We disable the cameras, and you guys go in. If you need my help just let me know and I'll do what I can.

deject wrote:I'd like to assense the guard that is there.

Assense (4) + Intuition (4) = 3, 1, 1, 1, 4, 6, 5, 2: 2 hits. almost a glitch

Yeah, you don't get an awful lot off him with that. The only thing of note is that he doesn't seem panicked or anything, just a little more alert than before.

Whilst you are doing that, you do notice someone is astrally projecting around the area the fight was, presumably its the wagemage. They hang around for a few seconds, do a sweep around the parking lot, and then scarper off again. a few seconds after that, a spirit turns up and starts doing loops around the parking lot. Its clearly not the same spirit, but its pretty close: looks like its the same class, maybe slightly less meaty than the previous one.

The drone has come round on its sweep slightly earlier than expected. It hung around in the parking lot for a short while, then carried on.

I'll give Lenin the order to fly over to where Frank is and keep out of sight while I jump into Stalin and make a super stealthy approach to the front gate, trying to keep as hidden as possible as I take snaps and pass them through the recognition software for names or details.

As you line up for a photo-shoot, the guard starts talking in his comlink. He hasn't noticed the drone.

Guard wrote:No activity here. Yes sir. Yes sir. A delivery for 3a, and 1b returning home. There was a go-gang hanging around the corner around 18 hundred, the leader is a known mage. No sir. Understood.

Jon wrote:If Al and I are going in, should I see if I can distract him or anything so we can knock him out? Maybe pretend i've broken down or something? With a bit of luck he might recognise me which could help keep him occupied

Well 3a is where we need to go.

I think we might still be able to try bluffing our way in, but if that doesn't work and we have to use horse, we have to go all in this time. Another prod like that will be enough to put them on high alert I think.

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