<<<<<< MATRIX >>>>>> The room fades from view with a flash a light, and you find yourself inside another room, filled with wall displays of bio-readings, brainwaves, chemical levels and images of the girl you left strapped into a chair of some kind. * Moonlight takes a few to oritate myself and familise with the system * Macavity reaches out and touches the display screen showing a picture of Chria Chance strapped into the chair. The screen flickers, then turns liquid, rippling out from his fingers. * Macavity slips through the floor length screen. Again the light flashes, and you find yourself standing behind a window looking at an unconcious Chria Chance, locked into a dentists's chair with electrodes taped to her skull. Looking around, you see that she is in a long hallway filled with identical setups, two rows of consoles, chairs and individuals, 20 to a row. Men in white labcoats walk from one 'patient' to another, checking vital signs, peering into eyes and mouths with dental picks and mirrors. * Moonlight tries to locate the control center, prolly a office image, of this section. * Macavity touches the glass for a moment, but nothing happens. He pounds on the window, even pulls out a pistol and fires at point blank range, but it doesn't break. A single doorway behind you leads into a corridor down which people in suits stroll by ignoring you. * Macavity turns to Moonlight's Icon "Down the corridor then?" "I would say so." "Right or left?" * Macavity asks as he peers out into the hallway * Moonlight checks the corridor for any hints on what direction to take. The corridor is featureless and identical in both directions * Moonlight shrugs, "Left then." "Activating Masking mode." * Moonlight turns to the left, heading down the corridor. At times, you pass doors on your left, open to reveal offices full of wage-slaves at terminals. This looks like some kind of corporate host. You're hoping that since there seem to be a lot of users the security rating is relatively low. At the end of the corridor is a door that appears to be locked. * Moonlight checks that door carefully. The door refuses to open to your touch, but you notice a red exit sign above the door "hmm, wrong direction i wpuld say." * Macavity pulls out a set of lockpicks and deftly unlocks it, turning back to you before he opens it. "Go back then?" * Moonlight nods "What makes you think it's the wrong direction?" "Well, exit i think could be a gateway to the matrix, not to the office." "Ok, back in the other direction then.." Again, you pass back past the offices of wage-slaves at terminals. At the opposite end is another locked door with an Exit sign over it, and a blank door in the wall beside it that also appears to be locked. * Moonlight points to the blank door. "This one i would say." * Macavity pulls out a set of lockpicks and deftly unlocks it. 16d6 7 Macavity rolls 16d6: 1·2·2·2·2·3·4·4·5·5·5·5·5·5·9·10 - T#=7 , 2 successes. "after you." * Moonlight checks for ice, if clear then entering ((roll computer skill, open test)) 5d6 0 Moonlight rolls 5d6: 1·2·3·3·5 - T#=1 , 5 successes. ((no ICE)) * Moonlight enters, carefully 12d6 0 Macavity rolls 12d6: 1·2·2·3·3·3·4·4·5·5·7·9 - T#=1 , 12 successes. * Macavity follows Moonlight and warns her not to touch some control panels on the wall.. "Careful, scramble & burn ICE on those.." * Moonlight nods and looks around. This short hallway opens out to a small room with four doorways in it. Each of the doors has a symbol on it, one looks like a triangle with lines through it. another looks like a nuYen sign inside a box * Moonlight studies them, pondering the third looks like an eye divided by a central line. and the fourth has a set of interlocking circles ((roll computer + any hacking pool)) [[In the meatworld, Natch begins systematically snagging the most expensive and easiest to transport bits of equipment and drugs... ((dunno hacking pool, since i have no clue about the deck)) ((hacking pool= Int + 8)) 10d6 0 Moonlight rolls 10d6: 1·1·2·2·2·3·4·5·5·11 - T#=1 , 10 successes. 16d6 0 GM- rolls 16d6: 1·2·2·3·4·4·4·4·4·5·5·5·5·7·8·10 - T#=1 , 16 successes. "hmm...I think we should try the circles..." "They appear to control slave systems for this host." 10d6 6 Moonlight rolls 10d6: 1·1·1·3·3·4·4·5·9·13 - T#=6 , 2 successes. 16d6 8 Macavity rolls 16d6: 1·1·1·2·3·3·3·4·4·4·5·5·5·5·7·9 - T#=8 , 1 success. * Macavity tries the door and pushes it open with some difficulty 8d6 11 Macavity rolls 8d6: 1·1·2·2·2·3·3·5 - T#=11 , No successes. 8d6 7 Macavity rolls 8d6: 1·2·4·4·5·5·5·5 - T#=7 , No successes. 10d6 10 Moonlight rolls 10d6: 2·2·2·2·3·4·5·5·7·14 - T#=10 , 1 success. 8d6 7 GM- rolls 8d6: 1·2·4·4·4·5·9·9 - T#=7 , 2 successes. 16d6 11 GM- rolls 16d6: 1·1·1·2·3·3·3·3·3·4·4·4·5·5·8·11 - T#=11 , 1 success. 8d6 11 GM- rolls 8d6: 1·1·2·3·5·5·5·7 - T#=11 , No successes. *** pseudo-chalk has joined #Burned-Ice ((roll perception Moonlight)) 6d6 0 Moonlight rolls 6d6: 1·1·2·4·5·11 - T#=1 , 6 successes. "Mac? I got company here." "on my way..." 16d6 8 GM- rolls 16d6: 1·1·2·2·2·3·3·3·4·4·4·5·5·5·7·8 - T#=8 , 1 success. 8d6 11 GM- rolls 8d6: 1·3·3·3·5·5·5·9 - T#=11 , No successes. 16d6 8 GM- rolls 16d6: 1·1·2·2·2·3·3·4·4·4·5·5·7·7·9·9 - T#=8 , 2 successes. 8d6 11 GM- rolls 8d6: 1·3·3·3·4·5·8·10 - T#=11 , No successes. 10d6 0 GM- rolls 10d6: 1·1·2·4·4·4·5·7·10·11 - T#=1 , 10 successes. "I see it, probe IC and I think it's got a hold of your datatrail.." "I'm going to try suppressing it as I crash the IC" * Macavity pulls out a pistol and screws on a silencer to his frame "Ok, i don't want to cancel the download ." * Macavity aims carefully at the space by Moonlight's icon and a shape shimmers into view, an eyeball shaped creature with a large set of nostrils sniffing at Moonlight's Icon 16d6 7 Macavity rolls 16d6: 1·1·1·1·1·2·2·3·3·4·4·4·5·5·5·7 - T#=7 , 1 success. 8d6 10 Macavity rolls 8d6: 1·1·3·3·4·5·5·9 - T#=10 , No successes. "Got it...but let's get out of here as soon as you have that file Moonlight." * Moonlight nods. 8d6 7 Macavity rolls 8d6: 1·2·2·2·3·5·9·10 - T#=7 , 2 successes. ((How much IC time has this all taken?)) ((less than a second)) ((maybe 3 secs)) 8d6 11 GM- rolls 8d6: 2·2·4·4·5·5·5·5 - T#=11 , No successes. 8d6 7 GM- rolls 8d6: 2·3·3·4·4·4·5·10 - T#=7 , 1 success. something else shimmers into shape, a black gecko that tries to wrap it's tail about moonlight's Icon * Moonlight eeks and tries to get away before it reaches me * Macavity fires at the black gecko, trying ot keep it away from moonlight 16d6 10 Macavity rolls 16d6: 1·1·2·2·2·2·2·3·3·3·4·5·5·7·10·11 - T#=10 , 2 successes. 8d6 7 Macavity rolls 8d6: 1·1·2·2·3·4·5·10 - T#=7 , 1 success. the black gecko flinches as it takes damage from the bullets splattering across it's hide 8d6 11 Macavity rolls 8d6: 2·2·2·2·3·3·4·11 - T#=11 , 1 success. * Moonlight looks for a weapon in my programs 8d6 10 Macavity rolls 8d6: 1·2·3·4·4·5·8·9 - T#=10 , No successes. * Moonlight flicks a whip into existance, and leashes out with at the gecko Com: What the hell Chalk, knock it off you trying to draw more fucking attention to us" 14d6 8 Moonlight rolls 14d6: 1·2·2·3·3·4·4·5·5·5·5·5·8·13 - T#=8 , 2 successes. 8d6 7 GM- rolls 8d6: 1·2·2·2·3·3·4·4 - T#=7 , No successes. 8d6 7 GM- rolls 8d6: 2·2·4·5·5·5·7·10 - T#=7 , 2 successes. the black gecko twiches violently as the whip flays layers away quickly reducing it to a black skeletal icon... com: "moving them out now and if as so much as a hair on there head is touched people wont like the results" * Macavity fires once more at the black gecko.. 8d6 6 Macavity rolls 8d6: 1·1·2·2·3·3·7·11 - T#=6 , 2 successes. the skeletal gecko implodes silently, as Mac suppresses the dying IC ----Download Complete--- "Let's get out of here Moonlight..." * Moonlight nods and leaves the room * Macavity retraces his steps back to the corridor, and back to where they came in... "We still need to find the control room to turn thos machines and control devices off." "I already got it, they were in that other room I was in before." 16d6 8 Macavity rolls 16d6: 1·1·2·2·2·3·3·3·3·3·3·5·5·10·13·15 - T#=8 , 3 successes. * Macavity gracefully logs off 10d6 8 Moonlight rolls 10d6: 2·2·3·4·4·4·4·5·7·13 - T#=8 , 1 success. * Macavity pulls his jack out from the consol and looks over at Moonlight... * Moonlight jacks out <<<<>>>>>