Misha takes a moment to muscle down the easel, and tossing it into an alley nearby. Once back upstairs, she takes of her jacket, her arm had a grazing wound on it that would most likely require stitches, but it didn't seem to bother her. She washed up in the bathroom, making sure to clean up after herself.
"I hef the feeling we're not done with WorldSat."she said, coming back out, thinking. "I hef my department coming by to clean up the mess, but I am thinking we just made theengs a leetle worse for that Corporation, ah? And, probably for us."she said, laughing.
Just before they headed back up, Min-ji starts to search the car too. “There has to be something.” Min-ji says to herself. “A laptop, files, something...”
If her search comes up fruitless, the hacker joins the others, saying silent the whole way. She flops onto the couch and lays there, staring at the ceiling as if it had contained the answers she was looking for. Was there any actual way for her to save the building? WorldSat was a powerful company and no doubt her murdering one of their executives would have painted a target on her head, and everyone else’s. She leans forward and rests her elbow on her knees while her fingers ran through her hair. She felt like crying. “I jen mwol hae ya ha na.”
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Aeydof the Dragons || Wood Elf / Way of the Ascendant Dragon Monk Demetrios Zalaoras || Protector Aasimar / Paladin of Torm Hawke || Kalashtar / Circle of the Moon Druid Morticia || Half-Aasimar Rogue Yvan || Goliath / Path of the Wild Soul Barbarian | Paladin of Helm /ᐠ。ꞈ。ᐟ\
Pierce takes off his jacket and looks at the damage. Fortunately his armor had absorbed the one shot that hit him, but he still walked over to a counter that said 'Days Without Being Shot' and reset it from 27 to 0.
Then he opens up a large box that contains an assault rifle and pulls it out. "It's been a while since I've needed to use this."
And when he sees Min-ji on the couch, he takes one of her hands and kneels down. "I love you, but sometimes I have no idea what you're saying." He jokes. "I know you're scared right now, but we know how much this place means to you. We're not going to let some corporate ******** take it. Promise."
Quacky Chan Meets His Match, and Quacky Chan Has A Chat With A Mormon Child, Quacky Chan Visits Satan, Quacky Chan Doles Out The Harshness, "Q" Is For Quacky Chan, Quacky Chan 4-D!
COMING SOON! DON'T MISS OUT! QUACKY CHAN WILL **** YOU UP.
Later on in the evening (These all happen at once, more or less, in the order below).
EVERYONE As the evening rolled on and everyone was recovering, something very weird happened. Every single light in a quarter mile radius goes completely dead. It's pitch dark inside and outside. Something has caused a complete blackout, all electricity is cut off. Anything running on a battery, like Min-ji's netbook, still works. People in the building begin to panic and begin to leave the apartment.
WHERE THERE'S SMOKE - OLIVER Oliver, you notice something peculiar outside the window after the power goes off. Red flashing lights coming from the street. A firetruck has screeched to a halt just across the street from the apartment complex. Then, suddenly, the computerized fire alarm goes off in Min-ji's building! Five firefighters emerge from the firetruck outside. They begin ushering out people who live in the apartment building. What's stranger still, as the firemen enter and exit the building helping people - you can see smoke coming out from the main entrance. What's going on?!
DV16 Perception Check: ?????
UNKNOWN CALLER - PIERCE AND MISHA Pierce, you get a call on your cellphone. The person on the phone wants to speak to the person who owns the apartment building. The person on the other end claims to be a WorldSat employee who wants to end this situation without violence. They offer you guys 100,000 Euro for the building, and will show them the money if they come to the window to see it.
DV20 Perception Check: ?????
HACK ATTACK - MIN-JI Wait, what's that noise now?! A helicopter? It's approaching the building! It lands smoothly across the street, the next building over. It drops someone off. They're wearing a tight bodysuit, armed, and with a cyberdeck! A Netrunner! All of the sudden, everything is going berzerk! The fire sprinklers activate, the fire alarm is blaring, the elevators cease to function, and she's keeping the emergency lights offline! That *****! Time to get your cyberdeck and reverse these effects! Until all of these are solves, EVERYONE gets a -5 on ALL roll for anything they do.
“These pathetic ass mother ****ers!” Min-ji screams at the top of her lungs. “FINE! If it’s a war they want it’s a war they’re going to ******* get!” She flips on her visor, plugs herself in and begins her hacking process.
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Aeydof the Dragons || Wood Elf / Way of the Ascendant Dragon Monk Demetrios Zalaoras || Protector Aasimar / Paladin of Torm Hawke || Kalashtar / Circle of the Moon Druid Morticia || Half-Aasimar Rogue Yvan || Goliath / Path of the Wild Soul Barbarian | Paladin of Helm /ᐠ。ꞈ。ᐟ\
The enemy netrunner has hacked your apartment subsystems! Here's what you have to do in order:
Level 1 - Password: Use BACKDOOR to bypass the password the enemy netrunner has installed on your apartment complex's system. DV15 Level 2 - Control Node: Sprinklers, Fire Alarm: Gain access to the sprinklers and the fire alarm, that's a DV12 for each one. Accessing them makes them do what you want. Level 3 - Control Node: Elevators: Get the elevators back online! People are trying to leave the building and it's causing chaos! DV12 Level 4 - Control Node: Lights: Get the lights under your control again! It's -4 to ALL meatspace actions until they're back up. DV12.
Each Level you try and gain control over takes about 1 minute, so you can't attempt the next level if you pass until all of us have taken a turn, ok? Lots of things are happening! If you fail you can try again in about 1 minute.
Aeydof the Dragons || Wood Elf / Way of the Ascendant Dragon Monk Demetrios Zalaoras || Protector Aasimar / Paladin of Torm Hawke || Kalashtar / Circle of the Moon Druid Morticia || Half-Aasimar Rogue Yvan || Goliath / Path of the Wild Soul Barbarian | Paladin of Helm /ᐠ。ꞈ。ᐟ\
Just because Misha and Quacky believe in me: Password: 7 + 9
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Aeydof the Dragons || Wood Elf / Way of the Ascendant Dragon Monk Demetrios Zalaoras || Protector Aasimar / Paladin of Torm Hawke || Kalashtar / Circle of the Moon Druid Morticia || Half-Aasimar Rogue Yvan || Goliath / Path of the Wild Soul Barbarian | Paladin of Helm /ᐠ。ꞈ。ᐟ\
Misha rose up and gave her a look, nodding, and with her hands, she spread them wide as if to say "see??"
Level 1 - Password: Use BACKDOOR to bypass the password the enemy netrunner has installed on your apartment complex's system. DV15 COMPLETE Level 2 - Control Node: Sprinklers, Fire Alarm: Gain access to the sprinklers and the fire alarm, that's a DV12 for each one. Accessing them makes them do what you want. Level 3 - Control Node: Elevators: Get the elevators back online! People are trying to leave the building and it's causing chaos! DV12 Level 4 - Control Node: Lights: Get the lights under your control again! It's -4 to ALL meatspace actions until they're back up. DV12.
You can hear screams of terror outside in the hallway, where the other apartment units are, just outside the door.
Min-ji, you can attempt the next level once everyone else has posted.
Squinting into the darkness of the night, in addition to there being no lights outside, you can't seem to see anything that's out of the ordinary. The firemen seem to be escorting lots of people out of the building, however, that much is clear, and where there was five firemen, and now only four outside.
Regardless of whatever Oliver spots, he grabs his gear. Either this was a ploy to get the building, or this was a real fire. Either way, no way he was gonna leave his stuff behind.
What the heck! Those aren't firemen! One of them is planting smoke bombs in the entrance to simulate a fire to scare the tenants to vacate the building! But..why are the smoke bombs beeping and blinking??
Cursing like a sailor, Oliver calls out, "Those aren't firemen! They're demolitionists! They're about to blow the support columns!" Looking to Misha and Pierce, "Misha, I need your help to clear the lobby of those goons while I disable the bombs. Pierce, keep an eye on our landlady." Making sure his tools are in his bag, he rushes over to the stairs and as quickly as his organic legs will let him, bolts down the stairs.
Aeydof the Dragons || Wood Elf / Way of the Ascendant Dragon Monk Demetrios Zalaoras || Protector Aasimar / Paladin of Torm Hawke || Kalashtar / Circle of the Moon Druid Morticia || Half-Aasimar Rogue Yvan || Goliath / Path of the Wild Soul Barbarian | Paladin of Helm /ᐠ。ꞈ。ᐟ\
"Ah, shit!"Misha barks as Oliver tells his findings. As Misha grabs her things, she walks over to the door and two Militech guards with assault rifles are mowing down residences and fire at the door! Misha pushes Oliver aside. "Watch out! I'll cover you while I hold off these guys." Misha fires back and allows you to leap into the fire escape door nearby where you can access the first floor.
Pierce, the WorldSat employee is still on the phone, awaiting an answer.
"Min-ji, don't you give up! We've got company!!"Misha yells in encouragement, leaning against the wall, peeking out down the hall. "Quacky!!"Quacky honks!!
Down on the first floor, Oliver is caught in a sea of residences in panic as the firemen are "ushering them out". You see one fireman finish up placing a "smoke bomb". The hall is full of smoke and it's difficult to aim! But you can see the three bombs placed in the hallway. I doubt the firemen are going to let you just remove them. They haven't seen you yet as you duck for cover in a door.
Aeydof the Dragons || Wood Elf / Way of the Ascendant Dragon Monk Demetrios Zalaoras || Protector Aasimar / Paladin of Torm Hawke || Kalashtar / Circle of the Moon Druid Morticia || Half-Aasimar Rogue Yvan || Goliath / Path of the Wild Soul Barbarian | Paladin of Helm /ᐠ。ꞈ。ᐟ\
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Misha takes a moment to muscle down the easel, and tossing it into an alley nearby. Once back upstairs, she takes of her jacket, her arm had a grazing wound on it that would most likely require stitches, but it didn't seem to bother her. She washed up in the bathroom, making sure to clean up after herself.
"I hef the feeling we're not done with WorldSat." she said, coming back out, thinking. "I hef my department coming by to clean up the mess, but I am thinking we just made theengs a leetle worse for that Corporation, ah? And, probably for us." she said, laughing.
Just before they headed back up, Min-ji starts to search the car too. “There has to be something.” Min-ji says to herself. “A laptop, files, something...”
If her search comes up fruitless, the hacker joins the others, saying silent the whole way. She flops onto the couch and lays there, staring at the ceiling as if it had contained the answers she was looking for. Was there any actual way for her to save the building? WorldSat was a powerful company and no doubt her murdering one of their executives would have painted a target on her head, and everyone else’s. She leans forward and rests her elbow on her knees while her fingers ran through her hair. She felt like crying. “I jen mwol hae ya ha na.”
Aeyd of the Dragons || Wood Elf / Way of the Ascendant Dragon Monk
Demetrios Zalaoras || Protector Aasimar / Paladin of Torm
Hawke || Kalashtar / Circle of the Moon Druid
Morticia || Half-Aasimar Rogue
Yvan || Goliath / Path of the Wild Soul Barbarian | Paladin of Helm
/ᐠ。ꞈ。ᐟ\
Pierce takes off his jacket and looks at the damage. Fortunately his armor had absorbed the one shot that hit him, but he still walked over to a counter that said 'Days Without Being Shot' and reset it from 27 to 0.
Then he opens up a large box that contains an assault rifle and pulls it out. "It's been a while since I've needed to use this."
And when he sees Min-ji on the couch, he takes one of her hands and kneels down. "I love you, but sometimes I have no idea what you're saying." He jokes. "I know you're scared right now, but we know how much this place means to you. We're not going to let some corporate ******** take it. Promise."
Xenophon: Topaz Dragonborn Fighter (ixi's Dragon of Icespire Peak)
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DONT MISS THE NEXT EPISODES OF CYBERPUNK:
Episode Two: 3, 2, 1..It's Quacky Chan
Episode Three: Operation: Quacky Chan
Episode Four: Oh Shit, It's Quacky Chan
Also upcoming on Cyberpunk:
Quacky Chan Meets His Match, and Quacky Chan Has A Chat With A Mormon Child, Quacky Chan Visits Satan, Quacky Chan Doles Out The Harshness, "Q" Is For Quacky Chan, Quacky Chan 4-D!
COMING SOON! DON'T MISS OUT! QUACKY CHAN WILL **** YOU UP.
Just kidding.
THE FINALE: "WHERE THERE'S SMOKE" - Starring Oliver, "UNKNOWN CALLER" Starring Misha and Pierce, "HACK ATTACK" - Starring Min'ji
Later on in the evening (These all happen at once, more or less, in the order below).
EVERYONE
As the evening rolled on and everyone was recovering, something very weird happened. Every single light in a quarter mile radius goes completely dead. It's pitch dark inside and outside. Something has caused a complete blackout, all electricity is cut off. Anything running on a battery, like Min-ji's netbook, still works. People in the building begin to panic and begin to leave the apartment.
WHERE THERE'S SMOKE - OLIVER
Oliver, you notice something peculiar outside the window after the power goes off. Red flashing lights coming from the street. A firetruck has screeched to a halt just across the street from the apartment complex. Then, suddenly, the computerized fire alarm goes off in Min-ji's building! Five firefighters emerge from the firetruck outside. They begin ushering out people who live in the apartment building. What's stranger still, as the firemen enter and exit the building helping people - you can see smoke coming out from the main entrance. What's going on?!
DV16 Perception Check: ?????
UNKNOWN CALLER - PIERCE AND MISHA
Pierce, you get a call on your cellphone. The person on the phone wants to speak to the person who owns the apartment building. The person on the other end claims to be a WorldSat employee who wants to end this situation without violence. They offer you guys 100,000 Euro for the building, and will show them the money if they come to the window to see it.
DV20 Perception Check: ?????
HACK ATTACK - MIN-JI
Wait, what's that noise now?! A helicopter? It's approaching the building! It lands smoothly across the street, the next building over. It drops someone off. They're wearing a tight bodysuit, armed, and with a cyberdeck! A Netrunner! All of the sudden, everything is going berzerk! The fire sprinklers activate, the fire alarm is blaring, the elevators cease to function, and she's keeping the emergency lights offline! That *****! Time to get your cyberdeck and reverse these effects! Until all of these are solves, EVERYONE gets a -5 on ALL roll for anything they do.
“These pathetic ass mother ****ers!” Min-ji screams at the top of her lungs. “FINE! If it’s a war they want it’s a war they’re going to ******* get!” She flips on her visor, plugs herself in and begins her hacking process.
Aeyd of the Dragons || Wood Elf / Way of the Ascendant Dragon Monk
Demetrios Zalaoras || Protector Aasimar / Paladin of Torm
Hawke || Kalashtar / Circle of the Moon Druid
Morticia || Half-Aasimar Rogue
Yvan || Goliath / Path of the Wild Soul Barbarian | Paladin of Helm
/ᐠ。ꞈ。ᐟ\
The enemy netrunner has hacked your apartment subsystems! Here's what you have to do in order:
Level 1 - Password: Use BACKDOOR to bypass the password the enemy netrunner has installed on your apartment complex's system. DV15
Level 2 - Control Node: Sprinklers, Fire Alarm: Gain access to the sprinklers and the fire alarm, that's a DV12 for each one. Accessing them makes them do what you want.
Level 3 - Control Node: Elevators: Get the elevators back online! People are trying to leave the building and it's causing chaos! DV12
Level 4 - Control Node: Lights: Get the lights under your control again! It's -4 to ALL meatspace actions until they're back up. DV12.
Each Level you try and gain control over takes about 1 minute, so you can't attempt the next level if you pass until all of us have taken a turn, ok? Lots of things are happening! If you fail you can try again in about 1 minute.
Min-ji takes a deep breathe.
Password: 7 + 1
Min-ji puts her head in her hands and calls it a day.
Aeyd of the Dragons || Wood Elf / Way of the Ascendant Dragon Monk
Demetrios Zalaoras || Protector Aasimar / Paladin of Torm
Hawke || Kalashtar / Circle of the Moon Druid
Morticia || Half-Aasimar Rogue
Yvan || Goliath / Path of the Wild Soul Barbarian | Paladin of Helm
/ᐠ。ꞈ。ᐟ\
Misha hurried over to Min-ji. "No! No, ees ok!" she put her hands on her shoulders. "You can do eet! Try again!" Quacky honked in agreement.
Just because Misha and Quacky believe in me: Password: 7 + 9
Aeyd of the Dragons || Wood Elf / Way of the Ascendant Dragon Monk
Demetrios Zalaoras || Protector Aasimar / Paladin of Torm
Hawke || Kalashtar / Circle of the Moon Druid
Morticia || Half-Aasimar Rogue
Yvan || Goliath / Path of the Wild Soul Barbarian | Paladin of Helm
/ᐠ。ꞈ。ᐟ\
Misha rose up and gave her a look, nodding, and with her hands, she spread them wide as if to say "see??"
Level 1 - Password: Use BACKDOOR to bypass the password the enemy netrunner has installed on your apartment complex's system. DV15 COMPLETE
Level 2 - Control Node: Sprinklers, Fire Alarm: Gain access to the sprinklers and the fire alarm, that's a DV12 for each one. Accessing them makes them do what you want.
Level 3 - Control Node: Elevators: Get the elevators back online! People are trying to leave the building and it's causing chaos! DV12
Level 4 - Control Node: Lights: Get the lights under your control again! It's -4 to ALL meatspace actions until they're back up. DV12.
You can hear screams of terror outside in the hallway, where the other apartment units are, just outside the door.
Min-ji, you can attempt the next level once everyone else has posted.
Perception: 5+3+3
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Squinting into the darkness of the night, in addition to there being no lights outside, you can't seem to see anything that's out of the ordinary. The firemen seem to be escorting lots of people out of the building, however, that much is clear, and where there was five firemen, and now only four outside.
Perception: 7 + 3 + 7 = 17 vs. 16DC (Success!)
Regardless of whatever Oliver spots, he grabs his gear. Either this was a ploy to get the building, or this was a real fire. Either way, no way he was gonna leave his stuff behind.
What the heck! Those aren't firemen! One of them is planting smoke bombs in the entrance to simulate a fire to scare the tenants to vacate the building! But..why are the smoke bombs beeping and blinking??
Cursing like a sailor, Oliver calls out, "Those aren't firemen! They're demolitionists! They're about to blow the support columns!" Looking to Misha and Pierce, "Misha, I need your help to clear the lobby of those goons while I disable the bombs. Pierce, keep an eye on our landlady." Making sure his tools are in his bag, he rushes over to the stairs and as quickly as his organic legs will let him, bolts down the stairs.
I think everyone has posted:
Min-ji thanks Meesh and Quacky before continuing with the next part of the hack.
Control Node Sprinklers: 7 + 2
This dice roller is trash.
Aeyd of the Dragons || Wood Elf / Way of the Ascendant Dragon Monk
Demetrios Zalaoras || Protector Aasimar / Paladin of Torm
Hawke || Kalashtar / Circle of the Moon Druid
Morticia || Half-Aasimar Rogue
Yvan || Goliath / Path of the Wild Soul Barbarian | Paladin of Helm
/ᐠ。ꞈ。ᐟ\
"Ah, shit!" Misha barks as Oliver tells his findings. As Misha grabs her things, she walks over to the door and two Militech guards with assault rifles are mowing down residences and fire at the door! Misha pushes Oliver aside. "Watch out! I'll cover you while I hold off these guys." Misha fires back and allows you to leap into the fire escape door nearby where you can access the first floor.
Pierce, the WorldSat employee is still on the phone, awaiting an answer.
"Min-ji, don't you give up! We've got company!!" Misha yells in encouragement, leaning against the wall, peeking out down the hall. "Quacky!!" Quacky honks!!
Down on the first floor, Oliver is caught in a sea of residences in panic as the firemen are "ushering them out". You see one fireman finish up placing a "smoke bomb". The hall is full of smoke and it's difficult to aim! But you can see the three bombs placed in the hallway. I doubt the firemen are going to let you just remove them. They haven't seen you yet as you duck for cover in a door.
“Gghhhkahahdjdjsk!!!!!”
Control Node Sprinklers: 7 + 2
”Stupid ******* ties, stupid ******* hackers, stupid ******* CORPORATION.”
Control Node Sprinklers: 7 + 4
”STUPID GUM!”
Aeyd of the Dragons || Wood Elf / Way of the Ascendant Dragon Monk
Demetrios Zalaoras || Protector Aasimar / Paladin of Torm
Hawke || Kalashtar / Circle of the Moon Druid
Morticia || Half-Aasimar Rogue
Yvan || Goliath / Path of the Wild Soul Barbarian | Paladin of Helm
/ᐠ。ꞈ。ᐟ\