Slow Boat From China - Revision history

Joedylan: /* Bane */

2010-03-09T21:59:14Z

‎Bane

Al at 11:02, 1 September 2008

2008-09-01T11:02:11Z

Al at 09:42, 1 September 2008

2008-09-01T09:42:02Z

Chris at 16:16, 4 September 2006

2006-09-04T16:16:54Z

joedylan at 11:57, 21 February 2006

2006-02-21T11:57:07Z

whisper: eclipse pov

2006-02-01T19:12:03Z

eclipse pov

whisper: eclipse pov

2006-02-01T19:11:22Z

eclipse pov

skimble at 19:02, 29 January 2006

2006-01-29T19:02:19Z

joedylan: start on Banes POv

2006-01-29T10:54:43Z

start on Banes POv

Azrael: initial data dump

2006-01-29T02:59:16Z

initial data dump

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 Planning goes well, at least i think it went well, or at the the others seem to think we have a plan which is good. Slacker does his hacking thing which is also good.
 TNO seem to be developing symptoms of the Krieger Strain HMVV virus and turning into a Ghoul, which is not good.
   I perform a few subtle tests and questions to discretly test this hypothisis.  Inconclusive. I reckon theres at least a 30% chance of her turning into a ghoul and killing us on this run.  I like those odds! I share the info with slacker and eclipse so they can keep an eye on her. This new guy JD i dont tell, he the control, since I figure he will be eaten first.   But anyway TNO's impending hunger frenzy aside  The essenceo of our plan as far as i can tell we bord the boat, slacker hacks we nick the jewel, we go sight seeeing in Japan Easy!.  Eclipse  may have to sleep with the guard to get the key, but thats a sacrifice I am willing to make.
 === Eclipse ===

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 === Prelude ===
-John drew back his focus from the street outside the taxi, looking at the [[AR Os]] that only he could see broadcast from his PAN. At the top left of his vision, his clock, counting down to his departure time, and in the middle of his field of view, reviewing his tickets once more. He'd had a nice relaxing holiday for once. No unexpected excitement on his outbound journey, nor once he arrived, and now his trip was all but over. Just the short cruise home to go. Sure, it'd be faster to take the sub-orbital, but the last time he visited an airport he ended up nearly killed fighting terrorist plane-hijackers. Cruise liners were absolutely the way to go - slow, boring, and not interesting enough for anyone to try and hijack.
+John drew back his focus from the street outside the taxi, looking at the [[AROs]] that only he could see broadcast from his PAN. At the top left of his vision, his clock, counting down to his departure time, and in the middle of his field of view, reviewing his tickets once more. He'd had a nice relaxing holiday for once. No unexpected excitement on his outbound journey, nor once he arrived, and now his trip was all but over. Just the short cruise home to go. Sure, it'd be faster to take the sub-orbital, but the last time he visited an airport he ended up nearly killed fighting terrorist plane-hijackers. Cruise liners were absolutely the way to go - slow, boring, and not interesting enough for anyone to try and hijack.
 === Cast of Players ===

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 Game Date: TBA<br>
 Venue: Stuarts
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 === Prelude ===
 John drew back his focus from the street outside the taxi, looking at the [[AR Os]] that only he could see broadcast from his PAN. At the top left of his vision, his clock, counting down to his departure time, and in the middle of his field of view, reviewing his tickets once more. He'd had a nice relaxing holiday for once. No unexpected excitement on his outbound journey, nor once he arrived, and now his trip was all but over. Just the short cruise home to go. Sure, it'd be faster to take the sub-orbital, but the last time he visited an airport he ended up nearly killed fighting terrorist plane-hijackers. Cruise liners were absolutely the way to go - slow, boring, and not interesting enough for anyone to try and hijack.
 === Cast of Players ===
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 * [[Slacker]] - [ [[Skimble]] ]
 === Slacker ===
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 Oh God, So Ive just learnt this new spell, really cool, turns people in this, well, Goo. Its called "Turn to Goo", which in all honesty is a terrible name but hey, any way I  just buzzing down from this BTL I popped to celebrate when the thing glitchs, and I black out for about 20 minutes, dam cheap street crap,  when i come round I am half way through this coverstation with Slacker and have apparently agreed to go on a nice easy run, sponsored by [[Sammy Lee]].  Shit, oh well.  We go to this high class whoe house to meet the Johnson and whose there but [[Dan Dan Song]], now TNO is still offering 2000 on his head, so i get ready to blast him when i get a sudden rush of common sense to the head, I hate it when that happens, which says that wasting him in a room full of triad goons in a "neutral" territory will be bad for my health.  So he lives but I tag him for latter. We meet the Johson he wants us to rob a
 cruise ship and replace some neclace with a fake, subtle and unotice. Ha!  He dosnt react well to my suggestion of sniking the boat to cover the theft, some people have no imagination.  Eclipse does her monkey trick of getting more cash and we take the job.  Then we have to plan. I hate that part.
 === Events by TNO ===
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 TNO seem to be developing symptoms of the Krieger Strain HMVV virus and turning into a Ghoul, which is not good.
   I perform a few subtle tests and questions to discretly test this hypothisis.  Inconclusive. I reckon theres at least a 30% chance of her turning into a ghoul and killing us on this run.  I like those odds! I share the info with slacker and eclipse so they can keep an eye on her. This new guy JD i dont tell, he the control, since I figure he will be eaten first.   But anyway TNO's impending hunger frenzy aside  The essenceo of our plan as far as i can tell we bord the boat, slacker hacks we nick the jewel, we go sight seeeing in Japan Easy!.  Eclipse  may have to sleep with the guard to get the key, but thats a sacrifice I am willing to make.
 === Eclipse ===
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 We get on the boat easily, being upgraded to first class is great, VIP treatment all the way. On the way in I spot the mark and her bodyguard. Damn he looked fine. There was also another woman there, not sure who she is I haven't seen her before. T-no tells me she is a movie talent scout or something. This could be our way in. The bar is the perfect place to set the plan in motion. I catch the bodyguards eye as he comes over to the bar, strike up a conversation and before long he is putty in my hands. He offers to buy me a drink but there is no barman, when the barman tunrs up, I do a double take. The guy is the spitting image of my dad! This needs to be investigated, but not now. I have the perfect idea of using the talent scout as a way in. I get T-no to set up a dinner so I can pretend to want to be in a movie, and get her to invite Sandra too.
 === ??? ===
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 Eclipse finally plams me the keys as she and the guy she's wrapped around swing past on the dance floor, and I leave first class and head down to meet the others - making sure t change into my jumpsuit first. I hand over the key and the fake replacement, and wait for them to get back to me with the necklace.
 === Eclipse ===
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 We can't communicate at all with Slacker or Bane, there's a jammer active somewhere jamming comms and PAN traffic. So we make a quick plan to go up to the bridge and see what's going on. When we get there, JD spots and deactivates the jammer before we can get into position, the hijackers all get alerted to comm systems being activated, and lead starts flying on the bridge. Fortunately we all make it out of there alive, but we have to flee as more goons are heading up.
 === Slacker ===
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 === Bane ===
 Slacker did some hacking crap and the Bad guys head out of the hall in one big group... do I have to spell it out? *Whomph* I frag all but  one of them with a single spell, one guy  who was at the edge of the blast  survived, he also had an assault rifle Whoops. But the  post spell downer handn't hit yet so I was riding high. Time to use that new spell I'd learnt....
 === Slacker ===
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 On the return trip I get to talk to the barman, turns out he is my half brother. I tell him I haven't seen dad in a  few years, he tells me that dad had a heart attack and someone turned of his life support machine. That happened about 3 years ago while I was inside, no wonder I didn't know. I ask T-no why she was interested and she says that she is working for someone. She's holding something back, I have always been good at reading people, I could tell she wasn't being completely honest. But hey, I haven't told anyone that i've done time so I am not going to pressure her. We all have secrets.
 === Slacker ===
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 Huh? Nah, nevermind, I'll tell ya another time. Catch ya later!

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 * [[The Nameless One|TNO]] - [ [[Stephen]] ]
 * [[Bane]] - [ [[Joe]] ]
-* [[JD]]  - [ [[Chris]] ]
+* [[J.D]]  - [ [[Chris]] ]
 * [[Eclipse]] - [ [[Richard]] ]
 * [[Slacker]] - [ [[Skimble]] ]

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	We split up, and I rappel down the side of the ship with ease that astonishes even myself - my new magic boost to my agility seems to really be awesome. When JD meets me back on the ship, we suddenly get jumped by some Phys Ad guy and a pair of wolves. JD and the [[Phys Ad]] trade blows, with JD finally winning. One wolf keeps leaping at me, trying to savage me, I manage to keep dodging, while the other stays back and seems to be casting magic at me. I level my shotgun on them both and keep shooting. I can't hit the one closest to me, but the other gets blown to pieces, at which the other one just vanishes into thin air.		We split up, and I rappel down the side of the ship with ease that astonishes even myself - my new magic boost to my agility seems to really be awesome. When JD meets me back on the ship, we suddenly get jumped by some Phys Ad guy and a pair of wolves. JD and the [[Phys Ad]] trade blows, with JD finally winning. One wolf keeps leaping at me, trying to savage me, I manage to keep dodging, while the other stays back and seems to be casting magic at me. I level my shotgun on them both and keep shooting. I can't hit the one closest to me, but the other gets blown to pieces, at which the other one just vanishes into thin air.
		+
		+	=== Bane ===
		+	Slacker did some hacking crap and the Bad guys head out of the hall in one big group... do I have to spell it out? Whomph I frag all but one of them with a single spell, one guy who was at the edge of the blast survived, he also had an assault rifle Whoops. But the post spell downer handn't hit yet so I was riding high. Time to use that new spell I'd learnt....
		+

	=== Slacker ===		=== Slacker ===

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 We agreed to meet with the Johnson, and everything went pretty sweet from there, up to a point...
 === Bane's POV ===
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 Oh God, So Ive just learnt this new spell, really cool, turns people in this, well, Goo. Its called "Turn to Goo", which in all honesty is a terrible name but hey, any way I  just buzzing down from this BTL I popped to celebrate when the thing glitchs, and I black out for about 20 minutes, dam cheap street crap,  when i come round I am half way through this coverstation with Slacker and have apparently agreed to go on a nice easy run, sponsored by [[Sammy Lee]].  Shit, oh well.  We go to this high class whoe house to meet the Johnson and whose there but [[Dan Dan Song]], now TNO is still offering 2000 on his head, so i get ready to blast him when i get a sudden rush of common sense to the head, I hate it when that happens, which says that wasting him in a room full of triad goons in a "neutral" territory will be bad for my health.  So he lives but I tag him for latter. We meet the Johson he wants us to rob a
 cruise ship and replace some neclace with a fake, subtle and unotice. Ha!  He dosnt react well to my suggestion of sniking the boat to cover the theft, some people have no imagination.  Eclipse does her monkey trick of getting more cash and we take the job.  Then we have to plan. I hate that part.
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 Planning goes well, at least i think it went well, or at the the others seem to think we have a plan which is good. Slacker does his hacking thing which is also good.
 TNO seem to be developing symptoms of the Krieger Strain HMVV virus and turning into a Ghoul, which is not good.
-  I perform a few subtle tests and questions to discretly test this hypothisis.  Inconclusive. I reckon theres at least a 30% chance of her turning into a ghoul and killing us on this run.  I like those odds! I share the info with slacker and eclipse so they can keep an eye on her. This new guy JD i dont tell, he the control, since I figure he will be eaten first.   But anyway TNO's impending hunger frenzy aside  The essenceo f our plan as far as i can tell we bord the boat, slacker hacks we nick the jewel, we go sight seeeing in Japan Easy!.  Eclipse  may have to sleep with the guard to get the key, but thats a sacrifice I am willing to make.
+  I perform a few subtle tests and questions to discretly test this hypothisis.  Inconclusive. I reckon theres at least a 30% chance of her turning into a ghoul and killing us on this run.  I like those odds! I share the info with slacker and eclipse so they can keep an eye on her. This new guy JD i dont tell, he the control, since I figure he will be eaten first.   But anyway TNO's impending hunger frenzy aside  The essenceo of our plan as far as i can tell we bord the boat, slacker hacks we nick the jewel, we go sight seeeing in Japan Easy!.  Eclipse  may have to sleep with the guard to get the key, but thats a sacrifice I am willing to make.
 === Slacker ===
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 He's way too young, he isn't him... but surely he has to be related to him. Eclipse is around, and I don't want to approach him now, but I make a note to find time later and come chat to him. I check the crew manifest Slacker obtained for us, he's called [[Tom Atherton]].
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 Eclipse finally plams me the keys as she and the guy she's wrapped around swing past on the dance floor, and I leave first class and head down to meet the others - making sure t change into my jumpsuit first. I hand over the key and the fake replacement, and wait for them to get back to me with the necklace.
 === Slacker ===
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 When the 'Imperial Navy' pulled alongside I figured my best bet would be to just go with the passengers and gather in the nightclub. I didn't wanna get into a fight or anything, and anyway I can do my magic with the ship's systems from the nightclub just as easily. Except, shit, the bastards shut down the server. 'least I can still broadcast directly to the team's [[PA Ns]], until the asswipes cockblock me for the second run in a row by starting up some kind of jamming device that interferes with the wireless signals.
 === ?? ===
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 Some time later, Eclipse comes up to me. She's been chattiing to him, god knows about what, and he must have told her I had been speaking to him. She asks why I was interested in the topic. I dissemble, lie about it being something I was hired to do. She wants to ask more, but doesn't seem able to. So we go out for dinner, party a bit at a few nightclubs, and head to our respective homes to sleep off hangovers.
 === Slacker ===

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-slacker gets call from sammy
+So, anyway, Sammy, after you mentioned that potential job on Slacker's Shack, I was interested in hearin' what you hadda offer us. The job sure sounded interesting, though I definitely get nervous these days when I hear that something's gonna be easy. After I got done talkin' to you I gave Bane a call; he wasn't really with it; I musta woken him up or something, but after awhile he agreed to come to the meet. I also called Eclipse, mainly 'cause she always gets our payouts bumped up a notch or two, but she said it'd be best if she called Ms. Snootypants - sorry, that's TNO. She has an attitude problem, but she seems to be useful in a fight. It turns out Eclipse also called that drek JD, the one who wanted ta cap me in the head when the nightmare virus was trampling all over my brain.
 === Bane's POV ===
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 === Slacker ===
-<hacking the shipping company - 1st time fails, 2nd time succeeds>
+So yeah, we thought it'd be damn useful to get some info from the ferry company's systems, so I found their node on the Matrix and launched an on-the-fly attack on their wireless access portal. I got in but it turned out that their IC made me on the way in. I launched my Attack Complex form, but it turned out to be one of those hacks where nothin' seems to go right and the IC swapped out for an attack program, which immediately launched a probe in an effort to trace my backtrail. It'd only get as far as Sisko's, so no real danger, but I logged out gracefully and suggested we go to a curry place while the Sprite I'd uploaded did the work for me and brought back the info I wanted.
 === TNO ===
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 Eclipse finally plams me the keys as she and the guy she's wrapped around swing past on the dance floor, and I leave first class and head down to meet the others - making sure t change into my jumpsuit first. I hand over the key and the fake replacement, and wait for them to get back to me with the necklace.
-=== Bane/Slacker?? ===
+=== Slacker ===
-JD & Bane go to get necklace while slacker observes from cameras
+I was the God in the machine again that night while Bane and JD went to get the necklace, bypassin' the doors with my security codes and gettin' in to the cargo deck pretty easy. Suspicious! A mechanic is comin' back from the cargo deck, though a different part from where the necklace we've gotta steal is. I'm suspicious so's I check the dude's records; get this, he'd only joined for that sailing! I tell the others and recommend they knock 'im out so we can figure out what he was up to, but Eclipse and Ms. Snootypants override me and that's that.
 === TNO ===
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 We all have a bit of a panic, but then realise that they must be after drugs or something, and can't be here for the necklace, so we calm down. Then not long after we lose comms with Slacker, but he's back broadcasting on our [[PA Ns]] about the server being suddenly taken offline - and then we start to panic again. From the sound of things, these navy guys are rounding up the passengers... and we stat suspecting that we're in the middle of a hijacking.
 === ?? ===
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-=== Bane / Slacker ===
+=== Slacker ===
-In ball room with passengers and goons
+Soon after I got to the ballroom, wondering what the hell I could do now that I couldn't hack anything, Bane got herded down there too. Good, least there were two of us, but I didn't know how the hell we could take the ten guards watchin' us. Still, at least they didn't know what me or the others looked like, I thought. Maybe if I stayed cool there'd be an easy way out of this.
 === TNO ===
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 We split up, and I rappel down the side of the ship with ease that astonishes even myself - my new magic boost to my agility seems to really be awesome. When JD meets me back on the ship, we suddenly get jumped by some Phys Ad guy and a pair of wolves. JD and the [[Phys Ad]] trade blows, with JD finally winning. One wolf keeps leaping at me, trying to savage me, I manage to keep dodging, while the other stays back and seems to be casting magic at me. I level my shotgun on them both and keep shooting. I can't hit the one closest to me, but the other gets blown to pieces, at which the other one just vanishes into thin air.
-=== Bane / Slacker ===
+=== Slacker ===
-goons in ball room bunch up - bane magics them, kills 7, 1 left, turned to goo
+The real Imperial Navy turned up about now, and the captain of the ship and the cop-dude the others found made it so he could take all the credit for what happened and the rest of us could remain anonymous.
 === TNO ===
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 It's on the return trip that I spot Tom Atherton again, and with less mayhem going down, I get time to talk to him. He reveals that his dad was a sailor, a guy he'd never met. But he tracked him down only to find he'd died three years ago. he'd had a heart attack, only to have his life support machines turned off by someone who never got caught for it. He tells me this man had a family.. the Lu family. He gives me his number if I ever want to ask him any other questions about this.
-Some time later, Eclipse comes up to me. She's been chattiing to him, god knows about what, and he must have told her I had been speaking to him. She asks why I was interested in the topic. I dissemble, lie about it being something I was hired to do. She wants to ask more, but doesn't seem able to. So we go out for dinner, party a bit at afew nightclubs, and head to our respective homes to sleep off hangovers.
+Some time later, Eclipse comes up to me. She's been chattiing to him, god knows about what, and he must have told her I had been speaking to him. She asks why I was interested in the topic. I dissemble, lie about it being something I was hired to do. She wants to ask more, but doesn't seem able to. So we go out for dinner, party a bit at a few nightclubs, and head to our respective homes to sleep off hangovers.

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 slacker calls eclipse
 eclipse calls tno and JD
-slacker calls bane
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 The van belongs to [[Sandra Lu]] - a 1-hit wonder pop-star who's only slightly less fabulously rich after her debut single than before. She's heading to Japan to negotiate the starring role in some film. Eclipse takes over negotiations, and scores us a 35k payout with 7k upfront. The keys to the van will be held by her driver/bodyguard called [[Arak Sung]], and we need to do the job by midnight on the first night. We accept, then head to Sisko's to plan. Our plan is, roughly, that Eclipse and I will get the jeys from the driver, and Bane, JD, and Slacker will steal the necklace.
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 He's way too young, he isn't him... but surely he has to be related to him. Eclipse is around, and I don't want to approach him now, but I make a note to find time later and come chat to him. I check the crew manifest Slacker obtained for us, he's called [[Tom Atherton]].
 === ??? ===