[OverdrivePrime]

You're in your smaller board room with the SCE team, prepping for Operation 1 before you head down to Colorado springs.

With you are 4 of your staffers, and your director, Ashok Salaj.

[EvilDespot]

"So... what? We go to Colorado, find a starting place to use Dowser, and track the device from there?"

[OverdrivePrime]

Ashok looks through his notes until he finds out what the hell "Dowser" is, "Hmm... yes. That would be an excellent way to start. You might also be able to find the place of contact and determine something from the scene."

[Saphi Yago]

(OOC: You said I could learn Dowser too, right? I'm gonna go ahead and do that.)

"Are we going to be the ones in charge of the actual recovery, or just the location?"

[OverdrivePrime]

(ooc: Coolness. I'll deduct the 4 xp and add 1 rank of Dowser to your sheet. You and ED can cooperate on Dowser serenades to get a slightly more powerful effect than either of you alone.)


Ashok nods, "You guys are our recovery specialists. If you can find it, all the better, but we're counting on you to be able to extract the device and the data. Our projections put the five of you at the highest ratio of success as compared to other combinations of our ASTs. The other teams are hopefully going to be feeding us information on where to locate the target."

[OverdrivePrime]

In a few minutes, Ashok looks up from his computer, "May reports we've got confirmation of the initial contact site. Once you touch down, you're going to want to head here and do a very strong search of the area."

Anything you guys are going to require for the trip?

[EvilDespot]

"Kvaran's got a telepathic link to the other two teams, but a way to get in touch with you here would be useful."

[OverdrivePrime]

Ashok nods, and one of the staffers stands and hands you each a small cell phone-looking device, "This is the best we've got. Secure, variable channel, encripted walkie-talkies. They'll bounce a signal up to a Public Television satellite that we've secured a couple channels on. There'll be a very slight delay, but with this we can track your location and you can maintain communication with the whole team. Each comes with an ear-to-jawbone voice pickup that isolates your voice once you train it for about five minutes. I suggest doing that on the plane. You can whisper at about fifteen decibles and your message can be heard clearly by the rest of the team, including myself here at PLL.

[Fugu]

"I'll think of plenty of things we need once we need them, but I'm sure we can make do with the standard kit. If there is one. You know--" I tap my voice com, "headset, body armor, phoenix downs?"

If there is no kit, I make sure to find and bring a first aid kit, body armor, 50 feet of cord, a rifle, a box of shells. and a snickers bar. I conceal these in my coat and backpack.

This post has been edited by Fugu: 05 November 2007 - 05:43 PM

[OverdrivePrime]

The standard SCE kit:
1 Leatherman multi tool
1 small first aid kit
50 feet of high-strength lightweight rope
4 chemical glow sticks
3 cliff bars
1 reflective shock blanket
1 small flask
a very light form-fitting body armor under-suit such as the kind worn by Olympic skiers (1 point of armor protection over the whole body (except head, neck, hands and feet))


The body armor can be swapped out for the following:

Flexible "Forcefield" body armor such as that worn by motorcyclists. (2 points of armor, whole body except head and neck)

Rigid AJ3 armor jacket by Fammz. (2 points of armor to torso, arms and waist.)

or a Gatorflex Level IIIA Kevlar vest (3 points ballistic armor to chest and waist)


Paradigm has a number of tactical knives, pistols, shotguns and rifles that you can select for this mission. Standard ammunition only (shot or slug for shotgun).

This post has been edited by OverdrivePrime: 05 November 2007 - 10:30 PM

[Fugu]

I wear forcefield armor.

On the plane, I look through my backpack. "Blech. Does anybody want these clif bars?"

[EvilDespot]

At Fugu's words I look up from playing with my leatherman.

"Oh, man! We got Clif bars? toss 'em here."

[Saphi Yago]

I look up from sharpening various knives, painting black stripes under my eyes, tying a bandana around my head. I'm dressed as much like Solid Snake as possible.

I'm bringing along knives, sheathed into my boots, shoulder and belt sheathes, a .45 1911 with an LAM, a heavy backsword, and a shotgun, with spare clip pouches and a bandolier of shotgun shells.

DS says that he grabs the facepaint and applies his own stripes, and uses Vibrato to make the room echo with the eldritch sounds of Survivor's Eye of the Tiger.

I'm (DS) bringing the Colt Python, a sabre, extra ammo, and a pair of binoculars. Oh, and a spyglass.

[OverdrivePrime]

The feel on the plane is rather inspiring thanks to DS's serenade manipulation of the powers of Rock.

[Saphi Yago]

Oh, I'm also wearing the kevlar.

[Forger]

"And we're OFF!"

I settle into the trip thinking of the various things that people with our kind of job could be called on to do... Something about the aggresive acquisition or critical goods brings a smile to my face.

I still have a small arsenal tattooed to my arms, but am otherwise not obviously armed or armored. After the plane lands, we'll make our way as quickly as possible to the scene of the robbery, assuming that nothing else has come up in the meantime.

[OverdrivePrime]

You guys will be dropped off first, as soon as the airport opens at 6:00.

From there, the jet is going to Colorado Springs to drop off the Global Logistics team.

Sara and Mador (Barak) from Logistics Master Planning will be joining you as well, getting dropped of in Cheyenne on the jet's return leg, around 7:20. Mador is dressed up like a bodyguard. Sara is dressed up like a Air Force Wife / Soccer Momma.

[Forger]

I suppose, unless one has been provided, I will go to the rental car counter and rent us a van. Something large.

I will take out all the insurance they have on it.

Every last little scrap (I know us)

and then, again, unless there are suggestions or reservations, we will be off to the site of the theft.

[OverdrivePrime]

Actually, there are a pair of Jeeps waiting for you guys. Both are late 90's models. One is a Jeep Renegade, the other is a Grand Cherokee. The Renegade is a dark green, the Grand Cherokee is navy blue. Both are hard tops.

Sadly, the Hertz counter doesn't open until 7, but you can come back and rent a van if you like.

This post has been edited by OverdrivePrime: 09 November 2007 - 01:19 PM

[Forger]

Fuck That Hertz crap...

I CALL RENEGADE!!!

[Druid Scion]

"Goddamnit!" I run to the GC, yelling to Will and Chris to "GET IN THE FUCKING MONGOOSE!"

[Fugu]

"Um.... do we need two cars?" I get in the renegade. To Forger: "You know where to go, right?"

[OverdrivePrime]

You guys know where to go, thanks to a hand-held GPS that you remembered to take along. Around 7:00, you arrive on the stretch of highway where you've been told that the truck's GPS signal disappeared. Traffic is extremely light here.

With extensive searching around, Chris (Evil Despot) finds a small patch of broken glass in the right lane of the Interstate. Because it hasn't been crushed into tiny bits by the wheels of hundreds of cars, you can surmise that the glass hasn't been there for more than 12 hours.

About 250 feet up the road, Adam (Fugu) gives a shout. Adam has found another patch of broken glass. This path is larger than the other one, and on the shoulder of the highway, about three feet to the right of the right lane. Carefully poring over the patch, you guys discover that this second patch of glass has a small amount of blood mixed with it, clinging to a few of the glass shards.

Walter (Druid Scion), Will (Saphi Yago) and Kvaran (Forger) in the mean time, have been combing the area for any other signs of violence. They find three bullet casings, and after some close inspection, Will and Chris agree that the bullets have come a single pistol. There seems to have been one shot at the just prior to the first patch of glass, and then another two shots in the immediate vicinity to the second patch of glass.

[EvilDespot]

I turn to Will.
"I dunno if this is enough to track where the truck went, but it's a start. You wanna help me with this?"

With that I start to sing my dowser serenade, focusing on the broken glass, and the vehicle it must have come from.