Posted. Sorry for taking a while.

No worries. Everbody's got their own speed.

Working on a post now.

Been a crazy week. On top of bronchitis and the (prescribed) drugs, I have a pulmonary condition where essentially by lymphatic system kicks into an unnecessary overdrive at the slightest sign of infection and that kind of sends me into random spells of fatigue.

Reading up now and working on my shizzzz. It'll post soon.

Az

Great stuff as always az.

Perfect timing too, actually. Since Damien asked Traction about the Fixer, I can actually fit in a post here.

Tomorrow I'll fit in a post where Traction does some checking on the Fixer, and then then @Krauxis can answer our questions and also reveal what Traction found out. Neat and tidy.

A humorous little tid-bit I realized skimming over the character sheets again. Kali's actually the shortest member of the team--but between her extra arms and hard-worked figure is probably the second heaviest. Somehow the thought of a small, broad-shouldered Indian woman 'mad dogging' people is absolutely delightful to me.

Don't worry, I'll put Kyuzo on a diet so she can take the top spot.

Az

Post should be up sometime tonight. Sorry for the delay.

No problem Terminal. I don't really mind posts that are a little bit late as long as you're clear in the OOC, which you've totally been.

@Terminal An intelligent and all together marvelous post. Very, Very well done.

Extremely well expressed, Terminal. But I fear you might have thought too many steps ahead of yourself. You've set yourself up for a big payoff, but I hope you're also prepared for potentially disappointing results. I suppose we'll see how it goes in the next post, which will be up within a day or so.

In favour of getting a post up sooner rather than later, I let it run a bit short. Here's the OOC info you might be interested in for now.

If anybody attempts to call Zelda back, the line will have been disconnected. The Comm is powered down.
Terminal, if you want to plant any sort of bug or do anything to her Commlink, and you can do it during the call, before she powers it down, you won't find any resistance. It's just an off the shelf make with the GPS removed, no security protocols besides the standard ones you'd find anywhere.
I'm looking to more or less conclude the majority of planning in one round if possible so we can get a move on into the job itself. If anyone has any back-and-forth you'd like to engage in, I'd encourage you to try and work it out beforehand, either in a collab, or just OOC before making a post IC. After that's done, we'll timeskip a few hours to sundown and teleport to the group of warehouses so we can get started. Anybody who has any info for the in between period an fit it either onto the end of this round's post or the beginning of the next round, up to them, I just don't want to spend that much time on the minutia before we've even done one job.

Lastly, for Terminal again, I appreciate the flash and pizzazz with which you've hacked Zelda's Comm, but in the future, with things that have a bit more heft, I'd like to ask you to PM me with what you're going to do so I can tell you what you'll be up against, and I can tell you what you might return for all your efforts, so we don't end up with a disappointing conclusion. I don't wanna just turn this into the pen and paper game, and I want to leave the majority of it in your hands as the only script junkie in the group, but certain systems might be more or less protected than you'd expect, or you might come across some unexpected intel somewhere, so just drop me a quick PM when you're gonna delve into anything in particular and I'll let you know any details I have for you. Everything else is free for you to construct.

I was planning on sending a spoofed reformat device command to add a wireless boot option, turning the device back on remotely and then using it to probe nearby LAN/WANs, but apparently that's not necessary. I might turn it on to slip in a snoop program but that's just precautionary at this point.

But yeah, otherwise that was about as expected. I wasn't expecting a huge mindblowing payoff; Traction just really enjoys her work sometimes. ;) The 'mission' here is just to get more information on Zelda.

I'd like to potentially have Kyuzo engage Recluse in a conversation, essentially tossing ideas about him having established a potential contact on the docks, and also about looking into Zelda at a street level.

I PMed you Krauxis, I'll be waiting for a response before doing any kind of solo post.

Az

I'm going to try and post either later tonight or tomorrow. Traction is going to be dumping her intel on Zelda (read: Nothing) and then telling everyone what her plan is.

Sounds good, looking forward to it.

I'll throw my post up after traction, as Kali will probably go in the direction of stretching her legs/dropping one of the other characters off somewhere else

Sent a few PMs out to get some collab'd dialog. If anyone wants to drop in and throw out some chatter feel free. piratepad.net/XmOPf980XN

So, just waiting on Kali and Cath then, plus whatever BB can pull together for that collab. Been away for a couple days so I'm just taking stock, seeing where everybody's at.

Well how about this? If the collab doesn't get any more action by the better part of tomorrow I'll just whip up a regular post.