[D7 LA] Ghosts down Memory Lane (Closed)

[Thimacek]

For a few seconds, it seems like everything will work out fine, but after some time - it's hard to know where exactly, as the hololed display only shows a few lines that shift about instead of the actual floor, but Dai's senses would suggest about B4 - the elevator creaks, clunks and screeches to a halt.

The lights flicker again, then go dark.

Ten seconds later, they flicker again, and keep flickering for some more seconds, producing an effect similar to strobe lights. You think you see a shadow again, similar to the one you saw at the reception, but this time a young woman, or perhaps a girl, floating.



As fast as she appeared, she's gone again. The lights turn back on. The elevator jolts once.

Twice.

Thrice.

And you start going down again...

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Everyone: Please make a Fear 2 check (Raw Willpower + Honor TN 15) due to your fun journey down.

[Thimacek]

Part 3 - The Laboratory


As the elevator door opens at the B7 Floor after your pleasure trip, you see what at some point was a large glass door - now broken - and another scene that testifies to the tragedy of the Kinuye accident. What must have been corridors to the right and left are now completely caved in, the emergency stairs as inaccessible here as they were on the Ground Floor.

In the room ahead - which with some luck must have been the laboratory Kioku worked in - you can see some of the furniture and structure of the laboratory still intact, however, which gives you at least some hope that an intact Rainbow Olm sample may still exist somewhere here. But the rubble and debris leaves no mistake - the destruction reached even here, deep underground. Notably, no bodies are clearly visible - although this most likely doesn’t mean that nobody died here when the accident happened…

Everyone - as you step outside the elevator (and after your Fear roll!), roll an Investigation (Notice)/ Perception check! (To clarify, this is a 'try and find out' moment, so I'll say you don't have to worry about Raises)

[Kitsune Kiyoshi]

"I wonder who she is." The Fox said quietly.

As they stepped off the rlevator, he looked around carefully.

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[D7 LA] GHOSTS DOWN MEMORY LANE (CLOSED), Fear 2 | 3k3+4 ⇒ 22 (TN: 15)

[D7 LA] GHOSTS DOWN MEMORY LANE (CLOSED), Investigation/Perception, 1CR | 6k3 ⇒ 21 (TN: ?)

[Susumu Sumiko]

Sumiko had managed to not scream at the juttering.

Just.

She was looking around though, and the final jutter and drop had her shaking. Which meant when the elevator came to a sudden stop she wasn't able to focus at all. All she could think about was the ghost that would haunt her dreams for a long time.

(Ooc - D7 LA ghosts down memory land special event - fear 2 (tn15) | 2k2 ⇒ 14 (TN: 15) failed

D7 LA ghosts down memory land special event - investigation/perception + prodigy - fear 2 | 4k3 ⇒ 7 (TN: ?)

[Dai]

Dai continues to be unfazed by the horrors of the Dark Zone having experienced much more terrifying creatures and events. Though the tension and constantly being on alert were beginning to wear on his reserves.

"Odd that there's no bones or other signs of the dead. If a gaki fed on those it might not care that our flesh is still wrapped around ours. Be wary."

Unfortunately he was likely looking in the wrong place.

(
D7, LA: Fear 2 - Willpower + Honor, VP for +1k1+2 (WW) | 3k3+3 ⇒ 23 (TN: 15)

D7, LA: Investigation/Perception, 1 Raise called | 6k3 ⇒ 15 (TN: ?)

Only succeeds if base TN was 10)

[Thimacek]

D7, LA: Investigation/Perception, 1 Raise called | 6k3 ⇒ 15 (TN: ?)

Only succeeds if base TN was 10)

Since I added above Raises don't matter here after you rolled, I'll just consider that a 15.

[Thimacek]

GHOSTING YESUGEN

GHOSTING YESUGEN
Fear 2 check. Raw Willpower + 6 Honour vs TN 15 | 3k3+6 ⇒ 48 (TN: 15) ( )

GHOSTING YESUGEN
Investigation (Notice)/ Perception, hidden TN. | 7k4 ⇒ 39 (TN: ?) ( )

The Utaku seems absolutely unfazed by the whole situation. At one point, one looking at her while the lights were flashing would see her yawning, then leaning on the elevator wall and rolling her eyes, as if she were just waiting for the whole thing to end so they could get on with their business.



After a few steps inside the lower floor, the lights of which are all on - whether since the accident or reactivated by some strange effect at some point is hard to say - Kiyoshi sees three cameras ahead, with what seem to be guns mounted underneath each of them. In the still-standing right panel of reinforced glass, close to the central part that is now in smithereens, he sees a Display.

Yesugen, with her keen eyes, sees LED lights and small movements clearly indicating that the cameras are still working. It would be smart to do something about these before going for the samples, if you can, although that will of course take some time. She also notices shimmering lights in the Display to the right. Maybe you could try to control something from there?

Everyone may choose their actions for the round as before. You can do one of the following:

• I should probably avoid these turrets - You can attempt to move keeping out of the range of view of the cameras and make your way to one of the desks ahead, which would allow you to start searching for the sample (or something else). This requires 3 Time Steps and a Stealth/Agility roll vs TN 25. Small characters need 1 additional Time Step, while characters with Water 3 or higher require 1 less Time Step. Each successful Raise called here reduces the time needed by 1 (to a minimum of 1) as you try to make your way to the benches faster. If you succeed, you reach a work bench or desk. If you fail, however, you become visible to the cameras, and they risk being shot.
• Can this be hacked?.. - If you have a Computer or another way to plug into a Jack, you may try to access the local system from the Display to try to override the Turrets’ system remotely. Each attempt to do this needs 3 Time Steps and a Use Computers(Hacking)/ Intelligence roll vs TN 30. This counts as a Low Skill as normal. Success deactivates 1 Turret. Raises may be called to deactivate one more turret per Raise in the same attempt. If you Swipe the ID card before doing this, you gain 1 Free Raise in your attempt.
• ”I guess Soshi Ohana worked here?” - With the ID card in hand, you can try to swipe it to gain some access rights and try to deactivate the turrets remotely using Ohana's credentials. This isn't as easy as just swiping the card, however, since the system isn't exactly in prime working condition. Each attempt to do this needs 2 Time Steps and a Use Computers (Programming)/ Intelligence roll vs TN 20. Success deactivates 1 Turret. Raises may be called to deactivate one more turret per two Raises[ in the same attempt.
• [”And the bullets start flying” - Attacking one of the turrets with a ranged attack needs 1 Time Step. If you do this, you become visible to the cameras and risk being shot.
• ”Seriously? You’ll smash them? - Attacking one of the turrets with a melee attack needs 3 Time Steps as the player moves through the field to reach it. Small characters need 1 additional Time Step, while characters with Water 3 or higher require 1 less Time Step. If a PC does this, you become visible to the cameras and have a high risk of being shot!
• ”Let’s just get these samples and get outta here - If you decide to just make a beeline to one of the benches or desks, you reach a bench in 1 Time Step (if you're Small, 2 Time Steps instead). If you do this, you become visible and have a high risk of being shot!
• ”Take cover!”. If you are visible at the start of a round, you may spend your round trying to find cover to avoid being hit by the cameras. This needs 2 Time Steps and a Stealth/Agility roll vs TN 15. If you succeed, this makes you not visible to the cameras - but you cannot access a bench after doing this without taking one of the actions above that lead you to a bench.
• Wait - If you decide to just wait while others do their thing, you spend 1 Time Step.
• Do something else - If you have some other idea here that I haven't covered, explain what you are doing in your post and ping me. I'll react to it at the end of the round! (This includes casting a spell!)

NOTE

• This will NOT be treated as a Combat against the turrets - instead, we'll keep players acting in rounds as we were before. PCs that become Visible to the cameras may be targeted by the turrets when we move from one round to the next.
• If all the turrets become inactivated, you can access the benches freely.
• After each round, I'll make a post to give updates on what is happening. I'll probably be around until later today, and I'll be in front of the PC most of the day tomorrow, so ping me if a round ends!
• I'll be afk for a bit now, so I'll wait some 6 to 8-ish hours for answers before I get into ghosting. If you have specific instructions for ghosting, please leave them around. Since our Euro-folks have gone to sleep or are going to sleep soon, I may wait for them to have a chance to see this before I get into ghosting.

Good luck!

EDIT: Ah, for record-keeping purposes - the elevator trip down took 3 Time Steps!

[Thimacek]

OOC - Added the usual options of waiting and doing something else

[Dai]

Dai, having taken back the card as they entered the elevator, dashed over to the terminal and began trying to get it to accept the ID.

His fingers fly and two blinking red lights go still.

(D7, LA: Don't shoot, we're friendly! Swipe card: Computer Use/Intelligence, 2 Raises called | 9k4 ⇒ 40 (TN: 30)

2 Time Steps used, 2 Turrets deactivated, Free Raise towards hacking if someone tries it)

[Hotaru Sakura]

Sakura ran after Dai, she hte Mistress of Pushing it right this way exactly, managed to quickly click down the last light after DAi was done.

"Teamwork!"

OOC:
D7 LA Use Computers/Int, tn 20 | 6k4 ⇒ 34 (TN: 20)

2 teim steps

[Kitsune Kiyoshi]

With the turrets appearing to be disabled, Kiyoshi quickly made his way to the benches to find the sample.

2 Steps (small)

[Susumu Sumiko]

With the turrets being down (unlike Sumikos heartrate which was racing), Sumiko hurried over to the benches with Kiyoshi. However, where Kiyoshi went for the samples Sumiko went to the computers at the desk. Balancing her plushie spider on the machine, she got working on breaking in.

(ooc - D7 LA ghosts down memory land special event - hacking the computer terminals Computers/int+prodigy+inheritance. -2k0 from fear. Making 2 raises | 9k5 ⇒ 33 (TN: ?)

2 steps to get to benches+steps to hack. Looking for details on experiments on the different floors as well as which floors they're on if possible)

[Utaku Yesugen]

I'm already awake too late. I need to sleep. Assuming no more turrets, will start looting.

[Thimacek]

Wtih Dai and Sakura working together on the Display using Soshi Ohana's credentials, they quickly find out the necessary commands to inactivate the turrets and wrestle them in regardless of the system freezing and misbehaving now and then. In less than a minute, the lights under all three cameras go still, and you notice a low hum that probably came from them stopping.

The other three quickly take the cue and move to the desks and benches.

Part 4 - Find the Sample
On the workstations that were used by the researchers, the mess caused by the incident is mixed with the unmistakable signs of the past life that happened here - half-charred notebooks with some unimportant notes that can still be read, some personal items in unlocked drawers, a doll, still with the price tag, probably be a gift which never reached the child of one of the researchers who were here on that fateful day.

At each of the benches, you find a variety of small tubes, some of which seem to still contain some material. Inside the drawers you'll find other tubes, notebooks and a variety of laboratory materials. If you try the computers which are on top of some of the desks, you'll find they boot up and seem to be working. Now it’s a matter of finding out which of the samples is the one you’re after.

Sumiko is the first to start working on them. The computer boots up, she manages to bypass the user password. The computer is not in the best working conditions, freezing from time to time, and she finds that anything other than personal things of minor importance is behind stronger protection. It will take some work getting to that...

As the others get to the benches, you may:

• Peruse one of the computers to look for information - This requires 4 Time Steps, as the computer's conditions are not the best and it freezes from time to time. This needs a Use Computer (Hacking) TN 25; Raises can help you find more information. If the person taking this action is holding Soshi Ohana's credentials, they find some information in the card can help here, granting 1 Free Raise. New attempts by the same PC require 6 Time Steps each. If you have Use Computer 3, you can try again once spending only 4 Time Steps instead. This can be done as a Cooperative roll, with only one PC rolling and the others granting a bonus equal to their combined Skill Ranks to the roll (this is affected by Use Computer 5). For Time Steps, this counts as all the PCs cooperating in the task taking this action (thus 4 or 6 Time Steps each, depending on whether they've taken this action before).
• Can I use Soshi Ohana's credentials?... - Instead of hacking through the system, you can try to use Soshi Ohana's credentials to access the information. You'll find she wasn't a researcher of this specific sector, so you'll still need to ask for additional user privileges and do some more creative programming to access some things. This likewise requires 4 Time Steps, but you can make a Use Computer (Programming) TN 20, may call raises. New attempts require 4 Time Steps each. This can be done as a Cooperative roll, with only one PC rolling and the others granting a bonus equal to their combined Skill Ranks to the roll (this is affected by Use Computer 5). For Time Steps, this counts as all the PCs cooperating in the task taking this action (thus 4 or 6 Time Steps each, depending on whether they've taken this action before).
• Establish a direct link with a Computer in the lab, then hack for information - This requires a Portable Computer, and is what Sumiko has tried. If the person taking this action is holding Soshi Ohana's credentials, they find some information in the card can help here, granting 1 Free Raise. This action requires 2 Time Steps instead, although the base TN is 30. Raises can help you find more information. New attempts require 4 Time Steps each. If you have Use Computer 3, you can try again once spending only 2 Time Steps instead. This can be done as part of a Cooperative roll with other PCs Perusing the computers (which takes longer), although the base TN regardless of who rolls is the highest 30 (instead of TN 25). Only one PC rolls, and the others grant a bonus equal to their combined Skill Ranks to the roll (this is affected by Use Computer 5).
• Attempt to find a sample - If you want to look for a specific sample (e.g. the Rainbow Olm sample!), tell me which sample you're looking for, and you can attempt to locate it among the desks. This takes 2 Time Slots. To do so, make a Lore: Biology roll vs TN 30. You can replace this with a Lore: Theology roll vs TN 35 or a Lore: Spirit Realms roll vs TN 40, as genetic work is often tied to theological or spiritual matters. After you do so, please also roll a Fear 1 check... and another Lore: Biology, Lore: Theology or Lore: Spirit Realms roll, as things will happen...

NOTES:
Utaku Yesugen took 2 steps to reach the benches as well!
I'll try to keep things moving each 1:30 hours at most today so we can get this done with! Please keep ghosting notes for what you'd do here if you can. Thanks!

TO CLARIFY - Looking for information in the Computer doesn't automatically give you the samples. It may help, though! To actually find samples, you need to choose that option and make the Lore: Bio, Lore: Theology or Lore: Spirit Realms rolls. You can fluff that as either finding a physical sample or its information in the computer, but the roll is the same

[Kitsune Kiyoshi]

"Just a moment, Susumu-sana. I will ask the water kami to bring you good fortune." Kiyoshi said, before whispering the prayer on his densai.

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[D7 LA] Ghosts down Memory Lane (Closed), Casting Reversal of Fortunes on Susumu Sumiko | 5k3 ⇒ 42 (TN: 10)

1 immediate reroll per round for 3 rounds, keeping either result.

1 Time Step

[Hotaru Sakura]

Sakura used the keycard to look around, hoping to find something useful.

OOC:
D7 LA Use Computers/Intelligence, Can I use Soshi Ohana's credentials?., 1 CR, tn 25 | 6k4 ⇒ 27 (TN: 25)
4 time steps

Can I use Soshi Ohana's credentials?... - Instead of hacking through the system, you can try to use Soshi Ohana's credentials to access the information. You'll find she wasn't a researcher of this specific sector, so you'll still need to ask for additional user privileges and do some more creative programming to access some things. This likewise requires 4 Time Steps, but you can make a Use Computer (Programming) TN 20, may call raises. New attempts require 4 Time Steps each. This can be done as a Cooperative roll, with only one PC rolling and the others granting a bonus equal to their combined Skill Ranks to the roll (this is affected by Use Computer 5). For Time Steps, this counts as all the PCs cooperating in the task taking this action (thus 4 or 6 Time Steps each, depending on whether they've taken this action before).

[Thimacek]

Note: The spell will count for 3 rolls. If you do nothing during a round, that will count as 1 round as well.

Another Note: Sumiko's Fear is now at -1k0

[Susumu Sumiko]

Sumiko continued to work on the computer she was at, bypassing the restrictions with ease.

About time with these dated computers...

She was starting to feel more calm, putting that ghost thing as far from her mind as possible.

(ooc:

Peruse one of the computers to look for information - This requires 4 Time Steps, as the computer's conditions are not the best and it freezes from time to time. This needs a Use Computer (Hacking) TN 25; Raises can help you find more information. If the person taking this action is holding Soshi Ohana's credentials, they find some information in the card can help here, granting 1 Free Raise. New attempts by the same PC require 6 Time Steps each. If you have Use Computer 3, you can try again once spending only 4 Time Steps instead. This can be done as a Cooperative roll, with only one PC rolling and the others granting a bonus equal to their combined Skill Ranks to the roll (this is affected by Use Computer 5). For Time Steps, this counts as all the PCs cooperating in the task taking this action (thus 4 or 6 Time Steps each, depending on whether they've taken this action before).

D7 LA ghosts down memory land special event - Peruse one of the computers to look for information. Computers(hacking)/int+prodigy+inheritance. -1k0 from fear. Tn25+2 raises | 10k5 ⇒ 44 (TN: 35)

4 time steps used
Running total: 53 time steps

[Hotaru Sakura]

"Minna-san, I found some information." Sakura shared the details she got. "I might check out some things here...silkmoths or Dragon Newt sounds promising."

OOC:

Long-legged fire-maned dog - Floor B7 - Res: Soshi Chiharu. Patients: Arie, Chimiko, Shosuro Omaru.
Ink-black Silkmoths, Duskmoths, Darkleather bats, Blacksilk spiders (Deepblack Silk project) - Floor B7 - R: Soshi Saneyuki. Patients: None - Joint Venture with S&Y Materials Research
Rainbow Olm - Floor B7 - Res: Soshi Kioku. Patients: Uruki, Soshi Omoi.
Firebrand Salamander - Floor B9 - Res: Bayushi Sora. Patients: Marui, Bayushi Oharu, Shosuro Fumie.
Oborozuki Dragon Newt - Floor B7 - Res: Soshi Chiharu. Patients: Michi, Oruki. Joint Project with (Classified).
Long-lived fluttering lampbugs - Floor B5 - Res: Shosuro Naokuni. Patients: Soshi Bunki, Yogo Goro, Bayushi Ryotaru. Joint Project with Soshi Lightning and Illumination.
Benikurage Jellyfish - Floor B7 - Res: Soshi Ryo - Patients: Bayushi Jiro, Bayushi Katsuro, Shosuro Kenzo, Shosuro Mao, Yogo Omotori. Joint venture with Soshi Pharmaceuticals.
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(... some other unreadable information follows)

The names of patients and those responsible can be quite helpful when identifying samples, granting you 1 Free Raise to identify/ find a specific sample when looking for it. This may be summed with other information, if you have it from somewhere.

ALSO:
The list of names involved in the tests, if analysed properly, may provide relevant information. Everyone gains 1 Information for their faction/themselves.

[Thimacek]

Running total: 49 time steps

(On the TIme Steps: We had 30 when getting to B7; 27 +3 for the elevator trip = 30. 2 from each in the next round, plus 4 for Sumiko's first hacking attempt = 44. Now 1 from Kyoshi, 4 from Sakura and 4 from Sumiko should make 53, I think?

Also - info on what you found in the computers will be in your PFs! Sakura's has been sent already, as you can see.