<div class="floatleft">(http://i.imgur.com/D6yF5Gu.jpg)</div><table class="bbc_table"><tbody><tr><td><strong>Drop</strong> (https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=243890.msg12052519#msg12052519)</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Context</strong></td><td>Preparing to murderate.</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Tagging</strong></td><td>Team</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Fate Points</strong></td><td><del>1</del> 2</td></tr></tbody></table><hr/><br/>Jane eyed the maintenance drone with suspicion. Maintenance drones were to be expected up here. Something had to keep the hab in ship-shape. She'd read just a little about these ones. AGI may make her blood boil, but standard AI were still useful in their own ways. This model's vision was mostly limited to microscopic sight, and could probably barely even see her. The drone was Probably not a threat. Probably.<br/><br/>Probably wasn't good enough.<br/><br/>Jane drew her combat knife from her belt, and well, it was just an AI, right? Firewall wouldn't mind a little collateral damage to ensure mission security. After all, this was why Filters got on so well with Drop. Mission security was top priority with her, and that made the Filter's job even easier during coverup. Bodies were easier to hide than a fellow who Knew Too Much, and it was hard to leave a data trail on the mesh when you fervently refused to use the mesh. Just like this innocuous, silent Caterpillar bot she was about to technically-murder, she cleaned house and caused little fuss.<br/><br/>Though at the end of the day, was this all she was? Some flat so fucked up that she pretended to act like an AI just to feel comfortable? Hell, it didn't even make her feel comfortable. There wasn't any pleasure in feeding her paranoia its daily chew-toy. All it ensured was her continued existence, not absolution.<br/><br/>Jane held the knife over the Caterpillar drone. This was, she supposed, the reason she couldn't keep trinkets at her apartment...<br/><br/>After a quiet minute, Jane wiped some synthetic grease from the tang of her exosuit's tactical knife. Wordlessly, she used her sniper rifle to get a view of the vans. They were early. Very early.<br/><br/><hr/><strong>Drop:</strong>Update.<br/><strong>Drop:</strong>A line of vans, approximately four, are headed towards the meeting place. I suspect it's the Red Dragons setting up for an ambush- but I'll be able to tell for sure when they start setting up and I can identify their chosen morphs. Rusters for Red Dragons, Neo-Gorillas for Gray Xu.<br/><strong>Drop:</strong>Also, considering that dealings with the Night Cartel went south before we could get solid intel, I've requested an "Art Critic" from the server. With them, we should be able to give a general ID to the Art if and when we gain a visual of it. Be prepared to pick one up on the way to the Souks.<br/><strong>Drop:</strong>However, something is irregular. If Experia is trying to film the Red Dragons raiding the weapons deal, why are the camera feeds going offline now that they're here? That sounds counter-intuitive. Hypothetically speaking, it could be equally likely that the Red Dragons may have unknowingly become part of a weapons demonstration for the Art Piece, rather than aggressors sent to muck up a deal. A double-check of Experia's involvement in this deal may be in order.<br/><strong>Drop:</strong>On the matter of the camera feeds, I'm going to get a physical look at these sensors with my scope. Standby.<br/><hr/><br/>Before Jane looked at the camera feeds, she briefly tapped through Antimony's Tac-Feed, only to be greeted with a brief snuff film of Antimony blowing a sleeping man's head off.<em>How many were sleeping?</em>Jane thought to herself. Unconscious, uninjured bodies wasn't the product of a heated gunfight. Was... was one of them an Async? When Antimony talked about<em>'magical abilities'</em>, things clicked together in the paranoid ball of stress in her brain. Antimony was an Async. Jane was working with a bloody Async.<br/><br/>Asyncs were hard for Jane to deal with. You couldn't really stare an army of TITANs in the face and go on believing that there was such thing as a benign strain of the Exsurgant virus. What's worse, as a terran flat, Jane was pretty susceptible to them. That kind of security risk was unacceptable to the war veteran. Even if Antimony was on their side, Jane knew it was going to take a lot of restraint to deal with the Antimony from now on. After the mission was over, Jane would have to use some the rep to acquire a Psi-Inhibitor Syringe for some added peace-of-mind. Just in case.<br/><br/>Of course, she could be getting ahead of herself. Jane typed something in the chat, just to make sure.<br/><hr/><strong>Drop:</strong>@Antimony: I'm seeing a large amount of KO'd guards on your Tacnet feed. Is there an Async on the team?<br/><hr/>That'd be enough. Hopefully. Returning her focus to the job at hand, Jane rifled through the logs of the deactivated camera feeds, locating the coordinates of as many that could be in view. Readying her sniper rifle, Jane used her scope to get a better look at them. She hated technology sometimes, but this rifle had to be the best thing since carbonite handcuffs appeared in the weapon surplus depot.<br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Notice Roll to confirm the status of the Cameras</div><div class="spoiler_body">At 2016-03-23 20:03:30, FarFetched (uid: 56764) rolls: 4d3a-8 Result: 2 (https://elliquiy.com/forums/dicebot.php?r=86859)<br/>Added to a Notice of 3, for a total of 5.<br/></div></div>