@Pix, sent you my starting nuyen roll and finalized my character (barring your review to change stuff).<br/><br/>Did a little bit of brainstorming, mostly with RSGAlex.  It looks like it might in fact be a good idea to have 3 on Hotel team to handle the briefcase swap - one can be out of the room and minding it while two distract and/or drug the marks.<br/><br/>Nadia's sprites solve the sabotage in a more elegant (and subtle) way than Butterfly with a pipe or wrench, which means that Butterfly is free to be bodyguard (or swap with Junkcat, if Butterfly on hotel with Junkcat in bar for "bodyguard" plus Opium Den works better, which is might.)<br/><br/>So, what with all the responses and chatter, just to try to cut through the planning stage, it sounds like:<br/><hr/>Hotel:<br/>Myriad/$treetname - Palming<br/>Nadia - Briefcase spoof issues, handling hotel security for the case swap<br/>Butterfly - Escorting the side-case<em>soft assignment</em><br/>1 or more Low force machine sprites to provide assistance<br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Hotel Plan</div><div class="spoiler_body">Nadia's car, OR if Stone thinks it would be better cover, via high-end sedan or limo arranged by him. Probably not though - this is Puyallup, not Bellevue. Stay offsite long enough for Nadia to get 3 marks on hotel security.  Butterfly is willing to infil as eye candy - she has clothing in her closet ranging from a Zoé Moonsilver dress to slum-hooker tanktop and skirt with leggings, and options in between.  However, if they have a penchant for hiring <em>escorts</em> as opposed to prostitutes, then we need to do the homework, find their preferred escort service (or the local premier service) and spoof that to send them an AR advert and coupon.  Maybe use that as the infil angle to begin with - get marks on hotel service, start a real ad program with a real coupon, intercept their call and spoof our response.  If Stone has an in with the escort service, then he can speed that along.<br/><br/>Plan A is to get in undercover, drug or otherwise distract, get the briefcase from the car to do the swap (with hotel security records of getting the briefcase wiped).  Plan B falls back on choking a bitch out or fucking them to unconsciousness, plan C is straight to combat because we got made, plan D means rig the place to burn down to hide evidence in the later attack.  Plan E: Get to the car, get out, with prep to brick the marks vehicle if necessary.</div></div><br/>Bikers:<br/>Stella - Performance, distraction, flirtation<br/>Junkcat - Bodyguard and roadie, magical support<br/>Driver provided by Stone - Roadie, don't know shit about the plan and can be kept out of it.<br/><br/>High force (4 maybe? 5? 3 at worst) Machine Sprite to glitch bikes<br/><br/>1 or more Low force machine sprites to provide assistance<br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Biker delay plan</div><div class="spoiler_body">Van to bar.  Play the scene to get the gangers attention. Delay them, flirt.  Plan A is pure performance-based, but a low force sprite tied to Stella's Commlink might give her a bonus to performance (improving the quality of the sounds system and mixing on the fly).  Plan B is twofold: Junkcat, barring magical detection on site, Opium-Dens the room to "prime" it (and Junkcat might do that without ever having discussed it with poor Stella) and penalize the resistance rolls to the performance; Glitchsprite glitches the bikes - a bunch of starters stop working and some of the pilot programs have Blue Screens of Death.  Plan C - things don't go well, somebody starts a fight and pushes over a bike to provoke the bikers, possibly in a fit of pique - Stella would be perfect for this - and provokes the bikers.  Everyone gets in the van and guns it to GTFO and lure the bikers on a merry chase.  This might end roughly.  Plan D escalates and allows for bricking moving bikes or going to more overt combat.  Plan E is to cancel and exfil with de-escalation, or to give up and try to ameliorate the bikers without getting murdered.</div></div><br/>Honestly, Butterfly could end up on either side. If the Hotel team has the briefcase in Nadia's car they can just swap the briefcases after the Marks are passed out for the night.  It might be worthwhile to get some Long Haul - it's easy to get and can ensure that our people<em>don't</em>fall asleep.  If Stone can help us with that, cool. If not, I'm sure a Street Doc contact can set us up - only 50 nuyen per dose.<br/><br/>Shopping list for gear:<br/>Long Haul (doses for everyone, this is a one day job and we don't want to worry about exhaustion)<br/>Van and driver for band<br/>maybe car service<br/>timeline before job - Days? Weeks? Hours? I would expect 3-10 days, but scenario not certain.<br/><br/>Junkcat, if you think you can bind a couple of spirits to help, it might not be a bad idea to have that prepped. Not sure how you might employ them though.<br/><hr/>I'm gonna copy the plan into the disc in the On-Topic thread for critique by the people who are there, so we can hopefully streamline the review process for them.<br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Nuyen Roll</div><div class="spoiler_body">At 2021-01-10 01:15:22, Annaamarth (uid: 57335) rolls: 4d6 Result: 11 (https://elliquiy.com/forums/dicebot.php?r=151450)</div></div><br/><strong>Also discussed on Disc: Callie's streetname may still be in flux, but it's likely she'll have several.  Since I have Fist, Butterfly and Chōchō, but usually go by Butterfly (but might swap to Fist when fewer letters is good), I support this!<br/><br/>Also, if anyone does get iced, please bring them to Fist so she can donate their organs to a needy hospital and hide their bodies.  For money.</strong>