Recap
[In which our heroes hope that a music prank that was
embarrassingly passé in 2015 is retro-hip now that it’s 2074]
After some discussion, we decided to attempt our infiltration
of the office tower’s secret 34th floor MCT research lab, using a
pared-down team of shadow experts: Canoti, Kryptek, and Bingo (me).
Kryptek, using the info our team beat out of the captured
decker, reconnoitered the first floor and found the secret elevator that had
been installed by the former occupants, Shiawase Corporation. He found it hidden in a maintenance closet,
and also found it to be still operational.
Kryptek stole a van and used it to get us into the building
parking garage.
We made it to the elevator uneventfully, and ascended to the 34th
floor. It was a small maglev elevator,
and seemed to struggle a little with our weight, but quietly lifted us to our
destination. We found a wall panel and
popped it out, finding ourselves in another utility room. Matrix-wise, this
place was dead quiet, sealed off from the rest of the world.
Using our floor plans, we just hopped into the hallway and went
to the security room. Kryptek quickly sprang the lock somehow; the door opened
to reveal a single guard turning from a bank of monitors, some of which were
showing us enter the room. Before he could react, Canoti knocked him out with a
narcojet round.
We all went into the room.
We put the guard into a supply locker (which held a small arsenal, and
which we raided) while Kryptek decked into the system. She found our target room: a VR lab which
also held the only other person on the 34th floor. This other person was a woman who was
virtually operating some form of off-site fabrication equipment. Also of note: Kryptek discovered that,
indeed, the 33rd and 35th floors were MCT “zero-in,
zero-out” kill zones, with 35 heavily armed guards on each floor. Yikes.
While Kryptek ran local matrix overwatch, Canoti and Bingo
hurried to the VR lab and opened the door.
The woman turned and fired a laser pistol at us, barely missing. Bingo
cast manabolt and Canoti used some hand weapon (I don’t know what) and knocked
her out, but not before she was able to send a virtual command to her off-site
machinery, causing it to go haywire and alerting MCT to a problem.
Kryptek fielded a call from corporate security and played
for time, saying that no, “Agent White” was still working and there were no
apparent problems. After a moment,
though, she stole the required data, uploaded the files we were required to
upload, wiped the security recordings, and also inserted some old 1980s pop
song by Someone-or-Other Springfield to give security something to listen to
while we booked it.
Our client paid us a little extra for providing a video
still of “Agent White.”
