game summary for 2015, January 30

Aboard the scum swarm, Huey Lewis was alerted to the presence of another Firewall sentinel, "Doc", who could be of assistance on our present mission. Doc is a scientist aboard The World Will Soon Recognize My Genius. He works in the same area as Galatea, and has his own company, "Singularity Corp".

On Nova Timbuk, meanwhile, the forks of Herpert, Derpina, and Skripatch continued their preliminary work. Working with criminal networks on the station, Skripatch established an anon account to route through. They managed to get some more hacking done over the next few days, before egocasting back to the swarm.

On the scum swarm, Huey Lewis was able to arrange transport to Nova Timbuk (from Mars orbit) from his contact, Nezan Mumbai. In exchange, Huey agreed to pay Nezan 8500 credits, and agreed to "a big favor" to Nezan. Huey did not, in fact, have this money, and was about to take out a loan. However, before that happened, Herpert loaned 5000 credits to Huey, enough to pay off Nezan. The transport was a certified Cognite transport, meaning we would not be searched upon entrace to Nova Timbuk. Doc, meanwhile, tried discerning, based on evidence so far, what Danny Jim could be up to; while Kimiko, with the help of Huey Lewis and Huey's muse, began work to design appropriate clothing and biosculpting for our time on Nova Timbuk. It was determined that the present fashion among Cognite elites was a "stern look without looking too much like the military", where the person would seem to resemble an Oversight agent. Wearing our new, imposing, looks, we would gain a +10 to rolls to have people "stay out of our business" (+20 if they were lower-class people).

As we began to debate strategies for exiting Nova Timbuk, Huey decided it would be a good idea to get an emergency farcaster, in the event we became trapped on Nova Timbuk. He spent the next three days asking The Eye for the augmentation, to no avail. Doc, meanwhile, did some psychosurgery on himself to add the skill "Navigation" (to attempt to plot routes through the interior surface of Nova Timbuk).

Getting near Mars, Skripatch was able to arrange for some Barsoomians to make him a savant synthmorph, and then (via criminal contacts) for it to be smuggled up to the swarm. The hacker trio, Doc, Huey Lewis, and Kimiko then boarded the Cognite transport. In exchange for this favor, Mumbai asked that Huey Lewis share whatever data Huey was after with Mumbai. A few hours later we were on Nova Timbuk. We passed through customs without being searched (although we all had to present IDs).

Our plan at this point was for our team to, within 30 minutes, break into the Cognite facility where Danny Jim's office was. However, the hacker trio alerted security--they ended up being pursued (electronically) by a fork bomb of sysadminds, and were considering completely shutting off their mesh connections. Meanwhile, Skripatch noticed physical security guards coming his way, so he ducked into a side door he had compromised

At this point, the situation is:

+ ~15 days post-start

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