how much time do we have?

As you look around at each other, an alarm begins to go off.  The guards look at each other and one picks up a phone that begins to ring.  They look over at you and then the guard on the phone whispers something to the others.

You prepare for the worst, and then the second guard says to the others, "There have been shots at the gate.  Security is down there.  We have two intruders in the parking garage...with guns."

All four security guards run toward a stairwell, obviously not giving you a second thought.  You can tell that they did not have any suspicions about you.

The alarms continue.

There is a large clock above the elevators down the main hall.

It is 7:44 p.m.

You are alone in the main hall, but have not yet gone through the metal detectors or X-Rays.

Screed shrugs, turns to the camera, and gives a hat tip with a smile.  He then walks over and prepares to go through the security area where the guards nomrally would.  Hopefully this will keep the alarms from going off.  Otherwise he will take the same path to the other side that they took to this side heading straight for the service elevator.

Dracos, on the otherhand, tries to keep his face out of the camera's direct view. The teen walks behind Screed, letting the Leader of the Misson lead.

Jade hops over with Screed.  "Thank the Lord for small miracles," she says.  "Now, which floor did we need to go to?"

Screed looks at Jade and says worriedly, "What?  I thought you knew where."  A smile splits his face as he says, "Kidding, sorry, service elevator to the 10th floor, room 1019."  He tries to check the time.

What time is it?

It is still 7:44 p.m.  The giant clock by the elevators confirms this.

Shadow follows Screed and the others around the security "Ha.  Thats real funny.  Now can we hurry before I get shot again?"

You hop in the service elevator after jumping over the security ropes.  You make it to the 10th floor with no problem.  As the door begins to open, you hear voices in the hall near the parallel niche where the regular elevators are.

Screed remains silent and still.  He finally whispers, "We're too early.  They're still in the hall."

Sorry, I can't picture it.  Would be able to leave the elevator and not be seen.  One would assume that they heard the ding of the elevator or was there not one?

OOC:  Because it is a service elevator, there is no ding.  They also appear to be talking amongst themselves, not security guards.

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I hope this is clear.  The hallway extends left to right.  The arrows are the elevator doors.  There are two regular elevators on the upper side and your service elevator on the bottom side.  The circles are the two people talking.  They cannot see you and appear to be waiting for an elevator themselves.

Screed reaches over and pushes the door close button.  He then pushes the top floor button.  Then he will push the floor 10 again.  This will keep the elevator engaged and at least not go down until they hit the 10th floor again.  "It seems that there are people still leaving.  Let's give them a minute or two to catch their elevator.  They tend to move slowly this time of night."  He crosses his arms and starts whistling silently to pass the time.  He watches the floors tick by.  This reminds him of something, "Did anyone see the Blues Brothers when they were logged in.  I hope this is not reminiscient of them riding the elevator."  He goes back to calmly watching the elevator rise.

Jade gives Screed a hard stare and hits the Open Door button before the doors close.  She whispers, "I wanted to listen in on their conversation.  You never know what intel you'll get, especially since we're on the right floor for the meting anyway."  She makes sure the top floor button is still pushed, however, just in case they need to make a quick exit.

Her gun is in her hand, and if anyone seems to walk toward her, she will quickly push the door close button.

Screed shrugs and remains quiet, listening also.  He gives a quick smile and a thumbs up.

"Anyone got a mirror, maybe get a look who is there?"  Shadow pulls his pistol out and waits for a response.

Jade says snidely, "Left my makeup at home.  I'll have to ask X for one next time."

"...and don't forget to cut it at 8:08," a voice says.  Then it pauses.  "Did you hear something?"

The voices stop.  Jade pushes the door close button, and the elevator starts to rise.

Screed sighs, "Okay, we have enemies here, we knew that was going to happen, but at least we now know a timetable.  We can assume they are going to cut the power at 8:08.  Should we split up?  Remember we have to do the following:

Goal 1
Da Vinci, Merotech second in command, will be holding a meeting with the leader of the Shadow regime.  They are trying to work out a truce.

You should listen in on the meeting and take information back to Zion.  It is 7:30 p.m.  The meeting is at 8:00 p.m.

You must avoid hurting any of the Awakened at the meeting.  (The Awakened will also have a spy there.)  The Awakened are most likely to sympathize with the cause of Zion.

Goal 2 (optional)
Retrieve the remote control device held by Da Vinci.  It changes reprogramming sequences for doors.

If you cannot retrieve it, then try to destroy it.

Goal 3 (optional)
Destroy the vampire prototype (Vlad) and the werewolf prototype (Jack) to set back development of such models by the Merotech.

Goal 4 (optional)
Destroy the servers containing the genetics research.  They can be found in the hall where no elevators go, where no stairs lead, in door 3.

Goal 5 (optional)
Capture Da Vinci alive and bring him to Jaguar.  Then Jaguar can become a member of the Awakened, help Zion in the future.  He has also promised to give useful coding and information to Zion if you can accomplish this.

It may be the awakened that are going to crash the meeting.  I don't know.  We have to do the first, listen in on the meeting.  In order to do 3 and 4, we are going to have to do number 2, get the remote control device from Da Vinci.  We have radios, we can split up and take multiple places on the floor.  We can stay together.  Only one person needs to definitely be in the room 1019 to listen in on 1020.  I plan on being in the room.  Ideas?"

Jade says, "Maybe we should go to the 11th floor and find an alternate way in, such as through grating or a stairwell, assuming we have time.  We're just supposed to spy in anyway.  I don't know about splitting up, especially if we can't communicate to each other."

"We have radios given to us by Jinx."  Screed goes ahead and puts his on.  "I think we have time to take the stairs from the 11th to the 10th floor.  It would suck if they were locked from the stairwell though, but I am willing to go with the consensus."  He smiles as he looks at the others.  "Our instuctions were fairly clear, take the service elevator to the 10th floor and go to room 1019 to listen to 1020."

"Well listening in on the conversation is not gonna be hard.  Catching Da Vinci might be a little harder.  I was thinking of waiting on top of the elevator for him and dropping in and eliminating everyone but him.  Catch him and his door thingie in one sweep."  Shadow shakes his head "As for the mystery floor, how we even gonna find it?"

"I was kind of thinking that we would have to get the remote control thingie from Da Vinci.  Then we ask him I guess if it doesn't have this big button on it that says push here.  I might be able to figure it out if it is not too complicated.  As far as the elevator thing, how do we know which one he is going to get on?  I guess we could disable all the others so that only one works.  We only have a little over ten minutes though.  Plus when the drek hits the fan at 8:08, we have to be ready for that.

I think we need to listen in and then make grabbing Da Vinci our top priority."  Screed rubs his young chin.  Even within the matrix he looks little more than a kid.  "I wonder how tough these walls are.  IF there really is going to be an attack, maybe we could all just aim at the same spot on the wall and blow the heck out of it, getting straight into room 1020.  Then again, there may be room to go through the ceiling tiles if there are any.  It all just depends on what we see when we get there."

"Something that powerful would be drawing tons of juice. I can try and sense the code of the electricity if we get close enough. Otherwise..." he glances to Jade, before back to Shadow, <b>"I'm sure at least one of us could make him talk."

Dracos slips on the radio, "I can do the spying if we split up, it is somewhat my specialty afterall. Perhaps half of us should set-up the trap, while the others listen in to the conversation. This way, if the listening post is compromised, not everyone is compromised at once."

A grin is on Shadow's face "Oh I imagine I can be persuasive and as to splitting up, sounds like the best plan.  If the werewolf and vampire are here they might be with him."
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Screed speaks up, "The werewolf and vampire might be with him, but they are supposed to be in the lab which we can reach only after we have this device.  What do you mean, 'something' drawing that much power?"  He is intrigued.