"Xil, meet back at our temp base in an hour with your recon information.  Rann, I'm going to drop you off somewhere discreet where you can check the net.  I need you to find a guest list for the function tonight.  If we can detain and impersonate one of them, we may be able to have one or more of us just walk in."

OOC:  Rann, you'll need two Computer Use Checks - one to slice the net (DC20) and another to slice the records (DC25).  If you use a legal web point (like an internet cafe or such) then you don't need to make the first roll.

Jamie, what are you doing?  You tasked everyone but yourself.

Xil, will catch you up shortly

OOC: Oops!

"I'll be returning this speeder and dropping by a local news station.  I'm going to see what I can do to get some of this published via mass media before tonight.  I'll meet you two in an hour.  Be careful."

Rann finds a holonet café which we has able to get a computer near the back and facing the door.
Using the basic tricks he knows he set about working on finding a guest list, he first looked at social pages to see if the event was there and if he could find a guest list on the holosites.
(Rann rolled a 27 on computer use to search the “social” pages)

<Holonet Cafe>

Rann settles into his chair at the holonet cafe, a steaming cup of caf beside him and a holoterminal before him.  Unfortunately the society pages offer little as the Imperial doesn't exactly allow freedom of the media.  So Rann is forced to use a more direct approach and slice the hotel's security list and comes up with a full list of people who are authorised to attend the reception, this includes guests as well as all the maintenance, entertainers, etc.  Apparently all staff involved will have a security ID.  Guests do not have an ID but still must pass through security.  Apparently the hotel will supply a few armed guards but most of the high-ranking senators have their own bodyguards coming with them.



<Holonews Station>
Jamie meanwhile has driven to a local holonet station and asked to speak to one of the producers.  He is politely shown into a small office where he quickly explains he has compromising holos of an Imperial Senator with alien mistresses.

The producer seems shocked at the news then stammers he has to get his manager and leaves the room.  Jamie waits patiently for a few minutes before a new man walks in the room.  This man is not a manager, but is clearly from security.

"Sir, you are under arrest.  The authorities are on their way.  Please remain where you are."



OOC:  Sense motive - 6 (Fail).  Is this a bad time to point out that the Empire does not support freedom of the media?  Anyway, there is a single security guard armed with a blaster pistol and stun baton.  He has drawn neither, seemingly happy just to keep you where you are until the police arrive.  Oh and the man hasn't even checked if you're armed!  Very sloppy.


<Building near Imperial Hotel>

Xil sat on the roof of an accounting firm and sighed.  He'd reconnoitered around the Imperial Hotel without great success.  He'd found several good vantage points from which he could watch any entrance.   He could easily assassinate the senator from at least two vantage points but he wasn't under orders to harm the Senator, nor did he have a suitable weapon.

The windows of the hotel was heavily tinted and the roof of the building looked like it had good security.  He'd spotted perimeter sensors, spotlights and cameras.  There was a landing pad on the roof, but it was clearly only for the most elite clientele.  There were three other entrances he'd spotted.   There was the airspeeder landing pad about halfway up the building, and three ground floor entrances.  One was clearly the main entrance, the other two looked like service entrances.  The latter two were locked and appeared to need some sort of code cylinder to enter.
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Looking over the Imperial Hotel for a little longer doesn't help find an easy weakness to the building I hope the others are having more luck he says to himself. Entering the building by stealth was going to be very difficult and would take more time than they had.

Sighing once again he gets up and heads for the rendezvous location when another idea came to him What if the hotel has a basement or tunnels. He stops and thinks about it for a few minutes, it was always a possibility, and so changes his mind and heads off to investigate.
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Xil searched the perimeter of the hotel but found no signs of an obvious basement entrance.  He found a sewer tunnel a few blocks away and began a prefunctory search.  However his lack of an appropriate light source (or footwear, given the sewer waste was calf deep) he gave up the search quickly.

Rann flicked through random holonet pages and sipped his caf as he planned his next move.  He'd already found all he was going to find.

Over at the holonet station, Jamie had sat quietly, planning his next move.  The sound of sirens caught both his and the guard's attention.  Looking briefly out the window, the guard turned back to Jamie.

"Looks like your ride is here.  Stormtroopers will be here in a moment."

Jamie wasted no time as the guard looked out the window.  He quickly drew his blaster and slid in the power pack as the guard was turning around.  "Fumble," Jamie said as he fired off a stun shot at the guard.  If the guard is not immediately stunned, Jamie will fire another two shots.  Once the guard is stunned, Jamie will work as quickly as possible to exchange his clothing for the guard's uniform.

[OOC: 22 to hit.]
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Exiting the sewers, Xil this time made his way back to their planned rendezvous location. He had still turned up nothing that was going to help them with their task. The only thing that he had found would require them getting a decent rifle of some sort, and then taking pot shots at the Senator.

<Location: Holonet Station>

Jamie slipped the power pack into his blaster, causing the guard to turn in surprise.  His hand fell to his blaster but Jamie's was already aimed and pointed.  The stun blast rippled out from the weapon and toppled the guard over backwards.

Wasting no time, Jamie began stripping the guard of his clothes.  Working fast he stipped off the man's clothes and his own and then began dressing, pulling on trousers, belt and he was just buttoning the shirt when the reporter walked in, two stormtroopers behind him.

"He's in here. . ."  The man froze as he saw the guard on the ground and recognised Jamie.  "What the. . ?" he gasped.


OOC:  Dice didn't like you!  Anyway you are almost fully dressed in the security uniform but the reporter has recognised you.  Your blaster is on the table next to you and the guard's blaster is in the holster on your belt.  The stormtroopers are blocked by the reporter at this moment.

It's down to combat rounds (though it isn't technically combat yet!)
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The reporter points at Jamie and shouts, "That's him!"

The stormtroopers push the reporter aside, then bring their rifles to bear on Jamie.  "Drop your weapon and raise your hands.  Now!"

In the corner, the guard Jamie had stunned was groaning and starting to stir.




OOC:  I should point out that if you get taken, the stormtroopers will likely find some interesting items.  Namely the commlink set to the Talons' channel as well as the datapad containing all the information Zyra transmitted which effectively puts all the Talons at risk.
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Jamie muttered to himself as he was buttoning up the shirt and the troopers walked in on him.  Not as planned.
He considered his options for only a moment before making up his mind.  He couldn't be captured.  He had made a few stupid decisions thus far, but he would have to make up for it.
His blaster was on the table, already set to stun and ready to go...he grabbed it as he knelt behind the desk and snapped off two shots at the trooper on the right, then one at the trooper on the left.

OOC: Full attack / Heroic Surge

Jamie grabbed his blaster and fired desperately at one of the troopers, getting off two stun bolts, one that struck.  The trooper gasped and fell to the ground.

Jamie did not have time to celebrate as he spun his weapon to bear but he was a second too slow as he saw a blue flash come straight at him.  The stun blast hit him like a cargo speeder and for a whole moment is body felt like it was on fire.  The blaster fell from his spasming hand as he fought to maintain consciousness.

Off to the side, the guard Jamie had stunned was getting to his feet.



OOC: Jamie made the fort roll so is only stunned for one round (as per RCRB p.288)

Jamie: Stunned - 1 round
Stormtrooper 1: Uninjured
Stormtrooper 2: Knocked Out
Guard - Uninjured (will act next round)

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The stormtrooper wasted no time and kicked Jamie's dropped blaster towards the security guard.  Then seeing that the demolitionist had not fallen, he pumped two more stun rounds into him at point blank range.  Satisfied he spoke to the guard.

"Cuff him."

The guard stares at the stormtrooper in confusion for a moment then nods.  He picks up Jamie's blaster then moves over to Jamie, going for the cuffs that are in a pouch on the back of the belt.
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After deleting any trace of his work and filling the computers holonet history full of planet trek information. Rann left the holonet café and went to meet the others at the rendezvous point.
( Rann rolled a 10 on computer use to cover his tracks)

It only took Rann a few minutes to walk to the rendezvous point where he found Xil already waiting.  Jamie was nowhere to be seen and presumedly had not finished his two errands yet.

"Five, Six sitrep." Xil asks over the Talons comms as he had been waiting for some time.

He looks up and sees Rann approaching "How did you go?" he asks in way of greeting. "I lucked out, it is going to be very hard to sneak into that hotel."

Jamie struggles to rise to his feet as the guard comes up behind him.  Seeing this, the guard fires another stun bolt into Jamie from point blank range.  The last thing the demolitionist sees as his body jerks spasmodically is the butt of an E-11 coming down to smack squarely into his face.

Everything goes black.

“ right I have the information on the crew as well as the ground staff, they run a tight ship with a few big guns but mostly fancy side arms” said Rann as he hands four the datapad with a copy of the information, any word on our absent friend?” he asked.
This message was lightly edited by the GM at 04:46, Fri 09 Mar 2012.

You both have the same commlink tuned to the same frequency.  So unless you've switched yours off you would know that Jamie isn't responding to the comm.  Could mean he's turned it off, he's ignoring you or something more ominous.

Xil looks over the information that Rann had found. It offered a way in if they could take the place of one of the crew or ground staff.

While trying to figure out their next step he replies to Rann "It is not like him to not respond unless he can't for whatever reason. Worst case scenario, he's been captured, will be very bad for all of us."

With Jamie MIA, they have to maximise their chance of success A two pronged approach is hopefully going to work best he thinks to himself.

"How quickly do you think you can find me a better blaster rifle. The one I took off the policeman is not really the best for long range potshots, but we could use it to help get another one."

Zyra's voice comes over the commlink.  "Nine to Talons.  Progress report please.  We're on a tight schedule here."

Xil's chrono beeped, letting him know that it was 1600 and the Senator would be leaving his cabinet meeting and heading to his next one.  There was only an hour left before he attended the hotel function.  Time was running out.

Xil replies to Zyra keeping it short "Four here, Five is MIA, Six and I will complete the task."

Turning to Rann he says "Time is getting away from us, we have an hour before the Senator arrives here. If we can't get another rifle I'll have to make do with this one. While I'm taking shots at the senator I want you to distribute these holos on the net in any way that you can. I want the timing of both to look planned to happen that way." He sends the data file to Rann's datapad.

Xil then sets about trying to recall all the area he had scoped earlier for the best vantage points and escape routes.

Zyra sounds concerned "What do you mean MIA?  I only spoke to you all an hour ago.  You have plans to find him I trust?  Just make sure the plan goes ahead.  Just make sure the Senator does not die.  Feel free to wound him, though nothing serious.  I need him alive and talking."
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