The local Matrix nodes are installed at Puyallup government locations. Unfortunately, most of those sites are buried under ash. In ARO, you can see these local access points. They are default UMS icons looking like hexagonal cylinders with a pit of derezzing distorting it.

Upon Reyna's arrival into the local matrix, she reaches into her crystal ball before grasping the resonance in an attempt to compile a companion sprite into existence.

OOC:
14:55, Today: Reyna rolled 2 successes using 12d6 with the Shadowrun 4th ed system with a target of 5 with rolls of 3,1,6,6,2,2,4,1,4,3,4,4.  Compile L5 companion sprite.
14:55, Today: Reyna rolled 3 successes using 14d6 with the Shadowrun 4th ed system with a target of 5 with rolls of 4,4,5,2,3,4,2,1,5,4,3,6,4,1.  Resist fading.

Standing in the default UMS iconology of Puyallup, Reyna looks to infinity and calls. In a blink of an eye, a stream of Kanji characters pours into a quadrupedal shape. The dog / cat / bear looks up at Reyna expectantly.

Reyna stops running silently as she pulls one of Screech's messages out of her commlink and holds it up to the bear-cat-dog to give it a trail to follow as she says, "Can you track it, sprite?" She drops the message back into her commlink as she follows the sprites lead in pursuit of Screech.

OOC:
Ceased running silently.
15:16, Today: Reyna rolled 4 successes using 16d6 with the Shadowrun 4th ed system with a target of 5 with rolls of 4,1,3,3,5,6,5,3,1,1,3,2,1,6,1,3.  Matrix Perception, spec + techno + hotsim + Navi - Noise.
I forgot to apply the penalty for being on the public grid. Should I drop two of the successes or just drop the last two dice in the roll?
Any hits remaining will be spent in the following order.
1: Spot screech's commlink
2: Are there databombs on the commlink
3: Rating of the commlink's Firewall + detection of resonance signatures on the commlink
4: What marks are on Screech's commlink
This message had punctuation tweaked by the player at 22:07, Wed 21 Dec 2022.

The bear-cat-dog surges off shedding kanji characters in it's haste. Reyna follows in it's wake. It stops shortly in front of a small icon shaped like a small oriental man sitting on a throne. A label hovers above it reading STRONG788.

Reyna gazes into her orb and looks at Screech's commlink icon as she attempts to draw on the resonance to see into his past, but the churning of the matrix's noise causes it to slip from her digital fingers before it can reach Screech. With a scowl, she grips the resonance firmly again and pulls roughly. She feels a bit woozy as she only manages to redirect some of the snapping threads of resonance backlash into her companion sprite.

OOC:
Screech's commlink makes a device rating x 2 test against Reyna's 4 hits. Each net hit that Reyna has grants her a full record of the device’s Matrix history over a number of days past equal to the number of net hits.
The companion sprite's shield power lets her redirect one point of fade damage to the companion sprite when she suffers 2 or more fade damage. This will burn her second task and release the sprite back to the resonance.

22:48, Today: Reyna failed (no successes) using 8d6 with the Shadowrun 4th ed system with a target of 5 with rolls of 1,4,3,1,2,1,2,2.  Threading Search History L4, +6 Resonance +6 Software +1 Paragon - 5 Noise.
22:49, Today: Reyna rolled 6 successes using 14d6 with the Shadowrun 4th ed system with a target of 5 with rolls of 6,1,5,4,1,2,6,3,6,3,6,4,5,2.  Resist 2 fading +6 Willpower, +6 resonance, +2 OtT.
22:51, Today: Reyna rolled 4 successes using 8d6 with the Shadowrun 4th ed system with a target of 5 with rolls of 5,2,5,1,2,1,5,6.  Threading Search History L4, again, +6 Resonance +6 Software +1 Paragon - 5 Noise.
22:51, Today: Reyna failed (no successes) using 14d6 with the Shadowrun 4th ed system with a target of 5 with rolls of 3,1,3,2,1,4,1,2,1,2,3,4,2,1.  Resist 2 fading +6 Willpower, +6 resonance, +2 OtT.
This message was last edited by the player at 05:15, Fri 23 Dec 2022.

Screech's commlink has been a busy boy. Most of the hosts it's accessed have been in Puyallup both in the government district and in the Crimemall. He's also paid a visit to Auburn, accessing a couple of hosts there.

In terms of other interaction, it's been spamming out messages about as fast as a human can. Screech does not seem to utilize spam scripts. The volume is high, but there's little consistently.

Additionally, the commlink seems to be sending out occasional advertisements for TasteOfNature^TM soy paste additives to other commlinks it finds in it's area.

OOC: Is this about what you expected? What other questions do you have that you think should be answered by this?
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OOC: The main other thing that I can think of would be his actual history for matrix searches as well as call/text metadata like commcodes, call durations, and number of messages sent/received. Could applying filters to the calls help figure out what commcodes he called before he started spamming everyone. Maybe cross-referencing his search history could give us more info on what the calls were about, or filtering to commcodes that have sent and received x messages from him could reveal who his important contacts are. In essence, could a matrix search action on the data she got help filter it down to more usable insights, and could another matrix search get more info about a given commcode?

Reyna retreats from Screech's commlink as she begins spinning up her own matrix searches to investigate one of the 6 commcodes at random.

OOC: I'll roll the first matrix search and if there's time for her to investigate more commcodes on the drive over, then we can go from there?

16:16, Today: Reyna rolled 4 successes using 11d6 with the Shadowrun 4th ed system with a target of 5 with rolls of 4,2,3,2,4,3,6,5,2,5,5.  Commcode Matrix Search, +5 Int +6 Computers +2 Hotsim -2 Static Zone.

The first commcode is easy to understand. It seems to be an Asian Fusion restaurant called Today Soy. He seems to call there a few times a week.

The second commcode takes a bit more searching, but it is discovered to be a prostitution service. He calls far less often than the first.

The third commcode is a bookie. He doesn't call very often. But once he does, he calls four or five time before another couple month pause.

The fourth commcode is buried behind a corporate firewall. A little investigation reveals it to be similar to those used by ShinSiam, a minor player in industrial machinery.

OOC: Would the ShinSiam industrial machinery be the type used in drug manufacturing, or is it a different type of industrial machinery?

With the first four commcodes turning up fairly innocuous pieces of Screech's life, Reyna prepares herself to start digging through the matrix for information about the last two.

OOC: Should she roll another matrix search with dicepool 11?

OOC: 4 successes.
21:09, Today: Reyna rolled 4 successes using 11d6 with the Shadowrun 4th ed system with a target of 5 with rolls of 3,3,1,5,4,6,6,1,1,6,1.  Commcode 5&6 Matrix Search, +5 Int +6 Computers +2 Hotsim -2 Static Zone.

The fifth commcode history looks weird. Screech apparently calls about once a week, but disconnects within three seconds. The number is private, but doesn't seem to have much Matrix presence.

The sixth commcode is an obvious parole officer / bail bondsman. Following this thread, you find Screech has a juvie record, though he seems to finished doing his time.