What? Who authorized this?

(Hope you enjoy yourself!)

Noruas, instead of having you do a run, I'll let you just roll your Computer skill to represent your doing research. That'll save everyone a lot of time, I imagine.

Anyone else doing last-minute footwork?

I'm planning to suggest that Toombs pick us up a couple of joy-girls to go camp out in view of one of the security cameras and put on a show for an hour or two.  Nothing like pair of "lesbians" to keep bored security guards distracted.

Out of curiousity, was the single guard downstairs in the room we're supposed to put one of the packages in?

No (but close to it).

"Mr. Toombs, what is this about buying whores?"
"'s a mission expense."
"whores?"
"miss'n expense."
"really?"
"damnit woman, d' I ask you how y' do yer own business?"
"ok, so why was I not there for the price discussion?"
"well i's jus' equiment, innit?"

Thank you for that :D

I want to make sure I understand where everyone is at the moment.  Let me know if this is correct.

Coperhead's Vehicle - parked at discrete location
The J. - negotiating?
Three hitchhikers - in back

Chemical Truck - parked at discrete location
Copperhead - driving
Toombs - passenger seat

Unaccounted
St. V - will switch vehicles too if they are done with the kidnapped employees
Noruas - what's he been up too?

Copperhead's RV has the J, Toombs and the hitchikers.  It's on autopilot with the occasional nudge from Copperhead following behind the chemical truck and may or may not be parked.

Copperhead is driving the Chemical truck.  And remotely controlling the RV.  And the drone.  And listening in on the interrogation.  And touching up her nails ;)

St. V and Noruas can be where they wish, but given that the RV is crowded, they may want to be in the back of the chemical truck getting ready.

As of my last post, Toombs has hopped up to the passenger seat of the cargo truck and has jammed the mask into a pocket by his thigh. Unlike the other guys, his poopsuit actually *does* have pockets.
Noruas is with Copperhead in the truck's cargo section. I'm under the assumption that Copper will be stashing the camper somewhere close by but inconspicuous?

Also, I'm assuming we now have the ID's jury-rigged enough that I can at least try to pass it off as legit? He'll seal the card with a quick drying glue if he can, burn off the smell with some cig smoke (sorry, Valentine).

The van will park as close as it can while being safe/inconspicuous.  If the cavalry needs to come in, I don't want them to be too far away . . .

I am merely watching the entire situation unfold and preparing for the upcoming digital battle.

Waiting on an answer on whether the truck is parked where the camera can see the rear doors, whether Toombs is summoning a spirit before the guard shows up to let them in and whether Toombs or St. V are doing anything about the camera before they go in (and what they're doing to ensure the door doesn't lock behind them . . .)

Not sure what you mean by that first part.

The truck is parked inside of a closed garage. The exterior camera cannot see it, the interior one can see the bay, including the truck (something you can tell through rigging into the truck's own cameras).

The rest is up to Toombs/St. V :)

I think she means that if the back doors are opened, could the cameras see inside.

The basic question was, when pulling into the garage, there was any way to park such that the rear doors would not be visible to the interior camera.  I.e. Can we park such that Noruas and I can get out without being seen by the camera.  I'm hearing that the answer is "no"

I'm having a hard time even coming up with options for St V regarding the camera and door, let alone what I should have him do.  All I can really think of is, "follow the guy into the building and head toward the storage room."  But St. V knows this situation better than I do, so anybody got suggestions for what I am missing here?  Like, are the cameras even withing a troll's arm reach, or casually tamperable?

I wouldn't be surprised if this facility wasn't designed with trolls in mind, so the ceiling height is probably pretty low.  Probably quite possible for you to accidentally "bump" the camera so that it now has a great view of the ceiling or something rather than the back of the van.  If Toombs wants to make a show of berating you for messing something up on the last job, you backing into it might be more believable.  If it's too well secured to knock out of alignment, having your hair well gelled when you bump up against the lens will likely diminish visibility quite a bit.  And if Toombs can get us a spirit to add concealment, that'd help us further in the case where the camera has partial visibility.  Heck, even if you guys open the doors on the back of the van such that the view of the inside of the back of the van is partially blocked, that'd be good.  Don't know if that's possible, but it's a lot easier to run fast to the camera's blind spot if the doors are already open than it is to open them, close them, then run.  You can radio us to make sure we're properly hidden before you open them.

Hopefully that will get the job done. ;) St. V doesn't really use hair gel though, unless it is a very special occasion, so the hair gel plan wouldn't work for him.  He usually opts for the naturally greasy look.

Sufficient grease will do the job just fine.  Especially if it's mixed with other assorted grime :>

While Toombs is droning at the guards he will pull every guard in LOS and get them looking at a wall (or specifically *away* from the truck). St V can covertly use a laser from just off to the side and burn out the optical chip subtle-like.

Nagging, as per your request.

Just realized they're not opening the door to the hallway, so nothing to laze.  We need to go through the other door.

Question for BB: Why is there an airlock from the garage into the facility when there's no airlock at the main entrance?  If the main floor was maintaining a seal, there'd need to be an airlock at all entrances.

Second question - the new car in the lot - how nice looking was it?

I think while Noruas is busy dealing with the cameras, I'm going to play with the elevator and make it unhappy in a "not obviously tampered with" manner.  We're gonna need more than 10 minutes (and we've probably used 3-4 of those arriving, doing paperwork and loading the elevator, plus more re-loading the van, so not near enough time to deck, do our primary and secondary task and get back out.  Once the elevators down, you can frag around with it a bit, then work on plan 2 - carting the stuff around up the stairs.  We'll have to coordinate a bit on the stairs to ensure we don't meet, but should be able to manage that.

The ground floor garage/facility airlock is to keep the gross stuff you're handling from getting into the rest of the facility.

The garage door is not airlocked because frag the environment.

The car in the lot looks to be an Americar.

As a head's up, I'm going to have limited connectivity next week (7/3 to 7/10). I'll do what I can, but don't be upset if I go silent.

Almost forgot to mention to all, I am now an Electrician's helper, soon to be Apprentice (once Sept rolls in and classes start up). Joyness!

I'm trying to figure out what my next move should be. I could probably pester the guard enough that he escorts me to the bathroom (most high-sec places would force guards to do that). Best option pulls guard from room. Worst option pulls a second guard into the room.
I could always knock him unconscious with a coffee mug and say he fell over.