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@Rabobankrider, is there anything zalen can change into...? XD. He doesnt really have anything other than his armour... or should i stride in Mando style? XDD.

Or maybe he can ask zoroku to come meet him in the alley instead?

Zoroku doesn’t want to blow his cover, meeting with a Mando in an alley seems very suspicious.

@Von3679, I'd say you'd have a basic under suit underneath your armour, similar to a race suit style. An average perception check would also find some discarded clothes down one of the alleys (obviously not of a great quality).

Hmm. I think i’ll throw on some random clothes then.

: 2eA+1eP+2eD 1 failure

Guess i cant find any... time to walk in in a racing suit i guess XD.

@Bellona Zalen is not in his armor.

10 hours ago, Shlambate said:

@Bellona Zalen is not in his armor.

Thanks for the reminder. IC post post changed from "recognised Mandalorian" to "unknown human" (assuming that Zalen is a human Mando).

@Rabobankrider

What kind of difficulty will Armatta be facing when she slices the spaceport systems from the diner?

Would Carth be able to help in any way?

And will anyone be able to offer unskilled assistance?

(IIRC, none of the PCs can offer skilled assistance.)

@Jedi Ronin Are you the Walter to my Dude?

2 hours ago, Bellona said:

And will anyone be able to offer unskilled assistance?

Once Armatta is in, can Andja’s Researcher talent help, or speed up the info gathering process?

@Bellona, to start off accessing the system I will say that a hard check with a setback (diner console not exactly ideal for hacking). Carth can provide a boost with a few access codes here and there. If you want others can provide an assist.

3 hours ago, Rabobankrider said:

@Bellona, to start off accessing the system I will say that a hard check with a setback (diner console not exactly ideal for hacking). Carth can provide a boost with a few access codes here and there. If you want others can provide an assist.

Thank you.

Right now her pool stands at PAAB +1 Adv. vs. DDDS (with Carth's help and using her personalised slicer gear).

@Shlambate @Edgehawk @Mikeyfett7 @Jedi Ronin @Von3679: Are any of your characters likely to provide unskilled assistance (boosts)?

(Armatta needs all the help that she can get; she has only 1 rank in Computers - and is unlikely to get more in the near future as it's not a class skill for her.)

Zalen can provide 2A die

3 hours ago, Bellona said:

: Are any of your characters likely to provide unskilled assistance (boosts)?

Andja can assist, unskilled.

2 hours ago, Von3679 said:

Zalen can provide 2A die

I believe that that translates to +1 Boost (unskilled assistance).

(A peek at everyone's SWSheets tells me that none of the PCs have the Intellect 4 or Computers skill rank 2 necessary to give Armatta extra Proficiency/Ability dice.)

Okay, time to roll that exploratory slicing attempt from the diner ...

+3 Boosts (unskilled assistance from Carth, Andja, Zalen), 3 Difficulty, +1 Setback (location)

Armatta is not using a dataspike because it needs physical access to the system in question.

Slicing spaceport from diner, w. help: 1eP+2eA+3eB+3eD+1eS 3 successes, 2 threat

Final result (+1 Advantage from personal slicer gear): 3 Successes, 1 Threat

... Looks like we got something(s) useful in a shorter than expected time frame, but might haved alerted the system (or Armatta got +1 Strain).

@Rabobankrider: Please let me know how you want to spend that 1 Threat (+1 Strain or something else).

@Bellona, you don't alert the system to your work, however your 'mark' is left on the system. If anyone does go looking for evidence of tampering, they'll know you did it.

11 hours ago, Rabobankrider said:

@Bellona, you don't alert the system to your work, however your 'mark' is left on the system. If anyone does go looking for evidence of tampering, they'll know you did it.

Know that Armatta/her slicer signature did it, or that "someone at the diner with that slicer signature" did it, or just that "someone somewhere with that slicer signature" did it?

And were there any tangible results from that Computers check, or do we consider this to be the opening move of a slicing encounter (as per Cyphers and Masks, or Special Modifications)?

@Bellona, that gives Armatta access to the basic system as it will be more of a slicing encounter. In terms of the signature, it is an identifiable signature, but as Armatta isn't a known slicer, it's just 'a signature'. This may be identifiable in the future.

8 hours ago, Rabobankrider said:

@Bellona, that gives Armatta access to the basic system as it will be more of a slicing encounter. In terms of the signature, it is an identifiable signature, but as Armatta isn't a known slicer, it's just 'a signature'. This may be identifiable in the future.

Does any system defender do anything with that 25% of Armatta's gear's signature (which gives the defender a +1 Boost against her while she uses that gear)?

Or should I take Armatta's next turn, which is probably going to be Enact Command to unlock the magnetic lock on the landing gear (if possible).

If it's not possible (separate system, etc.), then I might go with either shutting down the turrets or droids, or looping some security camera footage to give us a free avenue of approach. Or even unlocking/getting a password to unlock an important door.

@Bellona, currently it does not seem that any system defender has noticed your presence, so currently they aren't doing anything with the signature fragment. Unless an alarm is set off via disadvantage, Armatta will theoretically carry on unmolested.

Currently as you're working from an outside server, your access to the spaceport computers is limited. You can try to loop the security footage with a hard computers check. Accessing maps and security codes would be an average computers check.

8 hours ago, Rabobankrider said:

@Bellona, currently it does not seem that any system defender has noticed your presence, so currently they aren't doing anything with the signature fragment. Unless an alarm is set off via disadvantage, Armatta will theoretically carry on unmolested.

Currently as you're working from an outside server, your access to the spaceport computers is limited. You can try to loop the security footage with a hard computers check. Accessing maps and security codes would be an average computers check.

Okay, so we'll try slicing-by-committee again ...

Looking for maps/passwords ...

Find maps/passwords on spaceport system w. help + gear: 1eP+2eA+3eB+2eD+1eS 4 successes, 1 threat

Final result (+1 Advantage from personal slicer gear): 4 Successes.

That looks like Armatta found something useful fairly quickly.

And to speed things along, I'll roll for the footage looping too ...

Looping security camera footage w. help/gear: 1eP+2eA+3eB+3eD+1eS 1 success, 1 advantage, 1 Triumph

Final result (+1 Advantage from personal slicer gear): 1 Success, 2 Advantages, 1 Triumph.

Holy .... I wasn't even confident of success, let alone to that degree!*

If I may spend results as per the Slicing Encounter table 3-6 (CaM p. 85):

1 Success: getting the security camera footage to loop. Would that be all the necessary cameras? Or just some place(s)?

2 Advantage: "Cover the Tracks" (+1 Setback to any checks by defensive slicers to uncover Armatta's gear's slicing signature in this system)

1 Triumph: "Permanent Backdoor" (so long as Armatta has a hard line or a connected network, she can perform the Access System action on this system as a manoeuvre and without performing a skill check)

* Computers is not a class skill for Armatta (this was one of her human freebie ranks), and she has currently no intention of buying it up as there are so many other things on which to spend XP. (IIRC, only one person in the group even has it as a class skill currently.)

@Bellona, I'll say you have access codes to the spaceport secure areas like the security centre and flight control, along with a map. With the setback however (to provide some challenge) I'm going to say you weren't able to find access codes to the impound hangers. You do however marked on your map so can find them easily.

That all sounds fine for looping the cameras and the triumph etc.

6 hours ago, Rabobankrider said:

@Bellona, I'll say you have access codes to the spaceport secure areas like the security centre and flight control, along with a map. With the setback however (to provide some challenge) I'm going to say you weren't able to find access codes to the impound hangers. You do however marked on your map so can find them easily.

That all sounds fine for looping the cameras and the triumph etc.

Which Setback?

If you meant Threat, then the last two rolls had no Threats (the personal slicer gear adds +1 Advantage, which cancelled the single Threat on the map/password roll).

Regardless, it's fair enough to say that not all the necessary codes were found.