No, that's fine. I'll assume it works.

Still no word on the account on Ord Mantel coming back online?

Oops. Sorry, I forgot about that. It is back online.

Awesome. if I remember correctly, I had two pieces of the signature and a back door into the system, correct?

I can't remember for sure, but that sounds about right. The signature might not end up applying, though. Feel free to keep going, I'm going to re-read that part so I can more effectively GM.

(you know? PbPs are nice. They automatically take notes for you )

Okay, I'm ready.

Already made the IC post.

Does the backdoor work, and if so is there a roll I can make to avoid initial detection?

Additionally, what do you want for initiative?

The backdoor works. I am still a novice at Slicing encounters, so technically you shouldn't have been noticed immediately. I am, however, adding 2 Setback to your checks due to their heightened awareness. Threat/Despair can result in discovery. Narratively, I'll scratch last time up to unfortunate timing.

For initiative, it depends on when/if and how you are discovered.

The backdoor only sort of works. They have worked on resetting it, but they haven't finished. Reduces the difficulty by 2, from Daunting to Average. Still upgraded once.

(Completely jumped the gun there and missed the 2 setback and upgrade. Fixed it. My bad.

TIME TO HACK: 1eP+4eA+1eC+1eD+2eS 2 successes, 2 advantage

You're in!

Alright, I’ll use the 2 advantage for the 2 boost on a future check.

Going to try and disable security next, what’s the difficulty?

Hard, Upgraded once, and still with the Setback.

TIME TO HACK: 1eP+4eA+2eB+1eC+2eD+2eS 4 successes, 1 threat, 1 Triumph

That’s a lot of dice.

The Threat adds a Boost to checks to recover your signature.

And I’ll use the Triumph to fix my backdoor so I can enter without a check.

I’ll use the trace user command - Am I still going against the same device/person/thing as last time?

Yes, so that's Daunting with 2 upgrades.

Trace User: 1eP+4eA+2eB+2eC+2eD+2eS 3 successes, 3 advantage

Do you want location, or Signature?

Signature for this one, and I want to use the advantage for a boost on the next check, and 2 to bank 2 boost on a future check.

Then I want to trace user again.

Okay. You forgot the additional Setback on the last check, so just add it to this one.

Woops! Sorry!

Trace User: 1eP+4eA+4eB+2eC+2eD+3eS 3 successes

Okay since I know it’s on Ord Mantell, does taking location again tell me where on Ord Mantell?

Yes. Worlport, the capital city of Ord Mantell.

Alright, then I definitely want to do that.

For my next action, I guess let’s enact a command to access the account. Don’t want to waste too much time.

Okay, that will be Average, but still with the 2 Setback. I'm going to flip a DP to Upgrade (I am so very disappointed that you haven't managed to roll a Despair yet while combing through their system).

ShockHelix, when it comes up, Vaerk will knock off half the price for the repairs of Liberator, basically doing them at cost, and repair Solus for free, using spare parts he has on hand. If you assist Vaerk in the quick repairs to Solus, you will be using your dice pool with 2 Boost and adding an automatic 1s1a. The difficulty is Easy with 2 Setback for the rush, but you only heal one HT for each 2 Successes because you don't have the time for long term repairs, so they will be inferior to a full job.

(Ruus, Tramp, feel free to bring your characters into the narrative, if you want them there)