Heist in The Heights [RP]

Kamisori made a name for herself as a drone jockey in the merc trade, but arena bot fights are a rather different beast, as she already experienced. Still, she gathered a lot of experience on the field since she last faced the arena, and she grew out of her most obvious mistakes from the last time around. Making a few adjustments to Ushi-oni (her attack and self defence drone) to make it more "sportly" she realises she lacks a fundamental skill for the performance, she's a lousy visual designer. Thankfully she learned to delegate things, and lets her colleagues handle that [Guys, I need arena bot styling feedback stat!].
She knows the challenge might trash Ushi-kun, leaving her quite undefended, but she's used to jury-rigging her friends on the go, so she's rather confident she can keep it /running until they're out.
Worst case scenario, she'll have Otter look after the wreck. He seemed friendly enough when she contacted him, and he proved to be trustworthy when he /ran with Lunette. He even stepped aside from confronting her this round, and, seeing his skill, she feels grateful for that, even though she might face him next.

- Solovei -

From you position on the balcony opposite the worksite, you have a fairly good overview of the area and the approaches, but these old --and adapted-- buildings have many nooks and crannies for the crooks and grannies to hide in.

Your thermal vision has just picked up several warm bodies sneaking towards the alcove where Winston has set up his rig. You can not see them through the hanging plastic curtains that have been installed around this area, but their movements are definitely 'furtive'.

It will be a moment before they arrive at D.'s position.

What do you do?

- D. -

It is important to keep Winston hidden, but there is not much at the blocked-off end of the this out-of-the-way corridor to hide behind.

• Have you taken any precautions to prevent people wandering up to where they can spot him?

The plan was for all the locals to be at the big robot fight, so you were not expecting interference, but your bodyguarding experience has heightened your senses in such situations and you are sure you hear someone --or someones-- sneaking around nearby.

What do you do?

- Miles -

You have crawled though that felt like miles of fetid airducts to get the to the place where the control wiring runs tight over the structure above.

You have melted through the ceiling of the duct and the floor above it. It is a pity it was not the other way round, as working above yourself means you have to constantly worry about the chemicals dripping down onto you.

You have spliced your end of the link --running all the way back to Winston's position-- into the system as per the plan, and were just thinking about pulling out when you spot smoke emanating from the old wires in the conduit. Age has weakened the surface coatings, and the chemicals Blank provided are eating their way through. Even if this holds up long enough for the hacker to finish: if the wires come apart later, it is likely to sound an alarm somewhere.

What do you do?

- Blank -

You were worried when concocting the chemicals that there would be adverse reactions with the aged infrastructure, but this was the only way to gain access --any attempt at drilling would trigger sensors and draw attention.

Watching Miles' camera feed on the encrypted comms you can't yet see that there is problem, but what precautions did you take, and what instructions did you give your burglar for such an occasion?

- Winston -

Your cyberdeck has just gone live, you have made it past the initial login screen (how? stolen passwords? factory defaults? unpatched exploit?).

This is probably just an unprivileged user- or diagnostic interface, but should --with enough skill, luck, and prior-planning-- allow you access to deeper systems where you can find what you need.

• What does your environment look like when you are hacking?

What do you do?

- Winston -

One of the roots feeding the diagnostic flower carries data from the control system in charge of the barrier doors. You can tell this because of how inactive it is --the doors have not operated for decades.

You are able to follow along this thread and find yourself in the control system. This is a much more serious machine with what looks like ancient and outdated I.C.E. programs sitting idle, and mostly bored and dormant. Most of the young bucks, these days, would not even recognise these as ICEs --they were 'banned' after some of your friends got their brains fried being attacked by them-- but you have dealt with them before, and know how to avoid the worst (or you did).

The control system is asking for a password. If you can convince it you are meant to be here, it probably won't get all exited when being told to open a door long shut, or you could ignore the login prompt and try force the system open, which will be noisy but quick.

Somewhere connected, there must be a security node that receives messages about activity. A log message about a door (even this door) opening might go unnoticed --for a while, maybe even forever-- but you have no way of knowing who (or what) is paying attention to such messages. Dealing with that would be its own job.

What do you do?

- Solovei -

From the thermal signature it looks like four bodies approaching.