Episode 1: Chasin' the Wind

As the van nears the CZ, Digit unbuckles and crawls back to one of the empty rows of seats. She buckles in once more, but then shifts until she's lying down across the row. She's left her meat enough times to know she needs to be buckled in but with her head down. With a few mental keystrokes her mind goes off into cold-sim VR as her physical form goes limp. Satisfied that her deck is still running silent, she immediately broadcasts a voice message to her team:

"I'm going to see if I can find anything of interest around here. Oh, and if you want me to cover your wireless gear, you need to give me permissions. I can cover, um... my deck should be able to handle about eight more things, besides my 'jack."

Digit takes a moment to set things up before she tries anything illegal. First she grid hops over to the Ares Global Grid to suffocate some of the public grid noise. Then she dresses her icons accordingly to make them look casual and simplistic, and her persona changes into a yellow, large-headed, big-eyed caterpillar. She shifts her programs around but remains satisfied with the current deck configuration as she takes a gander at the wireless world around her.

While back at the apartment, Ghost would have changed into her combat gear (armor jacket and helmet), adding to her weapons her Ares Predator with two spare clips of regular ammo, and her dart rifle. She grabbed her medic pack and binoculars, throwing them into the back of the van before taking the wheel. She drives slowly and carefully to the meet spot outside the CZ, activating her thermographic vision to see through the rain.

Puck will elect to have her commlink slaved to the decker's

Going slow and steady carefully following Ghost.

"Ghost, Symbi, fastest way to the airport is 43 south, then hop off onto the Archer exit. From here, Garfield Park is only a little further away than the airport, but if you want that then stay on this road a ways and then take 50 north to Lake street. Otherwise they're basically on opposite sides of the Interstate. Probably going to take twenty... twenty-five minutes, or so, to go from one to the other."

Digit takes a moment to hop over the CZ Grid to avoid any interference there, attempting to see if she can narrow her search parameters in order to pinpoint the signal repeaters' locations.

"One of the repeaters is in the air traffic control tower at the airport. I'll see if I can figure out anything else on it..."

Digit then redirects her attention to the other repeater, attempting to search it out.

Ghost clicks to the group channel. "Which one first?"

my vote is for the tower. It's closer and we can get a good vantage point to scout out the surrounding area and the area around the second one.

"Tower sounds good to me! Going to see if I can get a view inside the airport, or up in the tower itself."

Ghost nods and steers the van toward the airport, again driving slowly and cautiously.

"When we get closer I can pop out my drone and scout around the place. Hopefully spotting any squatters or trouble lurking about." Symbiote relays over the comm. He follows Ghost going slow and easy.

"The tower sounds good to me. Just tell me what to do and when to do it."

Digit does her best to acquire all of the information she can about what may be within the airport.

Picking up ten devices around the tower. Hoping to find a camera or something, but it could also be something else. I can stay in the van and support from here, unless you want me to come along.

She flips her deck to use its Virtual Memory program, freeing up some extra space to boot up her Fork program as well.

Digit comes back in over the team comms:

Picking up some guns and commlinks around the tower. Two AKs, two Browning Ultra-Powers, and a big Enfield AS-7 liquidizer. A couple things that I can't figure out, either. Could be more guns, or more commlinks, cause I'm only picking up two at the moment, and that's a lot of firepower for only two goons.

She'll take a moment reorganize her programs to make sure she remains unseen while she confers with the group.