Still you make it to the docks to find them filled with ships of varying degrees of technological advancement. Some NCR retrofitted old world cargos hips were docked, next to what looks like a more freshly constructed one that bares the Shi's symbol on it. A quick question confirms that the city does appear to have a dry dock where they've been constructing a few ocean faring ships. One of the NCR merchants speculates they're trying to build a fleet to head back to China. Another shakes his head and says that they're more focused on getting total coastal coverage, it's an efficiency thing.

You're not here to speculate though on what the Shi's naval intentions are you're here to find Enclave personnel. Where do you search first in the docks?

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>We should head to the customs office, if they're trading here then it's likely there might be some clue in the registrar or records.
>The Drydock seems to be rather technological advanced, perhaps they settled in as shipwrights?
>We need to head a bit further in, there should be some leisure businesses nearby, and those should be hot beds of gossip for the docks as a whole.
>write in.

>>5856713
>We should head to the customs office, if they're trading here then it's likely there might be some clue in the registrar or records.
Man I still can't believe this Enclave mc likes muties.

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>>5856713
>We need to head a bit further in, there should be some leisure businesses nearby, and those should be hot beds of gossip for the docks as a whole.
Glory be, it’s back!

>>5856713
>>We should head to the customs office, if they're trading here then it's likely there might be some clue in the registrar or records
good to see youre alive qm

GOD BLESS AMERICA, NO WHERE ELSE

thrilled to have this back!

>Drydocks

Pretty sure I had a shitload of notes on this qst to bring up next time you ran but my old phone broke so hopefully I stated most of my ideas in prior threads.

>>5856713
>>We should head to the customs office, if they're trading here then it's likely there might be some clue in the registrar or records.

>>5856712
Welcome back Chad.

>>5856804
>>5856844
>>5856908

Thanks.

By my count its
3 for Customs office
1 for Leisure
1 for Drydocks

so it looks like customs office wins.

Writing.

>>5856713
>The Drydock seems to be rather technological advanced, perhaps they settled in as shipwrights?

god Bless America, It returns for Christmas times!

I hope you've had a Feastful Thanksgiving and a good Christmas planned Warden?

>>5857024
Thanksgiving was good, but mostly somber due to a loss in the family.
Not sure what I'm doing for Christmas beyond getting my dog a bunch of treats for being so good all year.

update should be coming relatively soon get your dice ready folks.

>>5857029
Wonderful news, Besides the loss of one of American's Finest.

I do hope the dog enjoys its gifts, and remembers its duty to America!

You're reminded a bit of Vault City in fact at this point as you begin to make your way to the customs office. Simpler times even if they weren't so long ago. Arriving outside the office you find a rather brutalist building compared to the majority of the architecture here. You wave off Rosaline and Andrew, "We're going to head inside, standby to get around the back, Grant'll signal you if it's necessary."

Rosaline nods while Andrew just lets out a quite groan. You've still got some work to do to get Andrew's attitude in line for field work, but they're your best infiltrators so they need to learn to work together at some point, now works. You turn to Thomas who simply holds his hands forwards gesturing for you to head in first.

With that you head into the customs office to find a series of computer terminals lined up with a single person monitoring operations in the back from another terminal. Every one was working on the the computers filling out their registration, paying their dues, and filling out the paper work through them. There's even a couple of civilian models of Protectrons milling about maintaining the queue and acting as servicing stations for any questions about the office.

One of the merchants in here is holding up the queue staring confusedly at the terminal, it's painfully clear they don't know how to operate it and it's not long before they speak up, "Can I get a paper option?" The reply was near instantaneous, "Unless the terminal is currently inoperable paper filling is not available, please head to the back of the queue and address the protectrons they will provide you with the knowledge to fill out the forums. Next." and with that one protectron wraps it's pincer around the mans arm and pulls him away from the terminal as another one steps up to and begins typing on it.

You stare for a moment, did they really have this all automated? On the upside it seems that the building is deeply understaffed of humans. On the downside it seems that most everything here is kept in electronic records. You turn to Jacob, before whispering, "Do you think you can crack the system from here or do you need to get in the back?"

Jacob squints for a bit, "Probably need to go through the back, how about we send Thomas up to fill out the caravans information for appearances?" You nod, "Was just thinking so myself." You pat Jacob on the back turn to Thomas, "So how good are you with computers?" You ask jokingly. Thomas just gives you a dry look before responding, "Better than you." and walking off to the queue.
You frown slightly scoffing you're plenty good with computers. I mean the Z.A.X seemed to like you... you think.... actually you're not certain it's capable of emotions, but it was a stimulating conversation regardless. You shake your head before heading over to Grant who is leaning outside on a nearby wall, you nod your head and he then looks off in the distance before nodding his head.
_________________________

Alright anons I need three rolls of 1d100

Breaking into the Shi Customs Office
Challenging Stealth Test DV 50
Rosaline Washington +25
Andrew Jefferson-Jackson +15
Jacob Hartmen -5

Final DV 85

YOU HAVE 1 STEALTH SUCCESS YOU MAY ADD FOR THIS MISSION

Critical Failure [not possible]
0 successes: This ain't happening, we'll need a different plan
1 success: We're in, but we're gonna need to be real quick [2 turns to crack the shi cybersecurity]
2 successes: Ok Jacob work your magic [3 turns to crack the shi cybersecurity]
3 successes: We've got this you pay attention to the computers [4 turns to crack the shi cybersecurity]
Critical Success: They'll never even know we were here. [6 turns to crack the shi cybersecurity and a +10 bonus to those rolls]

>>5857045
And remember it's a roll under system.

Rolled 68 (1d100)

>>5857045

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Rolled 81 (1d100)

>>5857045
Honored to be one of the first rolls

Rolled 75 (1d100)

>>5857045
get;em!

3 successes: We've got this you pay attention to the computers [4 turns to crack the shi cybersecurity]

Alright You've got 4 turns to break into their security.

Crack the Shi's cybersecurity
Impossible tech test DV 10
Jacob Hartmen +25

DV 35

YOU HAVE 2 REROLLS
YOU HAVE 1 TECH SUCCESS YOU MAY ADD FOR THIS MISSION

CRITICAL FAILURE: I've been shut out of the system completely, and I think they're sending security forces this way right now.
0 Successes: I've never seen security this tight before! [no progress]
1 Success: Did their AI set this up? [10% progress]
2 Successes: I'm giving her all she's got! [20% progress]
3 Successes: Somethings got to give! [30% progress]
CRITICAL SUCCESS: I think I found something I can exploit.... [50% progress and an opportunity]

Once more Anons give me three rolls of 1d100, spend the rerolls at your leisure they're available for every relevant test, if you want to use the auto success you can but it's once a mission.

Rolled 19 (1d100)

>>5857070

Rolled 32 (1d100)

>>5857070
Gonna see how it goes, before a possible reroll.

Rolled 44 (1d100)

>>5857070
I forgot how stressful rolling was.

>>5857096
Damn, I'll see what happens next turn before using a reroll.

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Rolled 7 (1d100)

>>5857070
Let’s goooooo!

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>>5857096
>>5857098

>>5857070
Actually, since we were planning on rerolling anyway, my >>5857100 roll is still legit right?

>>5857106
Yes
the rerolls don't count against you unless you have literally 3 successes and opt to try for a crit success and then roll over the DV.

Well more accurately I think it'd be better to say this.

If you have anything less than 3 successes there's no harm in rerolling one of the failed rolls as it would just be status quo at worst.
if you have 3 successes the rerolls become a gamble if you want to get a crit success as they can then turn in to failed rolls.

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>>5857108
>>5857110
I’m quite satisfied with our successes right now, thank you.

On to the next test!

So 3 Successes: Somethings got to give! [30% progress]

Crack the Shi's cybersecurity
Impossible tech test DV 10
Jacob Hartmen +25

DV 35

YOU HAVE 2 REROLLS
YOU HAVE 1 TECH SUCCESS YOU MAY ADD FOR THIS MISSION

CRITICAL FAILURE: I've been shut out of the system completely, and I think they're sending security forces this way right now.
0 Successes: Oh come on?! [no progress]
1 Success: What in the world is with this security? [40% progress]
2 Successes: Half way there! [50% progress]
3 Successes: What are you hiding in there are we sure this is a customs office?! [60% progress]
CRITICAL SUCCESS: So close! I can taste the info. [80% progress and an opportunity]

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Rolled 74 (1d100)

>>5857112
LET’S GOOOOO!

Rolled 35 (1d100)

>>5857112

>>5857126
Tieing the DV is a success just to refresh everyone.

Rolled 44 (1d100)

>>5857112

Rolled 13 (1d100)

>>5857112
Reroll?

>>5857138
Mhm
With that you got 2 successes and 1 reroll remaining for this particular test.

>>5857140
Anyone else want to go? Take your stab at it.

>>5857140
>>5857143
I mean, I could reroll my roll again, if that’s alright? Otherwise, I don’t mind waiting for a new anon to take it.

Rolled 57 (1d100)

>>5857112
Fuck it, in the interest of keeping the quest moving, I’ll take the reroll

2 Successes: Half way there! [50% progress]

Crack the Shi's cybersecurity
Impossible tech test DV 10
Jacob Hartmen +25

DV 35

YOU HAVE 2 REROLLS
YOU HAVE 1 TECH SUCCESS YOU MAY ADD FOR THIS MISSION

CRITICAL FAILURE: I've been shut out of the system completely, and I think they're sending security forces this way right now.
0 Successes: Oh come on?! [no progress]
1 Success: Running real dry on time here... [60% progress]
2 Successes: Give me something anything to work with here! [70% progress]
3 Successes: When I break this I'm gonna find that Emperor computer and... [80% progress]
CRITICAL SUCCESS: I'm in! [100% progress and an opportunity]

You know the go by now. Three more 1d100s

We'll get a nice big write up at the end of all this, though for the future I'm going to give larger progress percentages for pacing reasons if this ever comes up again.

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Rolled 24 (1d100)

>>5857164
Honestly? Probably should’ve done it anyway- though I don’t mind rerolling just to keep up the pace. Is waiting 10 minutes sufficient?

>>5857176
I think that's plenty in these extended tests.
In a normal roll a little longer is probably a better call.

>>5857181
15, 20? How long we talking here?

>>5857187
15 minutes should be plenty.

Rolled 84 (1d100)

>>5857164

Rolled 7 (1d100)

>>5857164

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>>5857198
hue

Rolled 16 (1d100)

>>5857164
Times up for a reroll

3 Successes: When I break this I'm gonna find that Emperor computer and... [80% progress]

Crack the Shi's cybersecurity
Impossible tech test DV 10
Jacob Hartmen +25

DV 35

YOU HAVE 2 REROLLS
YOU HAVE 1 TECH SUCCESS YOU MAY ADD FOR THIS MISSION

Critical Failure: [no longer possible]
0 Successes: Times up
1 Success: so close yet so far
2 Successes: I'm in, lets see what we've got here. [100% progress]
3 Successes: One for human ingenuity, zero for machine intelligence [100% progress and a bypass set up for the future]
CRITICAL SUCCESS: I'm in! [100% progress, bypass and an opportunity]

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Rolled 60 (1d100)

>>5857215
Let’s finish this

Rolled 76 (1d100)

>>5857215
anxiety

Rolled 39 (1d100)

>>5857215
somebody get some rolls

>>5857228
This is some fucking bullshit

>>5857234
you still got the 2 rerolls, only really need 1 success and then you can buy the other one to guarantee the info is gotten.

Rolled 30 (1d100)

>>5857235
Yeah we do but nobody wants to be the one who rolled bad, watch me: REROLL!

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Rolled 72 (1d100)

>>5857215
Come on Jacob, come on! You can do this!

>>5857239
So that's 1 success
Do y'all want to spend your 1 auto success to make that 2 successes?

>yay
>nay

>>5857239
I was just waiting for the 10 minute deadline desu

Shame about the bypass, but honestly it’s a miracle we got as far as we did against this bs dc

>>5857243
>nay
Is this vote a joke?

>>5857245
More of a formality

I see no reason for it to be no y'all need that info

As for the DC you're hacking a network set up by a super computer and a faction with just as advanced tech as you guys for the most part it was gonna be very difficult, but Jacob is really just that good to be able to pull this off.

>>5857243
Yay of course.

>>5857243
>yay

Rolled 62 (1d100)

>>5857243
Could we use another reroll instead?

>>5857254
not really you only have two per test and both were used.

>>5857254
What other reroll? We only have 2 and they were used here >>5857239 and >>5857241 here.

>>5857254
Unless that Stealth auto-success upgrades a 3 Success to a crit-success, I’m afraid not mate

>>5857258
>>5857257
>>5857256
Fug, Then I guess ya go for the Auto succ. JUST because this is big money I think?

1 Success: so close yet so far

Auto-Success utilized

2 Successes: I'm in lets see what we've got here [100%]

Congratulations you've managed to crack the Shi's network, once again American ingenuity trumps the Chinese.

I think you'll find the results quite worth while.

writing.

>>5857268
*gumble gumble*…bypass….*grumble grumble*

*sad American noises*

>>5857268
Have we re-discovered the recipe for orange chicken?

>>5857278
Alas no, however if you're looking for that one need only go to the right restaurant in San Francisco.

>>5857280
TO THE LEISURE SECTOR! HI-HO!

>>5857280
>San Francisco
We're more likely to pick up the germ

With that signal Rosaline and Andrew immediately got to work, having spent the last few minutes scouting out the exterior of the building for an employee entrance and finding one. Jacob having came out with you heads over to join up with them to sneak inside and get into the Customs office's computer system.

Rosaline grumbles a bit as she lockpicks the door making short work of the lock in question. Slowly and steadily opening the door she stops part way noticing some basic security systems on the otherside, primarily a camera. She quietly closed the door before tossing a stealth boy over to Jacob as he had caught up, "On my mark." She placed hers on, Andrew had already backed away a bit and was now providing overwatch on the two others. Jacob caught the stealth boy and he looked at her, "Where'd you pick this up?"

Rosaline smiled, "Backroom of that merchant Tom was chatting up."

Jacob blinked for a moment, thinking about objecting to that rather brash action before just shaking his head, that's for Ford to deal with not him, just take the win. He puts it on and waits for her mark.
Rosaline close her fist and turns on the stealth boy and Jacob does so as well, both quickly go through a cracked door quietly closing it behind them before heading around to a nearby backroom. As luck would have it the only worker in the building decided to go on break just as they came in heading off to the small recreational room they have in the building.

Rosaline and Jacob make a break for the main desk, Rosaline keeping an eye on the rec room while Jacob starts to work his way into the system. Immediately he was stonewalled by the network when he attempted to access records, with it asking for authorization codes.

He clicked his tongue, "It's never simple is it?" he cracked his knuckles quickly by clenching his fists and connected his pipboy to the terminal and began to execute several different programs that probed at the systems potential weaknesses, to little avail at first, before resorting to a mixture of brute force and abusing the fact that the worker hadn't logged off when they went on break to access what files he did have immediately available to him hoping to find some security mistake.

It took him several minutes but eventually he stumbled upon one document that had some credentials in it. That got him past the first part, the next part however was much more difficult as he worked his way around various security services and systems to gain further access rights by exploiting a loop hole in the way they were assigned to personnel. Once he had managed to give him self as much authority as he could he finally began to dive through the files in earnest looking for anything at all that might lead the group to the remnants here in San Francisco.


The Shi's network was vast, and extremely well protected, but it suffered from a critical weakness, it was completely interconnected from any terminal should one have the right authorizations.

___________

What he found was disheartening at best and sickening at worst. The records show that the San Francisco Enclave cell had actually been operational for quite sometime after the fall of Navarro, however the Shi Emperor had assigned a 98% probability that it existed. The government had been sent to scour the area which had been further narrowed down to Silicon valley. Within the last year they had discovered them, and they decided to offer them a choice, turn coat or be handed over to the NCR. They chose to turn coat providing the Shi with knowledge of several different Enclave secrets, though nothing best that Jacob could tell that was a critical threat at the moment, though he did remind himself to change the authorization codes to the military site as soon as they got there just in case.

The worst of it however is that this cell seems to have gone entirely native, even before they turned coat it seems they had just completely abandoned their mission to seize or destroy the Emperor and instead just settled into the city.

However it was not all doom and gloom, as the records indicate where their current residence is. Beyond that there's a few other interesting bits of information that Jacob was able to scrounge out of the network, for one the location of a Shi Power armor testing site one in which they were attempting to refine a formula for hardening power armor, both for export and personal military applications. The other being the exact location of the Emperor and it's guard rotations.

Even if the San Francisco cell has turned coat we might still be able to finish what they started and also get a very useful tool for the future as well. Just as Jacob was finishing up and getting ready to create a bypass to allow easier access in the future to this network the employee's break seemed to be ending. He cursed under his breath and ran a quick reset to the systems authorities and quietly made his way out along with Rosaline, and the two of them made their way back to you.

When he got back to you all he did was transfer the data from his pipboy to yours, to which you looked at it. Gritting your teeth, you shake your head, "Well we've already know what we do with traitors. we should pull back for the time being to plan our next moves. Good work Jacob."

Jacob smirks, "Hey I'm not about to let some glorified Chinese robot beat me at my own game."

You're quick to head off to a hotel and rent some rooms for the evening and begin planning the next days moves.
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What do you do about the traitors?

>They're no better than Granite, arguably their worse given they gave up without a fight and to the Chinese no less, a traitors death is what they deserve.
>We've already established precedence, it'll be harder but we'll pull them out and have them tried, though this time you've got no interest in playing lawyer.
>They're not worth our time and effort, they made their bed and they'll reap the consequences of it when the time is right.
>Write in?

What's your next move now that the San Francisco cell is known to be compromised?
Regardless of the previous choice that you'll be done with you will...

>Head back to base, our job was to find the cell and we did, we aren't about to go chasing after a formula or risking our lives on blowing up or stealing another super computer. [Can only be taken by itself]
>Go after the hardened power armor formula, that could prove to be invaluable in the long run and we don't want to be at a disadvantage against the Shi when we inevitably come to blows.
>Finish what the San Francisco Cell couldn't, the Shi are to damn dangerous to with this robot in charge, they need to be thrown into chaos and they need to be done so now. [Will require you to call in backup as taking down the Emperor is beyond just your teams capabilities, will be done last if done in concert with taking the power armor formula]
>Write in?

>>5857315
>>They're not worth our time and effort, they made their bed and they'll reap the consequences of it when the time is right.
>>Finish what the San Francisco Cell couldn't, the Shi are to damn dangerous to with this robot in charge, they need to be thrown into chaos and they need to be done so now. [Will require you to call in backup as taking down the Emperor is beyond just your teams capabilities, will be done last if done in concert with taking the power armor formula]

>>5857315
>They're no better than Granite, arguably their worse given they gave up without a fight and to the Chinese no less, a traitors death is what they deserve.
>Finish what the San Francisco Cell couldn't, the Shi are to damn dangerous to with this robot in charge, they need to be thrown into chaos and they need to be done so now. [Will require you to call in backup as taking down the Emperor is beyond just your teams capabilities, will be done last if done in concert with taking the power armor formula]

>>5857315
I'll let this vote go for about ~18 hours which is when I'll have free time to start writing again.

>We've already established precedence....
>Go after the Hardened Power Armor formula...

We should have acted earlier to pit the three (NCR + BOS) against each other, but it's not too late to leave some NCR evidence at the scene when we're done.

>>5857315
>>We've already established precedence, it'll be harder but we'll pull them out and have them tried, though this time you've got no interest in playing lawyer.
>Go after the hardened power armor formula, that could prove to be invaluable in the long run and we don't want to be at a disadvantage against the Shi when we inevitably come to blows.

>>5857315
>They're not worth our time and effort, they made their bed and they'll reap the consequences of it when the time is right.
We've got more important things to do.
>Go after the hardened power armor formula, that could prove to be invaluable in the long run and we don't want to be at a disadvantage against the Shi when we inevitably come to blows.
>Finish what the San Francisco Cell couldn't, the Shi are to damn dangerous to with this robot in charge, they need to be thrown into chaos and they need to be done so now. [Will require you to call in backup as taking down the Emperor is beyond just your teams capabilities, will be done last if done in concert with taking the power armor formula]
Vote for both!

>>5857315
>We've already established precedence, it'll be harder but we'll pull them out and have them tried, though this time you've got no interest in playing lawyer.
Fucking had my hopes up with these guys- so much for being worth all this effort ffs

>Go after the hardened power armor formula, that could prove to be invaluable in the long run and we don't want to be at a disadvantage against the Shi when we inevitably come to blows.
>Finish what the San Francisco Cell couldn't, the Shi are to damn dangerous to with this robot in charge, they need to be thrown into chaos and they need to be done so now. [Will require you to call in backup as taking down the Emperor is beyond just your teams capabilities, will be done last if done in concert with taking the power armor formula]
Ain’t leaving empty handed

>>5857315
>Write in? Scope out the traitors and aquire more information about them, so as to allow the elders more information to decide their faith.
Let's follow protocol for once and bank some goodwill with the leadership.

>Head back to base, our job was to find the cell and we did, we aren't about to go chasing after a formula or risking our lives on blowing up or stealing another super computer. [Can only be taken by itself]
Don't stir the pot, no reason to risk revealing ourselves or raise the alarm prematurely.

>>5856712
HELL YEAH
welcome back, i always believed on your return

>>5857315
>They're not worth our time and effort, they made their bed and they'll reap the consequences of it when the time is right.
Killing them now will attract attention. They will meet justice soon enough.
>Go after the hardened power armor formula, that could prove to be invaluable in the long run and we don't want to be at a disadvantage against the Shi when we inevitably come to blows.
>Write in?
Create tensions and problems between NCR and Shi, we want them to go in an armed conflict. We can start with their merchants here. This is something we can do we need to pick the people to pit against each other through.


Independent merchants should be the only ones going to the Shi, NCR gives a lot of trade for them. Cutting that trade and putting them in a conflict, means they can't do all their little projects anymore and they will do fewer of them and at a slower pace. First we need to weaken them, going after the supercomputer now even with the info on the guard rotations and other security details, we have is a big risk. We will gain other weapons for wipe them out in the future.

>>5856847
i remember that we were doing a series of essentials critical missions (like this one) for properly ensure the exodus of our people could be done with all of the cells reunited, for gain more gear, vehicles, assets and intel, for creating problems for our enemies and lastly because we really need to leave home. It was too near NCR territory and risked too much heat for missions, and really general attention.
Also keeping together our loving family and people.

>>5857499
Tbh I probably would support reintegration (after an innocence proven via trial), if solely for the fact that skilled manpower such as the Shi Enclave are hard to come by. We could never trust them again, but when the Shi-t hits the fan, I do bet they’ll jump ship. Assuming this wasn’t an extreme long-con by the Shi Cell, they’ll probably be more loyal to us than the others in the Wasteland, even if they’ll effectively be regulated to second-class citizens.

The rest of the Remnants may not go for it, but I do think it’s a solid idea.

>>5857315
>We've already established precedence, it'll be harder but we'll pull them out and have them tried, though this time you've got no interest in playing lawyer.

>Go after the hardened power armor formula, that could prove to be invaluable in the long run and we don't want to be at a disadvantage against the Shi when we inevitably come to blows.
>Finish what the San Francisco Cell couldn't, the Shi are to damn dangerous to with this robot in charge, they need to be thrown into chaos and they need to be done so now. [Will require you to call in backup as taking down the Emperor is beyond just your teams capabilities, will be done last if done in concert with taking the power armor formula]

>>5857357
We actually managed to intensify the already ongoing conflict between BOS and NCR, meaning it will last longer. Alongside blocking relations between NCR and Vault City. We achieved our mission objectives here, finding the Cell and scouting the Shi and their city.


>>5857315
Warden are the sacking/scavenging/trapping operations on Santa Rosa still on going ? i remember we had our eyes on a damaged big tank and a damaged fighter i think, beside making sure reaching the ZAX would be very difficult for anyone else coming there (just BOS mostly). I already remember the logistical nightmare of the ZAX so no need to mention it.

>>5857580
i think it's a bad idea, we really don't need to reintegrate traitors. The fact they accepted and also willingly work with the Shi and give up our secrets, makes impossible to have them with us. It would be also the strike that breaks the camel back for our people, this will be bad internally and may put a stop to anything we had in mind. Our internal stability must be restored and should be a top priority.
On top of that, i can't see us convincing this cell well. This place isn't a shithole, and if they collaborated it means they don't live a bad lifes. We offer them a really long trip to an uncertain home, and with a people that bare minimum would reject/despise them utterly if not outright want to see their blood.

i would also recommend anons to reconsider a rapid assault on the supercomputer right now (can't be anything else than that), it requires a full proof plan and it would be far harder than anything we did so far (the Shi have a competent, well trained, well lead, well armed and motivated military. And they control an actual proper fortified city instead of a NCR dustbowl, so they aren't few soldiers or many soldiers but with health problems, rampant indiscipline and poor education).
And Santa Rosa was very difficult for mission.

>>5857315
adding on to >>5857323 >>Go after the hardened power armor formula, that could prove to be invaluable in the long run and we don't want to be at a disadvantage against the Shi when we inevitably come to blows

>>5857315
>They're no better than Granite, arguably their worse given they gave up without a fight and to the Chinese no less, a traitors death is what they deserve.
>Finish what the San Francisco Cell couldn't, the Shi are to damn dangerous to with this robot in charge, they need to be thrown into chaos and they need to be done so now. [Will require you to call in backup as taking down the Emperor is beyond just your teams capabilities, will be done last if done in concert with taking the power armor formula]

>>5857315
>>They're no better than Granite, arguably their worse given they gave up without a fight and to the Chinese no less, a traitors death is what they deserve.
>>Finish what the San Francisco Cell couldn't, the Shi are to damn dangerous to with this robot in charge, they need to be thrown into chaos and they need to be done so now. [Will require you to call in backup as taking down the Emperor is beyond just your teams capabilities, will be done last if done in concert with taking the power armor formula]

>>5857315
>We've already established precedence, it'll be harder but we'll pull them out and have them tried, though this time you've got no interest in playing lawyer.
>Go after the hardened power armor formula, that could prove to be invaluable in the long run and we don't want to be at a disadvantage against the Shi when we inevitably come to blows.

>>5857315
>They're no better than Granite, arguably their worse given they gave up without a fight and to the Chinese no less, a traitors death is what they deserve.
>Go after the hardened power armor formula, that could prove to be invaluable in the long run and we don't want to be at a disadvantage against the Shi when we inevitably come to blows.
>Finish what the San Francisco Cell couldn't, the Shi are to damn dangerous to with this robot in charge, they need to be thrown into chaos and they need to be done so now. [Will require you to call in backup as taking down the Emperor is beyond just your teams capabilities, will be done last if done in concert with taking the power armor formula]
Mix these last two together.

ah whatever
Guess it will be another deathclaw lesson, a lesson is always good.

>>5856712
Excellent welcome back

>>5857658
The fact that we go through a trial and the bar that would be their peers declaring innocence should be enough. We frankly don’t know the circumstances under which they surrendered.

>>5857660
I would be willing to wait until another squad was available and the tech success refreshed, but we on the clock here, and I'm sorta hoping Warden doesn’t throw an extreme mission on us when we just got back.

>>5858037
I made it clear in the option that you'd need reinforcements as this mission is beyond just your team in the choice.


[Will require you to call in backup as taking down the Emperor is beyond just your teams capabilities]
For reference I do think the option is in character for ford given his patriotism and anti authoritarianism stances. However and I will be explicit here again in case it was missed.

The mission is not a solo team affair Fords team can handle. Consider as well that most of the other capable teams are off executing their own operations concurrently. Theres hands to spare but they're less combat capable.

Thing is they surrendered and given up on us, also have given our secrets. Granite is just a step above since he shoot his own kin.

>>5858037
>another squad
Thats the bare minum, we can't do it with just one team. At least three honestly, and if i remember correctly not all of our teams where home. We will also need to study the city, and do more snooping around for computers to hack in to.
>hopeful
Eh no, its our choice if we decide to go for it : is going to be an heavy difficulty if not outright extreme mission. Like this isn't a border garrison, a village or a small military camp.
We want to hit their very heart, in their city. They will fight to the death, they will attempt to use all their advantages and they will have a ton of reinforcements and troops. The window of time will be short for us

And most votes seem to be raiding for the formula and attacking the supercomputer. And i don't think the Shi will have all their buildings close together, like their main lab and their palace.
We will also likely have to put outside the city our land vehicles, has they will just close their gates when the assault starts or use land vehicles of their own for follow us. The vertibird use is for the best, it will increase heat but is necessary, we cannot fight an army and we are fighting them again in their very heart (like assaulting Broken Hills, Arroyo or Shady Sands). This kind of attack will increase heat regardless and the NCR will probably use the opportunity for take out the Shi. Which is unfortunate since they will use the chaos made.

And personally I don't think it wouldn't be fair to Warden for this mission to not be difficult if we go for this additional objectives.
And if we want to win, then the only way is prepare proper plans like is tradition for this quest, thats how our great victories were achieved.

>>5858077
*would
Sy

>>5858072
You mind giving us a rundown on the current missions we’re running, and who’s free? Probably important for us to come to a decision desu- I’d rather not risk New Reno without dedicated fire support like the Veterans on hand.

>>5857315
>They're no better than Granite, arguably their worse given they gave up without a fight and to the Chinese no less, a traitors death is what they deserve.
>Go after the hardened power armor formula, that could prove to be invaluable in the long run and we don't want to be at a disadvantage against the Shi when we inevitably come to blows.
>Go after the hardened power armor formula, that could prove to be invaluable in the long run and we don't want to be at a disadvantage against the Shi when we inevitably come to blows.
>Write in?
>Create tensions and problems between NCR and Shi, we want them to go in an armed conflict. We can start with their merchants here. This is something we can do we need to pick the people to pit against each other through.

>>5858102
Sure I will get that list up after I'm done working

>>5857797
Trial by fire, baby!

>>5857315
>They're no better than Granite, arguably their worse given they gave up without a fight and to the Chinese no less, a traitors death is what they deserve.
>Go after the hardened power armor formula, that could prove to be invaluable in the long run and we don't want to be at a disadvantage against the Shi when we inevitably come to blows.
>Go after the hardened power armor formula, that could prove to be invaluable in the long run and we don't want to be at a disadvantage against the Shi when we inevitably come to blows.
>Write in?
>Create tensions and problems between NCR and Shi, we want them to go in an armed conflict. We can start with their merchants here. This is something we can do we need to pick the people to pit against each other through.

>>5858138
Kek newbie, never change

>>5858120
Appreciate it- also the timeline to our Exodus would be nice. We also have to weigh this action against opportunity-costs of the future, which was why I originally said Yes to both the Emperor and the Power Armor.

Maybe just save the Emperor thing for last of the Squad Actions, in case the reserve team need to assist elsewhere.

Nice to be back!

>>5857315
>They're no better than Granite, arguably their worse given they gave up without a fight and to the Chinese no less, a traitors death is what they deserve.
>Go after the hardened power armor formula, that could prove to be invaluable in the long run and we don't want to be at a disadvantage against the Shi when we inevitably come to blows.
>Go after the hardened power armor formula, that could prove to be invaluable in the long run and we don't want to be at a disadvantage against the Shi when we inevitably come to blows.
>Write in?
>Create tensions and problems between NCR and Shi, we want them to go in an armed conflict. We can start with their merchants here. This is something we can do we need to pick the people to pit against each other through.
Tempted to say 'fuck it we ball's but let's think long term here.

Ok so off work now, Here's my current count

For dealing with the traitors we have
>They're no better than Granite, arguably their worse given they gave up without a fight and to the Chinese no less, a traitors death is what they deserve.
with 7 votes
>>5857735
>>5857736
>>5857773
>>5858116
>>5858144
>>5857324
>>5858169


>We've already established precedence, it'll be harder but we'll pull them out and have them tried, though this time you've got no interest in playing lawyer.
with 5 votes
>>5857357
>>5857403
>>5857444
>>5857604
>>5857742

>They're not worth our time and effort, they made their bed and they'll reap the consequences of it when the time is right.
with 3 votes
>>5857323
>>5857424
>>5857575

And one vote to scout them out as a write in
______

For how to proceed in this mission we have
>Head back to base, our job was to find the cell and we did, we aren't about to go chasing after a formula or risking our lives on blowing up or stealing another super computer. [Can only be taken by itself]
with 1 vote
>>5857499

>Go after the hardened power armor formula, that could prove to be invaluable in the long run and we don't want to be at a disadvantage against the Shi when we inevitably come to blows.
with 10 votes
>>5857403
>>5857424
>>5857444
>>5857575
>>5857604
>>5857742
>>5857773
>>5858116
>>5858144
>>5858169


>Finish what the San Francisco Cell couldn't, the Shi are to damn dangerous to with this robot in charge, they need to be thrown into chaos and they need to be done so now. [Will require you to call in backup as taking down the Emperor is beyond just your teams capabilities, will be done last if done in concert with taking the power armor formula]
with 8 votes
>>5857323
>>5857324
>>5857424
>>5857444
>>5857604
>>5857735
>>5857736
>>5857773

Doing both has 4 votes (these are both counted amongst the individual options counts)
>>5857424
>>5857444
>>5857604
>>5857773

And a write in to create tensions has 4 votes
>>5857575
>>5858116
>>5858144
>>5858169


So currently the out look is the following
Killing the traitors is winning by 1 vote over taking them in for trial
And Getting just the Power armor formula is winning by 2 votes
Taking options individually it has 6 votes vs dealing with the shi emperor which has 4 votes and the write in with 4 votes
taken as a double option (power armor and shi emperor) has 4 votes

So as it stands if I were to call the vote now we'd have
>They're no better than Granite, arguably their worse given they gave up without a fight and to the Chinese no less, a traitors death is what they deserve.
>Go after the hardened power armor formula, that could prove to be invaluable in the long run and we don't want to be at a disadvantage against the Shi when we inevitably come to blows.
as the winning result.

I'm going to call a moritorium on further voting until after I get the list of teams and their operations and the exodus schedule up.

>>5858159
The exodus depends a lot on gaining supplies and our own amount of things we bring away , and how we go about it in bringing the groups of vault dwellers we want to grab to the exodus caravan. The amount of missions we need to do are many, i think it was in at least a full year. It involves a ton of stuff, like planning the whole route, how we go about it, scout missions etc...

Month 5: December - current month in game
Month 4: January
Month 3: February
Month 2: March
Month 1: April
Exodus: June

Operations during December are
Secure Santa Rosa - Redding Stirke team Beta (Nelsons team 2)
Vault City aid - Redding Strike team Alpha (Nelson team 1) [gone until February]
Secure the area around Vault 3 - Enclave Veterans
Investigate the NCR Prison System for Enclave personnel - Senator Rockefeller
Mojave infiltration and propaganda - New Reno Team
Investigate the Shi and Search for the San Francisco Cell - Ford's team

Current combat ready teams in reserve:
None

Reinforcements that can be called upon:
The Commander and Chief of the USA Military (your father)
Your mother
Jacob's Sister
Jacob's father
Grant's father

Mostly just command staff and engineers/scientists at the moment.

>>5857315
>>5857315
>They're no better than Granite, arguably their worse given they gave up without a fight and to the Chinese no less, a traitors death is what they deserve.
>Go after the hardened power armor formula, that could prove to be invaluable in the long run and we don't want to be at a disadvantage against the Shi when we inevitably come to blows.
>Go after the hardened power armor formula, that could prove to be invaluable in the long run and we don't want to be at a disadvantage against the Shi when we inevitably come to blows.
>Write in?
>Create tensions and problems between NCR and Shi, we want them to go in an armed conflict. We can start with their merchants here. This is something we can do we need to pick the people to pit against each other through.

>>5857575
Good thinking anon.

Dammit I'm late. I don't know why it didn't update for me.

After looking at >>5858172 again I just realized it isn't the final tally kek

>>5858200
Nope not the final tally, gonna give everyone an hour from when I posted the operations and exodus timeline before I call the final vote.

>>5858185
Good good, more or less what i remembered.

>>5858185
Ah- then I’d actually prefer we consult with Father via radio befor we move further on the Emperor bid.

>>5858202
Is it alright to bring up the concern about samefagging? Because I am concerned. Also at work, so may be indisposed at times.

>>5858220
Perhaps, though personally best I can tell there's maybe... like two or so posts that feel suspect, but I don't think it's quite enough of a suspicion for me to really bother with asking for verification at the moment.

>>5857315
>>5857735
Fine I'll change my vote to
>They're no better than Granite, arguably their worse given they gave up without a fight and to the Chinese no less, a traitors death is what they deserve.
>Go after the hardened power armor formula, that could prove to be invaluable in the long run and we don't want to be at a disadvantage against the Shi when we inevitably come to blows.
>Go after the hardened power armor formula, that could prove to be invaluable in the long run and we don't want to be at a disadvantage against the Shi when we inevitably come to blows.
>Write in?
>Create tensions and problems between NCR and Shi, we want them to go in an armed conflict. We can start with their merchants here. This is something we can do we need to pick the people to pit against each other through.
It's really just the last write-in I'm changing.

Alright I'm gonna call the vote

>They're no better than Granite, arguably their worse given they gave up without a fight and to the Chinese no less, a traitors death is what they deserve.
>Go after the hardened power armor formula, that could prove to be invaluable in the long run and we don't want to be at a disadvantage against the Shi when we inevitably come to blows.

Looks like that's going to win.
If there's an opportunity to create tensions between the NCR and Shi while doing this he will take it but it's not his priority.

Writing.

>>5858230
It’s mainly the Granite option I worry about- the majority either wants a trial or nothing to do with them, and I’d rather not alert the Shi before we get a crack at their Emperor.

>>5858239
To be fair kidnapping them to put them on trial is no more safe than killing them really in terms of alerting the Shi that something fucky is going on, but either way Ford and company will approach it with as much discretion as they can given the circumstances at play here. Besides this whole operation can be spread out over the course of a month of planning and execution. Think of it like playing Shadowrun if you want.

>>5857315
>They're no better than Granite, arguably their worse given they gave up without a fight and to the Chinese no less, a traitors death is what they deserve.

>Go after the hardened power armor formula, that could prove to be invaluable in the long run and we don't want to be at a disadvantage against the Shi when we inevitably come to blows.
>Finish what the San Francisco Cell couldn't, the Shi are to damn dangerous to with this robot in charge, they need to be thrown into chaos and they need to be done so now. [Will require you to call in backup as taking down the Emperor is beyond just your teams capabilities, will be done last if done in concert with taking the power armor formula]

>>5858249
Shadowrun huh? And a whole month? I’d probably support a play on the Emperor then, especially if near the end of the month we’ll get proper reinforcements, assuming the other missions go well.

>>5858280
I'll have it as an option at the next strategy meeting for the Enclave for the month of January.
As for this month we'll be sticking to the pair of plans from the previous vote.

>>5858287
Ah, shame

The hotel room you ended up renting was relatively well kept, at least by comparison to much of the wasteland. A double bed and basic amenities while being clean. It was refreshing to be on one of these missions and have place to rest and plan that didn't make you feel like you were camping out in a bomb shelter.

Pulling back a chair that was seated at a desk you set down a go over the information's you were recently given one more time. You've currently got about about 4 weeks until most of the rest of the Enclave returns from their own missions with that understanding you table you strong desire to take decisive action against the Shi Emperor. It would be unreasonably reckless to attempt it right now and what reinforcements you could get would leave the home base nearly empty of protection, to say nothing of the risks the idea itself posed.

You heave a sigh leaning back in the chair for a moment before pulling out a small journal and beginning to organize your thoughts. There was the matter of how to deal with the traitors in San Francisco, they had given up state secrets and didn't even put up a fight in doing so. It left a bitter taste in your mouth just thinking about it. They're scum as far as you're concerned, worse than Granite. At least Granite had the balls to fight, at least he seemed to die for a cause he believed in even if it was one that opposed the Enclave.

No you won't be tolerating that while you have the chance to do something about it. They'd be dealt with during your stay in San Francisco, however this won't be as simple as the work in Vault City with Granite. Unlike him these traitors were integrated into the upper echelons of the Shi, that poses a unique set of issues when it comes to delivering justice to them. You have their addresses, but a direct assault on them is too brazen, any form of public assassination is. No you'd have to be patient with this, watch their schedules and habits and pick the best method to be rid of them.

That was a plan that could be developed as the days went on, a more immediate goal however would be being able to steal the information regarding the Hardened Power Armor formula. We don't have to destroy their existing copy, though that would be beneficial in the long run it'd likely make the other task harder by setting the government on edge. If we can get into the facility where this testing and development is taking place and make a copy of their notes and the formula that would be more than enough of a success.

You stand up pocketing the journal as you do so, heading out of your room so that you can gather your team for a meeting to prepare for that task first. It doesn't take long to gather everyone together into your own room, and with them assembled you lay out your views on the situation. It is generally well received, with the exception of Thomas, "With all do respect Ford, why are we wasting our time on killing these turn coats? I get it what they did is reprehensible, but surely we have better things to spend our resources and effort on then that in the short term?" He was alone in his objections.

You clear your throat, "We're going to deal with them because we have the time to do so, and we may well not get another chance to do so. Something has to be done about the Shi and their rate of advancement. The way they're progressing both technologically but also societally is worries me, and getting rid of those turn coats will at the very least hamper them in that regard by removing several technical experts while also making them less likely to have a response to our own maneuvers when the time comes for us to clash." You turn around to look out one of the windows in the room, "We can't take the Emperor, not yet, so this is the next best thing. I won't even dignify these cowards with a trial."

Thomas scowls slightly, "And you did with Granite? Why the sudden bout of hypocrisy?" You turn back to him calmly, "Nothing hypocritical about it, they're both traitors no doubt, both may have operated under duress to turn coat, but Granite chose to live his own life afterwards he was barely an active threat to the rest of the remnants, them? They're actively aiding a foreign occupier in establishing a state on American soil, all the while giving away what's ours. Same crime different severity."

Thomas shakes his head, "You know that's not how that works-" he's about to say more when Rosaline speaks up, "As riveting as you two bickering over morals is can we get back to the part where we're planning whatever it is we're planning?" Thomas gives her a sour look and she just shrugs at him, "Look if I didn't say anything you two would be at it for hours, and you're not even drunk yet." The rest of the team stifled a chuckle at that remark as you glower at them, "Fine." you say in response, "as I was going to say, dealing with them is not our first priority at the moment. Officially our work here is done, but never let it be said that our team does not always go above and beyond the call of duty. We have the opportunity to seize the formula for Hardened Power armor from the Shi and we will be taking it."

Rosaline perks up at this, while Elizabeth has to sock Andrew in the shoulder in order for him to start paying attention. Rosaline speaks up, "So we're gonna be stealing some stuff now?" You nod, "Yes and this time you'll actually have orders to do so." you cough slightly as Rosaline just whistles not even breaking eye contact. "First though I want you, Andrew and Thomas to go scout the place out. Andrew you're on overwatch, Thomas and Rosaline you two will be getting whatever information you can out of the people on site, and if possible map us a root to the lab."

Grant speaks up, "Question if I may sir." You nod, "What will the rest of us be doing?" you pause for a moment, "You, Jacob and I will be heading off to gather some more information on our traitors, first and foremost I want to get a better idea of what their schedules look like. There's 6 of them here that are either engineers or scientists and 2 former soldiers for 8 ex-Enclave personnel that need to be dealt with. The first 6 should be easy enough to take down in any scenario, it's making it discreet that's the issue, the other two seeing as they're now a part of the Shi's military we may have something we can use to deal with them while also pulling in the NCR's attention to the Shi." you say to the group.

There's a short pause before you continue, "We could anonymously inform the NCR that the Shi are harboring Ex-Enclave personnel, use their own paranoia against them by using the truth." There's an odd tension in the room as you suggest that before Andrew of all people speaks up, "Don't you think that's playing with fire?" You shake your head, "Not particularly it's not as if the San Francisco Cell know of us, yes it might validate some of the NCR's fears but it's also more likely to turn them against the Shi by making it seem like we're collaborating when it couldn't be further from the truth, and we all know how brash the NCR's foreign policy is at this point." Andrew doesn't look terribly convinced, "Don't know seems like a needless risk." he doesn't really elaborate beyond that however.

Elizabeth then speaks up, "I feel like I'm being forgotten here." you stop to think for a moment, "You're not exactly adept at handling these sort of situations, you'll stay in reserve and if we need to interrogate anyone we'll bring them to you." She looks ready to object before stopping and nodding. You give her a somewhat sad smile nodding back, you know she wants to prove herself after all that's happened, you'll have to let her know at some point that what she just did was a step in the right direction, but now's not the time.

Still you've got some things to chew on.
What do you settle on for a final plan of action?

Ford, Grant and Jacob: [pick one]
>We'll look into the engineers and scientists first, they're likely to work in close concert with each other so we may be able to plan something out to get multiple at once
>We'll go looking for the two soldiers first, they're more isolated and it's far more likely to die in a military training exercise than an experiment these days we might be able to glean something like that.
>We'll look into the viability of either informing the NCR on the Shi or finding a way to pin their deaths on them.

Rosaline, Andrew, Thomas: [pick one]
>Lets go for a more traditional recon, sneak around the complex, find a entry point, then ask around.
>We can try and find some individuals that we can base some disguises on and attempt to infiltrate the place, if we can do that we might be able to save ourselves a lot of trouble.
>Try not to get ahead of ourselves, let's just ask around about the place first, if we're lucky and smart we might be able to find the person in charge of the experiment, if we can get them that's two birds with one stone.

>>5858280
Maybe next. We aren't on any shortage of missions to do eitherway really, or primary/secondary objectives to achieve (i am fairly sure though that the scouting mission for the exodus will be locked in, because is fundamental, and must be done).

Hell it wouldn't be bad idea, to even make sure more internal stability is established if we can. Though we need to find a way for do so, something smart. Or just something that touches hearts and minds, for morale.

Or to improve relations, with say the Van Graffs (currently the only other faction beside the East Coast that is friendly with us. And the East Coast wanted more to order us around really) through missions for enjoy the benefits of a stronger relation with them. Or maybe gain/create/improve new assets, the Manifest Destiny Caravan is a pretty good asset for aid us for example. Maybe a group of mercs next, or a network of contacts that act has informants for us. If the lab and workshop weren't that basic, something more interesting could be done there. Dogs and coyotes are cheap, and we have those K-9 files for example....
Who knows.

>>5858185
Was Jacob sister a medic ? I think she was. We need one in our squad ASAP, and then our squad is fully ready for any missions.
I wonder if we should have done a different type of training like urban warfare. Night training was a pretty good choice overall, i don't regret it won, what to pick next though. There is a lot honestly we could do there

>>5858353
>>We'll look into the viability of either informing the NCR on the Shi or finding a way to pin their deaths on them.
>>We can try and find some individuals that we can base some disguises on and attempt to infiltrate the place, if we can do that we might be able to save ourselves a lot of trouble.

>>5858357
Jacob's sister is an Enclave Scientist.
Can she do healing? yes.
Do you want her to do healing?
*shrug*
"Jacob's sister was... eccentric at best and absolutely insane at worst, but there were very few people left in your cell that had such a strong grasp of the sciences.
However she was completely locked up in the labs, always experimenting, rarely coming out, only ever to eat and even then she'd take her food and eat outside the lab." is how I described her

>>5858353
>We'll look into the viability of either informing the NCR on the Shi or finding a way to pin their deaths on them.
If is possible that's good.
>We can try and find some individuals that we can base some disguises on and attempt to infiltrate the place, if we can do that we might be able to save ourselves a lot of trouble.
Difficult choice..... though I have the suspicion they might not use english for enter certain sections or do certain tasks in important buildings. Which would be honestly smart by them.

Mmmm we will have to talk with Andrew when the mission is done. Needed, and our sister is fine. Just need a chance to show her worth.

>>5858360
Well thats good can be worked upon. I guess she could be motivated by finding some stuff outside if nothing else, and test subjects Lol

Our sis coild scare someone quite a lot if we need it. Maybe with the NCR here

>>5858353
>We'll look into the viability of either informing the NCR on the Shi or finding a way to pin their deaths on them.
>We can try and find some individuals that we can base some disguises on and attempt to infiltrate the place, if we can do that we might be able to save ourselves a lot of trouble.

>>5858353
>We'll look into the viability of either informing the NCR on the Shi or finding a way to pin their deaths on them.
>Lets go for a more traditional recon, sneak around the complex, find a entry point, then ask around.

Normally I'd let a vote like this run for about 4 hours before calling it but I'm gonna call this one early as I've got to go to sleep soon.

>We'll look into the viability of either informing the NCR on the Shi or finding a way to pin their deaths on them.
>Lets go for a more traditional recon, sneak around the complex, find a entry point, then ask around.

wins

I'll start writing when I wake up tomorrow.

>>5858357
The shortage isn’t missions, the shortage is time- we need to be efficient and effective with our time, and I’m afraid Hardened Power Armor doesn’t cover the opportunity-cost that losing the Shi Cell represents (a Scientist/Engineering Squad would be invaluable, especially relating the the ZAX). In my eyes, only the Shi Emperor comes close to recovering that lost potential, and the opportunity cost that sitting on that mission imposes…irritates me.

Regardless, I believe Santa Rosa does have advanced facilities- maybe a workshop, certainly a lab. Maybe a decent play to temporarily set up command there, or at least relocate the engineering/scientific assets to make use of it before we Exodus.

Jacob’s sister is a mad scientist- while she could no doubt function as a medic, she’s more useful off the field ratchet than on it.

>>5858759
Maybe, but we can't trust them with any kind of work and they would be a great internal problem. Which we don't need at all, since the tension at home is very high already.
A formula instead give us the Shi research, no internal tensions and it doesn't carry the same amount of possible heat creation or risk than an assault on the Emperor supercomputer creates.

Santa Rosa conditions where quite bad, and .. i think we are stripping it bare of anything else we can reasonably take at the moment. The ZAX for obvious reasons already explained, remains there.
A temporary relocation of our engineer and scientists could be problematic (its not a great place to live and the place is going to be a death trap when Redding Strike Team Beta is done there).

Regardless of what we do, tensions need to be increased between the Shi & NCR. A good point was raised about the value of STEM experts though, so maybe we should go for the assassinations but capture if the opportunity is present. Dead or alive essentially; force them to work for us if we can exfil them. If not, no great loss so long as we deprive the Shi & stir the pot with the Californians. Not sure if the the two grunts are worth anything though, unless they relent as soon as they're at plasma-point & have damn good explanations/were sabotaging the Shi from within

First you, Jacob and Grant are going to go looking into the viability of dealing with the traitors by baiting the NCR into dealing with them and the Shi at the same time. It's not exaclty going to be a straight fowrads process though. For one we'll need to come up with convincing enough evidence to support our claims. We know them to be true, we even have copies of the Shi's internal documents regarding the matter however that alone is not fool proof. What we need is irrefutable proof in order to instigate the most immediate response possible.

Proof that can either be manufactured by ourselves, or through circumstance depending on how these traitors conduct themselves. That's what we'll be looking into first you think to yourself. If that proves fruitless then it becomes a matter of convincing the Shi that their deaths are the result of NCR meddling. It'd be easier for us to disguise ourselves as NCR infiltrators, but you get the feeling that this won't have the same immediate response from the Shi as the NCR would have to them knowing there's ex-Enclave personnel in the Shi government.

Heading off to the district of the city that some of the traitors lived in you begin to set up to recon the area and wait to be sure that they're not home and won't be for quite some time. Steaking the place out was more difficult than you had first thought as the security in this place is relatively tight with regular police patrols in the neighborhood along with street camera's all about the place. It's a good thing that Jacob is here as he's able to work his magic and deal with the cameras. However the patrols were a different problem entirely. Had this been the NCR then we could have figured out their comms channel and redirected them after listening in to figure out what the terminology they would use was. However this wasn't going to work because none of us knew Chinese. We found the comms channel easy enough, but we couldn't understand a single damn word being said.

Grant then speaks up, "We're going to either need to just go for it, or do something to draw them away from the area." you nod at this, "We don't have the resources though to pull that off however, neither of you are going to bait for this, it's took risky for one especially if you get caught." you're not very excited about the prospect of just going for it however, with as many eyes on the target as there are it's very possible to have this go very wrong.

Jacob thinks for a moment, "I could set up a signal jammer, if they can't radio in or out of an area then they'll likely want to investigate that area, if we put a few traps we might be able to pull more of them in. Would still probably put them on edge though once they realize it's a diversion, not that they'll know where too though." You think for a moment, "That could work... Alternatively we could try and go for a more social approach. I don't particularly care to speak to these lot, but they themselves might be the best source of information we can get for this. Just need to catch them in a social environment."

What do you do?
>Go for it, they're not here, it'll be a smash and grab in and out with everything we can get. [stealth test]
>Jacob set up that jammer that should give us more than enough time to be thorough. [tech test]
>We'll catch one of them out and try and fast talk them, if we can get them to spill something in their own voice and record it that'll be pay dirt. [speech test]

>>5859042
>>Jacob set up that jammer that should give us more than enough time to be thorough. [tech test]

>>5859042
>>Jacob set up that jammer that should give us more than enough time to be thorough. [tech test]

>>5859042
>>Jacob set up that jammer that should give us more than enough time to be thorough. [tech test]

Drawing a bunch of attention elsewhere will put them on high-alert.

I say we split our forces & go for both stealth + social;
>Go for it...
>We'll catch one of them...

>>5859042
>We'll catch one of them out and try and fast talk them, if we can get them to spill something in their own voice and record it that'll be pay dirt. [speech test]
Fast talking fits with our merchant cover, worst case they think we’re try to sell them something and tell us to buzz off.

>>5859042
>Jacob set up that jammer that should give us more than enough time to be thorough. [tech test]

>>5859042
>We'll catch one of them out and try and fast talk them, if we can get them to spill something in their own voice and record it that'll be pay dirt. [speech test]

>>Jacob set up that jammer that should give us more than enough time to be thorough. [tech test]

wins

Distract the Shi with a Radio Jammer
Challenging Tech Test DV 50
Jacob Hartmen +25

DV 75

YOU HAVE 2 REROLLS

Critical Failure: [Not possible]
0 Successes: What do you mean they found it already? [Shi are put on high alert, you get no good evidence]
1 Success: That's an impressive response time, what do we have? [Shi are put on high alert, you get some minor evidence]
2 Successes: This looks like it's working out just as planned [Shi are put on alert as you're able to get evidence and shut off the jammer before they can find it.]
3 Successes: This was exactly what we needed [Shi are put on a low alert as you're able to find useful evidence and shut off the jammer well before they can find it]
Critical Success: Well well well it would seem things aren't so simple after all.... [Shi are put on a low alert, you find evidence that at least one of the cell are playing a long con as well as useful evidence for getting the NCR involved.]

I need 3 1d100s

Rolled 88 (1d100)

>>5859235
If there was any time to get a crit-success, it’d be now lads. God Bless America.

Rolled 97 (1d100)

>>5859235
That crit reward is juicy.

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>>5859239
>>5859249

Rolled 14 (1d100)

>>5859235
Correct me if I'm wrong but don't we have a free pass or something?

>>5859264
That's a once per mission use which was used on the previous tech test.

Rolled 52 (1d100)

>>5859235
>>5859249
REROLL!

>>5859269
Want me to reroll my shit roll or wait 15 mins for another anon to participate?

>>5859274
Well you're roll was 25 minutes ago assuming you were the 88, so you're free to reroll if you'd like to.

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Rolled 29 (1d100)

>>5859279
Let’s roll then

Rerolls coming in turning one success to three alas no crit, though perhaps it's not the last chance?
Who knows.

3 Successes: This was exactly what we needed [Shi are put on a low alert as you're able to find useful evidence and shut off the jammer well before they can find it]

writing

>>5858837
It’s not that we can’t trust them with work- we just can’t trust them with important secrets. Think about it- who are they going to turn to when the Shi flounders in the Wasteland? The NCR? The BoS? The wasteland hates them, will most likely try to kill them if they ever find out they’re former Enclave. They got no where to turn to for security but us- and it’s not like we’ll entrust them with the ZAX, but for missions shoring up Vault City? It frees up our squads for other operations, plus they have general utility, not to mention that they know Chinese and how the Shi operates as a society. And this doesn’t take into consideration that we could trade them to the East Enclave for something equally valuable and make it their problem.

As for kidnapping the Shi Emperor, I was only making the point that the only thing I’d consider an equal opportunity-cost trade for a usable Shi Cell would’ve been the Shi Emperor.

As for Santa Rosa, we are stripping the place aren’t we? Still, I would consider utilizing the Research ZAX would be more of a net positive- just a shame we can’t utilize it yet.

>>5859287
>though perhaps it's not the last chance?
Who knows.
Getting my hopes up now lol

>>5858516
>>Lets go for a more traditional recon, sneak around the complex, find a entry point, then ask around.
woops that's not what won for that one, good thing I hadn't posted that part. Funny thing is I was writing for the actual winner which was to find some individuals to base disguises on and came back to double check.

It takes Jacob a couple of hours to rig up a jammer and hide it. The tricky part was making it so that the Shi wouldn't be able to immediately pin point the damn thing as soon as he turned it on by triangulation, but he had a few tricks up his sleaves involving some selective range extenders being placed about to create a more amorphous radius.

Once he had returned the three of you get ready to strike, you'll have assuming things work out about an hour to raid the house. If you're lucky maybe longer, but that should be more than enough time to turn the place over subtly. Everyone is given gloves, masks and goggles to help remove any identifying features. With that all done Jacob flicks a switch on his pipboy and the station you had been listening into turns to radio static.

It doesn't take longer than a few minutes before most of the patrols start to head off in search of the source of the disruption once they manage to ascertain that it wasn't just technical difficulties. With that you seize your chance and move in, you're not much of a lockpicker yourself, but it seems that the front door didn't exactly have a strong lock on it in the first place. Getting through that you get inside and split up to begin searching for any shreds of evidence you can use to bait the NCR with.

You take the nearby bedroom, looks like it's a bed for two, well lived in. A picture frame sits on one of the night stands, a rather tall Caucasian man who looks to be in his mid 40s maybe early 50s is standing besides a somewhat younger Shi woman likely early 40s or late 30s. There's a couple of other pictures of children but most of them seem to be from long enough ago that they've grown up by now, likely having either moved out or away. You don't dwell long on this however, before rummaging through the drawers in the night stand for anything useful.

There's a small journal with a latch on it, you open it up and skim through it. It seems to be mostly a record of the past few years, a lot of civilian stuff, though you notice some inconsistencies in grammar here and there. Likely some kind of cypher, but you don't have time to crack that or even cross reference it with Enclave cyphers....
Do you take the journal?
>Yes
>No

Regardless you here Jacob over comms say he's found something. Heading out of the room you head up to the second story he seems to have found some sort of office space, several filing cabinets as well as a personal terminal. You get to work on the cabinets while Jacob takes a crack at the terminal. Sifting through the cabinets you find little of use, a lot of government records but of the most mundane kind, tax returns, a copy of some sort of certification probably a requirement to perform whatever job he has, proof of citizenship....

You take a picture of that last one, but close the cabinets afterwards. Though before you can get too frustrated Jacob speaks up, "Alright I think I've got something good on this terminal, looks like the guy still has some vertibird schematics as well as energy weapon refining techniques on here." You lean over his shoulder to see and these are definitely Enclave documents, though noticeably they've been recently updated as if this guy has been iterating on the designs.

You pat Jacob on the back, "Good find copy those over to your pipboy, and take a picture of them as well, we can edit these to be more out of date if decide to use them as evidence for the NCR." Grant is the next to call you over having checked out what looked to be a storage room. Seems this guy was nostalgic to some degree, odd given his life choices, as he had an Enclave Scientists uniform well hidden in the back of that storage closet. You snap another picture.

With that you all give the place another cursory check over before doing everything you can to make sure nothing is out of place or amiss and leaving. As you leave you take a moment to check the radio signal, still jammed it seems. Jacob then uses this opportunity to turn of the jammer and the extenders, "If we're lucky they'll think it was a freak technical issue or some sort of weather phenomena, I don't know maybe a solar burst?" he shrugs, "When they've calmed down I'll go pick those up."

The three of you retreat for now back to the hotel, the Shi being none the wiser and only slightly perturbed by this afternoons events. Going over the evidence you have you should have enough to get the attention of any NCR official at least for this one person. Now we just need to wait for the other group to return before we can decide our next course of action.

_______________

Rosaline, Thomas and Andrew headed off to the site in search of some marks that they could use for reference material. Watching them come and go over the course of a day was tedious work, but necessary. Really the more frustrating part for Rosaline was having to deal with Andrew's 'boredom' though Thomas was able to smooth that over for the time being.

Eventually though a couple of marks were found. The difficult part being that a lot of the technical speak that they had managed to eeves drop on was in Chinese. A deeply frustrating realization that made getting in as one of the engineers or scientists nearly impossible. However Andrew came up with a rather clever idea, "If we can't be one of the big wigs, why not a Janitor? Gotta give those guys keys to most of the place right?" the other two thought on it for a moment and nodded. Watching some more it seemed there were indeed a few members of a janitorial staff, that mostly spoke English, one speak Spanish and another some tribal language that none of the group could quite figure out.

Now comes the interesting part, how do we get our hands on these disguises?

>No one's gonna notice a missing Janitor for a day or two [Stealth test]
>Quickest and easiest way is to just apply for the job [Speech test]
>Write in?

>>5859328
>Yes

>No one's gonna notice a missing Janitor for a day or two [Stealth test]

>>5859331
>Yes
>>Quickest and easiest way is to just apply for the job [Speech test]

>>5859328
>>Yes

>>5859331
>>Quickest and easiest way is to just apply for the job [Speech test]

>>5859331
>>Yes
>>No one's gonna notice a missing Janitor for a day or two [Stealth test]

Looks like it's a pretty resounding yes to taking the journal, but a tie on whether or not you want to take the stealth approach or the speech approach.

I'll let the vote go through the night.

Since my Saturday looks relatively clear I should be able to run at a slightly higher pace than tomorrow, but you should expect the average day to go about how the last two have went going forwards.

>>5859328
>YES
>>>5859331
>>No one's gonna notice a missing Janitor for a day or two [Stealth test]
SNEAKY NIGGAS

>>5859328
>Do you take the journal?
Couldn’t we take pictures?

>>5859331
>Quickest and easiest way is to just apply for the job [Speech test]
Unless it’s a tie, than just null my vote to break it.

>>5859470
You know what you're not wrong you absolutely could take pictures.
Completely escaped my mind at the time of that particular bit, but yeah you had camera's. Would probably use up the majority of the film though.... do you figure Fallout would have digital cameras? Legitimate question, though I get the feeling the answer is no doesn't seem to match the atom punk aesthetic.

>>5859471
>do you figure Fallout would have digital cameras?
Yea, mainly because robotic cameras would have to be digital. And that’s just the commercial robots, I’m sure the Enclave would’ve had access to the super high tech James Bond spy shit, certainly some schematics. I just imagine it would look wacky as hell to us though.

>>5859483
mmhm fair enough I suppose.
We'll I'll retcon that option from yes or no to Ford taking pictures of the journal's pages because he literally had a camera with him so why wouldn't he.

Doesn't change too much aside from completely mitigating the downside of either option.
Good catch.

>>5859331
>Yes
>>No one's gonna notice a missing Janitor for a day or two [Stealth test]
Questions can come up with being a new worker here, checking background etc.. is only natural to do.

Not exactly relevant, but checkout the Operation Sunburst series of animations on yt. Really solid combat scenes at Helios One.

>>5859297
So far we have 3 reasons for not trust them, they have throw away their allegiance, given up secrets and work with the Shi. And no evidence for trust them.
Half of the people at home will go pale in the face or become enraged hearing that alone.

The Shi i don't think will go away from their city even if their supercomputer emperor dies, this is their home that they built. They will not give up this place ever, they will die to the last for keep it theirs. Is quite literally one of the best settlements to live in the wastelands. They will have a crisis of leadership, some civilian chaos, a substantially drop of morale : but it doesn't mean the faction dies only that they enter a crisis and that become vulnerable. And that means the traitor cell has no reason to leave either, hell they clearly made new happy lives for themselves here. Unless is too much unrest.

The traitors are a threat for our internal stability which mind you literally risks to not be stable at the moment.
Not everything can be efficient, and we really can't deal with another Granite like trial. Our people might snap here.
The only option if we suddenly want them back would be collar bombs with multiple robot guns always behind them or being given to the East which is a skeptical idea for the travel amount we propose to the easterners to do, for the fact we are giving traitors and because we don't really want to be lord over by the East (the news of their existance weren't exactly flowers and sunshine when we returned back home from Santa Rosa).

I don't think we would have any time for kidnapping it, we would kill or attempt to hack it most likely. Thing is an assault on the heart of a faction, means we will be in danger if being overwhelmed if we aren't quick enough. Its still a large supercomputer we aren't bringing it physically away. The data in it, now that....

Research is up in the air, they might consider the idea in the next strategic meeting. But is a real shithole and being for a few months there wouldn't be great, for anyone.

>>5859623
Soda did a pretty good job with it, same for ones of halo and titanfall.

Here something from a mod about power armor instead
https://youtu.be/1znOwGTCh7s?si=_PObl2z5oJK1dTxv

>>No one's gonna notice a missing Janitor for a day or two [Stealth test]
Wins

As noted before the yes no choice on the journal has been retconned to having just taken pictures of the journal instead as there was no point to having that dilemma in the first place given the context of the situation.

Another thing to note before we get rolling, some stuff has come up I'll likely only be able to do this roll and the subsequent update before having to handle some other stuff today, which sucks because I can't run on Sundays due to tabletop commitments, same with Tuesdays, between work and tabletop that's just not going to happen.

With that advisory out of the way lets get those dice ready.

Appropriating a Janitorial uniform for America
Challenging Stealth Test DV 50

Rosaline Washington +25
Thomas Rockefeller +5
Andrew Jefferson-Jackson +15

DV 100
Automatic 3 Successes the rolls here are to see if you critically succeed.

YOU HAVE 1 AUTO SUCCESS YOU MAY SPEND (Not relevant here in order to guarantee a critical you would need 2 auto successes on top 3 normal successes)

Critical Failure: [not possible due to overwhelming capability in test]
Normal Result: Tagged and bagged, we've got a uniform and no one is the wiser managed to get some spares too. [successfully obtain disguises for the group, gain a bonus while infiltrating the compound]
CRITICAL SUCCESS: Well who said we needed to wait? It's right there after all.... (gain disguise and infiltrate the compound successfully pulling the data on the hardened power armor from their terminals then disappearing like you were never there to begin with)

Give me 3 1d100s anons, crits are on a 1 as always, you can't fail you're just fishing today.

Rolled 10 (1d100)

>>5859832
God exists. And we killed him.

Rolled 91 (1d100)

>>5859832

Rolled 73 (1d100)

>>5859832

Worth a shot if nothing else

Alright Normal Result: Tagged and bagged, we've got a uniform and no one is the wiser managed to get some spares too. [successfully obtain disguises for the group, gain a bonus while infiltrating the compound] it is.

writing

The plan was simple enough, wait for one of the Janitors to head home, follow them, and then black bag them. Once the Janitor has been bagged deal with any other residents and raid the house for some uniforms while taking the one from the janitor themselves as well. Better to have more than you need than to not have enough after all. Once the uniforms were obtained take the janitor and others if there are any to a secured location to have Elizabeth watch over them.

The execution was flawless, Andrew's tracking abilities mixed with Rosalines natural knack for stealth and Thomas' keen social awareness made them a natural grouping for this kind of work. The Janitor didn't even know what hit them when Rosaline knocked them unconscious in their own home black bagging them and then hiding the body while they got the uniform. Lucky enough they seemed to have several uniforms, enough for four people if necessary, and the one on them. One for every day of the week it would seem.

Regardless the Janitor appeared to live by themselves, the house itself wasn't anything special, but it also wasn't your typical wasteland abode, a small space efficient town house, one story with only a couple of rooms. A rather Spartan abode really.

The team once they had an all clear from Andrew evacuated the house with the supplies and the janitor having been placed into a large duffle bag still unconscious. They headed back to the hotel making sure to to take a circuitous route so as to minimize the chance that they were being followed in case they were being watched.

________________________

You're wait for the other team was not long as they had arrived with a set of five janitors outfits and a duffle bag. You eye Andrew who was carrying it questioningly, and he just unzipped it after making sure the blinds were closed and the door was locked to reveal a man sitting inside of it. You pause for a moment before just opting to move on, as long as he can't see anything and we use some voice modulators they'll have nothing to work with anyways.

You double check that the man is unconscious still before speaking, "We've got a good amount of evidence we can use to pull the NCR into conflict with the Shi via the use of the traitors, and it looks like you three have devised a scheme to infiltrate the compound where the formula is. Good. Everyone take a day to prepare yourselves, cause what comes next can't afford any failures." The team nods at you, before you dismiss them.

You still had to decide a few things before going ahead, as well you'd like that cypher from the journal to be cracked first if possible. More evidence is always useful just in case, but that can wait, the rest of the day and the team needs a moment to breath before committing to this operation. A rare luxury in these days as it feels like every time you head out it's do or die to the last minute.

Of course taking a moment to rest doesn't mean letting your guard down. Given where you are you can't really afford that, however now is the time to address any potential command issues that might rear their head before the mission critical stuff happens.

You...
[pick two]
>Talk to Thomas, you're not a fan of sycophants, but you can't have him throwing up hands everytime something unsavory happens. If you're a pragmatic idealist then he's a blind one and that needs to stop.
>Talk to Andrew, you've already talked to him about getting his act together on missions, but it seems bad habits die hard. Give him some motivation or remind him why exactly the easy road isn't always the best.
>Talk to Elizabeth, she needs some positive affirmation of her progress, and now is as good of time as any to do so. The last thing you need is her relapsing during one of these tasks and trying to seek glory where it might get us killed.
>Write in?

>Talk to Andrew, you've already talked to him about getting his act together on missions, but it seems bad habits die hard. Give him some motivation or remind him why exactly the easy road isn't always the best.
>Talk to Elizabeth, she needs some positive affirmation of her progress, and now is as good of time as any to do so. The last thing you need is her relapsing during one of these tasks and trying to seek glory where it might get us killed.

Just found out about this quest and caught up over the course of a week. It's awesome.

>>5860075
>>Talk to Thomas, you're not a fan of sycophants, but you can't have him throwing up hands everytime something unsavory happens. If you're a pragmatic idealist then he's a blind one and that needs to stop.
>>Talk to Andrew, you've already talked to him about getting his act together on missions, but it seems bad habits die hard. Give him some motivation or remind him why exactly the easy road isn't always the best.

>>5860075
>Talk to Andrew, you've already talked to him about getting his act together on missions, but it seems bad habits die hard. Give him some motivation or remind him why exactly the easy road isn't always the best.
>Talk to Elizabeth, she needs some positive affirmation of her progress, and now is as good of time as any to do so. The last thing you need is her relapsing during one of these tasks and trying to seek glory where it might get us killed.

>>5860075
>Talk to Andrew, you've already talked to him about getting his act together on missions, but it seems bad habits die hard. Give him some motivation or remind him why exactly the easy road isn't always the best.
>Talk to Elizabeth, she needs some positive affirmation of her progress, and now is as good of time as any to do so. The last thing you need is her relapsing during one of these tasks and trying to seek glory where it might get us killed.

>>5860153
Supporting

>>5860075
>>Talk to Andrew, you've already talked to him about getting his act together on missions, but it seems bad habits die hard. Give him some motivation or remind him why exactly the easy road isn't always the best.
>>Talk to Elizabeth, she needs some positive affirmation of her progress, and now is as good of time as any to do so. The last thing you need is her relapsing during one of these tasks and trying to seek glory where it might get us killed.

Probably give the chyper to Jacob. Otherwise ... i guess we could study the city map later on. Useful for getting out, reading news and hearing rumors might help for put NCR and Shi against eachother

>>5860075
>Talk to Thomas, you're not a fan of sycophants, but you can't have him throwing up hands everytime something unsavory happens. If you're a pragmatic idealist then he's a blind one and that needs to stop.
Needs to be dealt with
>Talk to Elizabeth, she needs some positive affirmation of her progress, and now is as good of time as any to do so. The last thing you need is her relapsing during one of these tasks and trying to seek glory where it might get us killed.
Don’t worry sis, the Shi Emperor is where you’ll shine!

>>5860075
>Talk to Thomas, you're not a fan of sycophants, but you can't have him throwing up hands everytime something unsavory happens. If you're a pragmatic idealist then he's a blind one and that needs to stop
>>Talk to Elizabeth, she needs some positive affirmation of her progress, and now is as good of time as any to do so. The last thing you need is her relapsing during one of these tasks and trying to seek glory where it might get us killed.

>Elizabeth
>Andrew

>>5860325
I wouldn't be against looking at the map.

>>5860075
>Talk to Andrew, you've already talked to him about getting his act together on missions, but it seems bad habits die hard. Give him some motivation or remind him why exactly the easy road isn't always the best.
>Talk to Elizabeth, she needs some positive affirmation of her progress, and now is as good of time as any to do so. The last thing you need is her relapsing during one of these tasks and trying to seek glory where it might get us killed.

>>5860075
>Talk to Andrew, you've already talked to him about getting his act together on missions, but it seems bad habits die hard. Give him some motivation or remind him why exactly the easy road isn't always the best.
>Talk to Elizabeth, she needs some positive affirmation of her progress, and now is as good of time as any to do so. The last thing you need is her relapsing during one of these tasks and trying to seek glory where it might get us killed.

Alright weekend is over, schedule is good for tomorrow.
>Talk to Andrew, you've already talked to him about getting his act together on missions, but it seems bad habits die hard. Give him some motivation or remind him why exactly the easy road isn't always the best.
>Talk to Elizabeth, she needs some positive affirmation of her progress, and now is as good of time as any to do so. The last thing you need is her relapsing during one of these tasks and trying to seek glory where it might get us killed.

Wins

Write up will go up tomorrow.

Bump

>>5861834
I like this. Thomas is the type who is better cajoled with a whiskey and a bonfire. Andrew and Elizabeth are one on one activity type. We should organize a plinking session with Andrew if we want to delve deeper with him. And for Elizabeth, what does the Enclave do for hand to hand/physical training? She's intense and loses herself in fury. Maybe helping her sharpen her focus while in her element.

Sorry for the late message. When I finished work today, I basically started mentally shutting down right afterwards to the point I just had to lay down myself before my brain did it for me whether I liked it or not.

I'm better right now but I've got no idea why that happened. I'll try and get an update out first thing tomorrow if I can.

Take some time to unwind, Warden.

>>5862788
Fear not Fellow American, For we all struggle in our battles for the return to Normality. Know we all support you in these trying UNAMERICAN times.

>>5862788
Don't worry about it dude. You should take care of yourself first.

>>5862788
No problems chief, take sometime for yourself. We will be here.

Ah thanks for saying something. That is good to have for us.

>>5862788
Don't burn yourself out man, we'll wait.

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>>5862788
are you alive friend

>>5866414
I am, I've just been doing as advised and taking some time to breath. Just sat down to write actually.

You give yourself an hour or so to collect your thoughts as well as let everyone else do the same before heading out. You were going to speak with your brother and sister before the start of the next phase of the operation. Andrew because it seems he hasn't internalized your previous conversation yet and that's going to become an issue sooner rather than later, and Elizabeth because you want to affirm her restraint during this mission thus far.

You'll start with Andrew seeing as Elizabeth isn't the immediate concern. You head out of your hotel room to find your brother, however he was not in his own. You furrow your brow as you begin to search for any clue in the room as to where he might have went. There was nothing of substance to be found however. With an exasperated sigh you leave the room and begin checking the others to see if they know where he went.

That was about as fruitful as your initial search with no leads. Thinking about it he probably took the fact that this was leisure time to heart and went to a nearby bar or some other place to relax. Knowing him it was probably the first one he found that had an open spot for him to take. You won't hold this against him though considering that's what the time is for, it's just inconvient at this time.

Heading out of the hotel it doesn't take you very long to find him, just as you had suspected he was at the nearest bar, kicking it back in a booth with a drink staring at the ceiling. Not surprising considering that his main hobby is hunting, there's not a lot to do in a city like this for him. Regardless you walk inside quietly side stepping the doorman who is busy with other patrons at the moment. You sit down in the on the opposite side of the table to him and start, "We need to talk Andrew."

Andrew sits up straight although in a fairly informal manner, "Yeah I bet we do." he says as he takes a swig of his drink. You shake your head as you prepare to address the issue at hand.

>Be blunt with him, you don't care if he's dozing off in leisure time, how he spends his free time is his choice, but his attitude needs to change when working and now.
>Try to subvert his expectations a bit, he's probably anticipating getting dressed down, so if you play it casual to start he might be more open to actually listening.
>Play his game, if he wants to loosen up then we'll loosen up. Besides you're still due a rematch in darts, perhaps the shock of him losing to you in that will finally get him to sober up his attitude on duty.
>Write in

>>5866624
>Be blunt with him, you don't care if he's dozing off in leisure time, how he spends his free time is his choice, but his attitude needs to change when working and now.

>>5866624
>>Try to subvert his expectations a bit, he's probably anticipating getting dressed down, so if you play it casual to start he might be more open to actually listening.

>>5866624
>Try to subvert his expectations a bit, he's probably anticipating getting dressed down, so if you play it casual to start he might be more open to actually listening.

>>5866624
>Try to subvert his expectations a bit, he's probably anticipating getting dressed down, so if you play it casual to start he might be more open to actually listening.

>>5866624
>>Try to subvert his expectations a bit, he's probably anticipating getting dressed down, so if you play it casual to start he might be more open to actually listening.
Its good you are okay

>>5866624
>Try to subvert his expectations a bit, he's probably anticipating getting dressed down, so if you play it casual to start he might be more open to actually listening.

>Try to subvert his expectations a bit, he's probably anticipating getting dressed down, so if you play it casual to start he might be more open to actually listening.

Wins

Writing

Still writing boss?

I'm quite curious about the Enclave who are locked up in NCR custody.

>>5867537
Yeah.
I kinda got side tracked for a couple of hours on something else while multitasking.

As for whose locked up in NCR custody, lets see.

The success rewards were cumulative so
1 Success: Seems there were a few from the Department of Engineering that are still kicking. (5 Enclave Engineers are in the prison system)
2 Successes: If I'm right about this these are the Shady Sands and Hub Cells, they'd make a good corps of political infiltrators... (10 Enclave spies [could form the basis of a diplomatic corps or an a proper espionage department])
3 Successes: There's a few surviving men from Navarro still in the system as well (5 Enclave Veterans are in the Prison System [Another Veteran squad])

Was what the result was in the last thread, there's is also the possibility that Arch Dornan may be alive in the system, but that's not something that's concrete, just something that the wheels of fate have not yet decreed one way or the other.

>>5867545
Fuckin' oath, major boons to be gotten there. Were we able to salvage the gear from Granite's traitor squad?

>>5867548
I believe so? Most of it was damaged if I'm remembering correctly.
Mostly a boon to be had when you get to where you're going as that should have the facilities and materials to actually sustain that equipment in proper condition and repair the broken ones.

You think about the best ways to approach this conversation and ultimately you decide that you're going to try the carrot instead of the stick this time. Not so much as to stoop to his level, but enough to get him to open his guard perhaps. You lean back and wave over a waitress after quickly looking over a drinks menu that was on the table in the booth and order some scotch. You'd mostly be sipping on it through the conversation, you're not looking to hit back the shots or anything of the like, but the burn should help keep you focused while also working to ease the atmosphere.

Andrew cocks an eyebrow at this before taking another swig from his drink and starting, "So is this not going to be about me? we just talking to talk?"
You laugh a little, "No it's still about you." He rolls his eyes, and you continue, "You know Andy, lets try this differently, why don't you tell me your point of view, really why is it you like to treat all of this like a game?"

Andrew looks off to the side before tapping the table with his fingers a few times, and responding, "Because for the last two years everything's been a complete mess. We went from scavenging and surviving with some nice tech in a basement and a story book legacy mom and dad pedaled to us since birth to suddenly uprooting everything and trying to honestly don't even know what." He leans back somewhat exasperated, "I can't get anything straight, because every time it seems like somethings about to settle in to some sort of consistency someone or something turns it on its head. So I make my own consistency. I go at my own pace because I've got no other choice but to if I want to deal with all this shit."

You give him a look for a long while waiting for the drink to arrive while you think. It's not long after actually that your scotch arrives and you're quick to take a drink of it before you respond, "So let me get this straight." you set the drink down and scoot it over to the side, "All this is just you coping?" You look at him dead in the face.

He nods his head, "Yup."

You frown, "Bullshit." he scoffs, "Sure bet it does sound like bullshit, Ford see though here's the difference between me and you on all this, you give a fuck and I don't. I'm here because we're family. I'm here because what other choice do I have hmm? I don't care one lick for the whole politics between you, mom, dad, and the other folk back home, never have I play along because it's easier." he sighs, "You know what I miss? I miss hunting. It's the one thing me you and dad did that didn't feel like it was sink or swim. Felt.... I don't know normal? What even is fucking normal."

You take another drink, "We're more normal than most of the Wasteland Andy, in fact it's the wasteland that's abnormal, world isn't meant to be like this." Andrew rolls his eyes once more, "Oh come on now, you're getting lost in your 400 year old books and documents now, open your eyes Ford, smell the radiation normal isn't static."

You take a breath to cool yourself after that remark, "Andrew we're getting no where fast like this." He smirks, "So I speak my mind like you want and suddenly it's no where fast then?" You narrow your eyes, "Knock that shit off, I'm neither making a scene here or anywhere at this and I'm not dropping this or leaving you alone because of it."

He frowns and leans back, "Well then what? What's your big plan to sway me hmm?"

You look off to the side, "Well aside from calling you a petulant child, I don't have one, at least not any good one right now, ask me again in an hour."

He laughs a little, "What out of fancy speeches?" You shake you're head, "Nah just trying to walk a few feet in your shoes, unfortunately they're a bit to tight for me so I think I'll have to stop short of the mile." Andrew nods, "Sure thing clown feet."

You blow air out your nose, "Ok, but really though I get it... maybe not entirely, but things are moving fast.... perhaps to fast I've never had a year feel so short in my life." you grab your drink and swirl it for a little bit, "It's not easy to keep up with all of it, I'm not even sure I'm keeping up with it at times, the way dads been at my throat along with the way everyone is just ready to tear our community apart."

Andrew gives you a kind of sympathetic look, but doesn't say anything.

You sigh, slamming back the shot like you told yourself you wouldn't, "I don't begrudge you wanting to just say fuck it. you're not wrong it's definitely the easiest thing you can do, in fact I don't care if that's how you feel at home or while hunting or doing your own stuff... just please, I'm asking you as your brother, don't do it while we're out here working."

He purses his lips and looks like he's going to say something before just finishing his own drink.

there's an awkward silence for a bit, but you break it first, "I'm just worried about you and the team. It's part of my job, as a leader and a brother."

He nods, "I get it, I do." he stares at his glass for a while drinking in the previous conversation.

What do you do?
>Leave the conversation there, he's got plenty to chew on right now and you've got another sibling to address.
>Push the point now that he's taking it seriously [speech check]
>Sit there with him in the booth, you've had your serious talk, maybe now you can just hang out for a bit as brothers.
>write in

>>5867627
>Push the point now that he's taking it seriously [speech check]
>Afterwards hang out like brothers
Maybe some boy talk about chasing some tail? I’m sure it’ll get a couple laughs from how serious we’ve been.

>>5867627
>Push the point now that he's taking it seriously [speech check]

>>5867669
+1 to all this, just take it easy with the booze.

>>5867627
>>Push the point now that he's taking it seriously [speech check]

>>5867548
Yes we did is mostly either broken or damaged APA in the google doc that i suggest you to check anon right now. The equipment needs proper materials for proper repairs. And were our exodus will go there is such place

>>5867627
>Push the point now that he's taking it seriously [speech check]

>>5867627
>Push the point now that he's taking it seriously [speech check]
If we get serious is best we remain it. Otherwise we should do one of the two i think

>>5867627
>Push the point now that he's taking it seriously [speech check]

America bro, You can't give up Bro.

A reminder I don't run on Sundays so the vote'll stay open until tomorrow

>>5867627
>>Push the point now that he's taking it seriously [speech check]

>>5868023
gotcha

>Push the point now that he's taking it seriously [speech check]

Wins

Little slow to get up today but thats what happens when you stay up until 4am.

Anyways I'm gonna need three anons to roll me 1d100.

Challenging Speech check dv 50
Rutherford Jefferson-Jackson +10
Brotherly bond +10

YOU HAVE 1 REROLL

Criticals disabled for this test

0 Successes: Your words don't seem to go any further, seems he's quite set in his view at the moment.
1 Success: He's not exactly stirred to action but he at the very least seems to be handled for the moment.
2 Successes: He hasn't quite taken your words to heart but he'll definitely try too.
3 Successes: He's gets the picture for the time being until things have settled he'll try it your way.

Rolled 57 (1d100)

>>5868714
Begone, nerd.

Rolled 42 (1d100)

>>5868714

Rolled 21 (1d100)

>>5868714
DC70 right?

>>5868748
Yes so we got

3 Successes: He's gets the picture for the time being until things have settled he'll try it your way.

Writing

>>5868769
you okay bro

>>5869048
+1

>>5869048
Yeah I'm fine I had to take care of some stuff that took up my whole day. I'll try to get it up tomorrow.

>>5869127
Phrasing

You push your back into the booth, weighing in your mind where to go from here. You could let him stew in his thoughts, or you could try to strike a decisive rhetorical blow to absolutely ensure he internalizes the conversation you just had. Of course that comes with the risk of him outright rejecting it due to push back, but that's a risk you're willing to take.

You take your glass in both hands despite it being empty, mostly just using it to keep your hands centered on something while you speak, "Andrew, I need you to promise me something." He looks up from his glass at you waiting for your follow up. "Promise me that we'll make it through this together. At the minimum until we have a new home, and hopefully beyond that." Your face is soft but your eyes are hard, and Andrew just sighs.

He leans his head back staring at the ceiling for a bit before nodding, "Alright, I promise... won't say anything about afterwards we'll see what it looks like then." You smile at your brother who gives you a small smile back. He then speaks up, "So anything else? Gonna stick around for another drink or do you have other people to lecture mercilessly."

You scoff as you stand up, "First off, my lectures aren't merciless, secondly no, but I do have other people I need to talk to before the days over and our work starts." He shrugs and then waves you off, "Well then get to it you workaholic." You shake your head as you leave, he might be ready to put in some genuine effort for the time being, but you're not sure there's a way to crack through that irreverent attitude. That being said, you're brothers first and soldiers second so you expect this kind of thing regardless of rank even if it's not professional.

You leave the bar to head back to the Hotel. Elizabeth was likely to have remained in her room, not exactly being one to enjoy mingling with others, no less with wastelanders whom she barely tolerated the presence of. You don't exactly blame her the average wastelander isn't anything special, they really do conform to the expectations Enclave Doctrine prescribes to them. That having been said, at least as far as missions are concerned she needs to adjust to being around them more if nothing else for operational security.

The day may come where she doesn't have too, but that day is long from now. Regardless you're not here to talk to her about that, quite the opposite the fact that you can even think about that rather than her lashing out against them mid mission is a step in the right direction. A real showing that she's taken your conversations earlier to heart, and given her feelings of exclusion earlier, some praise would do her well.

[continue]

Heading back up the stairwell and to her door you knock on it. As expected you hear her voice on the otherside, "Who's there?" you respond simple with, "It's me." a few footsteps later and the door is opened and you're let in. The Hotel Room isn't exactly very well kept, but your sister's own room back home isn't either. Maybe it's more comfortable to her like this? You're not exactly sure.

She pulls up a chair for you and sits on the bed herself, "What're we talking about Ford?"

You take the seat, "Just wanted to let you know that I'm aware of the restraint and growth you've had over the past few expeditions into wastelander cities. I appreciate the effort."

She leans back on the bed sort of falling backwards into it, as if letting gravity take away the tension in her body. She's quite for a bit, "I don't like it Ford... I don't any of it." she's straight to the point, "We're out here and all we're doing is skulking around in the shadows. Make's me feel useless." She takes the chance to sit up after finishing the sentence, "Sure there was Santa Rosa, but I got this nagging feeling Ford that there's gonna be more of this and less of that for a long time..."

You get the feeling she's building up to something, but you wait for her to say it.

"Why am I even here on this mission? You trying to teach me a lesson or something? I mean I appreciate what you said earlier, and I guess it wouldn't be proper procedure to not go with the full squad I just don't get it." She says trying to put her thoughts to words, "I mean hell even Grant seems bored out of his mind, and that man's never bored... or well I mean he's usually so stoic I can't tell the difference, but I think he's bored right now?" she scratches the back of her head not certain of her previous statement.

You take the opportunity to speak up, "Well you're hear because not every thing always goes smoothly when we go in quite like this and you're one of the best on the team when it comes to straight up fighting. Same with Grant, he's a good second in command I value his opinion on things even if it's not exactly his forte." You pause for a moment to see if there's a response and she's just waits for you to continue so you do.

How do you continue?
>Remind her that all of this serves a purpose, so that we one day don't have to do this anymore.
>Steer the conversation away from that, you came here to build her up not to have another existential debate
>Take the chance to add some perspective to these choices. Maybe we can find a way to apply that drive outside of combat.
>Write in

>>5869525
>>Take the chance to add some perspective to these choices. Maybe we can find a way to apply that drive outside of combat.

>>5869525
>Remind her that all of this serves a purpose, so that we one day don't have to do this anymore.

>Remind her... purpose.
>Emphasize that everyone in the team has a major role to play, but that each mission requires more or less of a focus from that role. When mutant shit hits the APA reactor cooling fan, there's no-one you'd rather have by your side than her.
>Tell her to clean her room, as an "order" from her brother.

>>5869525
>Remind her that all of this serves a purpose, so that we one day don't have to do this anymore.
>>Write in
>"Elizabeth what we are doing here test us as soldiers of the Enclave and America. Time to time we have to be flexible, we have to be a different weapon. We cant always be ready with an incinerator, we need to be ready with a knife in hand if required or faking to be a wastelander. I know its difficult, and you would like nothing else but to show the enemies our fire and steel, but this mission has a reason. We have to act like this, because if we can keep our cover while taking out the traitors and take away that research from the Shi, we would not only further damage this foe but make justice. For Navarro, for the Rig, for the cells. All without the Shi having a single clue of who we are."
>"And this is important, until we are ready no one must think we still exist. Beth, we have to make sure the Exodus is a success. The cell, our family, that's what matters. I assure you there will be more battles, where we will slaughter the foes of the Enclave but this kind of operations require some level of stealth. Understood ? Beside i have planned something else to leave to the Shi, something to do with the NCR. We will make all of them pay, Beth."

>>5869525
>Take the chance to add some perspective to these choices. Maybe we can find a way to apply that drive outside of combat.

>>5869525
>"Elizabeth what we are doing here will test us as soldiers of the Enclave and America. Time to time we have to be flexible, we have to be a different weapon. We can't always be ready with an incinerator, we need to be ready with a knife in hand if required or faking to be a wastelander. I know its difficult, and you would like nothing else but to show the enemies our fire and steel, but this mission has a reason. We have to act like this, because if we can keep our cover while taking out the traitors and take away that research from the Shi, we would not only further damage this foe but make justice. For Navarro, for the Rig, for the cells."
>"We have to do things in stealth this way for the sake of destroying our enemies. I assure you there will be more battles, where we will slaughter the foes of the Enclave, but we must make sure the Shi and the NCR suffer for all they've done."

>Remind her that all of this serves a purpose, so that we one day don't have to do this anymore.

Wins

Write up should come sometime tomorrow.