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There are a couple of approaches to this one.
Go down to 163 and look for some one filming...
Dara monks is one person is a sector about the size of a small city. She is pretty good at not being seen and there is not a lot to go on. Asking around they might find some one who has seen here, but she rarely uses the same location twice. Unless some one has incredible good luck this is not going to be successful.
Look into Monks' background.
Given the knowledge penalty CK's are a little reluctant to go digging around ex ops information. This is where the Operative party came in in my game. They were approached by an up and coming CK called Alexia [Good looking, new parisian, goddess - more data to come when I've written her up.] who needed some ops to do the snooping around bit and then call her in for the kill when they'd found the target. They split the bounty between them. She also needed some one to provide camera back up to give her images a bit better than the drone footage she currently is getting.
Monks' background.
Monks graduated from Meny Dec 899 and with a number of her class mates formed a squad called Epsilon. They did pretty well for them selves for 18 months and then vanished on a black. Their operative status was suspended after 3 months of not registering completed BPNs (nov 901). Dara Monks's status as operative was revoked when the Hunter sheet was issued.
Public records state the members were/are
James Macworth - Human I&I
Dara Monks - Human media (and the target)
Flight - KMS Ebon
Luton - KMS Frother
Munch - Death Chagrin.
A little more digging will reveal James Mackworth came from sector 163, and that his now ageing and devoted mother is still living there waiting for his next letter home. Flat 3 (ground floor), 1452 Willett St. Sector 163 If she is in depends on when they turn up.
Mrs Mackworth leaves her flat at 8:30 every morning and heads across the road to the OAP's drop in center to play bingo, bet on CK fights and other such exciting activities. She returns at 5pm. This routine is well known to every one and they will be sent over to the center if they come looking for her. Once she knows they are interested in James she will take them back to her flat to show them, some things she has from him.
If she is at home, or she has managed to tempt them back, Mrs Mackworth will invite them in for tea, and despite being obviously infirm will insist on making it and serving small cakes as well. [Play her as an adoring grandmother - starved of attention. Unless the ops are total bastards to her she will attempt to keep them talking about every thing and nothing for as long as she can.]
She will puzzle over the picture of Dara for a while and eventually recognize her from a photo of her son at meny. For some reason she seems to be totally unaware of the fact her son was in the same squad (However Dara's "media" role in the squad meant she was rarely in front of camera)
Mrs Mackworth has all her sons letters. He wrote to her every week from the moment he left for meny until the black. It will take a while to read them all. He makes one brief mention of Dara at the end of one letter which is "Have to go now mum, I have to meet dara fro a study date. Will write again next week." And that's it.
If they question Mrs Mackworth about her sons relationship with Dara she will make it clear that she thought she was "Not a very nice lady" - feel free to rephrase, but Mrs Mackworth will attempt to be polite. And that she did not approve of her because she looked a bit shifty.
She will not be in the least bit surprised that the girl 'turned traitor'. Given this attitude its perhaps not too surprising that the devoted son forgot to mention her...
Mrs Mackworth is convinced James will return. He is a good boy and very good at his job. Any suggestion that "He is dead -face it lady" will resulting in her collapsing into floods of inconsolable tears.
Go down to 163 and track down the transmissions
Sector 163 uses cable transmission to get sla's propaganda into the net work and thus the subversive has to be plugging into these data ports some where. There are 67 free channels available on the 163 net work, (for the record 28 are porn) The signals are only effecting the 5 local channels in 163
These are :
George (head techy at the nearest 3rd eye station in sector 162) will explain that logically she is hitting the main 163 relay station. However as it is only effecting the 5 local channels should could be hitting any relay upstream from there. He did request shivers to stake out the relay location, but 'doubts they would be doing their job that efficiently' - feel free to rephrase that as you see fit :)
He can print out road map overlays to pin point the positions of the relays.
The main relay is built into an accommodation block at 1452 Willett St. sector 163.
Seen that address before some where???
The shiver stake out George requested is in the donut shop across the road from the main entrance.
The fire door to the building can be prised open with a butter knife its been forced so many times, and is completely out of site of the attentive shiver stake out. That is assuming they are actually looking out of the window anyway.
The relay is on the 3rd floor and is accessed by a standard SLA swipe card.
Inside its a broom cupboard filled with wires.
There is also evidence that the place has been used for "Sexual encounters of the brief and youth full in nature" and any stake out will catch at least one 'courting couple' using a forged SLA employee card to access the space.
Make it obvious that security here is all but non existent.
However they get to this point eventually the squad are going to end up at 1452 Willett St. Assuming that the ops are not obvious about the fact they are there then all they have to do is wait for Dara Monks to show up.
Mrs Mackworth leaves her flat at 8:30 every morning and heads across the road to the OAP's drop in center to play bingo, bet on CK fights and other such exciting activities. She returns at 5pm.
At 9:30 Dara arrives and using a key she got off James at some point in the past lets her self into the flat.
Here she sorts out her broadcasts, trying to match the time of day the broadcast was made and the time it is going on. She then nips out with the play back system and gets into the relay. It takes 15 mins to down load the data for the broad cast and then she slips back into the flat to let any heat die down. She makes sure she leaves the flat at 4:30.
Mrs Mackworth has noticed that things in the flat are being moved, but is unwilling to say so because she doesn't want people thinking she is going mad. She is also a little worried that it is James's ghost trying to communicate with her, but that would mean he is dead which she can not accept.
Dara is a media op and was used to combat back up from 2 KMS and a death squad. She will be little competition for a contract killer and not put up much of a fight. Once she is found here death is almost inevitable.
Other than a bit of leg work its an easy 400c - but much less than SLA would have to pay for the equivalent Grey BPN.
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