Downtime 5 - Sam

Sam replies to Emiko:
>>>>>>Are you referring to the Skate or Die tournament?
>>>>>>I am competing in that tournament.

Sam doesn't immediately respond. He waits for up to a half hour to see what Yoshinari does with this information.

Sam clips the video of Dr. Nakamats that Emiko sent to him and sends it to Yoshinari.

>>>>>>Your father is being held by the Yamaguchi.

The clip Sam sends shows Dr. Nakamats saying, "If the desire to live makes me insane, then so be it. I rather be insane than dead."

Sam follows up the clip with another message:

>>>>>>You should probably alert the Police.
>>>>>>And the media.

Sam turns off the burner, but continues monitoring Yoshinari's commlink.

Bored by this manual monitoring of Yoshinari's commlink, Sam decides to automate the process.

He places two more marks on the commlink, to bring his total to three. (8 hits for each mark)

Then, he loads bootstrap into the memory of his deck, and uses it to write a little script into the boot sector of Yoshinari's commlink so that it will send Sam's deck a message when there is some activity, and also record the activity. (5 hits)

The script being written and loaded onto Yoshinari's commlink, Sam reboots the commlink. (5 hits)

Then, noticing his baby monitor showing a higher than desirable number, Sam reboots his own deck.

The key logger now set, Sam goes about his non-Yoshinari monitoring business.

Sam calls the commcode Tammy gave him and connects with Akane Honda. She tells him to bring the pilots by hey garage.

Sam and Eula take a ride on his scooter over to Akane's garage, with the briefcase full of pilots.

Sam sells 27 of the remaining 29 pilots to Akane. She transfers the 270,000 nuyen into his account, and he transfers 99,666 nuyen into each of Emiko's and Tetsu's accounts.

Before leaving, Sam asks Akane for the autosofts and agility upgrades for Eula. (As noted being purchased previously)

Sam takes note of Yoshinari's call to the police. Happy that Yoshinari has the police at least doing some amount of investigating, Sam goes back to his video games to wait for more activity from Yoshinari.

Sam decides that he would like to listen in to Yoshinari at the station. Here sets about hacking back in to Yoshinari's commlink to slave the microphone.

He loads fly on the wall and baby monitor back into memory, then hacks two marks onto Yoshinari's commlink.(9 hits, 6 hits)

When he sees that Yoshinari is close to the police station, he activates the microphone, so he can listen in. (4 hits)

Sam hurriedly places a third mark so that he can erase his presence from the commlink before it is examined. (8 hits)

He removes the key logger from the boot sector (7 hits).

Then he reboots his deck, to remove any presence of his deck from the commlink.

Unfortunately, he can't monitor the commlink anymore, either.

In another bearimy, Sam hears from Emiko about a new piece of cyberware she's had installedb that allows her to load any knowsoft that she wants straight into her brain, and a subscription to be able to stream pretty much any known knowsoft at will

Sam loves the idea of being able to know basically anything at any time, so looks into the device.

Even though he doesn't like surgery, because he is always afraid of the pain from recovery, and any possible complications during, he finds that the skilljack can fit into the same location that he currently has a datalock installed, which he has never used. He had the data lock installed because it was a prereq for a job that he had interviewed for, but didn't get.

Sam finds a doctor, and has his datalock replaced with the skilljack, and purchases a one month trial of the basic skillsoft network. (R1 skilljack. 12,000 nuyen total for device and monthly network. No essence change)

Sam enters the house, followed by Eula. He walks to the dinner table and sits in his normal seat.

"I have a question, Auntie," Sam calls out to his aunt ((Who I'm imagining is busying herself I'm the kitchen)) "What do you know about bunraku parlors?"

"What do you mean?" Sam asks, sure that there must have been some simple miscommunication. "Girlfriend? You mean Eula? She is not a girlfriend. She is not even a human. She is just an anthropomorhpic droid. Of course I care about Hanako's feelings. I did not break her heart. She hurt her hand. And I wrapped it for her. And then she said she did not want to date me anymore. And I am not looking for whores. I am trying to help them."

"No," Sam says. "I do not think it is like that at all. It is like if I played a game with someone, and they brought a new NPC that helped us both in the co-op game. Hanako was upset when she saw Eula at first, but then I explained and she understood. And then she said that we should break up. Why would she say that if she did not want to break up with me?

I think that you must be mistaken about Hanako. I will call her and straighten everything out.

But, right now I need to talk to you about bunraku parlors.