Quote: from fanchergw on 4:13 pm on Feb. 11, 2005
Dieter,
Did you miss my last post? Jacques left his room to move back through the train. He was trying to keep an eye on C & A.
D'oh! I missed it. I'll edit appropriately.
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Punkey. Hell yes. Brian's SAS training has taught him how to do any number of horrible disabling techniques. There are two main factors in this equation:
1) The tinted glass partition separating the passenger area and the limo driver. You can see the driver from the back seats, but there is a gamble as to whether he can see you guys. Failing that, you could just force-feed the rest of the vodka.
2) Andropov's two guards who are currently posted on either side of the limo's back doors. I can tell you that the outside windows are tinted and are just one-way, looking out.
Engaged in a gun battle. How...calm and civilized that sounds.
I'm for making a go at the guy...KGB limos were notorious sites of various debauched acts, and it's likely the guy may want a little privacy. You might try signaling the driver to lower the window with some innocent excuse to confirm this.
When you do, try to make it look like a massive coronary or a seizure or something. I want the driver to get out of here. Maybe, once we get going, we can crack open the communicators and tell Artis and Peter to meet us on the main highway.
(Edit: I figured it out. Punch him in the chest where his heart is really hard. A strong enough trauma directly to the heart can send it into shock, causing it to fibrillate, also known as a heart attack. Subject collapses and dies.)
Quote: from Threadbare on 5:17 pm on Feb. 13, 2005
I'm guessing they can see us and so any use of hide or move silently would be for naught, aye? If that's the case, I'm running away, too.
You don't think they've seen you yet. Visability is cut down by the snow and such. We'll say you haven't been spotted.
Then perhaps just booking straight away would be our best bet, before we're spotted. Snow leaves tracks, yes, but if more snow falls, then the tracks go away.
Quote: from fanchergw on 12:08 pm on Feb. 14, 2005
Are the soldiers' orders directed specifically at Jacques, or at all the occupants of the cabin? Do they appear to be emptying the train?
It sounds like all of the soldiers are under specific orders to empty the entire train regardless of who might be onboard. The soldiers don't seem to taking any particular care in Jacque.
The scene amounts to a police raid wherein the authorities generally assume everyone is suspect. No one is being "arrested" per se, just ushered off the train in a very deliberate manner towards the station.
Either this guy's blind and deaf, or the passenger cabin is soundproofed and heavily tinted. One wonders why someone would want to soundproof the inside of a limo, aside from a convinient way of disposing of unwanted government officials, but I digress.
Actually, how receptive do you think the driver would be to bribes? I think that we could make this a convincing FSB "retirement".
Moten's intuition tells him the limo driver is probably the type of henchman that gets paid to open doors, drive, and sit on his ass drinking coffee when he's not doing the aforementioned. He's probably been Andropov's driver long enough not to care about what transpires in the backseat of his limo.
And honestly, what kind of idiot would dare attack a senior official of the SMP in the middle of Siber....oh wait.
Nevermind.
As for bribing the guy into retirement, the driver is most likely all business. He probably gets paid a reasonable salary to do nothing but his assigned duties and is happy with it. However, this is the same kind of guy that is looking foward to that retirement house on the Crimea, with several Ukrainian models feeding him grapes and oiling his hairy back.
In a nutshell. The driver could probably be bribed, but you'd have to really make it worth the risk of being hunted down by Andropov's subordinates.
1) You could easily get the limo driver's attention, have him drop the glass partition then let Brian throttle the poor SOB until he dies/loses consciousness. Drive away in the limo.
2) They are about a dozen (total, give or take a few) Red Army and policemen milling about the general vacinity of the limo. None of them are paying any special attention to the car, being preoccupied with corraling the several hundred passengers into the trainstation for searching. If you're sneaky about it, you could conceivably overwhelm both of Andropov's guards.
3) You didn't leave any visable signs of attack on Andropov. Failing options #1 and #2, you could just exit the limo and say Andropov passed out/fell asleep. That may or may not fly with his guards.
I'll post a storyline update with additional info.
Quote: from Threadbare on 5:03 pm on Feb. 16, 2005
Shouldn't our Satcomms have GPS locators in them? Why do we need to tell them our location?
I'll judge by the response from 'home' whether I'll send a second, more verbose status report.
Yes. But given the SNAFU that HQ is handling it wants a real-time verification of everyone's current location and status. They basically had to reboot the system and momentarily lost the GPS signals for all active agents.
