White BPN Goodness
by Novafix
My dinner breaks are becoming quite creative...for good or bad...here's a white
BPN based on a Monday doing my job...bonus points if anyone can guess my job... As
always, comments appreciated
Re-set the Score
Premise : A series of Operatives have died whilst undercover
on Operations. One squad had their cover blown whilst on deep undercoverwork
resulting in the whole squad getting wiped out and the other suffered an attack
whilst on a business lunch. The follow up investigation by SHIVER units failed
to uncover any link and declared them unfortunate accidents. SLA authorities,
not happy with this ruling have called in Ops to do a more thorough
investigation.
Background : The Ops involved (2 squads totalling 7 Ops in
total) were on seperate BPN's, 'Ritazza Blues' were on an undercover BPN when
they were attacked and killed whereas 'Underground Union' were filling in the
final stages of a reasonably high profile Silver.. They were highly trained Ops
and SLA suspect an inside job . Suspicion was alerted due to the very similar
names and profiles of the Squad BrainWasters. The Ops were killed within 4 days
of each other. They were unrelated and working on 2 completely seperate BPN's
unrelated to each other.
So...What Happened?? : The 2 Squads ("Ritazza Blues" &
"Underground Union" were
successful Squads with a very similar SCL Level (7c on average). Squad 'Ritazza
Blues' were reasonably well known to local SHIVERS and Ops as arseholes to
anyone who pissed them off. Chaleur was a borderline psychotic and regularly
threatened anyone that pissed her off. Squad 'Underground Union' were as well
known as any other squad and weren't really distinguished (for good or bad) in
the same way that RB were.
Chaleur was recently having technical problems with all manner of her SLANet
access, her account was frequently getting corrupt, she lost data, connections,
her contact details were all wrong and she was frustrated. After smashing up her
Oyster and throwing it out ow a 4th floor window, she decided to contact the
SLANet Tech Team. They weren't exactly helpfull and as all the employees are
pretty much stressed out and working full hilt, they didn't go out of their way
to help a BW who was threatening to kill them if the problem didn't get fixed.
Unfortunately for Eric Moore (Helpdesk Employee) that is EXACTLY what Chaleur
did. She tracked down where the offices were and kicked him to death after a
shift in front of 2 other employees. She then shot one and was arrested by
SHIVERS. Due to her high SCL and nature of the BPN she was on, SLA pulled
strings and the charges were dropped, resulting in a 1000C fine and no SCL
decrease. Eric's work colleagues were less than impressed.
The survivor of the attack was a small time hacker who went by the pseudonym
'Xacep'. He decided to get his own back on this upstart BrainWaster. Using his
access to the official SLANet and after cracking her password (the word
'password904' he
plundered her BPN details and found out that she would be undercover on a job. A
few days of monitoring her E-mails and he found out where and when. He dropped
the name, and the location to a HackVent site and awaited the result.
The HackVent people went to work to extract more info, fearing a SLA lure and in
the ensuing rush to see what they could find a spelling error was made and
Chaleur for one group became Chaler for another. When the cracked passwords
didn't work, the group began to run probes to crack it, angry that someone from
SLA tried to catch them out so easily. The password crack they so desperately
wanted never happened and they grew more and more frustrated with Chaler,
suspecting her to be some kind of SLANet Elite. In truth, she was carefull but
not overly so. They eventually found out who she was through legitimate means
and after running checks through Third Eye and 'Xacep' managed to find out a
business lunch she and her squad were attending. They arranged the hit with a
Dark Night Cell and the squad were toasted in business suits as they left. The
group tracking Chaleur performed a similar trick and alerted the people that she
was working undercover with and they killed her and the squad she was with.
'Xacep' was informed that Chaleur AND Chaler were killed and he was
congratulated for 'masterminding' the whole operation. Terrified that this had
gone a little 2 far he stopped using HackVent and tried to keep a low profile.
He had 7 Op deaths that the Cyber Community were attributing to him and he was
understandably worried.
Enter the Ops
The BPN:
SCL : 9b
CBS : 400C Per Op
Department : Investigation
Station Analysis : X
Third Eye :
Colour : White
Description :
Uncover link between 2 similar Op killings and terminate. Termination Warrant
provided upon adequate proof. Contact Dept of Investigation for further details.
Info provided by Dept of Investigation -
Squad Details -
Squad 'Ritazza Blues' -
Henderby - Human Male I&I
Chaleur - BrainWaster Femal DeathSquad
Squidgy - Vevaphon - I&I
Thumper - Stormer - Strike
BPN Overview : Uncover Dark Night involvement in recruiting SLA Ops in and
around sector 941. <further details unavailable due to pending investigation>
Squad 'Underground Union'
Inglesy - Human Male Kick Murder
Chaler - BrainWaster Female DeathSquad
Muir - Frother Male DeathSquad
BPN Overview : Provide Media coverage and backup to a group of new Contact
Killers performing for the show "Run BadGuy Run!". <further details unavailable
due to pending investigation>
Both were terminated within 4 days of each other by DarkNight agents. Both
squads caught completely by suprise and no DN Ops were confirmed to have been
injured.
The Investigation : The Ops will/shjould be drawn to the
BrainWasters due to Dept of Investigation. Once investigated they should find
that Chaleur was a steriotypical Waster with an overactive violent urge that led
to her killing the employee a month ago. Investigating that will lead them to
the witness of the crime 'Cynthia Spalding'. She is still off work suffering
from stress and has developed a phobia of Wasters. She will tell any non-Wasters
what happened - Chaleur approached them as they were walking out and asked to
speak to Eric Moore regarding a BPN. As soon as he said 'erm yes that's me', she
attacked him with her bare hands and after knocking him to the floor kicked him
to death. Her friend 'Simona Freeman' pulled a CAF pistol and put a few rounds
into Chaleur for what good it did. Chaleur then killer her too. Cynthia ran off
and when Chaleur came after her, the Building SHIVERS took charge and stopped
the rampaging BW. After some persuation she will reveal that she told a few work
mates what happened. She will also reveal that Eric was a 'major Geek and spent
his life on Computers'.
Search and Siezure of his computer gear will result (if the Ops have good
cracking skills) that Eric was a HackVent user called Malady. If the Ops monitor
the boards they will find that there is a prson 'Xacep' that is responsible for
the deaths as an informant. The evidence points to a colleague. More
investigation will reveal that the Op Accounts were used 'suspiciously' and were
probably hacked.
Ofcourse the investigation above can take longer by throwing in any amount of
red herrings etc...
Depending on how the Ops take the investigation from here will result in a few
different outcomes, do they monitor the boards and try to find 'Xacep' through
deception. Do they hard slog through network logs to find out where he /she is?
Do they drag in every member of the helpdesk and grill them all till they find
the target?? If the Ops want to complete the BPN then they can simply bring in
the target and cap him, if they are clever and use the system they could enlist
the aid (through the threat of death) of a reasonably experienced hacker with
some respect who will be able to assist them in future BPN's...The threat level
of this BPN can range from easy - just 'Xacep' who's bought a half-decent gun
right up to Dark Night staging a rescue attempt on a 'Soldier of Freedom'.