Yeah, Bloodbank noticed that too. Which is good, because he apparently fluffed his stealth check.
I've updated my post with the new information.
I've also got some questions of my own.
FOR THE GM: How many boxes are there. I can't tell from your message if there are two (positioned across from each other) or just one.
FOR THE GROUP: Would a more tech oriented person be able to tell what type of sensor is on the wall? Is it possible to hack into the alarm systems network and deactivate it that way if we can get close enough to a sensor?
There should be a code box somewhere to allow us to input a code to shut off the alarm. But we can't see one in the hallway, which means it won't do us much good. Anyone with advanced vision or other senses should probably be looking carefully.
Bloodbank will look for that in particular, but I expect that would probably be somewhere near the main entrance. At least, that's where common sense would put it for me.
It seems to me that some alarms have delays before they trigger to allow people who screw up to hit the reset button using the code. Any ideas how long or if such a thing is real?
I'm pretty sure that is only the case when you initially set the alarm for the night. At least, most alarms I'm familiar with have a timer after you set the alarm to allow you to get out without activating it off. Or a timer that would start after entering a building through proper means, i.e. not through a window we just broke through. I would bet on not having a grace period, personally.
Any ideas on how to defeat a motion sensor? Anyone got gear? I'm gonna look at mine. Also, do me a favor and google "defeating a motion sensor" or some such thing. I don't know this stuff and could use some help figuring this out.
So, Google tells me that there are generally two types of motion sensors, one that essentially works off of heat, and one that works off of lasers. The heat one works by detecting a sudden change in the heat (i.e. a warm body walking through), the laser one works pretty much like a laser trip wire if I understand it correctly. Now, also according to Google, the laser one would require an emitter and a sensor, so maybe by looking we'd be able to tell which type it is. By the description I was given, I kinda get the impression that it's a heat sensor.
With that assumption, we might be able to work forward. Something that immediately comes to mind is trying to find something pretty room temperature and trying to cover the sensor until we can find a way to shut off the alarm system. There are sure to be more, after all. However, that would prove difficult, as it would be nigh unto impossible to get close enough to do that, and if it was a laser sensor then that would activate as surely as us walking into the building.
Google has other suggestions, such as moving very slowly along the wall to try and sneak through a blind spot. I don't think that's very viable, as the description given made it sound like there were no real blindspots.
Now, another thing I've noticed -- reading into how the heat sensors work some more -- is that they usually only alarm if the it detects an increase in heat. Outside in the alley, it was raining pretty hard, and I imagine it was colder out there. So, if we can large amounts of old wet carboard, or something of the sort that could be used as a covering then it might be cold enough to essentially make us invisible and allow us to find a way to deactivate it. Bloodbank does happen to have a rain tarp, which I would assume is large enough to conceal at least one person. Letting that sit in the rain for a bit may help it cool down significantly, if its not already cold or wet. Once again, that would only really work if the sensor is a heat sensor, and if it works at all like the ones we have now days.
That's all I've got, really. If there are no other ideas Bloodbank is going to suggest hiding behind a wet, hopefully cold, rain tarp and trying to get a tech oriented person in to either deactivate the alarm system or set up some sort of jury rig to block the alarm.
Would the security system react differently to an alarm within the building then they would to a break-in from the outside. (the window?)
If I had to make a guess then I would bet it would still have security forces swooping down into and around the building. Just a guess though, I'm no security expert.
Is it possible to intercept the alarm signal before it gets to the security company?
From a little more Googling I would imagine that the signal would be kind of like a cellular signal sent to the security company. At least, that's how modern security systems work, so whatever the futuristic version of that would be. It is possible to block those using things like a Faraday's Cage (which is a net of a conductive metal, unless the internet is lying to me). However, I don't think that the signal would be sent from the sensor itself. According to Google, it sends the signal to a Control Panel, which then sends another cellular signal to the Monitoring Station which would alert the authorities. This being Cyberpunk, I'd be more inclined to believe that the Monitoring Station would send armed guards ready to kill us on sight, however.
So, if we were able to get close enough, and someone had a spool of conductive wire or something, then we might be able to fashion a makeshift Faradays Cage around the sensor(s) which would prevent it from sending the signal to the Control Panel. That may work, assuming the Control Panel doesn't periodically check that it can still recieve signals from the sensors and that Cyberpunk technology hasn't progressed past the point of being vaguely similar in function to todays.
That's all I've got at the moment, thoughts?
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