Egrand sidled up to the building, hunkered down in the shadows out of the rain and threw up a small flyspy drone. Leaning back agains the building, he brought up his menus, hands twitching in the air, and drove the drone around the corner.
There was the security guard, nicely distracted by the young Ork woman accompanying him tonight.
"Nice job Sister" He sent through his 'link. "Just keep him there until I'm on the wall."
"Null sheen "Chuck"" came the reply.
Egrand checked once more for stray lights coming from his electronics, took his Ork Power button festooned jacket off and turned it inside out to it's matte black side, and check his climbing gear. He spared one more glance through his drone, then started up the side of the building.
Instantly drenched, he activated his boot warmers and thanked whoever designed the GeckoSkin climbing gloves he was wearing. "Dreking getting old" He muttered to himself as he climbed. "would have been up this wall in a flash in my early 20's."
His link flashed "I'm out, be safe!" and he called up his drone to watch his Sister make an excuse and leave the poor rejected guard to saunter back on his patrol. Not that it mattered, the building was old, decrepit. The guard was a formality. Egrand knew it. The security guard knew it, but Egrand didn't want the trouble and didn't want the gaurd to lose his job.
Egrand slipped a stick patch onto the building and clicked it's line to his belt harness, then dug into his front pocket for another FlySpy drone. He tossed it over the roof's edge and pulled the view for it up with a thought to his 'link. No one was there. No one to see him.
He pulled himself over the lip and took a moment. then absently walked over to the rusty old metal tower on top of the building. He looked up into the wind and rain and smiled a toothy grin of pure delight. It was Perfect.
He hoisted himself up the tower, reveling in the wind, the rain, the feel of his boots on metal.
He pulled up his 'Link. No signal. The Barrens was like that. No Drekking signal, even with every 'link supposedly able to Mesh. "Patchy POS Barrens" he muttered. He braced himself against the tower, attached himself with another stick patch, and leaned out over the void, just his rain slicked boots and the high tech stick patch keeping him from falling to his death.
His hands fell down to a pouch at his hip, and he drew out his latest Project. A small modified 'link with a gigantic antenna and a solar panel crudely attached with 2' wires. He stuck the panel and antenna to the tower, then stuck the 'link inside a decapitated can of Buzz! cola. He attached the panel and antenna, turned it on, did a system check. His 'link lit up with the signal strength and he grinned his toothy grin again.
Egrand fired up his encryption program and threw out a new message through his 'link. "Hey SNR, you there?" "Yeah Chuck, I'm on" came the reply. "Seriously, you need a new handle man. "Chuck" is really lame."
Egrand rolled his eyes, squirted the can full of epoxy, stuck it to the metal tower, and started down. "Yeah yeah yeah... Well, this new 'link setup seems to work. Hope it lasts longer than the last one. I'm getting too old to climb these buildings."
"Dude, you're like, 27." Came the reply.
Egrand paused as his gray streaked pony tail fluttered in the wind.
"Bite me Elf."