Session 11 ended up falling out a bit differently than I was expecting. We resolved the downtime XP (which I've now created a form for, since we've reached the part of the game where we have double-digit numbers of months between session. Then I delivered the intercept to Anthony, who began solving it while the rest of the group continued eating breakfast and chatting. He made some progress, and people made their way over to help him as we moved forward, but I'll cover how that worked out later this week.
I solved the puzzle in 45 minutes the night before, and I figured my limitations as a single person working would just about balance out the gains I had being in practice for logic puzzles. It turns out that was a bad assumption; it ended up taking about 90 minutes for the group to solve the puzzle to their statisfaction. They discover the resistance will be executing an HPG operation in Denver in February of 3070, and that Alexei will be leading. Simon lays a number of detection traps in the HPG station computer to try to get a message to Alexei when he breaks in. The team successfully contacts Alexei and later manages to intercept the Resistance team that's breaking into the Denver HPG station. A tense standoff ensues between Davida and Shin and the two resistance members (neither of them have ever seen Alexei, so they can't tell if one of them is him.) The resistance members tell them they are now tapping all communications through that station, and if the party needs to get in touch with them, to just send a signal through there.
After that, the session wound down quickly. This is the last of the "learning the threats" sessions that I planned, and Session 12 will be the first "Doing something about it" sessions.
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