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 **Source book**: Stolen Souls
+One drone that can be useful for extractions is the
+Bust-A-Move toys. These toys were sold on the market
+for some time until they were being re-appropriated by
+shadowrunners and gangers to carry out robberies. Of
+course, since being pulled off the shelves, the shadows
+have found another purpose for Bust-A-Move drones: intelligence gathering for extraction jobs. On the black market, you can find a second generation of Bust-A-Move
+toys built by runners that have been modified to take on
+the appearance of almost all of the popular toys on the
+market today, from Samurai Cyborgs and Captain Nova to
+the Firewatch Commandos. These toy drones are meant
+to be switched with toys that a child of a target is currently playing with. This switch can happen anywhere—the
+playground, school, a park, a grocery store, or the family
+vehicle when the family is in a restaurant eating. Basically,
+anywhere where a child may leave their toys behind, unattended. Once switched, the child will happily take the
+toy into their house, where the Bust-A-Move toy drone
+can then begin its intelligence work. The toy can record
+conversations (providing a quality recording that can fool
+most voice-print scanners), acquire security pass codes,
+obtain the full layout of the residence, make copies of maglock key data, note any pets that are present or any onsite security personnel, locate and identify any firearms
+in the house, and gather information on the schedules of
+every family member in the residence. This intelligence
+can be useful to extraction teams in deciding whether to
+hit the entire family when they’re at home, or whether it
+would be safer to do multiple extractions while the children are in transit heading off to school or extracurricular
+activities and the parents are heading off to work. This information could even present runner teams an opportunity to enter the residence when it’s empty and establish
+and ambush at an advantageous time.
+There are rumors that a third-generation Bust-A-Move
+toy is being developed by inventive runners, and that it will
+be capable of holding doses of a sedative (such as narcoject) as well as possess a means of administering said
+sedatives so that it can covertly incapacitate a number of
+targets in the household while they are sleeping. So far,
+there has been no luck with creating a workable Bust-A-Move drone that can succeed in this task. One problem is
+that a drone of that size only has a limited carrying capacity, and the more you try to stuff into it, the more you inhibit
+its movements, potentially making it clumsier, slower, and
+more susceptible to being caught. Secondly, children are
+naturally rough with their toys. Those that have attempted
+to put chemical reservoirs into these drones have found
+the reservoirs ending up being broken, with the result of
+most of the chemical leaking out of the toy before they
+could be used for their intended purpose. Nonetheless,
+even in their current form, Bust-A-Move toys have proven
+invaluable for the intel they harvest.