Circe gets out of the shower, her laptop booted and running her custom programs. The blue elf is dressed down with short shorts and a half tank that used to give her roommate fits. Once more she is white haired after having washed out the hair dye. Cellphone, pants, shoulder holster, jacket, and boots are readily available in case the others should call for help. It was time to get to work.
Circe has a expensive laptop, giving her a +1 to rolls related to Academics or Computers made with said laptop. Circe has 3 Intelligence, 3 Computers, and a 1 dot specialty in Hacking, for a total of 8 dice. Circe and John have broadband if that applies for another +1 equipment bonus to 9 dice. The Merit Brownie's Boone allows Circe to perform long term mundane work in half the normal time, with an further reduction of the time for one roll by half if she spends a point of Glamour. This means Circe's hacking roll is performed in 15 minutes instead of 30. If there is a Systems Admin to roll against, it is your call if that means Circe rolls twice or she becomes "observed" in her work. If Circe is only doing research and not actually hacking then the dice pool drops to 7 as specialty and signal quality don't help with research.