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Bunny Hop

2026-05-03T18:13:31Z

Jit: /* Summary */

Procession at the Summit of Mount Ooe

2025-09-01T02:42:58Z

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|Date=2086-04-19


|GM=Asmodeus


|Location=MCT Global Grid, Mt. Ooe


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|RunnerList={{AARCharacterList|Bunny Hop|Caliban|Dango|E-Mad}}
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|Threat=Deadly


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[[Category:Runs]] 

==Summary==
We're fucking KILLING shuten douji.

==Background==
Ms. Johnson had people look into shuten douji before. It's blocking the way to Hachi Zetto Shiyon, and she's decided the best way past it is through it. She's hired runners to eliminate Shuten Douji from the equation - violently, and with prejudice.

==The Meet==
The runners met with Ms. Johnson in a matrix bar, space themed. She offers 40k nuyen and some baseline information on the job, the host's location, the beast's last known stats, and information gleaned from decker 'interviews.' She offers 40k, nuyen, though the runners somehow negotiate that even higher, as well as for some bonus information.

==The Plan==
Recreate the myth of Shuten Douji - research the divine sake, get some good simsense, and go inside. Caliban has more direct ideas though she does like this plan, to go inside herself to see, and Bhop insists she follow to make sure she doesn't kill herself. After briefly resting away some fade, the other two finish research and follow along as well.

==The Run==
Inside the host is a large, medieval Japanese city inside a huge cave lit by lava. The runners look around inside and find that the exit out of the host moves with every new entrant. Searching for more information regarding the host sculpting, they enter a torii gate, and encounter a group of yokai feasting on human remains. Combat ensues. E-Mad goes into the large skeleton mouth in a bid to try to escape the situation, and after a brief scuffle, the rest of the team follow. It leads out into dark catacombs - running water and the distant sound of revelry echo from the walls. The team explore the maze-like depths of what they quickly deduce to be the interior of Shuten Douji's castle. Traversing is dangerous - hacking locked doors open risk alarming guards at every turn, to say nothing of the risks that lurk beyond.

After bypassing a number of threats and mapping all but the throne room itself, the runners exit through the front entrance disguised as traveling monks and make their way toward shelter for the evening to regroup and plan their proper attack. To the East, as day becomes night, they come across a shrine with a lone maiden. Despite initial hostilities and thrown hands, however, she's able to be talked down and welcomes the runners inside for the evening. They ask who she is, and though she has softened to them, she is not able to say. Opsec, or something or other. She does clarify, however, that all five of them are stuck inside this host from now on, to the runners' disbelief. Before further elaborations can be made, however, the shrine is attached by one of the many demonic AI roaming this land. The runners fight back and eventually kill the demon, and with their time here running thin, they extract crucial data from the divine well within the shrine. With this, they are able to compile a sake that can down even Shuten Douji and his demonic might.

The four of them set off once more for the demon king's castle, this time right up to the front door. They are travelers, entertainers, who bring with them an offering for the Demon King and seek his blessing to travel his lands. They are admitted into his eternal revelry and asked to perform for his entertainment - and some do, and some don't. [[Caliban]] performs impressive feats of marksmanship, but is ultimately not one for such things and sneaks away with [[E-Mad]] while [[Bunny Hop]] and [[Dango]] fulfill their duties as artists in his court. [[Bunny Hop]] sculpts a traditional carving in his likeness. Eventually they bring him off his guard enough to present their prize, a sake like no other, alcohol fit for royalty and no other. He demands a drinking partner, however - a competitor, one who can match his prowess, and the deceptively cute [[Dango]] steps forward to fulfill this challenge. She takes him shot for shot, and brings him to the brink of consciousness, so out of his wits he does not notice [[Caliban]] sneaking behind him. She spins some brief remorse about the necessity of his death, and snaps his neck.

Their escape is well planned, having mapped the path out prior. A decker trapped in a prison cell convinces the crew to let her free and to escape alongside them, and with her help, they are able to travel relatively unimpeded to the exit, despite Shuten Douji's guards' best efforts.

==Aftermath==
With Shuten Douji dead, those personas trapped inside the host's architecture are now free to leave. They each, the four of them, come into possession of a piece of the source code that makes up Shuten Douji's core. The decker they'd freed, this woman who oozes corporate privilege, leads them away, and once free, assures them that spiders will descend on this place with no time at all to spare. She makes a tempting offer - the technomancers will almost certainly have their resonance signatures made, but she can stay behind and ensure no such record is ever put to page, for the right price. That bit of source code - just one should do. [[Bunny Hop]] bites the bullet for her team, and trades that code base for the three technomancers. A bittersweet decision, of course, when she reveals she is MCT, and that this knowledge will go back into protecting the mystery of Hachi Zetto Shiyon.

Nonetheless, the team have completed their task without casualties. That alone is reason to celebrate.

==Rewards==
--- Run Rewards for Procession At The Summit of Mount Ooe (Deadly, 20 x 1.83x Runtime = 36 RVP)
* 40,000 Nuyen (20 RVP)
* 10 Karma (10 RVP)
* 1 Street Cred (1 RVP)
* 12 CDP (5 RVP)
* Orichalcum Chain Link Tattoo for completing a Meatgrinder run (optional)
* **Optional Quality:** Better on the Net (Firewall) for Caliban at chargen rates
* **Optional Quality:** Good Looking and Knows It for Dango at chargen rates

Dango can get a Mundane Ascension and use Gear Rates on the 40,000 Nuyen for upgrading her cyberdeck.
E-Mad can use this as a Submersion Ordeal
Sealed Shard of Shuten Douji can be kept by Dango, E-Mad or Caliban as a Rating 6 Agent.
-1 MCT Reputation
+1 Erika Reputation for E-Mad if he surrenders his fragment to Erika

--- Run Consequences
* Shuten Douji's no longer active in the Mount Ooe host. Shadowy research into Hachi Zetto and its entryways are now open and proceeding.
* Mitsuhama retains one of Shuten Douji's four fragments and utilizes it in troubleshooting Mount Ooe's Foundation issues.
* True to her word, one of the operatives related to Mount Ooe has the Resonance Signatures within erased to get hands on the fragment in the first place.

==Game Quotes==

{{Gamequote|Amusing quote from game.}}

==Player After Action Reports (AARs)==
E-Mad: Somehow more magical than matrix Magic, not necessarily in a good way. So first off, Johnson was basically a ghost, there was nothing to track them by. Then we went into the host, *filled* with AIs, like so many AIs, all there to get high and munge. Apparently the place also hinged on resonance? There was also a thing watching us? I really need to get better at this job... a *lot* better...

Procession at the Summit of Mount Ooe

2025-09-01T02:35:10Z

Jit: /* Background */

Procession at the Summit of Mount Ooe

2025-09-01T02:34:43Z

Jit: /* Aftermath */

Procession at the Summit of Mount Ooe

2025-09-01T02:31:08Z

Jit: /* The Run */

Rogozhin

2025-08-31T18:54:18Z

Jit:

Takashi Kurosawa

2025-08-19T02:14:36Z

Jit:

{{ContactInfobox|

|Image=[[File:Placeholder2.jpg|200px]]


|Profession=Former Shategashira of the Kanaga-gumi


|Shortblurb1=Kanaga no Akuma
|Shortblurb2=Private Contact
|Shortblurb3="Family is tradition. Tradition is structure. Structure is strength."


|OwnersRedditName=jit_SR5


|OwnersDiscordName=@jit


|Connection=2


|Archetype=Custom (A,G,N,K)


|Location=
|Metatype=Human
|AwakenedEmergedOrMundane=Mundane
|Gender=Male
|PreferredPayment=Personal Favors
|HobbiesOrVice=Cigarettes
|PersonalLife=Married
|Faction=Kanaga-gumi


|Age={{Age|
|Month=10
|Day=05
|Year=2043
|}}

}}

==Overview==
A ruthless and efficient enforcer for the Kanaga-gumi, married to tradition first and his wife second. Politically dull but a brutal combat tactician who has sparked ire among some in the Yakuza for his willingness to challenge authority for the good of the organization. Though these days not outwardly hateful toward those falling outside the bounds of "Japanese" and "Man," he views them as much less human, and much more expendable, and does not regret his past. Despite an unnatural willingness to make his voice heard, he has proven efficient and undyingly loyal to the oyabun, the two most important traits for rising the ranks in the Yakuza.

He has had an intimidating amount of ware installed due to his days as an enforcer on the ground level, and can still use it to great effect.

He is an alcoholic in remission, and will refuse drinks if offered. Cigarettes are his vice of choice.

===History===
Takashi Kurosawa was a street punk Japanese nationalist in the days before Halley's Comet passed in 2061. The eruption of the Unzen volcano and the resulting Ring of Fire birthed an ocean of new magic into the world, and SURGE'd many otherwise legal Japanese citizens into illegal metahuman variations. In the days after, as the government sought to organize and the power struggle between Japan's corporations, dragons, and the newly crowned [[Emperor Yasuhito]] began to take shape, many citizens took the affront of this new "goblinization" into their own hands. Takashi Kurosawa was one of them, participating in a number of motivated killings of new metahuman types as well as those already suffering persecution in Japan.

It was his bad luck, however, that on a night of drinking one of those opportunistic murders had been the son of [[Maasaki Watada]], lieutenant of the [[Watada-gumi]] and himself the son of [[Akira Watada]], the late ''oyabun''. While clinging tightly to "traditional values" themselves, the [[Watada-gumi]] could nonetheless tolerate such extrajudicial judgment and violence against a member of the family. Public executions of those involved followed, and Takashi Kurosawa, recognizing the danger, organized an escape to Seattle in order to slip through the ''rengo'''s grasp. Though it had cost him his home, his nation, and his culture, he had escaped with his life.

Several years later, still a charismatic street punk, he encounters by chance a Yakuza ''kaikei'' while in the drunk tank, who takes an interest in him. He says he's recruiting for the newly formed [[Kanaga-gumi]], forged from the salvaged men and resources left in the wake of [[Takeo Shigeda]] of the [[Shigeda-gumi]]'s assassination, and that with the purge of undesirable metahumans from their ranks (many of whom went on to find a new home in the [[Kenran-kai]]), the gumi was in need of good men and new muscle. Though his pregnant soon-to-be-wife objected, Kurosawa began a somewhat lucrative career as a Yakuza enforcer.

Seven years after that, in 2071, his past transgressions against the [[Watada-rengo]] come to light. (See [[Fennec Bueller's Day Off]]). The ''oyabun'' expresses his disappointment, but offers lenience, in exchange for proof of his present loyalty to the clan, and for proof of the death of his old life. With not-so-subtle words, he is instructed to present his pinky to the ''oyabun'', and to arrange for the death of his American wife. A Japanese man not married to a Japanese woman does not espouse their ideals of culture and country, and yet, a man who would lay hands on his wife is no man at all. Better, then, were someone else to do it and spare him the dishonor. He made the call, arranged through proxy after proxy for a gang as far away from the Yakuza as possible to do the hit, and slept easy. His child, [[Bunny Hop|Koichi Kurosawa]], witnessed it first hand, and fell into shock for years to come.

Back in the ''oyabun'' 's good graces, he rose swiftly. Presently, he enjoys a position as ''shategashira'', commander of the ''gumi'' 's foot soldiers and enforcement. He has re-married a niece of the ''oyabun,'' and enjoys a place among Sato Kanaga's closest family.

===Current Events===
Kurosawa was recently laid low as his daughter revealed his betrayal of his own wife. His position collapsed due to the political fallout, his backroom dealings behind the Oyabun's back making him unable to keep the position of ''shategashira'' any longer. Filial connections have kept him from being ousted or killed outright - he remains married to the Oyabun's niece, after all - but he has been laid low, rendered a mere enforcer in an organization he once ran.

His resentment is eternal.

His desperation to find a new place in the sun burns just as strong as it did when he was young.

==Aspects Description==

{{AspectTable|



{{NegativeAspect|
|Aspect=Place in the Sun
|Description=Kurosawa-san has been laid low. But this isn't his first time being in this position. He worked his way up once before, he'll do so again, and he'll do anything to get there. Kurosawa would do anything to earn his place in the sun - whether that means betraying a runner to the Kanaga-gumi, selling out private information, or stealing equipment he's been asked to safeguard. When an opportunity arises for Kurosawa to advance his position at the expense of a runner using his services, the runner must pass a Test of Loyalty (reference contact rules) or they will be betrayed - with inevitable platitudes about the "essentials of business" to follow.
|HasThematicsApproval=Yes
|}}
{{NegativeAspect|
|Aspect=Don't Talk Back
|Description=Kurosawa-san is a man of the family, and keeps his priorities as such. Requests made to Takashi for tasks or jobs that do not directly benefit himself or the Kanaga-gumi have a 25% chance to be outright refused or ignored. Those requests that are accepted accumulate twice as many chips to be paid off.
|HasThematicsApproval=Yes
|}}



{{PositiveAspect|
|Aspect=Cyberware
|Description=Personal and business connections are abundant for a Yakuza with ware.
|}}
{{PositiveAspect|
|Aspect=Automatic Firearms
|Description=What Yakuza doesn't know where to find a decent gun?
|}}
{{PositiveAspect|
|Aspect=Handguns
|Description=Guns of all sorts.
|}}
{{PositiveAspect|
|Aspect=Long Arms
|Description=Short and long!
|}}
{{PositiveAspect|
|Aspect=Blades
|Description=Kurosawa especially enjoys keeping the tradition of the samurai alive in the Sixth World.
|}}



}}


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{{ContactDicepools}}


==Network==
===Player Characters with this Contact===
{{ContactPlayerConnections}}


===NPC who know this contact===

==Narrative Significant Runs==
{{ContactRuns}}

[[Category:Contacts]]
[[Category:Private Contacts]]

Takashi Kurosawa

2025-08-19T02:13:58Z

Jit: /* Aspects Description */

{{ContactInfobox|

|Image=[[File:Placeholder2.jpg|200px]]


|Profession=Shategashira of the Kanaga-gumi


|Shortblurb1=Kanaga no Akuma
|Shortblurb2=Private Contact
|Shortblurb3="Family is tradition. Tradition is structure. Structure is strength."


|OwnersRedditName=jit_SR5


|OwnersDiscordName=@jit


|Connection=2


|Archetype=Custom (A,G,N,K)


|Location=
|Metatype=Human
|AwakenedEmergedOrMundane=Mundane
|Gender=Male
|PreferredPayment=Personal Favors
|HobbiesOrVice=Cigarettes
|PersonalLife=Married
|Faction=Kanaga-gumi


|Age={{Age|
|Month=10
|Day=05
|Year=2043
|}}

}}

==Overview==
A ruthless and efficient enforcer for the Kanaga-gumi, married to tradition first and his wife second. Politically dull but a brutal combat tactician who has sparked ire among some in the Yakuza for his willingness to challenge authority for the good of the organization. Though these days not outwardly hateful toward those falling outside the bounds of "Japanese" and "Man," he views them as much less human, and much more expendable, and does not regret his past. Despite an unnatural willingness to make his voice heard, he has proven efficient and undyingly loyal to the oyabun, the two most important traits for rising the ranks in the Yakuza.

He has had an intimidating amount of ware installed due to his days as an enforcer on the ground level, and can still use it to great effect.

He is an alcoholic in remission, and will refuse drinks if offered. Cigarettes are his vice of choice.

===History===
Takashi Kurosawa was a street punk Japanese nationalist in the days before Halley's Comet passed in 2061. The eruption of the Unzen volcano and the resulting Ring of Fire birthed an ocean of new magic into the world, and SURGE'd many otherwise legal Japanese citizens into illegal metahuman variations. In the days after, as the government sought to organize and the power struggle between Japan's corporations, dragons, and the newly crowned [[Emperor Yasuhito]] began to take shape, many citizens took the affront of this new "goblinization" into their own hands. Takashi Kurosawa was one of them, participating in a number of motivated killings of new metahuman types as well as those already suffering persecution in Japan.

It was his bad luck, however, that on a night of drinking one of those opportunistic murders had been the son of [[Maasaki Watada]], lieutenant of the [[Watada-gumi]] and himself the son of [[Akira Watada]], the late ''oyabun''. While clinging tightly to "traditional values" themselves, the [[Watada-gumi]] could nonetheless tolerate such extrajudicial judgment and violence against a member of the family. Public executions of those involved followed, and Takashi Kurosawa, recognizing the danger, organized an escape to Seattle in order to slip through the ''rengo'''s grasp. Though it had cost him his home, his nation, and his culture, he had escaped with his life.

Several years later, still a charismatic street punk, he encounters by chance a Yakuza ''kaikei'' while in the drunk tank, who takes an interest in him. He says he's recruiting for the newly formed [[Kanaga-gumi]], forged from the salvaged men and resources left in the wake of [[Takeo Shigeda]] of the [[Shigeda-gumi]]'s assassination, and that with the purge of undesirable metahumans from their ranks (many of whom went on to find a new home in the [[Kenran-kai]]), the gumi was in need of good men and new muscle. Though his pregnant soon-to-be-wife objected, Kurosawa began a somewhat lucrative career as a Yakuza enforcer.

Seven years after that, in 2071, his past transgressions against the [[Watada-rengo]] come to light. (See [[Fennec Bueller's Day Off]]). The ''oyabun'' expresses his disappointment, but offers lenience, in exchange for proof of his present loyalty to the clan, and for proof of the death of his old life. With not-so-subtle words, he is instructed to present his pinky to the ''oyabun'', and to arrange for the death of his American wife. A Japanese man not married to a Japanese woman does not espouse their ideals of culture and country, and yet, a man who would lay hands on his wife is no man at all. Better, then, were someone else to do it and spare him the dishonor. He made the call, arranged through proxy after proxy for a gang as far away from the Yakuza as possible to do the hit, and slept easy. His child, [[Bunny Hop|Koichi Kurosawa]], witnessed it first hand, and fell into shock for years to come.

Back in the ''oyabun'' 's good graces, he rose swiftly. Presently, he enjoys a position as ''shategashira'', commander of the ''gumi'' 's foot soldiers and enforcement. He has re-married a niece of the ''oyabun,'' and enjoys a place among Sato Kanaga's closest family.

===Current Events===
Kurosawa was recently laid low as his daughter revealed his betrayal of his own wife. His position collapsed due to the political fallout, his backroom dealings behind the Oyabun's back making him unable to keep the position of ''shategashira'' any longer. Filial connections have kept him from being ousted or killed outright - he remains married to the Oyabun's niece, after all - but he has been laid low, rendered a mere enforcer in an organization he once ran.

His resentment is eternal.

His desperation to find a new place in the sun burns just as strong as it did when he was young.

==Aspects Description==

{{AspectTable|



{{NegativeAspect|
|Aspect=Place in the Sun
|Description=Kurosawa-san has been laid low. But this isn't his first time being in this position. He worked his way up once before, he'll do so again, and he'll do anything to get there. Kurosawa would do anything to earn his place in the sun - whether that means betraying a runner to the Kanaga-gumi, selling out private information, or stealing equipment he's been asked to safeguard. When an opportunity arises for Kurosawa to advance his position at the expense of a runner using his services, the runner must pass a Test of Loyalty (reference contact rules) or they will be betrayed - with inevitable platitudes about the "essentials of business" to follow.
|HasThematicsApproval=Yes
|}}
{{NegativeAspect|
|Aspect=Don't Talk Back
|Description=Kurosawa-san is a man of the family, and keeps his priorities as such. Requests made to Takashi for tasks or jobs that do not directly benefit himself or the Kanaga-gumi have a 25% chance to be outright refused or ignored. Those requests that are accepted accumulate twice as many chips to be paid off.
|HasThematicsApproval=Yes
|}}



{{PositiveAspect|
|Aspect=Cyberware
|Description=Personal and business connections are abundant for a Yakuza with ware.
|}}
{{PositiveAspect|
|Aspect=Automatic Firearms
|Description=What Yakuza doesn't know where to find a decent gun?
|}}
{{PositiveAspect|
|Aspect=Handguns
|Description=Guns of all sorts.
|}}
{{PositiveAspect|
|Aspect=Long Arms
|Description=Short and long!
|}}
{{PositiveAspect|
|Aspect=Blades
|Description=Kurosawa especially enjoys keeping the tradition of the samurai alive in the Sixth World.
|}}



}}


==Dicepools==
{{ContactDicepools}}


==Network==
===Player Characters with this Contact===
{{ContactPlayerConnections}}


===NPC who know this contact===

==Narrative Significant Runs==
{{ContactRuns}}

[[Category:Contacts]]
[[Category:Private Contacts]]

Rogozhin

2025-06-05T01:10:47Z

Jit:

Anhe

2025-04-18T06:02:49Z

Jit: /* The Plan */