Selling Redmond by the Pound
| Selling Redmond by the Pound | ||||||||||
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| Part of Compound Interest | ||||||||||
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ShadowHaven Crimson Crush | Red Ledger | Knight Errant | ||||||||
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Asura Chersky Chance White Thistle Jag Biggs |
Belt Paydirt | |||||||||
| Casualties and losses | ||||||||||
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Belt Paydirt Several Low-level Enforcers | ||||||||||
Summary
The Red Ledger try to pull a fast one on the Crimson Crush using a traitor within their ranks, who hires the party to help unwittingly. The party decide not to play along.
Background
Red Ledger had been looking to expand into more lucrative parts of Redmond ever since eliminating their main rivals, Chrome Crash. Belts, a Crimson Crush lieutenant, was lured in by their potential, and helped hatch a plot in which Red Ledger would feign submission to CC and then take control of the meeting by trickery, forcing CC's hand. He poisoned some of the security that was planned to show up to the meeting, using it as an excuse to hire shadowrunners under his personal employ, who would help with taking on the more numerous Crimson Crush.
The Meet
Belts invites the party to a cheap pizza place in Touristville, Giantello's. After arriving, sweeping them for bugs, and setting up a white noise generator, he explains the situation: later that night, the Crimson Crush is hosting a meeting with Red Ledger, an up and coming Redmond gang. Belts, along with two other lieutenants named Jag and Biggs, will be meeting with Paydirt, a representative from Red Ledger, along with his security entourage. Belts tells the party that some of the Crimson Crush enforcers who were supposed to keep watch have gotten sick all at once, and that as a result he's hiring shadowrunners to watch for any foul play on the part of Red Ledger. He provides schematics and details on the club, offering the party 12 thousand nuyen. Chance asks if drugs could be offered, but Belts turns him down, telling him to just buy the drugs with the money paid. The team finding this acceptable, they filter out and begin legwork.
The Plan
Chance begins searching the Matrix for information on Paydirt and Red Ledger. Paydirt, at least once he's able to tune his searches to filter out the similarly-named Aardvark SURGE adult film star, reveals surprisingly few results, being a relatively new recruit to Red Ledger. The gang itself is also rather small, being careful in their growth and largely centered around the loan sharking of one Windfall. While Chance searches for information, Asura, White Thistle, and Chersky head to the club hosting the meeting, a Touristville club popular with out of town tourists and Crimson Crush goons both named Heavy Thump. Jag is there early, keeping the meeting room secure. Asura keeps watch near the entrance over the balcony. White Thistle, rather conspicuous inside, decides to keep watch outside the fire escape on the back entrance. Chersky, having summoned a guardian spirit earlier in the afternoon, sets up at the bar. Thankfully the stools are high enough to see out over the dance floor, and he strikes up a conversation with the Bartender, who tells him of how ruthless Red Ledger are, his friend having suffered at their hands. They keep watch until the time of the meeting.