An Invitation to Wine
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Fire Mage Tsarina Wildflower |
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Summary
A clandestine operation to find and nurture a prospering mage is yet again close to paying off, until their target disappears into the bowels of the megabuilding in which she lives. Runners are hired to extract her silently and act as a finger for The Red Eyed Woman, and she is able to acquire yet another promising contact for her long term goals. The Runners of Tsarina and Wildflower are none the wiser to who their J is, or the grand picture for what they're doing.
Background
The Red Eyed Woman has machinations and plans and schemes for her grand design and great work. While she alone is working towards greatness, she still needs those faithful to her to gain strong and grow. So, in order to do that, she's been looking for promising and aspiring mages to help with her desires, and lo, in Seattle, Inessa Dolinsky fits the bill. So, after an extended period of 'nurturing' her, fire mage moves in to extract her student. That goes well until Inessa goes missing, and while The Red Eyed Woman knows where she is, she's too public for her to move in, and so The Red Eyed Woman hires runners to do the extraction to keep the heat off of her own tail.
The Meet
The duo of Tsarina and Wildflower meet in an alley with The Red Eyed Woman, who manifests from the astral with two bound spirits. Asking the duo nicely, she says that she wants her 'friend' to be seen safe from the hole she's dug herself, and to keep quiet about it. She offers 30K nuyen to the duo to rescue Inessa and keep quiet. The Duo runners feel a pit of dread in their stomachs when dealing with the Johnson, but ultimately decide to do the gig.
The Plan
The Run
The team starts to investigate...
- Finding their way around the apartment by split legwork
- the building is super slummy with skeevy landlords
- the underground area of the megaplex is currently in a losing fight against gang activity, since the building had illegally built suites to rent
- some initial legwork shows that Iness is living in 3215
- Tsarina and Wildflower think to try and flirt their way into getting info on Inessa Dolinsky
- Wildflower finds out of a disturbance on the right floor, and the security lead is seduced by her, but she turns him down.
- ID
- The potted plants
- GG
- What do yo mean
- You *
- ID
- I don't wanna be ap lant
- They planted me
- A seed
- A tree a seed, they planted seeds in people
- GG
- Woah woah slow down dude
- Srs wtf r u tlkin abt
- ID
- She came in my dreams
- The clocktower
- THe man was at the cloctower and he planted
- A seed in me
- The book"
- I don't want to blossom
- Don't make me go
- GG
- Dude if ur in trouble just hide in the slums
- Literally nobody will find u
- ID
- Its too late
- I'm already photosynthesizing
- I knew they were real
- I told you
- I warned you
- Now there's seeds in all of us
Tsarina does some investigastion and talks to the sec team taht seems too invigorated to find the target, then Tsarina and Wildflower accidentally find some hoodlums that want money for cancer medications.
Fidnign Tsarina in a pinch, Wildflower uses mass confusion on an area to try and help Tsarina escape. The gangers, confused and hardpressed by the spell, choose not to follow, given that security is around.
They find footage of Inessa heading to the slums and nobody going into the slums, as well they get a nearby decker to do some work. that being said, the amateur decker they hired was boasting his skills, and the team failed to realize they were not up to snuff, and cheesed it trying to decrypt some data bomb protected files.
Figuring what to do next, the team thinks that Inessa is with a go ganger in the basement, but they check the apartment of Inessa first. Running in blind, the team gets hit by a deadman trap, and Tsarina takes buckshot to the chest, but manages to survive.
they talk with the camera store owner who had been stalking Inessa. He mentions a book and a new friend, but that he's afraid to investigate in case she's dead. He hands over the burner commlink attached to the stealth tag, wanting to clear his name of any issues.
They start to head towards the tag location, but end up finding one of the groups of underground go gangers, and when they try to ask for their friend they are unfortunately spurned by the weighty numbers advantage in the gangers favor.
The gangers use their mage to compell truth, and when Tsarina talks it seems like things are going well, but when she's unnable to say the name of of the person they're looking for, the gang's leader breaks down the negotiations; 20K nuyen or the name of the person, otherwise no deal.
Aftermath
Rewards
30,ooo nuyen - 15 RVP + 1 loyalty on Kruger / Fiendest - 1 rvp
Game Quotes
Player After Action Reports (AARs)
Wildflower
"Well, I woke up with 30k nuyen... guess it was something pretty high profile. Phoned my fixers and they don't seem to know much either. Not gonna look into it further, for now."
Tsarina
"Changed my address. Glad I haven't forgotten to be a good and forget when I needed to. Easy 30k nuyen~"