Punk Tactics
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ShadowHaven Skraacha | Skull & Crossbones Talismonger Shop Staff | ||||||||
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Red Rover Akuma Ren Colcannon |
Ledgermain Street Punks Recruited former Cutters | ||||||||
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Summary
A simple shakedown! Common as hell in the Barrens! This one was just a little spicier than most, because it had some explosive cast members this time around.
Background
Ledgermain is a Black Magic practitioner in the most traditional sense: a con artist, a femme fatale, a total bitch who will run your pockets five ways from Sunday to get what she wants. Unfortunately, she's also genuinely helpful to have around. She's used her business as a talismonger and her staggering charisma to play into a lot of criminal elements to get her way. She's the kind of con artist who gets away with a lot more than she should because of it.
A recent case of this was her attempted dodging of paying a massive loan she took out from the Skraacha. With the news of a gang war swinging around all over the Barrens, she decided to take former (dropout) Cutters members who wanted a new place to work and were maybe a little distracted by her to pose as being Cutter tied - both to scare off small time debt collectors the Skraacha and to make the bigger fish worry she cut some sort of deal. She was hoping it'd buy her enough time to get some more funds, duck out of town with it, set up shop elsewhere, but unfortunately Shadowrunners are *very* convenient.
The Meet
The Skraacha sent one of their real breadwinning good lookers - a guy who goes by Lockjaw - out to meet the runner team at the Daze in Touristville. It was a simple enough place to meet up. Akuma, Colcannon, and Red Rover drove in there while Ren arrived but was asleep and had to be awoken by the scary troll adept to participate in the meeting. The suave talking Skraacha member kept things simple - make sure the girl pays her dues, send a message, don't kill her or give the cops too many reasons to come down there and start asking questions. All for 4k nuyen each. Akuma tried to ask for more but Lockjaw hit her with a reassuring look, honeyed words, and just moving on fast and that was that. He gave them a picture of the woman's face, an address for the store and a bar she likes to frequent, and left them.
Colcannon ended up having to pay the guy's tab.
The Plan
Akuma realized that the bar Lockjaw pointed out was none other than Wayside Hideout - a middle-of-nowhere watering hole place where people go to lay low, and the police for troublemakers is "If you shoot first, the others will shoot last." IE, everyone in the bar turns to gun you down and eliminate the problem assuming the worst, and no one is meant to start crap. So they decided to hit the shop proper for their shakedown instead, after doing some scouting first.