Small Embers

Small Embers
Date 2084-09-15 GM Asmodeus Location Seattle Sprawl Status Threat Level: Deadly
Factions Involved
ShadowHaven Dante's Inferno	Banzai Battlefield Express
P23 Red Ribbon Ellis RC-45	Banzai Buddies FPS Doug Bonzi Buddy
Casualties and losses
	A MAC Hellhound, a Dodge general trailer.

Summary

To capture a target, a mysterious Johnson from not 'round these parts hires a rag-tag team of runners as part of an evaluation.

Everything went smoothly until Doug showed up.

Background

Between Bolt wanting better connections and a mysterious fixer wanting to test the Shadow Haven, the duo needed work done.

The Meet

The party ventures through Dante's, half the team immediately b-lining through the crowd and pushing to the J.

RC-45 and Paz make their way to the bar and meet Helena in passing before joining the remaining members of the team.

The Johnson was curt and the no details type, but the party agreed with only asking for better pay. They obliged and offered to include soft- and hardware in the gear rewards.

The Plan

Lots of scouting eventually led to the plan of planting a data tap via Ellis on an enemy Mac Hellhound, RC-45 getting 3 marks on the 'hound, and the arrival of the target to the initial location.

The party schemed up the plan of delete the hellhound and the Dodge General trailer that arrived later - and would be tailing the target's SUV. With the lead and trailing vehicles disabled, they'd simply have the SUV trail the friendly rigger van and scoot off into the sunset.

The Run

Everything went according to plan.

Until both the trailing and leading vehicles were disabled and Doug exited the SUV and started causing problems. Doug was quickly determined to be a Jar-head and he took exception to the teams Antics.

The rest of the plan went largely as planned, with the exception of Doug going T-1000 and attempting to murder the hell out of the party and Red Ribbon's van.

Aftermath

Paz, having attempted to shove a 40mm HE grenade into the chest-shotgun of Doug, successfully made him fall off the van as the party continued to drive off into the sunset.

Dropping off the VIP with an anthrodrone driving a car, the party got a message from the J saying this 'wasn't a complete failure, but it wasn't a total success either. The evaluation will continue.'

Paz responded with "We're glad to work with you in the future."

Ellis responded with "OK"

The party was left on read.

Rewards

40,000 Nuyen towards Used/Standard/Alphaware Augmentations, Vehicles, Vehicle Mods, Drones, Drone Modifications, RCCs/Cyberdecks & Software (10 RVP)

OR

18,000 Liquid Nuyen + 1 Karma (10 RVP)

3 Karma (3 RVP)

12 CDP (5 RVP)

+1 Dante's Inferno Reputation

-3 Banzai Battlefield Express Reputation

Doug bears a grudge. Doug will remember that.

The Johnson going by the name of "Black Smoker" is neither disappointed nor impressed with ShadowHaven. Evaluation continues.

Mundane Ascension where applicable

Game Quotes

Amusing quote from game.

Player After Action Reports (AARs)

P23: "Fuck that Jar-head. The Johnson was probably one of the best I'd worked with. Straight-laced, to the point, and didn't have a stake in the job aside from the pay she already got and the pay she'd get at the end. Fuck that robot sunnuvabitch."

Red Ribbon: "The end of this job was either a comedy of errors, or that jar-head was really, really good. Either way, we didn't pick up on what he was until it was too late, so it's real lucky that we had Paz along for the ride. The rest of the ambush, the scouting, the plan... that all went smoothly. This Johnson has high standards - but I can respect it."

RC-45 You know if I was not left with more meat when I got blown up. i would had thought of becoming one of those jarheads, then again I like the ability to feel the world and eat food. then being a brain floating in med-gel