Die Hand Die Verletzt

Die Hand Die Verletzt
Date 2085-10-21 GM Scarcarian Location {{{place}}} Status Threat Level: Medium
Factions Involved
ShadowHaven	Major Corp
Killbot Black Sabbath Devil Chance	Character1 Character2

Background

The team gets calls from their various fixers, all of them warning the client is a bit good and normal ( new and weird), and wants to meet downtown at a pizza place.

The Meet

Two Robots, A Fomoraig and an idiot walk into a pizza place, Murphy's Law Pizza, to be specific. After being invited to meet a new and very normal client. Everyone manages to make at least the most basic of etiquette checks to make it into the downtown establishment with minimal eyebrows raised given the assembled team. The very normal client is looking for a hand, literally. Left or right, from Louis Hardin an up and coming talent. Living in Capital Hill in a modest loft with a nice view of the lake.

The Plan

Devil and Killbot head on for Physical recon while Black Sabbath and Chance begin a Matrix search in a local gay bar to the client's area downtown. Killbot manages the etiquette but Devil draws the attention of some new money idiots who start crowding in to check out Killbot, mistaking the borg for a brand new model of security robot. Devil threatens them off with an undercover cop routine. The house itself is in a mid range neighborhood on the hill, stealing the view of the nicer places to each side. A cookie cutter security package including a lone drone and some NEOPD security watching for the home security systems. It is not incredibly secure but it is pretty great for folks who may be looking to keep Halloweeners out of the neighborhood. There's a hidden gap between the target's building and another, with a faded mural plastered on it.

A T6 Search reveals his NeoPD wireless and Magical Security package. The upper middle class "Anti Mage and Techno package" probably good enough to deal with low to mid tier runners. Should be within our ability to bypass. Wan with a decent RCC covering the camera and drone networks, and either a ward or awakened ivy growth to keep out astral threats. Been to rehab for Bliss use. Has occasionally contributed to the BTL and Simsense scene as well, likely into nootropics and creativity inducing drugs and btls. Seems like a relatively normal for an artist kind of guy, ex partners and other folks who have put him on blast on social media but fairly innocuous. Drives a Funone, very dwarf friendly.

Hangs out a the Fractured Helix, a Surge bar. Lots of interesting SURGE expressions to take inspiration from.

The Run

The team elects to hit the target outside of his house. Forging an add for a nightclub event offering hot SURGE models.

Chance and Judas get rooms for the night and pick up drugs. Devil and Killbot attempt to stake out the client from an alley but do get detected by a NEO eyebot and chased off, using some illusory tricks to lose the bot. Killbot hid in a dumpster when realizing the cops were on the way.

Fast forwarding to the next night, the Client does make his way to Fractured Helix and inside. The team having stayed downtown to avoid the panopticon stress. Chance and Devil head in, Killbot and Judas stake out an alley nearby. Devil gets the mark to follow along to do some bliss in the bathroom while Killbot and Foreman hang out in an alley until they get profiled by a community cop on a terrier. Foreman , high on fentanyl, manages to piss off the cop, sending killbot forward drawing a katana to attempt and intimidate the cop.

Chance checks in with the outside team, while Devil and the mark get Blissed out in the bathroom. Realizes what's happening and squelches the cop, then Paul Blart launches the guy the other direction off a pier. Devil talks the mark back to the car to do drugs with the giant and the robot, and the poor dwarf is quickly hit with a tranq patch and given an impromptu limb replacement surgery by a Foreman who opted to get high on a shocking amount of drugs before the operation.

Aftermath

Lewis Hardin loses his hand, but receives an anonymous donation to fund a replacement. -KE Patrolman Clayton Hayes' bodycam captures footage of Garry Foreman doing drugs in an alleyway outside of the Fractured Helix; the cold case on the missing person is quietly reopened.

Rewards

8000 nuyen (4 RVP) 2 karma (2 RVP) 10 CDP (4 RVP + 2 base) Optional Contact: Handyman (C2/L2 Necromancer) for 3 RVP or 6 CDP

Narrative Consequences: -Lewis Hardin loses his hand, but receives an anonymous donation to fund a replacement. -KE Patrolman Clayton Hayes' bodycam captures footage of Garry Foreman doing drugs in an alleyway outside of the Fractured Helix; the cold case on the missing person is quietly reopened.

Game Quotes

Amusing quote from game.

Player After Action Reports (AARs)

Chance What. The. Fuck. I do some really stupid drek, like, really stupid drek, but this is dumber than what I used to do on the street for more money.

What. The. Fuck. Magic jobs. Man.