Crashing the white christmas party

Crashing the white christmas party
Part of Or'zet Underground
Date 2085-12-24 GM J.R. Location Hackotomi Building, Northern Downtown, Seattle Metroplex, UCAS Status Threat Level: Deadly
Factions Involved
ShadowHaven Skraacha Underhaven Grotto Hotel	Major Corp
Dezeroth A'kyer Stacy Ducky Geodesic	Character1 Character2

Summary

Ace powers had his legs broken as a good old fashioned Scraacha message, in the middle of his own Christmas party.

Background

In Bury The Needle Bury the Lead we saw Ace Powers get a little over excited about a dwarf he had been tasked with heading up the A&R on but given minimal information. Ace did not know this would set him afoul of his co-sponsors and event runners for Or'zett Underground. Crime Time was not impressed with unliteral action and sent Kirby Fangsbreath himself to send a message to Ace, in the middle of Ace's Christmas party.

For months, Crime Time has been using the Shadowhaven network through intermediaries to hire a slate of new talent to headline the 13th Annual Or'zett Underground. Crime has been largely hands off, and letting the hotelliers and media people get his list together and follow his instructions. But when Ace Powers deviated from the plan, and risks exposing one of the new headliners there are deep and serious plans for, Crime freaked out a bit and demanded the Underhaven Staff get a bit more aggressive with the horizon people. In CT's words "Sometimes you gotta be a nasty trog..."

The Meet

The team get set up by various contacts and fixers for a meeting with Hamish at the Underhaven itself. They find their way into the northern underground and the lit path that takes you to the Grotto the hotel sits inside of. They find the people movers (which were installed about two months ago) and took them to the front of the palatial property, where Hamish' assistant Amanda was waiting for them with a sign and a club car.

They took the team to the hotel proper, where their security mage Juniper took a hair to add Stacy and Dez to to the hotels' "Soft Open" wards. The team is taken to the Suite that Hamish uses as an extended office and offered their pick off the menu for the hotel restaurants. Hamish explains the situation and that his employer will be along shortly. As promised, Kirby Fangsbreath and a very brief AF Cameo from Crime Time himself lay out the severity of the Producer's situation.

Kirby, unflappably but somewhere in between inconvenienced and embarrassed by the situation, has a very polite chat with the team about the nature of the job and his expectations, settles on a price with some additional favors negotiated by Stacy and excuses himself. Hamish makes the rest of the arrangements and leaves the team with the room to plan in.

The Plan

After Stacy reaches out to Bodie Jay and fails to get ahold, they realized that "doing all the drugs" was probably a secondary plan and laid out the following plan.

The Plan: Sneak Ducky into the catering staff Ruin their night Sneak stacy+1 into party with a scavenged ticket. Dose everyone with woad. Start a fight between patrons and watch that get out of hand fast. Bring up johnson to deliver the message "FLash pack while delivering is happening" escape from 48th floor profit

The Run

Geo hacked the Maplethorpe Catering Co's business host, slipping a new employee rostser and schedule in and spoofing the host to update it to the slaved devices its managers would be using. Inserting Ducky in as a cook and Dez as a waiter. Stacy hit the streets (and the talent and media agencies) to pick up a bunch of woad and an invite to the party.

Ducky and Dez arrived about 6PM on the schedule, and did some light recon. Dez finding several wards outside he kitchen area, and Ducky quickly going to work loading about 30+ doses of woad into the petit fours for the evening, stashing that tray away for later deployment and going to work needling the staff to turn their evening increasingly sour, meanwhile Dez ingratiated himself with the catering manager, Veronica, and start to disrupt the flow of information going to her and disrupt the catering flow the evening.

Stacy arrived at 9 and promptly got a lay of the land. She immediately went to work on one of the security guards trying to get him to slip off his game and training and let some fist fights and crazier going down before radioing the team, and much like a rating 4 commlink or a basic locked door, "The Door" this mostly retired KE desk sergeant was incredibly resistant to her charms. Before pushing too hard and blowing her "cover" Stacy slipped back to the party at large and started slowly ruining the mood. Thinking better of spiking he punchbowl with the much higher than expected security presence she passed them on to Ducky covertly who laced several glasses with a liquid Woad supplied by contacts.

Once the drugs were in place, Stacy and Dez snuck downstairs to the guard shack and barely convinced the two remaining guards to allow a disguised Kriby Fangsbreath into the building on the guise of being an entertainer for the party who was not on the traditional books, and stepped onto the elevator as things began to get spicy upstairs.

To start things going out of hand, Ducky identifies someone who is definitely hopped up on wood as the mood of the party changes and Geodesic crashes the cameras in the main suites, as well as sending a solitary media drone crashing into the face of a woad dopes attendee, who promptly freaks. The fighting never hits full riot levels, but for nearly 30 minutes over 40 people at the party individually berserk when pushed or jostled in the fray, and things start to get out of control. The security detail, unprepared to do more than threaten with their FN-Hars were incredibly distracted doing physical takedowns of guests to avoid shooting any B list celebrities.

Stacy then invites Kirby onto the floor and sets off a few flash packs to disable onlookers and filming while Kirby approaches Ace who has stepped out to look at the chaos. Geo hacks the camera in the room Ace emerged from as Kirby pushed him back into it. The men tussled for a few minutes before Kirby ultimately picked up the johnson and broke both his knees wrenching them to one side, and was promptly ushered out by the team, who also fled the coop quickly.

While some disguises were worn, ultimately enough slight signatures were left and information available to tie the run to the Shadowhaven but no one is talking to the cops. Horizon is instead changing internal security perameters and Ace, having taken the message, is stepping away from Or'zet underground accounts to focus on his own runner portfolios.

Aftermath

Blall Part- Novacoke addicted security operative has been let go for firing gel rounds at a D list celebrity. Leading to an overall drop in popularity of the gang in the Horizon consensus and Ace leaving a strongly worded "You owe me for this" message to on Stacey's commlink.

Two broken (and healed up very quickly) legs, and message sent strongly to Mr. Powers, who will be upping security details to "A troll just broke my legs" levels for the next few months of Or'zett Underground, and minding his own business.

Kirby is feeling "off the chain" and opens himself up to a night of drinking with the characters, a costly proposition but a potentially valuable one for the characters.

Hamish is suitably impressed by everyone's discretion, and offers Stacy a personal favor to handle her lawyer. (If snubbed is not rude about the arrangement, and does provide Legal Eagle Services to help her business set up.)

Rewards

20K (10 RVP) or Gear Rewards(40k value ) in Foci, Magical Gear, or Lifestyles up to 20R 6 Karma (6RVP) 6 CDP (2 RVP)

Optional Contact Rewards: https://shreloaded.net/wiki/Hamish Loyalty 2: (6 RVP +1 Chip) OR for Stacy https://shreloaded.net/wiki/Legal_Eagle Loyalty 1 (6 RVP) And https://shreloaded.net/wiki/Kirby_Fangsbreath Loyalty 1 )7 RVP)

Cash rewards spent here on the contacts represent partying with the big boys.

Skraacha Reputation +1 Under Haven Grotto Hotel Skraacha Reputation +2 (Stacy and Dez Attuned to ward until full opening.)

Horizon Reputation -1 Stacy -1 Chip Ace Powers

Game Quotes

Amusing quote from game.

Player After Action Reports (AARs)

Dez: "I love it when a plan comes together. And nothing tickles my heart better than the irony of being hired by a Corp to do a job, only to be hired by another Corp running against the original Corp I ran for. A delicious taste of irony that I can only pray to continue receiving."