A Stone on Dark Waters

A Stone on Dark Waters
Date 2086-MM-DD"2086-MM-DD" contains an extrinsic dash or other characters that are invalid for a date interpretation. GM Location {{{place}}}
Factions Involved
ShadowHaven	Major Corp
Runner1 Runner2 Runner3 Runner4	Character1 Character2

Background

FMC Intelligence Officer Major John Smith has received a tip from one of his assets. A source of intel will be passing through Carib League waters. He has little info as to what this is, but aside from certain warnings has little specifics. His operative had used one of their carefully smuggled tags to enable tracking of the ship carrying the package.

The Meet

They meet the J at the Down Dog, a runner bar in renton. He lays out the mission: take package SIV-23 from the smuggling ship Mal Sueno, get clear, then activate a signal to summon pickup and payment. The pay is fair, and Kamilion is hesitant to try for more pay. Instead they negotiate for services, contact info, as this is obviously someone with ways of arranging international travel for 'runners and their gear. The J explains that because he couldnt get a runner pilot on short notice, he's arranged for a boat with a good pilot autosoft to be available.

The Plan

Legwork: Matrix searches pull up information on the Mal Sueno and its company, Obsidian Transport. The dock it left from in Savannah, and the dock it is scheduled to arrive at in Tenochtitlan, are both David Cartel controlled. Kamilion gets enough info to get the bones of a disguise ready. The plan: Pull along side the ship, get into the systems to disable sensors and make a switch. Kamilion for a convenient target. Find the package, abscond.

The Run

Early part of the plan goes off without a hitch. With a sprite helping the boat pilot stealthily, they sneak up. The boats sensors are taken down, and the manifest cracked into. They do find out that the real manifest is marked with a logo of a division of Aztlan Naval Intelligence. Troubling. The target is labeled SIV-23: Stone. Aegean. A note in the encrypted file reminds the captain to make sure their boys wear their grey gear.

wraith takes out a guard, and they stealthily make the switch. The second guard on deck, hears something, and comes around and calls out to Kamilion in spanish. Not speaking the language, Kamilion shrugs, trying to deflect the questioning. It works. The proper shipping container is located, but it has a maglock and a small bolt lock. So wraith sneaks aboard, and picks those. They find the proper crate, but realize the heavy 1m square wooden crate is too heavy and too bulky to get to the ship quietly. Misfire will have to board. Rather than risk the large troll alerting the second guard, Wraith takes him out with a subsonic shot. Misfire gets aboard with a thump. Though they dont know it, the sound was heard by the captain inside, who moves to investigate what the noise was, expecting that his men are probably doing something foolish.

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