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==Summary== | ==Summary== | ||
Four deckers walk into a host. Shuten Dooji looks at them and says, "Why the long face?" "Huh?" Geodesic responds. Shuten Dooji eats a sprite. There are no punchlines. | |||
==Background== | ==Background== | ||
[[Meatgrinder|Ms. Johnson]] is a mysterious woman, and is interested in mysteries in turn. Most recently, this includes rumors, urban legends really, of a highly dangerous, highly sought after ''something'' deep in the MCT Global grid, local to Japan. Hachi Zetto Shiyon. Very little can be reasonably guessed at, and even less is known concretely. | |||
She would like to change that. | |||
==The Meet== | ==The Meet== | ||
Four trusted runners, vetted and highly recommended by their fixers, are invited to attend a fun, innocently themed destination host. A Star Wars kind of energy, space fantasy, lasers and blades and delightful alien designs. The runners are on board a highly technical depiction of a space battleship, and traverse hallways and scaffolds as one of the crew. Following Ms. Johnson's instructions brings them face to face with another, bog standard sliding door, though the other side, once opened, immediately reeks of the unexposed underside of such attractions. | |||
A dilapidated hall, broken down and rusted over and dark, with no doors on either side. A darkly silhouetted woman stands at the other end, smoking a cigarette. | |||
She tells the runners they come highly recommended, which is good, because their target is extremely dangerous. Hachi Zetto Shiyon. Ring any bells? It shouldn't - those who learn about it often end up dead, or otherwise mysteriously missing. What is it, the team ask, and their Johnson only shrugs in response. That's what she wants them to find out. | |||
Go to where it's often cited as being - as a Japanese rumor, it exists primarily on the Japanese grids. Do not delve too deep. Do not engage with it, if it does make itself known to them. Only find out what they safely can without dying, and report back with what they've gathered. She'll throw extra money on top of their base pay for every extra little bit of information they can find without being caught. | |||
And it's as easy as that, ne? Off they go to do their research. | |||
==The Plan== | ==The Plan== | ||
The three runners who can actually do so physically travel to Japan to utilize its national grid, and to do some work on the ground questioning the locals too. | |||
[[Silver Lining]] investigates a shady dive bar with stairs leading underground, and questions a man with his cyberarm pinned to the synthetic bartop with a knife. He is distraught - obviously - and says that he owes the bartender several hundred nuyen or else he's going to get even worse than this. Silver Lining considers this, and asks him bluntly if he has any information on Hachi Zetto Shiyon, to which the man responds, uh, YEAH, just gimme a few hundred nuyen and I'll spill. | |||
Ultimately, very little is revealed beyond that which their contact has already told them - a mysterious entity, and missing deckers who go near it. [[Silver Lining]] leaves the bar with the sinking sensation that he may have been scammed. | |||
[[Ca1yps0]] does something. | |||
[[Geodesic]] also does something. | |||
[[Bunny Hop]], bound to the Matrix, does not join them physically, but instead travels the Resonance Realms in search of answers. If deckers have died or gone missing in search of this thing, she may seek to speak with the ancestral dead by way of the Graveyard, where hackers' last moments online are preserved in perpetuity. She feels a thousand harrowing deaths before finding simsense with the answers she seeks - a hacker with a foggy mind, walking in a city. She places it as New York, though only in broad strokes. Through the fog of his mind, disparate pieces cling together - though just as fall together like leaves on a pond's surface, he is shot from a dozen different barrels, and left to bleed out on the pavement. | |||
It was a Foundation, she believes in retrospect as her mind once again becomes her own - some kind of memetic agent that triggers Variance for even thinking outside the lines. Several shades darker and more treacherous than any she's seen before. | |||
==The Run== | ==The Run== | ||
Revision as of 19:16, 14 April 2025
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Shuten Dooji Hachi Zetto Shiyon | ||||||||
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| None. Not yet, anyway. | None. Not yet. | ||||||||
Summary
Four deckers walk into a host. Shuten Dooji looks at them and says, "Why the long face?" "Huh?" Geodesic responds. Shuten Dooji eats a sprite. There are no punchlines.
Background
Ms. Johnson is a mysterious woman, and is interested in mysteries in turn. Most recently, this includes rumors, urban legends really, of a highly dangerous, highly sought after something deep in the MCT Global grid, local to Japan. Hachi Zetto Shiyon. Very little can be reasonably guessed at, and even less is known concretely.
She would like to change that.
The Meet
Four trusted runners, vetted and highly recommended by their fixers, are invited to attend a fun, innocently themed destination host. A Star Wars kind of energy, space fantasy, lasers and blades and delightful alien designs. The runners are on board a highly technical depiction of a space battleship, and traverse hallways and scaffolds as one of the crew. Following Ms. Johnson's instructions brings them face to face with another, bog standard sliding door, though the other side, once opened, immediately reeks of the unexposed underside of such attractions.
A dilapidated hall, broken down and rusted over and dark, with no doors on either side. A darkly silhouetted woman stands at the other end, smoking a cigarette.
She tells the runners they come highly recommended, which is good, because their target is extremely dangerous. Hachi Zetto Shiyon. Ring any bells? It shouldn't - those who learn about it often end up dead, or otherwise mysteriously missing. What is it, the team ask, and their Johnson only shrugs in response. That's what she wants them to find out.
Go to where it's often cited as being - as a Japanese rumor, it exists primarily on the Japanese grids. Do not delve too deep. Do not engage with it, if it does make itself known to them. Only find out what they safely can without dying, and report back with what they've gathered. She'll throw extra money on top of their base pay for every extra little bit of information they can find without being caught.
And it's as easy as that, ne? Off they go to do their research.
The Plan
The three runners who can actually do so physically travel to Japan to utilize its national grid, and to do some work on the ground questioning the locals too.
Silver Lining investigates a shady dive bar with stairs leading underground, and questions a man with his cyberarm pinned to the synthetic bartop with a knife. He is distraught - obviously - and says that he owes the bartender several hundred nuyen or else he's going to get even worse than this. Silver Lining considers this, and asks him bluntly if he has any information on Hachi Zetto Shiyon, to which the man responds, uh, YEAH, just gimme a few hundred nuyen and I'll spill.
Ultimately, very little is revealed beyond that which their contact has already told them - a mysterious entity, and missing deckers who go near it. Silver Lining leaves the bar with the sinking sensation that he may have been scammed.
Ca1yps0 does something.
Geodesic also does something.
Bunny Hop, bound to the Matrix, does not join them physically, but instead travels the Resonance Realms in search of answers. If deckers have died or gone missing in search of this thing, she may seek to speak with the ancestral dead by way of the Graveyard, where hackers' last moments online are preserved in perpetuity. She feels a thousand harrowing deaths before finding simsense with the answers she seeks - a hacker with a foggy mind, walking in a city. She places it as New York, though only in broad strokes. Through the fog of his mind, disparate pieces cling together - though just as fall together like leaves on a pond's surface, he is shot from a dozen different barrels, and left to bleed out on the pavement.
It was a Foundation, she believes in retrospect as her mind once again becomes her own - some kind of memetic agent that triggers Variance for even thinking outside the lines. Several shades darker and more treacherous than any she's seen before.