Peace: Noblesse Oblige 2

Peace: Noblesse Oblige 2
Part of Unto the Furthest Horizon
Date 2086-05-04 GM Robinton Location Cara'sir Status Threat Level: Extreme
Factions Involved
ShadowHaven Elias Zenthra	Major Corp
Peace Quinn Red Ribbon Obsidian	Character1 Character2

Summary

• 5/4: 4 Hours
• 5/14: 4 Hours
• 5/27: 3 Hours
• 6/1: 3 Hours
• 6/10: 4 Hours
• 6/15: 2 Hours

Background

During the events of the first run in this arc, Elias Zenthra began to move up in the world after 'his' team of Shadowrunners eliminated the Brat'mal terrorist threat. Now, as the political waters get deeper, he finds himself in far deeper and far hotter waters than he might have expected. As his intelligence reports grow, he finds that he might be able to strike down the Rinelle te'Kesrae movement in Cara'sir once and for all....

The Meet

• After a call from her fixer, Paz contacts Elias about a wetwork job with a note about "Not Peace". After an angry phone call to her brother, the team agrees to the job - 40,000 to handle a wetwork concern - Elias has a lead on one of the leaders of the Rinelle ke'Tesrae.
• Paz makes the various calls to the GirlFailure group and the team begins to head to Cara'sir
• During the crossing, Quinn's boat gets searched and the Black Banner finds the smuggling compartment with 2,000 worth of Novacoke. Quinn manages to not get arrested since Elias tipped her off that Paz and company were coming through.
• After finding an airfield to park the house-boat-plane, the team makes their way to the Zenthra manor
• The meeting with Elias goes well, discussing how the Rinelle want to overthrow the Council of Princes and the Star Chamber - though the fact that they want to do away with the authoritarian Council is a grey area for Ribbon and some of the others.
• The target is Eliana Silverhair, a matronly leader of the Rinelle.

The Legwork

Matrix

• Rinelle Ke'Tesrae and Eliana
  • A number of places where they’ve done charity work in underprivileged areas, etc- none of which is on the news of course
  • Protests against the Council
  • Monkeywrenching of mechanisms of government, etc
  • “Friend of the Family” passcode to be let to a safehouse
  • TH 6: This information is not false, per se, but carefully curated
  • Vague references to a Safehouse in Fairview
• Eliana Silverhair
  • Seen at places where the Tir Ghosts are breaking up “family” gatherings - revoking the privilege to assemble
  • Infringement of free speech where the Rinelle movement has been speaking out about the lack of success of the star chamber
• Marcus Fade
  • Associated with Eliana
  • Eliana's Matrix Nerd - absolutely the reason why the matrix presence of everything is so 'curated'

Intel

• Tir Nobility:
  • The Star Chamber cannot just shut down the Rinelle because doing so would just prove them right so there has to be a balance between not letting them cause too much chaos.
• Shadow Community:
  • Ribbon's rep means that if this is a trap, they're going to gear up for a Prime Runner.

The Run

Obsidian Disguise: 13

Day 1

• Dinner with the Zenthra's goes more or less about as poorly as expected, with Ashelander learning that the team is working for Elias
  • They learn that Ashelander knows they're doing shadow work for Elias and that Verna used to be 'better', but things within the Tir have gone progressively south over the last few decades.
  • Ashelander sniffs out that Obsidian is a former/current Paladin of the Order of the Knights of Beauty
• During matrix searches on Eliana and her companions, they attracted the attention of Marcus Fade, Eliana's right hand Decker, who plays matrix chicken with Quinn, scaring her off the Matrix, and then chatting with Ribbon, arranging a meeting during day 2.
  • The team plans to set up sniper covers for the safehouse location meeting and to send in the Alt drone with Obsidian more or less piloting her for the meet as well as Ribbon.
  • They scrub the data tying them to Elias in case Fade hacks them during the meeting.
• On the way out, Paz runs into an Elven woman named Marina leaving at the early, early, hours of dawn.
• Obsidian manages to use a task spirit to locate Eliana at the Grove outside of Fairview beyond the Portland Wall.
• Quinn does a number of preps:
• Paz contacts Elias to acquire some ECM for the boat

• The Plans
  • Attending the meeting with sniper coverage and drone faces.
  • Potentially use the house boat to Sniper From Above the target
  • Potentially catch Eliana Silverhair on the road into the city
  • Obsidian reminds everyone of an alternative

Day 2

• The Meeting at the Safehouse
  • The team meets Marcus Fade at the safehouse and discusses the situation at present
  • Marcus is not too broken up about the death of the Brat'mal faction, but is pretty eager to not have the team murder anyone else.
  • Marcus and Ribbon share some general ideas on being generally antimonrchy
  • Marcus absolutely thinks they're present to kill someone, but doesn't know who. Ribbon and co learn a bit more about the grievances of the Rinelle against the Tir Government.
  • They contact Elias trying to work out a way to convince Marcus they mean to play ball in order to set up an assassination
  • They manage to convince Marcus and, by extension, Eliana to meet on Government Island the day after at 4pm, which is outside the Tir, by Obsdian coming in masquerading as an aid to Count Connell, a Tir Count who owes Elias a favor.

• Leaving Meeting
  • The team gets hit by one of the lingering snipers from the Brat'mal, but they are able to successfully countersniper.
  • The sniper's commlink indicates that Obsidian's "secretary" persona was spotted going in to the safehouse and sent over to the sniper.
  • Marcus is equally annoyed about the attack

• Grilling Elias
  • The team tries to get Elia's contact for information but he isn't willing to give on it
  • he suggests they do some physical scouting since they're taking Marcus at his word.

• Scouting the Safehouse
  • The safehouse has been emptied out after the gunfight near it.
  • Obsidian's spirit finds a F6 Ward under the safehouse.
  • Ribbon's flyspy finds a matrix passkey in a closet of the safehouse that, presumably, leads downstairs.
  • The flyspy manages to move through the air vents to find the basement location, which is an armory with numerous cabinets and a data terminal that is hard wired into the wall.
  • Computer Terminal: R4 A4 S5 D6 F7
    • File: Social Media - R6 Databomb
      • Notes on all the actual good they're doing, which is not nearly as much as their social media appears. Lots of virtue signalling
    • File: Personnel - R6 Databomb
      • Misc. Names and such - notably also includes some confidential information on people coming into the kitchen if they feel like the person is vulnerable to recruitment. There are also some specific notes regarding Brat'mal operatives being picked up after the last event run. OBSIDIAN REALIZES THIS FILE DOESN'T LOOK CORRECT AND MAY BE A FORGERY.
    • File: Arms and Gear - R6 Databomb
      • Supply records for weapons and armor. Notably absent are any sniper rifles, though a number of shotguns have been checked out.
    • File: Finances - R6 Databomb
      • Records of finances coming in and out as donations, supplies, etc. There are a number of 'out' spends to unmarked locations and accounts associated with the Brat'mal files in Personnel. OBSIDIAN REALIZES THIS FILE DOESN'T LOOK CORRECT AND MAY BE A FORGERY.
  • Obsidian realizes that this is classic Tir Ghost False Flag Procedure
• The team huddles up and realizes that the files were edited three days before the run began.
• After some discussions, the team decides to go bully Elias and try to get some more information - Obsidian meets with him privately and learns a bit about him - that he is driven by some deep seated psychological need which is impacting everything he is doing.
• Paz calls https://shreloaded.net/wiki/Kayo-ii to get some inside intel on the Tir Government and if they would do something like this. Kayo tells her that they'd not do all the bells and whistles - someone would just vanish. They don't need to do complicated plots or involve shadowrunners.
• Paz calls Elias and tries to get more information out of him, thinking Elias is being played - he reassures her he is not and they talk a bit, but Paz doesn't walk out with any more answers.
• During the afternoon, the team gets together and determines to make Eliana vanish
• Ribbon meets with Markus, convincing him to help Eliana vanish after a staged assassination
• The team rests to recover edge going into Day 3.

Day 3:

• The team arrives on the day of at Government island only to find Eliana in 'unusual armor' - i.e. the pre-planned murder armor that the team arranged with Markus/
• The team has clean metadata video of the shot being taken, and some additional stills of her 'dead' body on the ground.

Aftermath

The team leaves Cara'sir with more questions than answers - who is pulling Elias' strings and how deep into the political mire is he? What is the deep and psychological trauma buried within him that is compelling him to these things 'he has to do'?

In the halls of the Court of Cara'sir, it is beginning to be murmured that during the next Rite of Progression in 2092 that House Zenthra may find itself with its leading son taking the role of a Count. While High Prince Zircan was willing to raise Elias to the gentry without one, further advances for the House and himself are locked behind the Tir Tairgnire tradition.

Rewards

• Run Time: 20 Hours (x3)
• Extreme: 30 RVP x3 = Up to 90 RVP

• Base Reward: 30 RVP
• 10 Karma (10 RVP)
• 40,000 Nuyen (20 RVP)

• Bonus Time 50 RVP
• 30 RVP in 120,000 Nuyen in Housing Allowance / Lifestyle inside Cara’sir
• OR 60 CDP (30 RVP) + 2 CDP Run Standard
• 20 Karma for choosing the goodfeels ending (20 RVP) or qualities as noted below

• Qualities at chargen:
• Paz can buy a level of Trust Fund as she gets more deeply tied into her family and Cara’sir. (5 RVP for the first level)
• Obsidian can buy “Good Looking and Knows it” (10RVP)
• Ribbon can buy “First Impression” (11 RVP)
• Counts as Mundane Ascension for Paz

Game Quotes

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