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==Background==
==Background==
A hole-in-the-wall brothel in Touristville known as Madame Kiko's has a contract with a two-bit shadowrunner named El Fantasme. El Fantasme remains on call during working hours to extract sex workers who end up in dangerous situations. He has been missing for 48 hours, however, and his clients are worried about him.
A Bellevue woman named Marisol Vasquez believes her house is haunted, and she wants someone to purify it so that she can have some peace and quiet.


==Meet==
==Meet==
The team met with a runner liaison named Hard Candy in the back room of Madame Kiko's. She told them about the situation and offered 2,000¥ apiece in exchange for tracking down El Fantasme and ensuring his safety. The team agreed to the terms as-is, choosing not to push for more money from people who were already down on their luck. Hard Candy told them to speak with Tina, the last worker who'd called for El Fantasme's services.  
The team met with Marisol in her home in Bellevue. She explained that she had noticed some electronic disturbances, whispering in bed at night, and footsteps in the attic when no one else was home. She offered 2,000¥ apiece for the ghost to be banished.  


==Run==
==Run==
BFG located Tina in the bar, recognizing her by her glossy cyberarm. Tina was concerned about El Fantasme's safety and readily told him about how she'd been handled roughly by a client three days ago at a certain address elsewhere in the barrens before El Fantasme extracted her safely. She handed over the address and El Fantasme's commlink code. Night Claws used the code to spot its icon and trace its location to the same address. The team decided to head that direction while they searched for information about the address on the matrix.  
Queen began by installing a series of bugs throughout the house after doing a thorough sweep, including a magical activity scanner. Finding nothing out of the ordinary, she and Yata left for a nearby motel and waited until the sensor tags picked something up. A few nights later, they observed the kitchen appliances opening and shutting, making all manner of noise. Queen analyzed the icons and detected a resonance signature on them. She took this information to Knight-Errant, who responded seriously considering the neighborhood was AA security rating.  


By the time they were there, Night Claws had learned that the building was a premillennial building retrofitted with matrix security, though the landlord was notoriously cheap and had skimped on security features. After casing the joint, Doyle hopped up the fire escape and looked through the window down the hallway in front of the target room. After he gave the all-clear, Night Claws got a direct connection with a prox card reader on the front door and forced it to send an unlock code. He and BFG proceeded up the stairs to open the window and let Doyle in.  
A few days later, distorted audio files played whispers in the bedroom. Queen cleaned them up and found out it was just some guy reading Lorem Ipsum. She asked local technomancer groups for information on the resonance signature they observed, and one responded affirmatively but needed time to double-check. Meanwhile, Queen alerted KE to the activity. A pair of KE hackers showed up in VR and immediately spotted an unknown technomancer's icon, then began to question him. Sensing something was up, Queen traced the technomancer's location to a bush across the street just in time for the technomancer contact to confirm this was the righe person. Yata chased him down and dragged him into the car.  


In the hallway, the group decided they would try to get in under the guise of being building maintenance. Night Claws hacked into the apartment's host and downloaded files on the tenets to find out the mystery client's name: Joshua Thompson. While he was hacking, a different tenet came by and asked what was going on. BFG managed to smooth things over, and the tenet entered his room none the wiser.
Once inside the car, the team fled for Redmond before the police arrived on scene. They interrogated the dwarf technomancer (whose name was D3F4L7) to learn that he'd been hired by the client's husband for some unknown reason. Queen hacked the husband's commlink and downloaded files showing he was motivated to cover up infidelity by playing into his wife's paranoia about a haunting. The team even went to a brothel in the barrens and acquired photographic evidence of him receiving sexual favors from another woman.  
 
Once the hack was complete, the team knocked on the door and managed to convince Thompson they were there about a gas leak. Doyle surreptitiously located El Fantasme's commlink inside and swiped it too quickly for Thompson to notice. BFG got rough with Thompson, shaking him down for info on El Fantasme. Thompson confessed to having physically abused Tina and stolen El Fantasme's commlink during the altercation when he came to extract her, but he didn't know anything about the disappearance. The team left with the commlink in tow.
 
Knowing time was an issue, Night Claws searched the commlink for any possible leads. It turned out a second extraction request had been sent shortly after Tina's, but it only gave an address and a sender. Night Claws traced the sender's commlink to discover it belonged to a sex worker named Laés, but no one could read her files because they were written in Sperethiel. The trace indicated she was at Madame Kiko's, so the team returned to where they started. Once there, they located Laés and talked to her. She was afraid to give any information, but BFG soothed her worries to the point she admitted a client who was prejudiced against Tir elves had tried to kidnap her along with two accomplices dressed in Halloweener colors. She pointed them to a barrens alley they used as turf, but she didn't have much more information.
 
The team decided to hurry as fast as they could to the alley. Doyle snuck up on the position undetected and image linked the situation to the rest of the team, pointing out three Halloweeners matching Laés' description. They were a human in a gas mask named Scarecrow, an ork named Jackal-Lantern with a huge axe and a dwarf street mage named Boom Stick. BFG created disguises for himself and Doyle, then marched straight up to the three gangers and ordered them to bring him to El Fantasme. Night Claws stood by, ready to squelch their commlinks should things go south. While the Halloweeners pretended not to know about El Fantasme at first, they failed to see through BFG's disguise and were afraid of his threats. They took him and Doyle inside the abandoned warehouse next door and into a room where they had El Fantasme tied to a chair. Scarecrow nearly shot him in the head before BFG made up a story about how the higher-ups wanted him alive for some reason. He and Doyle gagged El Fantasme and dragged him out still tied to the chair before stuffing him in Doyle's van.  


==Aftermath==
==Aftermath==
The team extracted El Fantasme safely to Madame Kiko's and were met with a warm reception. They were paid for their services and felt good about what they'd done. Night Claws asked El Fantasme how he'd known to extract Laés if he dropped his commlink while extracting Tina. It turned out he simply read both orders beforehand and remembered the address.
The client accepted the evidence and paid the team.


==Rewards==
==Rewards==


* 2,000¥
*2,000¥
* 4 karma
*2 karma


==Player AARs==
==Player AARs==
=== Yata ===
  [[Category:Runs]]
  [[Category:Runs]]

Latest revision as of 11:31, 20 January 2020

Things That Go Bump in the Night
Date2080-9-22
GMPurkinje
LocationBellevue, Redmond
Result The ghost was proven to be a hoax.
Factions Involved
Queen
Yata		 Knight-Errant
D3F4L7
Casualties and losses
None None

Background

A Bellevue woman named Marisol Vasquez believes her house is haunted, and she wants someone to purify it so that she can have some peace and quiet.

Meet

The team met with Marisol in her home in Bellevue. She explained that she had noticed some electronic disturbances, whispering in bed at night, and footsteps in the attic when no one else was home. She offered 2,000¥ apiece for the ghost to be banished.

Run

Queen began by installing a series of bugs throughout the house after doing a thorough sweep, including a magical activity scanner. Finding nothing out of the ordinary, she and Yata left for a nearby motel and waited until the sensor tags picked something up. A few nights later, they observed the kitchen appliances opening and shutting, making all manner of noise. Queen analyzed the icons and detected a resonance signature on them. She took this information to Knight-Errant, who responded seriously considering the neighborhood was AA security rating.

A few days later, distorted audio files played whispers in the bedroom. Queen cleaned them up and found out it was just some guy reading Lorem Ipsum. She asked local technomancer groups for information on the resonance signature they observed, and one responded affirmatively but needed time to double-check. Meanwhile, Queen alerted KE to the activity. A pair of KE hackers showed up in VR and immediately spotted an unknown technomancer's icon, then began to question him. Sensing something was up, Queen traced the technomancer's location to a bush across the street just in time for the technomancer contact to confirm this was the righe person. Yata chased him down and dragged him into the car.

Once inside the car, the team fled for Redmond before the police arrived on scene. They interrogated the dwarf technomancer (whose name was D3F4L7) to learn that he'd been hired by the client's husband for some unknown reason. Queen hacked the husband's commlink and downloaded files showing he was motivated to cover up infidelity by playing into his wife's paranoia about a haunting. The team even went to a brothel in the barrens and acquired photographic evidence of him receiving sexual favors from another woman.

Aftermath

The client accepted the evidence and paid the team.

Rewards

  • 2,000¥
  • 2 karma

Player AARs

Yata

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