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==Background==
==Background==
Our intrepid runners are hired to help out a paranoid moonshiner get his cursed apples back from Lonestar.
The runners are gathered by Tanya the Squirrel Girl - an OtherCon representative - to get blackmail data on Evo from one of their black sites,


==Run==
==Run==
The crew boards the Johnson's Cessna C750. They take a weeklong flight hoping from small airport to small airport laying low because Lonestar is pursuing the Johnson. The plane finally lands at their destination in Memphis, Tennessee in the CAS and head over to an abandoned warehouse two hours away. There Tuepleo negotiates the compensation for the team. Tupelo goes to small Lonestar precinct to get access to the impounded plane. It is late in the evening, and the rest of the group goes to rest for the next day. The Lonestar officers instantly recognize Tupelo as The Pose. The officers give Tupelo the highest respect, even so far as to give him real coffee from the lieutenant's office. Unfortunately, the rookie did not do a good job. Tupelo obtains VTOL transport for himself and the other shadowrunners.
The crew assemble to meet Tanya, a Squirrel Form changeling, who explains that Evo has been getting out of hand recently, and that OtherCon needs leverage against them. To that end, having discovered the location of one of their black sites, the runners were hired to extract the data - or the server it was contained on - from the black site, to the tune of 14000 nuyen each ... and a hug from Tanya.


Meanwhile back at the makeshift distillery, the shadowrunners sleep is disturbed by an obnoxious gang calling themselves the 666 Gang. Black Rose sneaks out the back; BB hides in the shadows as daylight is out. Crosley takes a drink of the Tehranian Apple cider and summons an air spirit. Nora Inu hides the Johnson, Blackwell in the bathroom. The team prepares an ambush, Nora Inu opens the door as Crosley cast an illusion of Blackwell taunting the 666 Gang. 18 of the 20 gangsters run after the mirage into the makeshift distillery. The spell fades, Nora closes the door, and the team goes to work on the gang members inside. BB fire a stick-n-shock round at the 666 lieutenant, Nora throws a stun grenade, Crosley cast a psychic Blast, Black Rose slices the neck of one of the gangers that remained outside. Black Rose orders the 666 lieutenant to take his gang and leave before things get violent. Crosley drags the bleeding man back inside for Bahoban Sith. She feeds some, but not enough to kill and slaps a trauma patch on the fellow and kicks him out the back.
The runners decided that, because a black site devoted to human experimentation is Evil, and because FragFace hates Evo with a burning passion, that they were going to destroy the black site. To that end, they bought 20 kg of TNT and stuck it in a fake server box, to replace the existing server, rigging it to blow when someone tried to access it. While the team debated just sending in FragFace to murder everyone while the rest of the team stole the server, it was decided that they would take the subtle approach, and let FragFace go on a rampage once the team was discovered.


After the fighting, a Lonestar VTOL makes its way toward the building. The crew gets ready for another fight when over DNI Tuepleo replies not to fire. The runners stand down. Because of BB's unique condition, she finds a wooden box in which she can hide from the sun. Black Rose lifts the box carrying BB into the VTOL, and everyone else enters. The ship takes off for the airplane impound.  
For legwork, Waspkeeper was able to do a matrix search to find blueprints for the black site, leftover from when it was being constructed, in addition to getting a rough idea of its defenses. Dandy, looking through his favorite blog sites, found a video by DarkReaper69 that detailed a swampy path across the border that the team could take in order to bypass normal patrol routes.  


At the impound, Tupelo asks if he can inspect the apples and finds out that he needs to ask Captain Maynard for permission. The team except BB make their way to the Shadowrider barracks where Captain Maynard and her team are working out. The Pose breaks the bad news to her that he and his crew are here to move the apple plane to New York. Captain Maynard begrudgingly accepts as she wants her superiors to more respect on her name. The team boards the apple plane break BB out of her makeshift coffin. She turns on the windows UV protective film and flies the aircraft toward the distillery.  
When they arrived at the site, Makon Astrally projected - first taking out the watcher spirits with his pet spirit of man, and then using the blueprints Waspkeeper had found to locate and suffocate the security spider - who was a literal spider-morph changeling (Fucking Evo...). Unfortunately, the poor spider was able to send out a cry for help before he passed out from asphyxiation. While this didn't raise the alarm completely, it did alert the guards. Waspkeeper disabled the alarm system on the fence, and the team entered the facility, with no Spider to watch the cameras.  


As the team is making its descent to the airstrip Crosley and the others, notice that there a cemetery in front of the runway. If the plane lands that would surely awaken wraiths so the team land on the road. Black Rose and BB work in tandem to bring the Catalina II to the warehouse. BB pilots the plane and Black Rose uses her incredible strength to pull the plane. Nora also helps by providing guidance and encouragement. Nora keeps the rifle visible to deter any criminals.
Where things went wrong is when, through a window into a lab, FragFace discovered a Nocturna scientist working. Overcome with a desire to punish all Evo scientists for the wrongs that had been done to him, he snuck up on the unwitting scientists and subdued him, for later interrogation. Unfortunately, this caused a lot of noise as the scientist disturbed a rack of glass vials, which alerted the guards. Combat ensued, with the guards being brutally slaughtered - mostly by FragFace, but everyone else got a guard or two as well. After the scuffle, the server was extracted, and the team was able to flee via vehicle before reinforcements from Evo could arrive, and evaded pursuit thanks to Dandy's stealthy driving skills.
 
The apples are back with Darren Blackwell, the runners receive their Nuyen and cider and make their ways home to Seattle.


==Aftermath==
==Aftermath==
The Baobahn Sith and her co-pilot Nora Inu successfully lands the  PBY-70 Catalina II in front of the moonshine distillery. With no casualties the run is successful and the crew takes a nice flight back to Seattle.
Tanya thanked the runners for their efforts, and gave them their rewards. FragFace is now at -26 Rep with Evo.


==Rewards==
==Rewards==
+1 Lonestar rep
+2 OtherCon rep


+2 Karma
+4 Karma


¥24,000 Nuyen
¥14,000 Nuyen
 
1 hug from Squirrel Girl


==AAR==
==AAR==


===Tupleo===
===FragFace===
 
===Dandy===
 
===Waspkeeper===
===Makon===
 
 
So...That was terrifying. The mission itself seemed relatively straightforward, and it wasalways nice to disrupt and bother Mega's, even in a minor fashion. He had to get better working with others, especially controlling the hits for support spells. Still, he was able to contribute, which was the main thing....at least at first.
 
 
But....just seeing what some runners were capable of....especially FragFace. It was like something out a primal realm or a trid. He could punch through buildings. He suspected as long as he might train, he would never be able to do that. Not that he wanted to. And not thing, if he could truly master the spirit arts would he need to. That wasn't really the concern.
 
 
No, the issue was if runners could do that....what did the Mega's have in store. He had to revise his estimates.
 


===Nora Inu===
Watching them all burn might take longer than he thought.


===Crosley===
===Howler===
I need MOAR CIDER!!!!


===Black Rose===


===Baobhan Sith===
Howler wasn't happy. An all out assault was too risky for her tastes. And there was just something about Frag Face that was unsettling. The way he waded into a fight with little regard for his own safety was... Unnerving. The job was done, no doubt about that, but it could have very easily gone bad.
Probably the easiest run I'm going to have for a while, considering all I did was stay locked in a crate (occasionally upside down) while hiding from the sunlight and learning how to fly a plane. One of these days I'm actually going to have to get one, because that was quite enjoyable. Hats off to Tupelo for convincing Lone Star to let us just walk in and take it!
[[Category:Runs]]
[[Category:Runs]]

Latest revision as of 17:09, 3 April 2020

Hitting Them Where It Hurts
Part of Against all odds - The OtherCon story
Date2080-10-31
GMMalyc
LocationSalish-Shidhe Council
Result Runner victory
Factions Involved
OtherCon Shadowhaven Evo
Commanders and leaders
Tanya Rook
"Dandy" Dale Hardin
Howler
Makon
Waspkeeper
EVO Security
Casualties and losses
Lots

Background

The runners are gathered by Tanya the Squirrel Girl - an OtherCon representative - to get blackmail data on Evo from one of their black sites,

Run

The crew assemble to meet Tanya, a Squirrel Form changeling, who explains that Evo has been getting out of hand recently, and that OtherCon needs leverage against them. To that end, having discovered the location of one of their black sites, the runners were hired to extract the data - or the server it was contained on - from the black site, to the tune of 14000 nuyen each ... and a hug from Tanya.

The runners decided that, because a black site devoted to human experimentation is Evil, and because FragFace hates Evo with a burning passion, that they were going to destroy the black site. To that end, they bought 20 kg of TNT and stuck it in a fake server box, to replace the existing server, rigging it to blow when someone tried to access it. While the team debated just sending in FragFace to murder everyone while the rest of the team stole the server, it was decided that they would take the subtle approach, and let FragFace go on a rampage once the team was discovered.

For legwork, Waspkeeper was able to do a matrix search to find blueprints for the black site, leftover from when it was being constructed, in addition to getting a rough idea of its defenses. Dandy, looking through his favorite blog sites, found a video by DarkReaper69 that detailed a swampy path across the border that the team could take in order to bypass normal patrol routes.

When they arrived at the site, Makon Astrally projected - first taking out the watcher spirits with his pet spirit of man, and then using the blueprints Waspkeeper had found to locate and suffocate the security spider - who was a literal spider-morph changeling (Fucking Evo...). Unfortunately, the poor spider was able to send out a cry for help before he passed out from asphyxiation. While this didn't raise the alarm completely, it did alert the guards. Waspkeeper disabled the alarm system on the fence, and the team entered the facility, with no Spider to watch the cameras.

Where things went wrong is when, through a window into a lab, FragFace discovered a Nocturna scientist working. Overcome with a desire to punish all Evo scientists for the wrongs that had been done to him, he snuck up on the unwitting scientists and subdued him, for later interrogation. Unfortunately, this caused a lot of noise as the scientist disturbed a rack of glass vials, which alerted the guards. Combat ensued, with the guards being brutally slaughtered - mostly by FragFace, but everyone else got a guard or two as well. After the scuffle, the server was extracted, and the team was able to flee via vehicle before reinforcements from Evo could arrive, and evaded pursuit thanks to Dandy's stealthy driving skills.

Aftermath

Tanya thanked the runners for their efforts, and gave them their rewards. FragFace is now at -26 Rep with Evo.

Rewards

+2 OtherCon rep

+4 Karma

¥14,000 Nuyen

1 hug from Squirrel Girl

AAR

FragFace

Dandy

Waspkeeper

Makon

So...That was terrifying. The mission itself seemed relatively straightforward, and it wasalways nice to disrupt and bother Mega's, even in a minor fashion. He had to get better working with others, especially controlling the hits for support spells. Still, he was able to contribute, which was the main thing....at least at first.


But....just seeing what some runners were capable of....especially FragFace. It was like something out a primal realm or a trid. He could punch through buildings. He suspected as long as he might train, he would never be able to do that. Not that he wanted to. And not thing, if he could truly master the spirit arts would he need to. That wasn't really the concern.


No, the issue was if runners could do that....what did the Mega's have in store. He had to revise his estimates.


Watching them all burn might take longer than he thought.

Howler

Howler wasn't happy. An all out assault was too risky for her tastes. And there was just something about Frag Face that was unsettling. The way he waded into a fight with little regard for his own safety was... Unnerving. The job was done, no doubt about that, but it could have very easily gone bad.