The Smack That Smiles Back 1

The Smack That Smiles Back 1
Date 2085-08-06 GM Dexcaliber Location Puyallup, Seattle Metroplex, UCAS Status Threat Level: High
Factions Involved
ShadowHaven David Cartel	Major Corp
Awesome Possum Geodesic Narukami Poe	Character1 Character2

Summary

Osborne high in Puyallup was starting to struggle with a local drug ring that was pushing out more aggressively into the student body, leading to a student with ties to the ring disappeared from a local orphanage. Awesome Possum, a former resident of said orphanage, was contacted and asked if a small runner team would be up for some low rent hooder work helping unravel the mystery, find the boy, and break up the gang.

Background

Some of this team was already suffering from fallout from their last run, so that made things extra spicy for almost everyone. Meanwhile a mid range distributor for the David Cartel decided he was going to break free and set up a drug ring with a truckload of stolen drugs. He set up in a stuffer shack in Puyallup, bought off the staff and found a gang of street kids that were already moving in a similar direction.

The Meet

The meet was a polite affair at the Puyallup St. Francis House orphanage. The staff of the orphanage was clearly concerned and gave the team a wealth of information to begin the legwork.

The Plan

Talk to the related kids, fosters and family. Stake out the neighborhood to find some of the faces everyone know is involved. "Do it live."

The Run

Awesome Possum and Goedesic head over to meet with another kid at the Orphanage who had already given some info to the caretakers but was nervous about giving more. That put the team in the direction of a stuffer shack in Puyallup where some of the stuff seemed to be going down.

Poe and Narukami went to investigate the stuffer, using a combination of physical and magical infiltration and detection to piece a lot of the ring together. The drugs were stored in a hidden room in the attic of a stuffer shack, and the clerks of the stuffer were selling the drugs along with existing items in the store.

At this point the team meets up and agrees to keeps staking out the stuffer shack, Poe and and a shaken by being around Poe Geo stayed behind while Narukami and AP went to talk to the missing boy's sister who had been staying in another foster family. Possum managed to coax a commlink id from the sister, who let the team know the coms would still be on. Geodesic tracked the commlink while they began the second stage of stakeout, but left a merk behind, alerting the target. This immediately lead to everyone rushing across the neighborhood to a storage location on the other side of Puyallup, where things got hectic, quickly.

The team pulled up to a mostly abandoned industrial neighborhood and identified it as the appropriate building, the team rushing the door into a room with a handful of resistance guards and a few mages who were in on the operation. The team quickly took to the room, dismantling the mages rapidly and taking down the guards or sending them running.

The team prepped up to chuck and charge the second room with a flash bang they realized the mage that had crawled out from the wave of stick and shock and APDS in the previous room was screaming for her life and banging on an insulated security door leading to a basement. The near dead mage quickly sold out her employers for her life, and the team cracked the lock and confirmed the targets were in a basement room screaming at each other. It didn't take long for the team to round them out. Realizing that the target was already running a small operation when the David Cartel's target found him and supercharged it. The team convinced the kid to shut it down and go home, that it wasn't too late for him to get out, and that the gangster he was working with would no longer be a problem. Poe delivered an unconscious, unharmed and restrained Hector to the Cartel for "processing." and sent out bonus money when it cleared.

Aftermath

The kid gets returned to the family, after seeing the carnage the team laid down a room over probably leaving a life of crime.

The drug ring broken up, and drug locations handed over to the David Cartel, along with Hector Hernandez.

Rewards

14 RVP 8,000 nuyen (4 RVP) plus 4,000 nuyen each (for capturing Hector Hernandez alive) 8 karma (8 RVP) 4 CDP + 2 free CDP (2 RVP) Ability to upgrade the Loyalty of Diego Carrillo to 3 for Poe

Game Quotes

Amusing quote from game.

Poe *watching a mage he had already opened up on get exploded with Geo's drone bullets.* "Oh no. He was awakened, like me, and may have known things helpful to me. My dubious and every shifting morals that probably don't actually exist are now making me up in arms.

Oh, wait. I forgot. I'm a professional." *6 shot burst into the second mage*

Player After Action Reports (AARs)

"I am glad the neighborhood can rest safe... though we must still take care of the Masons at a later date. Please call me when it becomes time to do so." - Narukami

"This could have gone worse. The kid is home safe, Diego is happy. I am surprised he had the stones to take the operation straight to a stuffer. It would have only been a matter of time before Aztechnology found it and unleashed hell anyway. Oh well, he could not have been that bright betraying the David Smugglers..." Poe

"Mmm. Poe did not attempt to kill me. This is, perhaps. Optimistic news. Or a facade. Still, I am glad. To see threats to children. Eliminated. Well, at least. The spreading tendrils of it. AP claims she has plans. To murder the Masons. I must. 'Trust' her.

I do hope. That those siblings. Are able to better stay united. The sister, Courtney. She needs to take control. Keep her brother safe better. She knows how much. She stands to lose." - Geodesic