Broken Vow

Broken Vow
Part of Hail to the Pumpking
Date 2085-10-12 GM Asmodeus Location Sophocles Status Threat Level: Medium
Factions Involved
ShadowHaven	Major Corp
Wraith Meido Geodesic Rogozhin Silent Quill	Character1 Character2

Summary

A person has escaped their cage and maybe soon revealing compromising information to the organizations competitors/enemies. The runners are hired to kill or capture them.

Background

A Man came over to Seattle recently with a Fake SIN from Shiawase. Said man has run off and is potentially about to reveal information about the client. The client was last seen at Sophocles Town Hall.

The Meet

The Crew enters an abandoned Runner safehouse. Where they find a shaped charge rigged to a trid projector. The runners activate the Trid projector which outlays the goal. Capture or Kill a target last seen at Sophocles Town Hall.

The Plan

The crew tries to find more about the information about the target via various legwork opportunities with a heavy emphasis on quick information. The crew will then plan and hit the target based on wherever he is located.

The Run

The crew starts with a Matrix Search and a Spirit Search. Despite Wraiths insistence on spending extra time for a more throughout Matrix Search, speed is determined to be more important and the crew tries a Threshold Three Search, finding background information of the Man's exploits: He arrived in Seattle a short while ago, obtained a fake SIN for Shiawase...and then disappeared. The spirit "finds" the man in the Sophocles Town Hall. Meido attempts a social infiltration where she runs into a Blood Mage Vampire, a Vtuber (the worst thing), and Bone Daddy. Bone Daddy is the only one to spare a conversation with Meido, and Meido is unable to smooze the legend that is Bone Daddy. Quill tries a visual stakeout, and only fineds Pumpkin demons and a spirits in the sky that make spooky spirit noises. OooooOOooooOOoohh. There's a subplot of the crew pursuing this leads that ultimately leads to a dead end. With no other avenues to pursue due to the perceived time crunch, the crew decides to go in blind into the Town hall to try to find this man.

Meido disguises herself into a...sukeban(?). A Sukeban

Quill and Wraith get ready for an Infiltration

Geodesic does Decker (Not Technomancer, Nope) things

And Rogozhin....does rats and car things. Oh and corpse spirits. How could one forget?

Meido distracts Bone Daddy and the Vampire and the Vtuber. To various degrees of success. It works well enough for the Vtuber and The Bone Daddy. For the vampire, it works perhaps a little TOO well. And Meido determines her essence might be in danger. Still she does an admirable job distracting the people as Quill and Wraith go through the garage utilizing Wraiths skill in Hardware and Quills gymnastics and escape artist skills. The pair make it into the back, and after some vomiting and some information gathering of computers. The pair find a evidence room that has plenty of pictures of the target, a computer room with all the files deleted. Wraith gets a blast of spooky shit from her luminous perception from a door to a room. After exhausting all other options, its clear that that door is guarding...something. Unwilling to test the door, Rogozhin uses a rat, which promply gets nuked and flambe'd by the door. Unwilling to join the rat corpose, Wraith decides to rig the side of the room's wall with foam explosives and detonates the wall.

Bad to the Bone starts to play

Wraith and Quill use a thermal smoke and carry the "VIP", or at least a huge and light unmoving version of the VIP onto a car prepared by Rogozhin, and miraculously manage to do it without hurting or being hurt by The Bone Daddy. Once on the vehicle, its clear that it isn't the real VIP, just a ritual doll that can be used to target the VIP with ritual spells. The crew decides that they are unable to pursue the lead and hand the clues to another group.

Geo escapes by not being on the scene. Meido manages to talk down the Vampire after the cost is clear, scoring a phone number as a reward.

Aftermath

The 12th(?) Thing has been taken from Sophocles Town Hall, you'd think they'd just station an APC here at this point.

The VIP's ritual doll has been taken, and can be used as a clue to hit the target.

More Halloween spirit shenanigans happened in the background.

Rewards

--- Run Rewards for Broken Vow (Downscaled to Medium, 10 RVP)
3,000 Nuyen (1.5 RVP)
6 Karma (6 RVP)
7 CDP (2.5 RVP)
Meido can take Alibi at Chargen Rates for 4 RVP

Game Quotes

Amusing quote from game.

Player After Action Reports (AARs)

Wraith - "All that work for a mannequin that if we spend more time, we can perhaps find him. All because we didn't want to spend the time to properly scope out the Town Hall or our target. And now this place is too hot to operate for a good while. I'm done. Maybe I'll try to get on the new team. But continuing with this team is a ticket to an early grave.

Meido - This run lacked the majority of the legwork we needed to neatly wrap things up, and unfortunately we opted to act in haste, rather than further pursue any and all avenues. This will be rectified in the future. Thankfully, we are able to forward this run to a subcontracted team.

Rogozhin - I'll need to be more specific with the creatures of the Black in the future. The job can still be done. I'll just need more time.