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==Background==
==Background==


In Redmond, there was a murder of a victim by the name of John Jo, who appeared to have been killed as if sacrificed in a 'ritual'. Mr. Johnson has requested the aid of shadowrunners to track down John's killer and bring him to justice.
A massive but low-security Evo greenhouse containing genetically-modified trees has been causing the local squirrel population to grow ill. A concerned citizen hires a team of shadowrunners to "make sure the project never gets off the ground."


==Meet==
==Meet==


The group met with Mr. Johnson, along with a private investigator at the scene of the murder (which the death of John Jo took place three days prior to the meet). Mr. Johnson appeared to be a member from the 'New Knights Templar' order, who was sent to Redmond on his order's behalf to vanquish evil threats. He instructs the objective is to not only find the killer responsible, but to eliminate him so he can no longer cause harm to others. The private investigator, a friend of Mr. Johnson, worked to keep Knight Errant or other official authorities off the group's back so they can focus on the task at hand.
[[SignificantNPC::Tanya]] has the team meet her at the One-Star Bar in Redmond at 5 o'clock in the evening. Trash Panda, realizing that CAPTAIN FREEFALL has taken this contract alongside her, dons her Raccoon Girl costume and heads there. She somehow doesn't catch too much attention. The rest of the team arrives normal-style except for Wolfheart, who prefers to be there in spirit. Once the team is assembled, Tanya explains that the trees are making the squirrels sick because they've been genetically modified to have acorns that are so tasty, the squirrels keep eating them until they get sick. Upon hearing this, Wolfheart grows exceedingly serious and listens with rapt attention.


==The Plan==
It turns out Tanya is less concerned with the trees or squirrels themselves so much as stealing as many acorns as possible along with two saplings. She adds that on top of that, she wants the team to steal a tanker truck load of authentic maple syrup coming into town from the north later that night. CAPTAIN FREEFALL agrees to liberate the maple syrup and acorns if large portions of the supply can go to feeding the hungry; Shark notes that there are a lot of hungry people in the Ork Underground. Tanya agrees to these terms.


The plan was very simple. Find the killer and end him.
==The Legwork==
 
As soon as the meet ends, Wolfheart returns to her body, which she left in her Snohomish sacred circle. She calls up [[Tony Santoro]], [[The Farseer]], and as many druids as she can rouse from [[Solace]] (7, as it turns out), and all of them agree to work together to save the trees and squirrels from Evo's bio-engineering mistakes. They convene at the sacred circle and designate Raccoon Girl as their spotter for a remote sensing ritual that ends up covering the entirety of Snohomish, because of course it does. They peer into the greenhouse from afar. Tony identifies features of the trees while the Farseer makes a map of the facility's layout. After sufficient reconnaissance, they conclude the ritual and begin a new one to transform the trees into a similar species of oak that would be difficult to identify as different, but wouldn't be addictive to the squirrels. Raccoon Girl levitates a mirror high into the air and angles it such that Wolfheart can see the greenhouse in its reflection. CAPTAIN FREEFALL remains in the area to serve as a beacon of justice.


==The Run==
==The Run==


The group started off by investigating the scene. Utilizing their various skillsets, they discovered information from both John Jo's commlink, as well as matrix work done to gather locations of interest relevant to John Jo's activities. Interestingly, a faint taint of dissonance was also present at the scene, with the local security cameras having been tampered with by it. Johm was recently tied to a cult of dark magic users, originally recruited by 'Spectre', who in fact is the murderer in question. They also found John's next of kin, his brother Davis, who had previously opposed John's interaction with the cult, but he also worked at a Janitor at one of the nightclubs in Redmond. The group was able to meet with Davis to inform him of his brother's death, and in turn, Davis was able to reveal information of when and where John first met with the cultists.
Glamor, Shark, and Granuaile enter the greenhouse with CAPTAIN FREEFALL and Raccoon Girl waiting nearby as backup. With some slippery sorcery, quick wits, and silver tongues, they trick the employees there into thinking they're from corporate and threaten to inundate them with legal paperwork if they don't hand over the acorns and two saplings. This works without incident, and after a couple hours of loading the cargo into their vehicles, they drive away. When they're at a safe distance, Wolfheart seals the forest transformation ritual, transforming all the GMO trees in the greenhouse into the desired species of oak. The circle of druids immediately scrubs the signature before anyone can figure out what happened.


With the information gained, the group traced the whereabouts of Spectre into a secluded hideout near a sewer, which appeared to be a cultist's domain. A dissonant technomancer was part of the enemy group, who was responsible for tampering with the local security cameras at John's house in the first place. There were multiple cultists present, who were all awakened. The party made their way in to battle them directly, and after a chaotic and explosive fight, along with gaining some assistance from the Mr. Johnson himself, they succeeded in eliminating the threat.
Glamor calls [[Leah Perry]] for information about the tanker truck's route, and she is able to get it down to a fairly precise location and timeline. Raccoon Girl gets [[Flash]] to run signal interference for the carjacking that would ensue. When the time comes, Glamor turns Raccoon Girl invisible, and a spirit sustains the movement power on her. She skates behind the truck fast enough to hit it accurately with her grapple gun, reeling herself toward it at high speed. The driver is surprised to see the passenger side door open for some reason, and he's even more surprised to be knocked unconscious by an invisible grapple gun, though not for long. Raccoon Girl takes the wheel and drives the truck into the Ork Underground while Flash makes everything look normal on the matrix.
==Aftermath==
==Aftermath==


Humbled by the success of the job, the Mr. Johnson has noted that he'll keep tabs on the group for possible future runs...
Tanya ate entirely too many acorn-flour pancakes with maple syrup and went into a coma. Or y'know, something resembling one. A bunch of hungry residents in the Ork Underground were happy to have food - doubly so that it wasn't something based on soy, krill, or mycoprotein.


==Rewards==
==Rewards==


5,000 Nuyen and 8 Karma
*8,000¥
 
*4 Karma
2 CDP
*2 CDP


==AAR==
==AAR==


===Wolfheart===
=== Wolfheart ===
Well... we took out the evil sorcerers who were killing people. We did our job. I'm upset with our piecemeal assault. I'm surprised we weren't picked off one-by-one or ambushed once we arrived in their cistern. I cast a few powerful spells to bring the cabal under control while the rest of the team handled the leader. We pulled it off in the end, but it definitely could've gone better. I do look forward to hearing more from this "New Knights Templar," though.
No one messes with the trees on my watch. This was the first time I really called upon the local druid community to do something big, and I have to say, we pulled off some massive feats. I can't stay to talk about it too long, though - the druids at Solace seem to have let the power get to their head, and they're transforming trees in the grove just for fun. I'd better stop them before someone messes up and makes poisonous trees. Bye!
 
<br />
 
===Bad Rep===
Run was pretty simple
 
The group was semi disorganised with some runners sticking out in the matrix the other meatslugging it then one of the mages even didn't bother to use a Link
 
Definitely felt like people weren't bothering to work together on this one til the very end.
 
I definitely favour the mages in this. They did most of the heavy lifting. I'd even argue the Gearheads are lucky they had a Technomancer on their side or they woulda treaded water. Well that and with me finding the mission crucial commlink that ticked us off to the location of the MAN IN A BLACK ROBE HANGING OUT IN A NEON DANCECLUB!
 
I still can't believe that ork was just standing there,menacingly. Never felt more ashamed in my life.
 
Anyways he just ran straight to his hideout like some kinda brainlet so it was easy enough for the Tecchies to follow him.
 
The Fight itself was over real quick,felt a bit electric in there. something deeply gutchurning,luckily I wasn't concious for most of that fight. That big guy packs a hefty punch.
 
Again grateful for the Mages there.<br />


===Poppet===
===[[Glamor]]===
That was pretty easy for me, honestly. Those mages (and a techno? What was he doing there?) were on some absolute nonsense. Apparently the techno geeked themselves juicing for... Dissonance? too hard? The legwork was mostly what I did, and that was ''really'' easy. When we found out they were holed up underground, I was pretty worried that things were gonna go bad, but we were packing some serious fragging mojo. The J came in really handy at the end, and the mages we brought kind of embarrassed  their mages, and the adept had no chance against the eighty-five drones we brought in. Still, it was pretty dicey towards the end, especially with the newbie getting a hole punched in her. In the end, I got a little rep with the "New Knights Templar", which is looking pretty good for me right now.
Racoon Girl is just [[Trash Panda]]. Everyone else can see that, right?
[[Category:Runs]]
[[Category:Runs]]

Latest revision as of 20:38, 21 June 2021

The Nut Job
Date2081-01-27
GMMalyc
LocationSnohomish, Seattle
Characters and Factions Involved
Captain Freefall
Glamor
Granuaile
Shark
Raccoon Girl
Wolfheart
Evo
Casualties and losses
None None

Background

A massive but low-security Evo greenhouse containing genetically-modified trees has been causing the local squirrel population to grow ill. A concerned citizen hires a team of shadowrunners to "make sure the project never gets off the ground."

Meet

Tanya has the team meet her at the One-Star Bar in Redmond at 5 o'clock in the evening. Trash Panda, realizing that CAPTAIN FREEFALL has taken this contract alongside her, dons her Raccoon Girl costume and heads there. She somehow doesn't catch too much attention. The rest of the team arrives normal-style except for Wolfheart, who prefers to be there in spirit. Once the team is assembled, Tanya explains that the trees are making the squirrels sick because they've been genetically modified to have acorns that are so tasty, the squirrels keep eating them until they get sick. Upon hearing this, Wolfheart grows exceedingly serious and listens with rapt attention.

It turns out Tanya is less concerned with the trees or squirrels themselves so much as stealing as many acorns as possible along with two saplings. She adds that on top of that, she wants the team to steal a tanker truck load of authentic maple syrup coming into town from the north later that night. CAPTAIN FREEFALL agrees to liberate the maple syrup and acorns if large portions of the supply can go to feeding the hungry; Shark notes that there are a lot of hungry people in the Ork Underground. Tanya agrees to these terms.

The Legwork

As soon as the meet ends, Wolfheart returns to her body, which she left in her Snohomish sacred circle. She calls up Tony Santoro, The Farseer, and as many druids as she can rouse from Solace (7, as it turns out), and all of them agree to work together to save the trees and squirrels from Evo's bio-engineering mistakes. They convene at the sacred circle and designate Raccoon Girl as their spotter for a remote sensing ritual that ends up covering the entirety of Snohomish, because of course it does. They peer into the greenhouse from afar. Tony identifies features of the trees while the Farseer makes a map of the facility's layout. After sufficient reconnaissance, they conclude the ritual and begin a new one to transform the trees into a similar species of oak that would be difficult to identify as different, but wouldn't be addictive to the squirrels. Raccoon Girl levitates a mirror high into the air and angles it such that Wolfheart can see the greenhouse in its reflection. CAPTAIN FREEFALL remains in the area to serve as a beacon of justice.

The Run

Glamor, Shark, and Granuaile enter the greenhouse with CAPTAIN FREEFALL and Raccoon Girl waiting nearby as backup. With some slippery sorcery, quick wits, and silver tongues, they trick the employees there into thinking they're from corporate and threaten to inundate them with legal paperwork if they don't hand over the acorns and two saplings. This works without incident, and after a couple hours of loading the cargo into their vehicles, they drive away. When they're at a safe distance, Wolfheart seals the forest transformation ritual, transforming all the GMO trees in the greenhouse into the desired species of oak. The circle of druids immediately scrubs the signature before anyone can figure out what happened.

Glamor calls Leah Perry for information about the tanker truck's route, and she is able to get it down to a fairly precise location and timeline. Raccoon Girl gets Flash to run signal interference for the carjacking that would ensue. When the time comes, Glamor turns Raccoon Girl invisible, and a spirit sustains the movement power on her. She skates behind the truck fast enough to hit it accurately with her grapple gun, reeling herself toward it at high speed. The driver is surprised to see the passenger side door open for some reason, and he's even more surprised to be knocked unconscious by an invisible grapple gun, though not for long. Raccoon Girl takes the wheel and drives the truck into the Ork Underground while Flash makes everything look normal on the matrix.

Aftermath

Tanya ate entirely too many acorn-flour pancakes with maple syrup and went into a coma. Or y'know, something resembling one. A bunch of hungry residents in the Ork Underground were happy to have food - doubly so that it wasn't something based on soy, krill, or mycoprotein.

Rewards

  • 8,000¥
  • 4 Karma
  • 2 CDP

AAR

Wolfheart

No one messes with the trees on my watch. This was the first time I really called upon the local druid community to do something big, and I have to say, we pulled off some massive feats. I can't stay to talk about it too long, though - the druids at Solace seem to have let the power get to their head, and they're transforming trees in the grove just for fun. I'd better stop them before someone messes up and makes poisonous trees. Bye!

Glamor

Racoon Girl is just Trash Panda. Everyone else can see that, right?