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|Location=Hotel L'Etoile, Seattle Downtown
|Location=The Tesseract, Austin, CAS.


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|RunnerList={{AARCharacterList|Lambda|Nix|Strobe|Trample|}}
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|Metaplot=The Cradle Of Betrayal
|Metaplot= I Make Things Happen
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|OppositionFaction=Xandra and her bodyguard
|OppositionFaction=Spinrad Global Industries
|OppositionUnits=[[Xandra Barkirkis]], Titan, a cyberadept
|OppositionUnits=4 security guards, 2 spiders
|OppositionCasualties=Xandra's promotion
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==Summary==
==Summary==
The runners are hired by a corporate suit to prevent a talented coworker of his from getting a promotion she probably deserved.
The runners are hired by a rather weird AI to get a cardboard box from a building that is till being built. Then chaos happened.


==Background==
==Background==
Genesis Consortium, a South American AA corporation with an heavy focus on biotech and the amalgamation of magic and biology, known for its deep ties with Aztechnology, is infamous for its cutthroat politics and hostile work environment. Mr Powers, a medium level director operating in Matrix security, is positive that the current status quo is favorable to him, and knows that sudden rises or downfalls can lead to turmoil, that he would rather avoid. Another important piece of the puzzle is the existence of a non publicly known azzie sea archology, far from the coast in the Alaskan sea. Due to classified "spirit issues", it has received some damage, and the company is considering the idea of selling it, and for that, a stage during the SoCeACo (South and Central American Corporations) convention, in which companies from both the inside and the outside of the Aztechnology sphere of influence will make their proposals.
Austin, capital of the CAS, is at the border between the CAS itself ans Aztlan. This lead to a situtation of cold war in the city, where the confederate government and Aztechnology clash for power and influence. In this context, any other actor is basically free to act however they want, and Spinrad is no ecception, having moved in the city some R&D facilities confident in the lack of regulation. Specifically one, the Tesseract, called colloqually the box due to its cubical shape, is still in the process of being built, and will be used in the future for some quantum computation tests.


==The Meet==
==The Meet==
The meet happened in a private chat room in the Shiawase global grid, as requested by the Johnson. The J explained his problem, and made clear that the runner's job was to more or less destroy the carreer of his rival, [[Xandra Barkirkis]]. She, in fact, as a plan for the deep sea archology, and it looks promising enough to be accepted by the seller, bringing lots of nuyens in the company's pockets, and lots of influence to Xandra herself. The team was tasked with finding dirt to toss at her, making the presentation itself fail, whatever is needed to stop her.
The meet happened during the night, in a Downtown skate park, where the Johnson, that appeared as an heavily modified MCT RotoDrone, talked to the runners "in person". After a rather lenghty introduction, they requested the team to recover an object, more specifically a cardboard box, from the Tesseract. The J, whose name is Demiurge, also specified two non negotiable conditions, the first being that the runners shouldn't ever watch inside the box, nor cause any casualty to the security team on site. Breaking one of those two would result in not getting paid. The J also offered a secondaary objective, recording the entire operation from the runner's POV, and wiring the footage to the J themself, in order for everyone else to receive a bonus on their paycheck.


==The Plan==
==The Plan==
The team decided to meet in meatspace to discuss the details, more specifically at a cat cafe suggested by [[Strobe]]. There they discussed on what could be considered a "career killer" within one of the azzie aligned corporations, which are known for their unethical practices. [[Lambda]], after a deep Matrix search, discovered that the target has both a severe addiction to red mescaline, and has some sort of ties with Tlaloc, a known cybermancer. Thanks to [[Nix]]'s insight on Aztlaneer society and culture, it was deemed enough to ruin her, and it was decided to add a slide to the presentation, with a picture of her talking to this hooded figure that is known to be Tlaloc themself.
The team was incredibly wary of the Johnson, suspecting that the requests are specifically engineered in order to get them burned or killed. After some careful considerations, [[La Rapide]] thought about a second possibility, that the box is nothing more then a prop, and that they are a penetration test team, in order to stress test the facility's security. The rest of the team quickly accepted this teory as plausible, and decided to go and do some recon work before forming a proper plan.


==The Run==
==The Run==
After some digital scouting, [[Lambda]] and [[Trample]] entered the venue's host, and searched it for hidden sub-hosts, finding one, and then another nested in deeper. Thanks to the fact they were both running silent, they were able to penetrate the defences of Xandra's bodyguard, Titan, and a sprite of his.
After a long car trip and many matrix searches that appeared to confirm the security check theory, the team arrived to the site. A variable that has been downplayed by the J was the existence of an intentionally cultivated background count, aspected towards joy. While it is small in size, with a radius of about a block, it reaches heights of a 9 near the compound. Once arrived, [[Basilisk]] sneaked in, confirming that the only outside security measures were cameras and metahuman guards. [[La Rapide]] and [[Canter]] were able to spot a dual nature entity doing his own recon work on the site. After some initial conflict, the entity was revealed to be a wendigo, forced to attempt the same box as them after some rather confusing and poorly explained altercations with a drone and some Ancients. The team managed quite easily to convince him that the action was not worth it, and to just run away from Austin, but despite the Wendigo's best efforts, they refused to transport him across the border. After this parenthesis, the planning phase started. [[Cricket]] was capable, with a quick host dive, to recover the floor plans, locating the target. [[Canter]] decided that the best plan was to go in loud, literally driving through the front door. So, the day after, the plan of causing as many mayhem possible on meat and the matrix to provide a distraction for [[Basilisk]] and [[La Rapide]] to slip in, get the thing, and get out. With stroms of stick and shock bullets from the granny and the oni's relentless onslaught of very angry sprites, one of the spiders and two of the guards were neutralised, and the two infiltrators managed to get inside, where they went toe to toe with two guards, dipatching of them in no time and exfiling
Once within the deepest layer, [[Lambda]] took care of disarming data bombs, decrypting the file itself (revealing that the plan involved turning the archology into a deltaware clinic, specialised in the production of transhumans), editing (to add the photo, as planned), and then putting the encryption (whose password was "Marlboro2004") back in place, while [[Trample]] engaged in cybercombat with the technomancer as a red herring, to allow the human decker more leeway to do his thing. After this skirmish, she also made her way inside the deepest host, and took a look to other presentation files, of rivaling companies, specifically Onotari's idea of turning the place into a testing ground for gauss weaponry, and Aztechnology Paranormal division's proposal of turning it into a observation post to better study the many free spirits roaming the area.
After the successful host dive, the core of the run was already archieved, but the team decided that attending the convention would have been preferable, to make connections and to interevene directly if something goes south.
[[Strobe]] had some fun with a trophy husband, [[Nix]] found an old wakyambi azzie to leech off for the night, and [[Trample]] got to know [[Axolotl]] a famous metasapient rights activist.


==Aftermath==
==Aftermath==
The presentation was, as forecasted, a disaster, and seeing Xandra so heartbroken moved something within [[Trample]], that decided to counsel her and accompany her back home. The rest of the team got out of there as perfect ghosts, and the J was satisfied by the brilliant execution.
The J set up a drop point, was satisfied with the work, asked the team their opinion on the security of the place, to which the team blatantly lied, and then paid and left. What a weird little guy, that Demiurge.


==Rewards==
==Rewards==
For [[Nix]] and [[Lambda]]
For everyone but Cricket
* 14k nuyens or double the amount in bioware, Aztechnology brand weaponry or armor
* 20k nuyens or double the amount in vehicles, drones or mods for both
* 3 karma
* 2 CDP


For [[Strobe]]
For [[Strobe]]
* 14k nuyens or double the amount in bioware, Aztechnology brand weaponry or armor OR 2k nuyens or double the amount in bioware, Aztechnology brand weaponry or armor AND [[Tlazopilli]] as a 6/1 contact
* 18k nuyens or double the amount in vehicles, drones or mods for both
* 4 karma
* 2 CDP


For [[Trample]]
* 14k nuyens or double the amount in bioware, Aztechnology brand weaponry or armor OR 4k nuyens or double the amount in bioware, Aztechnology brand weaponry or armor AND [[Axolotl]] as a 5/1 contact
* Optional contact [[Xandra Barkirkis]] as a 5/1


==Player After Action Reports (AARs)==
===[[La Rapide]]===
That was enough joy to last me for at least 30 years. That place is worse than glow city and Sophocles combined. At least I learned recendly how to center my self and ignore the effects of the outside world to an extend. *singing*
Just tonight I will stay and well throw it all away
When the light hits your eyes
Its telling me I'm right
And if I, I am through
Then its all because of you


==Player After Action Reports (AARs)==
Just tonight
 
===[[Cricket]]===
Never met an AI before, and wow I fraggin' hate them. No idea how someone without a body can be so stuck up their own ass. The job was fine, mostly went off without a hitch. The magic types were saying that the place was messing with them, but I felt great; ain't often that you get to work without noise. The whole team were good, but I loved workin' with that crazy old hag [[Canter]]. She's exactly my type of stupid, and I'm real impressed that she's lived so long. 
 
===[[Basilisk]]===
 
Too many infected on this run. La Rapide creeped me out a bit I'll admit. Never enjoyed being around infected. Too many of them are immune to my venom. Makes me a bit twitchy. I bought a wooden club to send a message. Thankfully I never had to use it. I'll admit the Wendigo was slightly entertaining though. I hope the poor bastard made it across the border. That AI was a bit of an asshole though. At least it ended up paying. Canter didn't mess the run up this time either.


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[[Category:Runs]]

Latest revision as of 09:21, 17 June 2021

A Box Within A Box
Part of I Make Things Happen
Date2082-06-05
GMScranton
LocationThe Tesseract, Austin, CAS.
Status Threat Level: Medium
Factions Involved
ShadowHaven Spinrad Global Industries The mysterious wendigo
Basilisk
Canter
Cricket
La Rapide		 4 security guards, 2 spiders The wendigo himself
Casualties and losses
None None


Summary

The runners are hired by a rather weird AI to get a cardboard box from a building that is till being built. Then chaos happened.

Background

Austin, capital of the CAS, is at the border between the CAS itself ans Aztlan. This lead to a situtation of cold war in the city, where the confederate government and Aztechnology clash for power and influence. In this context, any other actor is basically free to act however they want, and Spinrad is no ecception, having moved in the city some R&D facilities confident in the lack of regulation. Specifically one, the Tesseract, called colloqually the box due to its cubical shape, is still in the process of being built, and will be used in the future for some quantum computation tests.

The Meet

The meet happened during the night, in a Downtown skate park, where the Johnson, that appeared as an heavily modified MCT RotoDrone, talked to the runners "in person". After a rather lenghty introduction, they requested the team to recover an object, more specifically a cardboard box, from the Tesseract. The J, whose name is Demiurge, also specified two non negotiable conditions, the first being that the runners shouldn't ever watch inside the box, nor cause any casualty to the security team on site. Breaking one of those two would result in not getting paid. The J also offered a secondaary objective, recording the entire operation from the runner's POV, and wiring the footage to the J themself, in order for everyone else to receive a bonus on their paycheck.

The Plan

The team was incredibly wary of the Johnson, suspecting that the requests are specifically engineered in order to get them burned or killed. After some careful considerations, La Rapide thought about a second possibility, that the box is nothing more then a prop, and that they are a penetration test team, in order to stress test the facility's security. The rest of the team quickly accepted this teory as plausible, and decided to go and do some recon work before forming a proper plan.

The Run

After a long car trip and many matrix searches that appeared to confirm the security check theory, the team arrived to the site. A variable that has been downplayed by the J was the existence of an intentionally cultivated background count, aspected towards joy. While it is small in size, with a radius of about a block, it reaches heights of a 9 near the compound. Once arrived, Basilisk sneaked in, confirming that the only outside security measures were cameras and metahuman guards. La Rapide and Canter were able to spot a dual nature entity doing his own recon work on the site. After some initial conflict, the entity was revealed to be a wendigo, forced to attempt the same box as them after some rather confusing and poorly explained altercations with a drone and some Ancients. The team managed quite easily to convince him that the action was not worth it, and to just run away from Austin, but despite the Wendigo's best efforts, they refused to transport him across the border. After this parenthesis, the planning phase started. Cricket was capable, with a quick host dive, to recover the floor plans, locating the target. Canter decided that the best plan was to go in loud, literally driving through the front door. So, the day after, the plan of causing as many mayhem possible on meat and the matrix to provide a distraction for Basilisk and La Rapide to slip in, get the thing, and get out. With stroms of stick and shock bullets from the granny and the oni's relentless onslaught of very angry sprites, one of the spiders and two of the guards were neutralised, and the two infiltrators managed to get inside, where they went toe to toe with two guards, dipatching of them in no time and exfiling

Aftermath

The J set up a drop point, was satisfied with the work, asked the team their opinion on the security of the place, to which the team blatantly lied, and then paid and left. What a weird little guy, that Demiurge.

Rewards

For everyone but Cricket

  • 20k nuyens or double the amount in vehicles, drones or mods for both
  • 3 karma
  • 2 CDP

For Strobe

  • 18k nuyens or double the amount in vehicles, drones or mods for both
  • 4 karma
  • 2 CDP


Player After Action Reports (AARs)

La Rapide

That was enough joy to last me for at least 30 years. That place is worse than glow city and Sophocles combined. At least I learned recendly how to center my self and ignore the effects of the outside world to an extend. *singing*

Just tonight I will stay and well throw it all away

When the light hits your eyes

Its telling me I'm right

And if I, I am through

Then its all because of you

Just tonight

Cricket

Never met an AI before, and wow I fraggin' hate them. No idea how someone without a body can be so stuck up their own ass. The job was fine, mostly went off without a hitch. The magic types were saying that the place was messing with them, but I felt great; ain't often that you get to work without noise. The whole team were good, but I loved workin' with that crazy old hag Canter. She's exactly my type of stupid, and I'm real impressed that she's lived so long.

Basilisk

Too many infected on this run. La Rapide creeped me out a bit I'll admit. Never enjoyed being around infected. Too many of them are immune to my venom. Makes me a bit twitchy. I bought a wooden club to send a message. Thankfully I never had to use it. I'll admit the Wendigo was slightly entertaining though. I hope the poor bastard made it across the border. That AI was a bit of an asshole though. At least it ended up paying. Canter didn't mess the run up this time either.

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