Aces High

Aces High
Date 2085-09-16 GM Robinton Location Seattle Status Threat Level: Extreme
Factions Involved
ShadowHaven	Major Corp
Heart of the Tempest Nu11st@ck Neijing	Character1 Character2

Summary

Run Schedule and Duration. Current total: 15 Hrs

• 9/16, 4pm EDT: 4 Hours
• 9/20, 8pm EDT: 2 Hours
• 9/22, 10am EDT: 7 hours
• 9/25, 4pm EDT: 2 Hours

Background

The enigmatic AI Von Neumann always has needs for more drones and so after some prompting from Null, it agrees to finance this project under the premise of Null taking the lead.

The Meet

Nullstack gets contacted by VN who indicates it knows of his ulterior motives for the run but acknowledges the mutual benefit. It informs him that it will arrange runners but that Nullstack will need to figure out how to pay them.

Stryker and Sticks gets a strange message on their commlink from "Benny Cervantes" who sends them the information for a meet at Runner's Rest in Tacoma. Neijing, however, lounging in her hammock, gets interrupted by VN sending her the information for the meet.

The team meets at Runner's Resort in Tacoma where they meet with Nullstack and the rest. A small terminal with a holo emitter arrives with information on a target: Walter Kirkpatrick. Stryker and Sticks decide that this looks a little too weird and decline the run.

Neijing calls Heart of the Tempest in hopes of recruiting her to take their place on the run. While she is on the way, Neijing and Null start doing some deep Matrix Searches on Walter. They are able to find that there is a particular location in Ft. Lewis where the finishing step of Industrial production for GMC is completed. Further, they're able to put together a number of Matrix threads to trace him to some 'darker' matrix datahavens often associated with snuff films.

The team does some quick research on Ft. Lewis and what they can expect about security - an "A" rated zone on the very outskirts of Seattle in an industrial park. Their matrix searches turn to the GMC Industrial facility itself, and while they find the general overview information, they also find some intelligence from some shadowrunner datahavens about there being a very fast HTR turn around time and having some kind of above average armor and weaponry.

The Plan

To do:

• Research the Facility
• Possible Flyover - Fly spy run done
• Possible Infiltration
• Find Walter Kirkpatrick
• Acquire Walter Kirkpatrick
• Forge some paperwork to justify loading stolen supplies

The Run

Day 1: Scouting Runs

Daytime: Scouting Run of the GMC Facility

• Large spaces between outer walls with razor wire and main buildings
• Three main buildings with a large hangar building and large garage building.
• One medium sized runway.
• Patrolling four person security teams with hellhound guard dogs with Pi-Tac and slaved icons
• Host is Rating 8 (A11, S8, D9, F10)
• Device Icons slaved through opfor's team decker and Pi-Tac - Firewall 11
• F8 Ward stacked with F8 Alarm Ward.
• F6 Watcher Spirits

Nighttime: Matrix Host Run of the GMC Facility

Nullstack enters the Host and gains the following:

• Data File: HR records, revealing HTR team on side. Null theorizes a couple reasons why (proximity to base, secret deal with Ares, etc)
• Null goes to edit the file and learns there is an offline host with the edit rights. Also they seem very obviously to be hiding something
• Null finds paydata regarding GMC and Ares Macrotech shipping manifests, convoys, and so on, worth approximately 20,000 - 30,000 nuyen. He disables the data bomb on it and decrypts it for download.
• Null finds inventory data which explains that there there are top tier drone equipment here, some of which can be used to support, construct, or repair KN-Y2 and KN-Y2 Ares drones. Nullstack makes note of the anthrodrone inventory notes for their later run. Null is pretty sure there might be one of these rolling around the factory.
• Null finds that there are two sentry gun turrets at each main entrance (Front Door, Loading Bay, Warehouse) and then one each on the cardinal points (for a total of ten), armed with Ares Alphas
• Facility MapData: Main Building has R6 Maglocks everywhere, but also facial recognition and DNA locks on certain high security areas. Main building has offices, warehouse, loading and unloading, work bays. Hangar 1 is ground vehicles and drones, hangar 2 is air vehicles and drones.
• Ward Data: Onsite magician maintaining ward and watcher spirits
• Null finds another paydata file with a R8 Data bomb which he decrypts, revealing that there is a below the board agreement between the UCAS Military and this facility to repair and service combat drones as well as supply the military some on the down-low. GMC gets a pile of money as well as a HTR response team from the UCAS which will involve a AAA response time despite the facility being in an "A" Zone.

Nighttime: Searching the Overnight Decker

Tempest summons a F14 Watcher spirit who is present for the next 28 hours, sending it to search for the overnight decker. It takes an hour for the watcher to search for the overnight decker, finding him at an Ares Macrotech server farm in Tacoma, where the decker is located.

Edge Levels: Nullstack 1/3, Tempest 3/4, Neijing 4/4

Day 2: Scouting the Ares Server Farm

The team goes down to the Tacoma site, trying to determine what's going on with the offline Host. Neijing sneaks up to the side door, manages to crack the facial recognition plate without triggering the anti-tamper, motion sensors or cameras. With a data tap on the device, Nullstack is able to begin doing some work on the host. He gains 3 marks on the host. Neijing conceals the data tap, closes up the panel and slips away.

Niejing forges orders to have certain materiel boxes to be transported to Hangar 2 for later shipping (11 Hits). Nullstack uploads the forgery and exits the host.

Edge Levels: Nullstack 1/3, Tempest 3/4, Neijing 3/4

Day 4: Running GMC

Neijing has Preps: Combat Sense (F10/P3 and P5, Command All (F10), Armor/Deflection (F10/P3) from Tempest. She scales the wall, realizing that the razorwire on top is actually monofilament, and uses her RPC to shield a miniwelder from the view of the building. She snaps the wire, which does make a rather sharp sound as the tension breaks on the wire. (Alert 1). She makes her way across the wide expanse of field, clearly intended as a sight line, bypassing motion sensors and hidden cameras. She sees the concealed turrets stationed on the grounds and can hear a distant guard patrol which has 3-5 guards and at least two hellhounds with them.

As Nei makes her way over to the main building, the two blood-hellhounds manage to catch the strange scene of 'something' unexpected - the slight scents of her drone body. (Alert 2) Tempest sends the spirit to go distract the hounds, triggering the alarm wards (Alert 3). Alarms begin going off with the alarm ward tripped, setting the base on high alert. HTR gets called and has a six minute response time.

Nullstack manages to spike the decker, putting the host on high alert as Neijing goes forwards and infiltrates the facilty. As she gets to the hangars, Tempest activates some of the prepared buffs, making Nei into a magical beacon. Null gets the hangar bay door open and Nei finds herself face to face with an Ares Deimos. She realizes that the one site HTR team is here in the hangar and opens the fight by lasering the tank with her Ares Archon. The armor melts instantly and wrecks the drone. It is, however, obvious, and now the HTR threat engages. As Nei tanks suppressive fire, a frag grenade, and even a burst spell from her own side, the HTR realizes they're dealing with a cyborg and switch to Stick and Shock. Even then, they struggle to do damage through the layers of magical protection.

Tempest brings down the mana barrier, Nullstack gets control of the drones, and Nei lasers an HTR to death with a called shot. Nei continues dodging machine gun fire and lightning bolts while lasering the shit out of HTR teams. Tempest literally puts some of the incoming site security on ice while Nullstack rigs the loaders to load up the plane. The HTR team begins trying to stop the plane with HE grenades while Neijing continues lasering through them with relative ease.

Edge Levels: Nullstack 2/3, Tempest 1/4, Neijing 0/4, opfor 0/5

Aftermath

Tempest scrubs the area, and the team flies their newly stolen gear away, clean and 'easy'.

Rewards

Extreme: 30 RVP x2.5 Time Multiplier = 75 RVP

All: 10 Karma (10 RVP) 80,000 in greyware or tailored greyware beyond Availability 19 (20 RVP) “via Nullstack” or 40,000 Nuyen from Paydata

Neijing and Nullstack Only: 80,000 in Decking or Rigging gear, etc. up to Availability 19 (20 RVP) from VN OR industrial mats below 80,000 in Drone/Borg Parts up to Availability 19 (20 RVP) from VN OR paydata below

Heart of the Tempest Only: 40,000 Nuyen in cash from selling stolen industrial mats (20 RVP) 40,000 Nuyen from selling Paydata (20 RVP)

All: 2 CDP + 10 CDP (5 RVP)

Bulldog: Optional - Fokker Tundra 9 (75 RVP) from rewards above

Narrative Notes: Neijing and Nullstackearns one Chip from Von Nuemann and is ⅓ of the way to a loyalty bump per Asmo Nullstack earns a chip from Carly Reeves for the scoop on Walter Kirkpatrick and his snuff related activities.

Qualities: Neijing can take Secondary Spec Mod at Chargen rates due to gear from Nuemann Tempest can take Hawkeye at Chargen rates

Game Quotes

"I love that people can go that fast, I hate that the way you do that is playing air hockey with yourself." - Scranton

Nu11st@ck -> Tempest "I thought you were flexing, flex harder damit"

"Oh fuck, I left my drones unattended for 12 hours and they turned into crabs." - Scranton

"I want Senpai Neumann to notice me" - Scranton

Player After Action Reports (AARs)

Nu11st@ck

"God dam that was close. What a rush, I can't believe all of that worked out so fraggin well. Was nice to see Tempest in action again, still a bit too kill happy but this certainly warranted a bit of that. I wonder what it's going to do with those parts..."

Heart of the Tempest

I shalt admit I wouldst have much preferred to be in the thick of things an' fighting alongside mine girlfriend... I admit visiting death from afar has a certain appeal. An' I now possess the funds for a jetpack an' a sword for her.

Neijing

"Finally, a chance to really push my laser cannon to its theoretical limits. It performed stellarly, I cannot be happier. Also, Lorelei's arcane potency is always an awe inspiring display"