No Rest for the Wicked (Management)

No Rest for the Wicked (Management)
Date 2082-04-16 GM Orion Location Seattle Metroplex (Various)
Factions Involved
ShadowHaven Cecelia Cross Informer	Renraku	Ancients
Black Samurai Samsara	Noriko Ito and Bodyguards	Ganger
Casualties and losses
	Noriko Ito and Bodyguards
Black Samurai's 3rd Ordeal

Summary

Akira Mori is contacted by Cecelia Cross with an offer: coin in the form of ware and revenge in exchange for a hard drive carried upon the person of a middle manager at Renraku. Informer does some investigating while Akira checks in with Samsara about his uncle's sword. They talk about life, and they decide not to honor duel. After talking trash to Ancients at their bar, the pair part ways and Akira assassinates Noriko Ito, returning the hard drive--as promised--to Cecelia.

Background

Hayato Mori, Akira's uncle, was a Red Swordsman in training; he was stationed at one of Noriko Ito's facilities in the Seattle metroplex before the location was breached by Samsara and others (see A Blast from the Past). Because the facility was lost and his sword was taken, Hayato was forced to take his own life to preserve his family's honor and safety. Akira, who idolized his uncle growing up, vowed revenge on the people who forced this choice upon him.

The Meet

While eating with his sister, Finn, Akira receives a call from a sparkly avatar asking him to come down to E-Vue as soon as possible; he pays, apologizes, and heads out. After arriving, Black Samurai waits in line like a normal person before being admitted to the club. He finds Brody J crowd surfing while asleep, and--surprised to be working for another J--is requested to a private booth by one Cecelia Cross. He waits for her to finish working in AR, and is given a dossier on Noriko Ito, a Renraku employee who runs several facilities around Seattle. Cecelia lets Black Samurai know that she was involved with his uncle's death, and that she wants a hard drive the woman is carrying. In exchange, Akira could get his revenge.

Already having the dossier in hand, Akira was confused as to why he'd return the hard drive to the woman, as she had offered no compensation. Cecelia noted that she was looking for quiet, competent runners for a bigger upcoming job and--if he completed this task for her--she'd agree to subsidize some hardware improvements on his behalf.

The Stakeout

Having read the dossier and deciding not to track down the woman at work--which would be crawling with many, many Renraku agents--Black Samurai first looked over her downtown home. Leaning against a nearby building and "checking his commlink", he searched the matrix for nearby wireless devices and attempted to map the cameras, but the number of devices was extremely overwhelming. It quickly became clear that he would be unable to make a move on her near her apartment without immediate repercussions unless he executed perfectly.

While he had faith in himself, relying on perfection is a foolhardy plan, so Akira called in a chip from his free spirit buddy, Informer. After awkwardly trying to decide if he should mimic Informer's speech patterns or not, Akira asked Informer to perform a little discrete surveillance, and passed along any information he had about Noriko Ito. The spirit agreed, and the world resumed being in color.

Aftermath

Through honing his reflexes, Akira finds that the drugs don't really seem to help him anymore; he stops using them for a combat edge so that he can think more clearly in the moment. The primary target of his hatred is dead, but he doesn't feel a great rush of completion. He feels--well--nothing. It'd be super annoying if Samsara and Vip3r had actual points.

Rewards

Black Samurai:

• 40k Nuyen worth of 'ware at or below availability 19 (10 RVP)
• 2 karma (2 RVP)
• -5 Ancients Reputation
• IG3 Discount
• Can buy off Driven at chargen price, having achieved the goal.

Samsara:

• -5 Ancients Reputation
• Nasty Trog (5 RVP)
• 7 karma (7 RVP)

Game Quotes

Ancients Ganger: "Breeder." Akira: "Oh man...that's exactly what your mom called me last night."