Non-Hostile Commandeering

Non-Hostile Commandeering
Date 2083-11-19 GM Asmodeus Location Pacific Ocean Status Threat Level: Deadly
Factions Involved
ShadowHaven	Major Corp
Ryan Danes Katherine Tyler Calypso Scrappenny Cleaner Cleaner	Character1 Character2

Summary

After suffering a mutiny under her treacherous first-mate, Captain Hind hired a group of aspiring shadowrunners to bring her boat back, along with the crew, all alive and well. After an extensive period of legwork, the runners manage to discover, and put the pirates into a disadvantage enough to duel for the fate of the crew, after a pitched battle, the runners eventually stood tall, wrenching the ship from the hands of the crooked 'Captain' Thomas.

The Meet

The meet was in a boathouse in Tacoma, according to the fixers, the Johnson would be an individual known as The Golden Hind, an infamous pirate with multiple 200k nuyen bounties placed on her by the Canton Confederation and Wuxing due to aggressive piracy against their vessels and territories, officially UCAS has nothing to do with this individual, though, she has been known to dock in Tacoma rather regularly.

As the runners met in the boathouse, they were immediately drawn to the fact that the small wooden rowboat sitting in the building did not match the registry, which suggested a far larger and magnificent vessel. On the other end of the room was The Golden Hind, sitting at a desk and slamming rum, a particular brand which was at least 5k nuyen a bottle, offering the runners some, which was gladly accepted. As Hind sat up, she began to explain the situation. Her first mate, Thomas Doughty, had suggested the crew aught to go exclusive, selling out to ally themselves with a specific organization or government, a matter which the captain adamantly refused. Later on, as the captain slept, Thomas managed to organize a mutiny, ousting her and forcing her to flee for shore on her life-boat. Passing the runners the specs of her vessel, the runners were told they needed to incapacitate the crew, explicitly non-lethal, as she still wished to see her crew returned, failure to do so will result in only half rewards being given to the runners at the very best, at the worst, she'd refuse to pay them if her crew was slaughtered. Speaking further, she offered an additional reward, a tricked-out dodge charger from her old days as a road pirate, as well as a Shiawase Caddicarus tricked out to perform as a 24/7 medical treatment. Additionally, she also explained the runners could take a few spare boats she happened to have laying about should they need such things.

The Plan

Stepping aside with the others, Calypso called in to the weekender, managing to negotiate access to spy satellites their 'mutual employers' definitely didn't have access to. Running a large grid search, she managed to narrow the region the boat could be in to a small passage in the pacific ocean in international waters.

Reaching out to another contact, Scrappenny asked Bilge Rat for some help, using their smuggling knowledge to bring them over to the Hawaii for a better assault point. With the runner crew all crossing the ocean with their vehicles and equipment, everyone was suddenly stopped by an assault of ultrasonic waves, sounds that could be heard but at the same not, once again, magic that many of the party members could not understand, as a massive paracritter whale rose out of the water, staring down the cringing party members. Cleaner was able to stand up and recognize the creature, spotting a massive beast they could challenge, they nearly drew their weapon, but manged to keep their nerves steady and resist the urge as the other runners gave off a collective sigh of relief. The captain seemed rather familiar with this creature, a Meister Singer, after throwing some coins into the water, it explained that another boat in the area had been hunting its kind, and had mistaken the runners convoy for the hunter's ship, with a peaceful farewell, the group continued about on their way, soon meeting back up with the rest of their group already on the island.

Calypso met back up with the rest of the gang, quickly getting to work calling up one of their contacts, Wusan, the overlord of the seas. Asking him for help locating, and forcing the boat to stay within the area, in exchange for a pile of reagents, as well as a promise to remove the troublesome vessel from the area, he agreed to do so, as well as negotiate with the Meisters to ignore the runners as they got to work. After getting more assistance Calypso, quickly got to work, calling Ace Powers to negotiate once more for access to the satellite network once again, though, after he continued to request more and more lascivious favors in exchange for the use, she quickly turned to another, Sammy Spinrad, a 'radical' celebrity in the area who happened to have access to yet another satellite, through some pleasantries and a trust-building snort of cocaine, she was able to get full access to the satellite, along with the number of the radical cool-man.

Getting to work, the entirety of the matrix-capable runners got to work scanning the area over, eventually locating a nearly invisible shimmer somewhere among the many miles of ocean, it was their target! The runners mounted up in their vehicles, a sniper-team stepping into the stealth watercraft, with Calypso planning to approach and hack the boat herself, while the rest of the runners mounted a slow-moving fishing boat to draw in the massive vessel.

Approaching openly in the fishing boat, Calypso started scanning the area with the matrix, discovering both the boat's matrix signature, as well as the persona of one of the crew's deckers. Looking over the partially-invisible ship, the sniper team got to work scanning the area for any thermographic signatures, spotting a pair of crewmen crossing the deck through the veil of the ship's stealth shield, providing a somewhat clouded image of the potential hostiles.

As the fishing boat continued to draw closer, the cloaked ship slowly lowered its stealth field, revealing a crewmate with a rocket launcher keeping their weapon trained on them as they fired a warning shot with a separate weapon. Calypso got to work socially, explaining that they came on behalf of the true captain, hoping to assist in solving the conflict active currently. Additionally, a pair of vindicator miniguns on turret mounts swung around to aim for the runners as a tall, cybertorsoed man approached the small boat. While waiting for the man to approach, Calypso managed to put a few marks on the boat, notifying the runners there appeared to be a single rigger on the boat's primary network, additionally, working with M3chan1c, they managed to figure out that the massive miniguns mounted on the ship were actually drones mounted to the top deck.

Stepping out on the deck, Thomas Doughty finally made himself visible, starting to speak with Kate, immediately starting a verbal dick-measuring contest with them as she claimed to be settling a score, after having the vessel and its crew outmatched, throwing some deep insults towards the traitorous captain as they explained that he was no longer in control. On that note, the sniper team let off a volley of shots, blasting a rocket launcher, pistol, and another rifle out of the hands of the top-deck patrolling units in one fell swoop. As this happened, Calypso got to work turning the ship's turrets on the crew, unfortunately immediately drawing an series of brute-force strikes on their deck, frying their hardening module right away.

Now seeing their weapons immediately removed from their positions, and a sea absolutely loaded with illusory shimmers of perceived hostiles surrounding them, and one of their deckers forcefully jacked out of their deck by unknown magical forces, the crewmen decided that perhaps there was a reasonable point in speaking to the shadowrunners asking them to speak kindly.

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