Graduation Day

Graduation Day
Date 2085-02-13 GM Asmodeus Location Seattle, Downtown Status Threat Level: High
Factions Involved
ShadowHaven	Horizon	Null Sect
Bunny Hop Oberon Triage	Manther the Man-Panther Ally Spirit Various Other Guards and Such	Corrupted G-Man Corrupted Twins
Casualties and losses
N/A	Corporate Ownership of One Vtuber and their Records on File, Paydata	N/A

Summary

The Internet is a series of Vtubers.

Background

"Jinzo Jouzo is a wholesome witch of the North Pole, working with Santa to deliver gifts and blessings to inspiring female figures across the world! Known for her heavy metal karaoke subscriber streams and gap moe cuteness, she's part of the 17th wave of Horizon Black Color's talents."

So says real-name-Yuichika-Karata's blurb on the Horizon subsidiary KuroSanji's host portal for their vtuber talents. Recently in vtuber news, several former members of the KuroSanji team who have since left the company have been whistle-blowing harsh working practices and toxic work environments. Although current staff fervently deny these allegations and even trash talk their former senpais and kouhais on P2.1, the runners are approached by a woman who refuses to identify herself, claiming much the opposite.

The Meet

Ms. Johnson is a cold, business-like woman who opens by calling the three runners, Oberon, Triage, and Bunny Hop, all street trash barely deserving of the pay she's offering. A great start to a fruitful relationship.

Onto business, she further explains that there is a target for extraction in the KuroSanji downtown offices, regaling runners with the broad strokes of the drama outlined above. Jinzo Jouzo is a target of extraction for their unnamed organization, she goes onto explain, and is believed to be held physically at the KuroSanji Seattle corporate office in the Downtown area, anywhere from floors eight to thirteen. She is either unable or unwilling to provide the runners with any information beyond this, save that the target is unaware of any planned extractions but almost certainly willing.

Negotiations begin, with Triage leading the pack, stating that the sum on offer (a paltry 8k nuyen) isn't enough to justify the risk of running an extraction op against a direct Horizon subsidiary. He eventually sweet talks Ms. Johnson into another deal - fourteen thousand, plus bonus pay and top shelf UCAS SINs, if and only if the runners stay quiet. A deduction will be made for every instance of going loud. The runners happily agree, and regroup to begin the legwork phase of their preparation.

The Plan

Triage summons a kami and bids it to scout the downtown building they've been instructed to infiltrate - the spirit performs the task and informs Triage that the first floor of the building is warded, although the upper floors are not. Watcher spirits circle but are easily avoided. Finally, the spirit also does its best to scout the location physically, and informs the team that, to the best of its knowledge, there is a gap across from the eighth floor that can be jumped over.

Bunny Hop begins Matrix legwork, digging up fan speculation on the identity of Jinzo Jouzo. She comes up with five names - various soundalikes, former idols, and even a radio host of all people, although only the latter's files, Hannah Mulder's, are easily accessible. Within the 94.9 FM KUOW Seattle public radio station's host, itself a large, old-style office building filled with pneumatic tubes, Bunny Hop disguises her persona as a simple office lady's and begins digging. She finds her employee file, and finds that she is a former UCAS expat who had been living in the imperial Japanese mainland. Shifting allegiances and a sponsored visa for her national SIN have led her back to the UCAS here in Seattle - this, combined with the earlier information from Ms. Johnson indicating that Horizon appears to have power over her visa, seems to corroborate the fan speculation beyond a reasonable doubt.

The rabbit also scopes out the corporate host, though finds no surprises about its capabilities from the outside. She safely returns to the others, indicates that she seems to have positively ID'd their target with face and name included, and nods toward Oberon for the next steps of a physical infiltration.

Fennec is also briefly called - Bunny Hop hatches a sketchy plan to get into the offline host, requiring Fennec as a known vtuber to fake applying for their program, and her hacking into the host in the brief moment it comes online to transfer her files. This is a back-up, only to be enacted if Oberon is unable to secure a datatap on the physical server itself for her to link into.

Rewards

--- Run Rewards (High, 15 RVP) 14,140 MCT Scrip (7 RVP) +2000 Nuyen worth of pay data in the form of confidential Horizon fiscal reports 8 Karma (8 RVP) 2 CDP

• • May purchase R6 Fake UCAS SINs at gear rates**
  • For Oberon:** May purchase Mercury Comet & any affordable mods at gear rates (limit of 28,000 Nuyen)

Game Quotes

"You know those little vacuum tube things they used to have in old office buildings? The host has those." / "So you're saying the Internet is a series of tubes?"