CooksAssistant

CooksAssistant
Date 2085-09-19 GM LHOG Location Seattle (Various) Status Threat Level: Medium
Factions Involved
ShadowHaven	Major Corp
St. George Dango Lady Argentum Gumshoe

Summary

"My milk hasn't been delivered, and I have two days to bake this cake beforehand, or the managers will fire me! Help!"

A desperate baker has a must-meet-or-else deadline to bake a cake, but the suppliers of his magic milk are refusing to give the goods. Can a team of shadowrunners pilfer an Awakened heifer from his suppliers in time to meet his deadline when a mage and his spirits guard the farm, plus some corporate muscle? Yes, they can! It turns out not to be quite the milk run they expected, but the baker gets his cow, and the runners get their prizes. None of the runners were worse for the wear, other than Gumshoe, who beat himself up with spell drain.

Background

An Aztechnology subsidiary, TBD, runs a milk farm on the outskirts of Seattle. They experimented with magic on cows and engineered an awakened cow that produced magical milk there. The milk has unique properties for baking and doubles as reagents. A Seattle Orc baker has been basing his booming business on that milk, but now the farm is withholding it -- and the baker has a deadline with perhaps deadly consequences for him if missed. The bake decides to hire the runners to steal a cow from the farm and bring it to the baker's shop so he can meet the deadline and have a future supply of the special milk.

The Meet

TBD

The Plan

TBD

The Run

TBD

Aftermath

The J gains an awakened cow—temporarily. Afterward, the cow is taken to live with Himiko Ryudai because the J can't keep her in that store.

The cook could bake his cake in time for the banquet he was catering to.

Rewards for "Cook's Assistant" (Medium, 12 RVP)

Base

6000 Nuyen (3 RVP) 6 Karma (6 RVP) 8 CDP (3 RVP + Base)

Optional rewards

• Up to 8,000 Nuyen in Reagents (2 RVP)

For Dango

• A looted MCT-Nissan Roto-Drone with mods up to 8000 nuyen value (2 RVP)

For Lady Argentum

• Contact "Himiko Ryudai", Connection 3 / Loyalty 1 (3 RVP) - to keep in touch with her cow friend's new owner!
• Animal Empathy at Chargen Rates (3 RVP)

Game Quotes

"It's a cow, how hard could it be" - GumShoe

Player After Action Reports (AARs)

GumShoe

<<It's good. We helped a harried baker stick it to the Corps. That's a good day in my book. Wasn't as much of a milk run as you might think though. Mostly 'cause of me. I'm a drekking mage! You'd think I'd remember the phrase 'Geek the Mage', but no..I got to go killing an air spirit. Sure enough, mage pops another one out as soon as he can.

Still, almost went bad before that. We're all set, at end of planning, as we realize..we don't have a vehicle between us that can transport the car. I called Biggie and sweet talked him into loaning us his Gopher, in return for some sweet chees for Biggie Bun and taking him on the next run I call him about. Then we went to do the deed.

Glad we had the muscle we did. The Lady provided a crazy distraction, shearing the fence with her sword and making the Corpses need new pants, plus breaking the mages arm in the bargain. Basically, the Lady and the knight made short work of the opposition, and our decker kept their roto drone off our backs.

Though he said it only had a AK74 in it..still a bullet it a bullet when you don't have much armor. Once our knight got the door lock off I popped the ward and we went loud. He got the cow out of the barn (still disbelieving I'm saying that), and I levitated it over the back fence. Then we got the heck out of dodge and got the baker his cow.>>