The Empire Strikes Back

The Empire Strikes Back
Part of Toy Stories
Date 2085-10-27 GM Villiers Location {{{place}}} Status Threat Level: High
Factions Involved
ShadowHaven Saeder-Krupp	Skraacha	Chulos
Meltdown Samael Mnemosyne Jin	Supervisor Squad	Smiley Chulo Slice Mike
Casualties and losses
None :>	Supervisor Squad	None :>

The Meet

Mnemosyne, Samael, Meltdown, and Jin all arrive to the Black Tie Affair, dressed as fine as they can. Meltdown is the least dressed up out of the entire group.

The Johnson is up front and brisk about how they want the job, noting that 5k will be paid up front as a bonus - but requires that the negotiations for better pay be skipped. The total pay will be 25k nuyen for the destruction of 12 PFAFF commercial sewing machines and a Coherent Light Applications numerically controlled laser cutter.

He gives the location - #2 Short Avenue, Carbonado - and explains that it's not the building on the surface, but within 50 meters and likely in the OU.

The Plan

Gizoogling the locale and all they could about the missing equipment, the gang opts to do some in-person scouting of the workshop the Johnson had detailed to the party.

It's quickly revealed that Chulos run surface security, with Skraacha running things underground.

Sam slappy hand tac grapples out into the courtyard, sneakin through the stinky building only to find the initial building to be a squatter hideaway. Defeated by further entry into the unit by a rug and table, Mnemosyne summons a giant snake spirit and fears the squatters out of the building - by both fear of snek and the fear power.

Samael, now with distraction at hand, scoots the table and the rug and moves through the trapdoor to find the underground section of this coal-town house. Moving east, he finds a room with a door and stairwell down to the south

Sam goes for the stairs, finds himself in pitch dark, and relies on thermovision. He navigates his way through the underground complex, eventually finding himself in the OU, where he finds the workshop with most of the equipment missing—only 2 sewing machines remain and a partially disassembled but notably different machine.

No guards, just workers. There are basic cameras to look over the workshop and make sure work continues safely, but nothing that will provide strong opposition.

Plan set to wait until shift change for half the party, who will then eep once the other two grab some folks from the shift change as it's the middle of the night

Aftermath

The party then splits - Meltdown and Sam chasing the runners with the laser cutter, always two steps behind; Jin and Mnemosyne destroying the crates at their site.

Eventually, after much searching and deliberation, the team calls it in and reaches out to the J. He's satisified, the runners are paid in full, and the OU team got away successfully

Rewards

25k 12rvp + 1k bonus Gear rates for weapons, armor, electronic up to avail 16

Game Quotes

"Scent glands? I think you mean boysmell." - Sniff.