Jackie 2 Dope

Jackie 2 Dope
Date 2085-11-08 GM Dawnfire Location Seattle Status Threat Level: Medium
Factions Involved
ShadowHaven Halloweeners Jack da Rabbit	Anarchist Black Cross	Crimson Crush
Datastream Lanky Mnemosyne Runner4	Character1 Character2
Casualties and losses
	A duffel bag of morphine	Approximately 6 dead, 4 wounded/blinded

Summary

Jack da Rabbit wants dope to make crimson orchid with, runners decide to rob a free clinic for it and wreck a gaggle of Crimson Crush hired for security.

Background

Jack da Rabbit has acquired the red orchid pollen needed to manufacture crimson orchid thanks to the machinations of non-Haven runners, but he's out of dope to mix it with. He has orders coming in, but his usual supplier recently died of an overdose and so he has to figure out a way to get his hands on plenty of opiates, fast. Theft seems like the best way to do that.

The Meet

The runners are instructed to meet at the Hung Hooligan, a 'Weener controlled dive bar near the Downtown docks. Some gangers hanging around a burning barrel outside give Lanky a hard time, to which he responds by grabbing one of their arms and twisting it behind his back, threatening to break bones, but Jack runs out and shoos off his ganger buddies, scolding them for starting drek when he told them he'd have outsiders coming by for biz. Jack meets with the crew in the bar, hassles Datastream over the events of Medical Debt, and explains his needs while scarfing down a plate of buffalo soy-wings. He wants as much dope as the runners can get their hands on, and offers two routes to do it. Some cursory legwork on his part has found the location of a Disassemblers street doc/chop shop underneath a Downtown fish market, and the location of the Anarchist Black Cross's mobile clinic which is being set up ahead of Black Monday in an abandoned McHughs outside Bargain Basement. Datastream pushes hard to hit the anarchists, despite them offering free medical aid to the SINless, and the team agrees to the job.

The Plan

Datastream does some cursory Matrix on the Disassemblers hideout after being told by Jack that he heard they hired a mage from Mana to act as magical support, but drops that thread after realizing that he's not going to find info about Mana's tactics online, as the group is made up of all kinds of wiz gangers and street mages, you could get anything from a Halloweener combat mage to a Spectre's astral combat specialist. Looking into the ABC's hideout, he finds that it's an old McHugh's from a failed effort to revitalize part of Redmond decades ago, and finds that most locations from that era included gas dispersal systems as a security measure.

The crew drives down to the McHughs, located near the Bargain Basement area, to do some recon. Datastream notices a rigger piloting some stolen SecureSector drones, Lanky climbs a nearby room and spots some modern cameras installed on the building and a pair of armored Bulldogs in Crimson Crush colors watching over the place, and Mnemnosyne does some astral scouting to get a headcount of the hired ganger security and noncombatant personnel inside the place, also spotting a pair of caged cockatrices being used as security critters.

Unfortunately, Datastream's vehicle was spotted while approaching and the drones attack in an attempt to scare them off before they can finish their scouting.

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