Guess We're Doing Deadshots Now

Guess We're Doing Deadshots Now
Date 2086-03-21 GM Asmodeus Location Seattle Status Threat Level: Medium
Factions Involved
ShadowHaven	Knight Errant	Unknown	West Coast Monolith
Backseat Elaine Invictus Limitless	KE Bodyguard Random Officers	Assumed Technomancer	None encountered directly
Casualties and losses
Invictus took A LOT of drain, and some commlinks were harmed in the completion of this job	2 officers were killed, and the personal guard was forced to leave the premises	None	None

Summary

An exceptionally fishy situation arising from a seemingly simple hit job to kill a supposed rat from the 405 Hellhounds leads to an assortment of hard conversations, worrying discoveries, and terrified rapid responses as the team try to do right by themselves and their feelings

Background

A man called Olzhenski was once a member of the WCM, until he had been personafixed by someone in...assumedly the Vory and suddenly left to work for them, adopting a brand new personality that was...compliant with that notion. Then the schism happened and he had left for the 405s. Now, he had been alright with the Vory and their degree of self restraint, but the 405s? He had no respect for them, or their operations. And as he worked, he was offered a chance to sell them out for a position in the Knight Errants, and frankly that was a far better deal than working with those drekheads. But the 405s ain't stupid. They know that the leaks were only surrounding this Olzhenski's operations and those working directly under him. He was a rat, and the J - a guy known on the street as Churchill for his chain smoking - wanted him gone before he could sell that info out to the Knights. All the while,

Olzhenski was hidden in Vegas Park in Bellvue until his full escort could arrive, and Churchill knew some of his possible routes and got to hiring runners to prepare to end this "scum". All the while, the WCM had taken noticed of their missing member acting so strangely and moving around the place, and they saw the moves KE was making. They figured if they had the chance, they could save their own by intercepting the escort themselves, and maybe seeing about dealing with this personafix issue.

The Meet

Churchill called the 4 runners to his place in Bellvue, one of the places up the 405 highway on the border of Bellvue and Kingsgate, for the meet. The runners were connected through DNI by their fixers, and were already trying to dig more into the situation for info since this all seemed fishy. Churchil's place was exceptionally smoky and only magically made a lil more pleasant (and warded for his safety), and he laid out the job simply: Here's the place the rat is at, here's where he's going to be, 10k to ice him, dont ask stupid fucking questions. It wasn't a lot of info. Invictus and Backseat had tried to negotiate for more pay, but Churchill was absolutely not having it that day. So, miffed by their employer's sketchiness and attitude, left to go plan things out and decide on their course of action.

Also, those assholes in the 405 keyed Elaine's bike - with fucking slurs. Assholes!

The Plan

The first hurdle was getting everyone on board - Limitless was exceptionally skittish working with the 405s and without much info. Hearing some vigilante group wanted this guy made her feel like something was up. Backseat and Elaine didn't see an easy way to get this guy to where he had to be and also get paid (and not take a massive rep hit for betraying a J). And Invictus...well he was down to screw over Churchill, but that was more personal reasons. After some back and forth, some attempts at getting info from contacts, and some honest boundary setting, the team settled on the following: They needed info. Olzhenski HAD info. They had found his route from a corrupt kop Backseat had known, and they knew where exactly this guy was at. So they were going to intercept him and his escort, interrogate him for what he knew, and then decide on if and how they were gonna punk the J then.

So, they had decided on this plan of action

- Case the hideout in Vegas Park for guards, defenses, etc. - Get in position to infiltrate and eliminate any defenses. - According to intel and what Invictus's spirit found, there was only one guard there. With the influence of a Spirit of Man or a Mob Mind, whoever was on the inside could be made to leave, turn off the defenses, and just go home, leaving Olzhenski defensless. - Move in and interrogate. if he's just some selfish rat, kill his ass. If he's not and he's got a good reason, something fucked happenin' with the 405s, then they'd work WITH Olzhenski to fabricate evidence of his death and have him run the fuck away from Seattle and never return. - Report back to Churchill (with a good story in case they spared the guy).

Easy money, right?

Game Quotes

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