Stock in Trade

Stock in Trade
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Factions Involved
ShadowHaven	Major Corp
Runner1 Runner2 Runner3 Runner4	Character1 Character2

Summary

A financial services firm loses a wealthy client, and the catches wind of his unexpected stock market success. They hire shadowrunners to look into the matter, who end up uncovering a network of insider traders and tip-sellers.

Background

Miles Carruthers is a Stuffer Shack franchise owner, hustle culture guru, and Tacoma A-zone resident. He formerly entrusted a financial services firm, Michaels & Michaels, with managing his investment portfolios - that is, until recently. Recently, he stopped using their services, and almost immediately began making a number of highly profitable trades on the stock market. He's publicly very proud of this, posting all over P2.1 about it and advertising his own services as a financial advisor, adding himself to the long and proud (?) legacy of hustle culture grifters that populate the 21st century.

Michaels & Michaels is suspicious, and decide to do a bit of investigation of their own. With some cursory calls, they manage to get their hands on some interesting Matrix footage: a mysterious woman dropping an equally mysterious suitcase in a Downtown alleyway, and then, about a half hour later, Miles himself going into that alleyway and coming out with the briefcase.

They contract a Johnson to hire a team of infiltrators, faces, and matrix specialists to investigate this further.

Unknown to Michaels & Michaels, the disguised woman is one Clover Osborne, an ex-Evo limited SINner and biotech researcher. Eveline Powers is more in the know - and has seen the footage too. She pulls some strings to get Exodus on the job, hoping to recover an asset or eliminate a leak.

The Meet

The team meets the Johnson at a Tacoma restaurant, Margarita's. There, he intimates to them the parameters of the job, as well as the basic information the runners have available - including the recordings of the aforementioned dropoff happening. The team questions the Johnson, and finds out that they don't actually know who the woman who made the dropoff was; her face didn't show up in any public records, so it's probably a disguise.

Eventually the conversation comes around to payment. The Johnson offers a graduated scale: Find out where the packages are coming from for 8k nuyen, find out who exactly is responsible for their sending and earn an extra 6k, and if there are insider trading tips involved, find out who is supplying them - expose the whole thing - for an additional 6k.

Some tag-team negotiation from Invictus and Backseat net the runners an extra 4k spread across the three tiers. That settled, they get to work.

Game Quotes

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