Difference between revisions of "Hast Thou Considered the Tetrapod?"

Hast Thou Considered the Tetrapod?
	Part of Crouching Dragon, Hidden Tiger
Date	2080-10-06
GM	Purkinje
Location	Seattle
Result	Successful extraction.
Factions Involved
Decoy; Kani; Night Claws; Ranger	MCT Corpsec
Casualties and losses
None	8 Corpsec Officers

Revision as of 03:30, 7 October 2019

Summary

A technomancer is being held in captivity in a low-security MCT subsidiary building. A mysterious technomancer group hires the team to extract her before she is moved to a higher-security facility.

Background

After the events of Mirage Island, members of NCL School for the Gifted gathered the data for analysis. On the list were five technomancers in the Pacific Northwest wanted by MCT, one of whom was listed as captured. Scarlet of the Red Children mysteriously posted a job about this before the file was analyzed.

The Meet

The runners met with Scarlet in a private room in E-Wasted, where she explained that time was short before Monique Gray, the captured technomancer would be transferred to a high-security MCT building elsewhere in the city. Little was known about where exactly Gray was, but the file recovered from Mirage Island mentioned a missing persons report and included a physical description. Ranger talked Scarlet up to 6,000¥ each, after which the team left E-Wasted to begin their legwork.

The Plan

The missing persons report was tied to a news article describing where a mass shooting took place in Puyallup, killing twelve civilians before a Knight-Errant team broke up the fight. Night Claws was able to determine that a backroom deal had been made between KE and a fixer of unknown affiliation, though the others were able to determine that someone in a suit had been seen taking an injured person into an unmarked car that headed for a bar in Renton named "The Dirt." Ranger and Decoy identify the bar as a regular hangout of metaracist neighborhood watch gangs in the area.

The Run

After bribing the bartender, Ranger is able to get an audience with the fixer, whose name is Toshiko Johnson. Decoy tries to sweet-talk her, but fails to pierce her businesslike exterior; Ranger comes in to save the day by negotiating payment for the location of the facility where Monique Gray was being held. Night Claws searches for information about the facility, finding it to be owned by one Tartarus Risk Management Services Incorporated, a formerly A-rated security corp that nearly went bankrupt before being bought out by MCT in its rise to the top. He also pulls up floor plans.

After hacking the security system on an exterior window and using the floor plans to navigate a route down to what looked like holding cells in the basement, the team gets a call from a mysterious number offering an additional 4,000¥ if they destroyed as much as they possibly could before leaving. The team decided to take the offer, sabotaging the fire suppression system before easily mowing down the corpsec, extracting all prisoners they found on-site, and dousing everything in gasoline to set it ablaze. Night Claws had to contend with a security decker, but his fault sprite managed to win after taking a solid hit. Decoy had his Roadmaster launch high-explosive grenades at the top floor to clear out any resistance long enough for them to escape out the front door and speed off into the night.

Aftermath

Both the client and the mystery caller were pleased with their results. Payment was given as offered, and Night Claws was given an icon to a mysterious host referred to as "the Court of the Crimson King."

Rewards

6,000¥
4,000¥ bonus
2 Karma

Player After Action Reports (AARs)

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+| combatant1  = [[Decoy]]<br>[[Kani]]<br>[[Night Claws]]<br>[[Ranger]]
-| combatant2  = Four Oyabun Rengo
+| combatant2  = MCT Corpsec
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 ==Summary==
-A decker finds a mysterious host running out of a building in Touristville. He wants to know what it's protecting.
+A technomancer is being held in captivity in a low-security MCT subsidiary building. A mysterious technomancer group hires the team to extract her before she is moved to a higher-security facility.
 ==Background==
-On the Emerald City grid, there are rumors about a mysterious host called Mirage Island. There is little consistency to the rumors aside from two things: the host disappears and reappears, and nothing on it is anything good. A decker by the name of c1ph3r believes he has found the real Mirage Island, but his foray into its depths was only able to trace a single device slaved to the host: a computer terminal somewhere on the outskirts of Touristville. While in the host, he found a single file that wasn't junk. He wasn't able to grab it before he had to jack out.
+After the events of [[Mirage Island]], members of [[NCL School for the Gifted]] gathered the data for analysis. On the list were five technomancers in the Pacific Northwest wanted by MCT, one of whom was listed as captured. Scarlet of the Red Children mysteriously posted a job about this before the file was analyzed.
 ==The Meet==
-The runners met with c1ph3r in a strange host full of abstract geometry and platonic solids. The negotiation was straight and to-the-point: in exchange for 30,000¥, the team would recover the file. They were given the location of the terminal in Touristville, but there was little else to go on.
+The runners met with Scarlet in a private room in E-Wasted, where she explained that time was short before Monique Gray, the captured technomancer would be transferred to a high-security MCT building elsewhere in the city. Little was known about where exactly Gray was, but the file recovered from Mirage Island mentioned a missing persons report and included a physical description. Ranger talked Scarlet up to 6,000¥ each, after which the team left E-Wasted to begin their legwork.
 ==The Plan==
-After doing some legwork, the team learned that the location of the terminal was inside a BTL den operated by the Four Oyabun Rengo of the Yakuza. Night Claws was able to dig up a strange clause where customers were required to sign away their free while while inside and had to obey orders given by den operators. The building's security was poor, appearing to be a pre-millennial building outfitted with next to nothing in the way of reinforcements.
+The missing persons report was tied to a news article describing where a mass shooting took place in Puyallup, killing twelve civilians before a Knight-Errant team broke up the fight. Night Claws was able to determine that a backroom deal had been made between KE and a fixer of unknown affiliation, though the others were able to determine that someone in a suit had been seen taking an injured person into an unmarked car that headed for a bar in Renton named "The Dirt." Ranger and Decoy identify the bar as a regular hangout of metaracist neighborhood watch gangs in the area.
 ==The Run==
-Not initially finding much on the matrix except for a number of Meta-Link commlinks, the team decided to send Decoy and Yata in for physical infiltration. They climbed up the fire escape and onto the roof, where Yata picked the lock on a roof access door. The third and second floors of the building were largely unguarded, sparsely populated with malnourished addicts whose chipjacks were plugged into slots in the wall. On the ground floor, a Four Oyabun street samurai on patrol spotted them, and a firefight broke out. Night Claws provided matrix support from the car while Yata and Decoy engaged a team of four street samurai in the hallway. With ample bombardment from gas and Ultraglide grenades and a series of well-placed shots, the team managed to eliminate all OpFor on the ground floor. However, Night Claws spotted six more commlinks attached to smartguns elsewhere in the building, which led the team to look for a basement level.
+After bribing the bartender, Ranger is able to get an audience with the fixer, whose name is Toshiko Johnson. Decoy tries to sweet-talk her, but fails to pierce her businesslike exterior; Ranger comes in to save the day by negotiating payment for the location of the facility where Monique Gray was being held. Night Claws searches for information about the facility, finding it to be owned by one Tartarus Risk Management Services Incorporated, a formerly A-rated security corp that nearly went bankrupt before being bought out by MCT in its rise to the top. He also pulls up floor plans.
-In the meantime, Night Claws was spotted by a matrix security hacker. The two exchanged data spikes before the hacker vanished. Decoy had his Roadmaster shoot open the front door to make way for his Steel Lynx to provide fire support as he and Yata descended to the basement. Night Claws and his fault sprite proceeded to attack the smartguns in cybercombat, slowly dealing damage to them as lead flew in ample measure. Yata and Decoy were outnumbered, and the six samurai had an excellent defensive position; it took the intervention of a smoke grenade to turn the tide against the Four Oyabun samurai. Seeing themselves backed into a corner, they called upon the personafix chips installed into the addicts' chipjacks and forced them to attack Decoy and Yata. Decoy had his Steel Lynx gun them down, killing them all instantly in a hail of bullets.
+After hacking the security system on an exterior window and using the floor plans to navigate a route down to what looked like holding cells in the basement, the team gets a call from a mysterious number offering an additional 4,000¥ if they destroyed as much as they possibly could before leaving. The team decided to take the offer, sabotaging the fire suppression system before easily mowing down the corpsec, extracting all prisoners they found on-site, and dousing everything in gasoline to set it ablaze. Night Claws had to contend with a security decker, but his fault sprite managed to win after taking a solid hit. Decoy had his Roadmaster launch high-explosive grenades at the top floor to clear out any resistance long enough for them to escape out the front door and speed off into the night.
-Once the physical security had been handled, Night Claws proceeded to the basement and connected directly to the terminal, which was running a rogue host not anchored to the matrix foundation. Decoy ran his agent on his custom cyberdeck as backup. Inside, the host looked like a desert island blanketed in thick jungle. Searching through the jungle took some time, but between Night Claws, the companion sprite and the agent, they were able to find the file they were looking for in thirty seconds. However, a patrol IC spotted the agent and alerted the host, causing it to spawn a Blaster IC. The Blaster IC managed to link-lock Night Claws and the agent before they could escape with the file, but they were both able to break the link-lock and jack out in one piece. They fled the BTL den before backup arrived.
 ==Aftermath==
-The client was satisfied with the paydata. Night Claws' copy of the file revealed it to be an MCT North America report on confirmed SINless technomancers operating in the Pacific Northwest, listing bounties, a threat assessment, and physical description. One of the technomancers was listed as caught, held in a facility in Seattle.
+Both the client and the mystery caller were pleased with their results. Payment was given as offered, and Night Claws was given an icon to a mysterious host referred to as "the Court of the Crimson King."
 ==Rewards==
-*10,000¥
+*6,000¥
-*6 karma
+*4,000¥ bonus
+*2 Karma
 ===Player After Action Reports (AARs)===
 [[Category:Runs]]