Tea Time

Tea Time
Date 2081-01-21 GM Divergent0 Location University
Factions Involved
ShadowHaven Trash Panda Esper Reverie Dr-Boo

Summary

A team of infiltrators is hired to investigate a series of college student disappearances connected to a drug ring.

Background

At the University of Washington campus in downtown Seattle, college student attendance has been dwindling. Many have stopped attending classes altogether. Concerns among the faculty have been growing, and when several students go missing over the course of a week, several professors and staff members scrape together funds to hire a team of shadowrunners referred by Spider.

The Meet

The team jacks in to the matrix to meet with Spider, who explains the situation in broad terms before connecting them to her computer science professor. The professor answers the team's questions, and they learn that the students who had gone missing or shown signs of truancy were largely connected to the sorority/fraternity scene, where illegal drug use is believed to be on the rise this year. She can't provide much more information, but offers the team 40,000¥ to investigate the situation in more detail and provide a full report along with evidence. The team decides not to bargain for more pay, as it would reflect poorly on Spider if they extorted her contact.

The Legwork

Reverie decides to call her contact Trip Softly, who is well-connected in the city's illegal drug trade. Strangely, he seems to know exactly what's going on. He tells Reverie that Ghost Cartel traffickers have been pushing a new, more potent and addictive strain of Tex-Mex Tea to the students at UW, and in exchange for providing a sample for analysis, he wants all the Tex-Mex Tea the team can get on the job. They agree, and he gives them the sample. Dr. Boo does some testing on it, finding it to be more or less what Trip described. Trash Panda decides to do some herself, and has a good time.

Meanwhile, Esper calls up Rick Rampant for information about the Ghost Cartels' recent operations in Seattle. Strangely, he also seems to know exactly what's going on and who to get in contact with, but Esper decides not to pay for him to arrange a meeting with someone high-up in the organization, as it would be expensive and risky. He instead provides information about a known low-level dealer on campus, a member of the Alpha Phi sorority who will be at a party the next day. Esper informs the others, and they devise a plan.

The Plan

Esper spends time researching how to act as a ditzy college girl and makes costumes for herself and Trash Panda. They plan to go to the party posing as sorority members who transferred from another campus in the sprawl, find out about the dealer, and then tail her to find out more about her supplier. Not knowing exactly where this will lead, the team decides to wing it after that, having Dr. Boo waiting nearby in his van disguised as a street sweeper. In case something goes wrong, he and Reverie will remain near the party to provide backup.

The Run

On the night of the party, Esper and Trash Panda show up fashionably late. Their disguises are not seen through, and their cover story is bought.

Rewards

• ¥10,000
• 8 Karma

Player After Action Reports (AARs)

Dr. Boo

We did the job well, but I'm less than satisfied that some evildoers are poisoning the promising youth in here, but it's not my job to track down every evildoer and bring justice to them. If the Johnson wants the problem dealt with better, she can hire me again, for a LOT more money.

Esper

The team performed very well. We faced little suspicion or opposition thanks to a combination of expert surveillance, social infiltration, physical infiltration, and psychic overwatch. I regret that nothing could be done about the missing students, but ultimately their disappearances were no more nefarious than your average drug dealer taking calculated losses during their "investment" phase. I hope the clients got what they wanted. We certainly handled our end of the bargain.