Moulin Rouge!

Moulin Rouge!
Date 2081-04-24 GM Ghostlin Location Downtown Seattle
Factions Involved
ShadowHaven Moth Usagi Twitch Henry Explicit	Horizon SpinGlobal

Summary

A Horizon Johnson wanted help for his friend, Ian Hawke. A Horizon producer/director best known for 'art film' rather than the highly popular commercial offerings. Ian was staging a production of Moulin Rouge - a fifth world musical. SpinGlobal was planning to disrupt it.

The runners needed to assess and improve on-site security. And then defend against the incoming threats.

They succeeded and got paid.

Background

Ian Hawke had transformed an area as large as a city block downtown into a set for Moulin Rogue. There was a red windmill. A full sized elephant. A cabaret hall. It was a security nightmare. Lots of areas hidden from sight. Poor cyber security. No magic security.

The Meet

The Johnson was wearing an all white suit, sitting in the soybucks on the first floor of Horizon's downtown offices. He explained the job.

It sounded pretty straight forward. The worst part was meeting the producer/director at 7 am in the morning the next day. That was awfully early for several of the runners.

The Plan

Twitch researched the producer/director and the set location.

Moth called in her physical security expert, Heavy Metal, and her magical security expert, The Steward, to work the site. That couldn't hurt.

Usagi purchased cameras that Twitch could rig up to address all the gaps in the security video footage.

The runners planned to meet with the producer/director and his security people, and plan from there.

The Run

Twitch drove the team in Baby, so they arrived in style.

However, they soon learned that the producer/director needed everyone in period clothing, suitable to the production and film. Even his crew had to wear costumes. Usagi and Henry Explicit shrugged into 19th century clothes over and under their armor. Moth dressed as a cabaret dancer.

Twitch met with the cyber security lead, who appeared to have no idea what they were doing. He took over cyber security from an office.

The others patrolled.

Sure enough, an attack came. SpinGlobal sent rollerblading thugs with razor-wire yoyos. And paint guns. They wrecked some of the cameras and props with the paint guns before attacking the folks on patrol.

Usagi fought off the thugs near him, dealing an overwhelming amount of damage.

Henry Explicit relied on flash bang grenades and took out two as well.

Twitch shut down an attacking decker very quickly, and was able to focus on providing 'I am the Firewall' protection to the others, and help from his combat drone. He helped Moth. She inspired the team, while the drone took down one attacker, and she was eventually able to shoot the other.

Everyone used stick & shock.

The threat was ended.

But props were destroyed and a dancer injured, twisting an ankle fleeing the trouble.

Everyone worked together into the night repairing the props, and Moth stepped in and filled in for the injured dancing. The show must go on!

The clients were happy, and they all got paid.

Aftermath

They interrogated the prisoners and found that a producer of popular commercial films at Horizon was working with SpinGlobal and behind the attack. This information was certainly important to share to their Johnson also.

And Moth, undisguised, is now in the official movie of the production.

Rewards

12k nuyen
3 karma
+2 Horizon
-1 SpinGlobal
+2 CDP

Moth: +1 PA, Moulin Rouge burlesque outfit (not really valuable).

Game Quotes

Amusing quote from game.

Moth

Moth here. This was my 15th run. (Full report to follow.)