Museum of Plight

Museum of Plight
Part of Light the Shadows
Date 2082-6-15 GM Sleevey Location Museum of Flight, Seattle Status Threat Level: High
Factions Involved
ShadowHaven The Chaos Collective	Renraku	Other Rich and Powerful Figures in Seattle
Potato Trample Prince Gav Jacinto	Ugomori Kanjiro	Jonathen Goodwel, Trenton Brock, Ikeda Takeji, Mitsue Yuuko, Kyle Baxter, Arthur Knight
Casualties and losses
Trample (Captured by Knight Errant)	Ugomori Kanjiro's Repuation

Summary

Chaos is brought to a gathering of the rich and powerful.

Background

In the wake of the Light the Shadows campaign, in the wake of Trample's antic at the Theatre, in the wake of King Beef's rampage, the rich and powerful of Seattle had grown scared. The threads of chaos had begun to reach out to them. So they would hold a charity event to show to the world that they were not afraid. Ludicrous.

The runners received a message. While Potato, Prince and Gav got the message through their fixers as they finished prepping suits, eating pastries and dueling vampires, Trample received hers directly from the source. It was a message filled with static, in which a crackling voice told them, by name, that they were need. It promised wealth for bringing chaos to the rich. There as a location attached, a public park, downtown. Curious, yet enthralled, the runners began to converge on the location.

The Meet

As the dwarf, centaur, human and dryad stepped out they were met with a lonely public park. A hill rising to a bench with a few tufts of grass and trees rising up. The streetlights around the park were off, the cameras as well. Slumped over on the singular bench, was an anthrodrone with a large, square, trid projector for a head.

Stepping onto the park itself, the runners were met by a cacophany of matrix noise, localized entirely within the confines of the park. As they approached the drone, the screen buzzed to life, displaying static. As the runners gathered around, the anthrodrone rose. Phantom O, in the chrome.

He explained his conundrum. In 26 hours, there would be a gathering of the rich and the powerful at the Museum of Flight. While it was dubbed a charity event, the true purpose was simple. It was a show of strength, to show that the rich and powerful were not afraid of the world and its problems. Phantom O didn't like that. So, he offered the runners as much as 32,000 nuyen to bring chaos to the event. He mentioned that, while bloodshed or picking off key members of the crowd would cause a stir, what her wanted was something that would get people talking. A show. Something ... big. His anthrodrone screen looked at Trample as the words crackled out.

The phantom gave a suggestion of disguising as members of the yellow lotus triad but made clear such a thing was merely suggestion. Whatever brought Chaos, like what Trample did at the theatre, would be enough.

With those scattered pieces of information, the drone flicked off and the runners set off, the lights of the park slowly turning on, one by one, as the anthrodrone went up in flames behind them. They had a job to do.

The Plan

Potato and Prince began with a tour of the museum of flight for further information while Trample attempted a deep dive matrix search. Unfortunately, the information evaded the centaur's grasp, outside of a few bigwig's from the big ten, including Ares, would be present. Potato bought a ticket and pranced around the place, examining wall thickness, exits and the general layout of the place while Prince tracked down an employee and convinced them he was a bodyguard of one of the Ares folks. He charmed his way to the intern's boss and managed to pull a couple names. Kyle Baxter, a horizon backer and Ugomori Kanjiro, a minor Renraku shareholder and board member.

With the new information in hand, Trample decided to try and dig up dirt on Ugomori in a Renraku Internal Sales Host on the other side of the world. After bricking some poor spider's deck and squeezing in, Trample was able to secure information on Ugomori. It seemed that around 20 years ago, he had forced the previous Board Member to transfer all of his assets to Ugomori. With that career ending info, Trample began to escape, only to receive a dataspike from a second spider, almost frying her deck as she logged out.

They settled on a plan. After the guests had filed in, Potato would set charges. Prince and Gav would get Trample onto the stage where she would expose the corruption of Ugomori and tell the crowd they had their dirty secrets too. Better they confess them now before the shadows release them on their terms. A bluff, but a strong one.

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