Cry of the Condemned

Cry of the Condemned
Date 2083-01-22 GM Archtmag Location Seguam Island, Aleutian Islands Status Threat Level: Semiprime
Factions Involved
ShadowHaven Miyuki 7	Renraku	Major Paige Jenkins (Allied Contact)
Bannerette Knox Pell Spider	Red Samurai	One borrowed Scorpio Rigid Inflatable Boat (RIB)
Casualties and losses
	Geothermal powerplant for a research island	One borrowed Scorpio RIB

Summary

The ShadowHaven team was contracted to free an apparent e-ghost from a Renraku research facility on a now-private island in the Aleutian chain.

Background

Renraku purchased a secluded island and turned it into a private research facility for sensitive (read: super-secret) projects. There was a geothermal powerplant built in the center of the island to run everything and five sites scattered around the island identified by letters: one administrative site, three operational research sites and one research site undergoing construction.

The apparent e-ghost of one Miyuki Kanekaw, research scientist for Renraku, smuggled a protosapient AI off the island with the resources and instructions to free her (it?). That metasapient AI, named 7, is the Johnson that contacted the runners.

The Meet

7, our Johnson for this caper, invited the runners to a meet in a privately rented Matrix server (kinda like renting a conference room or a temporary office) through a message in ShadowHaven's #ic-guest-node and all runners attended on the Matrix side. Over the tasting and testing of several alcoholic beverages (and I swear the Mac and Cheese Shots were tasty), the runners performed the usual bob-and-weave with their Johnson, though the Johnson was new to being a Johnson, to agree to take on a high-risk extraction from an island in the Pacific with high opposition from Renraku for 10,000 nuyen up front, 10,000 afterwards plus paydata and software.

The Plan

Infiltration onto the island was to hop a ride on a westbound cargo ship with a Scorpio Rigid Inflatable Boat (RIB) on board, inflate the RIB when the cargo ship's path reached it's closest arc to the island, and then approach the island from the south on the RIB.

Once the island was reached, reconnaissance would be the priority because the island's secluded location and high security prevented a lot of remote surveillance options. The team would have to discover where Miyuki was held on the island and then figure out how to break her out. Spider had enough space available in her gear to download Miyuki for transit.

There were three exfiltration options:
1) Wait three days on the island and link up with a returning cargo ship on an eastbound pass with the Scorpio.
2) Contact some local crab fisherman who were willing to make a buck and arrange a rendezvous.
3) Island hop to the east along the rest of the Aleutian Island towards Alaska.

The Run

The team approached the island from the south at night and skirted around the western edge of the island about five kilometers out, observing no traffic on sea or in the air, buoys displaying AR warnings, and regularly spaced watchtowers around the perimeter of the island about every two kilometers. The island is extremely bare with little animal life, no plant life larger than lichen and a landscape mostly of windswept rock and snow. The team did see the lights and shadows of a couple of the facilities in the dark and after reaching the northern shore, deciding to head into land close to the Renraku docks due to relative cover it provided.

Two kilometers from the shore, the team hit a mine that had not been displayed any Matrix or communications signals. The blast shredded the borrowed Scorpio. And Knox. And Bannerette. Pell and Spider escaped significant injury and managed to pull their comrades to shore with the assistance of a water spirit. The team literally dug into a crevasse inside a small ravine to dry out, warm up and heal. It took two days for Knox and Bannerette to recover, with Pell providing concealment with spirits and deploying some spirits for Astral recon and Spider making several dives into the facilities Matrix grid.

Aftermath

Our electronic Miyuki is free from the clutches of Renraku.

Renraku has functionally lost a secure research facility that will be very, very expensive to rebuild.

An untold number of combative protosapients have been unleashed into the world at large.

Rewards

Base RVP: 36 x 2.17(time) = 78 RVP

Dollars:

Upfront payment of 10,000 nuyen (5 RVP)
Follow-up payment in a mix of nuyen or gear (0-30,000 nuyen or 0-60,000 gear) (15 RVP)

Sense:

30 Karma (30 RVP)
40 CDP (19 RVP)
1 Street Cred (1 RVP)
Contact: Miyuki (7/2, pending Thematics approval) (8 RVP)

Game Quotes

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