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Summary
Roxxy Sparks's boyfriend/bassist Brick has gone missing right before a big show. Runners are hired to find him, and liberate him from the 405 Hellhounds that were holding him hostage.
Background
The Meet
The runners' contact info is passed along to Roxxy via the job board, and asks them to meet her at the Skeleton. Reed has trouble getting there at first as neither her fixer nor wife want to drive her, but Raytheon is convinced to give her a lift for a modest fee.
An employee at the club tries to tell the runners that the club is closed since it's noon on a Monday, but Roxxy runs him off and lays out the situation. Her and Brick got into a fight last night and he ran off but hasn't turned back up.
Haggling occurs, she offers to give the runners access to some of the explosives and weapons the 'Weeners have gotten their hands on if they do the job, and off the runners go.
The Plan
Trades tracks Brick's commlink and it's located at a sex club in Bellevue called Powerline, but doesn't appear to have been used in the past few hours. Looking through his messages, it looks like he met up with his side piece, a Leather Devil named Duke, at the club to unwind after getting in a fight with Roxxy.
The runners pick up their gear, and Trades also starts hacking Duke's commlink. The location is traced to the side of the 405, and the most recent message was a call for backup after he started being tailed by 405 Hellhounds but the message was undelivered due to Squelching. She also finds some juicy blackmail data on some of Duke's clients as a prostitute, many of whom are local conservative politicians and the like. She sends that data to Norville Craddock, who is happy to store it away for future exploitation.
They drive up to the location, but run into a detour and police roadblock as Knight Errant are guarding some municipal workers tasked with cleaning up the aftermath of a rolling firefight.
After doing some recon with her FlySpy and hacking into the sensor suite of Duke's bike, the runners learn that Duke was killed after being attacked by the rival go gang and Brick was abducted for unknown reasons.