Sixteen Tons
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ShadowHaven Urban street shaman group | An unrated corporation, Brightstar Consortium | ||||||||
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Farsight KBC Koi Roadkill | |||||||||
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| One toxic shaman | |||||||||
Summary
The runners were hired by a group of urban shaman to save a construction site that included a massive concrete slab of critical importance to the The Union of Pebbles, Gravel, Limestone, and Debris, local 414 - a group of urban concrete spirits.
They sabotaged the construction site and ultimately convinced the VP of BrightStar Consortium to halt construction and give the land to the urban shaman to safeguard.
Background
[Farsight], [KBC], [Koi], and [Roadkill] arrived at the meet. It looked like a warehouse nightclub. They had to display the curious rune from the run post to get in. This proved to be a picture of the intersection where the warehouse nightclub for the urban shaman is located. In the parking lot, they encountered Billy the Shaman who was interacting with all of the cars parked there, almost as if they were living animals he was shepherding.
Once inside, [KBC] was drawn to a man in construction clothes talking about how concerned he was that a building was going to be torn down. (He would prove to be an ally spirit of the urban shaman Jerry.) Jerry realized the group were the runners hired by head urban shaman Zen. [Farsight] could see that Zen and Jerry were shaman, and the construction worker was a spirit of concrete. Jerry gave the construction worker a brick.
The Meet
Zen, the Johnson, explained that the runners would need to do whatever was necessary to stop the site from being demolished. She provided the address. It was clear that it was very important to the construction worker spirit, also.
Zen paid them up front.
She also agreed that they could use the basement room on the back of the club for planning.
The Plan
[KBC] searched the matrix for information about the building, the person or organization who bought it, and any recent cases of construction being halted to see what reasons had been sufficient in the past. They learned that the building was an old union building, over 100 years old. The foundation was very unusual - a massive unbroken slab of concrete extending not only under the building, but under its parking lot as well. KBC knew with her knowledge of construction that there was no mundane reason to have a foundation of that size, or to use a single piece of concrete like that. She asked [Farsight] if there could be a magical explanation.
[Farsight] scouted in astral. He