Enemy of my Enemy
| Enemy of my Enemy | |||||||||
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ShadowHaven Humanis Policlub | Ares Blacksite OpSec | ||||||||
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Babylon Stygian Frostbite Zenith Carolina Petrovski | |||||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||||
| None | Two kidnapped Ancients were rescued! | ||||||||
Summary
Two black mages with very loose morals and a couple of street sams infiltrate a blacksite and get some dirt to fuel a cowgirl's crusade. It's weird, I know.
Background
Carolina Petrovski is a central figure in the Renton Crusade and has begun to plan a direct strike on the HMHVV III infected in the Renton Underground after she failed to coax the Skraacha out; while collateral damage wouldn't be something she'd feel too bad about, she gave Ghaz her word that she'd back off their doorstep and gassing the tunnels below the streets would break that promise. As a result, she's had to begin gearing up for an underground war.
The Meet
Meeting Carolina in the Humanis base of operations that Stygian had visited discreetly during the mission Worlds Collide, the team is let in by a posing Troll Killer mage, masking his aura to be way higher than it really is. After offering some expensive whiskey and exchanging verbal fire back and forth with Babylon - who openly antagonizes her Johnson - Carolina explains that her Ares contact has begun to get cold feet over supplying her troops with heavy ordnance for her operations. Wanting to put the guy's balls in a vice and make him go through with his deal, she offers them tens of thousands of nuyen each to go visit an Ares blacksite where plenty of missing people have ended up and get proper evidence of the activities there; time is of the essence, so they'll have to move fast. Bonus pay will arrive if this is done discreetly.
The Plan
Some legwork with astral projection is done by Babylon and as usual, Ares' magical protection is laughable aside from a few minor exceptions. Carolina offers to get them temporary and convincing burner SINs to get in if they want to be professional about this. Three will infiltrate through Route 2 while one stays back and checks a smaller outpost used for monitoring the river water quality.
The Run
Babylon, Stygian and Zenith get in a car and start driving, posing as asset reviewers (which is aided by their social skills and Babylon's contact decker sneaking an upcoming visitation from three weeks later to that very day). The guards don't spot anything to be wrong and let them in where the paperwork executive called Ms. Zheng Yu is ready to meet the trio. Stygian goes on the offensive to try to shake the woman up, but despite his convincing and pompous act as an Ares bigwig, Yu is no stranger to adversity and offers to make up for the (apparently) mixed up calendar schedule. Babylon goes off investigating 'assets' on her own and bumps into a doctor who is in charge of the test subjects kept unconscious on the blacksite. They appear to be doing some sort of research on their dreams, maintaining them in a perpetual REM-state. Babylon spots the elven albino twins she recognizes as being Ancients members. After faking symptoms of arrhytmia in both of them, she cons the doctor into stabilizing them and gets them hauled into her car, promising to get them back in 72 hours after providing proper medical attention at one of Ares' better medical facilities.
Stygian and Zenith, meanwhile, are off to meet the local spider, a pink mohawk-wielding gray-haired war veteran who smokes until visibility drops to zero inside of a shipping contained turned into spider den. He's clearly far too competent to be fired from his job, given his uncaring nature towards protocol and open tantrums over brass incompetence. While he's distracted and jacked out by the higher-ups visiting, Zenith palms in a data tap which their decker guardian angel uses to steal as many valuable files as he can find. Before anyone's the wiser, Zenith takes the tap back, the spider named Jack jacks back in with a grumble and Zheng Yu reports that the rest seems to have gone as well as can be expected with low funding. Frostbite, meanwhile has been investigating a purification site and took pictures of paper documents for additional reference.
Aftermath
After providing the evidence to Carolina, she offers them full payment as promised, though what Babylon doesn't mention is that she copied the information and gave it to the Ancients alongside the albino twins who are very happy to be rescued; naturally, this bumps her reputation up a bit. Unsurprisingly, working for Humanis is lucrative -- but what are they going to do with the weapons that the runners just secured for her?
Rewards
- 26,000 Nuyen
- 2 CDP
- 1 Ancients Faction Reputation
- Optional Contact: Carolina Petrovski, 6/1 Generalist (Cost: 6 RVP)
- For Stygian: 1 Chip for Amelie and Jean-Baptiste
- For Zenith: 1 Chip for Ghaz
- For Babylon: 2 Ancients Faction Reputation, -6,000 Nuyen for decker services.
Player After Action Reports (AARs)
Frostbite AAR: BT001
- Report_Operation: Entered water treatment station at area 1 to secure an escape route. Placed data-tap, recorded documents on the facility, and then climbed the station to use as a . . . while the team documented, as well as exfiltrated 2 subjects of importance. After operation completion, I reobtained the data-tap, and exited my original entry point without being detected.
- Report_Runners: Contact with the Johnson was less subtle than originally anticipated, the runners did not maintain a 100% professional standard - - - though regardless, in planning they seemed to have experience to allow an inverse of the common dynamics. Zenith and Stygian seemed to have an . . . conversation of . . . while Babylon was . . . the run went as anticipated, and we got paid – While their professionalism was . . . Their efficiency was respectful – future contact with these individuals will have a [POSITIVE] effect on my longevity within this profession.
- Report_Opinion: My own – minor jobs, tend to have micro-instances of violence, followed by an escape for minimal pay – and threat that there is a - - - Resurgence in continued conflict. This operation was in comparison better payed, as well as have better information before initiation of conflict. This was a - - - - - - - - pleasant - - experience. I would welcome continued endeavors of this – kind.