Time to Attack
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| Part of Hail to the Pumpking | |||||||||
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| ShadowHaven | Shiawase | ||||||||
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Sp4rks Master Morty Ca1yps0 | |||||||||
Summary
Jack starts a smear campaign against Shiawase to get them to back off. Runners decide this is fine.
Background
The Starscreamers in Sophocles have begun getting stronger, but strength invites challenge. Knight Errant, Black Lodge, Shiawase and possibly even Urubia in the future. Jack's decided he's had enough of trying to be accommodating and goes on the offensive now.
The Meet
Jack's right hand, a dissonant technomancer meets the runners in a wiped clean host that she has presumably completely wrecked. Plain white void with but a glitchy humanoid persona meeting them is an alarming sign for Calypso, but the meet is a disaster regardless. Chitin, the technomancer, is not exactly a people person and only delivers Jack's offer to them, unable to really negotiate too much on his behalf. She offers some scrap components they have as leftovers from Shiawase HTR teams and other dissidents, Jack's trademark stolen karma empowerment and the liberty steal any paydata they want from their target: a clandestine UV host on Shiawase's Central Grid rumored to host forbidden secrets.
For obvious reasons, the team's reserved about hitting the target, but Chitin reassures them that they're paid for the risk and that she has as much information as possible -- she can put them on the right path and even escort them to the entrance, but beyond that they're on their own. The intent is to replace some odd two hundred personnel files with forgeries, planting evidence of an insect spirit infestation among the ranks of Shiawase's Seattle personnel. The team does eventually accept, but Calypso tries to explain to Chitin how bad of an idea it is to work for a shadow spirit. Unfortunately, the ingratiated technomancer doesn't seem to hear the wisdom in the mermaid's words.
Legwork
The Run
Aftermath
Rewards
Player After Action Reports (AARs)
Master Morty
Pumpking Jack, a shadow spirit taking over the area of Sophocles, is looking to make his mark on the Matrix. Not sure why, but a job's a job, and this one promises the sweet sweet reward of POWER. I've made deals with the devil before, and this one is no different. I'm starting to feel that there might one day be a price for all these deals I keep accepting, but the end justifies the means doesn't it? Anyway, another dive into an Ultraviolet Host, this time to plant some files in the Archives to bring shame to Shiawase. Don't much like being slaved to my physicality, but I will do what I have to. We get in, plant the data, and get out by the skin of our teeth. Another dive, another payday. I go to the meet with Jack, and he's every bit the anti-christ I expect him to be, full of horror and promises of power. But he delivers, with that wide grin of his, and I can feel the power swimming through me, settling in and getting cozy. One step closer to my goal...? Only time will tell."