Cutthroat Showbiz
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ShadowHaven Finnigan Family | Ancients | ||||||||
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Colcannon Ren Throwback Runner4 |
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Summary
Runners get hired by a member of the Finnigan Family to whack an Ancients BLT producer muscling in on her business. They do so, with lots of grenades and bloodshed.
Background
Nix, a BTL producer working for the Ancients, has paid a dirty cop to leak intel about other BTL producers and dealers to him. Unfortunately, a number of those people are under the employ of one Robyn Hayes, a member of the Finnigan Family who really doesn't enjoy having her money fucked with. Still, rolling up with a crew herself would likely spark a hot gang war with the Ancients, and that's more trouble than it's worth, so she reaches out to the ShadowHaven for assistance.
The Meet
The runners are instructed to meet at a laundromat/dry cleaners and to give the attendant present a code phrase. They do so, and are lead to a vice den hidden beneath the establishment. Their Johnson, Mrs. Hayes, meets them in her office and is rather upfront about the issue she's having with a rival BTL dealer, and offers to pay them to make sure that the man is dead and his studios are thoroughly trashed so someone else can't just pick up the pieces. She shares freely what intel she's been able to gather so far. She's been able to track him down to an apartment building in Tarislar, but she doesn't know which units specifically belong to Nix, and a buddy in the Merlyns has noticed that the local spirits are oddly protective of Nix's holdings despite him not being a mage. The runners agree to the job, and Mrs. Hayes offers a little extra if they can also manage to figure out how Nix found out about her BTL industry contacts.
The Plan
Throwback hits the Matrix to see what he can find out about their target, and manages to find photos of him on social media and finds out that black BTLs are a major part of Nix's business. Researching the apartment building reminds the team that Tarislar is one of the few parts of the Puyallup Barrens with a notable KE presence. The team decides approaching quietly might be for the best, and heads to Tarislar to scope the building out. Throwback hits the building's host and finds a set of five units (3 on the fifth floor, 2 on the fourth) all leased by the same person, who is paying well above market rates and only via credstick for them. Checking security cameras near the units all but confirms that these belong to Nix, as there's a gaggle of Ancients hanging out in the hallway keeping a lookout and at least one chiphead wandering in to get a fix. Further investigation reveals a half dozen MCT gun turrets in the fifth floor rooms, and a lookout hanging out on an adjacent building's roof. The team decides that getting to the apartment's roof and working their way through the target's holdings is the best plan of action, but that means dealing with the lookout first.
The Run
Aftermath
Rewards
Game Quotes
Player After Action Reports (AARs)
Throwback "I might be getting a little big for these kinds of jobs. The pay is alright I suppose and the risk low but I really need to step up my game a little."