DRUG FIGHT!
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ShadowHaven The Grey | Major Corp | ||||||||
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Alfa Epsilon Renato Wayfarer Thrim Lumina |
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Summary
The Last Stuffer Shack before Redmond in Bellevue has been siphoning away some of the Grey's street drug business, and sits in the way of the Grey's expansion, but no one could figure out what or why was actually happening. The David cartel was running tests out of a Stuffer Shack and had hired some LA muscle to keep eyes on the shop and keep it from getting overloaded or turning into a riot as the addiction levels of the neighborhood picked up pretty furiously. Then it was time for Gamma Grey to hire a crew and keep the gangland hostilities from increasing or spilling out.
Our runners headed straight to the stuffer shack and focused on the "Give the store a black eye" portion of the job but did (more or less) successfully figure out how the drugs were being disbursed and what was happening, and totally did some murder and mayhem enough to lower the store's rep even further.
Background
Two unknown cartel operators dropped a crate of modified slushi fluid off on the roof of Stuffer Shack 94231 in Bellevue, and set the stock drones to pull cartridges from said crate for certain new brains of slush mix. Folks in the neighborhood quickly noticed something was up and started buying the far more expensive mixes hidden in the menu, which ring out at 25 nuyen not 1 nuyen. However the cartel was only in the experimentation phase, there was no revenue leaving the stuffer shack loop.
The potent combo of Cram and EX loaded into the slushie mix was immediately addictive to a wide range of local junkies, who opted to use the shack rather than the Grey's more expensive awakened drug supply. Tipping off the Grey something is happening, who weere happy to throw down cash for the pc's to look into the matter on his behalf.
The Meet
The team is unceremoniously tipped off to a street level gig with a gang the Haven has had decent luck with over in Bellevue, largely texts from fixers in this case, and the gang makes its way to the Bellevue garage that the Grey have been slowing turning into the new Seattle Mothership.
After a brief pat down and relatively straightforward introduction, Gamma Grey explains the situation and offers 10K for finding the drugs, stopping the flow of drugs, and giving the stuffer shack "a black eye." Alfa negotiated a bonus structure or additional pay for unforeseen situations and some medical care if need be. The gang was more than happy with the rate and took off to get into the weeds of the job.
The Plan
This was not the kind of run that involved a lot of legwork or planning. They headed over, Thrim parking a few blocks away under the chameleon coating of his truck, the rest of the gang got into position to "infiltrate" the stuffer shack inside and outside.
The Run
The crew headed over to check out the stuffer shack, doing a combo of physical and fly spy recon with a little bit of matrix checking. The host, like most stuffer hosts, was absolutely destroyed.
Renato and Epsilon eventually making their way inside while Wayfarer posted out outside, and Lumina snuck in ninja style under an RPC. It was at this point that Thrim found Gossamer, a non haven affiliated decker, laying under an RPC cloak out back and doing something with the host. Alfa enters astral and between he and Lumina they identify the presence of a half dozen r more addicts in the location.
The team notes a preponderance of Chulos and at least one Burning Angel from LA alongside them, and slip in underneath the radar of the ganger. Epsilon enters the destination host of the stuffer shack to order a slushie and immediately sees gossamer teeing up the machines to fill several oversized slushy cups for the next few people in line.
Thrim accidentally alerted the Chulos something was up in the hood, as they had made some KE inroads and knew there shouldn't be a patrol vehicle in their hood. They gathered a few extra cars of goons and pulled in just as Renato was running out of patients and tried interrogated some junkies in line and then stomped over to a security guard to suss them out.
It all more or less popped off at once as Wayfarer made a break for Thrim, noting an out of place crate on top of the shack, and Renato teed up that he was about to try and knock out a guard. Inside things get a bit hot for Renato and Epsilon as rest of the guards react, and the Burning Angel adept sees Alfa throw up a mana barrier and heads that way out of spite.
Lumina knocks out Gossamer as soon as his hired help clears he scene and Wayfarer, Thrim, and Alfa us a combination of napalm, vehicular violence and martial arts to run down nearly a dozen gangers outside of stuffer shack, while Alfa's spirit and Lumina clean up the remaining gangers on the outside.
The team puts together the secret is in the slushie mix and steal a crate of modified drug loaded slushie mix cartridges on the way out the door, scooping up gossamer and turning both the decker and the drugs over to the The Grey, and recieving a sizeable bonus from Gamma for the trouble.
Aftermath
A few dead or heavily injured chulos . an Aztechnology experiment moving on to another city, and the grey probably got a new decker. Everyone got paid and there were some reputational adjustments from surrounding parties.