Real Maiming Hours
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| Part of The Life and Times of One Kevin Crimes | |||||||
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ShadowHaven Yoon Myung-ju Kera Charon Roadkill Burn0ut Hot Mess |
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Summary
A guy gets sucked to death. Ouch. Then there's a break-in. Yeowch. Then a guy gets his arm surgically removed. Oof.
Background
Kevin Crimes hired a bunch of runners earlier to deliver a blow against the Crimson Crush, a certain metahuman gang that encroached on Cutter territory. While the job itself had gone well, Kevin hadn't delivered all the way as far as payment is concerned, prompting a fixer from ShadowHaven to rectify this post-haste and organize another job to ensure he doesn't take the Haven lightly.
The Meet
Yoon Myung-ju called the group to a restaurant with a trid projector showcasing a third party, both of them working on behalf of the Haven. The basic gist of the situation is brought forth: underpaying runners is going to reflect badly, something most of the party agreed upon right away. To send a message, Myung-ju suggests taking the remainder of the payment by force in blood, either by cutting off a finger, a hand or an entire arm. At this point, one of the original hires for the job, Kitsune decides this is a bit too much for her moral standing and peaces out. Understandably so, given the grisly offering set forth by the fixer. The team quickly forwards the offer to another runner, a necromancer by the name of Kera. After the group agrees, Myung-ju notes that Crimes is hard to track down given he's often on the move. His right hand man, however, an ork named Boris is known to live in Seattle, protected by a less than bright security team. With this information to go on, she leaves the runners to figure it out.
The Plan
Given their team composition, things take a moment to formulate. First, it's obvious that tracking Crimes down on foot in Cutter territory is likely to warrant attention, so it'd be better to go after Boris instead. Kera can offer plenty of assistance if she gets a fresh corpse to reanimate (despite the act being incredibly illegal even for runners) and so the group will have to yoink a hobo or a Cutter to help them as insurance against any possible security. Once they get hold of Boris by kidnapping him in his sleep, they'll extract as much information as possible from him, take him back to his apartment. The guy's relatively innocent after all. Then it's a bee line to... "disarming" Kevin.
The Run
Things kick off fantastically. In Hot Mess' little Armadillo van, the team make way for Boris' apartment and nab a very unfortunate Cutter on the way there. Charon makes a very convincing case for the poor guy to spill the beans on everything he knows regarding their targets, but unfortunately he's not of much help. Grassroots thugs compared to lieutenants, what'd they expect? Charon promises and even assures the gang member that his compliance has just saved his life, only to immediately betray him and suck him dry right there in the van. Leaving the pristine and immaculately fresh corpse to Kera, they drive to her lodge next to allow her to reanimate the thug's body. While this takes a few hours, they're in no particular rush just yet.
Next comes Boris. It's easy to find the front entrance and thanks to the zombie's help the group manages to get past the maglocks and keypads. Boris gets paralyzed, injected with Narcojet -and- bound just in case, then taken to a back alley for interrogation. Point blank with a vampire, a flamethrower's nozzle and an actual fragging zombie, he's unsurprisingly very forthcoming with his information. Kevin Crimes likes being on the move all the damn time and as a result goes around Cutter territory in a big bus. When prodded more, he makes a fairly educated guess that he'll be on the east end of Cutter turf at one in the morning. Satisfied with these answers, the party brings him back and makes sure he might just mistake this to be a nightmare.
It's the final showdown. The Armadillo van beelines it to Cutter territory and while they're not entirely undetected, no alarms go off either. The bus is stationary but heavily armored with turret emplacements and somewhat amateurish plating all around. Handling this part quietly seems unlikely, so the team goes loud and assaults the bus in its entirety. Charon makes a beeline for the car and climbs the back end of its shoddy armor plating while the zombie eats bullets for breakfast as an undead meatsack and