Crossfire: Local Offensive
| Crossfire: Local Offensive | |||||||||
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| Part of Hail to the Pumpking | |||||||||
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ShadowHaven Jane Dior | Halloweeners | ||||||||
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Crone Frostbite Toughie | Halloween Flamers, Grenadiers & Pump King Jack | ||||||||
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| None | None | ||||||||
Summary
Runners rescue hostages from a gang-wrecked apartment block.
Background
Ever since Pump King Jack got back to the surface, he's redoubled his efforts to recruit as many Halloweeners as possible to his overthrowing campaign. It was only a matter of time before things became overtly violent.
The Meet
Jane's outside of the cordon surrounding Sophocles, leveling the situation with the team: there's an apartment complex full of locals that are getting caught in the crossfire of Knight Errant strike teams and Halloweener Starscreamers duking it out on the streets. She wants them out of the cordon before the gangers break into the complex and do anything to the inhabitants. Most managed to evacuate in time, but some are still around. While she promises to pay for each survivor and every taken down ganger, she'll appreciate it even more if the job's done quietly so she can cover for the team by taking credit for the rescue and bolstering her career with the admirable care for civilian lives. While she's perfectly aware of the runners' backgrounds as career criminals, she won't stick too hard to the book if it gets innocent lives saved.
The Plan
Given some planning, an escort inside of the cordon in an unmarked white van and some spirit scouting, the team begins formulating a plan to exfil the civilians without raising an alarm. There's plenty of Starscreamers already in the building, so they plan to advance through the fire escape to the third floor, skip across the balconies and open some of the bedroom windows to rope the civilians down to street level. Canter's spirit scouting does wonders here.