The Ghost of the Sprawl
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ShadowHaven The Vory | Yellow Lotus Triad | Headcases of Boston | ||||||||
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Koschei Shrike Strobe Jowls |
The Ghost of the Sprawl Jianhong Gao | |||||||||
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Summary
Koschei gets her revenge.
Background
Koschei was turned by a triad vampire one night. After a firefight between the Vory and Triads, only the two were left alive. The mysterious triad man crossed the distance and drained Koschei's essence and left her to become a beast that drinks the souls of the living to survive. He dissapeared into the night and Koschei thought he was gone forever, her revenge out of sight. Until now.
After the events of Mutaquality, Koschei discovered her target living in Boston. She called in what little favors she had on the man, learning he was essentailly erased on the matrix. What little legwork could be done turned up a triad casino called "The Shimmering Teardrop" and a powerful and proud triad adept named Jianhong Gao. He might be the only good lead, if he didn't kill them all.
The Meet
The runners filed into a Vory bar where Koschei called them. It was ... simple. Koschei went over the horrors of her transformation and went over what modest payment she could offer. It was not a lot. The runners milled over whether heading into the depths of a CFD infested hellscape was worth it for 6k nuyen but eventually decided that doing the world and their fellow runner a good deed was worth it. With the support of Svyeta, Koschei handed over a set of fake Docwagon SINs and the runners and their Vory driver headed off on the long roadtrip to Boston, bonding over Real Housewives of Seattle on the way and ignoring Jowls' vague racistness towards elves.
The Plan
Slipping into the city with their fake SINs and identity was a process but with the skill of expensive burner SINs and 2 confident faces, it was no trouble.
The city itself was another beast. The streets were empty, with trash and detritus and abandoned cars its only occupants. Old pieces of paper and plastic carried on the wind.
As the runners looked for shelter, they found the streets inhospitable. The occupants ignoring them and what few landlords remained turning away Strobe for having a nanohive. Eventually they settled on a place to room but 2 members of the team decided to sleep outside. In a city filled with horrible nanozombies.
As they settled in for bed, Strobe went for a quick scouting run with her fly spy, spotting a uncanny figure stepping out of a nearby metro entrance. As this strange en figure turned towards the flyspy, Strobe and her teams location has traced and the spy itself was hit by a powerful dataspike. The rager began sprinting towards the car where Shrike, a technomancer, was staying. As he ran, he tossed dataspike after dataspike at the poor techno, who responded by masking his icon with a resonance veil (though his commlink was bricked into the 7th world). Without matrix targets, Strobe was able to send a masked rotodrone to gun down the creature, emptying a full clip of APDS into the nano-zombie before it finally fell.