An Ancient Forgotten Memory
| An Ancient Forgotten Memory | ||||||||||
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| Factions Involved | ||||||||||
| ShadowHaven | Laesa | Halloweeners | ||||||||
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Highlander Nebula Heart of the Tempest Fia d'Moon | 2 Laesa Guards | Halloweener Go-Gangers | ||||||||
| Casualties and losses | ||||||||||
| 2 Laesa Guards knocked out | ||||||||||
Summary
The team is hired by Ether to smuggle a former member of The Ancients who defected to the Laesa out of Tarislar and into Touristville as she now wants to defect back to The Ancients.
Background
The Ancients and the Laesa have an unfriendly cooperation, with the Laesa poaching many younger members of the Ancients. Former Ancients member Heather Rose has decided to defect back.
The Meet
Ether explains the situation to the team and offers 10k nuyen and her number if the team successfully extracts Heather Rose out of Tarislar and into a bar in Touristville. The team manages to argue for an extra 2k nuyen, and everyone agrees.
The Plan
Heart of the Tempest had previously made some noise in Tacoma with a giant Ball Lightning, so was worried about KE presence in picking up her Vault of Ages. She instead contracts Bilge-Rat Jones to collect it for her, and the team picks it up from the Downtown docks.
Highlander decides to disguise himself as the target, and the team heads down to Tarislar to pick up Heather.
The Run
The plan immediately goes awry when Highlander, disguised as Heather, walks in and the two guards here see her enter without having seen her leave. Heart of the Tempest proposes marriage to one of the guards while the other one runs upstairs to check on Heather's room (followed by Fia d'Moon and Highlander). Fia uses some mind magic and makes that guard shoot himself in the mouth with stick-n-shock while downstairs Nebula shoots the other guard before he can respond. Highlander opens the door and sees Heather (and they look identical). They try the fire escape and discover it to be nailed shut. They quickly run down the stairs and all pile into Fia d'Moon's car.
They see some people across the street taking photos, so Highlander has them drop and smash their commlinks with Commanding Voice. Nebula drives a couple blocks away and they quickly change the license plates with a similar vehicle. Shortly after escaping, the team sees some Halloweeners coming to pick a fight with The Ancients, though Highlander and the team manage to convince the go-gangers that they're NOT elves and that they're having a girls' night. The Halloweeners somehow believe this...? The team manage to make their way to Redmond and make it to Touristville.
Aftermath
The Ancients learn more about the Laesa smuggling operations.
Rewards
Everyone: 10k nuyen - 5 RVP 2k nuyen - Negotiation Bonus 4 karma - 4 RVP Ether (Connection 5) at Loyalty 3 - 7 RVP 1 CDP -10 Laesa Rep
Optional: Bilge-Rat Jones (Connection 3) at Loyalty 2 for -4 RVP
Forced: Heart of the Tempest: +1 Rank in Law Enforcement Procedures (Street) as a Street Knowledge Skill and -30 KE Rep Highlander: +1 Rank in Dating Etiquette as an Interest Fia d'Moon: +1 Rank in Lesbians as an Interest Nebula: +1 Rank in Critters and 50 Raccoons are living in her house until June 21st 2083