The Pride Of Kevin Crimes
| The Pride Of Kevin Crimes | |||||||||
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| Part of The Life and Times of One Kevin Crimes | |||||||||
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ShadowHaven Repo Man Cutters | Crimson Crush | ||||||||
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Mojo Joe Fluster ChromeDome Snowman |
Gangers CC Street Doc | ||||||||
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| Mojo's toilet | Lakeside Safehouse | ||||||||
Summary
Team finds Kevin Crimes' cyberarm upgrades and Mojo gets traumatized.
Background
Kevin Crimes had his arm chopped off as revenge for not paying runners once. He replaced it with a cybernetic one since and decided some upgrades were in order.
The Meet
Kevin Crimes meets the team in a Touristville night club, meeting with a Spikes representative, Krauter. Krauter isn't happy to see Snowman, but the team gets the skinny on the situation: Kevin Crimes had a courier delivering his cybernetic augmentations to him but the Crimson Crush jumped her mid-delivery. The Cutters saw her biomonitor send out a flatline signal and runners are better sent to find what he's owed.
The Plan
Get the courier's commlink, have Repo Man do psychometry on it to confirm Kevin Crimes is in earnest, then track down where the Crush might've taken the stolen augs. Kevin Crimes offers bonus payment if they teach the Crush a lesson while they're at it, offering a briefcase containing explosives.
The Run
A brief run-in occurs with feral ghouls and The 162s who also want the courier's corpse, but Chrome Dome manages to snag the courier's commlink, a Fuchi Cyber-X7, before the ferals devour the body. By heading to Snohomish to have Repo Man psychometrize the commlink, they find out this courier was liked because she was one of the most discreet and down-low deliverywomen in Seattle, travelling on foot and without very flashy augmentations. She had to circle around Glow City and Sophocles to avoid such cursed areas and went to West Redmond instead. This turf was contested by the 162s and Crimson Crush, resulting in her being caught at night by a CC patrol and brutally murdered.
As payment for his psychometry services, Repo Man possesses Mojo's body to enjoy the sensory bliss of devouring 20 Taco Temple burgers while Mojo does some searching. Snowman finds some Matrix intel about CC safehouses in the area which Mojo scouts astrally and confirms very minor astral security. They manage to narrow down the options to a warehouse by the northern shoreline of Lake Sammamish. By the time Mojo gets back, he endures horrifying experiences as his body tries to process twenty burgers from Taco Temple.
The plan is to use C4 Kevin Crimes provided, leave the briefcase in a critical location, grab the augs and sneak out since the Crush outnumber the runners three to one. As they do so, peculiar sounds can be heard behind doors. Mojo confirms that an ork who was previously enthralled by astrally active trid projectors died a violent death and left behind a rancid background count. As the team continues sneaking with magical concealment, they discover that something is aware of their presence. Using a commlink to peek under a door, they see a grossly deformed human-like figure staring back. This almost causes Chrome Dome's adrenaline pump to trigger, but they continue searching for the augs.
Eventually they find them and knock out the Crimson Crush cyberdoc, but the odd creature haunting them is something that Mojo witnesses astrally and immediately has a panic attack, fleeing back to his body. Fluster helps him stay calm and not scream outright and the being begins banging on doors, enticing the runners to open them and let them see its face firsthand. The Crimson Crush members hear the commotion, open the door and immediately open fire in terror as the runners run away as fast as they can. While they drive away, the explosive briefcase goes off, presumably killing almost a dozen gangers. All footage of the weird creature lacks its countenance; while they saw the being via Image Link before, the recording is missing it entirely, as if it was scrubbed from it.
Aftermath
Crimes happily offers Cutters augmentation clinic access to the runners as well as a couple of stolen and refitted cars. Chrome Dome and Mojo Joe take the knocked out cyberdoc to one of Mojo's contacts who patches her up, doses her with Lael to clear her memories of the treatment and lets her return to CC territory.
Rewards
- 48,000 Nuyen for Cyberware, Bioware, Nanoware, Geneware or a car and vehicle modifications. Availability limit of 18. No Deltaware.
- ChromeDome may exchange 20,000 Nuyen of Gear Rewards for 5 Karma.
- Mojo Joe may acquire Guts and 4,000 Nuyen at chargen rates in exchange for majority of gear rewards (10 RVP/40,000 Nuyen)
- 2 CDP
- + 10 Cutters Reputation
- Available car models: GMC Phoenix, Ford Percheron, Mercury Comet
- Optional Contact: Repo Man, 1/1 Phantom (4,000 Nuyen out of Gear rewards or 2 CDP)
- Optional Contact: Krauter, 4/1 Spikes Lieutenant (16,000 Nuyen out of Gear or 8 CDP) Snowman cannot take her as a contact.
Note: due to Negotiation checks succeeding exceptionally well, the Low run rewards were 9 + 3 RVP.
Player After Action Reports (AARs)
Mojo Joe: "I can... still feel them... I... know they are here... I... need to find help. Now."