Highway Chase
| Highway Chase | |||||||||
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ShadowHaven Taina Kauhava Irena Tachikov 3310 Freya | Winternight | ||||||||
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Six of Hearts Eidolon | WN Unit Corvus | ||||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||||
| Payload of Ymir-compound | |||||||||
| Ascension Run | |||||||||
Summary
Six and Eidolon stop a terrorist attack from causing massive casualties, but only barely.
Background
One of Eidolon's previous runs had pointed out that Winternight still has some cells active around.
The Meet
Irena Tachikov heard through back channels that there's some juicy intel being carried by some kind of government agent in New Orleans. She wants to get on it before any other Evo employee does to accelerate her career, recruiting Six to investigate. At the same time, Taina Kauhava also acquires this same hint, sending Eidolon to catch any wind of things. They start tracking a man based on a burned SIN, but as a human male with variable height and a False Face cyberware aug, he's difficult to pinpoint. The two runners
The Plan
After finding the man, crippled and thirsty on a beach surrounded by trapdoor spiders which nearly catch Six's leg with a web trap, they get his alias. Kleiner Schmidt, a government spy who refuses to elaborate further, tracked a shipment of Ymir, a neurotoxin compound infamous for its use by Winternight. He's collected some intel regarding host data breaches, blueprint copying and unusual traffic patterns that imply there is an imminent terrorist threat to New Orleans. Since the municipal police department only cares about protecting the wealthy, others have to prevent it or it might cause an international incident, considering where the trails he found lead to. Eidolon recalls the Monolithians talking about Winternight operatives getting freed from a plane in an earlier run and he calls Bolt to ask for details. He only says that no Winternight members were inducted into the gang, but they indeed were freed near Seattle and their whereabouts are, as of now, unknown. Looking at a map of New Orleans, Eidolon and Six's knowledge and software combined determine that Routes 10 and 610 are most likely to be the attack's core objectives, going by several extremely densely active urban centers such as museums, shopping malls and Stuffer Shack supercenters. Unwilling to deal with the lunatic Zobop or the Crescent City Mafia, they choose to make their stand on the highway itself.