Minime Senuisti" Part 1
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|Date=2084-10-01
|GM=youmayfire
|Location=Cincinnati
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Chameleon
P23
Sizzles
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|OppositionFaction=Ordo Maximus
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Aquarium Security
Alexandru Sarafin
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Summary
The team is hired to persuade the holders of an old Cincinnati aquarium to stop resisting eminent domain seizure and accept the sale of their property. It turns out, the reason the aquarium won't sell is because it's being used by the Ordo Maximus as a facility for their weird nonsense! The team doesn't manage to get a solid grip on what's happening here, but they do kill a bunch of vampires, which seems to do the trick.
Background
One of the national-level NCP political footballs is the planned new Cincinnati megaplex arcology - a project that has been in development hell for years. The NCP is finally pushing the project over the start line, with national funding flooding in, and as part of that initiative, their fixers are smoothing over the last few wrinkles impeding the kickoff. Hassan Bahreini, as one of those fixers, reaches out to some runners he has personal experience with from his whirlwind time playing fixer for the Seattle governor's race and pulls them out east to get a property deal closed with a minimum of muss and fuss.
The Meet
The runners attend a major virtual event in Ohio and their nominally anonymous employer explains that he wants this matter handled without substantial news coverage, carnage, or anything else that would cause the new development effort to stumble over the starting blocks. He's not really sure who owns the shell company that owns the aquarium or why they won't sell, and he doesn't really care. He just needs them to sell the damn property. The team agrees, though they don't do anything to assuage how very jaded he's become about shadowrunner negotiating tactics.
The Legwork
The team smuggles itself to the operational zone and spends a day at the aquarium, just scoping the place out. The aquarium, by day, appears to be operational and the staff reasonably well taken-care-of. They slip a Festo Sewer Snake into the facility's waterways and leave with no-one the wiser. That night, they activate the snake remotely and use it to explore the aquarium, which reveals that the closed shark exhibit has been separated from the rest of the facility by a slick FAB-3 aquaculture pod, ensuring that nothing dual-natured can get into or out of the tank via the existing water connections. The sewer snake, being a robot, wriggles through easily enough and finds itself in a confusingly-pitch black tank with a film of light-absorbing goop floating at the top. Above the goop, sensor-overloading UV light generators appear to be running continuously, while bizarre Latin chanting runs on a loop. The team takes all that in and tries to make sense of it, but fails. Vampire sharks, maybe?
They track down a local PI who previously resisted investigating this matter and shake him down for information - he reveals that the facility's ultimate owner is a local oligarch, who also happens to be a mage and a dues-paying member of the Illuminates of the New Dawn. The team reaches out to a wholly unrelated contact of theirs who is also a notable member of the Illuminates, Hassan Bahreini, and ask him about the man. Evidentally, the oligarch pays his dues but he doesn't participate with the group much.
The Noise
The runners are left confused and uncertain how to proceed - leveraging an oligarch is fairly challenging. They decide that the quickest way to cut through this Gordian knot is to simply demolish whatever weird (science? magic?) is taking place in the Shark Tank.
Chameleon sneaks inside the facilities room for the shark tank, sets a remote camera up, and then activates the FAB-3 colony, instructing it to spew aquaculture death into the shark tank at maximum volume, then bugs out. The team reunites in the parking lot and watches in mounting horror as a twisted, inhuman nosferatu climbs out of some kind of rigger cocoon in the facilities room, discovers what has happened, and attempts to put a stop to it. It becomes evident, as the vampire empties the tank, that the tank was being used to hold HMHVV mutants, of which only one appears to have survived. The team elects to use cyberwarfare to identify the exact location of the vampire in three-dimensional space, drives around to the back, and elects to use an overabundance of firepower to assassinate the vampire from outside of the building with a double-tap. Then they scarper, just as a luxurious vehicle, presumably the vampire's intended exit vehicle, rolls past them.
Rewards
"Minime Senuisti" Part 1
Deadly TL - 20 RVP
40,000 Nuyen (+15k negotiation/hazard pay bonus) - 20 RVP
Ordo Maximus (-10 Faction Rep)
Optional Qualities:
Sizzles - "Lucky" at chargen rates
Paz - "Perfect Time" at chargen rates
Chameleon - "Catlike" at chargen rates
With player permission, the players gain the negative quality: Wanted (Ordo Maximus)
P23 may treat this as a Mundane Ascension