Mostly Armless
| Mostly Armless | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| |||||||||
| Factions Involved | |||||||||
|
ShadowHaven Cutters | Independent | ||||||||
|
Gehenna Lichtenberg |
"Beating" Chester Abernathy Tommy Gilligan Charlie Simmons | ||||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||||
| N/A | Tommy Gilligan, Charlie Simmons | ||||||||
Summary
When people say they'll pay you in exposure, they don't usually mean exposing their spinal column.
Background
"Beating" Chester Abernathy is a former Urban Brawl-star with a devastating past. His wife, ten years ago, left him and took their seven-year-old daughter with her. She gave him the ultimatum - the game, or your family, and he, in his arrogance, believed he could choose both. Afterwards, he instantly quit and begged for her return, though could not reunite with his family. Crushed, he turned to Better Than Life chips to fill the void in his life, and quickly spiralled into the life of a chiphead addict.
Several weeks ago, that all changed. His daughter, nearly the age of majority, has gotten in touch. She wants to reunite with her father - and filled with the warmth of this revelation, he seeks to quit. He calls friends who have countless times tried to get him clean, and tells them this time he means it. He will change his life, travel to New York, and reunite with the most important person in his world.
That said, he happens to owe a lot of money to a lot of bad people. Lichtenberg just so happens to work for "bad people." Lichtenberg also just so happens to be a pretty bad person himself - so bad, in fact, that after Chester Abernathy and his crew of Urban Brawl-stars rough up the enforcers the Cutters had sent to collect on his 15,000 nuyen debt, his fixer decides he might be the perfect person to collect on a washed up, augged up, deadbeat chiphead who thinks he's too good to make good. That said, he needs to be balanced to be wielded effectively. A drop of yin to counter his yang.
Gehenna, fresh off her debut in the shadows, is contacted by her fixer as well. Whispers are lingering in the shadows of the fixer network regarding her work on Shakedown Breakdown, and those whispers are... flattering? Well, they say that she works for cheap, anyway, and does decent work for it besides. Good enough for the Cutters - they're trying to recoup losses after all. Silas sends her to the Lazy Samurai bar deep in Touristville - a notorious Cutters hang out, and tells her to continue curating her reputation in the shadows, if her current status as a bargain item isn't too her liking.
The Meet
The Plan
The Run
Aftermath
Rewards
Game Quotes
Player After Action Reports (AARs)
Lichtenberg: I don't get this drek. Old man is like 'go here, scare this guy into paying' and then he gets mad when a few people die to get there. Washed up old urban brawl man is still kicking around, I ain't that stupid. But noooo! It's all 'people are assets, Axl' and 'torturing potential customers just makes them turn somewhere else'. I'm sick of it.
Had a hell of a lot of fun slicing up those orks, though. Hah hah! Makes the lecture worth it.