Mostly Armless
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ShadowHaven Cutters | Independent | ||||||||
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Gehenna Lichtenberg |
"Beating" Chester Abernathy Tommy Gilligan Charlie Simmons | ||||||||
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| 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 on his debts. That said, the razorboy 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
While LICHTENBERG FIXER and Lichtenberg shoot the shit over a game of cards, Gehenna arrives, obviously out of place. LICHTENBERG FIXER waves her over and gestures toward a seat. He asks if she's the one that magenapped a guy right under the Crimson Crush's nose, and she reluctantly affirms, much to his relief. He knows she works for cheap, he explains, and she's a good enough talker for what he has in mind. He explains the situation - that a derelict chiphead with more chrome than brains needs to pay up - and also explains that the muscle he'd sent previously wasn't able to cut it, gesturing toward a small crew of Cutters nursing wounds and griping in the corner of the bar. Lichtenberg is their solution, but even this brief conversation reveals that the man is a sociopath at best as he jokingly asks if they're afraid to get a little blood on them.
"People are assets, Axl," LICHTENBERG FIXER sighs as he explains, as if he's explained this a thousand times before. "And you can't just go destroy assets because you think it's fun. That's not how to run a business, kid." Lichtenberg smiles and shrugs.
He offers 4,000 base pay to Gehenna, up front, for her help in the matter, and tells Lichtenberg he can tack an extra four-thousand onto this guy's already substantial debt for the extra trouble. Gehenna swallows her seething frustration and agrees.
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.