Vexing Vtuber Vexperience
| Vexing Vtuber Vexperience | |||||||||
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| Part of Amatsu Kaze | |||||||||
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| ShadowHaven | Major Corp | ||||||||
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Hotdog Lady Argentum Trades Celicy Vist Minerva Kotomine Edrahil Starflower That's the Spirit! |
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Summary
The team is hired by a wannabee rich kid actor, who uses the power of money to hire friends for a day. They go on a small crime spree (2) of staged fake crimes, in order to keep their J safe.
Background
Casey Coates hires the investigator Celicy Vist to help her learn how to become an actor. Celicy is not inspiring enough to help Casey grow, and so she is instead hiring runners to do the gig for her.
The Meet
The team, knowing where SAPI was located, and they head to the location from various locations such as Tacoma, Downtown, or their car. Hotdog offers to buy a kidney from Minerva, but Minerva passes up, asking the team to save mrs Vist from the annoying and rambunctious actor. Inside the office, a one Casey Coates is standing on top of the table posing in a Shakespearian way. The runners try to take her with them, in order to clear out the office. Trades and Hotdog do a performance that puts Casey's to shame, whom then gets dejected, but is able to be talked to for the meet. She also asks the runners for a stage name, and for them to go on some 'crimes'.
- Argentum says "none" and gets annoyed
- Trades suggests "Jack"
- Hotdog suggests waiting to figure out what kind of actor she is before deciding.
Casey then pulls out a gun and calls it an "acting aid" and the team flips out, Argentum disarms her. Trades empties the gun, shaking her head as she finds it fully loaded. Trades mentions that Casey should stay in character, as gangsters always practice gun safety. Argentum shakes her head, saying under her breath that "I can't believe I have to spend a day with her." Casey says that in order to get better at acting, she wants to rob a convenience store to get into characters, but the team is quick to say "NO", offering different suggestions for crimes to commit. Lady Argentum says if she wants to commit a crime, Casey can use her knife to harm Argentum, and Casey says "No! Crimes are about the friends you made along the way!"
That being said, Trades has a plan...
The Plan
- Trades suggests they have a clinic they could fake rob
- Hotdog suggests she has a friend who could benefit from stolen medical supplies
- Lady Argentum languishes the idea
But with deliberation, the team settles on various small FAKE crimes to commit, no person or civilian getting hurt in any way shape or form. Casey was very clear she does not want civilians or innocents hurt. First up would be a drug deal between Argentum and Casey, next up after is to stage a robbery with the wiles of the team verses the intellect of Casey.
The Run
Casey is given a vial of Novacoke to sell to "tall dark and spooky." Casey does so, rolling 0 on two dice for acting to sell novacoke. This frustrates "tall dark and spooky" who just gives her 5 nuyen to go away. She immediately pours out the novacoke. With leadership from the trio, including words of encouragement from Trades, it seems that she's clearly inspired to do more. Through magic, luck, and charisma, Casey proves in an obscene performance, that she has the chops, just needs a push in the right direction.
After the dust settles, hotdog suggests they get a motel to plan their adventures further, and Casey agrees. The gang decides to load up Trades' truck with fake gear to be robbed, fooling Casey into committing a fake crime. Hotdog calls uh Edrahil Starflower In order to buy some gear to convincingly fill up the back of Trades' truck.
- Lardy Argentum decides to stick close to Casey in order to protect them, acting on the lookout
- Trades acts as the decker to steal the truck back from the driver
- Hotdog pretends to be the truck driver, driving the convoy
The team starts a display of acting to play and make it look like the robbery was real; that is, until a REAL team of thieves show up to rob the truck full of medical supplies. That being said, the crew is easily dissuaded by Argentum chopping one of them in half and then forcing them to flee in terror.
After leaving, the enemy gangers do not return, allowing the team to finish their robbery in peace.
Aftermath
Casey Coates rebrands herself as That's the Spirit!, a Vtuber and actor, and low stakes criminal. Happy with her friends, she keeps contact with everyone including "tall dark and spooky". The runners, pleased with their jobs, return medical supplies to Edrahil, as well as picking some drugs up too.
Rewards
- 6 K nuyen or up to 12K in medical supplies or drugs up to 15 F from Edrahil - 3 RVP
- 2 K Nuyen negotiation
- 4 Karma - 4 RVP
- 4+2 CDP - 2 RVP
- Optional rewards
- Edrahil Starflower - 3/1 3 RVP (IKAG reduction of -1 for hotdog)
- That's the Spirit - 1/3 for 3 RVP
- Hair trigger at gen rates for Trades at RVP equal to gen rates Karma
Game Quotes
Player After Action Reports (AARs)
Trades
This was a nice relaxing bit. Casey was pretty fun to be around and I'm really glad that we got to put together that show for her. Being able to put a hard shutdown on their rigger using my technomancy felt very nice. Hopefully her career goes well and she doesn't try pulling off one of these on her own.