Business matters
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| ShadowHaven | Broadpeak | ??? | ||||||||
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H-R Ophidia Angra Mainyu |
Security more Security | Kristallkind | ||||||||
Summary
The runners get set up by the right hand of the J. They discover the rouse, make a new friend, and all is good in the end.
Background
Tamir Mitterman runs a 25-person repair shop in a residential backyard. Everyone can bring their broken electronics and get them fixed up, and that for a relatively small price. The operation is running well, but they aren't making as much money as they should. His right hand, Kaylie Notschke, has been stealing money from the business for a while now. When she gets confronted with the missing nyen, she makes up a story that Broadpeak is the culprit. Broadpeak is an up-and-coming Matrix infrastructure company that has little to do with T-Mann's business, but Tamir bites the bait.
The Meet
The three runners, who were already in Berlin on unrelated business, are requested for a local job. They meet Tamir, owner of the "T-Mann", at his repair shop. A more or less scappy tinkering garage in the north of Berlin. Someone is skimming money from the books, and he's pretty sure how it is. Kaylie Notschke, his right hand, was apparently forced by Broadpeak into giving access to the accounting system. He offers 6k nuyen each for solid proof of what they did. They also get in contact with Kayl, a local Troll who can show them around the area and drive them around.
Unbeknownst to them, Kaylie has secretly taken a picture of the runners and has alerted Broadpeak of the imminent breaking.
The Run
The team sets up shop in a bistro across the street from the open Broadpeak branch, where the information is suspected. Ophidia does some astral scouting of the ground floor and discovers an elevator going down into the basement, where Tamir suspects a secret server. Ahriman manages to sneak into the elevator shaft with the help of H-R, hacking the lights to distract a guard and receptionist. There she sees 5 guards who are preparing themselves for an ambush, as well as data cables from one of the closed rooms. Together with Ophidia's detection spells she is able to evade the guards and enables H-R to swipe a few seconds of random Matrix 1.0 data. This later turns out not to contain any information useful to them. They decide to regroup and leave it at that for the day.
After some rest, they return once again, this time before opening hours. Ahriman, this time also helped by a strong invisibility spell, once again enters the basement, where she is able to swipe the comlink of one of the guards. There she discovers the picture and message that they have been set up. At that moment, Kristallkind is finally able to spot her and makes herself known. She presents herself as interested, and informs the runners that the info they were looking for does not exist in this branch. Together they realise that both they and Tamir were set up by some third party.
They return to the repair shop to confront Tamir with the news. There, they catch Kaylie, who is very eager to get away as fast as possible, and expose her as the culprit. Tamir is satisfied with the runners and pays them the promised 6k.
Aftermath
Kristallkind has taken an interest in the Seattle-based shadow community and is eager to make use of the impressive talent that they have demonstrated.
An active Matrix 1.0 node has been discovered. Apparently, this decade-old infrastructure is used and expanded by Broadpeak. For what purpose is yet to be seen.
Rewards
6k nuyen
smallish and lowish avail electronics and drones as gear rewards
8 karma
6+2 CDP
Kristallkind - Human friendly AI C2/L1
Ahriman: Catlike at gen price