EBITDA
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| ShadowHaven | Akira Pharmaceuticals | ||||||||
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Backseat Or@cle Triage | {{}} | ||||||||
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Summary
The Runners are hired by Carleton Moreau to conduct due diligence on Akira Pharmaceuticals, a corporation targeted for a hostile takeover by brother-in-law Thurston. The team must uncover internal financials, research project statuses, and any blackmail-worthy scandals before the boardroom knives come out. As the team digs deeper, they come into conflict with the Office of Corporate Safety, Akira's internal black-ops team reporting directly to CEO John Akira.
Background
Carleton Moreau is hiring a runner team for his brother-in-law Thurston, who is planning a hostile takeover and breakup of Akira Pharmaceuticals as this will allow him to profit from his major short positions. The company primarily engages in biomedical research, with research facilities based in Redmond, Seattle and corporate offices located in Waterloo.
The Meet
The meet is held at Carleton's office in the Zephyr-South Multi-Use building in Redmond. Or@cle (Decker) and Triage (Face/Medic/Summoner) arrive first, followed by Backseat (Face). Whilst in the elevator to Carleton's office, Backseat discovers a hidden RFID tag. Backseat brings it to the office, alerting the rest of the team. Or@cle traces the tag to John Hoover, the director of surveillance at Akira Pharmaceuticals who reports directly to John Akira, the CEO. Once Or@cle confirms that no data had been sent out from the tag, Triage destroys it.
Withe bug dealt with, Carleton explains Thurston's interest in the company, offering them 20,000 Nuyen each to obtain internal financial documents and uncover the status of their major research projects. He also offers them a further 2500 Nuyen each to uncover any scandals that could be used to bring negative attention to the company. Backseat and Triage attempt to negotiate an increase in pay but instead agree to a 50% discount in products sold by Thurston's various companies, including cars, guns, cyberware and bioware. With the pay agreed on, Carleton arranges a divination for them and allows them the use of his office before leaving to attend business.
The Plan
The team set out to gather intel on Akira Pharmaceuticals to inform their next move. First they visit Carleton's seer for a divination and tarot reading. The tarot reading vaguely hints at the obstacles they will face and the approach they should take, whilst the divination reveals to them the corporate operatives that they'll face. With his information, the team return to the office to begin legwork. With the aid of Backseat's assistant Elliot Kwan, Or@cle begins conducting matrix research of the company. Meanwhile Triage summons a spirit to search for one of the operatives seen in the divination. The spirit eventually tracks them down to the Underhaven Grotto Hotel. Backseat contacts one of the concierge, which he has had previous dealings with, to gather more intel. She informs him that she checked in with a group, likely the other members of the Office of Corporate Safety.
Eventually, Or@cle's matrix search has compiled a list of the company's product and commercial teams, important members of those teams and publically available news. The team plan to first investigate the product teams as they're based in Redmond, before flying out to Waterloo for the commercial offices.
The Run
Seattle
The team conduct a mass surveillance campaign against important Akira employees working across the various teams based in Redmond. Having identified their addresses through Or@cle's matrix search, Backseat and Triage disguise themselves as extended car warranty salesman, planting stealth tags on their vehicles and bug pens in their pockets. The bugging reveals the truth behind the developement of various products, with Genomics being revealed to be a failure, research and technology having suspicious expense reports and Virology hinting to be involved with HMMV research as well as a KE investigation.
The team decide to look into the Virology department further, with Backseat and Or@cle contacting Victor 'Vic' Reyes, a KE detective they both know, who agrees to find out what he can about the investigation. While they wait, they decide to look further into Serin, a director in the Virology department, who managed to find the bug pen planted on her disposed of it before any useful information could be found. Following the stealth tag planted on her vehicle, they track her down to Black Tie Affair, a mafia run piano bar.
Finding her there, Triage distracts Serin while Backseat quickly steals her wireless enabled taser, handing it to Or@cle who takes it to the toilet to attempt to gain access to her commlink. An unknown decker appears however, bricking the taser and preventing Or@cle from completing the hack. Realising that they were facing opposition, Triage astrally perceives the presence of a watcher spirit while Backseat notices two people fitting the build of two of the corporate operatives that they knew about. Backseat can feel a presence probing his mind however, he is able to resist it, keeping their cover safe. Not wanting to draw further suspicion to themselves, Backseat and Triage find a table to sit at. The operatives get up to leave, with one of them attempting to sneak a stealth bug onto Backseat as well as rubbing genemarked pheromones onto his coat.
With their datasteal attempt foiled and now paranoid about the corporate operatives, the team decide to regroup at Or@cle's apartment. Backseat makes a detour to a brothel where he dumps the stealth tag and washes the pheremones from his coat before joining the rest of the team. The next morning, they receive an autopsy report from their KE contact which suggests that it is highly probable that the company is involved with recruiting subjects amongst Redmond's destitute to participate in HMMV studies, and then disposing of the bodies. Satisfied that this can be used to generate bad press for the company, the team plan their trip to waterloo, organising R6 burner SINs as well as required fake licenses.
Waterloo
Boarding their flight from Thun Field, the team travel to the former canadian city of Waterloo. During the flight, Or@cle conducts a matrix search of their target, Veronica Lake, a rising star in Akira's Finance and Accounting department. Upon arrival, the team go to their hotel, where disguises are built and put on before setting out to intercept Veronica on her lunch break at a cafe popular with Akira employees. Here, the routine is repeated, with Triage distracting the target while Backseat steals her commlink and Or@cle conducting the hack. With the company's financial statements and other confidential information in their hands, the runners complete their run.
Aftermath
Shortly after, it was reported in the news (Double Trouble for Akira) that Sirin had been reported missing and Veronica found dead in a car accident.
Rewards
Rewards for EBITDA 8.5 hours Deadly TL 28 RVP
20,000 Nuyen (10 RVP) Extra 2500 for scandals (Negotiation bonus) Negotiated Gear (50% off up to 45,000 Nuyen): cars, guns, cyberware/bioware (18 avail) 13 Karma (13 RVP) 10 CDP (5 RVP) 2 CDP (Base)
Optional Contact: Carleton Moreau C5L2 (14 CDP)
Game Quotes
Player After Action Reports (AARs)
Backseat - "Run went fairly clean, although we had a close call with their corporate operatives. Could have gone realy bad real quick if things went a little differently. Now I believe I owe a certain someone a box of chocolates and an apology."
Triage Well shit. I think my mask held up, but I don't want to risk it, especially since that bug was there the whole time.
Hope you like the gift, Father. I'm putting a time limit on your empire.