New Opportunities
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Shadowhaven Deimos Evans Doyle Boombox Paladin Doctor Anubis | Shiawase | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
| Jorogumo, a VITOL, and badly wounded security guards | |||||||
Background
Shiawase is developing a new security drone, and Wuxing wants the man behind the design.
The Meet
The team meets at The Caged Devilrat, a runner hangout bar in Touristvill that sometimes hosts meets. Mr. and Ms. Wu are waiting in the back, with a full meal prepared. They serve the team a delicious meal first, refusing to talk business until after eating (although they are more than happy to discuss other subjects).
After eating, the team is hired for an unwilling extraction, nabbing a Mr. Toshi Nakamura while he is demonstrating for his superiors a new drone that he has developed. Mr. Wu is not sure exactly what the drone is, but believes it to have military applications and is likely to be loaded with live rounds.
The Legwork
The team having been provided with the location, goes to scout the area out early. They have a little trouble navigating Hell's Kitchen, and Deimos ends up cutting a deal with a local fire spirit for its support. Deimos gives it a point of karma and for the next 2 days, the spirit will safely guide them through Hell's Kitchen and assist them in their endeavor. The team is now friends with Abi, a force 5 free fire spirit.
When the team makes it to the warehouse, they find it abandoned, and do a sweep of the area finding multiple sensor tags planted by Saeder-Krupp. The team destroys the tags, not knowing who they belong to but suspecting a third party.
They use the knowledge of the area to begin forming their plan...
The Run
The next day, the team returns, with some warning from Abi that this time people are present in the warehouse. The team approaches with caution, and Deimos approaches the 2 Sakura Security guards with Incubus Shroud active, quickly finding out via a mind probe that both see him as their superior officer. This is a Japanacorp, after all. There is nobody out here they would imagine as more likely to be around whom they have such deep respect for.
Deimos cons them into being drawn away for a sweep of the nearby area, and the rest of the team sneaks in to set up some gas grenades to ensure the whole building is flooded with Neurostun. After a while, the team pulls out having accomplished their goal and Deimos is warned by Abi that more people are incoming, and another spirit is with them.
The team hides from the security sweep, and the security sweep fails to spot their grenades, hidden inside a bunch of junk. they identify one member of the security team as a mage... and see the newly developed drone. The drone is a huge anthro drone with a spider-like body and guns on each leg. It is equipped with blades, small arms, long arms, a grenade launcher, an AA missile launcher, and a flamethrower. The team is reasonably scared of this thing.
The team realizes they can't fight it, and opts to deal with this issue as well as the FBA guards with about ¥16,000 worth of smart corrosives, programming them to go after a wide enough range of material to effectively neutralize any possible threat outside of magic. They use yet another set of smart corrosives to quietly enter through a back wall on the higher level, and throw their cocktail from the upper level. Abi materializes to set off the previously planted grenades, and is shot up quite a bit, but survives and a grenade launched form Jorogumo sets off the team's gas grenades.
The fight is brutal, but the team grabs Mr. Nakamura and runs for it. They discover that Jorogumo is unable to attack even in the general direction of a Shiawase employee, and the team tries to run for it.
The security forces have issues, as some are hindered by Naurostun when their armor has its chemical seal broken by the smart corrosives, their captain orders them all into the VTOL to chase the runners down. This would have ended very poorly for the runners except the VITOL was also hit by the smart corrosives, and didn't last long in the air before it gave out.
Aftermath
- Wuxing has acquired Toshi Nakamura, a brilliant drone designer.
- Shiawase lost their developer, and a VTOL and has some badly wounded security.
- Jorogumo is beyond repair thanks to the smart corrosives.
Rewards
- ¥20,000
- 6 karma