The Crawling Chaos

The Crawling Chaos
Part of Purkinje's Chal'han (Part 1)
Date 2080-12-10 GM Purkinje Location Tírtelenet
Belligerents
Kani Reverie Spider Trash Panda	Telestrian Industries Cara'sir Host

Summary

To help Purkinje with her chal'han against her parents, a team of friends is sent into the foundation of the Telestrian Industries local host for Cara'sir to silently copy their personnel files out of the corporate database.

Background

After returning from the resonance realms in the events of Purkinje Submersion Run, Purkinje declared a chal'han on her parents to rend them of their honor. The terms of a chal'han dictate that she act through intermediaries, which in the Sixth World includes hiring shadowrunners. Thus, she scrounged together what funds she could find from light paydata slicing to pay a team of friends to help her out.

The Meet

Meeting in Purkinje's house, the team found her recovering from the massive amount of fading she experienced in The Hard Way. She informed them about the terms of the chal'han in vague details, then showed them the way to Tírtelenet, the national grid of Tír Tairngire. She explained that in order to organize a series of runs against them properly, she needed their personnel files, which were archived in the Telestrian Industries Cara'sir host. She also had intel that the host paradigm was currently locked down for maintenance purposes and had something to do with 20th-century literature or entertainment media. The team had the following objectives: enter the host foundation, locate the archive node, copy the personnel files for Purkinje's mother and father, and exit without leaving a trace. They were also instructed not to read the files once they were copied, as they contained very personal information.

Legwork

Concerned about dying of biofeedback on the inside, the team arranged for medical attention. Reverie bound a task spirit with medical skills and cast rituals to enhance her mental abilities as she lay in her bed. Trash Panda summoned a task spirit with medical skills as well, but she also called in Juhn Slide as an on-call doctor to tend to them. She also called on her fixer Jessy Pop to get her in contact with matrix pirates, who had a cheap bolt hole prepared that could be abandoned if a hacker were traced, with basic supplies for long periods of netrunning and medical attention. The team wired themselves into Spider's deck (except Reverie, who established a remote connection from her bed) and prepared for the hack.

The Plan

From the matrix pirates' den, the team would connect to Tírtelenet via grid backdoors, at which point Spider would crack the host and locate the gateway to the foundation. Once inside, they would figure out the foundation's paradigm and interact with the archive node, then exit through the portal node. Of course, this would be easier said than done.

The Run

Spider had some trouble breaking into the ivory tower in the forest that represented the target host on the Tírtelenet grid.

Rewards

• 4,000¥
• 10 Karma