Part of the whole
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| ShadowHaven | Universal Omnitech's "GenePets" | Neo-PD | ||||||||
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Tahki Babylon Fidem Oathbane Triple Trouble |
Cybertooth Tiger On-Site Spider |
Police units Watcher Spirits | ||||||||
Summary
In which shadowy group from the NEEC (New European Economic Community) employs runners to retrieve a rare and extremely advanced gene-splicing machine from a small shop who's security was compromised.
Background
The Specialty shop "GenePets" has had an administrative decision forcing them to slash costs, this manifested in the lowering of their security until a solution could be found. This in fact was provoked by market manipulation aiming to tank the stock price of the franchise and create such issues in their security processes, as the J needs to get the cutting edge machine "GenePets" posses and use to create high end animal hybrids for the high spheres of the French population
The Meet
Each runner is given a tip by their respective Fixers about a job abroad with a new J, and details about a flight awaiting them at the Sea-Tac Airport the very next day. Triple Trouble took the opportunity to force the hand of her fixer, Ace Powers, and make him look at her demo reel, by which he was really impressed and took an interest in her skills further than just running the shadows. Babylon in the meantime managed to fake a sickness to get out of her appointment with her parole officer, that she later needed to justify using forged medicine papers. She also used her rank among the ancients to smuggle their forbidden gear into France via the help of Jawad "Didn't know about it", an efficient if a little bit oblivious Ancients smuggler managing part of the local network.
At the airport, Oathbane needed a level of distraction to hack the SIN scanners, that the rest of the team dutifully provided... by casting magic on Fidem and improvising a spontaneous scene about evil magic being casted. Not loosing any time springing to action, the guards started clearing citizens from illegal casting scene and two of them felt the origin of the magic being Tahki with their numinous perception. Pointing Tahki with their weapons, they ordered to all involved to stand down and cooperate, which they did. Or at least, they seemed to, as a combination of social maneuvers gave the time Oathbane needed to actually pull off the hack at the terminal and confuse the guards enough for them to let them free until they could confirm that this was indeed not a planned scene with the administration. By the time a supervisor arrived, the group enjoyed an easy stroll through the terminal scanners thanks to Oathbane's hack.
Upon arrival in the Paris Charles-de-Gaulles airport, they are let into a wide room with straight lines drawn on the ground, large screens are all around giving instructions in the user's language about the registering process. The lines progressively fills with passengers and the runners follow suit, they pass through multiple imposing archs registering an uncomfortable amount of personal information such as height, weight, photos, X-Ray, Nanoware, MAD-sensible cyberware and most importantly, Irises imprints. This is followed up by a personal meeting with an agent at a line of booths asking the visitor to manifest their persona on a special host for registering purposes. The final step is an assessing by one of the Mages on duty the results of which are added to the registering folder, it turns up nothing out of place for our runners outside of Fidem's narco, which thankfully the mage does not recognize.