Look how they massacred my boy!
| Look how they massacred my boy! | |||||||||
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| Part of Hail to the Pumpking | |||||||||
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| Factions Involved | |||||||||
| ShadowHaven | Shiawase | ||||||||
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Duchess Shy Wrifter Barracuda | Asahiro Kunitoshi | ||||||||
| Shy redeemed a chip from Yennefer Kerrigan. | |||||||||
Summary
Jack wants his boys back. Runners go get them, but things take a turn and they end up partially selling out to Shiawase.
Background
Jack's been bleeding troops and as he tries to replace them, things keep going wrong. Eighteen of his Starscreamers were kidnapped and he wants to find them, bring them back and make sure they're alright.
The Meet
Jack encounters the group at the usual parking lot, explaining that his boys have gone missing and that he suspects Shiawase of kidnapping them. He isn't too fussy about how the runners do it, as long as they get all of them back home in one piece. The team is a bit hesitant unless they get paid, so Jack offers his usual deal of stolen karma. Duchess in particular is very leery of this, so Jack scratches his head and thinks of alternatives. Homemade Dread, lifestyles, even a few Onotari Interceptors he got from Bolt McMuscle -- this seems enough to convince the group to accept the job. Before that, however, they also visit a nearby gas station where some Starscreamers and their Speaker are holed up. Speakers are somewhat unique Starscreamers in that they don't accept Jack's blessings when joining. This makes them weaker, but allows them to retain their ability to speak. As such, one often accompanies a group of Starscreamers to act as communicator, negotiator and interpreter to the gang's needs. If the troops try to communicate, all that comes out of their mouths are inhumane, nightmare-inducing sounds that bear a distant resemblance to distorted cries of help.
The Run
The Speaker, a sharp-toothed looking, slit pupiled Asian woman explains what she knows of the kidnapping. The technomancer of the Starscreamers extracted some snippets of traffic footage before Knight Errant scrubbed the records, presumably at Shiawase's request. Shiawase HTR wielding semi-automatic, high power rifles shot eighteen gangers with less than lethal ammunition and were seen handcuffing the incapacitated gangers when the footage cut off. Barracuda couldn't make out the models of the weapons, however. Knowing this, the team started using their connections to find out more.
Aftermath
Rewards
- For Shy: GMC Sidewinder w/ Pilot Enhancement R4 (Shy has to pay 1,000 Nuyen for this out of pocket.)
- For Barracuda, Duchess & Wrifter: 26,000 Nuyen (52,000 Nuyen worth of Blades, Vashon Island fashion armor or Shiawase fake SINs or Licenses up to Availability 18)
- Optional Contact: Asahiro Kunitoshi, 6/1 Shiawase Nobility (6 RVP or 12 CDP)
- 2 CDP
- -5 Starscreamers Reputation
- 2 Shiawase Reputation
Game Quotes
Player After Action Reports (AARs)
Duchess: "Everything Babylon ever told me about those fraggers makes sense. Even Ether didn't seem too keen on my helping them out too much, and with them being a rival gang, even one we have no beef with, I most certainly wasn't about to go out of my way to make them stronger. So now Shiawase think they've cut a deal with some UCAs agents from Federal Zoning and inserted a couple of their agents into Sophocles under the guise of being StarScreamers. Well, I wasn't exactly going to sell out to the Corps, so I neglected to help Barracuda explain about Jack's mental and spiritual links to his little spirit-proxies and turned right around and told Jack that two of his guys weren't what they seemed, and even offered a little friendly advice about to use them as double agents.
But Jack was so pissed. He was about ready to kill Shy and I for leaving two of his boys behind and let slip that the connection he has with them works both ways. Anyway, I played the angle that we were helping him because now he knows more about an enemy he didn't even know he had. But I tell you what though, I won't be risking my precious and shapely backside riding any more runs for this nugget. Still, I've helped set up a "let's you and him fight" situation between the 'Screamers and the Shiawase and that sounds like a pretty damn good outcome to me. Only way it could've been better would've been getting paid twice."