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==Background==
==Background==
After a run to claim an ultra-rare Dark Magician Yu-Gi-Oh card for a mysterious mage was completed, the mage turned out to be untrustworthy, plotting some sort of destructive scheme in secret. A concerned Knight-Errant officer caught wind of the scheme's vague outlines and hired a team of runners to retrieve the card.
A Horizon influencer is whipping up the dwarves of the Underground, preparing for what looks like a race riot between them and the ork population. A concerned citizen with connections to Mothers of Metahumans hires a team of runners to social engineer the problem away.
==Meet==
==Meet==
In a noodle shop that sold sub-par noodles and tried to make up for it by appealing to weebs, the team met with a Knight-Errant officer who struggled to explain the stakes. He said his bosses didn't realize the danger of the situation, and it was up to him to hire shadowrunners to get it done. Queen and Purkinje determined from their knowledge of magic theory that the Yu-Gi-Oh card may act as some sort of a focus for a Chaos mage who believed in its power. Knowing this, they tried talking the officer into more money; while he was unable to pony up additional funds, he did offer to have some stuff from the evidence locker go missing. The team agreed to these terms.
Meeting at an old-fashioned barbecue restaurant, the team discusses the job with the Johnson. The Johnson brings them up to speed on the situation about the Horizon influencer, a dwarf named Jenda Kantor. Kantor has a sizable following of viewers on his streams, in which he goes on novacoke-fueled, conspiracy-laden rants about how orks are trying to kick the dwarves out of the Underground. The Johnson is concerned this is leading to an imminent riot between the metahuman populations of the Underground, and he wants the situation resolved. This means Kantor cannot be made into a martyr. The team considers their options.
==Run==
==Run==
After searching the matrix for a few hours, Queen and Purkinje determined the mage they were looking for was actually part of an underground ring of high-stakes Yu-Gi-Oh duelists who collected the souls and organs of victims who were lured in by the promise of prize money. Purkinje called up a number she found and pretended to be a duelist interested in the prizes, and she was given an address to go to for a meet.
The team decides to make it seem like Kantor is in the pocket of a racist policlub. Rather than going for Humanis, who have some measure of respectability, they decide to target the Hand of Five, whose presence isn't entirely public knowledge and who are universally hated for their role in the Night of Rage. With the help of Decoy's agent, Quickdraw and Purkinje locate the secret Hand of Five host and hack their way inside. They manage to avoid being spotted by the patrol IC before finding a list of contacts and burner numbers. After editing the file to include Kantor as an asset, they make a copy and search for any info the Hand might have about him. Sure enough, they had compiled a list of blackmail material. They copy this file, then leave the host and trace the commlinks on the list to dox the Hand of Five members they could locate, including their leader. Quickdraw leaves his signature inside the host, and the Hand quickly figures out they've been doxxed by hackers. They are able to figure out Quickdraw is involved, but Purkinje and Decoy remain anonymous.


Once there, the team scouted the area. They spotted a cyberdeck, but no sign of the mage. Purkinje hacked into the deck and pulled all of its files for contact info, then used the files to spot the mage's commlink icon. However, she utterly failed to hack it, setting off a cascade of very quick, aggressive actions before she was able to react that resulted in her nearly dying from biofeedback damage. She was able to trace the commlink and go offline before dying, though.
The mixture of real and engineered documents on Kantor and the Hand of Five incites a riot, but not the kind he was anticipating. After some stirring words from Prayer and Slayer, angry Underground dwarves storm up to his studio, where Horizon has kicked him out, throwing him to the wolves. Slayer beheads him with a battle axe stroke in the midst of the crowd. Together, the team speaks about metahuman solidarity, and how the Hand of Five and other such policlubs cannot be allowed to separate them.
 
Decoy had his Roadmaster smash through the wall of the bar that the blood mage was hiding out in, which was also full of ghouls. The ghouls were unable to penetrate the Roadmaster's defenses, and Decoy managed to grab the mage and abduct him before they could land a hit. The mage turned out to be a blood mage, and he cast Viscera Web, causing Decoy's veins to shoot out of his body and latch onto the inner walls of the van. Decoy's pain editor and steely resolve rendered him relatively unaffected, and some bashing and intimidation coerced the mage into revealing he had the card in a deck box in his back pocket. Purkinje figured out this was a trick, however, and the deck box had an alchemical preparation on it that would do something when it was opened. She opened it without touching the trigger and retrieved the card.
==Aftermath==
==Aftermath==
The KE officer was happy to learn that the card was in safe hands, but he was very upset that Purkinje took it out of the packaging to avoid being hurt by the alchemical preparation. He still payed what he promised.
News of the Hand of Five's return becomes more available to the public, and the leaked documents are given to organizations that would be interested in taking them down, such as Mothers of Metahumans and ShadowHaven. Among the leaks are references to a planned assault on metahuman communities on the next anniversary of the Night of Rage, though the details are said to be kept in a secret security node deeper inside the host.
==Rewards==
==Rewards==


*2,000¥
*10,000¥
*9 karma OR up to 36,000¥ of gear of no more than availability 12 that might be found in a police evidence lockup (4,000¥ per 1 karma exchanged)
*11 karma or equivalent of a contact from the dwarf community in the Underground
*+1 faction rep, Knight-Errant
*-2 faction rep with Hand of Five for Quickdraw


==Player After-Action Reports==
==Player After-Action Reports==


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Revision as of 17:14, 29 October 2019

A Shadowrun Based on Charge Into the Sun by The Briggs
Date2080-26-10
GMDrburst
LocationSeattle
Factions Involved
Decoy
Quickdraw
Prayer
Purkinje
Slayer

Hand of Five

Horizon
Casualties and losses
None Jenda Kantor

Background

A Horizon influencer is whipping up the dwarves of the Underground, preparing for what looks like a race riot between them and the ork population. A concerned citizen with connections to Mothers of Metahumans hires a team of runners to social engineer the problem away.

Meet

Meeting at an old-fashioned barbecue restaurant, the team discusses the job with the Johnson. The Johnson brings them up to speed on the situation about the Horizon influencer, a dwarf named Jenda Kantor. Kantor has a sizable following of viewers on his streams, in which he goes on novacoke-fueled, conspiracy-laden rants about how orks are trying to kick the dwarves out of the Underground. The Johnson is concerned this is leading to an imminent riot between the metahuman populations of the Underground, and he wants the situation resolved. This means Kantor cannot be made into a martyr. The team considers their options.

Run

The team decides to make it seem like Kantor is in the pocket of a racist policlub. Rather than going for Humanis, who have some measure of respectability, they decide to target the Hand of Five, whose presence isn't entirely public knowledge and who are universally hated for their role in the Night of Rage. With the help of Decoy's agent, Quickdraw and Purkinje locate the secret Hand of Five host and hack their way inside. They manage to avoid being spotted by the patrol IC before finding a list of contacts and burner numbers. After editing the file to include Kantor as an asset, they make a copy and search for any info the Hand might have about him. Sure enough, they had compiled a list of blackmail material. They copy this file, then leave the host and trace the commlinks on the list to dox the Hand of Five members they could locate, including their leader. Quickdraw leaves his signature inside the host, and the Hand quickly figures out they've been doxxed by hackers. They are able to figure out Quickdraw is involved, but Purkinje and Decoy remain anonymous.

The mixture of real and engineered documents on Kantor and the Hand of Five incites a riot, but not the kind he was anticipating. After some stirring words from Prayer and Slayer, angry Underground dwarves storm up to his studio, where Horizon has kicked him out, throwing him to the wolves. Slayer beheads him with a battle axe stroke in the midst of the crowd. Together, the team speaks about metahuman solidarity, and how the Hand of Five and other such policlubs cannot be allowed to separate them.

Aftermath

News of the Hand of Five's return becomes more available to the public, and the leaked documents are given to organizations that would be interested in taking them down, such as Mothers of Metahumans and ShadowHaven. Among the leaks are references to a planned assault on metahuman communities on the next anniversary of the Night of Rage, though the details are said to be kept in a secret security node deeper inside the host.

Rewards

  • 10,000¥
  • 11 karma or equivalent of a contact from the dwarf community in the Underground
  • -2 faction rep with Hand of Five for Quickdraw

Player After-Action Reports