House Call

House Call
Date 2082-MM-DD"2082-MM-DD" contains an extrinsic dash or other characters that are invalid for a date interpretation. GM Location {{{place}}}
Factions Involved
ShadowHaven	Major Corp
Runner1 Runner2 Runner3 Runner4	Character1 Character2

Summary

A low threat bounty hunt done on behalf of the information broker and restaurant owner Trelawney. The team consisted of the MysAd fashionista Pell; ex-ganger and swarm rigger Scrappeny; bearded smuggler Fed Up; and cycling StreetSam Sanjuro. The objective was to retrieve one of Trelawney's unwilling assets, a Shiawase server tech named Oliver Hernandez, from the megatower apartment that he had holed himself up in. The team found and extracted Hernandez through a combination of cosplay, spirit summoning, and generous bribery, delivering him to Trelawney with only a minor concussion. A job well done, the team celebrated by getting drunk and watching pirated Steven Segal trids. Except Scrappeny; she went home and ate frozen pizza.

Background

On a secluded street in western Renton sits the Cornerside Diner, a pleasant restaurant known for its mushroom omelets and insufferable clientele. A favorite of corporate middle managers, the resturant's cozy Americana conceals its true purpose as a front for the information broker Trelawney. Dealing in information started as a side business for the mousy-haired old woman, but through her ruthlessness and business savvy she's built networks in several of Seattle's megacorps, particularly Horizon and Shiawase.

The run was put together to capture and return Oliver Hernandez, a Shiawase server technician that ran up a debt while using Trelawny's services to dig dirt on his ex-wife. Once Hernandez's money ran dry, Trelawny began using him to steal paydata from Shiawase. Hernandez is a fantastically mediocre decker, but was able to give Trelawny's people access to the Shiawase host. That is, until he got cold feet. Fearing the potential consequences of spying on a megacorporation, Hernandez cut contact with Trelawny and moved across the city hoping to shake her. He failed, and Trelawny was able to track him to an apartment in Auburn's Megabuilding 4. Believing Hernandez's capture to be too important to be left up to average bounty hunters, Trelawny hired a team of shadowrunners to retrieve him.

The Meet

It was a muggy and grey afternoon as the runners pulled into the Cornerside's parking lot. Between the obvious ganger and the troll in a samurai costume, the group drew no shortage of attention from the restaurant's customers. Pell, a fantastically dressed elf, looked over the people who she'd been hired to work with; her eyes flashed with arcane light as she assensed the group's auras. Fed Up, a scraggly elven rigger, glowed with satisfaction as he sipped on a large Baja Blast. Sanjuro, the group's street samurai, brimmed with poorly-contained excitement at her first real shadowrun. Scrappeny, the group's other rigger, was mostly just relieved to have found something to do today. As the four made their introductions, they were guided around back by a neatly dressed orkish waiter.

The group met with Trelawney in the back of the restaurant, and were served soykaf as they learned the details of the job. Payment was agreed at 8,000 nuyen per person, and Trelawny retired to her office. The group was left to finish their soykaf and discuss the plan. As the team talked, Pell took notice of one of the restaurant's cooks: an acne-faced teenager who had been staring since the group walked in. Gawking at people is awfully rude, and so Pell decided to remind the kid of his manners. By summoning a force nine water spirit in front of him. The air around Pell hummed with energy as the steam rising off the stoves curled into a twisting, humanoid form. The kid's jaw dropped open, his knife slicing his finger as he frantically backed away from the spirit. Then, just as quickly as it had formed, the spirit dissipated into vapor. The rest of the cooks turned at the commotion and saw the kid stricken pale, clutching at his cut finger. There was a moment of absolute silence, and then everyone went back to work. Pell cast a healing spell on the poor lad as the team left.

The Plan

The party finalized their plan as they pulled into the megatower's parking garage, Sanjuro's bike stashed in the back of Fed Up's car. Hernandez himself didn't threat. By all accounts he was a massive coward, and unlikely to do anything more than run. If they could find him, they could probably catch him. It was finding him that presented a problem; Hernandez's apartment could be anywhere in the megatower, and they didn't know its number. Sanjuro suggested going around and knocking on doors until they found him, but Pell decided on a more elegant solution. She called once again upon her water spirit; vapor rose from the cracks in the concrete, cooling and forming into a swirling body. She held up a picture of Hernandez, an unimpressive elf in a severe mid-life crisis. The spirit gazed sightlessly at Hernandez's greasy fauxhawk, and set off towards the megabuilding.

As Pell commanded her spirit, the rest of the team set about solving their second problem. The megatower's apartments were fitted with break-in alarms. If they didn't want to get security called down on them, they would need to bypass the lock on Hernandez's door.

Game Quotes

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Player After Action Reports (AARs)

Sanjuro - Oh boy! What a run! Bicycled down to the meet site and met some very cool shadowrunners! Everyone was so cool and good at shadowrunning. We got a job to find a 'cockroach' (elf, i was confused too) and bring him in alive. He had 'debt' or something. He found the complex, our wizardy friend did some spirit magic to find him. FedUp and I charmed our way past the guards and the receptionist and we found his apartment. I shot him down with a hammerhead arrow and we were home free! Just a wonderful job, start to finish.