Libre Nacho

Libre Nacho
Date 2081-05-05 GM Doc Location Tacotemple, Bellevue
Factions Involved
ShadowHaven Aristotle Tobias Sinister Spider	Taco Temple

Summary

A group of guys, piles of deep-weed, and a holiday that encourages eating of food en-masse only means one thing. A whole lot of hungry guys and overworked taco joints that have to turn down orders. So what does any rational person do when you can't get your 'Mega Grande Volcano Burrito'? Obviously you hire a bunch of criminals to go steal the recipe so you can make it yourselves from now till the end of time!

Background

Cinco De Mayo festivities at Taco Temples prevent a bunch of very rich stoners from satifying their Taco Temple munchies, so they hire runners to steal the secret recipe.

The Meet

The team arrives to the rendezvous site sent by their fixers for the job posting, at an apartment in Bellevue. Tobias the Cyber Samurai just runs there. Before they could even knock on the door they noticed smoke was pooling out from underneath! Tobias's sensors in his arm identify the smoke originating from 'deepweed'. Relieved there wasn't chaos behind, but also concerned at the amount of smoke, the party knocks at the door to be greeted by a high individual. This individual was one of multiple people within this apartment, some still smoking their deepweed joints, and had been confused why a delivery called for four people, prompting the team to ask for the person who posted the job, thus being taken inside to a man named Chad.

Chad had explained the situation: Cinco de Mayo had caused Taco Temple to be overworked, thus their order was declined, and they had to have their 'Mega Grande Volcano Burritos' today as the deepweed has given them the munchies. So, the job was simple: The team was to steal the secret recipe for this dish from Taco Temple, and also to pick up additional food from another location.

The asking price was 8000 nuyen per individual. However, details were missing, who knows if this guy was too high or an amateur to the whole gig of hiring shadowrunners, or perhaps both. So the team inquired if he had a deadline for the mission, and thus Chad told them he wanted it by today as they had a BAD case of the munchies. For a job like this, information gathering is the most crucial aspect of the job, and that was a short time-frame; thus Aristotle, who in his past was a frequent delivery boy, reminded Chad that typically same day delivery had an additional charge, managing to secure an additional 8000 to the pot, and with that the deal was made and the team quickly got to work.

The Plan

After departing from their employer, the runners quickly got to work planning this time-constricted heist. First thing they needed to know in order to plan a heist, knowledge of the target; and all they knew was that it was a secret recipe held by Taco Temple. Where else to find information quickly than the information superhighway that was the matrix? And with that, Spider quickly got to work on the Taco Temple host. Between Taco Temple being a lower scale business, their host wasn't much of a hurdle for the talented decker, and pretty quickly the team had the records they needed: The location of copies of the secret recipes were not only at every HQ on a data-chip, but also the floor-plans, the employee records for security personnel, cleaner schedule, and locations of other security devices, along with a small file about the employment of a single minor security mage.

With the matrix recon cleared, and now a physical target known, astral recon can be done, and this falls within the expertise of Aristotle. With a quick relaxation and a review of the location of the HQ, Aristotle let his consciousness slip into the astral and begun his evaluation. Slowing down at any sign of astral activity, he immediately noted two force 4 watcher spirits that routinely drifted throughout the complex and immediate grounds, reconvened every 5 minutes, and repeated. Other than the watchers, there were no signs of mana barriers, wards, or other significant auras or astral entities on site.

With this knowledge, Aristotle relayed to the team that there's minimal astral security, the only issue is that any astral activity on site would bring the attention of the security mage. So if they wanted to attempt a stealth mission, Aristotle's talents would be reserved as a backup plan.

Given the mundanity of the payload, the civilians involved, the skills at hand, and the fact that HQ was in a class B zone, the decision was unanimous to go for a quiet mission with backup contingencies.

Aristotle, lacking stealth and social manipulation skills, and knowing his main talent set would raise alarm would stay behind in the truck and monitor the situation with the team through their sensors and trode-communication. Meanwhile Sinister, Spider, and Tobias would make their way through the building, with Spider looping cameras and sending spoofed messages to throw off the guards as they weasel their way to the 4th floor office building where the safe that contained the data-chips were. Should drek hit the fan and an Astral threat come along, such as a spirit, due to relatively close proximity Aristotle could be there in an instant via Astral Projection and manage with mana-spells and elemental support. This would prove most difficult against threats that had no presence on the astral plane, however given the civilian grade security it should be simple enough for Tobias to deal with. Given that records also showed that the safe with the pay-data wasn't connected to the grid, the team could only assume there would be other obstacles as well that the decker couldn't simply pop, and this is where Sinister the B&E specialist would shine.

This raises the question, what about the second objective? They do need to also bring back a second delivery. Well, in all situations the answer was simple, since the heist would be later in the day, just go ahead and bring Chad back his food right away so he and his friends had something to eat while they waited.

With a cohesive plan set, and contingencies set in place, it was time to get to work.

The Run

After grabbing the food for Chad and finding a secluded place to summon and bind a air elemental for safe keeping in case drek hit the fan, the team went to the Taco Temple local HQ to enact their delicious plan.

Aristotle leaning back in the chair and kept a focus on his commlink feeds, given the stealth level of the mission he could not afford to check on the Astral during this time for fear of drawing the eye of the watchers and thus their creator as well.

Spider, Tobias, and Sinister collectively made their way through the customer area, slipping into the restricted HQ area since the door was also near the bathroom door. Spider quickly regained marks within the host, allowing the team to skyrocket through the floors as they looped cameras and spoofed guard messages to create openings for the team to slip through. The run is going according to plan! Which is odd, plans never go completely right.

And then it happened, upon unlocking the door to office and entering in, a chair swivelled around and sat upon it was a figure dressed in animal skins and a mask wielding an axe, definetely out of place, and Aristotle watching from the commlinks very shortly realized what the team had sitting in front of them- a guardian spirit of the Aztec tradition. As the spirit started to stand up and prepare to deal with the hostile invaders, Aristotle had already slipped into his Astral Projection and was on scene, for he knew that the spirit's link to the summoner means that the mage is already going to be alerted now that the spirit is aware of their intrusion. Summoning his bound air elemental to assist just as the fight got started.

Despite being a spirit based on guard duty and combat, the Guardian spirit quickly succumbed to the brutal onslaught from Tobias the Cyber Samurai. However the damage was done, as the loss of the spirit's connection will drive the security mage mad and definitely prompted a High Threat Response call. So time was of the essence as they had about 6 minutes to get out of dodge. Luckily between a decker and a B&E specialist, the safe was an easy crack and inside was a collection of datachips. GRAB THEM ALL! Sadly the cameras showed to the decker that the civilian guards were gathering at the office door for an ambush, a conflicting order was attempted to lure them away but sadly they were not convinced. There was no threat to the mission however, as they quickly fell to the Samurai. While this was going on, Aristotle had returned to his meat-sack to deal with drain, and shortly after applying the patch and checking on the astral, he spotted the security mage arriving on scene. Luckily already having a spirit and being at capacity again, Aristotle quickly scared him off and covered the rest of his astral tracks before returning to his body.

The team managed to escape the building, pile into the truck, and get out of dodge before high threat response could even get within earshot.

Aftermath

After managing to escape the Taco Temple HQ before High-Threat Response could arrive on scene, the team returned to rendezvous with their employers, grateful that they had the foresight to take care of the additional food delivery prior to the heist. Returning to the apartment door, which was still leaking deepweed smoke, they were greeted by another stoner who didn't recognize them, however quick mention of a delivery for Chad had allowed them in to give a copy of the 'Mega Grande Volcano Burrito Secret Recipe'. Although the Johnson 'Chad' had initially tried closing off with the original 8000 nuyen each offer, a quick reminder of the same-day delivery charge accompanied by a trid recording of him offering and agreeing to 16000 had quickly settled things simply and neatly.

Rewards

• 16000 nuyen

• 4 Karma

• 500 bonus nuyen per runner from collected extra pay-data

• 2 CDP

Game Quotes

"Uh, are you guys the uh, delivery guys?" --A stoner, to the runners, twice

"So uh, you guys want some deepweed?" --A stoner, to the runners, twice

"Can we go get tacos?" (from the attached, crowded restaurant) --Tobias, with HTR en-route

Player After Action Reports (AARs)

Sinister

If this is how those dudes want to spend their nuyen, I'm more than happy to take it. Shame we had to geek those guards though. Damn Guardian spirit. Why would anyone except absolute stoners care that much about a burrito recipe?

Aristotle

A simple quick cash grab, things went rather smoothly thanks to having amazing matrix support. Only annoyance was the spirit sitting right on the objective, no easy way to avoid tipping off the security mage when that happens. Spirit and mage was easily fended off though, minimal casualties given the situation. Guess what they say is true, information will always be valuable to somebody no matter what it is.