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==Summary==
==Summary==
   
   
Looking for a friend who has dropped from the Matrix, a group of techno-activists offer a prize for the runners to uncover her situation.
Members of [[SignificantNPC::OtherCon]] have gone missing recently, and a representative has hired a team of shadowrunners to find out what happened to them.
==Background==
==Background==


The Red Children have lost contact with a friend, they can't go to law enforcement so they contract out for a Runner team.
In the past few weeks, members of the Seattle SURGE community OtherCon have been going dark - not responding on the matrix, not showing up anywhere in meatspace, nothing. Concerned, a Johnson posts a job for more information on ShadowHaven.
 
==The Meet==
==The Meet==
 
The runners meet a Johnson who did not give her name (Deulara Leorel of OtherCon), but appeared to be an arctic wolf changeling. After agreeing to the offer of 6,000¥ each for detailed information about the disappearances, the team is sent an address for a building of some sort in the Redmond barrens as well as profiles on the missing persons.
The runners meet in VR at e-Wasted, a private room provided a more comfortable setting for the Ms. Johnson - [[Crouching Dragon, Hidden Tiger#Technomancers|Scarlet of the Red Children]]
 
The Johnson offered 8k which was negotiated to include a 5k bonus if the job was accomplished in 24 hours without the target being made aware of the runners presence.
 
 
==The Plan==
==The Plan==


Investigate the target - Jiang Mao, her abode, workplace and acquaintances
*Research the address and missing persons
 
*Infiltrate the building to recover paydata and/or extract kidnapping victims
Rambozo, Boombox and BFG will go to A.C.H.E and look at security / ganger presence


Purkinje provides Matrix support and then goes onsite to access the Host.
==The Run==
==The Run==


Running parallel matrix searches, Purkinje and Night Claws were able to determine the building in question was a premillennial concrete structure in the barrens that was currently owned by a mysterious business named ShadowCorp. Little information existed on this apparently no-name shell company, but rumors on the streets of Redmond indicated people were seen coming and going to the office at all hours of the day, even outside of normal business hours for a small company. Little information was discerned about the missing persons except they were all changelings affiliated with OtherCon who had gone missing recently in sequence; their locations were not on the matrix, it would seem.


The Team focus early on learning the History of ACHE -The '''A'''rcology '''C'''ommunal '''H'''ousing '''E'''nclave, formerly the SCIRE (Self-Contained Industrial Residential Environment)), better known as the Renraku Arcology.
Casing the physical location of the office revealed it had been retrofitted with a wireless security system and a reasonably strong host for a small business. During a stakeout, Howler assensed the area and through a life detection spell was able to determine a wounded, unconscious person was brought into the building's garage via a car that had left recently. Night Claws and Purkinje teamed up to crack the host and brick a terminal slaved to it through repeated use of resonance spikes so that no attack could be detected.  
 
Rambozo leads BFG and Boombox straight into the public areas of the complex to a fight club to assess the physical aspects of the building and its inhabitants
 
Meanwhile Purk pulls up data on Jiang Mao, who seems to be an heir to Julian Mao of Silicon Technologies (B class Corp) who has a rebellious nature, currently starring as the pilot of the RAZORBACK, the KRIME PARTY Urban Brawl team Outrider jeep, digging deeper Purkinje finds she is a Meta-human rights activist linked to several groups including Red Children.
 
In VR attached to a public device on the UCAS Host in the Mall of ACHE. getting access to map data, bio-metrics and SIN data as well as an address.


Beneath the hastily constructed veneer of the host, something huge and dark stirs, tempted to dive deeper Purk has a moment of clarity and pulls back, to rejoin the team and access the upper habitation levels (8th floor) Purkinje passes Bio-metric data to Boombox to clone ID access on the Elevator while Rambozo and BFG intimidate a group of gangers they recognise in the corner who (unbeknown to them were going to attempt a robbery in the lift.)
After waiting a time for a call to be made to tech support, Howler cast Improved Invisibility while Purkinje made her way for the front door pretending to be a matrix security specialist. With knowledge of the bricked device, a helpful apparent intention and professional clothes, she conned her way inside without much trouble, clearing the way for Howler to detect the location of the wounded changeling. Tapping into a terminal to provide wireless access, Purkinje makes way for Night Claws and his fault sprite to assist her on matrix searches to locate a map of the building and plans on the kidnapping scheme. Using the location data from the spell detection and the building plan, the team determined a route through the building that would give access to the wounded person with as little resistance as possible.  


The team decided to keep things quiet. Purkinje seduced a couple of guards into not noticing as an invisible Howler slipped by and made her way to the extraction target. The person, a [[SignificantNPC::Tanya|squirrel-girl]] was unconscious; Howler chose to leave her unconscious so she wouldn't cause a ruckus, instead turning her invisible and levitating her unconscious body out soundlessly. Purkinje convinced the guards to join her in a break room so they wouldn't be able to feel the presence of strong spells as Howler made her escape.


Hitting the correct floor the team move quickly through the detritus filled corridors, wires hang loose from the ceiling near attached Data line taps to spread Matrix connectivity through this throwback of a building.. regular steel plates loom ominously overhead and Ramobozo points out the obvious descending turret like nature of them to the team, lending them a sense of urgency.
Just then, the actual tech support team showed up. Purkinje left the break room after giving a fake number to the guards and pretended dispatch had double-booked the tech support professionals. They seemed to buy this long enough for Howler to get out. Purkinje returned to the car to get moving as quickly as possible.
 
getting to the apartment, Purkinje rests against the door and focuses on the connected host, to her utmost despair the host peers back! a black chaotic and tainted wasteland looms across her view a central pillar atop which rests an unblinking eye wreathed in fire. The sour acidic taste of Dissonance fills her senses as Matrix icons and echoes flit across the landscape and purk recoils in horror before anything has chance to spot her.
 
This leaves the door opening to Boombox, who takes time to slip into something decidedly less comfortable, a skin tight chameleon suit and wriggles into a maintenance vent through the building refuse on the floor.
 
As he makes his way into the apartment, a security detail approaches, looking but finding nowhere suitable to hide, especially for the 3.50m tall giant ... they decide to play it cool and assume their ganger personas. The security in riot gear saunter up expecting no resistance but the looming form of BFG and some quietly threatening words have them scuttling on their way to the elevators with nervous glances back, the runners spot that there's little to no Matrix connected devices on them, something seems 'off' about this.
 
Boombox emerges into the empty apartment and surveys the surroundings, LED lights flicker from a deck on the side but the place is tidy and clean, a few Data Chips lie next to the device, so he lets the team in with no threats in sight.
 
Boombox attempts to access the deck and clumsily drops it, breaking it into a thousand pieces and revealing that it's no more than a fake shell for a Technomancer to use as a mask when working real jobs, Jiang might well be a Techno.
 
The various chips laying around are mostly bad poetry back and forth from a ganger called NightSprawl,  Rambozo recognises the tattoos on his profile pictures as the gang from before.
Burner Comm - message 24 hours ago from her father in which he threatens to sell her racing Jeep, the ''RAZORBACK''. "It's time to come home," he says. "I'll make everything right again."
 
Message from NightSprawl – “It’s time to go … meet me!”
 
JIANG's angry response telling dear old dad that he can't "buy me off or control me anymore"
 
 
Heading toward the lifts the team debate gearing up before heading into ganger territory to follow the next lead.
 
the heavy doors open though, to reveal a bloodbath, civilian bodies lie in rapidly pooling blood and one of the previously seen security guards slumps against the control panel. The team move quickly to control his bleeding and offer medical aid, they hear the control room urgent calls for response on the throwback walkie talkie but are took shaken to respond in time and hear them dispatch a task force to intercept at their last location (The 37th floor where the team are headed).
 
Trying to head off this force the team move ahead, into an expected ambush, Purkinje holds her breath and compusre as she piles bodies atop each other to use as makeshift cover she utters a blessing in Sperethial that the team don't hear. the doors open and the gang are ready but taken aback that it's not security but well armed runners that emerge,  the fight last less than 3 seconds, a CS gas cannister spins through the air as the murderous form of a clown steps into the hallway, hails of bullets from the machine pistols of gangers richochet down the hall doing nothing, controlled bursts from the clown take the gang down with Matrix overwatch from A R T & Daemon pointing out fire arks and weak points for the gunman to take advantage of. Boombox slips out almost unseen and returns the gas cannister to his pocket before the charge inside ignites, no point wasting good grenades!
 
One escapee crawls slowly towards a barricaded apartment, Purkinje asks politely and pointedly for NightSprawl and the ganger points at the door before collapsing unconscious, Rambozo moves with purpose and collapses the door with a hefty boot, inside the dust settles on a squat filled with a horrendous stench and various bodies unmoving on couches and the floor ... all hooked up to Matrix equipment  " A BTL den"  scanning around they find the unfortunate corpse of their target.  Purkinje investigates for any cyberware finding a cheap burner implanted and some other low grade ware... and then a huge surprise, his implanted bio-monitor and DocWagon bracelet is PLATINUM grade, this waster has an EMT team inbound any second!
 
Without wasting time Purkinje dives into his gear and rips data from him without any delay, the elevator doors open in the hall and the team grab her and rapidly depart leaving a scene of devestation behind them.
 


==Aftermath==
==Aftermath==


The unconscious changeling woke up and didn't seem to know much about the situation, though she admitted to being a member of OtherCon. The team dropped her off at a requested location before sending the Johnson the paydata and informing her of the rescue. They opted not to negotiate for a bonus in light of the rescue, instead doing it pro bono as a token of goodwill towards a future relationship with the client. The Johnson was more than pleased they had obtained the paydata and rescued a faction member within a day without being detected at all. She wired the agreed-upon payment.
No one died by the teams hands, they took the gangers out with non-lethal untraceable rounds.
==Rewards==


Given enough time Purkinje digs into the data she took:
*6,000¥
*4 karma
*2 faction rep with OtherCon
*1 street cred


Silicon Technologies is a Shell Corp of a Shell Corp loosely connected to Renraku
===Player After Action Reports (AARs)===
 
the dead BTL ganger was Anthony Ruz with no connection to anything on file presently. no reason for the expensive DocWagon.
 
Messages from an hour ago from Jiang Mao to meet him provide enough proof of life to complete the job.
 
Jiang Mao was last seen aboard a boat heading into the sound.
 
She suspects the Ms. Johnson is a Technomancer and has exchanged contact details for future work offers.


A suspected Dissonance well resides somewhere in the former home of DEUS.
====Purkinje's After Action Report====
==Rewards==
As I said to the Johnson, Evo is to the SURGE community in a similar way that MCT is to technomancers, and I stand in solidarity against our corporate oppressors. With what information we were able to dig up, we pulled off one of the smoothest runs I've ever been in. Damn it feels good being in and out before anyone ever notices. With two hackers on our side, a sorcerer and muscle for backup? They never knew what hit them - and it's better that way too, for the sake of the people on that list. We could've taken the Johnson for a few more thousand nuyen based on that performance, but I think it'll pay off more in the end if we let our reputation speak for us. That Johnson's definitely gonna recommend us to other clients, and it doesn't hurt that we were working for the people on this one either. You put in the legwork and get in good with people, it pays off in the end. This is why I run the shadows. It was a pleasure working with everyone!


16.5k nuyen
====Howler's After Action Report====
It was late when she finally made it home. The job went well. It was nice and smooth. Really, she couldn't complain about it. In fact, if she had anything to complain about it would have to be the fact that she couldn't have done more.  


3 karma
Howler, like many people, believed in doing the right thing. Unfortunately, not everyone seems to be able to agree on which thing is actually the right one. But this time, this case, Howler was certain she had done the right thing. The team was only supposed to find information on missing members of the SURGE community. They weren't being paid for an extraction. Extractions were risky, but generally appreciated when the extractee happens to be there against their will. After finding the data, there was no question in Howler's mind that they needed to rescue the newly kidnapped SURGE that had just been brought in. Besides, whatever data they bring back won't account for her. This was her best shot.


+1 Red Children faction rep
As Howler lay in her bed, safe and sound in her newly formed magical lodge, she quietly congratulated herself on the little tricks that got the squirrel SURGE girl out. A little illusion and some levitation, along with a useful distraction... All too easy. She could feel Coyote's approval. She knew she'd have to work on her bag of tricks more, the same trick won't always work. But that was a problem for tomorrow.
===Player After Action Reports (AARs)===


==== Purkinje's Report ====
I have stared into the eyes of pure evil. The remnants of Renraku's SCIRE are a barrens now, full of the remnants of DEUS. Being at the center of Crash 2.0 made me uneasy, but I felt a terrible curiosity to find all I could. I saw something I should not have seen, there. Something dark and dissonant. I don't think I'll ever forget it. This may be the dissonance well mentioned in the files I pulled from that dead ganger's brain case. Speaking of the dead ganger, what's up with his 'ware? He had a plat DocWagon band and an implanted burner 'link. Drek's not cheap, not like everything else I saw there. I'm proud of myself for how I handled the shootout, though. I don't think I've ever been that effective in physical combat before. Shooter would've been proud. In other news, our target person of interest appears to have been a technomancer, as was our client. We weren't able to establish contact with the target, but I gave the client a watermarked calling card. There are ripples in the Resonance. What happened here will have a greater impact down the line, I can feel it.
[[Category:Runs]]
[[Category:Runs]]

Latest revision as of 17:08, 3 April 2020

Location, Location, Location
Part of Against all odds - The OtherCon story
Date2080-10-09
GMMalyc
LocationRedmond Barrens
Result Runners extract trafficking victim, steal data undetected
Factions Involved
Evans Doyle
Howler
Night Claws
Purkinje
Shadow Corp
Casualties and losses
None None

Summary

Members of OtherCon have gone missing recently, and a representative has hired a team of shadowrunners to find out what happened to them.

Background

In the past few weeks, members of the Seattle SURGE community OtherCon have been going dark - not responding on the matrix, not showing up anywhere in meatspace, nothing. Concerned, a Johnson posts a job for more information on ShadowHaven.

The Meet

The runners meet a Johnson who did not give her name (Deulara Leorel of OtherCon), but appeared to be an arctic wolf changeling. After agreeing to the offer of 6,000¥ each for detailed information about the disappearances, the team is sent an address for a building of some sort in the Redmond barrens as well as profiles on the missing persons.

The Plan

  • Research the address and missing persons
  • Infiltrate the building to recover paydata and/or extract kidnapping victims

The Run

Running parallel matrix searches, Purkinje and Night Claws were able to determine the building in question was a premillennial concrete structure in the barrens that was currently owned by a mysterious business named ShadowCorp. Little information existed on this apparently no-name shell company, but rumors on the streets of Redmond indicated people were seen coming and going to the office at all hours of the day, even outside of normal business hours for a small company. Little information was discerned about the missing persons except they were all changelings affiliated with OtherCon who had gone missing recently in sequence; their locations were not on the matrix, it would seem.

Casing the physical location of the office revealed it had been retrofitted with a wireless security system and a reasonably strong host for a small business. During a stakeout, Howler assensed the area and through a life detection spell was able to determine a wounded, unconscious person was brought into the building's garage via a car that had left recently. Night Claws and Purkinje teamed up to crack the host and brick a terminal slaved to it through repeated use of resonance spikes so that no attack could be detected.

After waiting a time for a call to be made to tech support, Howler cast Improved Invisibility while Purkinje made her way for the front door pretending to be a matrix security specialist. With knowledge of the bricked device, a helpful apparent intention and professional clothes, she conned her way inside without much trouble, clearing the way for Howler to detect the location of the wounded changeling. Tapping into a terminal to provide wireless access, Purkinje makes way for Night Claws and his fault sprite to assist her on matrix searches to locate a map of the building and plans on the kidnapping scheme. Using the location data from the spell detection and the building plan, the team determined a route through the building that would give access to the wounded person with as little resistance as possible.

The team decided to keep things quiet. Purkinje seduced a couple of guards into not noticing as an invisible Howler slipped by and made her way to the extraction target. The person, a squirrel-girl was unconscious; Howler chose to leave her unconscious so she wouldn't cause a ruckus, instead turning her invisible and levitating her unconscious body out soundlessly. Purkinje convinced the guards to join her in a break room so they wouldn't be able to feel the presence of strong spells as Howler made her escape.

Just then, the actual tech support team showed up. Purkinje left the break room after giving a fake number to the guards and pretended dispatch had double-booked the tech support professionals. They seemed to buy this long enough for Howler to get out. Purkinje returned to the car to get moving as quickly as possible.

Aftermath

The unconscious changeling woke up and didn't seem to know much about the situation, though she admitted to being a member of OtherCon. The team dropped her off at a requested location before sending the Johnson the paydata and informing her of the rescue. They opted not to negotiate for a bonus in light of the rescue, instead doing it pro bono as a token of goodwill towards a future relationship with the client. The Johnson was more than pleased they had obtained the paydata and rescued a faction member within a day without being detected at all. She wired the agreed-upon payment.

Rewards

  • 6,000¥
  • 4 karma
  • 2 faction rep with OtherCon
  • 1 street cred

Player After Action Reports (AARs)

Purkinje's After Action Report

As I said to the Johnson, Evo is to the SURGE community in a similar way that MCT is to technomancers, and I stand in solidarity against our corporate oppressors. With what information we were able to dig up, we pulled off one of the smoothest runs I've ever been in. Damn it feels good being in and out before anyone ever notices. With two hackers on our side, a sorcerer and muscle for backup? They never knew what hit them - and it's better that way too, for the sake of the people on that list. We could've taken the Johnson for a few more thousand nuyen based on that performance, but I think it'll pay off more in the end if we let our reputation speak for us. That Johnson's definitely gonna recommend us to other clients, and it doesn't hurt that we were working for the people on this one either. You put in the legwork and get in good with people, it pays off in the end. This is why I run the shadows. It was a pleasure working with everyone!

Howler's After Action Report

It was late when she finally made it home. The job went well. It was nice and smooth. Really, she couldn't complain about it. In fact, if she had anything to complain about it would have to be the fact that she couldn't have done more.

Howler, like many people, believed in doing the right thing. Unfortunately, not everyone seems to be able to agree on which thing is actually the right one. But this time, this case, Howler was certain she had done the right thing. The team was only supposed to find information on missing members of the SURGE community. They weren't being paid for an extraction. Extractions were risky, but generally appreciated when the extractee happens to be there against their will. After finding the data, there was no question in Howler's mind that they needed to rescue the newly kidnapped SURGE that had just been brought in. Besides, whatever data they bring back won't account for her. This was her best shot.

As Howler lay in her bed, safe and sound in her newly formed magical lodge, she quietly congratulated herself on the little tricks that got the squirrel SURGE girl out. A little illusion and some levitation, along with a useful distraction... All too easy. She could feel Coyote's approval. She knew she'd have to work on her bag of tricks more, the same trick won't always work. But that was a problem for tomorrow.