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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.
A decker finds a mysterious host running out of a building in Touristville. He wants to know what it's protecting.
==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.
On the Emerald City grid, there are rumors about a mysterious host called Mirage Island. There is little consistency to the rumors aside from two things: the host disappears and reappears, and nothing on it is anything good. A decker by the name of c1ph3r believes he has found the real Mirage Island, but his foray into its depths was only able to trace a single device slaved to the host: a computer terminal somewhere on the outskirts of Touristville. While in the host, he found a single file that wasn't junk. He wasn't able to grab it before he had to jack out.
 
==The Meet==
==The Meet==
 
The runners met with c1ph3r in a strange host full of abstract geometry and platonic solids. The negotiation was straight and to-the-point: in exchange for 30,000¥, the team would recover the file. They were given the location of the terminal in Touristville, but there was little else to go on.
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
After doing some legwork, the team learned that the location of the terminal was inside a BTL den operated by the Four Oyabun Rengo of the Yakuza. Night Claws was able to dig up a strange clause where customers were required to sign away their free while while inside and had to obey orders given by den operators. The building's security was poor, appearing to be a pre-millennial building outfitted with next to nothing in the way of reinforcements.
 
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==


Not initially finding much on the matrix except for a number of Meta-Link commlinks, the team decided to send Decoy and Yata in for physical infiltration. They climbed up the fire escape and onto the roof, where Yata picked the lock on a roof access door. The third and second floors of the building were largely unguarded, sparsely populated with malnourished addicts whose chipjacks were plugged into slots in the wall. On the ground floor, a Four Oyabun street samurai on patrol spotted them, and a firefight broke out. Night Claws provided matrix support from the car while Yata and Decoy engaged a team of four street samurai in the hallway. With ample bombardment from gas and Ultraglide grenades and a series of well-placed shots, the team managed to eliminate all OpFor on the ground floor. However, Night Claws spotted six more commlinks attached to smartguns elsewhere in the building, which led the team to look for a basement level.


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.
In the meantime, Night Claws was spotted by a matrix security hacker. The two exchanged data spikes before the hacker vanished. Decoy had his Roadmaster shoot open the front door to make way for his Steel Lynx to provide fire support as he and Yata descended to the basement. Night Claws and his fault sprite proceeded to attack the smartguns in cybercombat, slowly dealing damage to them as lead flew in ample measure. Yata and Decoy were outnumbered, and the six samurai had an excellent defensive position; it took the intervention of a smoke grenade to turn the tide against the Four Oyabun samurai. Seeing themselves backed into a corner, they called upon the personafix chips installed into the addicts' chipjacks and forced them to attack Decoy and Yata. Decoy had his Steel Lynx gun them down, killing them all instantly in a hail of bullets.  
 
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.)
 
 
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.
 
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.
 


Once the physical security had been handled, Night Claws proceeded to the basement and connected directly to the terminal, which was running a rogue host not anchored to the matrix foundation. Decoy ran his agent on his custom cyberdeck as backup. Inside, the host looked like a desert island blanketed in thick jungle. Searching through the jungle took some time, but between Night Claws, the companion sprite and the agent, they were able to find the file they were looking for in thirty seconds. However, a patrol IC spotted the agent and alerted the host, causing it to spawn a Blaster IC. The Blaster IC managed to link-lock Night Claws and the agent before they could escape with the file, but they were both able to break the link-lock and jack out in one piece. They fled the BTL den before backup arrived.
==Aftermath==
==Aftermath==


The client was satisfied with the paydata. Night Claws' copy of the file revealed it to be an MCT North America report on confirmed SINless technomancers operating in the Pacific Northwest, listing bounties, a threat assessment, and physical description. One of the technomancers was listed as caught, held in a facility in Seattle.
No one died by the teams hands, they took the gangers out with non-lethal untraceable rounds.
 
Given enough time Purkinje digs into the data she took:
 
Silicon Technologies is a Shell Corp of a Shell Corp loosely connected to Renraku
 
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.
==Rewards==
==Rewards==


16.5k nuyen
* 10,000¥
* 6 karma


3 karma
+1 Red Children faction rep
===Player After Action Reports (AARs)===
===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]]

Revision as of 05:57, 4 October 2019

Mirage Island
Part of Crouching Dragon, Hidden Tiger
Date2080-10-03
GMPurkinje
LocationTouristville, Seattle
Result Runners escaped with the data.
Factions Involved
Decoy
Night Claws
Yata
Four Oyabun Rengo
Casualties and losses
None

10 Four Oyabun Street Samurai

12 Civilians

Summary

A decker finds a mysterious host running out of a building in Touristville. He wants to know what it's protecting.

Background

On the Emerald City grid, there are rumors about a mysterious host called Mirage Island. There is little consistency to the rumors aside from two things: the host disappears and reappears, and nothing on it is anything good. A decker by the name of c1ph3r believes he has found the real Mirage Island, but his foray into its depths was only able to trace a single device slaved to the host: a computer terminal somewhere on the outskirts of Touristville. While in the host, he found a single file that wasn't junk. He wasn't able to grab it before he had to jack out.

The Meet

The runners met with c1ph3r in a strange host full of abstract geometry and platonic solids. The negotiation was straight and to-the-point: in exchange for 30,000¥, the team would recover the file. They were given the location of the terminal in Touristville, but there was little else to go on.

The Plan

After doing some legwork, the team learned that the location of the terminal was inside a BTL den operated by the Four Oyabun Rengo of the Yakuza. Night Claws was able to dig up a strange clause where customers were required to sign away their free while while inside and had to obey orders given by den operators. The building's security was poor, appearing to be a pre-millennial building outfitted with next to nothing in the way of reinforcements.

The Run

Not initially finding much on the matrix except for a number of Meta-Link commlinks, the team decided to send Decoy and Yata in for physical infiltration. They climbed up the fire escape and onto the roof, where Yata picked the lock on a roof access door. The third and second floors of the building were largely unguarded, sparsely populated with malnourished addicts whose chipjacks were plugged into slots in the wall. On the ground floor, a Four Oyabun street samurai on patrol spotted them, and a firefight broke out. Night Claws provided matrix support from the car while Yata and Decoy engaged a team of four street samurai in the hallway. With ample bombardment from gas and Ultraglide grenades and a series of well-placed shots, the team managed to eliminate all OpFor on the ground floor. However, Night Claws spotted six more commlinks attached to smartguns elsewhere in the building, which led the team to look for a basement level.

In the meantime, Night Claws was spotted by a matrix security hacker. The two exchanged data spikes before the hacker vanished. Decoy had his Roadmaster shoot open the front door to make way for his Steel Lynx to provide fire support as he and Yata descended to the basement. Night Claws and his fault sprite proceeded to attack the smartguns in cybercombat, slowly dealing damage to them as lead flew in ample measure. Yata and Decoy were outnumbered, and the six samurai had an excellent defensive position; it took the intervention of a smoke grenade to turn the tide against the Four Oyabun samurai. Seeing themselves backed into a corner, they called upon the personafix chips installed into the addicts' chipjacks and forced them to attack Decoy and Yata. Decoy had his Steel Lynx gun them down, killing them all instantly in a hail of bullets.

Once the physical security had been handled, Night Claws proceeded to the basement and connected directly to the terminal, which was running a rogue host not anchored to the matrix foundation. Decoy ran his agent on his custom cyberdeck as backup. Inside, the host looked like a desert island blanketed in thick jungle. Searching through the jungle took some time, but between Night Claws, the companion sprite and the agent, they were able to find the file they were looking for in thirty seconds. However, a patrol IC spotted the agent and alerted the host, causing it to spawn a Blaster IC. The Blaster IC managed to link-lock Night Claws and the agent before they could escape with the file, but they were both able to break the link-lock and jack out in one piece. They fled the BTL den before backup arrived.

Aftermath

The client was satisfied with the paydata. Night Claws' copy of the file revealed it to be an MCT North America report on confirmed SINless technomancers operating in the Pacific Northwest, listing bounties, a threat assessment, and physical description. One of the technomancers was listed as caught, held in a facility in Seattle.

Rewards

  • 10,000¥
  • 6 karma

Player After Action Reports (AARs)