Sixteen Tons
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ShadowHaven Urban street shaman group | An unrated corporation, Brightstar Consortium | ||||||||
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Farsight KBC Koi Roadkill | |||||||||
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| One toxic shaman | |||||||||
Summary
The runners were hired by a group of urban shaman to save a construction site that included a massive concrete slab of critical importance to the The Union of Pebbles, Gravel, Limestone, and Debris, local 414 - a group of urban concrete spirits.
They sabotaged the construction site and ultimately convinced the VP of BrightStar Consortium to halt construction and give the land to the urban shaman to safeguard.
Background
Farsight, KBC, Koi, and Roadkill arrived at the meet. It looked like a warehouse nightclub. They had to display the curious rune from the run post to get in. This proved to be a picture of the intersection where the warehouse nightclub for the urban shaman is located. In the parking lot, they encountered Billy the Shaman who was interacting with all of the cars parked there, almost as if they were living animals he was shepherding.
Once inside, KBC was drawn to a man in construction clothes talking about how concerned he was that a building was going to be torn down. (He would prove to be an ally spirit of the urban shaman Jerry.) Jerry realized the group were the runners hired by head urban shaman Zen. Farsight could see that Zen and Jerry were shaman, and the construction worker was a spirit of concrete. Jerry gave the construction worker a brick.
The Meet
Zen, the Johnson, explained that the runners would need to do whatever was necessary to stop the site from being demolished. She provided the address. It was clear that it was very important to the construction worker spirit, also.
Zen paid them up front.
She also agreed that they could use the basement room on the back of the club for planning.
The Plan
KBC searched the matrix for information about the building, the person or organization who bought it, and any recent cases of construction being halted to see what reasons had been sufficient in the past. They learned that the building was an old union building, over 100 years old. The foundation was very unusual - a massive unbroken slab of concrete extending not only under the building, but under its parking lot as well. KBC knew with her knowledge of construction that there was no mundane reason to have a foundation of that size, or to use a single piece of concrete like that. She asked Farsight if there could be a magical explanation.
Farsight scouted in astral. He found a very large group of spirits, just like the construction worker spirit at the warehouse. He could not find any arcane reason for the concrete, beyond that it certainly seemed to make the spirits happy to have it there.
Koi and Roadkill scouted the physical site, being stealthy. They confirmed the constructions was being done by XX Construction. Roadkill captured trid of all he saw, with his cyber eyes, and transmitted to the others. When he was stopped by a lock on the construction site trailer door, KBC was able to hack it open for him. Once inside, he collected pictures of before and after blueprints and several loose data chips. He secured a data tap to the terminal. KBC reviewed the data on the terminal and shared it with the team. It included staffing lists, communications over their e-mail system, payroll information, security information, and equipment lists.
The construction worker spirit from the warehouse was inside the trailer and encouraged Roadkill to come inside the building for more information.
The initial plan was to sabotage the construction site, making it impossible for work to continue, and to investigate what was going on inside the building.
The Run
Farsight, with support from the team, crafted a convincing e-mail message to all staff from HR which told them the job was cancelled and they should no longer report to work. KBC sent it via the terminal to all the construction staff.
Farsight and [[Roadkill] went in to the building to see what was going on with the spirits of concrete. They were having a union meeting. They began by reviewing minutes and then moved to a discussion of the new business - what to do about the construction work. They had appealed to their friends for help. (The urban shaman.) Roadkill gave a very stirring speech about the philosophy of anarchic uprising, and the need for them to work together against the man. Farsight reinforced this message with a further speech. The concrete spirits were definitely moved by the speeches, and beginning to rally.
Then, Farsight sensed something filthy and foul approaching. A toxic spirit! The newly emboldened construction spirits threw their bricks at it. Farsight attacked it as it manifeested with a mighty blow that completely annihilated it.
With the toxic spirit dispatched, the concrete spirits readily joined the runners in dismantling the construction equipment.