The Night the Lights Went Out In Redmond
| The Night the Lights Went Out In Redmond | |||||||
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| Part of Sins of the Mother | |||||||
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Usagi Rambozo Moth Twitch Flyboy |
Knight Errant Lone Star Shotozumi-gumi | ||||||
Summary
Mother Komodo hired the runners to rescue a falsely accused young ork who had been framed for the arson of a tenement building in the Redmond barrens. He was being held by Knight Errant and was scheduled on the following day to be transferred to Lone Star and taken to a secure facility in the Mojave Desert. She also asked them optionally to find evidence that the Judge in question was dirty.
The runners investigated, and planned how to rescue him.
The rescue went well, the boy was saved, and the Judge was proven in the pocket of several syndicates, including the Shotozumi-gumi, who were specifically behind the arson of the building that was framed on the boy.
Background
Mother Komodo was the defense attorney for young Aron Howard, a sixteen-year old ork, framed for an arson he didn't commit. The arson was committed by the Shotozumi-gumi, who paid off corrupt Judge Ben Garner.
Mother Komodo is the mother of fellow runner Tanuki. She did not know he was a runner. He did not know that she was seeking runners help to address injustice against metahumans.
Rambozo, a runner on this job, is in a relationship with Tanuki but had never met his mother before. He wears full clown make-up, made from novacoke, and combat fatigues on his runs.
The Meet
The meet was held at the office building downtown where Mother Komodo works. She had reserved a conference room on the first floor. The receptionist was startled by Rambozo's appearance, but gave the group directions to the conference room.
When they entered, several of the runners, including Rambozo realized from the strong resemblance that the Johnson was Tanuki's mother.
Rambozo sent Mother Komodo a private DNI message "Hello future mother-in-law." She was quite startled, and began to realize that her son was secretly a runner and dating a clown who wants to marry him. He also draped himself over the back of Usagi's chair, hinting that he was in a relationship with another man also.
Moth helped smoothed the matter over, and set the Johnson at ease, so the meet could proceed. She requested the dossier on the case. She also helped negotiate that they would be paid part of the money up front to off-set expenses, if needed, and the opportunity for bonus pay for the optional job.
Mother Komodo emphasized that she would prefer that law enforcement was not harmed, though she understood if it was necessary. But it was essential that the job be done subtly enough that it could not possibly be traced to her. It would be best if it was not connected to runners at all. (Perhaps a new fear given her dawning recognition that anything to do with runners might trace back to her, through her son.)
The runners agreed to do the job, eager to help Tanuki's mother, and to right the injustice.
The Plan
Twitch proved exceptionally good at hacking into KE's host, with a little inspiration from Moth. He obtained Aron's file, including the exact time and route for the run.
After considering many options, the runners concluded that the safest option was to rescue Aron from Lone Star after the hand-off to them, and after they had driven outside of Seattle into a much lower security area and on an empty patch of road near a small town.
Rambozo and Moth investigated the case files, for gang connections to help find a way to conceal who did the rescue. Though it was clear from Mother Komodo's files that Aron had no actual connection to gangs, the KE files connected him strongly to several gangs, including the Halloweeners. Racist drek. But this made it easy to make it look like Aron's gang had rescued him, while hiding the runners' identities.
The plan was for Flyboy to drive Usagi's jeep. They would take up a stealthy position on the route. They knew there would be two vehicles traveling together. The vehicle with Aron and a decoy. They would force the vehicles to stop...