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| result      =  Helped the Johnson take care of the people messing with his P2.1 score
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| combatant1  = [[Baobhan Sith]]<br>[[Queen]]<br>[[Dandy]]<br>[[Henry Explicit]]
| combatant1  = [[BFG]]<br>[[Evans Doyle]]<br>[[Night Claws - John Holis]]
| combatant2  = The Johnson, Random Gangers, Poisson's Tribe, Lone Star
| combatant2  = Halloweeners
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==Background==
==Background==
The Johnson, a reasonably high up Horizon exec, was suffering from the attention of a group of dissonant technomancers, who were taking his texts and calls in real time and distributing them almost as soon as they were sent.
A hole-in-the-wall brothel in Touristville known as Madame Kiko's has a contract with a two-bit shadowrunner named El Fantasme. El Fantasme remains on call during working hours to extract sex workers who end up in dangerous situations. He has been missing for 48 hours, however, and his clients are worried about him.


==Meet==
==Meet==
The original location of the meet proved to be burned, as BB spotted several officers that looked more alert than the others, and so it was delayed, and the location changed to a Horror House BTL den. It went well at first, the runners agreeing to take the job for 22000... But before they'd even gotten out of the room, they started receiving texts that were forwarded from the Johnson's commlink wherein he was... less than complimentary. The runners confronted him about it, and things got heated, during which point he offered 10000 nuyen to anyone downstairs who could get the runners off him. Several seconds later, the responding gangers who survived surrendered, and the runners informed him the price was now 30000 nuyen, which he agreed to.  
The team met with a runner liaison named Hard Candy in the back room of Madame Kiko's. She told them about the situation and offered 2,000¥ apiece in exchange for tracking down El Fantasme and ensuring his safety. The team agreed to the terms as-is, choosing not to push for more money from people who were already down on their luck. Hard Candy told them to speak with Tina, the last worker who'd called for El Fantasme's services.  


==Run==
==Run==
With information received from the Johnson and some legwork of their own, they managed to track down Poisson's Tribe, and picked up a few of the grenades that generate noise in the area. That finished, they decided the best course of action was to go loud, and get it over as fast as possible.  
BFG located Tina in the bar, recognizing her by her glossy cyberarm. Tina was concerned about El Fantasme's safety and readily told him about how she'd been handled roughly by a client three days ago at a certain address elsewhere in the barrens before El Fantasme extracted her safely. She handed over the address and El Fantasme's commlink code. Night Claws used the code to spot its icon and trace its location to the same address. The team decided to head that direction while they searched for information about the address on the matrix.  


BB got them in with her B&E skills, and took a peek inside the room where all the technomancers were grouped, and found that they were accompanied by a pair of Lone Star officers. HE (I think, I could be wrong) started the fight by chucking in a Fuzzy Boom Boom Bunny and an HE grenade, which caused the majority of the Technos to run for their lives, into the entryway that the runners were grouped up in. Which caused the fight to turn from moderately organized gunfight, into a disorganized drekshow lasting 6 combat turns. Hits were traded by both sides, more grenades were judiciously applied, and by the time the smoke cleared, the runners proved (barely) victorious.
By the time they were there, Night Claws had learned that the building was a premillennial building retrofitted with matrix security, though the landlord was notoriously cheap and had skimped on security features. After casing the joint, Doyle hopped up the fire escape and looked through the window down the hallway in front of the target room. After he gave the all-clear, Night Claws got a direct connection with a prox card reader on the front door and forced it to send an unlock code. He and BFG proceeded up the stairs to open the window and let Doyle in.  


BB brought her compatriots (and any weapons they may have dropped) to the street doc at the Krime Mall, and collected payment for the run, distributing it as agreed upon.
In the hallway, the group decided they would try to get in under the guise of being building maintenance. Night Claws hacked into the apartment's host and downloaded files on the tenets to find out the mystery client's name: Joshua Thompson. While he was hacking, a different tenet came by and asked what was going on. BFG managed to smooth things over, and the tenet entered his room none the wiser.
 
Once the hack was complete, the team knocked on the door and managed to convince Thompson they were there about a gas leak. Doyle surreptitiously located El Fantasme's commlink inside and swiped it too quickly for Thompson to notice. BFG got rough with Thompson, shaking him down for info on El Fantasme. Thompson confessed to having physically abused Tina and stolen El Fantasme's commlink during the altercation when he came to extract her, but he didn't know anything about the disappearance. The team left with the commlink in tow.
 
Knowing time was an issue, Night Claws searched the commlink for any possible leads. It turned out a second extraction request had been sent shortly after Tina's, but it only gave an address and a sender. Night Claws traced the sender's commlink to discover it belonged to a sex worker named Laés, but no one could read her files because they were written in Sperethiel. The trace indicated she was at Madame Kiko's, so the team returned to where they started. Once there, they located Laés and talked to her. She was afraid to give any information, but BFG soothed her worries to the point she admitted a client who was prejudiced against Tir elves had tried to kidnap her along with two accomplices dressed in Halloweener colors. She pointed them to a barrens alley they used as turf, but she didn't have much more information.
 
The team decided to hurry as fast as they could to the alley. Doyle snuck up on the position undetected and image linked the situation to the rest of the team, pointing out three Halloweeners matching Laés' description. They were a human in a gas mask named Scarecrow, an ork named Jackal-Lantern with a huge axe and a dwarf street mage named Boom Stick. BFG created disguises for himself and Doyle, then marched straight up to the three gangers and ordered them to bring him to El Fantasme. Night Claws stood by, ready to squelch their commlinks should things go south. While the Halloweeners pretended not to know about El Fantasme at first, they failed to see through BFG's disguise and were afraid of his threats. They took him and Doyle inside the abandoned warehouse next door and into a room where they had El Fantasme tied to a chair. Scarecrow nearly shot him in the head before BFG made up a story about how the higher-ups wanted him alive for some reason. He and Doyle gagged El Fantasme and dragged him out still tied to the chair before stuffing him in Doyle's van.  


==Aftermath==
==Aftermath==
BB, being the last runner standing, dropped the others off at a Street Doc at the Crime Mall, and rented one night's rest for each of them there.
The team extracted El Fantasme safely to Madame Kiko's and were met with a warm reception. They were paid for their services and felt good about what they'd done. Night Claws asked El Fantasme how he'd known to extract Laés if he dropped his commlink while extracting Tina. It turned out he simply read both orders beforehand and remembered the address.


==Rewards==
==Rewards==
30,000 nuyen, 1 karma (20,000 and 6 karma for Queen)


==AAR==
* 2,000¥
'''Henry Explicit:''' Well that was a fraggin bastard of a run. Showed up late for the meet, hackers had screwed with the time on my comlink. No worries though the Johnson turn out to be an asshat. We accepted the job for 22,000 Nuyen, but then we each received some insults from the Johnson. Maybe next time think before you text insults, specifically if a hacker is tapped into your fraggin stupid comlink!!! Well we told him the price went up to 30,000. He disagreed and tried to leave. Tried to is the keyword here. I grabbed him as I received another insulting text. We he did not like this, so he sent a message to the rent-a-gangers downstairs. I pinned the fragger, while the rest of runners took the pricks down. After the remaining gangers stood down, the Johnson agreed to the price increase.
* 4 karma


Dandy managed to find some info about the culprits. Turns out to be a bunch of those Technos in an office building. So we where tired of this drek, so we stormed the place. I started the fight with my usual chucking of grenades, a new one called a Fuzzy Boom Boom Bunny which Queen did not like, and my typical H.E. Well it turn into a drekstorm immediately after that. For some reason these technos got into close range combat with Dandy, Banshee, and Queen. I unfortunately did not get that privilege. Well Dandy and Queen handled the ones who rushed toward them, Banshee and I took care of the ones in the stair well. I got Banshee with the blast radius of an H.E. but she seemed like the tough sort. Blew some of those Techno to bits though. Well eventually I took a snooze, and well woke up with some bruise and a headache in a Crime Mall street doc recovery area. Apparently Banshee finished the fight, and got the rest of us fraggers out of there. Even picked up my non-explosive throwing weapons. Owe her a drink sometime.
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Revision as of 03:32, 22 September 2019

The Phantom of the Brothel
Date2080-21-09
GMPurkinje
LocationRedmond Barrens
Result Recovered El Fantasme safely
Factions Involved
BFG
Evans Doyle
Night Claws - John Holis
Halloweeners
Casualties and losses
None None

Background

A hole-in-the-wall brothel in Touristville known as Madame Kiko's has a contract with a two-bit shadowrunner named El Fantasme. El Fantasme remains on call during working hours to extract sex workers who end up in dangerous situations. He has been missing for 48 hours, however, and his clients are worried about him.

Meet

The team met with a runner liaison named Hard Candy in the back room of Madame Kiko's. She told them about the situation and offered 2,000¥ apiece in exchange for tracking down El Fantasme and ensuring his safety. The team agreed to the terms as-is, choosing not to push for more money from people who were already down on their luck. Hard Candy told them to speak with Tina, the last worker who'd called for El Fantasme's services.

Run

BFG located Tina in the bar, recognizing her by her glossy cyberarm. Tina was concerned about El Fantasme's safety and readily told him about how she'd been handled roughly by a client three days ago at a certain address elsewhere in the barrens before El Fantasme extracted her safely. She handed over the address and El Fantasme's commlink code. Night Claws used the code to spot its icon and trace its location to the same address. The team decided to head that direction while they searched for information about the address on the matrix.

By the time they were there, Night Claws had learned that the building was a premillennial building retrofitted with matrix security, though the landlord was notoriously cheap and had skimped on security features. After casing the joint, Doyle hopped up the fire escape and looked through the window down the hallway in front of the target room. After he gave the all-clear, Night Claws got a direct connection with a prox card reader on the front door and forced it to send an unlock code. He and BFG proceeded up the stairs to open the window and let Doyle in.

In the hallway, the group decided they would try to get in under the guise of being building maintenance. Night Claws hacked into the apartment's host and downloaded files on the tenets to find out the mystery client's name: Joshua Thompson. While he was hacking, a different tenet came by and asked what was going on. BFG managed to smooth things over, and the tenet entered his room none the wiser.

Once the hack was complete, the team knocked on the door and managed to convince Thompson they were there about a gas leak. Doyle surreptitiously located El Fantasme's commlink inside and swiped it too quickly for Thompson to notice. BFG got rough with Thompson, shaking him down for info on El Fantasme. Thompson confessed to having physically abused Tina and stolen El Fantasme's commlink during the altercation when he came to extract her, but he didn't know anything about the disappearance. The team left with the commlink in tow.

Knowing time was an issue, Night Claws searched the commlink for any possible leads. It turned out a second extraction request had been sent shortly after Tina's, but it only gave an address and a sender. Night Claws traced the sender's commlink to discover it belonged to a sex worker named Laés, but no one could read her files because they were written in Sperethiel. The trace indicated she was at Madame Kiko's, so the team returned to where they started. Once there, they located Laés and talked to her. She was afraid to give any information, but BFG soothed her worries to the point she admitted a client who was prejudiced against Tir elves had tried to kidnap her along with two accomplices dressed in Halloweener colors. She pointed them to a barrens alley they used as turf, but she didn't have much more information.

The team decided to hurry as fast as they could to the alley. Doyle snuck up on the position undetected and image linked the situation to the rest of the team, pointing out three Halloweeners matching Laés' description. They were a human in a gas mask named Scarecrow, an ork named Jackal-Lantern with a huge axe and a dwarf street mage named Boom Stick. BFG created disguises for himself and Doyle, then marched straight up to the three gangers and ordered them to bring him to El Fantasme. Night Claws stood by, ready to squelch their commlinks should things go south. While the Halloweeners pretended not to know about El Fantasme at first, they failed to see through BFG's disguise and were afraid of his threats. They took him and Doyle inside the abandoned warehouse next door and into a room where they had El Fantasme tied to a chair. Scarecrow nearly shot him in the head before BFG made up a story about how the higher-ups wanted him alive for some reason. He and Doyle gagged El Fantasme and dragged him out still tied to the chair before stuffing him in Doyle's van.

Aftermath

The team extracted El Fantasme safely to Madame Kiko's and were met with a warm reception. They were paid for their services and felt good about what they'd done. Night Claws asked El Fantasme how he'd known to extract Laés if he dropped his commlink while extracting Tina. It turned out he simply read both orders beforehand and remembered the address.

Rewards

  • 2,000¥
  • 4 karma

Player AARs