The greatest artist beckons the best raw material
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ShadowHaven Les rêves pastels | |||||||||
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Summary
In which shadowy group from the NEEC employs runners to kidnap a seemingly average Joe from a DNA Sample
Background
Following a successful first contact with shadow haven's services, Mme Valérie Dehall comes back to the collective when she finds herself needing a person with a specific DNA sequence. Cursory legwork got her information about how a good candidate was living around the Seattle area, specifically Redmond, and she then settled of gathering a team of shadow-runners to find the person and deliver him to her team.
The Meet
On a Sunday evening/night, our protagonists of the day are getting tips from their respective network of Fixers during their nightly activities. Frank was passing time watching cheesy trids, Magnum repaired his damaged roof and was enrolled into helping the whole community, Gigabyte tried yet again to get into jackpoint (without success but points for effort), Barracuda was trying to set up his lodge (read : magical armory) and finally Prince enjoyed some clubbing. they were interrupted by various vectors but all passing the same message : A job was availible for our runners and if they were interested, a matrix meet was to happen the next morning.
Our protagonists will wake and be in the host at the given hour. They rezz in a pastel-colored world made of primitive shapes arranged as a dome around and over their avatars, and an avatar made of smaller, more intricate shapes and more saturated colors presents itself. She will shake the hands on the Personnas that accept it and seem to appreciate characters that goes to the length of being somewhat polite and personnable.
She gives them the run down of the run : the team has to find a man in Redmond from a single lead : a DNA sample. The team pushes for more information about the person in question and the avatar cannot answer, clearly not knowing anything more about the subject. They then pivot to asking why this is a nescessity to them, what that person has that they need and what they will do with him, to which the avatar responds at first with hesitation, and them when pushed over the ledge, goes into a passionate rant about how this man's DNA make him special, how he might revolutionize a whole domain and how they would give him such a better life than what he has in the Redmond barrens.
After a good amount of deliberation, the team decides to accept and then maybe reevaluate is the circumstances lead to that. They will have a short negotiation resulting on a pay of 16K each, after which they receive coordinates at which they will be given the DNA sample, in addition a commcode to call up the J in case of problems and a location to operate the drop off once the job is complete. on that, the J and character go their separate ways and the runners derezz from the pastel-colored host
The Plan
As soon as the characters derezz, they set up a DNI room and decide to meet at the delivery point for the DNA sample. Once they are on site, a man will get out of a nearby conspicuously classy limousine clothed in a sleeping tiger suit and bearing a pin on it, that the team took a picture of. The man approach the group of runners with a suitcase, give it to them and succinctly turn heels to go back in the limousine. They examine the contents of the suitcase and find a small vial of a transparent liquid in addition to a data-chip containing the textual code of the DNA sample. On that, they make their way to Magnum's trailer yard to further do some legwork.
Magnum's neighbors are curious about the singular group, but leave them to their activities as Gigabyte drops in VR and makes a R6 search with the DNA sample, that will take one hour to yield tangible results. In the meantime, the rest of the team searches for info about the pin they took a photo of on the man in black that gave them the DNA sample, and find really little information about it outside that it apparently was the logo of a small art club in the French university de Fontainebleau long ago (in ~2060) called "les rêves pastels"
Gigabyte's search returns then that the DNA was matched in files that leaked from a local hospital, in a dossier of a man named "Rachid Snell". The dossier mentions a number of sicknesses and disorders, one of which is an admission due to emotional burnout syndrome resulting from excessive BTL use. It is written however that he was let go due to a lack of finances for his recovery program.
The Run
They team decides to follow the hospital's lead, as Frank and Prince made their way in the decrepit hospital in disrepair and tried to ignore the suffering around them when they did a b line to the counter, with the attitude of Redmond's law enforcement plastered over their faces. the clerk asked them what they came for, to which Frank used his experience with law enforcement to con the clerk into releasing the complete reports of the stay of their target. happy to see KE take interest in helping people at the hospital for the first time, the clerk happily does so and makes some small talk during it.
The complete file mentionned that he was in fact initially dumped unceremoniously in front of the hospital by workers from a BTL parlour a few blocks over, apparently he took too much BTLs to be safe and just lost conscience there and then. This was promising as the team decided to make their way there, knowing full well that the site is protected by the Cutters. Frank got to the counter and had a spirited argument with the cashier that convinced her to release this guy's info but she was fearing for the cutter's retaliation to her and her family if they were to figure it out.
Through a DNI chat however, they managed to convince her to share a number of files that gave this man's usual rhythm and routine. they learnt like that that their target was at that very moment enjoying his time with a BTL slotted in in this very place. Very satisfied with the data he gathered, Frank moved away and the team decided to retreat to the parking lot and wait for Rachid to come back to his car and then capture him. Over an hour later, the team saw Rachid being thrown out of the building by the back door and trying to get to his car, an arduous task that will get interrupted by the team as they will embark him in their own vehicle profiting from the state he was in, and further strangling him to keep him unconscious and not a problem.