Debts of Honor
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Blackhawk Miut Wayfarer Oracle Fennec |
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Summary
- 5/19: 4 Hours (5pm - 9pm)
- 5/26: 4.5 Hours (4:30pm - 9pm)
- 6/2: 6 (4:30pm - 10:30pm)
- Note: LHOG as Fennec 9pm - 10:30
- 6/9: 6 (4:30pm - 10:30pm)
Background
During the events of Disasterpiece Theater, Koi and Weevil were killed in the CAS - and while Babylon and Blackhawk escaped, their friends were left behind. Now, Blackhawk and some of Weevil’s friends make their way back to the Confederate American States in order to follow the final trails of their friends in hopes of recovering any element of them as a memorial - only to find that the files lead to a series of experiments by the CAS government on similarly murdered augmented runners - and ultimately, recovering Koi and/or Weevil’s bodies. The heartfelt moment of being able to bring them home for burial is short lived as the team has to now figure out how to safely do just that - and bring themselves home.
The Meet
Lisa Cutty came across some records about the bodies of Koi and Weevil being recovered after the events of the failed Atlanta run. She explains to Blackhawk how there is a general understanding in the shadow community that deals with the CAS that the Piedmont Hospital is off limits and something of a black hole for shadowrunners. She accidentally comes across a report that the bodies were recovered and taken to Piedmont for unknown reasons. It's not a job, per se, but a tip - and one she gives him a solid warning on to be careful with.
Blackhawk, in turn, contacts Wayfarer, who contacts Miut and Oracle, and the team gets together to discuss the issue - and that they are going to do what they can to bring their friend's body home.
The team ends up contacting Cascade in order to get them smuggled into the CAS while Blackhawk arranges to have his truck shipped over for 3 grand - arriving in three days unless it encounters issues at the CAS border.
The Legwork
Pre-Run
- Wayfarer spends the day pre run connecting with Drifter, fishing, and prepping his gear for the mission.
- Miut spends the day getting her decking gear in order, resupplying on lockpicking, Medkits, and electronics gear.
- Oracle gets some medical supplies and preps his gear, generally trying to not tip off his wife that he's about to go on a shadowrun, despite Wayfarer's AMAZING EMAIL.
- Blackhawk gets his whole full 'baited for bear' kit set up.
Matrix
- Piedmont Hospital - R6 Host: A6 S7 D8 F9
- Has a reputation as being off limits to the shadow community - a sort of black hole where runners vanish.
- Part of a set of rumors where runners who die in the CAS get their bodies "disappeared" into the Piedmont for some reason.
- Learns that the Piedmont is funded from the CAS directly
- This turns into PILES of conspiracy theories about why the CAS is funding the hospital, ranging from 'working on gammaware' to 'cyberzombies' to 'stealing used cyberware for reworking or genetic therapy' and even wilder options.
- File references to a company called Gene Corps, though the connections are uncertain outside of shared funding.
- Gene Corps is, officially at least, a public health organization focused on genetic therapy for common, everyday, illnesses.
- A further search reveals that Genecorps is a sandpit/trap filled with data bombs that the team can now avoid.
- Registry of patients should be located inside the hospital Host
Magic
- Hospital: BGC 6 (Medical, Healing, Antiseptic)
- Secure Rooms: F6 Ward
- Security Room: F6 Masking, F6 Obfuscating
Meat
- Entrance to Hospital
- Cameras over each Door
- Maglocks at each door
- Bollards (Car blockers) by main entrances to Hospital and ER
- Security guards at each entrance
- Windows have alarms
The Run
Day One: Arrival
- The team arrives in Atlanta, manages to steal/buy a car after the Miut Pregnancy Scam (tm), and then heads to Rockdale to establish a safe house
- They manage to not escalate the local Lone Star after having an run in with some 'local color' vis a vis metaracism
- The team gets a Low Lifestyle motel in the SE corner of Rockdale. (Note: Oracle - Creature of Comfort. Wayfarer, Miut - Insomnia)
- During the evening:
- Wayfarer does research on Atlanta maps, locations, etc
- Oracle calls his wife. It goes to Voicemail. DUN DUN DUUUN (one night of Insomnia)
- Miut checks in with Oracle
- Blackhawk winds down and rests.
Day Two: Atlanta
- They call Hextech in order to get some Matrix help for Miut, who has to agree to eating a quarter cup of Bellevue Dirt in exchange for Hex's help, as she has gotten the reputation as the "sand chick"
- By night, Blackhawk scouting run on the Hospital
- Disguised via R6 Synthskin
- Hawk plants a data tap on a camera near the back
- Sneaks into the ER Waiting room, is able to examine the map and learn there is an entire security wing as opposed to office
- Miut does some additional research and comes to realize Genecorps is a trap
- Oracle does some astral scouting and finds the wards over the Security Office
- The team contacts Ashen Hand in order to try and get FBA for Oracle, but they're all broke and Wayfarer isn't able to talk him into fronting the armor
Day Three: Atlanta
- Insomnia hits Miut and Wayfarer, no edge for them. Oracle CoC Penalty -2
- Blackhawk's Truck Arrives
- Miut runs the Piedmont Hospital host and manages to sneak past Patrol IC and the local security decker.
- Finds library node for files
- Finds 'map table' for access to doors, cameras, alarms
- She locates a Nested Host at R8, accessible through the security node
- R8 Host: A8 S11 D9 F10
- Finds Security Node and Ice Tray, loaded with Black IC.
- Cameras, Autoturrets loaded with Ares Archons, PAN to onsite HTR, toxin gas vents in emergency case
- IC Tray: Black IC, Tar Baby, Killer, Track, Patrol, Scramble
- Finds Research Files
- Special Note: Gamma
- Encrypt R9, R10 Data Bomb
- Special note: Rebirth
- Encrypt R9, R10 Data Bomb
- Special Note: Gamma
- Miut goes to unset the data bomb on the Rebirth file and the bomb pops, bricking her deck and giving her a case of physical dumpshock.
- The team decides to subcontract out some help - a few hours later, Fennec arrives after a short suborbital flight.
Rest/Downtime Week: Atlanta
- The team upgrades to a Medium Lifestyle for some of the team to get some better sleep.
- Fennec heads back to Seattle to get her gear and return with her plane, her FBA, and FBA for Oracle. Recovers back to full edge.
- Wayfarer does nighttime surveilance of the Hospital. Wayfarer finally sleeps and recovers edge.
- Oracle rests and recovers. Resets CoC timer.
- Miut also finally sleeps and recovers edge.
- Blackhawk checks in with some of the local shadow community and learns that a Shadowrider named Hardcase has been assigned to the site - and that as a former runner he is kitted out with mundane cyberware, agile defender, perfect time, sharpshooter, etc.
Day 10: Atlanta
- Wayfarer learns the Black Site HTR force is 9 strong with 1 mage
- Gets face, plate, etc, for the mage
Day 10: Atlanta
- Miut does a T3 Search on Hardcase, learning a bit about his background as a shadowrunner, being captured by the CAS, and then reappearing some time later as one of the Shadowrider boogymen. Learns that he favors pain inducing called shots and then hitting softer targets with tracker rounds to finish them off.
- Fennec does T3 Search on the Hermetic Security Mage, finding that most of his information security is locked down, but that he can be seen as part of the local Hermetic Lodge for Security Awakened.
Day 11: Atlanta - Running the Piedmont
- After some back and forth matrix fuckery, the team manages to sneak Blackhawk and Wayfarer into the hospital and to the elevator while Oracle makes his way magically there as well.
- As they head down, oracle bounces off the masking ward due to glitching his assensing roll.
- The team finally manages to make it into the black site, with Blackhawk and Wayfarer sneaking through under invisibility.
- Meanwhile, Miut and Fennec fight for their lives after a misplaced mark alerts the HTR Spider to Miut's presence. A brief and vicious cybercombat later, laden with biofeedback, Miut gets data spiked into oblivion, the biofeedback cooking her brain as she hangs on to the thread of life (Burnt Edge to Survive)
- Once Miut de-rezzes, Fennec gathers all her tails and, in turn, data spikes the opfor decker off the matrix (Burnt Edge for Smackdown).
- As the physical team makes their way into the facility, they find the remains of Koi and Weevil - both of whom are in stages of being rigged with modified Stirrup systems to be turned into biodrones.
- As they break them out of their containment sites, the Shadowrider, Hardcase, steps out of his office and spots the astral signatures of their invisibility and begins to follow them, almost casually peppering the signatures with shots from his Ruger Superwarhawk.
- With the bodies in tow, the team makes a hasty retreat out of Atlanta, and then out of the CAS as they are smuggled back via Cascade.
Aftermath
- A brief alert at the Piedmont Hosptial goes more or less unreported.
- The Shadowrider, Hardcase, has found himself some new playthings.
Rewards
- Extreme: 30 RVP with potential to escalate.
- Planned x2 Modifier 60 RVP
- Actual Runtime: 20 Hours (x3 mult) = Max 90 RVP
- 71 RVP
- 30 Karma (30 RVP)
- 40,000 Nuyen in Paydata on the Blacksite Facility (its existence, what they’re doing down there, etc) (20 RVP)
- 40 CDP (20 RVP) or qualities as noted as noted below
- 1 Street Cred (1 RVP)
- 2 CDP
- Fennec: 30 RVP built from any of the above, 2 CDP
- Qualities:
- Fennec may spend 10 RVP to buy off Loss of Confidence (Cybercombat)
- Miut may take Codeslinger at Chargen, 10 RVP
- Narrative Consequences:
- This run counts as a Mundane Ascension as well as a Submersion/Ascension Ordeal given how much the runners had to push
- Oracle’s Wife is absolutely sus to his shadowrunning activities
- Everyone, except for Fennec, owes Cascade a chip for smuggling into and out of the CAS
- Burnt Edge: 2 (Miut, Fennec)
- Oracle retires from running. Splendid Serpent may open a Thematics ticket to request 71 GMP for run rewards.
Game Quotes
Wayfarer's Email to Oracle's Wife, what with his 0 ranks in Con (I would like to add that this is a joke and not what was really sent. - Greenthing/Wayfarer):
- Sorry, this was last minute.
- Hope you are faring well.
- Atlanta is a beautiful city I've heard, and also is where we'll be heading for this job.
- Don't worry, we're going to be fine.
- Originally we were thinking of saying no to the client, but we can't deny the money this brings in.
- With any luck, it will be just a few days.
- Regretfully I will be dragging Fionn along since it deals with spirits.
- Unfortunately I don't know much about spirits.
- No need to worry about the dangers, I will keep him safe.
- Not even going to bring him into the building itself.
- Everything should go easy enough and we'll be back within a few days to a week.
- Ring you when we get back.
Player After Action Reports (AARs)
Wayfarer - "We brought both Koi and Weevil back and buried them. May filled graves lie silent, and their spirits rest peacefully. I do not regret pushing Oracle out of this life. He deserved far greater, and so I hope he makes the best of his new one."
Oracle - "I suppose that's it. I'm sorry, everyone. I wish I could help, I wish I could protect you, but I can't. I won't be around at the PI anymore either, I'm afraid. I need to find something I can live off of, make some calls and cash in some favors. I suppose I should have a long time ago, but I've been worried. Worried giving up this life would mean giving up all of you. I hope that isn't the case. I wish you all well, may you find what you are looking for in this life, whatever it may be."