Net Neutral
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Bicorporal Crunch Glitch |
Mina Augustine Mr. Johnson Ms. Johnson | ||||||||
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| Mr. Johnson | |||||||||
Background
It's Friday night, and Bicorporal, Crunch and Glitch all sign up for and accept a job.
The Meet
Meeting up at the Eclipse, the runners shuffle back into one of the storage rooms to meet with the Johnson. Bicorporal arrives thirty minutes early, 10 minutes before the Johnson does. Both not club goers they share an appraising look between each other, and Bicorporal shatters his plans of one chair dominance by offering to set up the other chairs for the other runners. Arriving at the club also 30 minutes early, Crunch takes the opportunity to get a drink, dance a little, saving the J and Bicorporal from a long awkward silence. There's some back and forth before the pacifist's aura mixes with the astral hazing of Glitch, causing poor Bicorporal some shock and horror.
The J holds a briefcase aloft, asking the runners to plant a briefcase into a specific apartment in three days. The apartment's occupant was to be the scapegoat for someone else's' mistake. Even though the job itself is straight forward, it doesn't sit right with the runners and they demand more money--But the Johnson doesn't bite. Defeated, the runners accept the original nuyen offer and open the briefcase. The target is Mina Augustine, an Integrated Solutions Limited wage slave, resident of Castle Plaza, building 2 room 302. Digging around on the matrix, Glitch finds that Integrated Solutions Limited is an Ares sub corporation, and therefore KE provides security. This causes Bicorporal to point out that watchers will be active, but mainly looking astrally active items.
Crunch proposes they have two main options: To infiltrate physically or socially. Making use of her gnome stature, she proposes that she could potentially enter the building as a child, or a friend. Glitch dives deep into Mina Augustine's life, finding the elf is 21, single, transferred six months ago to Seattle from the Midwest. No pets, both parents are alive back home. Mundane. As Bicorporal draws up her birth chart, the cosmic mage and the cosmic adept going back and forth about her chart--Saturn being her ruler of ascendant showcasing her party pooper vibes and her awful too high bun. While the cosmics are being a little catty, Glitch takes a look at the matrix security, seeing hundreds of mag locks online and a destination host.
The Plan
Crunch, disguised as a child coming home from school, will carry in the items that need to be stashed. With the help of Glitch on the matrix, she will enter the apartment, plant the items, and leave. For emergencies, Crunch will take a levitate prep from Bicorporal and prepare to head out the window.
The Run
Crunch, disguised as a child coming home from school, carrying in her backpack and Bicorporal acting as her dad. The pair time their entrance right as school lets out, taking advantage of the flow of parents and children to enter the building and the elevator. Glitch after some struggle manages to loop the footage on the hallway's camera, and unlock the door, allowing the dad based duo into the apartment while the host begins to look for who the lock has a mark on. The Ares spider finds Glitch quickly and fires upon them. A quick duel ensues, the Ares spider nearly killed by bounce back from Glitch as they eventually reboot. The apartment is a mess, but the inside team braves it to tape the commlinks and data chip to the upper back surface of the sink. After rebooting, Glitch is back out for blood, spotting the Ares Spider and dataspiking him off of the grid and looping the camera again. With Bicorporal's help, the barely functioning levitation prep releases Crunch from inside the building. Closing the window and then the door behind him, Bicorporal walks out while Crunch floats to safety.
Aftermath
Calling the J, the group finds that the J was embezzling funds and the only way the woman who answers will honor the contract if they undo whatever damage they've done. Groaning collectively, the runners decide to send Crunch back in, the gnome sneaking up the apartment building, grabbing the commlinks, the data chip. Crunch shows them to the J, and per her request, spikes all of them against the pavement to secure their nuyen.
Rewards
Knowledge in the ultimate futility of being a runner in the system.
4 CDP (1 RVP)
10k nuyen (5 RVP)
1 karma (1 RVP)
Game Quotes
Player After Action Reports (AARs)
Crunch: It was nice to meet Bicorporal--Another person who understands the cosmos for it's value and the important novelty of preps. Once I'm able to get to studying Artificing, I hope I'll be able to contact them for some help.
Glitch: Well... that was an interesting run. A strange introduction to the Haven but an easy job is an easy job. Very peculiar runners too, hope I get to meet more soon.
Bicorporal - "Finally meeting another awakened aside from a hermetic asking for some stupid quartz centring focus is certainly a better deal than usual."