Ash, Glyph, Six.
The runners had gained access to the compound. Ash and Ki-Rin were first to the annex building with Glyph and Six close behind. An alarm was going off from inside the building and Ki-Rin worked quickly to silence it. Ash, Six and Glyph hopped onto the freight elevator that Ki-Rin had activated while Ki-Rin stayed in the annex to cover their rear.
The lift descended a freshly cut shaft, and the runners could tell that they were bypassing some of the underground floors before it finally stopped deep underground in a small chamber with only one exit. A maglock / thumbpad secured door. Six comlinked Ki-Rin to toss down the body of one of the guards, which hit the lift at the bottom of the shaft more messily than Six had anticipated. Glyph found a maglock passkey amongst the gore, and removed a thumb for the print reader.
Activating the door, the runners looked down a long corridor and saw that there was a welcoming party of armed guards. The runners were trapped in a dead end and had to fight desperately under a hail of bullets. Eventually they had cleared the floor of guards but they were injured.
The runners then pressed down through the following floors. They found the room where the CORe project had been stored that they had blown up was as they had left it, blasted and charred.
The next floor down, where the CORe test subjects had been housed had changed somewhat. The door had been replaced, and thumbed onto the face of the door in red ochre was some kind of magical runes. All eyes turned to Ash, who took a photograph and forwarded it onto Halifax.
The runners sat for a few minutes, and they became aware that classical music was being played from the other side of the door. Six who was already getting restless went over and knocked on the door. The music stopped and there was the sound of footsteps approaching.
The runners tensed up ready to fight or flight and nearly bolted when the door was opened by Dominic Cross. He was the same as before. His eyes were black pits, and the flesh on his cheeks were pitted with black burns, however he did have a circlet across his forehead with one of the CORe devices embedded. Six and Glyph were set to shot him dead again but they paused as he addressed them, he told them that he had been expecting them and invited them in to his office to talk. Glyph and Six watched in horror as Ash stepped over the threshold and went in.
Cross and Ash spoke for a few minutes and when Six and Glyph were clearly not coming in, Cross gestured and the door slammed shut and was magically sealed in place. Six shot out the lock, but the door still wouldn’t budge, and the best he could do was squint thought the hole he had made and watch Ash and Cross’ conversation.
Dominic Cross asked what Ash was doing there and when Ash told him what he already knew, Dominic showed Ash the statue.
It was an orachalcum statue of Verjgigorm and it was the source of power that Ash had been following for some time. Cross told Ash that the statue was a seal that had managed to trap Brent Masters in an astral realm and that all he had to do to free Brent was smash the statue.
Meanwhile all Six and Glyph could do was try to batter down the door. Six burned through the red ochre symbols but it didn’t break the magical lock on the door. Glyph cut through the hinges on the door but again the door remained in place. Only when Ash was done and had the statue under his arm was the magical barrier lifted (which caused the hinge-less door fall flat) The runners then fled at speed after dropping a large dollop of C15 in the room.
After setting off the charge, Six wasn’t convinced that they would have got Cross, so sent the Flyspy down to see. Sure enough there was nothing but gory remains of him in the wreckage of the explosion.
The runners then had a bit of an argument about Ash’s unpredictable behaviour towards Cross, and then about the rest of this run. And in the end Six decided that he wanted no more and headed out. Ash gathered up some weapons that had been dropped by the guards they had killed and he too made to leave. Glyph wanted to get some more info and headed up to the next floor. She found some labs, which were guarded and was convinced that they could get more info from the computers there but the rest of the team had already decided that they were leaving, and Glyph withdrew before she got into a firefight she would eventually loose.
Lone Star had been called and were gathered around the streets in Silicon Valley they had found the source of the explosion but couldn’t or didn’t want to head into corporate extra-territoriality so instead circled the building and waited for someone to make a run for it. Six was keen to oblige, and prepped his car for a chase, he hoped to draw off the police for the others to escape. Draw them off he did, and after having the pursuit joined by the officer in the SAAB Dante, he lost all of the tailing coppers.
The rest of the team also withdrew. Ash handed the artefact to his contact within the magical group and asked him to study it, and then was at a loss and headed home.
The next day Ash hooked up with Halifax again and took him to the place where he saw Brent in the astral and asked him to have a look himself.
While Ash looked after Halifax’s body someone tapped on the window and told Ash that he was the Laughing Man. They had a chat about what had happened.
Allisom had been about in 1906 and tried to summon a greater horror. The ritual to complete the summoning was interrupted by the Laughing Man when he killed the sacrifice before Allisom. The Laughing Man then separated a part of astral space and sealed the horrors in before forming a magical seal in the visage of Verjgigorm.
Allisom had found this seal and tried to break it but the Laughing Man’s enchantments forbid it. Only someone with good intentions could break the seal, and conveniently Ash’s desire to rescue Brent would break the seal.
Breaking the seal would free Brent but Allisom could then seize the moment to finish the ritual he had begun 164 years ago and would look to use him as a sacrifice. The only way to interrupt the ritual would be to slay Brent before Allisom could.
At that moment Ash realised the problem. Break the seal, free Brent, then kill Brent before Allisom could seize him and begin the next scourge. Or do nothing leave Brent to an eternity in an astral realm, fail a job and take a rep hit again.
Ash explained it all to the rest of the team before returning to his magical groups HQ to get the magical seal into his possession again.
TBC.
Friday, January 19, 2007
Friday, January 12, 2007
Storm the Genesis magic research facility
Ki-Rin, Glyph, Ash, Six
The runners decided that they wished to sit tight in the other teams apartment. They approached Banner, the guy who claimed to own it, and paid him 10k to lease the house for 3 days. He accepted, and then Banner and one half of the magic sisters, Duo, were set free.
Ash received a datafile from Halifax, which was attributed to the Laughing Man. It was dated 1906 just after the great San Francisco quake. In it, it described events where he claimed that he had stopped hoards of spirits in their tracks by performing some kind of ritual.
The runners weren’t stupid though and the prospect of the other team coming back to avenge the deaths of the other members of their team was very likely, so they prepared, setting up fields of fire with automated weaponry and drones, doors were welded shut, and each runner took up positions in the building.
Their preparations would not be in vain, and while Ash astrally perceived to see if he could find Brent again the other team came back. Initially they paid a street bum to leave a suitcase filled with C4 outside the house but Ki-Rin spotted this attack from the roof, and with a gun prompting the bum he commanded that the case was opened. The explosion surprised no-one, and it was the trigger for the assault.
The rigger brought down his heavily armoured Hum-Vee and started shooting the runners position up with a chain gun, the bullets chewing through the house. The mage sisters chucked lighting bolts at Ki-Rin from rooftop to roof top. Banner came in on foot, armed with grenades.
The engagement lasted about 5 minutes, culminating in a cluster of explosions, the biggest from nearly a kilogram of C15 plastic explosive which wiped the greater part of the building the runners were in, out.
The team fled the scene before Lone Star arrived. They realised that they were back to square one. They had few leads, no information and no ideas. Ash had a hunch though and told the runners that in Astral space it was possible to see a glow from the Silicon Valley area. He directed them down their to a corporate building that they had been to before. It was the Cross Applied Technologies building where the CORe device had been worked on. The sign outside now claimed that the building belonged to Genesis, and that it was the magical research offices. The building had been damaged the last time the runners were here, and work to repair the structure was well underway. An annex had been added to the side of the building, while the rest of it was clad in scaffolding and green gauze to stop debris from falling to people below.
The runners had a good long debate as to weather they were heading inside or not, and Ash attempted to divine the goings on. He was struck with a vision of Dominic Cross, the man who was taken over by the Shedim, Allisom. And he then saw Brent Masters being killed.
When Ash told them this is what he had seen the team decided that they had no choice but go in, informed or not. Ki-Rin attempted to hack into the closed camera system but was unable to locate a suitable tap in point before the guards approached him. Ahs decided that the direct approach was needed and headed for the recently erected 3m high security fence. And began to clamber over. As the guards came out, Glyph shot them dead and a fight ensued.
Ki-Rin and Ash made it into the compound and up to the annex doors. Inside they found a large 2x2m lift platform. Ki-Rin pushed the button and it went down. Glyph dived over the fence with the aid of Six’s pods. And Six was left on the other side mopping up the remaining outside guards with the vehicle-mounted weapon.
TBC…
The runners decided that they wished to sit tight in the other teams apartment. They approached Banner, the guy who claimed to own it, and paid him 10k to lease the house for 3 days. He accepted, and then Banner and one half of the magic sisters, Duo, were set free.
Ash received a datafile from Halifax, which was attributed to the Laughing Man. It was dated 1906 just after the great San Francisco quake. In it, it described events where he claimed that he had stopped hoards of spirits in their tracks by performing some kind of ritual.
The runners weren’t stupid though and the prospect of the other team coming back to avenge the deaths of the other members of their team was very likely, so they prepared, setting up fields of fire with automated weaponry and drones, doors were welded shut, and each runner took up positions in the building.
Their preparations would not be in vain, and while Ash astrally perceived to see if he could find Brent again the other team came back. Initially they paid a street bum to leave a suitcase filled with C4 outside the house but Ki-Rin spotted this attack from the roof, and with a gun prompting the bum he commanded that the case was opened. The explosion surprised no-one, and it was the trigger for the assault.
The rigger brought down his heavily armoured Hum-Vee and started shooting the runners position up with a chain gun, the bullets chewing through the house. The mage sisters chucked lighting bolts at Ki-Rin from rooftop to roof top. Banner came in on foot, armed with grenades.
The engagement lasted about 5 minutes, culminating in a cluster of explosions, the biggest from nearly a kilogram of C15 plastic explosive which wiped the greater part of the building the runners were in, out.
The team fled the scene before Lone Star arrived. They realised that they were back to square one. They had few leads, no information and no ideas. Ash had a hunch though and told the runners that in Astral space it was possible to see a glow from the Silicon Valley area. He directed them down their to a corporate building that they had been to before. It was the Cross Applied Technologies building where the CORe device had been worked on. The sign outside now claimed that the building belonged to Genesis, and that it was the magical research offices. The building had been damaged the last time the runners were here, and work to repair the structure was well underway. An annex had been added to the side of the building, while the rest of it was clad in scaffolding and green gauze to stop debris from falling to people below.
The runners had a good long debate as to weather they were heading inside or not, and Ash attempted to divine the goings on. He was struck with a vision of Dominic Cross, the man who was taken over by the Shedim, Allisom. And he then saw Brent Masters being killed.
When Ash told them this is what he had seen the team decided that they had no choice but go in, informed or not. Ki-Rin attempted to hack into the closed camera system but was unable to locate a suitable tap in point before the guards approached him. Ahs decided that the direct approach was needed and headed for the recently erected 3m high security fence. And began to clamber over. As the guards came out, Glyph shot them dead and a fight ensued.
Ki-Rin and Ash made it into the compound and up to the annex doors. Inside they found a large 2x2m lift platform. Ki-Rin pushed the button and it went down. Glyph dived over the fence with the aid of Six’s pods. And Six was left on the other side mopping up the remaining outside guards with the vehicle-mounted weapon.
TBC…
Monday, January 08, 2007
The missing Ocean Blue exec.
Friday 25th August 2070
Six, Sickle, Glyph, Ash, Ki-Rin
Ash was contacted by Ka-Hil who arranged for him to meet up with Halifax at Cable Tower, the magical groups headquarters in San Francisco. Ash duly did and after spending some time with the group he began to learn the intricacies of being an adept.
Saturday 26th August 2070
Six was invited to a street race. This point to point street race was organised by a guy called Loton, a man well known on the street racing circuit for organising pukka races. Six took the chance laid down 5k against some of the fastest cars on the roads. It was close, and ended up crossing the line at the same time as the Ferrari Fiorino driven by some French Playboy. Six realised that it was time to put some big effort into speeding up his machine.
Tuesday 29th August 2070
Snow got back into town and was fed a job by a man called Martin Becher. He worked for a marketing company called Ocean Blue, who had lost one of their employees. Brent Masters was a sales executive who was in the process of closing a marketing deal with a Chinese company called Tau-Sang which would be worth 15m to Ocean Blue when he went missing. Now Tau-Sang were getting nervous and were looking to pull out of the deal. Becher wanted Brent back fast, (or if not Brent, then his internal comlink would do, it has all the records of the Tau-Sang deal on and should be able to save the deal) the money on the table was ¥500,000 to get Brent back before Tau-Sang sign on the bottom line a week on Friday.
The runners took the job and began some back ground checks.
Tau-Sang, a construction company was looking to expand its market in the UCAS. Ocean Blue, Horizon and Cascade were all looking to win the advertising and marketing contract from Tau-Sang which would nett 15m over the next 5 years. Brent Masters was the young exec who had Tau-Sang eating out of his hand, and he had the deal sewn up. The runners got hold of his home address and headed round their for a quick clue look.
Ki-Rin got onto the video feeds while the other runners got busy inside and Ki-Rin turned up the last time Brent was seen, leaving his apartment 2 days ago with two very attractive women. They headed out to a limo and drove away. He then did a background check and got lucky, some records for the vehicle were doctored and it turned out that a Mr. Johnson was driving it, it also gave an address for this Mr. Johnson.
The runners headed round and checked it out. Six sent in the flyspy drone, while Ash took a look with astral perception. On the mundane world there was little cause concern, Six saw a few things which would indicate that this house was some kind of criminal or shadowrunner flop house, Ash saw a sort of astral shadow over the building. Having not had his abilities for very long it was hard to make any sense of what he saw.
Once the runners had assured themselves that the house was empty, they went in. Not taking any chances they went in SWAT style by the numbers. Six kept watch out the back and Ash watched the alley.
Once inside the runners found a few bits and pieces, of interest. There were some charcoal drawings of the skeletal remains of ruined buildings. And there was a business card belonging to Philip Rudd from Cascade. The runners had found the corp. who arranged the snatch on Brent.
Ash meanwhile was viewing things on the astral plane and saw not the magical mirror of the mundane world, but a distorted view of San Francisco. The building they were stood in was broken, and he could see through the absent wall, the scene of a rubble strewn Old San Fran. There was a bright glow from Silicon Valley with some things spiraling around the edge of the light.
Turning to view the other runners auras, he was shocked to see that they were not their but Brent Masters was! Brent seemed equally shocked to see Ash, but began blabbering on about how he had to help him, and that the Laughing Man would help.
Brent then seemed to stop seeing Ash, he despaired and then went to walk out of the room. Ash followed him but he vanished, and slowly the scene changed back to the reflection of the mundane world any other mage would expect to see.
The runners were concerned and worried for Ash after he told them of what he had seen, and their lack of comprehension at what was going on, Ash phoned Halifax.
Halifax hinted that it might be some kind of astral meta plane but assured Ash that he wouldn’t have been able to perceive it. Meanwhile Ki-Rin got searching on the Laughing Man, but all he found was an old Matrix address to the now closed down Denver Datahaven.
Six then called the other members of the team. It seems the residents of this runner flop house were home. And they were armed with containers of petrol and explosives. The runners set themselves up in the hallway and when the residents returned they dropped all of them in a few seconds. Only one shot came back in the runners direction. And they managed to keep two of them alive.
The girl, a mage called Duo, and the face of the team called Banner were the survivors of the bloodbath, and when the runners brought them round to question them, they knew the score. They answered Ki-Rin’s questions without resisting. They had been employed to snatch Brent Masters and brought him to their flop house until the morning when they could hand him over to the Johnson. Then within minutes he disappeared. Banner was a bit freaked out by this, and not only loosing the rep on the job, their apartment seemed to have turned into some kind of freaky mindfuck. Being subjected to visions of a ruined San Francisco, a glow covering the landscape. Banner decided that it was time to raie the house to the ground, claim the insurance and get out of San Francisco before their street rep takes any more hits.
Duo told the runners a bit more. She suspected that what they were seeing in the astral plane, was some kind bubble astral plane and that Brent Seemed to have been dragged into it.
The runners were at a dead loss again. Six complained that this might be another of their own runs going south. They guessed that this astral realm was coming into contact with the mundane realm, and when that had happened Brent Masters had somehow got snatched up, they wondered if his casual drug use might make him more suseptable to the astral plane. They also thought about the pulsing glow which Ash had guessed was in the Silicon Valley area of the city. The runners began wondering if they should stay the night at this house? Maybe they would get a better idea of what is going on if they did.
Six, Sickle, Glyph, Ash, Ki-Rin
Ash was contacted by Ka-Hil who arranged for him to meet up with Halifax at Cable Tower, the magical groups headquarters in San Francisco. Ash duly did and after spending some time with the group he began to learn the intricacies of being an adept.
Saturday 26th August 2070
Six was invited to a street race. This point to point street race was organised by a guy called Loton, a man well known on the street racing circuit for organising pukka races. Six took the chance laid down 5k against some of the fastest cars on the roads. It was close, and ended up crossing the line at the same time as the Ferrari Fiorino driven by some French Playboy. Six realised that it was time to put some big effort into speeding up his machine.
Tuesday 29th August 2070
Snow got back into town and was fed a job by a man called Martin Becher. He worked for a marketing company called Ocean Blue, who had lost one of their employees. Brent Masters was a sales executive who was in the process of closing a marketing deal with a Chinese company called Tau-Sang which would be worth 15m to Ocean Blue when he went missing. Now Tau-Sang were getting nervous and were looking to pull out of the deal. Becher wanted Brent back fast, (or if not Brent, then his internal comlink would do, it has all the records of the Tau-Sang deal on and should be able to save the deal) the money on the table was ¥500,000 to get Brent back before Tau-Sang sign on the bottom line a week on Friday.
The runners took the job and began some back ground checks.
Tau-Sang, a construction company was looking to expand its market in the UCAS. Ocean Blue, Horizon and Cascade were all looking to win the advertising and marketing contract from Tau-Sang which would nett 15m over the next 5 years. Brent Masters was the young exec who had Tau-Sang eating out of his hand, and he had the deal sewn up. The runners got hold of his home address and headed round their for a quick clue look.
Ki-Rin got onto the video feeds while the other runners got busy inside and Ki-Rin turned up the last time Brent was seen, leaving his apartment 2 days ago with two very attractive women. They headed out to a limo and drove away. He then did a background check and got lucky, some records for the vehicle were doctored and it turned out that a Mr. Johnson was driving it, it also gave an address for this Mr. Johnson.
The runners headed round and checked it out. Six sent in the flyspy drone, while Ash took a look with astral perception. On the mundane world there was little cause concern, Six saw a few things which would indicate that this house was some kind of criminal or shadowrunner flop house, Ash saw a sort of astral shadow over the building. Having not had his abilities for very long it was hard to make any sense of what he saw.
Once the runners had assured themselves that the house was empty, they went in. Not taking any chances they went in SWAT style by the numbers. Six kept watch out the back and Ash watched the alley.
Once inside the runners found a few bits and pieces, of interest. There were some charcoal drawings of the skeletal remains of ruined buildings. And there was a business card belonging to Philip Rudd from Cascade. The runners had found the corp. who arranged the snatch on Brent.
Ash meanwhile was viewing things on the astral plane and saw not the magical mirror of the mundane world, but a distorted view of San Francisco. The building they were stood in was broken, and he could see through the absent wall, the scene of a rubble strewn Old San Fran. There was a bright glow from Silicon Valley with some things spiraling around the edge of the light.
Turning to view the other runners auras, he was shocked to see that they were not their but Brent Masters was! Brent seemed equally shocked to see Ash, but began blabbering on about how he had to help him, and that the Laughing Man would help.
Brent then seemed to stop seeing Ash, he despaired and then went to walk out of the room. Ash followed him but he vanished, and slowly the scene changed back to the reflection of the mundane world any other mage would expect to see.
The runners were concerned and worried for Ash after he told them of what he had seen, and their lack of comprehension at what was going on, Ash phoned Halifax.
Halifax hinted that it might be some kind of astral meta plane but assured Ash that he wouldn’t have been able to perceive it. Meanwhile Ki-Rin got searching on the Laughing Man, but all he found was an old Matrix address to the now closed down Denver Datahaven.
Six then called the other members of the team. It seems the residents of this runner flop house were home. And they were armed with containers of petrol and explosives. The runners set themselves up in the hallway and when the residents returned they dropped all of them in a few seconds. Only one shot came back in the runners direction. And they managed to keep two of them alive.
The girl, a mage called Duo, and the face of the team called Banner were the survivors of the bloodbath, and when the runners brought them round to question them, they knew the score. They answered Ki-Rin’s questions without resisting. They had been employed to snatch Brent Masters and brought him to their flop house until the morning when they could hand him over to the Johnson. Then within minutes he disappeared. Banner was a bit freaked out by this, and not only loosing the rep on the job, their apartment seemed to have turned into some kind of freaky mindfuck. Being subjected to visions of a ruined San Francisco, a glow covering the landscape. Banner decided that it was time to raie the house to the ground, claim the insurance and get out of San Francisco before their street rep takes any more hits.
Duo told the runners a bit more. She suspected that what they were seeing in the astral plane, was some kind bubble astral plane and that Brent Seemed to have been dragged into it.
The runners were at a dead loss again. Six complained that this might be another of their own runs going south. They guessed that this astral realm was coming into contact with the mundane realm, and when that had happened Brent Masters had somehow got snatched up, they wondered if his casual drug use might make him more suseptable to the astral plane. They also thought about the pulsing glow which Ash had guessed was in the Silicon Valley area of the city. The runners began wondering if they should stay the night at this house? Maybe they would get a better idea of what is going on if they did.
Mancell and the Bookie.
Tuesday 22nd August 2070
Ki-Rin, Sickle, Glyph, Ash
The runners were kicking their heels, there was nothing on trid, the PS7 wasn’t filling them with joy, and Six was spending some quality time with Kitty so there wasn’t even a street race on, so when the phone rang with the offer of a job Ash took it up.
The bookie Smoove Frankie had a client called Mancell who was defaulting on a big debt, and as the client knew Smoove, and his enforcers it would prove difficult to get to him without the aid of the runners. Smoove also knew that the client in question, a gentlemen’s club owner, was taking some backhanders from the Mafia and he wanted the runners to head round, put some pressure on Mancell and to point out that Smoove wanted paying otherwise he would start letting it be known that the Mafia had a hand in his pocket.
Ash took the job and managed to talk an extra 5grand out of the man if they could find some more blackmail evidence on Mancell.
He got the rest of the runners together and they discussed their options. Mancell was a club owner with 3 clubs, all called Mancell’s the largest of these clubs was in San Francisco. Mancell had a past of dodgy dealings while in politics but nothing that would embarrass him. The clubs accounts were a bit suspect but would pass scrutiny from a lazy auditor, the runners guessed money laundry was taking place in the back room. Ki-Rin also found the floor plans for the club.
The runners saw no point in hanging around and planned a hit that evening. The split up arranging to meet back at Ash’s place at 9pm.
Between them, the runners laid on Ash’s coffee table, 2 battle rifles, 1 assault rifle, 4 heavy pistols, 2 sub machine guns, 36 assorted grenades, and nearly 1000 rounds of ammunition. 4 gas masks, 4 suits of armoured urban armour, 4 ski masks, and one soon to be broken combat knife. They were ready.
Heading outside, the 4 runners looked at their vehicle options. Ash wasn’t keen to have his van anywhere near the Mafia so refused to drive. Which left Sickles 3 wheeled 2 seat commuter, and Glyph’s 2 seat sports car. Although there were enough seats to go round they wanted an option on kidnapping Mancell so decided to carjack a van.
Sickle and Ki-Rin stood by the side of the road near some traffic lights and waited. Eventually a van pulled up. The driver was oblivious to the two ski masked men striding across to the drivers door and was unceremoniously hauled out onto the road and smacked round the back of the head with a pistol butt. The pair of runners then drove back to Ash’s.
The van was a plasterers, so while the runners ditched his gear, Ki-Rin took a black marker and changed the number plate subtly. Ki-Rin then decided to wash the plaster dust out of the back of the van with a hosepipe.
They were ready, it was 11pm, they had a van, they had the kit and set off. Ash drove, Glyph called shotgun with Sickle and Ki-Rin in the back. They pulled up at the back of the club, the rear door and the fire escape guarded by two burly goons. Ki-Rin looped the camera system and then they were good to go. Ash wound down the window and Glyph hosed them with lead rain (Ash got a face full of discarded cartridges) and the two goons were dropped. Ki-Rin was already out the back of the van to drag the bodies into the vehicle.
The runners moved quickly, Sickle and Ki-Rin hauling down the ladder arrangement on the fire escape. They dashed up. The runners got in through the top fire escape briefly tripping an alarm that Ki-Rin unusually missed. They then set about searching the top floor. Ash had told the runners to look for some evidence but wasn’t sure what would count as evidence, (It was around this time that Ash broke another combat knife trying to jimmy open a door) the alarm summoned some more guards to come and investigate. Ki-Rin was forced to take them down. Again silent and efficient.
The runners found nothing of interest, Glyph came across some accounts and things but without a super computer and a team of accountants couldn’t find anything untoward in the moments she looked at it. The team decided to move on down. Coming to the top of the stairs they found another goon coming out of a little guard room saying that he had head something. Ki-Rin dropped him, but then the lead started to fly. The team moved quickly Glyph got on the other side of the wall to the guard room exchanging gunfire, Ash and Ki-Rin marked the other doors, and Sickle tossed in a few grenades. The 5 guards were pasted.
There were two other doors and after the efficiency the team had so far displayed Ash had a momentary lapse and gaily flung the door open.
4 guards stood poised on the other side of the door ready to surge out and meet the runners were almost as surprised as Ash was to see them, behind them two men were fleeing down the fire escape one of whom was Mancell. Ash was dropped for his stupidity, Glyph received a hail of gunfire for her troubles as well. Ki-Rin and Sickle moved round to take the new threat out, Ki-Rin pumping shotgun spray across two of them, while Sickle took down another with his SMG. The fourth guard took to his heel toward the fire escape as well.
Ki-Rin was keen to catch up with the fleeing Mancell and got his head down to sprint, Sickle ran with him backing up his man. The fleeing guard saw the two runners after him and assumed they were after him, and threw himself off the fire escape in a bid for freedom.
Ki-Rin ignored the guard, took a mark on the retreating silver haired Mancell and took him out with a well aimed stick shock. Sickle joined Ki-Rin and dropped a flash bang onto the other man.
The runners quickly snatched up their quarry, leapt into the van and headed for some Z-zone wasteland.
The runners gathered around the dazed club owner IRA style, looking down over him ski masks and rifles. Ash told Mancell that he had to pay Smoove, and when he didn’t seem quite intimidated enough Sickle took a knife and began pressing into the flesh of his thumb. The runners failed to mention that Smoove knew about his Mafia back handers, but it didn’t matter he was going to pay the man as soon as he got home.
The runners contacted Smoove once they had ditched the van and beamed him some pictures of Mancell, and the other man they took down. Smoove knew the other man as Leonard Baines and once the runners received the payments with an extra 5 grand on top they realised he was pleased with their nights work.
The guard who threw himself off the fire escape in this run did survive. Along with the wounds he suffered at the wrong end of Sickles Ares Alpha he received two broken legs and a fractured collar bone. he will spend 6 weeks in hospital where he finds his faith, he will go on to found an evangelical church in Wyoming.
Ki-Rin, Sickle, Glyph, Ash
The runners were kicking their heels, there was nothing on trid, the PS7 wasn’t filling them with joy, and Six was spending some quality time with Kitty so there wasn’t even a street race on, so when the phone rang with the offer of a job Ash took it up.
The bookie Smoove Frankie had a client called Mancell who was defaulting on a big debt, and as the client knew Smoove, and his enforcers it would prove difficult to get to him without the aid of the runners. Smoove also knew that the client in question, a gentlemen’s club owner, was taking some backhanders from the Mafia and he wanted the runners to head round, put some pressure on Mancell and to point out that Smoove wanted paying otherwise he would start letting it be known that the Mafia had a hand in his pocket.
Ash took the job and managed to talk an extra 5grand out of the man if they could find some more blackmail evidence on Mancell.
He got the rest of the runners together and they discussed their options. Mancell was a club owner with 3 clubs, all called Mancell’s the largest of these clubs was in San Francisco. Mancell had a past of dodgy dealings while in politics but nothing that would embarrass him. The clubs accounts were a bit suspect but would pass scrutiny from a lazy auditor, the runners guessed money laundry was taking place in the back room. Ki-Rin also found the floor plans for the club.
The runners saw no point in hanging around and planned a hit that evening. The split up arranging to meet back at Ash’s place at 9pm.
Between them, the runners laid on Ash’s coffee table, 2 battle rifles, 1 assault rifle, 4 heavy pistols, 2 sub machine guns, 36 assorted grenades, and nearly 1000 rounds of ammunition. 4 gas masks, 4 suits of armoured urban armour, 4 ski masks, and one soon to be broken combat knife. They were ready.
Heading outside, the 4 runners looked at their vehicle options. Ash wasn’t keen to have his van anywhere near the Mafia so refused to drive. Which left Sickles 3 wheeled 2 seat commuter, and Glyph’s 2 seat sports car. Although there were enough seats to go round they wanted an option on kidnapping Mancell so decided to carjack a van.
Sickle and Ki-Rin stood by the side of the road near some traffic lights and waited. Eventually a van pulled up. The driver was oblivious to the two ski masked men striding across to the drivers door and was unceremoniously hauled out onto the road and smacked round the back of the head with a pistol butt. The pair of runners then drove back to Ash’s.
The van was a plasterers, so while the runners ditched his gear, Ki-Rin took a black marker and changed the number plate subtly. Ki-Rin then decided to wash the plaster dust out of the back of the van with a hosepipe.
They were ready, it was 11pm, they had a van, they had the kit and set off. Ash drove, Glyph called shotgun with Sickle and Ki-Rin in the back. They pulled up at the back of the club, the rear door and the fire escape guarded by two burly goons. Ki-Rin looped the camera system and then they were good to go. Ash wound down the window and Glyph hosed them with lead rain (Ash got a face full of discarded cartridges) and the two goons were dropped. Ki-Rin was already out the back of the van to drag the bodies into the vehicle.
The runners moved quickly, Sickle and Ki-Rin hauling down the ladder arrangement on the fire escape. They dashed up. The runners got in through the top fire escape briefly tripping an alarm that Ki-Rin unusually missed. They then set about searching the top floor. Ash had told the runners to look for some evidence but wasn’t sure what would count as evidence, (It was around this time that Ash broke another combat knife trying to jimmy open a door) the alarm summoned some more guards to come and investigate. Ki-Rin was forced to take them down. Again silent and efficient.
The runners found nothing of interest, Glyph came across some accounts and things but without a super computer and a team of accountants couldn’t find anything untoward in the moments she looked at it. The team decided to move on down. Coming to the top of the stairs they found another goon coming out of a little guard room saying that he had head something. Ki-Rin dropped him, but then the lead started to fly. The team moved quickly Glyph got on the other side of the wall to the guard room exchanging gunfire, Ash and Ki-Rin marked the other doors, and Sickle tossed in a few grenades. The 5 guards were pasted.
There were two other doors and after the efficiency the team had so far displayed Ash had a momentary lapse and gaily flung the door open.
4 guards stood poised on the other side of the door ready to surge out and meet the runners were almost as surprised as Ash was to see them, behind them two men were fleeing down the fire escape one of whom was Mancell. Ash was dropped for his stupidity, Glyph received a hail of gunfire for her troubles as well. Ki-Rin and Sickle moved round to take the new threat out, Ki-Rin pumping shotgun spray across two of them, while Sickle took down another with his SMG. The fourth guard took to his heel toward the fire escape as well.
Ki-Rin was keen to catch up with the fleeing Mancell and got his head down to sprint, Sickle ran with him backing up his man. The fleeing guard saw the two runners after him and assumed they were after him, and threw himself off the fire escape in a bid for freedom.
Ki-Rin ignored the guard, took a mark on the retreating silver haired Mancell and took him out with a well aimed stick shock. Sickle joined Ki-Rin and dropped a flash bang onto the other man.
The runners quickly snatched up their quarry, leapt into the van and headed for some Z-zone wasteland.
The runners gathered around the dazed club owner IRA style, looking down over him ski masks and rifles. Ash told Mancell that he had to pay Smoove, and when he didn’t seem quite intimidated enough Sickle took a knife and began pressing into the flesh of his thumb. The runners failed to mention that Smoove knew about his Mafia back handers, but it didn’t matter he was going to pay the man as soon as he got home.
The runners contacted Smoove once they had ditched the van and beamed him some pictures of Mancell, and the other man they took down. Smoove knew the other man as Leonard Baines and once the runners received the payments with an extra 5 grand on top they realised he was pleased with their nights work.
The guard who threw himself off the fire escape in this run did survive. Along with the wounds he suffered at the wrong end of Sickles Ares Alpha he received two broken legs and a fractured collar bone. he will spend 6 weeks in hospital where he finds his faith, he will go on to found an evangelical church in Wyoming.
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