[This job happened March 21st, April 18th,
and May 2nd. These are
sequential game sessions, so clearly we missed several scheduled game dates for
various reasons.]
PCs Involved
Void – female human physical adept B&E specialist, a
shadow that blends in easily
Murdoc – male elf kilt-wearing street mage, at home with the
hobos
The Fin – female human con artist and gambler from India, by
way of Russia, posh and elegant
NPC’d
Prometheus – male human street samurai, handy with any
firearm
Monday, March 30, 2076
The Fin received a call shortly before 9:00 AM from
Prometheus, warning here to expect a call from his uncle, Zeus, at 9:00. A business call. The Fin quickly kicked out her bed guest and
set her commlink to show a static picture, not a live image. She just finished changing the settings when
the commlink rang. It was Zeus,
requesting a meeting at Kovac’s Delicatessen (in the East Renton Highlands) in
an hour.
The Fin agreed to the meeting and immediately showered and
dressed. She set the Grid Guide to the
meeting location and applied her make-up and finished her hair as her S-K
Bentley Concordat drove itself to the meeting.
She arrived with just minutes to spare.
Once Marco, the boy who opens the front door, let The Fin
into the closed delicatessen and walked her back to Zeus’s table, Zeus got to
the point. “The client needs certain
data from a corporate secure data vault that can only be accessed on site and
requires a valid smart card with matching biometric data. The job must be done by this Friday. The client can provide a valid smart card,
but your people will need to work out how to match it – the server it will be
checked against is the same server you want to access – quite the
conundrum. The job pays 78,000¥ for successful
completion. There is another 36,000¥ if
you do this with subtlety and there is no evidence the job was done.”
With no other work for the Pleiades Group on the schedule,
The Fin accepted the job and provided a drop box address for the smart card. As this was an infiltration job, The Fin
contacted Void and made Void the team lead for the job. The Fin explained the job, that it paid
68,000¥ [that’s not a typo, The Fin skimmed 10,000¥ off the top], and that Void
could bring in whoever she wanted, but the payout was fixed. Void accepted this without question.
Void contacted Bookie and left a message for Murdoc that
there was work. Shortly after 5:00 PM, they
met at Club Telepathy, a decker bar in the Leschi neighborhood in Downtown
[Murdoc had only recently woken up for the "day"].
Bookie pulled the data off the smart card and used it to put together
public data about the card’s owner. The
owner was Toni Rivera: she has round violet eyes that are like two amethysts
and a pointed chin. Her luxurious, wavy, brown hair is short and is worn in an impractical
style. She is tall and has an athletic build. Her skin is light-colored. Bookie
also located her address in Greenwood.
Skimming the matrix site for the condo provided a very small selection
of floorplans.
After some planning, they settled on using a hidden vomit
gas dispenser to cause Toni to call in sick. Void would then go in, Physically Masked as
Toni by Murdoc and backed by Bookie via micro transceiver. Once
inside, Void would get the data and then leave, claiming to be ill.
Void contacted Sarah, her fence, to get some vomit gas. It only takes Sarah an hour to track down
enough for Void’s needs.
Monday, March 30, 2076
Void placed herself among some architectural decoration of a
building across the street and spent the day observing Toni Rivera’s condo, a
mid-rise residential condominium. In the
morning Void watched Toni go through her morning routine and take an Emerald
City Cab to work at ZAT. At Noon, Void broke into
Toni’s condo to scout the interior. Based
on what she observed, Void had Bookie assemble a matrix-activated gas
sprayer. It took Bookie 30 minutes to
assemble one and send it to Void. Later
in the afternoon, Void broke back into Toni’s condo and hid the dispenser in one
of the vents in the living room.
Wednesday, April 1, ~7:00 AM
As Toni was going about her morning routine, Void triggered
the vomit gas dispenser. Once she
received a whiff of the vomit gas (and revisited her breakfast), Toni called in
sick. Bookie grabbed the outbound call
and redirected it to The Fin. The Fin
posed as a temp receptionist, telling Toni that something was going around and a
policy note said to stay home for the day.
Toni bought the story hook, line, and sinker, and crawled back into
bed. Another dose when she got back up
made sure Toni stayed in bed.
Murdoc used Physical Mask to make Void look like Toni. Void went into the building, got the data,
and got out fairly easily. Void sent the
data to The Fin, who sent it to the agreed upon data drop. Payment was deposited within the hour and The
Fin turned over 100,000¥ [68,000¥ base plus 32,000¥ bonus for subtlety – again,
no typo – The Fin skimmed some money off the top] to Void to distribute. Void divides it into five shares: one each
for The Fin, Bookie, and Murdoc and (at The Fin’s recommendation) two for
herself as the one who went into the building and did the job. Bookie and Murdoc agreed with the reasoning –
it was still a lot of money for little threat to them.
End of Run
[This was a fairly straight forward run and the players did
enough planning that no major hitches happened during this run. Other runes happening at the same time were
starting to become…interesting.]
The other jobs are:
Ludovic’s Hell (A.K.A., “Well that escalated quickly”)
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