Run - Facility GL586


Context the elf Shaman, Lomax the troll rigger, Stanley the 'wared up human decker, and Arthur the uncouth female ork street samurai receive calls out of the blue from Mr Johnson shortly after they all seperately arrive in Hong Kong.

13th October 2075

They are hired by a white westerner to either switch a blood sample or trash all the samples and make it look like some kind of protest or terrorist attack. They meet in Aztec Cyber, a noodle bar near the night market in Kowloon, under the protection of the Red Dragon triads. Context assenses him and notices he is ill. The gang, having not met each other before, and certainly could not be described as charismatic people, immediately starts arguing. They eventually negotiate a deal with Johnson (but not before insulting him and each other).
While wrapping up, a local gang bust in, declaring the bar theirs and no longer under triad control. Johnson suggests that this would be a good test of the teams skills.
The results are unsubtle. The gangers go down in a hail of bullets and axes. Context takes out the bar and the remaining gangers with a huge fireball. Lomax subdues the only remaining ganger not dead or fled, but before they can wring any answers from him Johnson executes him and calmly exits, leaving a package containing the sample on a bar table..
The gang leaves amid panicked scenes at the Night Market as Aztec Cyber burns to the ground in full view of the Kowloon City populace.

14th October 2075

The runners do some legwork - Stanley almost fries his deck hacking into a local municipal council server but obtains floor plans for the target building. He spends the rest of the day fixing his fried deck electronics.The gang talk to their underworld contacts and find the location, and discover it's a subsidiary of Aztechnology called Cuerpos Radicales. Context does some astral projection discovers a lack of magical security. Lomax sends in a microdrone bug and finds a Dobermann patrol drone in the compound but can't get in the main building doors.
Time's up, the hit is on.
The gang immediately falls apart amid acrimony and demands for bigger shares of the money.
Context speeds off to the target location in his Rover 2072 van, with Stanley and Arthur. Lomax tries to catch up in his pickup, filled with his armed rotordrone and steel lynx combat drone. Context gives up on all subtlety, just wanting to get in ahead of Lomax, trying to deny him the run pay. He rams the electrified fence and the van comes to a smoking halt in front of the storage facility entrance.
The Dobermann patrol drone in the yard opens fire and the alarms are triggered, alerting the skeleton security staff inside and giving the crew a time limit - High Threat Response teams from Errant Knight policing are almost certainly on their way.
Arthur blasts the Dobermann drone with a shotgun, and it shuts down. The gang gather by the door to the facility, while Lomax parks across the road. The Rover van's autosofts send it off to hide unobtrusively down the street. Stanley immediately breaks into the Aztech corporate matrix grid and starts identifying cameras inside. The door is locked by a maglock, with a keypad. Arthur dismantles it dexterously, and runs her maglock sequencer into the electrics. The door slides open. Lomax sends in the Steel Lynx drone and commands the rotordrone to keep an eye on the compound gate.
As the crew make their way up the first corridor, Stanley realises he is under matrix attack - his team has been spotted by a corporate security spider. Luckily Arthur spots a security station with a guard zonked out in VR behind a plasteel window. Stanley gets a mark on his attacker and traces him, and they confirm it as the guard. Arthur resolves the issue with her shotgun again, blasting the security spider's brains over the consoles behind him and leaving a hole in the plasteel window. Stanley takes control of the front doors remotely and locks them shut.
They continue through the facility, editing camera feeds and sequencing maglocks. Context shuts himself in a staff toilet and begins casting detect life spells, identifying the 3 remaining guards in the next room. Stanley bricks the wireless-enabled smartgun of one of them remotely and the crew pile in. Lomax wades in his combat axe, and the troll tears the guards apart, their remaining operative weapons bouncing off his armoured jacket and tough troll skin.
The crew, perhaps unwisely, spend the next few minutes playing dress up with the uniforms of the slaughtered guards and looting all they can. The HTR teams close in on the facility.
The team make their way to the storage room, Stanley hacking into a medical droid and sending it speeding into the final doors - exposing the magical barriers protecting them. Context cleaves through them with his magical foci staff and the crew enter.
Two GMC Bulldog vans screech into the facility and 8 armed security members emerge, in black uniforms and sealed masks. The rotordrone feeds all this back to Lomax via his Augmented Reality cybereyes before hiding above the facility. The HTR team breaches the front door with a monofilament chainsaw and rush up, into the steel lynx drone which begins attacking with its Ingram Valiant machinegun.
In the main storage room Arthur suggests using another medical droid to find the correct blood sample from the thousands arranged on the far wall. Stanley hacks in and sends it on its task.
The steel lynx retreats, having taken damage in its fight with the HTR team. The rotordrone descends to the breached entrance and lays down suppressing fire with its assault rifle into the narrow corridor and the remaining HTR members hit the deck.
Context runs up and fireballs the corridor while the rest of the crew lay down a barrage of fire. The last three security stagger round the corner aflame, and Lomax cleaves their heads off in one sweep. Nasty.
The crew retrieve the switched sample, and smash the remaining blood vials - the job could not have gone any louder, and they need to make it look like a terrorist attack. They make good their escape before the situation escalates.
They contact Mr Johnson with the good news, and he arranges a meet at Banshee, a 'runner bar also in the night market (as Aztec Cyber is a burned out shell). The crew meet the greyhaired troll bartender and nearly all get killed, again, such is their social inadequacy. Luckily a firefight does not ensure - the troll explains the Johnson left their credsticks with him for collection and the crew take them, after checking that they are legit.
The crew gets paid! Context spends the next few days in bed recovering from a bullet wound and Lomax spends a fortnight repairing the Rover van and his Lynx drone.

2 comments:

Unknown said...

You are certainly a forgiving gamemaster. I'm pretty sure they should have been rounded up by Knights Errant or Lone Star before the run even actually went off. Do you have a permanent hand print on your face after this debacle? This could certainly make for an entertaining Trid though! :D

@Mattsetback said...

It was a first run for them AND me! Yeah, they've learned a lot more subtlety since...