[SR4] Mission Misadventure Madness
Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2016 8:19 pm
So I'm running Shadowrun 4e, using the Shadowrun Missions adventures (with more sizable payouts). Also the Ends of The Matrix rules.
Our Heroes
The group has all recently arrived in Denver. None of them know each other yet, but they've put out some feelers for work. They're all called in to Denim (a Hopi night club) for a meet at 16:30. It's about 14:00 when they get the calls, but no one has any last minute tasks so they all show up around then. Everyone but Abe is early and tries to scope the place out a bit. Abe is intentionally a few minutes late. Everyone gets directed to the back where five seats been set out. A man is waiting in a large ceremonial mask, silently directing them to sit, and waiting for everyone to arrive.
Once the group is assembled, the man explains that he is the Johnson, and that the mission is a simple one. They have to carry a package from where they are (Denim is in the PCC sector) to an address on Billings Street (UCAS sector). The package is a large manila envelope marked "CONFIDENTIAL" in large red letters on one side, with a tamper-proof seal. It has to arrive by 19:00. They are assured that the package is not explosive or anything else dangerous to the carriers, but they are otherwise not told what's inside. The Johnson warns that 3rd party groups are aware of the delivery taking place today, and they might attempt to interrupt the process.
The group agrees to half payment up front, Deep Sea takes the package in hand, and then they step outside. As soon as they're outside, Abe insists on trying to figure out what's in the package, and storms off in disgust when the rest of the group tries to explain how extremely stupid that plan is.
So they'll have to make two border crossings to get to the UCAS portion of things from where they are. Also, none of them have a car. Forra has a motor-bike, but the rest agree to just call a cab. Traffic isn't too bad, and they make it to the PCC/CAS crossing easily enough. Forra makes her way through customs with her bike, and the rest get out of their cab and will have to get another one on the far side. Mami is often bad at speaking to people, to put it mildly ("Uncouth" quality and no ranks in social skills), so she pairs up with Deep Sea and they pass through as a pair, letting Deep Sea do all the small talk stuff. Sudden Cloud goes through on his own, but muttered about tyrannical government control a little too loudly while waiting in line (failed a Charisma+Etiquette(2) test). He gets picked for a "random" inspection with the new machine that scans way up your butt. Instead of using the normal 3 dice scanner against his Fake SIN (Rating 4), they pull out a 5 dice scanner. Shockingly, it gets the 4 hits required on the first roll. Even though he's busted right then, I also have him roll the four dice for his SIN anyway, but he gets nothing. So, his SIN shows as being excessively fake basically. The thing is... it's a lot of paper work to fill out a whole report... sometimes the inspectors just forget about things, you know? For a small fee of course.
Having bribed the border patrol, he meets back up with the others, and they get into a second cab (with Forra on backup again). Traffic is a little more crowded as it gets later into the day. At one point they're stopped entirely in front of a Mexican restaurant across the street when four Chinese individuals come out and approach their car. In response, a foursome of Japanese individuals gets out of a nearby car and also approaches the group. Deep Sea and Mami notice them right away, but only Sudden Cloud manages to spot the guns they have under their jackets. Forra moves her bike closer and everyone gets to the cab at about the same moment. Instead of an immediate gun battle, the Japanese individual knocks on the cab window very casually. There's not too much they can do other than roll the window down.
Deep Sea: Can I help you?
Jonny: Greetings. I am Jonny. My sources tell me that you are carrying a package. It's a package that I'm very interested in, and I will buy it from you.
An Peng: My own associates are also interested in that package, and we would like to buy it from you.
Deep Sea: Interesting. Make me an offer.
An Peng: 14k nuyen.
Jonny: We can pay 18.5k nuyen, and of course the gratitude of my associates.
Deep Sea: We'll need a moment to discuss this offer.
Jonny: Of course.
So Jonny and An Peng step a little away from the back of the cab. The cab's escape is still blocked by traffic, though now it seems that perhaps that's been deliberately arranged a little down the road by one or both of the groups. Either way, the group chats about it silently via commlink.
Forra> Can we really just sell it to them?
Mami> Probably shouldn't do that.
Sudden Cloud> So who are these guys?
Deep Sea> Well, the ones from the car are probably the Yakuza. If I'm right, the others from the restaurant are probably with the Triads.
Sudden Cloud> So we don't want to piss them off.
Mami> But we don't want to piss off whoever hired us.
Sudden Cloud> True. Who hired us exactly?
Forra> Yet another criminal organization, I'm sure.
At this point, I personally assumed that they wouldn't sell off the package, so I went to move the scene along a little, "Jonny knocks on the window again. 'Have you come to a decision?', he says." Shockingly though, Deep Sea made a snap decision to sell. And he was the one holding the package. So they hand it over to the Yakuza, he pays them, and he even gives them his number for later. The Triad group is immediately angry but they don't make a fight of it. The Koshari and Chavez Mafia are both angry later, as they eventually get word, but how much can you really expect from some random newcomers to the city?
Our Heroes
- Forra "Fourarms": White Elf from Tir Tairngire (and yes, she's very racist by metatype) with major cyberization going on, including both legs being fully cyber, as well as her "starting" two arms being half cyber, and on top of that an additional two fully cyber arms have been implanted, asura style (pic). Forra's father works for Area in their magical studies division, but she has no talent for magic herself, so eventually he gave up on her, Gendo style. She used dad's checkbook to get as much cyber as possible and then ran away to a life of crime.
- Sudden Cloud: Navajo/Anglo Human Hacker. Grew up in the PCC, was in the PCC military for a while as a technical analyst. Became an otaku in high school (in the "loves Japanese culture stuff" sense). He believes in all sorts of conspiracy theories, and is kinda like Fox Mulder if Mulder were half-Amerindian.
- Makoto Mami: Japanese Elven Street Sam. Her parents (elves) were Japanese by ancestry, but they had to leave Japanese territory because of the anti-elf racism. Mami herself was born and raised in Salish Shidhe, learning quite a bit of Amerindian culture as a child. Hates any nations and corps that aren't metahuman friendly, Japan among them.
- Deep Sea: Japanese Elven Mystic Adept (Shinto-variant tradition). Born and raised in Japan. Worked as an "Infiltration Test Specialist" for a corp (Horizon or Evo), until he was double crossed and had to flee to the Americas.
- "Honest" Abe: White Human Vampire Hunter. A "cybrid" sort of reincarnation of Abraham Lincoln (but magical rather than technological). He hates vampires, and hunts them with his trusty axe. Also he can hunt pretty much anything else that you can solve with liberal applications of a trusty axe.
The group has all recently arrived in Denver. None of them know each other yet, but they've put out some feelers for work. They're all called in to Denim (a Hopi night club) for a meet at 16:30. It's about 14:00 when they get the calls, but no one has any last minute tasks so they all show up around then. Everyone but Abe is early and tries to scope the place out a bit. Abe is intentionally a few minutes late. Everyone gets directed to the back where five seats been set out. A man is waiting in a large ceremonial mask, silently directing them to sit, and waiting for everyone to arrive.
Once the group is assembled, the man explains that he is the Johnson, and that the mission is a simple one. They have to carry a package from where they are (Denim is in the PCC sector) to an address on Billings Street (UCAS sector). The package is a large manila envelope marked "CONFIDENTIAL" in large red letters on one side, with a tamper-proof seal. It has to arrive by 19:00. They are assured that the package is not explosive or anything else dangerous to the carriers, but they are otherwise not told what's inside. The Johnson warns that 3rd party groups are aware of the delivery taking place today, and they might attempt to interrupt the process.
The group agrees to half payment up front, Deep Sea takes the package in hand, and then they step outside. As soon as they're outside, Abe insists on trying to figure out what's in the package, and storms off in disgust when the rest of the group tries to explain how extremely stupid that plan is.
So they'll have to make two border crossings to get to the UCAS portion of things from where they are. Also, none of them have a car. Forra has a motor-bike, but the rest agree to just call a cab. Traffic isn't too bad, and they make it to the PCC/CAS crossing easily enough. Forra makes her way through customs with her bike, and the rest get out of their cab and will have to get another one on the far side. Mami is often bad at speaking to people, to put it mildly ("Uncouth" quality and no ranks in social skills), so she pairs up with Deep Sea and they pass through as a pair, letting Deep Sea do all the small talk stuff. Sudden Cloud goes through on his own, but muttered about tyrannical government control a little too loudly while waiting in line (failed a Charisma+Etiquette(2) test). He gets picked for a "random" inspection with the new machine that scans way up your butt. Instead of using the normal 3 dice scanner against his Fake SIN (Rating 4), they pull out a 5 dice scanner. Shockingly, it gets the 4 hits required on the first roll. Even though he's busted right then, I also have him roll the four dice for his SIN anyway, but he gets nothing. So, his SIN shows as being excessively fake basically. The thing is... it's a lot of paper work to fill out a whole report... sometimes the inspectors just forget about things, you know? For a small fee of course.
Having bribed the border patrol, he meets back up with the others, and they get into a second cab (with Forra on backup again). Traffic is a little more crowded as it gets later into the day. At one point they're stopped entirely in front of a Mexican restaurant across the street when four Chinese individuals come out and approach their car. In response, a foursome of Japanese individuals gets out of a nearby car and also approaches the group. Deep Sea and Mami notice them right away, but only Sudden Cloud manages to spot the guns they have under their jackets. Forra moves her bike closer and everyone gets to the cab at about the same moment. Instead of an immediate gun battle, the Japanese individual knocks on the cab window very casually. There's not too much they can do other than roll the window down.
Deep Sea: Can I help you?
Jonny: Greetings. I am Jonny. My sources tell me that you are carrying a package. It's a package that I'm very interested in, and I will buy it from you.
An Peng: My own associates are also interested in that package, and we would like to buy it from you.
Deep Sea: Interesting. Make me an offer.
An Peng: 14k nuyen.
Jonny: We can pay 18.5k nuyen, and of course the gratitude of my associates.
Deep Sea: We'll need a moment to discuss this offer.
Jonny: Of course.
So Jonny and An Peng step a little away from the back of the cab. The cab's escape is still blocked by traffic, though now it seems that perhaps that's been deliberately arranged a little down the road by one or both of the groups. Either way, the group chats about it silently via commlink.
Forra> Can we really just sell it to them?
Mami> Probably shouldn't do that.
Sudden Cloud> So who are these guys?
Deep Sea> Well, the ones from the car are probably the Yakuza. If I'm right, the others from the restaurant are probably with the Triads.
Sudden Cloud> So we don't want to piss them off.
Mami> But we don't want to piss off whoever hired us.
Sudden Cloud> True. Who hired us exactly?
Forra> Yet another criminal organization, I'm sure.
At this point, I personally assumed that they wouldn't sell off the package, so I went to move the scene along a little, "Jonny knocks on the window again. 'Have you come to a decision?', he says." Shockingly though, Deep Sea made a snap decision to sell. And he was the one holding the package. So they hand it over to the Yakuza, he pays them, and he even gives them his number for later. The Triad group is immediately angry but they don't make a fight of it. The Koshari and Chavez Mafia are both angry later, as they eventually get word, but how much can you really expect from some random newcomers to the city?