GM: Sorina
Players: Baron, Accelerate, Ronald.
Synopsis: A synopsis of what happened here.
Date: Feb 27, 2070
There is a rumor around, that someone needs a job done. The meeting is to take place early morning at as small cafe down in the slums, called the Blue Apple. Named that because they have a really large sign with a neo blue apple in it that stands out above everything else on the street.
Baron heads towards the meet in his RV, finding a parking spot a few blocks away, locking it up and setting his drone to kill anyone that comes inside. He makes his way to the Blue Apple, going inside, and ordering himself some food, a rather large meal later, he finds a seat and looks for the Johnson.
Ronald is at the Roadhouse enjoying a beer on stumpy's tab, but money is money. When the rumor reaches him the mechatrog heads on out, snagging a ride with a passing rigger over to the general area and walking to the place from there. No pause to clean up… it's not like chromed out hydraulic ridden cyberarms are subtle or classy anyway.
When he spots the rumored J, Ronald heads over to the table and slides in, hoping the booth seating can handle his weight.
Baron has seen this lady before, and makes the guess that she is the Johnson yet again. He grabs his meal, and makes his way over to her booth, squeezing his large bulk into the seat, and then promptly going back to eating his meal as he waits for her to respond.
Accelrate gets word of the meet, and gives a friend a call to sit in for him. Xander shows up on time, in a black executive suite, looking as professional as ever. He heads over to the table, and says, "I speak for a client of mine, a decker who values anonymity above all else. Goes by the name Accelerate. My name is Xander." And without further pause, he sits down at the table.
Sorina smiles as she looks at the two and gives them a slight nod, "Good morning." She waits for everyone to gather at the table before starting, "Okay, I got a simple job for you. I need you to pick up a package and…" She is suddenly cut off as two large men in trench coats push their way into the front door. They both reach under their coats as they pull out a shotgun each.
You wouldn't really think anyone the size of the trog could move that fast, but he does. The boys pull their shotties and his arms cross for a split second as he rises, then the weapons come to bear on the to intruders hosing out a stream of explosive rounds and dropping one in a welter of gore. Unfortunately, the other seems just as fast as the trog and the stream flows right past him.
Everyone in the cafe ducks down as the two men walk in and go for their shotguns. One of them leaps forward and rolls out of the way of the income spray of bullets as the other takes a full blast to the chest and falls over backwards, crashing into a table as he does.
Baron dives under a nearby table, reaching into a pocket and pulling out a datacable to jack into the datajack at the back of his head, he basicly hides like a coward, although, the RCD in his coat is turned on and he is establishing a link with the drone thats protecting his RV.
Xander, not being hired for any fighting, slips away from the fighting and into the back rooms of the bars while the gunman is busy avoiding being shot. He readies his machine pistol just in case, but is hoping he can just bail without taking a shot.
The surviving thug moves to take cover behind the counter, before he leans over the top of it to and sprays three bullets at Ronald. He then ducks back down before leaning out to the side and fires a second blast of three more bullets at him.
Ronald has just enough time to see the bursts coming his way in his adrenalized, hyperspeed state. A flexible maneuver that looks more like instantaneous transformation to liquid and back to solid than any normal dodge leaves him out of the path of the first cloud of pellets, unfortunately that move brings him directly in line with the second burst, slamming the rounds into his chest. With no apparent damage other than a slight grunt from the hulking trog.
Sorina knocks the table they were sitting at over, and then ducks down behind it, using it for cover. She reaches under her jacket and draws her pistol, but stays down for the moment.
ooc ronald gets his second pass
Ronald sweeps his weapons to track the remaining gunner, not bothering with cover as if something his size could find decent cover short of a big rig anyway. Instead he decides to end this fast, triggering a long burst from each pistol into him and… well, the cloud of expanding pink air would indicate he's done and done.
Baron crouches under the table for cover, and across the street the door to an RV opens and some, thing, runs out, sprinting incredibly fast through traffic and then coming to the diner and opening the door. Its like a giant pile of clothes, a long coat, some pants, but the hands, they are metal, and the head looks like a helmet. It moves inside, scanning the room with a raised arm, and you can see the suppressor of a weapon alongside the arm. Baron finally gets up after a moment, and the thing moves over near him.
Ronald lifts one foot and extracts a box of ammo from a concealed compartment, then grabs the table in one hand and sets it upright before calmly sitting back down and reloading his weapons.
Sorina leans over the table and looks around, before ducking back down. She slides her gun back under her jacket and slowly stands up. She dusts herself off, despite not really getting dirty. "We probably shouldn't stay here. Lets meet back up in an hour." She hands everyones a slip of paper with the address of another location.
Baron grabs the paper, then looks to the troll "Care to ride with me? I got room." And with that he turns and starts walking out, the drone in clothes following behind him.
Xander waits a few moments to make sure the fighting has stopped, and peaks back around the corner to make sure all is clear. Satisfied, he takes a pot of coffee from the break room, pooring himself a mug, and walks back in to continue the negotiations.
Ronald calmly accepts the paper and finishes loading his weapons, then reholsters them in his arms. "I should prolly stay 'till the cops get here. I was acting in a legitimate role, so my security license should cover any issues."
Sorina turns and heads out the back door, and leaves to the meet up location. She hands xander a piece of paper with the new location as well as she makes her way out.
Ronald, having decided he's going to the meet, responds to Baron, saying "Yeah, I could use a ride. Your rig can handle the weight, right?"
Baron grins and steps outside, pointing across the street at a Bison RV "Yes, plenty of room for you." he waits for traffic, then makes his way to the RV with the Drone right behind him, climbing int he side door and moving to the bed to sit down. The drone walks to the back of the rig, and stands next to a Steel Lynx, and a Miniblimp with an obvious turret underneath it.
Ronald follows along and pauses to admire the drones for a moment. "It feels like a famiy reunion" he remarks with a grin and a tap of his forearms.
Baron chuckles and starts up the RV, heading directly to the address given on the paper, this time he is going to have security around "Well, I like my toys."
The second meeting isn't to far away, another cafe. This one is called the Green Apple due to the large neon green apple sign out front. Maybe its a chain cafe? The place looks a little nicer than the other one however.
Baron heads out to the meeting, but this time, his Miniblimp is hovering 900 meters above the site with a big Fizzy Coke ad on the side of it. The drone with clothes gets a hood put over its head, and follows Baron into the cafe, taking a seat with him as they plan to wait.
Ronald follows along, chuckling softly to himself at the idea of a drone that's possibly better dressed than he is, and takes a seat to wait on the rest of the crew. He's keeping an eye on the door this time though, it's murder on the clothes when people try and kill him.
An hour later Sorina walks into the cafe and does a quick scan of the place, before she walks over to an open table in the corner. She sits down and waits for the others to come join her.
Baron gets up, after eating another meal first of course while he waited, and moves over to join Sorina, his Drone standing guard outside the table, providing cover for Baron from the front door.
When he sees the J enter, Ronald shifts over to join her and waits quietly for more information.
Not wishing to accrue a higher bill with Xander, Accelerate opts to have Xander slip a cellular device into Baron's pocket for use in the second meet. Once everyone arives, the device rings unexpectantly.
Baron grunts and reaches into his pocket, checking the phone over then answering it "Yea?"
Sorina looks back and forth between them, "Alright, forget the package run. I got something new for you. I found out the thugs that attacked us were hired by a guy named Gottfried Drescher. Apparently he has a problem with a number of shadowrunners, me and Baron included, and he doesn't plan on stopping until we are dead. He is the head of a local corporation however, so it is probably far to risky to take him out. Instead, I want you to gather some dirt on him for me. Something juicey enough to blackmail him with."
Commlink-XLER8> Accelerate says, "This is the decker, Accelerate. Since this is no longer a quiet little meet, I've decided to handle my part over this phone. Please give it to the Johnson when you get a chance."
Baron grunts, handing the phone to the J. "Its for you, and I think it will be useful for this. Deckers are handy to have."
Sorina reaches over and takes the phone and puts it up to her ear, as she watches the others. "Hello." She talks to them all at once, "I will pay you all, based on the quality of information you get."
Baron grunts and shakes his head "I'm curious to know how my involvement was known, they had to be following you." he says to the J
Accelerate easily finds out some basic information on the man. He is the owner of T.I.U, a local medical corporation, that deals in biotech. In fact he is a very generous man, and donates millions of =Y= to hospitals and medical research in the city.
Sorina looks over to Baron, "Apparently it is related to a run you did a while back. Though it is kind of a moot issue now. I would like to avoid any future problems, for me or anyone else. If you can get the information for me, I am sure he will stop any future attacks on anyone. Then the problem is solved."
Baron grunts and nods "Alright, I'm in, I can get a bug into his office if you like, I just need a map of his ventalation system."
Ronald listens to the explanation of the operation perameters and sighs softly before answering "It doesn't really sound like my kind of gig folks, sorry but I'm not exactly the most subtle type around."
Sorina speaks into the phone, "Contact me when you have something worth while to blackmail him with." She enters her contact number into the phone then hands the phone back over to Baron.
Baron takes the phone and puts it bck into a pocket, figuring a decker might be useful later on "Alright, how much time do you think we have to monitor the guy?"
Sorina looks to baron and gives a slight shrug, "I dont know, though the sooner the better. I wouldn't take any more than a few days if possible. And defenitly no longer than a week."
Accelerate digs through the database and finds out his company receive regular shipments of biotech. They seem to receive stuff all the time, though rarely do they ever send shipments themself. He also notices that Gottfried regulary leaves town once or twice every week.
Baron nods "Alright, I can get some eyes on our target if you can get me some bugs and cameras that are nice and small. I can usually get them inside a building with my drones and place them."
Sorina slowly stands up, "You work it out with your partner, and them contact me when you have something worth it. I will meet with you back here later." She turns and heads out of the room.
Baron gets up, and leaves the cafe with his drone in tow. He heads back to his RV, loads up all his drones, and then calls the decker on the cellphone.
Accelerate finds the host easy enough, having gotten the information from his earlier search. As he travels the matrix he finds himself standing in front of a large corporate building that seems to reach up miles into the air, the top disappearing as it passes the clouds. In front of him is a large metal door.
As accelerate pushes at the door there is a loud creaking sound as the metal double doors part and allows him inside. He finds himself in a large lobby, a pair of stairs over to the right are heading upwards, and a long hallway heading off to the left.
After making some checks in the various databases he has access to, Accelerate decides to do something he hasn't done in awhile and heads off to break into the corp's host and do some digging there. "Shouldn't be too hard." the static man thinks to himself, as he passes through the AngelSatCom, the Denver RTG, and finally the UCAS LTG. He makes his way to the host in question, logging in with relative ease to find himself in front of a giant door. "I bet that looks impressive to the average matrix goer." He thinks to himself again. Going about his business, he finds the employee register behind the counter without being noticed, and adds himself in as a security decker. He then goes about his business checking for dirt on this guy.
Just as Accelerate accesses the registery there is a slight shimmer as a beautiful young woman in a suit appears besides him. She has one of them big phony looking smile on her face. "May I help you?" She slowly reaches out and tries to touch him.
The young woman smile as she reaches out and her hand brushes against Accelerates side. She then turns to follow him around, but seems to wander off in the wrong direction for a moment. "May I help you?" Her hand reaches out blindly into the air.
As you do a quick scan of the you notice the lights go on in the stairway heading up, obviously you must go further into the system to find the valuable information. Up at the top of the stairway is a large steel door.
As accelerate pushes the door, it nearly gets stuck halfway. However, its now open just enough for him to slip through. However there is an identical woman standing in front of the door when he opens it. "How may I help you?" She slowly reaches out and tries to touch him.
Her hand brushes against him in the first pass, but as he begin to move around she begins to wander off in a random direction, her hand swinging though nothing but air.
Accelerate vanishes in a puff of static from the IC Receptionist. He goes about looking at the floorplan for the building he's in inside the security room, with nobody being the wiser about him not actually being on staff. He then starts looking for some good ol paydata, and where his investigation leads is up a flight of stairs. "Another big door, I bet this is a SAN" he thinks to himself, before he even analyzes the icon. Upon entering, he is greated by another receptionist IC, who greets him in much the same manner as the first. Without taking another thought, he vanishes, knowing exactly what's going on.
Accelerate hacks into the security accounts once again and gains access. However at the same time all the lights in the room dim slightly. Another young woman appears next to accelerate, though this one is carrying a large minigun that obviously a real woman wouldn't carry.
The girl has that same cheesy smile, as she turns and aims the minigun at Accelerate. Bullets spray wide as he leaps out of the way of the first shot, but she continues to fire bullets towards him as she swings the minigun around, this time the bullets slam into him.
Seeing the woman raise the machine gun, Accelerate can only watch as she starts shooting at him in rapid fire. His energy shield absorbs the first attack group of bullets, but isn't able to hold a candle to the second. His static form gets ripped apart, knocking him off the matrix.
For a split second, he has a headache. Then his pain editor kicks in, and he simply says to himself, "Well that's annoying." as he reboots his deck and jacks back in.
Baron sends up his advertising blimp, the one with the secret sniper rifle. The ad for today is Fizzy Coke as usual, Drink Fizzy Coke!. The blimp hovers high in the air the camera watching discreetly from above.
Baron is lucky and catches him not long before he leaves the office. There are a couple of securty guards with him and they get into his car. The car then begins down the road, heading south to the nearest highway.
Baron keeps a discreet distance, because well, its a big blimp, its high up, at 1000 meters altitude, and halfway along, the sign changes from Fizzy Coke, to an Ares Logo.
The car heads into a nice area of the town, where a lot of rich people live. The houses are just short of being mansions, but still very large. When the car pulls up to the house he and the guards get out. He speaks with them for a moment, before getting into a second car and leaving alone.
Baron is driving behind, about 2 kilometers away, his deck has good range. The blimp changes course, following along discreetly behind the second car when the man is alone. He zooms in his cameras, and takes a photo of the car and plates.
The Drone changes is logo once more, going to an advertisement for the Olive Garden and its all you can eat breadsticks.
Doesn't seem to really notice the blimp, as he isn't likely looking that high into the air. He was to rich to care about the oliva garden or fizzy coke anyway. He drives for about thirty minutes, and seems to take a lot of side turns, and drives around as if he is trying to avoid someone, or maybe just being safe. Eventually he stops at another large house and pulls into the driveway.
Baron parks his RV 2 Kilometers away and has the blimp hover above the house, keeping an eye out for the man and what he is doing.
The man heads inside and closes the door. All the windows and blinds are closed, making it impossible to see anything that is going on inside of the house.
Baron drives his RV past the house, as it drives by, a bird flies out the window, a drone bird, it heads over to the house and lands on the ducting for the AC system. Strange though, this bird has something strapped to its back…..a tool laser. As the RV drives away, finding a parking spot 2 km away, the Bird begins to burn a hole in the ducting, and get inside the ventalation system.
It is slow going but eventually the bird cuts a hole big enough for it it squeeze into.
The Bird makes its way into the ducting, then flys up to a level area and starts to walk through the house, looking through various vents to see the rooms inside the house and spot the target.
As the bird makes it way through the vent it eventually comes to the what looks to be the living room. It can spot some movement, though an air filter blocks it from getting a better view.
Baron pauses his drone, and listens for any sounds that are in the room
The bird can't really make out what is being said, but he can hear what sounds like giggling and a few people talking in the other room.
Baron starts tearing slowly at the filter, trying to make a big enough hole it can see through into the room.
As the bird tears a hole it in the filter, it accidently hits a piece of metal and makes a soft banging. The sounds in the other room stop for a moment as everyone ducks at of view. A female voice is heard, "Did you hear that?" Then other, "I thought I heard something too." Then the man, "What? I didn't hear anything."
Baron stops, waiting until things calm down before he tries to continue making his whole
Suddenly a large cat face pops into view, hissing loudly as it shows its teeth. "Ohh dinner!" The cat woman smiles as she grabs onto the vent opening and begins to yank on it hard.
The Bird flaps its wings quickly and starts down the vent out of the reach of the strange cat lady.
The naked woman is covered head to toe in soft red fur. Her tail flicks back and forth as she pulls the vent open and swings up into it. She then quickly begins to crawl down the vent after the bird.
Baron quickly gets the bird the hell out of there, flying back down the vent and getting outside. He flys up above, and looks for a Chimmney to go inside instead of a vent.
There is a loud bang when the woman hits the end of the vent and she tries to slide her arm through the hole the bird made, though she is a little to slow. The bird flies around but there doesn't seem to be a chimney in view.
Baron knows the hole is rather obvious, it was cut, and birds dont cut through vents, so, he flys away, leaving his blimp to watch the house, and picking up the bird with his RV. He gets on the phone, and texts the address of the house to Accelerate «Tell me whats in this house, looks like our guy is a freak.»
It only takes a few minutes, before the guy comes running out of the house. Though he is alone when he does. He quickly gets into his car and speeds off.
Baron goes back to following at a distance, trailing the guy, and trying to keep up with him with his blimp.
The man makes his way directly home this time, the trip taking only 20 minutes, as he is taking the most direct route home. His securty guards meet him at the door, and they all head inside.
Baron keeps his Blimp far away, just within range of the 50x zoom magnification on his sensors, so he can keep an eye on the house. He parks his RV 2 kilometers away, shaking his head and eating a candy bar and drinking a fizzy coke.
Accelerate digs through the old logs. He finds a ton of stuff, most of its pretty boring. He does seem to find some interesting things however. One the address Baron found of the second house he visited is found here. It apparently belongs to him, but its listed under a different name. He even logged in from the house a few times in the past. Second he comes across a couple of files that look exactly the same, with a few number edits. One copy looks as if someone attempted to delete it.
After his alarm clock goes off noting it's been an hour since he got booted off the trix, Accelerate strolls right back into the corporate network, and makes his way to the Orange he got booted from earlier. He stops for a moment to think… "Now if I was an evil corporate CEO where would I hide my dirty secrets…" and then he considers the idea that a CEO wouldn't know drek about matrix security. "I bet it's in the logs for anyone who looked hard enough to see." he thinks to himself.
After a few minutes of sifting through a 1600mp log file that felt like an eternity on the trix, he finally hits paydirt. Checking into his new lead, he finds the CEO has been cooking his books, and what's more he has been stealing said money to pay for a house under a different name. "Gotcha."
Accelerate does a little more checking to make sure he's got what he's been looking for, downloading the files in question and removing any traces of him being there from the logs, before heading off the host and back to the safety of the RTG. He then makes a phone call to his partner Baron to tell him what he found.
Commlink-XLER8> Accelerate says, "Ring Ring."
Commlink-Baron> Baron says, "Yea?"
Commlink-XLER8> Accelerate says, "I found what we are looking for. Our dear friend has been making secret withdrawals from corporate accounts to pay for a house he owns under a different name. Poorly editted ledgers show money going missing every month."
Commlink-Baron> Baron says, "Alright, that might be enough, plus his house he is paying for has a catgirl, I think he is some sex freak, I got a photo of her, can you run anything with that?"
Commlink-XLER8> Accelerate says, "I could, if you want. Never hurts being too thorough, but we should ask the Jay if this is enough for now, since time is an issue. Every moment we wait could mean another pair of guys with shotguns!"
Commlink-XLER8> Accelerate says, "The photo you took, did it have him WITH the catgirl?"
Commlink-Baron> Baron says, "Alright, I'll contact the J again and see what happens. No, just had the catgirl crawling through the ventalation system after my drone."
Commlink-XLER8> Accelerate says, "Well that's disappointing."
Commlink-XLER8> Accelerate says, "Alright, contact the jay, I'll send you a copy of the data."
Commlink-XLER8> Accelerate disconnects.
Baron calls up Sorina, and gives her the details of the information so far "So, that enough, or do we need more?"
Considers that for a moment, as she listens on the other side. "That is a good start, I think I can use that information to get him to back off. Though if you can find more, I might get him to pay us more."
Baron grunts "I can kill the catgirl at the house, dead body at a house he owns is powerful motivation."
Sorina speaks on the other side of the phone, "I am not sure that is really necessary, and we do not want to make him into a permanent enemy. So lets stick to blackmail for now."
Baron grunts "Alright, well, I can keep watching him to see what else he does, but this may be all we can get out of him."
Sorina nods, "Alright, let me know if you find anything else. I will start…negoitations with him…" She hangs up the phone.
Baron goes back to relaxing in his RV and watching things from his Drone blimp. Its going to be a long day.
Baron finds the man inside stays there for a long while. About five hours later a couple of men in black show up. They go inside but then leave again a few minutes later.
Baron takes pictures of license plates, and men, and passes them along to Accelerate, just in case he comes up with something.
Then for the rest of the day, nothing seems to happen at the house. All is quiet.
Baron eats food, relaxes in his RV, and simply watches the house, to see how this is going to end up. He doesnt need to sleep at all, sleep regulator gives him 48 hours of awake time if he needs it.
Gottfried Drescher had hired the hitment to take out the shadowrunners, Jack Riley had been using to take out the drug dealers in the south side of the UCAS. However with the information on his hidden money, and the slight possiblity that people might find out what was going on at his second house, he decided to call off the hits. For now his secret harem would remain a secret and he didn't want to risk anyone else snooping around. It seems for now the compitition between Jack and Gottfried will remain at a stand still.
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