Ghost Cartels - A Stranger In Our HouseRunners: Kitsune, Polo, Sirius, El Torro, Spirit, Blackout, Zipcode Session One...from ZIPcode's journalSmiley fixed us up with a new Johnson, a sweet-looking babe. The meet was Downtown, at a back-alley strip-joint called Ticklers. The job was simple - to investigate two members of the First Nations gang - two chummers called Alex Littletree and Xa Firebird. On the way out I ran some checks on our new Johnson, discovering she was a stripper name of Dae with connections to the Seoulpa Rings - nice!We began a stakeout at one of the safehouses used by the First Nations - even got to break out the trust old drone and fly it around a bit! Session Two...from ZIPcode's journalWe tailed Littletree to a meet with a rival gang - The Ragers - vvery bad gang etiquite. I'm sure Little Mis Johnson would be very interested. However, on our way to deliver paydata to Ms Johnson we were ambushed by members of the Ragers and had to fight our way out. Fortunatelya single shot from Polo took out their leader after which it was a piece of cake to mop up. LT and Kitsune, decied to "liberate" the Ragers vans - telling the survivors to take to their heels !Session Three...from ZIPcode's journalThe next target was Xa Firebird. A couple of days later we located him at another First Nations safehouse. After setting up surveillance, Blackout and Sirius followed him on one of his forays out - and discovered he was dealing Tempo to the kids at the local university.I scanned the target's PAN - boy did he have some heavy security on his comlink - way over what you'd expect on a ganger. This guy obviously didn't want snoopers and was prepared to pay big nuyen to keep it that way! Next day Spirit and LT followed Firebird to a motel in Renton where he met up with a chica - it was a lovenest! They shot me across a coupe of pix and I ran some checks. Her name was Lopez, and whaddaya know, she was a cop! Polo put a call into one of her contacts in Lone Star and was warned-off - her contact later turned up very dead! Session Four...from ZIPcode's journalI did some more digging around on Firebird and his squeeze Lopez, discovering Xa had been sending regular reports from his commlink to a blind email account.Next day Firebird managed to lose all his razorguys and sneak off on his own - naturally we followed. It didn't take long to work out that while we wre following him, he was following Blood of the Buffalo - the Rager's leader. The trip ended at a Kind Orchid depot in Everett Orchid. While we watched from a distance, Xa ifiltrated the meeting and recorded it. I managed to crack their ICE and take over one of the security drones and film what Xa was up to. Given what he was up to, we were pretty convinced that Xa was an undercover cop, so headed off to dump the paydirt on Ms Johnson On the way to the meet - I got a bit squeamish about outing an undercover cop - and sent Xa a message via the blind email account I'd cracked to warn him his cover was blown. Ms Johnson paid out for the paydata and offerd a bonus to ensure Xa never reported-in to his superiors. I wasn't to keen on wetwork, but he others took the job. So while I made myself scarce, Polo and Kitsune tracked Xa down to the flophouse in renton where he met Lopez. I made damn sure I had an airtight alibi while Polo and Kitsune, backed up by Orion and LT, made the hit. The run went down fairly smooth, Kitsune did take a round, and they had to geek Lopez as well ( shame!) but they successfully recovered Xa's internal commlink, albeit by removing his head. The hit-squad arranged to meet Ms Johnson at an abandoned carpark in Renton - calling on Spirit and Blackout for additional backup (I was strangely unavailable). At the meet, Ms Johnson introduced them to her her principal - Kaz Yakamura - who was a high-up in the Kumon'go. |
Friends: Smiley
Foes: The Ragers World
events: Tempo emerges on the streets |