Predator & Prey part two

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Brainscan - My Name Is Legion

 

 

Brainscan - Breakthrough

 

Runners: Fingers, Barger, Running Wolf, Iceface, Neo, Red Hammer

Special Guest appearance: Metalhed 

 

Returning to Seattle the runners find the city returning to normal after the blackouts and riots. Most of the troops & Metroplex guards are now off the streets (except near the Renraku Arcology) and the city has been more or less returned to whatever passes for normal.

 

Neo gets a call from Monty a freelance fixer who has a simple job for them.  The job involves a simple recovery mission, one person & one item recover within 24 hrs and the pay is 15k each.

 

Taking the job the Runners were told to meet a guy called Huggins at a flophouse in the Barrens. Leaving their wheels at “Bill’s Garage” the Runners walk to the meet. Huggins is a nervous wreck, shaking like a leaf and exhibiting fairly obvious withdrawal symptoms (which nobody noticed) He led the Runners off through the Barrens and Neo, Barger and Fingers attempt to pump him for info. What they got was pretty garbled but they managed to get that Huggins was a (former) employee of a research corp called Neuranalysis, he’d hooked up with Monty to steal some research material from his employers and the deal had somehow gone sour. He’d stashed the merchandise in a car park  in the Barrens only to find it caught in the middle of a turf war between two go-gangs the Red Hot Nukes and the Stilettos.

 

The Runners arrive at the car park to find the Nukes partying outside occasionally firing off machine guns and the occasional grenade at the Stilettos trapped inside. After briefly observing the gangers and identifying the leader, the Runners decided on the direct approach – Fingers dropped a stunball on them! Four of the gangers went down instantly except for the leader who was obviously made of sterner stuff. At least until Neo shot him, Barger manabolted him, Red Hammer dropped a stun grenade in  front of him and Iceface shot him in the leg!

 

The Runners were just congratulating themselves on dealing effectively with the situation when the rest of the Nukes emerged from round the corner and started lobbing grenades at them.  A couple of the gangers got some lucky throws in, causing serious damage to Barger, Running Wolf and Red Hammer, not to mention Huggins who was severely wounded and then went down in a hail of bullets in the crossfire that ensued. While Barger lay unconscious and dying, and Running Wolf regenerated, the remaining Nukes were dispatched in a nasty little firefight. Red Hammer took herself and Barger off to Seattle General after Fingers had cast Treat on him, while the remainder of the Runners entered the garage after a brief discussion with the surviving Stilettos who fled.

Inside the found the body of another Neuranalysis employee but no sign of the item they’d been sent to retrieve. They searched fruitlessly for a while when suddenly a spirit manifested from the corpse telling them if the wanted the item to go to a certain address.

 

The Runners followed the directions and  found themselves outside an abandoned court house… inside was Brisbie, a Raven shaman who after playing a few trick on them (as is the way of the Trickster) eventually traded the SENSE device for a favour from Neo.

 

 

Friends:   The Rusty Stilettos ; Brisbie

 

Foes:   The Red Hot Nukes

 

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