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Brainscan – Return Of The Father
Runners: Fingers, Barger, Running Wolf, Chiqua,
Mouse & Dr Rock
A
wake was held at Joes for Red Hammer, Neo and Hawk where
friends old a new turned up to toast the departed. Among the old friends was Mouse
(Decker), Chiqua ( a Street Sam) back from Japan and among the new was
Dr Rock (a mage).
A couple of days later Fingers got a call from Overwatch - they'd got
a telecom number from the datachip and it was part of Renraku's confidential
executive network. Having monitored the calls discovered that Aneki-sama was
being returned by the Tibetans to Renraku in a week's time in Honk Kong.
Aneki-sama the CEO of Renraku had "retired" from public life
just after the Arcology shutdown. Digging deeper through Renraku's systems.
The discovered that Aneki-sama had been jacked into the Arcology's main Host
when Deus went into operation and had had his brain fried. Normally Renraku
would simply have appointed anew CEO but Aneki-sama had the kill-codes for
the Arcology's AI - Deus. Numerous attempts had been made to kill Aneki-sama
in Renraku's secure medical facility and to protect him they'd sent him to
Tibet under the protection of one of the monasteries there. Apparently the
healing prowess of the monks had made some progress and Renraku wanted
Aneki-sama back.
Overwatch wanted the Runners to intercept Aneki-sama and bring him back to
them. Fingers realising that she Barger and Running Wolf were probably going
to need some help, called up Chiqua, Mouse and Dr Rock to help.
Overwatch agreed to provide travel documents plus expenses for the trip to
Honk Kong plus a sweetener of 5000 nuyen for the new Runners. Posing as
members of a Yamatetsu security squad the party go to their hotel without
incident with 3 days to kill before the handover. After renting some cars and
familiarising themselves with the local geography, the Runners settled in to
wait. Most of the news networks were full of the impending visit by
Halley's comet and the race by several of the megacorps involved in the space
program to be first to get a probe there.
Finally the call came through from Overwatch! The meet was going down in 30
minutes at Madame Kim's in the Wanchai district. Heading there at breakneck
sped through the Hong Kong traffic, the Runners got there with 15 minutes to
spare. Madame Kim's turned out to be a seedy simsense parlour. While Barger
looked for a way round the back (there was none) Chiqua went in
and posing as a customer took up position in one of the booths. Barger,
on his way back had a sudden brainwave, and gathering up the others, marched
boldly into the place saying to the
receptionist "We're from Renraku, where is Aneki-sama". The
receptionist meekly pointed to the back door. Outside in what should have
been a dirty concrete yard but rather looked like the contemplative garden
from a Tibetan monastery, two monks stood guarding a third man. After a brief
exchange in Chinese with Chiqua and Barger they handed over
Aneki-sama.
The party then prepared to leave, however as Chiqua opened the door
she spotted another party arriving one of whom she recognised from her time
with the corp as Huang a senior Renraku executive. At the same time Huang and
his team spotted her and his Red Samurai began to fan out taking up positions
in the corridor. Chiqua briefly tried negotiating with the Renraku goons but
it wasn't long before bullets started to fly. Pinned down and dodging the
bullets, Chiqua was thinking things couldn't get much worse, when of
course they did as a group of Blue Banded joined the party! As the Red
Samurai and the Blues traded bullets and grenades the Runners were forgotten temporarily.
This gave them a chance to try and find a way through the illusionary temple
garden. While Dr Rock and Barger attempted to locate the walls of the back
yard and hopefully an exit, Fingers went astral to keep an eye on the war
zone at the front of the shop. Mouse and Running Wolf tried to
keep Aneki-sama calm as he was becoming agitated with all the noise and new
people. Chiqua monitored the doorway taking occasional pot-shots at
the Banded.
Eventually Dr Rock found a doorway and hustling through found himself
in the kitchen on a noodle parlour! One by one the other runners followed Chiqua
laying down a suppressing fire in case any of the Banded or Samurai were able
to follow. Once out in the street the Runners pondered their next move. I was
probably too hot to go back to the Hilton as the rental cars they'd left out
the front could be traced to their fake i.d.'s. Hailing a cab they drove
around the city for a while, until Barger remembered that the Yellow
Lotus Triad owed them a favour. Putting in a call, they were told to go to
Huang's Emporium in Wanchai at 8 that evening. At Huang's they
were bundled into the back of a laundry van, and into a sampan in the harbour
and taken to the mainland.
Once
on the mainland they were taken by (military) truck to Beijing and put
on a flight to Seattle.
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Friends: Overwatch, Yellow Lotus Triad
Foes:
Deus, Renraku
World
events: Probe
Race begins to be first to get a probe to the approaching Halley’s comet
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