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One Stage Before
Runners: The Colonel,
Thin White Duke, Mercury, Lilith, Martin, The Old
Father , Tara The runners were hired by Mr Johnson to investigate death threats against Lew Allenby the head of Caravan - a company that managed rock super-group The Shadows. Allenby does not take the death threats seriously and refuses to cooperate with a conventional investigation. The
runners visit Allenby who kicks them out of his office wanting nothing to do
with them. As they leave the meet Wallace an FBI type investigating Allenby .
As the runners wander back home a Lone Star patrol car tries to cut them down
(unknown to them Allenby’s been killed and they been charged with murder). A
running fire fight ensues, which rapidly escalates out of control involving
SWAT teams and police Helicopters, (Tara) goes down hard taking on an assault helicopter using a
pistol! She survives but is
hospitalised . Unable to contact Mr Johnson the runners rightly work out
they’ve been set-up. They’re
then contacted by someone who claims to know Mr Johnson, this is Meta who tells them Mr Johnson’s real
name Jonathan Teague and he works for a company called Highstar who are
trying to get control of The Shadows and their multi million nuyen
contract. Later
Teague contacts the runners saying he wants to explain everyting, the runners
go along and walk into an ambush, obviously Teague wants then dead! Surviving
bloodied but unbowed, they are then contacted by Allenby’s secretary who
tells them she knows they didn’t do it as she knows Allenby was alive after
the runners left his office. She also tells them that Wallace was sniffing
around. She suggests the runners talk to The Shadows as they may have
some info. And send them invites to a glitzy party. Teague turns up at the
party and the Runners chase but lose him. The
runners then make contact with the Nightstalkers a go-gang led by Jetblack (
a vampuire) a former musician and
friend of Allenbys he gives them a passkey to a secure area in Allenby’s
computer system. There the runners discover that Allenby was killed using a
booby-trapped simsense chip. As they ;leave Allenby’s office they meet Wallace
again who says he wants to take down Teague but can’t do it legally himself,
he gives the runners pass codes for Highstar’s system. They don’t find much
to incriminate Teague directly but do track the decker who created the dodgy
simsense chip. Deciding
a frontal assault is the only option left they get the Nightstalkers to
create a diversion and hit Allenby’s place hard looking for and ultimately
finding incriminating evidence. |
Friends: Jetblack, Agent Wallace Foes:
Highstar World
events: The
UCAS FBI discovers that insect spirits control the UB and shut it down, but
without making the reasons public. Cover story of financial corruption. Other
nations take similar steps, and the UB is completely shut down by '56. widespread
incidents of "unmotivated terrorist violence" against UB. Aug
22: A Knight Errant Firewatch team detonates a subtactical nuclear warhead in
what may have been the largest insect hive in North America. It does not have
the anticipated effect. A swarm of bug spirits spills out of the hive to
infest the city. |