Freedom, Finally

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Operation Name: “Freedom, Finally”

Real Date:  September 6, 2013
Game Date: July 15, 2076
Team Name: The Ghost Daggers
Individual Reports: None
Completion: 100%

Employer Name: Netcat
Runners Involved: Speed, Badger, Jinchiriki Kid, Phelan, Artie, Phoenix
Karma Earned:  8 Karma
Nuyen Earned  ¥75,000 (each)

• Successfully completing the run:  ¥60,000
• Expense account: ¥5,000
• Bonus for a job well done: ¥10,000

Target: Rescue Puck from Mitsuhama Computer Technologies.
Location: Downtown Seattle, SODO Dock area.
Major Players: 

• Netcat, Technomancer
• Puck, Technomancer and ex-follower of Deus
• MCT Corporate Security Team.
• MCT Corporate paranormals (barghest, and hellhound).

Objective: Retrieve Puck from MCT secured facility at warehouse facility.

Criminal Acts Committed : 

• Theft of Corporate Property (Puck)
• Terrorist sabotage of corporate property (sinking the ship)
• Murder 1, 7 counts (related to terrorist attack on ship).
• Possession of illegal weaponry (rockets, light machine guns).
• Terroristic use of magic

Unusual follow up notes: The group went out of their way to fix Puck before handing him back to Netcat, in addition the group secured some “samples” of the wire creature and forwarded them to UCAS authorities (well Phelan did).

Review/Recommendation (Seraph): The group adapted incredibly well. They were able to adjust the plan when they realized they could not wait for the ship to go out to see. They talked to me about the “sample” and I did tell them that higher paying jobs would be available soon, if they chose it. See details below.

Synopsis

(Important out of game note, the synopsis is only what Seraph is knowledgeable about, there are usually missing details in each run unless the members tell him specifically. Those details may be covered in individual reports).

The group was called together to rescue a technomancer named Puck from MCT by Netcat. This was a quick on the fly operation as Netcat did not know how long Puck would be in the city. Puck was being held on a modified cargo container ship, which was docked on MCT property.

The group was going to approach the ship in the open ocean and was prepared to become pirates for a day. However, when Artie got back from astral scouting, they determined something was wrong with the ship (an astral backgroung count that was very high and very bad). They determined that the ship could not be allowed to leave port with Puck.

During this time, Badger’s ex-lover Yellow called him, accusing Badger of burning the house down a second time. This time it was with flames. A kerfluffle occurred with the group, it sounds like Artie might have been involved but unsure.

Phelan and Speed secured sizeable missle weapons and bug zappers to use on the ship from Ajax, Phelan’s most resourceful contact. They also armed Speed’s speed boat for use in the operation. Meanwhile Pheonix and the Kid prepared to get on board, destroy the rigger control of the ship and keep Puck calm when they released him. In addition it turned out beneficial that Pheonix has lock picking skills.

The group’s  plan was to divide into two groups. The first group comprised of Phelan, Kid and Pheonix. They would utilize chameleon suites and sneak on board the ship via the land side (through the round storage containers northeast of the ship. While they did that, Artie, Speed and Badger would distract the ship by attacking it from the water on the other side.

The encounter was extremely brief. The speedboat rolled up masked by Badger, to the ship while the first group snuck to the side of the ship on the other side. At that moment evidently Badger had Artie shift into a wyvern… I am not sure when they found out what she was, or how her family will take it, probably take it well. They flew over the ship, blasting it with acid waves and fire. At some point Badger masked himself and Artie to look like an Aztechnology yellow jacket. An actual rather ingenious idea. 

Meanwhile Speed opened up on the boat. She unleashed the first Aztechnology striker rocket, taking a large section of the front deck of the ship. This caused security to rush to that portion of the ship and focus on her and the two flying above. This allowed the Kid, Phelan and Pheonix to begin their ascent onto the ship.

At this point the automated rigger defenses opened up, three LMGs and a rocket dispenser began firing, missing the boat and the wyvern by mere feet. Unfortunately halfway up that ship is when Speed unleashed a second rocket. We are not sure if it hit an ammo store, or something else but the resulting explosion lifted the front of the ship almost out of the water. The explosion almost knocked the three people climbing onto the ship. However, remarkably they were able retain their hold and get onto the ship.

At this point the front of the ship was gone, and it began a very long and laborious sinking. Phelan popped some thermo smoke preventing the turrets the ability to continue firing. The three runners firing at the ship kept going while Kid started attaching a bug zapper to the ship that fried out the entire rigger network. This caused all the automated systems to fail, including the pumps, the ship began to sink quickly.

At this point Pheonix secured Puck’s container, unlocked it and was able to get in. She found Puck secured by a strange silverish set of wires to the cargo container. She found that he was still blocked by the wires from the matrix and immediately had the Kid cut him loose. The remainder of the run was very quick and scattered. They rushed Puck off of the ship, half-dazed, and then arrived in the Tacoma docks.

During the trip, they found that the wire still connected to Puck was magical and alive. There was a brief panic as Phelan found a wire crawling up his arm and Speed had one crawling into her pants leg. They determined that these magical creatures were dangerous and secured them in glass containers. What they didn’t expect is that Artie tried to eat some of them, proclaiming them to taste good (evidently Wyverns need to eat magic to grow).

They secured Puck fully, turned him over to Netcat after cleansing him of the wires and returned to me (Seraphim). They told me what they found, I told them I had better paying work if they ever wanted it, dealing with threats like this. In addition I believe Phelan notified the UCAS hunters about this threat as well. That is good initiative for him, it is important to stop any of these threats.