Friend of a Friend of a Friend

Johnson	Corp Troll
Summary	Infiltration + Insertion
Meet	03/07/2076 (Friday)
Legwork	03/07/2076 (Friday) – 10/04/2076 (Saturday)
Run	11/07/2076 (Saturday)
Pay	£17,500 each, 8 Karma
Game Time	14/02/2019 – 11/04/2019 (6 Sessions)

Details

03/07/2076 (Friday)

• Smith contacts Papa to put out a call for a job
• 29-30^th June we get a text to meet “Sonny” (another fixer – dwarf; ‘influential’ family) looking for runners
• Link to venue and meet-time, Fri 3^rd July
• Restaurant in ‘the soup’
• Does ‘pay what you can’ meals for the poor
• Medium lifestyle building in a squatter area
• Very popular

• Loki orders food – a double helping
• Inform the staff that we’ve arrived

• Tall, skinny human with obvious cyberware sits down at the table – Breakdown

• Dwarf, male, wearing a pinny walks up, this is Sonny
• Knows the Breakdown
• Is Papa’s brother
• Corp job

• Johnson is a female troll
• Infiltration job
• Want us to hook up a ‘device’ to a corp server [and return the genuine one]
• Briefcase sized
• Wants it done within a month
• Target is Näkki Financial Network
• There will be another team going in to ‘steal an item’ – really a distraction
• They don’t know this
• They think we’re the distraction
• Offering £15k each
• After negotiation we’re given options
• £25k and no distraction team
• £17.5K with a distraction
• Accepted the job, delayed decision on distraction until Sunday

• Nakki Financial network
• AA Rated Corp

• Breakdown attempts to hack into host but fails

• Location is:
• High lifestyle
• Financial district
• 50 floor skyscraper

• Scope the place out:
• Revolving door, reception, RFID badge operated turnstiles
• Large windows
• Couple of fire exits
• Loading area, shared with next building over

• Stop in Coffee shops, purchase coffees
• Breakdown takes some drugs in the toilet and attempts to hack the host again
• You broadly get an indication that there’s cameras in much of it
• Doors are maintained by keypad
• RFID stuff
• Most areas having respective keypads
• Presumably requires right pass
• IT is on mid floor (23)

Team comes up with a plan:

• Hack into police station host and order fake shipment of SWAT gear
• Hijack delivery to acquire gear
• Need to know route
• Aim to have other team set off alarms
• Ideally need the spider to notice them
• Go in as HTR and get to lift
• Hack into lift and head to 23^rd floor
• Take out cameras
• Replace item as needed
• Get out

• Breakdown searching for information on who supplies the armour
• Order placed with Del-boy for 3x Colt Cobra TZ-120 £2150 + 200rds Gel ammo £500

• Corp
• Iron bolt armouries
• Supply armour to local police forces
• One warehouse in London

04/07/2076 (Saturday)

• Headed to the warehouse location
• Industrial area
• Chain link fence
• Armed guards with assault rifles

• Breakdown attempts to hack into the host to investigate orders being made
• Finds an appropriate order to a stock holding unit in Birmingham leaving in 2 days

05/07/2076 (Sunday)

• Smith gets a call from the Johnson and arranges to have the distraction team
• Planning to do the run on 11/07/2076 (Saturday)
• Pick up the briefcase on the Friday

06/07/2076 (Monday)

• Waiting on delivery’s route to the motorway
• Spot it and start to follow behind
• Truck is armoured – no glass window at the front
• 2 commlinks in front, 2 in back
• Front and back are separate sections

• Breakdown and his agent target the two commlinks in the front of the vehicle
• Bricks both commlinks
• Spirit of Man summoned, F6 (Invis, Fear) 3S
• Breakdown is engaged in matrix combat with an onboard decker
• His deck starts smoking
• Takes out the decker’s deck
• Jack’s spirit gets inside the back and casts fear and confusion on the two inside
• The truck starts to pull over into the hard shoulder
• We follow and pull up ahead
• Matrix attacks on Titania – brick the electronics?
• Titania comes to an abrupt stop
• Truck starts to accelerate and pull back into traffic

• Smith jumps out and opens fire on the truck, destroying the engine block
• Truck crashes into the back of Titania
• Titania gets hit on the rear drivers side, rakes up alongside the right side of vehicle; driver’s door comes away when Loki tries to open it
• Smith goes round back, opens van door, sees Spirit terrorising people
• Jack gets out of titania and casts a physical barrier to block one of the truck doors
• Loki gets out in a rage and heads to the truck’s cockpit, wrenches the door open to find a rigger and another unconscious guard
• Drags him out and starts beating him
• Smith stuns both guards in the back and starts carrying armour from the truck to Titania
• Jack heals Breakdown who takes some novacoke and drops back into hotsim
• Loki drags rigger by the feet round to the back
• Smith throws him an armful of armour and grabs some helmets

• Total Haul:
• 25 suits
• 15 helmets
• 2 riot shields

• Piled into the back of titania
• Police coming down the opposite side of the motorway
• Make a break for it

• Being chased by the police
• 3 cars
• Get off the motorway and onto the streets
• Police are gaining
• Smith shoots flechettes into windscreen of one car
• Loki is weaving through traffic at speed
• One police car drops a pursuit drone
• Smith shoots it down
• Other 2 cars also release drones
• Loki attempts to ram one of the cars but it swerves at the last moment
• Smith shoots a second drone
• Make a handbrake turn into a narrower street
• Smith activates a smoke grenade to create a smoke screen behind them
• Third drone limpets to bottom of Titania
• Breakdown AROs it and Smith shoots it through the base of Titania
• Loki makes a hard turn and the police lose them in the smoke, missing the turn
• Escaped!

Loki begins repairing Titania (misses the pub, repairs and then passes out)

08/07/2076 (Wednesday)

• Meet up with Sanguine to explain the plan
• Smith gives him some new white armour as an apology for the events of the last run
• Sanguine slips Smith a special present (a calling card)

• Spend some of the next day training with the armour and submachine guns
• Acquire a grapple gun and rope incase it is needed for the escape
• Smith spends some time training with it

• Jack calls up the Johnson to arrange the meet to pick up the device
• Meet at the kitchen in the soup
• Collect the device – part of a host?
• Will have to plug it in and test it. The device will then try to find the correct blade to replace
• Weighs about 25Kg
• Also have RFID tags to identify us to the other team
• Loki and Sanguine attach wheels to the briefcase for ease of transport

11/07/2076 (Saturday)

• Day of the run
• 13:00
• Park up in an underground carpark nearby
• Breakdown and Sanguine get into the host
• Start attacking the cameras
• Alarms go off
• Sanguine attempts to intercept outgoing call to HTR
• Unsuccessful

• Drive up at speed
• Storm out and into the building
• Jack shouting at the receptionist
• Given contact with the spider
• Jack successfully gets the spider’s cooperation
• Camera access given
• Made it to the lift

• All get in the lift. It’s a tight fit
• Control panel unscrewed
• Breakdown plugs in and starts hacking the lift

• Sanguine spots Distraction crew via the cameras
• On floor 25
• 5 man crew
• Currently running

• Cameras on floor 22-25 taken out
• Lost visual on the other team
• Spider seems agitated
• Lift stopped on floor 22
• Headed up stairs to floor 23
• Could hear gunfire from above
• Spider reported a firefight on floor 25?

• Reached server location
• Sanguine hacks code lock on the door
• Head in
• Glass fronted server rooms
• Start plugging in the device
• Other lift starts to move on floor 25, Spider reports that the other team is making a get away
• Lift stops on floor 22

• Breakdown tries to hack a persona that is attempting to access the lift
• Fails and is marked
• Jacks out
• Cameras come back online – Jack is informed about the situation at the lift by security
• Jack opens office door and finds himself face to face with the security staff member he’s been talking to

• Lift opens, its slightly lower than the floor, armoured shadowrunner starts to climb out
• Loki kicks them back into the lift
• Loki attempts to explain they are the other team
• There is return fire out of the lift hitting Loki

• Jack gets a call from Seb requesting back up on a run, address given is this one
• Heads towards him attempting to calm the situation down

• Troll advances on Loki with a sword
• Sanguine successfully finds the correct server blade and replaces it
• Loki shouts angrily at the troll and smacks at him with his shield
• Troll hits Loki with Sword
• Smith runs out and lobs a CS gas grenade into the occupied lift
• Troll keeps attacking Loki, sword hits the shield badly and bounces off
• Smith fires shots past the troll and shouts at them to get down
• Jack is able to defuse the situation
• Seb insists that they have to complete their mission

• Lift goes down a floor to 21 and Seb’s team starts to move back up the stairs to 25
• Troll that was out of the lift ‘surrenders’ and is restrained
• Troll taken out in lift with Breakdown/Loki who blag past the commander, and drive off
• Jack, Smith, Sanguine ‘give chase’ to roof ordered by commander, who soon realises Jack is a fake and cuts his feed to building
• Seb’s team is escaping in one man Northrop wasps
• Jack drops invisibility on Sanguine, applies to Smith; Jack and Sanguine use the troll-sized chopper to evacuate
• Smith – now invisible – curses to himself, attaches rope to harness point on roof and rappels 100m down the 150m building, with no prior skill in doing so
• With the intention of stopping, then using gecko grips to human fly down the building… Smith stops but the rope was likely cut just as the gloves grip
• Descending on the hypotenuse to avoid ending directly below the rope, Smith gets to the bottom and corner of the building and bugs out

• Jack and Sanguine’s mini-helicopter follows along with seb until they land
• Jack and Seb go to meet the Johnson together – successful hand off
• Seb tries to persuade Jack to rejoin. Again
• Telling Seb about his teammates

Run expenses

• Grapple gun £500
• 100m Rope – £50
• 3× Colt Cobra TZ-120 £2,150 + 200rds Gel ammo £500

Karma – 8

• £13,360 each after expenses