Justice for the Just?

Johnson	Papa
Summary	Information Acquisition and Intimidation
Meet	04/12/2075 (Wednesday)
Legwork and Run	04/12/2075 (Wednesday) – 10/12/2075 (Tuesday)
Pay	£10,000, 31 karma (21 Session + 10 reward)
Game time	08/02/2018 – 17/05/2018 (10 Sessions)

Details

04/12/2075 (Wednesday)

• Team contacted Papa on 30/11/2075 (Saturday) to look for a job and were asked to go see him on the 04/12/2075 (Wednesday)
• On the day Smith, Jack and Borat were joined by an elderly looking human with white hair, beard, pipe and French accent: Justin
• This is Vlad, only told Jack about his new persona and gotten him to vouch for him

• Met Papa in his office
• One of his friends has gotten into trouble with the authorities and has been ‘Wrongly accused’ of breaking into a corp and stealing some technology
• Believe he’s being set up by people connected to Humanis Poli?
• Corp: Centicore machinery – subsidiary of EVO
• Elliott Moore – Troll
• Local police arrested him and handed him over to EVO
• Being held at a precinct
• Needs a way to convince a trial of his innocence
• Payment is for successful innocent verdict
• Starting offer £10,000
• £5,000 for info
• +£3,000 for lenient sentence
• Rest for successful verdict
• Trial start: 11/12/2075 (Wednesday)
• Verdict: 19/12/2075 (Thursday)

• Left Papa’s office
• Borat went to buy drugs:
• New contact Amber Nicholson (Also sells coffee)

• Decided we needed to talk to Elliott
• Borat’s matrix search turned up more details:
• Judge – Evelyn McNeil
• Charge: Burglary of Centicore Machinery (EVO Sub) and theft of new cyberware
• Currently held: National police holding cell (Have location and request visit online to meet inmate)
• Prosecutor: Centicore Machinery lawyer: Raymond Warner
• Defence: State lawyer: Tara Woods
• Jury:
• Sidney Brooks
• Edmund Blake
• Clive Hawkins
• Conrad Haynes
• Eric Lucas
• Alex Bowen
• Leslie Owen
• Georgina Porter
• Patricia Roberts
• Rachel Wilkins
• Marnie Connor
• Joan Bishop
• Jury replacement list
• Russell Whitehead
• Dixon Potter

05/12/2075 (Thursday)

• Jack and Borat went to visit police station to see Elliott
• Used Influence on the secretary to get in

Elliott Moore

• Fake SIN – Oliver
• Meeting room has camera, jammer and mana barrier around the door
• Jack cast a silence spell and informed him that Papa had hired us
• Asked him for the details of his crime
• Burglary and theft
• He was at the fish market
• The police picked him up 4 days ago
• He thinks the policlub framed him
• He works for Jackalope Supplies Ltd that is a materials supplier for Centicore Machinery
• He has been to Centicore on legit business
• His boss is Quincy Ford at Jackalope Supplies Ltd
• Called to deliver a shipment of materials late at night, which was abnormal. Presumably not organised by Quincy? Was 3-4 days previous to supposed crime
• He thinks the stuff was standard stuff
• He went with Quincy
• Normal people were on shift at Centicore
• Shipment was scheduled for that time, which was out of the ordinary
• He had a fake SIN and someone found out about it
• He has been applying for a corporate SIN
• Papa told him the policlub framed him
• Told us about Tara Woods, gave us contact details. He will call Tara to let her know we will be in contact

Jack and Borat went to see Tara Woods

• Borat hacked the appointment system to get them in after being rudely dismissed by the receptionist
• Jack claims that he has an alibi for Elliott and Tara wanted him to testify – he refused, claiming it would cost him his job
• She wants to know why they are there
• Has some evidence suggesting that the perpetrator is taller
• No surveillance at the fish market to have seen Elliott for alibi
• As they talk Borat hacked into the system to steal the case files

Case Files

• 11/11/2075 (Tuesday): Burglary at Centicore Machinery
• Theft of R&D cyberware (including plans)
• Centicore Machinery are making an example of him in the courts
• Witnesses from Centicore place a troll that used Jackalope’s access to Centicore delivery bay to enter the building (3 witnesses)
• Neville Calbot
• Address
• Social media – Partner and child
• Lola Doherty
• Address
• Name withheld
• IT system confirms the use of Jackalope entry pass

Tara’s Case Files

• Elliot has no skill in computers
• Eye witness accounts that place a troll in the area (?taller)
• Elliot was at the Fish Market
• Trying to find witnesses to come forward to testify
• Have character witnesses from Jackalope Supplies Ltd
• ?enough to sway jury
• Suspect there are individuals that Tara will not be able to sway and will vote “guilty”
• Clive Hawkins
• Alex Bowen
• Cameras present – nothing suspicious on the streams

06/12/2075 (Friday)

Jack phoned Papa

• Questioning the Humanis Poli connection
• Evidence is poor, but case is going to court
• Suspects that the witnesses are deliberately lying and that they have a Humanis Poli connection

Borat investigated the witnesses – found their addresses

• Headed to Neville Calbot’s home
• Multiple commlinks – 3
• Car in the drive
• Jack projected into the house 2 people inside
• Is a security system – currently off

• Overheard a phone call
• Witnesses collaborating
• People snooping around Tara’s area yesterday
• Asking if his family is ok
• Remember what he saw and says what he was told in the trial

• Went to Lola’s. Vlad went in pretending to be Neville. Panicking, telling her a sob story about being threatened to lie
• She was confused. When he turned to go she pulled a pistol and opened fire
• Brief combat
• Plenty of gunfire
• Knocked her out (Vlad’s punch!) and stuffed her in the boot

Acquired one doberman drone (damaged) and a Nozquito (damaged)

Hearing sirens – made off in the car

• Started to pull away when 2 cars, not police, came around the corner ahead
• One moved to block
• Vlad handbrake turned and sped off, being chased
• Passengers opened fire with submachine-guns and mage threw a lightning bolt from sunroof
• Smith shot the mage
• Jack’s Earth spirit Earth spirit materialised in one car and engulfed driver causing him to lose control and drop out of the chase
• Borat hacked car and turned on windscreen wash, changed the wheel alignment
• Drove across 2 lines of busy traffic
• Smith lobbed a flashbang in through the sunroof
• Jack’s physical barrier flipped final chase car – killing the passengers
• Stopped and took a commlink off the driver
• Text – code orange. Commlink SIN – tied to Kevin Andrews. Addresses. First Names & contact. Includes Lola – last text (code orange)

Headed into the London Barrens

• Found an abandoned factory. Doors won’t close
• Interrogation:
• Been working for Humanis Poli for a couple of years
• Was asked by the group to lie
• Contacted by comm
• Codeword is cupcakes??? (maybe)
• Next week within a week
• 5-15 in her group
• Shot at Neville because she realised it wasn’t him
• Code orange – went out to Humanis Poli
• Morris Dickinson
• Doesn’t know him
• Neville – leverage
• Not a member of Humanis Poli

• From her comm – members of Humanis Poli – comm codes

• Decapitated the guilty woman
• Now in the Boot, where she belongs
• Called ‘Kwack’
• Organised to meet him tomorrow to sell the cyberware

07/12/2075 (Saturday)

• Went to visit Kwack
• In a slum
• Creepy fragger

£16,875 for 3 cyberlimbs

• £4,218 each

Went back to Neville Calbot’s house

• Posted a commlink through his door
• Spoke to him over the phone
• Very cautious and wanted to speak in person
• Stuck a stealth tag on his car

• Family left and headed to a local park
• Tailed them
• Jack rented a fast food stand (Doug the Candy Floss Man) and called Neville over to talk
• Revealed he’s not worried about Humanis Poli

• Used to be a part of a gang for many years until he met his wife
• Screaming Barons
• Edwina – Wife
• They’ve contacted him, trying to extort him
• Humanis Poli are bribing him by offering protection against the gang

• Offered to protect him in exchange for him telling the truth at the trial
• He said he’d sleep on it
• Called Papa for information on the Screaming Barons
• Operate in the Barrens
• Offer ‘protection’
• Extort the local population
• Operate near a Stuffer Shack – got the location
• Quite large and well armed

• Headed there on foot
• 3 cars, 5 people at the location
• Cars marked with orange flames
• Got into a small scuffle…
• 9 people – 8 dead, one unconscious with a comm code stuffed in his pocket + stealth tag
• Photographed the bodies in their gang colours
• (5 executed by Smith once unconscious – out of sight of Vlad/Jack)
• Saw a gang marked car drive off

8/12/2075 (Sunday)

2pm Neville called Jack’s burner

• Wants to meet up again
• Prosecution changing witnesses – Max Field (Maybe Centicore)
• Need to get the gang off his back. There is a way to do so via honorable combat?
• Helen – his contact back at the gang?
• 10yrs ago, someone who left and managed to talk it over (she, Fiona) best champion of his choosing

• Set off that evening
• Vlad disguised as Neville, with the tattoos
• Drove to outskirts of barrens and started walking in
• Intercepted by gang members
• Vlad and Smith hustled into car
• Taken to see ‘Helen Poole’, Old Guard, high ranked, fair
• Troll – Halberd

It was agreed that Neville could be released from the gang by winning a race. Team agreed and it was arranged for the following evening

09/12/2075 (Monday)

Needed to acquire a disposable vehicle for the race

• Frank Richards – At a scrapyard
• £7,000 for Renraku
• £3,500 buy back if it still drives
• 12 armour

Also acquired: Fireworks, Paint Grenades, Paint-job (Yellow NEV1), Ultraglide lube 10l

That evening the team headed back to the barrens for the race

• No Killing
• 6 vehicles
• Jack gave a speech on “Neville’s” behalf
• Smith slipped gas grenades inside two of the vehicles

Race

• Took a early lead
• Detonated gas grenades
• Exchange of fire
• Bulldog pulled up infront and opened the back doors – rammed
• Got pinned between 2 vehicles
• Halberd in GMC armadillo pulls up – Jack offers a fist bump out the window – punch spell
• Managed to push one into a pile of burning tyres forcing it to fall back
• Smith jumped onboard and fought the troll manning the harpoon gun, knocked him out and pushed him over the side
• Used the harpoon to shoot the westwind
• Gas effects affecting driver of one ford americar caused it to crash and caused the westwind to fall back – now being dragged by the Armadillo via the harpoon
• Jack casts a physical barrier ahead to narrow the road and funnel the cars
• Jack’s spirit fires fireworks out the back of the van in the faces of those following
• Smith drops a flashbang in through the window
• Vlad rams the bulldog again causing it to lose control and crash
• Vlad starts to pull ahead
• Smith clambers around and attacks halberd with his shock gloves
• Knocks him out and jumps off the vehicle before it crashes
• Vlad and Jack cross the finish line as the vehicles engine gives out and catches fire

Victory!

10/12/2075 (Sunday)

Team infiltrated Centicore Machinery to see what information could be obtained from the witnesses

• Jack found Max Field in R&D
• Working late night, noises coming from main labs, scared, turned lights off, someone entered, cyberarm prototype, someone from Jackalope, definitely a troll?

Vlad and Borat: Approached Morris and Neville in security

• Pretending to be ‘clean up’
• Fake message from the comm for Humanis Poli
• Borat pretending to be human with surgery?
• Got Neville to leave the room
• Morris admitted video files edited – presumably Humanis Poli
• Asked for real versions
• Morris suspicious attempting to send messages
• Vlad punches him in the face
• Knocked him out and took his deck
• Data bomb on 2^nd message – disarmed
• Messages being sent
• “I think someone is on to us” includes video file of Borat and Vlad
• Empty

• Footage of Morris admitting security files from that night were edited mailed to all R&D email addresses from his deck

10 min before exit

• Car pulls up fast
• Smith stuck RFID microphone on their window and stealth tag
• Humanis Poli? looking out for Vlad and Borat

• Car followed party when we drove off
• Took our license plate number (immediately changed) then stopped tailing us
• Using the stealth tag we followed them
• Car is parked under an underpass
• Second car arrives, the pair hand over something into the new car
• Had a conversation – (overheard with clairaudience) plates identified as fake, said they’d track the car directly?
• Followed original car
• They went to a diner
• Were picked up by a different car – took off at speed. Weaving through traffic. Turned rapidly into an alley. Lost them

• Original car started moving again
• Followed it to an affluent area
• It stopped near a church
• Stopped a few minutes down the road

• Jack – astrally projected
• Spirits at the church, somewhat hostile towards pushing Jack inside
• Glow around church, Magical Barrier Assensed

• St Bartholomew’s, Church of the Sun
• Smith snuck around and into a side room – cannot see anyone
• Door (solid oak), padlocked
• Entered, Sermon going on, orc in congregation
• Tailed car found out front
• Tagged
• Spotted the guys from the diner inside

• In other side room after the service – SMITH IS RECORDING
• Debating the trial
• Say they’ve got enough of the jury to succeed
• 5 persons, all humans, mixed race / genders

• Send evidence gathered to the lawyer
• Video of confession about doctoring the CCTV footage
• Neville’s evidence that he was coerced by Humanis Poli to lie

• Party decided to confront them and after slashing their car tyres waited outside
• Humanis Poli individuals did not recognise the party
• Noticed the slashed tyres
• 3 went back inside and 2 stayed at car
• Vlad backed our car over in front of them claiming that he was trying to help
• They got suspicious
• Borat grabbed ones ankle with a shock glove
• Vlad jumped over car door to attack the one in the car
• 3 Fire spirits materialised
• 1 attacked Borat – engulfed him
• Jacks water spirit moved to attack the other spirit – was destroyed
• Smith detonated a paint grenade in his hand and opened fire on spirit next to him, killing it
• Vlad rescued Borat from fire spirits engulf

• Jack set up a mana barrier around the car park
• Second spirit attacked and engulfed Smith
• Paint grenade, and killed, shot and punched
• Spirit used fear on Vlad – causing him to flee the church with the car
• Borat and Jack knocked out the 2 humans with taser and stun ball
• Flashbang thrown at spirit 3
• Also hit rest of party
• Pastor and 3 other Humanis Poli exited church
• Pastor summoned lvl 7 fire spirit
• Party threatened to kill unconscious people
• Didn’t work
• Large fire spirit moved to attack

• Smith grabbed one unconscious guy as a shield and dropped a smoke grenade – took off running
• Fire spirit chased after
• Vlad returned with car
• Party bundled into it with hostage in boot
• Frag grenade thrown at pastor and his group
• Fire spirit attacked and destroyed car

• Knocked out pastor, then Vlad killed him
• Borat hacked a car and party took off towards the barrens
• Found an abandoned building and collapsed inside

• Healed and interrogated captive
• Cliff Thorpe
• Jack tried pretending to be a doctor
• Worked for a while until he recognised his voice
• Got violent and Intimidated him
• Humanis Poli
• Lying in court
• Forced him to call his friends
• Trade his life to stop their work on the case
• ‘Mike’ agreed to withdraw their evidence if they can observe their man

• Wanted a guarantee
• Hand over in a diner with ‘explosives’ on the hostage to be disarmed once exchange over
• Strapped up with a paint grenade – detonated once mission complete

£1,750 run expenses each