The Taxi Cab Wars
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The Taxi Cab Wars
Back to Shadowrun: Hong Kong
Real Date: Saturday 25th Febuary 2006
Game Date: 1st April 2070
Venue: Stuarts
Prologue
Jonny Lin's business, the Paper Fan Taxi Company, was finally turning a good profit, that is until his cabs began having "accidents". Lee Chung's company the Blue Dragon Taxi Company sees to be getting a lot more business. A war is brewing in the streets of Kowloon, the meter is running!
Cast of Players
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- Danny played by [ Ivo ]
- Eclipse played by [ Richard ]
- Slacker played by [ Skimble ]
- Bane played by [ Joe ]
- TNO played by [ Stephen ]
Events
sammy calls slacker with word of a job, from 'just a normal guy' - this Johnson is waiting for them Sammy and Slacker meet at The Cabin at 8pm - there's just a wall between a couple of shops, and Sammy knocks on the wall, it opens up to reveal a stairwell down, a low ceiling, leading down to a dwarf bar. Slacker thinks "could this be the 'Dwarf Masons' he has heard of?" The meet the guy, and he explain the job
He's the majority stake owner in The Paper Fan Taxi, a company based in Kowloon. Last month (Hoi Sin Clam) the owner of a rival taxi company (The Blue Dragon Taxi company) offered him 200K to buy him out. This was refused, The Paper Fan Taxi company is a family business and wants to remain so. HSC does not want competition and indicated they should sell - or else! Then things started happening, cabs started breaking down, regulars were intimidated away. They are currently 6 cabs down, 3 written off, and another 3 missing after being stolen from the repair yard (Danny Kims). He only has 10K to offer, and wants to buy protection.
Slacker calls Bane, and invites him to a meet at Virtuoso's to discuss the job.
Bane calls Eclipse.
POV: TNO
It's evening, and I'm in apartment laying out a series of different outfits over my bed as I try to decide what to wear. I've tried each of them several times, and I'm now trying them out in differing combinations. I pick up the red skirt and top, hold them agaist my body as I turn to look in the mirror, it's just not quite right, but before I can think of how to improve the ensemble the matrix terminal starts buzzing an irritating tune. I sigh inwardly and throw the clothes back on the bed as I move to answer the call. I know who it is, it's the ring-tone I set up for Slacker. Appropriate I feel, and irritating tone for the irritating dwarf. Still, lately the last few jobs from Sammy have come through him, so I hit the audio receive, making sure to keep the video off.
I'm right - it's another job from Sammy, and the meet up is at Virtuoso's. Slacker asks me to call Eclipse, and when he hangs up I do just that, only to find out Bane has already contacted her about the job. I'm looking forward to meeting Bane again, there's that job he still needs to do for me.
I look over at all the smart outfits laying over my bed, but I turn away from them and head back to the wardrobe. T-shirt, jeans, and the urban explorer jumpsuit. I ponder briefly if I should pack the urban DPM overlay, but decide for tonight to stick with the bright multi-coloured look. I hit the street, the streetlights glaring justa bit too much, so I grab my shades before locking up, and head out to the meet.
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Slacker calls Danny and invites him to job - he canoverhear the start of a fight as Danny pulls out of a poker game.
POV: TNO
We're all there physically, Bane, Eclipse, Danny, Sammy and myself. Slacker couldn't be bothered to even turn up physically, which is probably a blessing on our noses. Slacker explains the job to us, and Sammy expresses how important this job is, and that he knows the pay isn't much, so he'll waive his normal 10%.
When Slacker tells us the pay is 10K, we're all a litrtle impressed, that sort of money will keep us going for a month or so. Then he clarifies that it's not 10K each, and we'll be splitting that 5 ways. Needless to say we're horrified and it takes quite a bit of talking to convince us to take the job.
We all head over to The Paper Fan Taxi headquarters to talk to the owner, our 'Johnson', Jonny Lin.
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Bane calls for a blue dragon taxi, eclipse gets in, danny shoots a tire, Blue Dragon security turn up quickly.
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Eclipse goes to peonipalace to talk to dandansoong about the blue dragons, he explains that they are distributors, sub contracted by the BC's, but they had to interest to protect them, if they were defeated, the BC's would just subcontract to someone else.
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Jonny Lin speaks to Slacker, there has been some gunfire at one of his taxi's.
POV: TNO
Seems like there's been some gunshots at one of the Paper Fan taxis, so Bane, Danny and myself go out to investigate. We manage to get to the taxi just in time to pull the driver out of the car before it explodes. With police sirens getting close we all fade into the scenery and get out of there.
Things are getitng out of control, it feels like we don't have any time to investigate, and so we have to act, and act right now! Slacker is going to work on their hardware, whiile Bane and I ride together in a taxi, and Eclipse and Danny ride in another. The plan is if the Blue Dragons attack, we'll be able to defend these taxis.
I drive while Bane rides shotgun, and he tells me that he's summoned a spirit to help if we need it.
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Eclipse and Danny pulle dover by cops. A case of illegal BTL chips in the boot. Eclipse's ID is scanned, and she's prepared to go peacefully, but Danny isn't, and starts fighting back, he takes a cop's gun that doesn't work for him. Eclipse gets tazered, Danny pulls his own gun from footwell of the car and beats up the cops and carries Eclipse's unconscious body away, dumping her comlink as he suspects that the drone she hears following are tracking it. Eclipse finally wakes up very pissed off.
POV: TNO
We get a fare, I'm not that great a driver, so it's hard to drive and keep my eye on the passenger, but I know Bane's watching him, which is reassuring. This guy, smartly dressed, with short spiky hair gets out at a building, but asks us to wait. The next thing we know a body lands on the front of the car shocking both bane and myself. The guy's pulling a gun and popping a few round sinto the now very dead body, and leaping into the car agin. Bane and I both look at each other, trying to decide what to do, but he tells us to drive, and frankly we don't much care about this unnamed and now dead guy, so we do indeed drive away and get a very nice tip for our 'trouble'.
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cops turn up to paperfan HQ and turn it over slacker gets his ID scanned eclipse calls cop contact and arranges a meet slacker asks samme to arrange new I Ds for him, eclipse and danny
