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Little Trouble in Big China
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Real Date: Saturday 10th December
Game Date: TBA
Venue: Stuarts
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POV: TNO
The phone rings.. not my normal phone.. but that phone.. the phone that either means one of my criminal friends is inviting me to the pub, or there's a job going down.
I look at the caller ID, it's Slacker - I'm not sure I can even visualise anyone arranging a job through him, so he better not be trying to ask me for a date.
I'm not in that good a mood, I've been searching every day for the past week or so, and haven't found any leads on my real father. I need to unwind. No, I'm not thinking about going out on a date with Slacker.. I said unwind.. not unhinged! But I will enjoy him asking me out, just so I can consider it, raise his hopes, and then crush his pathetic expectations. I'm already thinking of the cruelest put-downs when I answer the call.
He says there's a job going down, arranged by Sammy,. Oh well.. I guess a job might provide the opportunity to unwind that I need.
The meet is at a club called Virtuoso, tonight at 10pm. It's an interesting, you can turn up in person, or jack in from home and attend in VR and get your body projected as an ARO overlay for other clubbers to see you. I've been to that sort of place before, it can be fun - though I wouldn't have picked it as a place for a meet with a Johnson.
I'm still on the line with Slacker, talking about the meet when he has the nerve to take another call and put me on a conferance call. It's Bane, I remember him from a job I once did, I didn't know that he knew Slacker! It'll be good to see Bane again, though I'm still annoyed Slacker attached the call without even asking.
My call waiting light flashes, so I hang up on Slacker and answer the next call. It's Eclipse, she wants to meet up, she has a quick job available. On my way to meet her, I call up Slacker and ask if he wants Eclipse along for the job Sammy has arranged, he agrees that it would be a good idea, so I pitch it to her when I arrive at Siskos.
Eclipse is up for the job, but says she has another short job we could do before we go to the meet this evening, some office that the owner wants torched for insurance purposes. It seems like an easy job, 3K to split between two is sweet. Easy jobs make me nervous, and when she says it's been arranged through Dan Dan Soong of the B Cs I get feel my spine tingling.
That is so a set up! I tell her. A setup as plain as.. well.. as plain as her fairly ordinary face in comparison to my own striking beauty. She wasn't to go ahead with it anyway, so I take up a look-out position on the other side of the street while she goes in with a can of petrol.
A couple of cops turn up, and head right to the building, she must have tripped a silent alarm, 'cause when I call her she thinks everything is ok. I'm worried about anyone overhearing me, so I try to act normal, emphasising the words I want her to pay attention to, the words 'two' and 'upstairs'. i hope she gets my meaning, that she has two hostiles coming upstairs. A few minutes later she's come down the fire-escape, and we get the hell out of there. She's rather pale, I just don't think she's cut out for this sort of life, she can't handle the simplest of tasks without looking like she's gonna black out.
We head to a matrix cafe, and plug ourselves in, heading virtually to the meet with the Johnson. The pay that the Johnson is offering seems woefully inadequate for the mission. He wants us to break into a highly secure medical cloning facility, track down a specific clone and inject it with the contents of a syrine, then to track down the tissue sample belonging to the same patient and destroy it. Sure he's offering a bonus for a quiet job, but it isn't enough for such a complicated job. We're lucky Eclipse is on hand, the Johnson doesn't want to budge on his payment, but she manages to bump him up to a more reasonable figure. He gives us all the data we'll need for the job, including details on a secure locker where we can pick up the syringe.
We all head off, and on the out of the matrix cafe Eclipse confides in me that during the arson, she discovered a dead body of a woman. That the arson was probably to cover up any evidence. No wonder she's been a little jumpy. I'm surprised at the specifics, but not surprised that she has been once again lied to and used by the B Cs, I tell her as much, but she's not comfortable hearing it.
We all meet up the next day to plan the operation, Eclipse bringing us the information that there's a Knight Errant base just a few streets away that houses several units of SWAT and high-threat response teams. It looks like we'll have even more reason to make it as quiet a job as possible.
Banes Perspective
A simple job for easy money thats what Sammy lee had told Slacker, Laugh? I almost killed someone. But money was short and Stim prices where up. I had worked with them all before ,that Dwarf, Slacker, a fellow elf TNO and the teams resident monkey Eclipse, who am sure she was a technomancer last time I checked. But then my grip on these things can be a little fuzzy. Stims help, or at least they take the edge of the BT Ls . When we met, Eclipse looked like st , TNO was treating her with a patronising I told you so attitude, private Biz I decided, not my concern and Slacker well Slacker was his usual disgusting self, fortunately his hacking skill appear inversely proportional to his personal hygiene so I let it slide. The Johnson wanted to meet at some quasivirtual nightclub whose name is both irrelevant and forgettable. Most of the team went in virtual I went in meat form I needed a drink, a real drink,to help clear my head of residue of all those BTLS and Stims.. The meet went as smooth as these things can go, he tried to pay peanuts but Eclipse haggled him up to something worth our time. He even offered a bonus if we could do the run discrete with no trace of our presence. I nearly bust a gut trying to keep my self from laughing in his face and I mentally wrote off the bonus then and there. We took the job and at the Johnsons direction collected a file full of what was hopefully relevant data. The run was complex infiltrate a Medicare facility on a specific night, contaminate a specific a batch of clone tissue with a compound supplied by the Johnson, then destroy a specific tissue sample kept in the same facility. We had the plans and a staff list.
- Problem number 1: Facility was on The Island so max security, no guns in public I.D required etc etc etc A pain for me, and a real pain for those in the team that relied on guns for killing.
- Problem number 2: There was a Knight Errant Station right next to the facility and no ordinary Pig farm, it was full of SWAT and HTR teams.
To be continued
