V For Vendetta
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V For Vendetta
Back to Shadowrun: Hong Kong
Real Date: Saturday 9th December 2006
Game Date: 17th June 2070
Venue: Stuarts
Prelude
Vengeance. The word itself has a hard edge to it, like sliding a knife between someones ribs. Once you commit that first act on the path of vengeance you have to follow it through to the end. He knew that. He that someone was going to end up dead. He had managed to convince himself that he wasn't responsible as he wasn't going to pull the trigger, but if you set someone up for a fall then your hands still have blood on them. What had he sacrificed for vengeance? Pride is always the first to go. Then respect for yourself and then for others. Everything, everyone around you becomes a tool for vengeance. She became a tool. He used her. She did her job. Now she was dead. Once you start on the path, vengeance is all that matters.
Dramatis Personae
Events
Kenjo Tan
Success. It was a good feeling. A kind of fuzzy warmth you get when you see a 40 yard pass and a touchdown. People look at you with respect. Then the other shoe drops. He had a new desk, a new job title, a fat new cred slip, and now he had to step over a line he had drawn in his life. He had to place a friend in danger. Not just a friend. She'd done time, she knew the town, she knew the people, but he knew that if he pushed her too far she may cross that line and become a mirror image of what she was now. He drew in a deep breath trying to wash away the dirty feeling he had. Then he called Eclipse...
Iron Clad
Failure. It burned in his throat. A kind of raw pain like swallowing a piece of burning coal. He though he could can forget, but it wouldn't let him. People don't let you forget. The look in their eyes, the look that once held fear, now holds contempt. What's the first thing you loose in failure? Your pride. Having to ask for something your would have just taken. Having to depend on other people when you needed no one before. Now he had to ask, not demand, but ask for help. He knew the hunt was on. Failure was a word his organisation, his former organisation, didn't accept. Failures just tended to disappear one day never to be heard of again. He needed protection, he needed help, he needed family. He took a deep breath trying to wash away the burning sensation he had in his throat. Then he called Sammy Lee...
Vi Cheng
Ambivalence. A sense of nothing. An emptiness, a hollow in you chest. It was like being in freefall, waiting to hit the ground but it never came. He wished he could feel something. He knew he should feel pain, he knew he should feel loss, but he felt nothing. She was dead. He'd put he in danger and she was gone. He remembered the first time they'd met, he could remember the feeling, but he just couldn't feel it. She'd wanted to help. She came up with the plan. He should have stopped her there, before it went any further. He knew it was wrong but he didn't feel a thing. Now she was dead, crushed in a twisted metal cage, and he knew, just knew, that it wasn't an accident. He picked up the envelope. He was ready. Ready for vengeance, the only feeling he had left...
Time Line
Events
Kenjo meets Eclipse and offers her a job. Kenjo is now an officer in the Organised Crime Taskforce. He wants her to infiltrate the BlCs and feed him information on the organisation now that Dan Dan Soong has taken over from Iron Clad. Hell pat her $5000 per month plus expenses and cover. She accepts.
Sammy Lee calls Slacker over to his place. He has a body guarding job. The Mr Johnson will meet the team at Kung Pos, that night. Sammy reveals to Slacker that he is hiding Iron Clad. There is a hit out on Iron Clad placed by the BlCs.
TNO tries to call his mother to find out about his fathers funeral. He gets put though to a Mr Vance of Shibita Internal Security. Mr Vance tries to find out where TNO is. TNO hangs up. Little does TNO know but Mr Vance is already in town. He has just finished turning over JDs place. Mr Vances magician mind probes JC for the details of why Sun Jing came to Kawloon looking for TNO. The secretary screams, its the last sound shed make.
Banes had a bad BTL trip. He wants to find Jazz the BTL dealer. He goes to JDs to get help to find him but JDs not at home. His secretary is dead, and someone has busted up his place. He calls Slacker to hack into JDs new computer from Comm World. Slacker finds a copy of an email.
To: Sun Jing, Shibita Corporation From: Anonymous
Your daughter is safe. She is living in Kowloon. She is working with a detective called Mr Daniels. His office is located at <Address>. She also frequents a bar called the Peoni Palace at <Address>.
I hope you find her well
A Friend
Bane tells TNO what hes found.
Danny is playing poker with Tex and a few low lives. He find out that Tex got to know Electra quiet well and found out she was staying at the Hong Kong Charlston Hotel (the logo was on the bath soaps).
TNO heads out of her place to meet up with team. She is oblivious to her pursuit. She goes into a bar. Mr Vance calls her. He accuses her of killing her father and tells her to give her self up to his men. She runs. They chase her. One shoots her with a taser but doesnt stop her. The other runs after her. She runs into a nightclub and into the ladies toilet. The man pursues her. She manages to shock him with her coat. Anther man arrives and she nails him with the taser she picked up. He goes down. She strips them of their comlinks and leaves
Eclipse POV
It was a couple of days after our victory over Ironclad, I had just got out of jail and was pondering what Dan dan had told me. I would have to let T-No know at some point, I was considering how to go about it when I got a call from Kenjo. He said that he had finished his debrief and wanted to go out for dinner. Great! now maybe we can pick things up again. It was a posh restaurant too, he must have something special planned. I get to the place and half way through the meal he says he has a job for me. Job...Then I realize he just want to hire me. Oh well. He tells me that he wants me to go undercover in the BC's and feed information back to the police. The pay is good and it's a chance to screw over the BC's plus I never could say no to him.
I have to go and meet a guy called Vicrum apparently he is a small time fixer for the BC's. At the meet he gives me a 'fire inspection' job. Sounds simple but nothing is ever simple so I decide to get someone to watch my back. Gwailo comes to mind, he has a big gun and likes to shoot people. Trying to explain the job is a bit difficult though and I have to resort to English to get the message across. A quick trip to Voktor's place for some explosives and we head out to the place. It turns out to be a warehouse of computer chips, which funnily enough when you pour petrol all over and then detonate some explosives are rather flammable. The easiest 500 nuyen Gwailo ever made and he doesn't even say thank you.
TBC
