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Eclipe encountered a Mr Johnson who appeared to want something. She was given a data dump and 200000¥ as an advance. She was told if she wants to accept the job, she can go to Dante's Inferno tomorrow, and if she doesn't want to accept the job, she can return the advance (on pain of assassination if she doesn't).
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Eclipse encountered a Mr Johnson who appeared to want something. She was given a data dump and 200000¥ as an advance. She was told if she wants to accept the job, she can go to Dante's Inferno tomorrow, and if she doesn't want to accept the job, she can return the advance (on pain of assassination if she doesn't).
  
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=== Infodump from Mr. Johnson ===
 
<blockquote>Daniel Shaunessy:
 
<blockquote>Daniel Shaunessy:
  
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Personna Bio: Twenty year Peace Corps veteran. Current Duke. Interested in social justice and reform. Let's grow the Tir Together.
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Personna Bio: Twenty year Peace Corps veteran. Current Duke. Interested in social justice and reform. Let's grow the Tír Together.
  
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Cutter: Shaunessy is one of the luckiest fraggin' stiffs in the entire Tir. Drekhead was born to an Irenis family, low as any trog. Used his mandatory military service to get his training, and fought against Cal Free forces during the first invasion, won enough glory, and more importantly notice, to get himself made a Ghost. Going from Irenis to Ghost the slot head then hit the new Rites of Progression once they got reinstated, and walked out a fraggin' Duke.
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Cutter: Shaunessy is one of the luckiest fraggin' stiffs in the entire Tír. Drekhead was born to an Irenis family, low as any trog. Used his mandatory military service to get his training, and fought against Cal Free forces during the first invasion, won enough glory, and more importantly notice, to get himself made a Ghost. Going from Irenis to Ghost the slot head then hit the new Rites of Progression once they got reinstated, and walked out a fraggin' Duke.
  
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Going from pariah to nearly a Royal changed him. Rumour is he quit the Ghosts, if that's something a Tir citizen can do, and started a non-profit, Tir Together. They're supposed to be supporting building a better Tir, uplifting the Irenis and freeing the impoverished. Rumour is, they're Elf supremacists, but no one has been able to show it.
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Going from pariah to nearly a Royal changed him. Rumour is he quit the Ghosts, if that's something a Tír citizen can do, and started a non-profit, Tír Together. They're supposed to be supporting building a better Tír, uplifting the Irenis and freeing the impoverished. Rumour is, they're Elf supremacists, but no one has been able to show it.
  
 
Hyla: Cutter has it mostly right, but he's leaving out that Shaunessy disappeared two years ago. Apparently an ongoing Ghost mission.
 
Hyla: Cutter has it mostly right, but he's leaving out that Shaunessy disappeared two years ago. Apparently an ongoing Ghost mission.
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Green Lucifer:
 
Green Lucifer:
  
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Hyla: If you fraggin' don't know who Green Lucifer is you need to get out of the shadows fast kid. This fraggin' pain in the hoop just wants to destroy the whole damn Tir and he'll use the Ancients as a weapon if he has too. First though, he's going to build the Ancients into the best weapon he can.
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Hyla: If you fraggin' don't know who Green Lucifer is you need to get out of the shadows fast kid. This fraggin' pain in the hoop just wants to destroy the whole damn Tír and he'll use the Ancients as a weapon if he has too. First though, he's going to build the Ancients into the best weapon he can.
  
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Cutter: Hyla's too focused on Lucifer's focus on the Tir. Lucifer is building a separate shadow Tir. The Scavenger Hunts and the races are a shadow of the Rites of Progression, the goal is to make a shadow society and replace the Tir itself. Lucifer has been gunning to destroy the Tir, and probably would fall into open warfare, but as it is, having his own is probably better. This is why it's so important Belial rose through the ranks "properly" and why it's so important that Belial runs Seattle.
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Cutter: Hyla's too focused on Lucifer's focus on the Tír. Lucifer is building a separate shadow Tír. The Scavenger Hunts and the races are a shadow of the Rites of Progression, the goal is to make a shadow society and replace the Tír itself. Lucifer has been gunning to destroy the Tír, and probably would fall into open warfare, but as it is, having his own is probably better. This is why it's so important Belial rose through the ranks "properly" and why it's so important that Belial runs Seattle.
  
  
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Hyla: The Spikes aren't that simple, but they aren't not that simple. Underestimating their skills in the drug trade, and the huge number of organizations who rely on them for muscle is one of the best passtimes of wannabe crime lords. If your casino keeps running because you're paying the local Spikes chapter to bring in security staff, that means you can never not pay the Spikes. Fraggers always think Trolls are dumb, when really the Trolls are trying to get you to think they're dumb so you walk into their traps. Not that the Spikes don't also wish they could festoon their bikes with elf skulls.</blockquote>
 
Hyla: The Spikes aren't that simple, but they aren't not that simple. Underestimating their skills in the drug trade, and the huge number of organizations who rely on them for muscle is one of the best passtimes of wannabe crime lords. If your casino keeps running because you're paying the local Spikes chapter to bring in security staff, that means you can never not pay the Spikes. Fraggers always think Trolls are dumb, when really the Trolls are trying to get you to think they're dumb so you walk into their traps. Not that the Spikes don't also wish they could festoon their bikes with elf skulls.</blockquote>
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=== The run so far ===
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So Mr. Johnson says Shaunessy is going to be assassinated at a meet between the Ancients and Halloweeners, and our job is to stop, and preferably kill, the assassin.
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Things we've found out:
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* The Ancients and 'Weeners are meeting to plan a war on the Spikes.
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* Shaunessy has infiltrated the Ancients, is posing as one of Belial's lieutenants, and will be at the meet
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* If Shaunessy is geeked, it's going to publicly show Tír meddling in the Ancients, which could destabilize the entire region
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* Mr. Johnson is practically a ghost on the Matrix, but we have found a picture tying him to Sirrurg
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* Someone has planted a Fairlight Caliban at the meet, at the best location for a sniper to set up
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* We traced the Caliban to a technomancer in Mt. Shasta (so probably one of the Clutch working for Hestaby, which is just Aces)
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* After we messed with the Caliban, someone was able to come by, reset it, and get gone all within the span of one hour and without us seeing them
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We anonymously tipped off Shaunessy to the threat on his life.
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—[[User:Jynx|Eclipse]]<sup>[[User_talk:Jynx|(Talk)]]</sup> 18 July 2080
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Negotiation: 10 Net Successes
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GAS: 6S (Ransacking Sirrurg's Host), 3G (Ancients Pub)
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Highest opposed pool: 30
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Fallout:
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*A Ghost in the Ancients is a full on act of War and the  Ancients are starting a raid campaign against the Peace Force immediately, it's gonna be a pretty hot war for a bit
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*the Spikes also attacked the meeting with the Halloweeners (word on the street they got a tipoff from a dwarf no one can track down and 100% was not Malta covered by Physical Mask)
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* the Ancients are pulling in allies from overseas
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* Yaks and Mafias (both very racist organizations) smelling blood, they're stepping down operations in Redmond and most of Seattle to keep out of the street war between two groups they want dead
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* other elfish gangs are stepping up, for the next little bit it's not uncommon to find unconcious and memory wiped trolls appearing in Humanis hotspots, the Laesa Syndicate taking credit
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* [https://shadowrun.fandom.com/wiki/Rinelle_ke'Tesrae Rinelle ke'Tesrae] activity has spiked leaving the Peace Forces unable to deal with raid activity, the Ancients however are fighting a war on two fronts and are being beaten bloody
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* The Ancients understand that the party was attempting to out the infiltrator and are unhappy they didn't succeed more cleanly but bear no ill feelings
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GAS split:
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* [[Eclipse]] - 2S
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* [[Revàn]]
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* [[Io]]
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* [[Malta]]
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+ Rating 5 favour from Hestaby

Latest revision as of 20:50, 2 March 2024

Eclipse encountered a Mr Johnson who appeared to want something. She was given a data dump and 200000¥ as an advance. She was told if she wants to accept the job, she can go to Dante's Inferno tomorrow, and if she doesn't want to accept the job, she can return the advance (on pain of assassination if she doesn't).

Infodump from Mr. Johnson

Daniel Shaunessy:

Personna Bio: Twenty year Peace Corps veteran. Current Duke. Interested in social justice and reform. Let's grow the Tír Together.

Cutter: Shaunessy is one of the luckiest fraggin' stiffs in the entire Tír. Drekhead was born to an Irenis family, low as any trog. Used his mandatory military service to get his training, and fought against Cal Free forces during the first invasion, won enough glory, and more importantly notice, to get himself made a Ghost. Going from Irenis to Ghost the slot head then hit the new Rites of Progression once they got reinstated, and walked out a fraggin' Duke.

Going from pariah to nearly a Royal changed him. Rumour is he quit the Ghosts, if that's something a Tír citizen can do, and started a non-profit, Tír Together. They're supposed to be supporting building a better Tír, uplifting the Irenis and freeing the impoverished. Rumour is, they're Elf supremacists, but no one has been able to show it.

Hyla: Cutter has it mostly right, but he's leaving out that Shaunessy disappeared two years ago. Apparently an ongoing Ghost mission.


Green Lucifer:

Hyla: If you fraggin' don't know who Green Lucifer is you need to get out of the shadows fast kid. This fraggin' pain in the hoop just wants to destroy the whole damn Tír and he'll use the Ancients as a weapon if he has too. First though, he's going to build the Ancients into the best weapon he can.

Cutter: Hyla's too focused on Lucifer's focus on the Tír. Lucifer is building a separate shadow Tír. The Scavenger Hunts and the races are a shadow of the Rites of Progression, the goal is to make a shadow society and replace the Tír itself. Lucifer has been gunning to destroy the Tír, and probably would fall into open warfare, but as it is, having his own is probably better. This is why it's so important Belial rose through the ranks "properly" and why it's so important that Belial runs Seattle.


Halloweeners:

Hyla: Understand that the Halloweeners aren't an A rated gang anymore. Their decimation was devistating to them and they want to grow their ranks again. Their traditional acceptance of the ghoul population, and their freebooting style, means that they are currently supporting more ghoul members than any other time, and this is leading them to more and more violence to generate the bodies they need. The Halloweeners would probably be possible to bribe with nothing more than the location of a large group of metahumans they could ride up on.

Cutter: Hyla is missing the obvious that the violence is also restricting the gang's recruiting of non-ghoul members. Anyone getting involved in this should know that they have a few members with pretty strong mojo, the kind of thing to not scoff at.


Spikes:

Cutter: The Spikes are a polyclub without the limits. They're racist orks and trolls trying to kill elves. All their pretentions at protection rackets, drug sales, and whatever drek is just a joke for getting elf heads on pikes and being mad at the Ancients.

Hyla: The Spikes aren't that simple, but they aren't not that simple. Underestimating their skills in the drug trade, and the huge number of organizations who rely on them for muscle is one of the best passtimes of wannabe crime lords. If your casino keeps running because you're paying the local Spikes chapter to bring in security staff, that means you can never not pay the Spikes. Fraggers always think Trolls are dumb, when really the Trolls are trying to get you to think they're dumb so you walk into their traps. Not that the Spikes don't also wish they could festoon their bikes with elf skulls.

The run so far

So Mr. Johnson says Shaunessy is going to be assassinated at a meet between the Ancients and Halloweeners, and our job is to stop, and preferably kill, the assassin.

Things we've found out:

  • The Ancients and 'Weeners are meeting to plan a war on the Spikes.
  • Shaunessy has infiltrated the Ancients, is posing as one of Belial's lieutenants, and will be at the meet
  • If Shaunessy is geeked, it's going to publicly show Tír meddling in the Ancients, which could destabilize the entire region
  • Mr. Johnson is practically a ghost on the Matrix, but we have found a picture tying him to Sirrurg
  • Someone has planted a Fairlight Caliban at the meet, at the best location for a sniper to set up
  • We traced the Caliban to a technomancer in Mt. Shasta (so probably one of the Clutch working for Hestaby, which is just Aces)
  • After we messed with the Caliban, someone was able to come by, reset it, and get gone all within the span of one hour and without us seeing them

We anonymously tipped off Shaunessy to the threat on his life.

—Eclipse(Talk) 18 July 2080

Negotiation: 10 Net Successes

GAS: 6S (Ransacking Sirrurg's Host), 3G (Ancients Pub)

Highest opposed pool: 30

Fallout:

  • A Ghost in the Ancients is a full on act of War and the Ancients are starting a raid campaign against the Peace Force immediately, it's gonna be a pretty hot war for a bit
  • the Spikes also attacked the meeting with the Halloweeners (word on the street they got a tipoff from a dwarf no one can track down and 100% was not Malta covered by Physical Mask)
  • the Ancients are pulling in allies from overseas
  • Yaks and Mafias (both very racist organizations) smelling blood, they're stepping down operations in Redmond and most of Seattle to keep out of the street war between two groups they want dead
  • other elfish gangs are stepping up, for the next little bit it's not uncommon to find unconcious and memory wiped trolls appearing in Humanis hotspots, the Laesa Syndicate taking credit
  • Rinelle ke'Tesrae activity has spiked leaving the Peace Forces unable to deal with raid activity, the Ancients however are fighting a war on two fronts and are being beaten bloody
  • The Ancients understand that the party was attempting to out the infiltrator and are unhappy they didn't succeed more cleanly but bear no ill feelings
NuyenKarma
Highest opposed pool30
Factors
(Pool / 4)7
Outnumbered 3-1 +1
Outnumbered by Pros+1
Risked exposure +1
Notably dangerous +1
(Pool / 6)5
Survived+2
Subtotal

¥33000

7

Double

¥66000

14

Relative Nuyen Adjustment
0:¥0

14

Absolute Nuyen Adjustment
+40000:¥40000

14

Session Karma ¥40000
Karma per session: 2# of sessions: 2
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Final

¥40000

18


GAS split:

+ Rating 5 favour from Hestaby

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