GURPS Shadowrun [IC] Under the Dragon's Tooth

Shayuri

First Post
"Yeah, if they flagged Jaeger as a threat, there's no way any of the rest of us are getting in spitting distance of that place without them responding," Juno grumps. "Not a shock though. She's a celebrity, and can afford the A-1 treatment. We can see about getting in at the roof level, but I still think we're better off making our move when she's not at home."
 

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Jago

Explorer
~ Jaeger pulled out a cigarette, tapping it gently on the back of the box to pack it in a bit before lighting it up, understandably a bit miffed at being stopped by a simple door guard. Leaning against the outside of the car, the Elf took in Pacific Towers, eyebrows lowering.

" I can be threatening if I need," he chuckled at Juno's assessment, " But Castle is right: Knight Errant is crawling all over this place, the security would only be worse on Miss Starlet's level."

He paused to draw in on the nicotine again, not entirely pleased with his performance. Ah well: sometimes you got the bear, sometimes the parabear viciously ripped apart your entire team.

" The question is, how do we find out when she's out and about? I imagine she'd have quite the escort even if she left the penthouse," Jaeger mused.

He gave a nod over the Troll and Ork, tilting his head inquisitively.

" I hope you were a bit more successful?" ~
 

GreenKarl

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Master-Blaster pips up over the comlink "Euphoria's first public appearance on Monday is at an event at the New King Doom in SODO at 9am. Figure that with normal traffic patters from here to there about 30 minutes and if she needs to do any set up, they would have to leave here no later then 8am Monday. Now it could be earlier, but given her reputation I doubt it would before 6am."
 

~ Jaeger pulled out a cigarette, tapping it gently on the back of the box to pack it in a bit before lighting it up, understandably a bit miffed at being stopped by a simple door guard. Leaning against the outside of the car, the Elf took in Pacific Towers, eyebrows lowering.

" I can be threatening if I need," he chuckled at Juno's assessment, " But Castle is right: Knight Errant is crawling all over this place, the security would only be worse on Miss Starlet's level."

He paused to draw in on the nicotine again, not entirely pleased with his performance. Ah well: sometimes you got the bear, sometimes the parabear viciously ripped apart your entire team.

" The question is, how do we find out when she's out and about? I imagine she'd have quite the escort even if she left the penthouse," Jaeger mused.

He gave a nod over the Troll and Ork, tilting his head inquisitively.

" I hope you were a bit more successful?" ~

Beowulf shrugged, smoking his cigarette. He hadn't learned too much, but without throwing some muscle around, it had been unlikely he would anyway,

"A bit. The subject's apartment is only lightly warded, wouldn't stop me from entering, but would alert the caster. Most of the building is like that, or even lighter. Interesting deviation, however, is top floor penthouse. Lotta mojo went into that ward, and I don't recognize the signature, but from my barest scanning I felt fire. Whoever is up there is either a powerful hermetic in their own right, or has the scrip to pay for one. My guess is an out of towner, anyone that powerful in Seattle I'm sure I'd recognize."

Beowulf knew that may have sounded arrogant, but it was plain truth.
 

Shayuri

First Post
"Alright. We're going to need to set up a stakeout, and an ambush," Juno opines. "Master, how about you get us a detailed map of the most direct route between here and New King Doom, and we'll work out where to make our move from. Then we'll need to set up eyes on the building. I'm thinking maybe drones and..." she nods at Beowulf, "...that magic spy thing you do, so we don't have people in suspicious vehicles always hanging around out front."

"That'll also mean we're not a man down when the ambush is done, since the stakeout's remote."
 

GreenKarl

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A tiny icon of a burly shirtless man wearing a full metal helmet and what appears to be an dwarf riding on his back appears in your AR visor and bows to Juno. He then adds "I can get a number of possibles, and I will also try and hatch her car's AI as I am sure they have the route already planned out. Might want to wait until Monday morning before I do that just in case they have a Decker check out to see if anyone had been snooping on their system..."
 

Deuce Traveler

Adventurer
Tharg frowns, having a greater dislike of the job all of a sudden, "Looks like it's going to be impossible to snatch her up around here, and her security is likely to be solid at her event too. I suppose your idea of an ambush is our best hope of making this happen."
 

GreenKarl

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Master-Blaster pipes up saying "The only security just outside the towers appears to be that doorman with a concealed gun. I assume that when Ethiopia is leaving she will have her guards. The driver might also be a armed. And of course this neighborhood is a fairly high security rating so Lone Star will be quick to react to any trouble. At SODO security is going to be very tight and I would think we would have almost zero chance of escaping with her unnoticed."

"So the options seem to be grab her in her apartment, grab her when she is leaving the building, or grab her while she is on the highway heading towards SODO. The biggest problem I see with the last option is that the only vehicle we have is Juno's Mercury Comet, which is not exactly a muscle car..."
 

Shayuri

First Post
Juno chuckled. "Yeah, we're not chasing them down. We're going to have to stop them. If we had a sniper with a good anti-materiel rifle we could take out the main gearbox or power plant. If the car's electric, we can maybe use an EMP device to interrupt its power. I'm thinking either a placed device or a drone with a grenade or something that we can position in the road close enough to affect the car as it goes by."

"Once the car's stopped, we break in, overcome resistance, and grab the girl. Master Blaster, maybe you can lay down some jamming over it to slow down the threat response...but the goal is to make it fast and decisive."
 

GreenKarl

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Master-Blaster's ICON nods in thought. "Hmm yea I bet I could hatch the car and even turn it off. They will probably be running on stealth mod, unless they are idiots, so I might need to be really close. Say within 50 meters or so. If the driver is a rigger he would probably had a dedicated system with a tough firewall that I would need to break into and that could take some time. There are only a couple places on the traffic grid where I might be able to hatch the lights and stop them for a moment, but the Metroplex has really invested heavily in protecting the traffic grip after those deckers crashed it ten years ago. It is certainly a thought. If you want to do the drone or EMP bomb we will need to invest in those as I don't have access to either on hand"
 

Deuce Traveler

Adventurer
Tharg adds, "Sounds like we'll need to be driving just ahead of them. Let's plan on the place on the traffic grid closest to her apartments and plan for the second one as a fallback. Maybe we should take a look at those two places Master-Blaster believes would work out."
 

Shayuri

First Post
Juno nods.

"We'll drive the route, see what looks good. I don't know if I'm much help with the drone, but I can probably get my hands on an EMP device. I know a guy who's into munitions."
 


Jago

Explorer
~ Jaeger had slowly puffed away on his nicotine, listening in on the plan. His fellow Runners, thankfully, knew their stuff. Nobody cocky and egotistical, nobody wanting to rush off and blow their entire plan awry.

" Beowulf and I can certainly use a few charms and spells to try and keep an eye out on Princess Pop Star from the moment she steps out the door. Combined with some Matrix work, we'll have pretty good surveillance once the night comes."

The filter of the cigarette was dropped to the ground, snuffed beneath the German Elf's foot.

" We may also want to invest in some non-lethal munitions," he advised, " Stick'n'Shock, or Neurostun, something like that. The Duchess of NeoDisco probably isn't going to want to come along quietly, and being able to knock her out safely would help wrap this up easier. May even come in handy if she has a Mage with her too; we're a notoriously easily-fatigued people. Out-of-Towner or not, riddle his nervous system with enough electricity to overload his brain and he'll be out before you can say Gute Nacht." ~
 

Shayuri

First Post
"I've got my tranq grenade," Juno notes. "That should put Euphoria down, and anyone in her entourage who doesn't have air filtration. And sabot ammo for anyone who does."
 

Shayuri

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(OOC - Oops, forgot to actually provide some -action-. Sorry! (>_<) )

Juno uses her commlink to give her fixer another call.

"Hey, I need to see if you can get a piece of specialized hardware for me. We called them 'sparkers.' They're handheld explosive-pumped HERF generators. Not sure what the private sector brand is offhand. Got anything like that?"
 


GreenKarl

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The 'Juice' got back to Juno's message pretty quick and said "Well yea, those are restricted to only special units of law enforcement at least. It might take me a day to get my hands on one or two. But its going cost. I would think at least 400 nuyen each. Want me to look into it?"

GM: You can make a Merchant or Streetwise skill check to reduce the cost. I am basing this on a Mini-Hand Grenade (UT146) base cost $10, Wt. 0.25lbs. and an 40mm EMP (TL9) warhead (UT157), LC 2 and x10 base cost, so 100 nuyen for the base and twice for the lower LC (its not illegal per say just highly restricted) and his 'finder fee'.
 

Shayuri

First Post
Juno winced a little at the cost, but nodded. "Yeah, look into it. Two would be great, but we can work with one if that's what you can get. Thanks."

She looked at the other runners.

"I've got a line on the EMPs. I'll hear back from him tomorrow."
 

GreenKarl

First Post
Later that day (depending on what the players want to do before then) Juice gets back to Juno saying "I can get you two if you want, but I do expect you will be purchasing one. Here's the address. Be there in an hour with the cred. As for Dust-Ball at the bar. She will have the merchandise out back. Don't be late"

GM: We don't need to role-play it, just have to decide if you want to purchase one or two for 400 nuyen each


Master-Blaster also coms in "I hacked their systems and I have two possible routes that they have programmed into the Navcom system on their car. There are a couple of points of crossing were we could set up..."
 

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