Chapitre I: Drinking Buddies

Seattle Downtown, Gates's foundation Park, 18/11/2075 01:23:

The population of the Gates's Foundation Park depends greatly on what part of the day it is. In the morning , you find mostly jogger and people walking their dog. At lunch time waves of wageslave come down from their tower to eat. In the end of the afternoon , the population become more diversified with teen and artists but they all leave the park when the sun come down : The park become the Territory of Dealers and gangers.
But the different group were staying out of the way of the weird group who was visibly waiting on the little charming brigde in th east of the park : 2 humains, one troll and one elf. For a common man the group could be a little weird and shadowy looking but for the denizen of the street : they could only be one thing shadowrunner and mess with shadowrunner usualy isn't a good idea.

The meeting was going to take place at 01:30, this time they had a meeting with Mr.Johnson, this time the job was serious. The consigne was clear " don't fuck up" and the group didn't planes to.
The city was a little bit excited and seattle's matrix was talking about one thing: tomorrow's game between The Seattle Thundebirds and the Vancouver-Universal Omnitech : Cannucks. A lot of hockey fan made the travel and KE anti- riot force were ready. No matters who win : there will be action tomorrow night.

As you all wait, Heron remarks The dwarf coming your way first with his Spydrones. The Johnson is dressed with a white shirt and black suit, he chooses to not wear a tie to give a look that some Communication expert in the big tower must have label "dynamic and relaxed". When he sees your little group he squints for a moment and nods for himself.Whith a big smile he begins :
"Hello everybody , my name is John Johnson." he pauses a little and smiles at his own joke. " Our mutual prefered Nightclub said that you are skilled operative so here is our project : My Friends " He insists on the S. " are hockey fan and want to help their fellow fans to enjoy the aftermatch, We have the location of a warehouse full of beer and we know that they have readied their next delivery for tomorrow morning. We wish for this delivery to be change to tonight and change the target to a place of our choice. Of course , you would have to do a little advertising about our party but I'm sure that the promise of free beer is easy to sell."He pauses and you can see his gold cybereyes shine in the dark.
"For this service, you would, of course, be rewarded, 20 000 $ should be enough for your trouble."
He looks at you expecting a reponse and he seems to wonder which one of you his the leader. His suit look out of place in the park, he doesn't sound worried about the local fauna but you can still see him glance around and his golden eyes stop for an instant on the dealers and your most visibles weapons (despite having missed the drone) but he has a good pokerface and keep his cool. He may be more used to violence that the common corporate drone : His right arm is a cyberlimb and it clash a little with his peaceful look.

When you ask your question , he smirk and 3 seconds later answer:
"Of course , our target, the warehouse, is secured : not a lot of men but a nasty pack of Hell hound patrols the site. Futhermore the storehouse is in Downtown and the company have other squad in the city, you can expect reinforcement."

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@Homemade
When you open your eyes : you see the whole Emerald city grid that 's shining in the night sky, at first you can see John Johnson. You squint a little and you can see his whole PAN : You see that his comlink is not the best one on the market it's just a little Renraku Sensei. You can see that he is not the best Hacker in town because despite running silent , he forgets to hide the broadcast of his visit card : Liam Donnel, gifted actor. Futhermore you can see that Someone has a MARK on him : a Green Skull. He is running on The Seattle grid.

The dwarf put his cyberhand on his heart:
"The T-Birds of course and I hope they crush the fraggin' Nucks"

He turns his head to you and with a jaded tone answer you:
"You won't piss them off if you don't get caught and worst case scenario that's kind of the runners job to piss off Megacorp"

He squints for five seconds and answers:
"The warehouse is in the south , a Carlsberg one. The delivery is for the Lincoln Plaza close to the stadium"
He types on his comlink and share the two GPS ARO with you.
"The two point are 12 km away."

"Well, you are in charge of the advertisement, if nobody know the place of our little party , we wil be a bit disapointed.And for the hour 22:30 should let the fan enough time to come from the stadium."

He smirks ans answers you like he was a teacher:
"You contact me with the comcode that I will give you when you have formally accepted the job"

He blinks and begin laughing without stopping:
"Woman, be serious: We ask you to bring beer not the head of brackhaven."
He types somthing on his comlink and nod after a few seconds.
"My boss allows me to go to 26K and it's a take it or leave it kind of offer. And as you seem like nice chummer, you can have the first 10K for your professional fees".

"No escrow, that's not the way it work in Seattle...."
He shakes his head but still keep his smile, he seems to enjoy being Johnson.

He glances into your eyes, and his cybereyes seem to twinkle:
"Yeah sure, an after in the Penumbria. If you do good job , Drinks on me!."
He may have misread something...

Styx quirks an eyebrow, "...and to give us the rest of our fee." She smiles again. "After that, yeah, a drink would be great."

"Of course, you will have your reward."
He takes a Silver CredStick from his pocket, types on his comlink screen and offers it to you.
"So do we have a deal ? "

He hands ou to you the stick and give you an ARO with a comcode. He walks away and recites:
"To use only on completion of the run or major trouble, any other use could cancel the run without the rest of the payment."
It sounds like he is reading EULA.
It's time to do some legwork and prepare yourself for tonight. And maybe catch some sleep...

@Heron
After half a minute you find the map you were searching for : The Shadow forum you frequently consult have them update frequently to plan their run.
On The Warehouse you see that someone have marked " Aztech?" The note informs you that The most obvious way to have reinforcement is The Aztech pyramid but nobody know if the warehouse is a High security Area or not : So they don't know whether The Megacorp would send a basic assault team(12-15 minutes) or a High Threat Reponse Team with Special Force Training and Military grade equipement (1-6 minutes).

The Routes don't go near any other important Aztech building and the other corp won't try to stop you if you attack their competitor.
If a chase takes place KE could send patrol on your way : the reponse time in the area for KE is noted as 4-10 minutes.

As you leave the place, the park's ecosystem resume its working and an other band of junkies take your place.

[ooc]We are in What I call : The montage part of the run. Like in every con movie : You prepare your plan for the run. We don't have to detail every thing and shadowrun isn't the sort of game to make random encounter roll to go from one place to an other./ooc]

@Homemade:With no difficulty at all , you find you way on the City grid. You know that if you just do research you don't have to worry about Convergence for 1 hour in the worst case.

For the Mark, you first have to find your way out of all the ad for personalized marks, A skull is a common drawing and you can easily paint a MARK Green but each time you don't see the particularity of the one you observed. After 30 minutes you don't find its owner but some of the place you visited let you think that you are not the only one to search for it. From what you gather the other one is from Detroit and he is angry...

For M. Donnel : You easily find the same visit card : it's on the ad pannel of a dozen pub. Some of the card have been vandalized : "Poor looser", "MTF", "Now seen on a shitty Renton's video". When you follow the link from the last message, you indeed find him. He played the happy dwarf in a propaganda video on the Renton's racial peace.

@ Homemade:
You follow the lead of mayhem that the Bostonian leave behind and find him hacking CCTV cam around the SeaTac ( the biggest airport), he is not stupid enough to try directly to attack the airport. You send him a greeting and starles him, he touch something he sould'nt have and active some defense on his node. He stops his attack see you and disconnects. Not a talkative fellow...

@Ink:
The Warehouse is a 120*75 m building surround by a barbed fence. a security post serves as the only passage point. The building is mostly made of metal sheet paint with Carlsberg color.
There is not a lot of personal visible: two gard visible : one at the checkpoint and an other who patrol the exterior and inspect the different vehicule with one of the Hellhound. You have seen some worker in the warehouse but all the heavy lifting is made by drone and machine or by the troll worker. For a moment you were worry that the two flying drone patrol had see you but no , you are safe. The majority of the hell hound pack are kept in a kernel in the opposite side of the check point. A maglock kept the door close.During your watch you have seen numerous truck and van comming. They check with the guard, discuss with a manager and leave with their loads. Despite the distance you heard them talk and they seem to really transport beer and nothing more dangerous than enough alcool for a whole fraternity. You think that some of the smallest deliveries are made by drone, 3 three of them have made the travel and took a pack or two with them.

@Heron

Being on the city Grid: You find your information with just a simple movement of your little finger and spend your time reading the different ad and information :
The Lincoln Plaza is not one of the biggest meeting place of the city but it's still has its event : some concert , some big product lancement and of course it's one of the place where it can go wild after a sport event.
Around the plazza you can find numerous shop like a Cap'n Beef fastfood ot more tasty place like the palazzo del gusto, a microdeck store and a Zoé shop were you can find tomorrow fashion.
Some Bigger place like a Golden Inn Lion or the GaeaTronics Energy Building and The Seattle 's Energy Departement. A lot of people travel between the two last buildings, The Firm managing the power grid.
In the Center of the plazza stands a monument for the victim of the First Crash.

@Styx:
You post on forum and go to all the sport bar you know and talk about the big party that some group is organizing for tonight. It takes you 4 hour but the rumour's mill is updated and sing your tune. People are impatient but nobody seem to know who is behind the thing.

@Heron

Your drone fly peacefully to the Lincoln Plaza : neonet seems to have done a good job : the Plazza is exactly as you have seen it in the Matrix. All the advertising screen are on the hype train for the match, and they seem to be biased againt the Vancouver's Team, of course...

14:00
The day is advancing quickly and you begin to check weapon and gear for your mission.

Ink sends everyone snaps of the warehouse and surrounding security that she could see via the imagelink of her eye contacts.
She revs up her bike and is off back to home, a very comfortable high-end studio apartment that her father paid for. She boils some tea and has a nice meal while packing what she needs. Weapons? Hopefully don't need them but check. The taser hidden in her arm's large compartment. Medkit? Again, can't be too safe and a medkit in a van is easy to pass off as just in case of an emergency.

Feel like I should leave the explosives at home for this one, really doubt we're gonna need to blow into the place for beer. She sends through the commlink, making sure she and her team are on the same page. A cleaning drone picks up her plate to be cleaned.