Last time our crew started out at The Vintage Hotel, a retro-clone hotel decorated like the early 20th century with almost no tech. In each room, the crew found specific items left for them. Some paranoia left the crew scrambling for ways to check bugs, but none were found.
The unnamed man went next door to The Prancing Pony, a Tolkien-esque pub with a wide variety of retro-culture. He happened on another elf and, over a beer, got an earful of local elf culture. It turns out the local VIcanus Guild of Elves was one of the power groups in the Ground Floor. They had help found the place to give form to their Tolkien view of the way Elves should be, building their own version of the tree village Lothlorien.
The crew got some sleep.
The next morning the crew carpooled in the used sedan left for them down to the 15th level. There they found Katong, another local restaurant / club built in grandiose architecture with sweeping tiles rooves, sliding rice paper doors, and exotic gold ornamentation. Once inside they were greet by a hostess who showed them through the main hall heavy with incense smoke to a private room.
After viewing the menu, they were joined by Spinner, two large armed trolls, and an orc in a business suit. After dining, there was a brief chat with the orc, Grundy, who gave the crew one chance to ask questions regarding working for him. Anyone that wanted could turn down his offer and leave. Grundy payed special attention to making sure the unnamed man was comfortable, but did little to answer his questions as to how he knew the man was arriving on the Ground Floor.
Grundy left and Spinner got down to brass tacks. There was an old-style optical disk with music on it stolen from his associates. The expectation was that the thief was going to put it up for sale. The crew was to recover it and all copies of it quickly and return it to Spinner's associates. For 10,000 Nuyen, the crew didn't even hesitate to take the job.
Ender and the crew headed back to V-Works to get good signal and start the search. He found a scrap of a hint that an email had been sent to a Ground Floor music artist named Nabo, offering to sell his the recording. Digging a bit further, they found that Nabo had gotten his big break and had a hefty contract with Sweetwater Tech. Before he transitioned above ground, he was doing one last concert on the ground floor in a metal working facility called The Smelting Pot that converted to an orc-troll nightspot after hours. Orcs and trolls were expected to be the main guests at the concert.
They also found out that Nabo had an entourage of go-gangers from the ground floor that provided security for him. One of them, his chief of security, had a drug problem they might be able to exploit.
The party checked out the concert site, since there was no sign of where Nabo was staying. It was a big warehouse in the middle of a junkyard of scrap metal. A road ran down one side. The back of the offices was curtained off for a back stage. The unnamed man, now going by Mr. Frost, poked around and asked questions, and even overhead the guard layout as the security guards met.
The party planned (after some 'hints' from the GM) to get Nabo's commlink and find out where the message had been sent from.
The day of the concert (the next day) the party gathered early and watched everyone arrive. Once Nabo and the guards were in, Zephyr emerged from his hiding spot in the junk and jumped / ran up the side of the warehouse to the roof. There he found an HVAC vent into the office area. There he waited two hours for the concert to start.
Zephyr poked around and entered the empty office quietly once the concert started. He quickly found a comm link and not must else of value. He turned it on and linked to his commlink so the technomancer could verify it was the right commlink.
To be continued.
The unnamed man went next door to The Prancing Pony, a Tolkien-esque pub with a wide variety of retro-culture. He happened on another elf and, over a beer, got an earful of local elf culture. It turns out the local VIcanus Guild of Elves was one of the power groups in the Ground Floor. They had help found the place to give form to their Tolkien view of the way Elves should be, building their own version of the tree village Lothlorien.
The crew got some sleep.
The next morning the crew carpooled in the used sedan left for them down to the 15th level. There they found Katong, another local restaurant / club built in grandiose architecture with sweeping tiles rooves, sliding rice paper doors, and exotic gold ornamentation. Once inside they were greet by a hostess who showed them through the main hall heavy with incense smoke to a private room.
After viewing the menu, they were joined by Spinner, two large armed trolls, and an orc in a business suit. After dining, there was a brief chat with the orc, Grundy, who gave the crew one chance to ask questions regarding working for him. Anyone that wanted could turn down his offer and leave. Grundy payed special attention to making sure the unnamed man was comfortable, but did little to answer his questions as to how he knew the man was arriving on the Ground Floor.
Grundy left and Spinner got down to brass tacks. There was an old-style optical disk with music on it stolen from his associates. The expectation was that the thief was going to put it up for sale. The crew was to recover it and all copies of it quickly and return it to Spinner's associates. For 10,000 Nuyen, the crew didn't even hesitate to take the job.
Ender and the crew headed back to V-Works to get good signal and start the search. He found a scrap of a hint that an email had been sent to a Ground Floor music artist named Nabo, offering to sell his the recording. Digging a bit further, they found that Nabo had gotten his big break and had a hefty contract with Sweetwater Tech. Before he transitioned above ground, he was doing one last concert on the ground floor in a metal working facility called The Smelting Pot that converted to an orc-troll nightspot after hours. Orcs and trolls were expected to be the main guests at the concert.
They also found out that Nabo had an entourage of go-gangers from the ground floor that provided security for him. One of them, his chief of security, had a drug problem they might be able to exploit.
The party checked out the concert site, since there was no sign of where Nabo was staying. It was a big warehouse in the middle of a junkyard of scrap metal. A road ran down one side. The back of the offices was curtained off for a back stage. The unnamed man, now going by Mr. Frost, poked around and asked questions, and even overhead the guard layout as the security guards met.
The party planned (after some 'hints' from the GM) to get Nabo's commlink and find out where the message had been sent from.
The day of the concert (the next day) the party gathered early and watched everyone arrive. Once Nabo and the guards were in, Zephyr emerged from his hiding spot in the junk and jumped / ran up the side of the warehouse to the roof. There he found an HVAC vent into the office area. There he waited two hours for the concert to start.
Zephyr poked around and entered the empty office quietly once the concert started. He quickly found a comm link and not must else of value. He turned it on and linked to his commlink so the technomancer could verify it was the right commlink.
To be continued.
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