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Shadowrun: The Take

When last we left the band of misfit Shadowrunners, they had found the place where the music disk they were seeking was going to be converted.  Through a deal with the hacker group, they were going to get a copy of the data and know when the group would be arriving.

My Black and Ender set up in the space to watch.  Void hid in the van inside an adjacent crumbling brick building.  Vee his around the corner from the entrance with a big gun and some grenades.

The large limo pulls up.  Two big trolls get our of the front and open the rear doors.  Two more trolls get out with a man in a business suit and walk inside.  The disk gets converted and the data is handed to the suit.  They are walking back out the door.  Mr. Black tries to stop them, but doesn't.

Ender and Mr. Black both missed the device the suit dropped inside.  Outside, Vee throws an incendiary grenade, not realizing the range of it.  She catches the trolls, car, and building on fire.  The delay or the blast itself triggers the explosive to go off inside the building.  Ender and Mr. Black are practically dead.  Vee hops in the van, Void rams through the building.  A glitch results in the van being stuck in the building wall.

Vee jumps out and grabs the guys.  Void backs the van out and heads for Vee's medic friend's place.  2000 nuyen and a day later, the boys are patched up.  In the meantime, Vee goes back and recovers the hardware from the disk reader.  The limo is gone.  It's hard to tell what that means, and she doesn't spend time snooping.

She doesn't know how to operate it, but with a need for money, she takes the whole thing into V-Worx where Void and Vee meet up with Spinner.  Spinner gets Eula to pull the data and the party gets payed.  Spinner isn't happy about the way things went.

In the downtime over the next week, the runners work their day jobs, Void gets the van repaired and a morphing license plate added.

And so we start the new campaign...

Spinner calls and early morning meeting at V-Works.  The job is a grab and call job.  Spinner supplies a video clip of the target, presumably video footage of him in a cell.  They also get a name -- Weldon.

Much to the disappointment of Mr. Black, Ender spends several hours registering a sprite to do the search that fails.  He ends up paying Eula to do the search.   They get three hits on pictures of the guy.  One is near Ares.  The other two are 3 blocks apart in the Security Zone.

The group loads up and heads for the SZ.  After an annoying argument between Mr. Black and Ender, Vee shoots them both with gel rounds and shoves them in the van.

This part of the SZ is all SZI shacks -- SZI being a real estate company that bought up most of the vacant properties in the security zone.  SZI shacks are buildings rented out for whatever purposes.  For Shadowrunners they can be safe houses, drop points, or whatever.  Vee and Void have been through here before when smuggling.

The place is a ghost town.  Ender and Black, now awake, are helping take a look.  Ender gets a bit edgy.  There is security gear here, but no people, and that means no normal commlinks.

After cruising around, they split up and search houses for people.  They find a house with a heat signature.  Ender and Black go around front; Vee and Void watch the back.  Black rings the doorbell and someone goes flying out of the upper story window.  The chase begins but Vee ends it with a gel round.

They cuff him and call Spinner.  The suspect says they shouldn't do this, that it will end badly.  Spinner says Areas is coming to pick him up.  They drag him to the vehicles.  He cuts through the cuffs with some sorts of cutter and a weapon pops out of his arm.  He fires 3 quick blasts as he is running away and the better part of 3 houses is gone.  The party calls back Spinner and tells him that the guy is escaped.  Spinner lets them know that Ares is coming one way or another, and they probably won't be happy if the guy isn't there.

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