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Shadowrun: Vlad Checking In

So Vlad checks in....

Yeah, it has been a strange week.  I'm trying to do what I do and keep my nose clean.

We had an incident getting away from the last job.  A couple in a black sedan was following.  I spotted the tail on the bus.  They stopped and the car hit them.  It was a bug plant, so the guys took care of it while I distracted them.  We nearly had a fire-fight with and angry dwarf carrying a shotgun as big as he was.

We got to the drop off -- a used car lot.  We arrived just in time to seeing someone leave.  The guy there was dead, at least someone was sure.  I called Mr Fixit, we got directions to hide the loot, burn the joint, and grab the tapes of who did the hit.  Probably one of Big Tony's guys was the bad guy I saw leaving.  Zero copied the data so we have something of value.  Tyres about blew himself up.  That angry dwarf showed up again -- luckily I smooth-talked him enough to avoid getting shot.

On to a place called the Kamilla Club, the rest of the crew's regular drinking spot.  It has been blown to bits.  One guy is hurt and we find a box with our rewards for the run.  With augment in hand I volunteer to take the hurt guy with me to a doc.  He gets patched up, and I get the pheromone upgrade to make me that much sweeter to the world.

So the hurt guy, named Carlos, gives me the lowdown on the club. HMMV club got hit by guys in the right uniforms with guns firing wood.  It looks like a hate crime.

Leaving the Doc's, I find some big biker dude with a bike marked Dredd is checking us out.  I follow him for a while.  He is checking out various food joints around... probably front businesses.

I try to drop Carlos off at his place, but the place is hot.  Big hearses marked with crosses are swarming the joint.  It is probably his haters right there.

So I call the rest of the crew.  They are getting rid of the packages they found on the bus.  Big Tony is going to give them some good money for them.  I wait outside but eventually get called in to negotiate the deal.

A brief scare during the deal -- one of the guys for Tony calls our stuff out as poison.  I convince him otherwise and he nearly takes the guy out right then and there.

Then the real problem.  Our buddy Dredd from earlier bursts in, using a rocket launcher to blow a hole through the armored building.  A firefight ensues, and I make my way out, but the gunfire isn't letting up, and I know it's only a matter of time before the missile launcher will be in play.  You can't outrun and building coming down on your head.

The gunfire isn't stopping, so I run back in, dodging gunfire, and grab my knife.  Tony is laying on the floor, helpless.  With one motion, I take out Tony, and yell out that he's dead, the fight is over and we can all make some money now.  Dredd grabs the body and leaves.  The other guys are just mainly shocked.  I set the guys in motion fixing the wall.  Zero brings the case back in, we all split the money, and I head upstairs accompanied by one of the guards -- the angry dwarf.

It's time to call Mr. Fixit.  He sends in someone to take over.  I expect he will be extra happy with this major change in power I pulled out.  Success is opportunity meeting a bold move.

Suddenly I have some hacker madman causing a ruckus as the replacement arrives.  Xxyyzzyy, I guess he's an AI, took issue with Tony's death.  The crew isn't real happy either, with taking out their business partner.  Some thanks I get -- we would have all been dead after another shot from that missile launcher.

I check my account -- money is there, but 15 million nuyen has wandered through from Mr. Fixit to Mr. Grundy.  Julius Fixit.  He's using me -- I would expect no less.

Time to lay low for a bit.  I might get some street credit out of taking out Tony, even though his replacement looks just like him and tells everyone he is Tony.  It's been a wild week, and I've gone through way too many ties.




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