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Saturday Shadowrun: Botching the Take


  • The crew moved in through the junk yard.  
  • Vee took a couple more trashers.
  • Void started hotwiring the crane.
  • Mr. Black crit glitched, misjudging the situation, and ran into the melee near Loomis.
  • The corporate guys take Mr. Black hostage and force the team to back off.
  • Ender is checking out the comm links.
  • Vee still takes out another trasher with knives, nice and quiet like.
  • The team runs for their rides as the corporate guys take Mr. Black and head out.
  • They use Mr. Black to force the team to stop following.
  • Mr. Black gets ejected out of the corporate team's van.
  • The team tries to track down the corporate team.  They find an RFID tag at the scene of the firefight that leads them back to Shangri-La, a division of Horizon Music.
  • The team heads down to the electronics junkyard to try to track down an optical disc reader.
  • Mr. Black gets permission from the Boggard in charge to search for one.  He also finds out that the Cathode glow bar is THE place to find old hardware.
  • A search of the junk turns up nothing.
  • The team heads to Cathode Glow.  Mr. Black gets a line on the reader they're looking for.  It turns out there is a shop in the back.
  • Ender and Mr. Black go in, with Vee on watch with a very big gun.
  • They get in.  For a price they get a line on someone using the reader.  They have 3 hours until the people will show.  For a price they also get a copy of the data.

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