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* [[Aaron Gallardo|Gallardo]] and his [[S01E03#Welcome to Weapons World|six Weapons World co-workers]] realize that they can't go it alone. They are willing to participate in exchange for food and information. They're happy to share ammo and guns in exchange for moving their stockpile to a more secure location than the {{Level|3}} Mall. | * [[Aaron Gallardo|Gallardo]] and his [[S01E03#Welcome to Weapons World|six Weapons World co-workers]] realize that they can't go it alone. They are willing to participate in exchange for food and information. They're happy to share ammo and guns in exchange for moving their stockpile to a more secure location than the {{Level|3}} Mall. | ||
* [[SANKAI Ikito]], [[URUSAI Mimi]], and [[YASUDA Keirin]] are willing to participate, but having limited hiding spaces in their [[S01E03#Walking in the Garden|hydroponics facility]] believe they're somewhat vulnerable. | * [[SANKAI Ikito]], [[URUSAI Mimi]], and [[YASUDA Keirin]] are willing to participate, but having limited hiding spaces in their [[S01E03#Walking in the Garden|hydroponics facility]] believe they're somewhat vulnerable. | ||
* Roughly half of the sixty-something people they [[S01E07#New Years' Hangover|rescued]] from | * Roughly half of the sixty-something people they [[S01E07#New Years' Hangover|rescued]] from the {{Category|Banded}} work detail stuck around waiting for their return, including [[Emily Bunker|Emily]], [[Eloise Brady|Eloise]], and [[Langdon Brady|Langdon]]. The others decided they'd be better off by themselves instead of in a large group. | ||
* They're unable to locate the [[S01E08#Class Is In Session|other team of runners]] at this time, believing them to be much higher in the arcology. | * They're unable to locate the [[S01E08#Class Is In Session|other team of runners]] at this time, believing them to be much higher in the arcology. | ||
Revision as of 14:04, 26 April 2024
Learn from Yesterday
| Staring | Fräulein Ärtzin, Garbo, Liam, Shirayuri |
| Previous Episode | S01E09 – Success Requires Sacrifice |
| Next Episode | S01E11 – Tailwind |
Session 1 - 2024/04/04
Montage à Huit
| Who | Fräulein Ärtzin, Garbo, Liam, Shirayuri |
| When | Tuesday, January 6, 2060 (Day 19) through Thursday, January 15, 2060 (Day 28) |
| Where | SCIRE |
The team spends over a week, working quietly to rearrange the survivors into smaller cells and instruct them on what features make for a good hideout. They specifically avoid helping them find actual locations, believing it would be better to set up a series of dead drops for future communications.
They reach out to the other groups they've found, and make various deals to get them to work together:
- Gallardo and his six Weapons World co-workers realize that they can't go it alone. They are willing to participate in exchange for food and information. They're happy to share ammo and guns in exchange for moving their stockpile to a more secure location than the Level 3 Mall.
- SANKAI Ikito, URUSAI Mimi, and YASUDA Keirin are willing to participate, but having limited hiding spaces in their hydroponics facility believe they're somewhat vulnerable.
- Roughly half of the sixty-something people they rescued from the Banded work detail stuck around waiting for their return, including Emily, Eloise, and Langdon. The others decided they'd be better off by themselves instead of in a large group.
- They're unable to locate the other team of runners at this time, believing them to be much higher in the arcology.
They divide people into cells, with most of Gallardo's men and the work crew are split up evenly. The Weapons World salesmen are not soldiers, but they're all accomplished marksmen, familiar with their products and capable of teaching their safe use.
While the shadowrunners know they are the most powerful group on a member-by-member basis, they also realize they'll be the most active which in some ways makes them the most likely to expose other groups. They're only involved in setting up the Medical Corps main base and already know about Low Garden. They deliberately remain ignorant of the other cells' locations.
- Brady Bunch — Eloise, Langdon, five from the work crew, and one of the Weapons World salesmen form a cell. Eloise is the most skilled fighter among them, even if she can't use firearms. There's soem concern about her stability, but Langdon assures the shadowrunners he can keep his mother under control.
- Bullet Town — Gallardo, one of his men, and five of the work crew will maintain the Resistance armory. They plan to establish weapons and ammo caches around the plinth levels to resupply other units without having to expose their own location.
Mukami's adept abilities allow her to pick up languages in short order, and uses this ability to form the basis of the Resistance communication web.
- Brady Bunch — Eloise speaks English and Spanish.
- Bullet Town — Gallardo speaks English and Japanese.
- Divorced Court — Nobody speaks anything but English.
- Low Garden — They all speak English and Japanese; Mimi also knows German and North American Sign, though the latter is pretty useless for message drops.
- Medical Corps — Saffron only speaks English, but both Kazuki and Saoriko know Japanese, while Saoriko also knows German and French.
- Swim Team — Nura knows English, Japanese, Sperethiel, and Perkins-Athabaskan Sign.
The shadowrunners add Irish Gaelic (Liam) and Lakota (Garbo) to the list, plus knowing a few of the other languages as well. Mukami herself knows Oromo and Zulu.
- Communications Hub — While developing and deploying unique cyphers is a bit beyond the group's capabilities, they have a wide spectrum of languages among them, including quite a few uncommon to the Pacific Northwest. They decide to use as many of these languages as they can, including teaching key words to other resistance cells as a method of security through obscurity.
- Divorced Court — Emily, an Ares Employee, and five work group survivors form a cell. They'll figure out the best way they can contribute after they get settled in and learn more about each other.
- Low Garden — deepColour joins the trio so he can collaborate with Urusai-chan on developing some sort of communications system.
- Medical Corps — Saffron takes Kazuki and Saoriko, along with one of Gallardo's men and five from the work gang. She sets up in one location, but establishes a secondary location to teach first aid techniques and distribute supplies. She's unwilling to risk the children's safety.
- Swim Team — Nura takes charge of the last five work crew rescuees and one of the weapons salesmen.
Once everything is settled — the groups are secure in their new hideouts and the communications drops are established — the shadowrunners begin working on other plans:
- Set up a matrix listening post that can collect data to be analyzed later. They quickly discover this is impractical. There's entirely too much message traffic for a passive solution — either you're in the matrix or not.
- Identify the SCIRE's new command and control structures, and find a way to get that information to any outside parties that are trying to assault the arcology.
- Re-establish contact with Shinko and Hotaru, if they haven't made good their planned escape.
- Determine the purpose of the holding pens found on Level 11 and Level 31
Session 2 - 2024/04/18
Furtivité Indépendante
The group heads down to Level 11 to check out the prisoner pens they discovered while conducting reconnaissance on Level 10 for a base location. They find the stairwell guarded, but not well — just a standard group of four Blues that they evade by hopping over the bannister and sneaking into the adjoining hallway.
The group remains there, having been previously informed of the Leeches in use as prisoner restraints and knowing they react to the Awakened. Shirayuri overrides the elevator vestibule door to gain entry. She discovers both elevators have cars present (the area has power and the time-to-next car displays are active) and the "inner" door is not locked.
She approaches the fence to get a better look at the imprisoned victims. Each one she can see has a datajack with a remote biomonitor plugged into it. They each have leech constructs attached at ankles and wrists, hardened, calcified, and appearing to fasten the person to the gurney.
While she's inspecting the prisoner, she spots two Green Banded nurses in one of the pens. They do something that causes the leeches to dissolve, then take the patient away in some sort of medical pod. Realizing they're heading towards the rest of the group, she warns them and they climb up into the duct work to hide.
Once the nurses have disappeared into the elevators, Shirayuri rejoins the others. The group discusses what she saw, then sends Shirayuri back to get a sample of the residue. There's not a whole lot left, but she is able to collect a tiny bit. She also discovers that the creatures have altered the steel gurney in someway, and close examination reveals tendrils extending from the "creature" into and through the metal surface.
Additional information in hand, she conceals her breach and rejoins the group. They slip back into the less patrolled floors to plan.
Suivez L'enfant
| Who | Fräulein Ärtzin, Garbo, Liam, Shirayuri, KANZAKI Kazuki |
| When | Friday, January 16, 2060 (Day 29) |
| Where | SCIRE |
Wanting more information on the prisoners and what's being done to them, the group decides they need to get into the biomedical databases. With Tosh gone and deepColour dedicated to working with the Low Garden, they realize that their only computer specialist may be Kazuki. He previous demonstrated a precocious ability with computers and drones.
In the process of confirming he can help and convincing him to, Garbo and Shirayuri also convince him that they're no longer shadowrunners — they're freedom fighters. This immediately opens a flood gate of information when he says that's too bad, because he hired shadowrunners. After some back and forth, they learn that he had some inkling something was coming and reached out to people on the Matrix to help him get out of the arcology. He explains that he refused to talk to them because the client talks to the fixer and the fixer talks to the shadowrunners, but the client is never supposed to speak to the team directly. He also apologizes for being late: at the last minute he wanted to convince his father to come with him, but couldn't find him or his nanny, so he came alone.
Session 3 - 2024/04/25
Erreur Medicale
| Who | Fräulein Ärtzin, Garbo, Liam, Shirayuri, KANZAKI Kazuki |
| When | Friday, January 16, 2060 (Day 29) |
| Where | Hospital, SCIRE, Level 10 |
References
- Previous: S01E09 – Success Requires Sacrifice
- Next: S01E11 – Tailwind