S01E09

Season 1, Episode 9
Success Requires Sacrifice

Staring	Arthur Gold, HIMURA Aoi, Mukami Hyland, Jordan Muraro, WATANABE Nobutoshi
With	deepColour, Fräulein Ärtzin, Garbo, Liam, Shirayuri, Saffron Cade
And	AOYAMA Akari, Geneviève Bunker, KANZAKI Kazuki, Hyalmánúra Melehtë, Sharp
Introducing	Anise Yates
Previous Episode	S01E08 – Valid Identification Required
Next Episode	S01E10 – Learn from Yesterday

While the shadowrunners make their way higher in the arcology, the original group of surviors perform some more local tasks. Things go pretty well for them, including discovering some disturbing new Banded activity.

Unfortunately, the shadowrunners' activities elsewhere in the SCIRE result in a tragic attack on their hideout.

Session 1 - 2024/03/14

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Scene 1
Drug Dealing

Who	Arthur Gold, HIMURA Aoi, Mukami Hyland, Jordan Muraro, WATANABE Nobutoshi, Anise Yates
When	Saturday, December 27, 2059 (Day 9)
Where	Ferrarius Pharmacy, SCIRE, Level 1‌

With the discovery that Genie suffers from bipolar disorder and she's run out of medication, a small group of survivors heads down to the mall level to secure more. They encounter another group of survivors, looting the pharmacy. Mr. Gold tries the diplomatic approach, but the looters have other ideas.

Unfortunately for them, they discuss those plans a little too loudly — the survivors overhear their leader, a woman, tell another member of her team "that man is wearing a nice suit, he's gotta have some good stuff. Take the long gun, go around, and plug him." They have no chance against a group that outnumbers them nearly two to one and outguns them almost three to one.

In the end, the leader is dead, her husband is distraught with grief, and the third (the one with the rifle) surrenders and joins the survivors.

Session 2 - 2024/03/21

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Scene 2
Noise Complaints

Who	Arthur Gold, HIMURA Aoi, KANZAKI Kazuki, WATANABE Nobutoshi, Anise Yates
When	Monday, December 29, 2059 (Day 11)
Where	SCIRE, Level 24‌

Late in the evening they've returned from their expedition to the mall, Kazuki finds Aoi and Arthur on watch. He first asks Aoi to ask Mr. Gold to give them some privacy (he's a Fixer, and therefor shadowrunner-adjacent), he then asks if they scanned Anise for bugs. Aoi gets Tosh to do a sweep, and finds that Anise is broadcasting. When confronted, she explains that her cyberware can't be turned wireless-off: it's a cybersuite.

They go back and forth for a bit, trying to figure out various plans. The initial idea is to just run a jammer (which they do immediately, at least for temporary protection), but it would be a consistent drain on their limited power supplies. They eventually settle on just bricking her implants, but she objects as that includes her eyes and ears, which would render her blind and deaf. She's willing to leave, to keep the rest of them safe, but Tosh comes up with less ultimately fatal and more long-term idea — with a little ingenuity, they can set up one of the bathrooms with Faraday shielding.

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Scene 3
Hot Dogs

Who	Arthur Gold, HIMURA Aoi, Mukami Hyland, Jordan Muraro, Anise Yates
When	Tuesday, December 30, 2059 (Day 12)
Where	Atrium, SCIRE, Level 31‌

After locating what they need to build Anise's Faraday room from a grocery store on Level 33‌ — aluminum foil, plastic wrap, and tape — the group makes their way back home. On the ground floor of the atrium, they encounter a group of hellhounds. Tosh and Mukami detect the burning smell and alert the others. Muraro-san is injured by their attacks, but Aoi is able to treat his burns.

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Scene 4
It Could Always Be Worse

Who	Arthur Gold, HIMURA Aoi, Mukami Hyland, Jordan Muraro, Anise Yates
When	Tuesday, December 30, 2059 (Day 12)
Where	Prisoner Pens, SCIRE, Level 31‌

Heading back towards their base, the group is forced to detour by a Blue patrol. Their new course leads them past a sector cleared of all interior partitions and regular furniture. Instead, it's full of monowire-topped fences, surrounding groups of fifty to sixty patients on steel gurneys with IV drips. Instead of being strapped down, they're fastened at ankle and wrist with slug-looking shapes that Mr. Muraro recognizes as calcified versions of the creatures the centipede drones were deploying in the VIP VTOL hangers. When the creatures start making the same squealing noise Fräulein and Shirayuri experienced, they realize it's probably reacting to Mukami and back off.

Once she has a place to hide, the others sneak back over and attempt to make entry. While Mr. Gold and Tosh work on the lock, Anise and Aoi keep an eye out. They realize that every person they can see has a datajack installed, some of them recently, and the monowire is mounted leaning inward — it's meant to keep people in, not out.

Unfortunately, Mr. Gold and Tosh have trouble with the lock, and aren't able to breach it before a group of guards start heading their direction. They fall back around the nearest corner and wait to see what happens. The guards don't raise any sort of alarm, remarking that this is not the first time somebody has attempted to break in, and they'll have to call a maintainance crew to fix it.

The group decides discretion is the better part of valor, and they'll have something to report to the shadowrunners the next time they make contact. They skirt the area and return home.

Session 3 - 2024/03/28

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Scene 5
It Could Always Be Worse

Who	AOYAMA Akari, Geneviève Bunker, Arthur Gold, HIMURA Aoi, Mukami Hyland, KANZAKI Kazuki, Hyalmánúra Melehtë, Jordan Muraro, Sharp, Anise Yates, WATANABE Nobutoshi
When	Tuesday, December 30, 2059 (Day 12)
Where	Resistance Hideout, SCIRE, Level 24‌

Aoi and Tosh are on surveillance duty when Fräulein arrives via astral projection to warn them that Amethyst was captured a few days ago, and the hideout may be compromised. The message arrives less than an hour before the attack itself.

Well over a dozen Blues, with Dervishes and a Medusa in support, attack the hideout. The survivors attempt to stash Anise in the shielded crate originally intended for Kazuki, with Sharp tasked to carry her. Akari, Aoi, Genie, and Tosh head out to attempt to slow the attack down while Mr. Gold tries to get the nearest security gate open.

The defense goes well for a while, until the Blue deploy gas — something most of the survivors have no ability to deal with. Inside, Kazuki convinces the exceptionally tall Mukami to help him into the overhead vents. As the defenses crumble, Anise and Nura join them leaving Sharp as the last line of defense — a role he is willing to accept.

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Scene 6
Educational Opportunity

Who	Fräulein Ärtzin, Garbo, Liam, Shirayuri, deepColour, Saffron Cade, KANZAKI Kazuki, Hyalmánúra Melehtë, Anise Yates
When	Tuesday, January 6, 2060 (Day 19)
Where	Office Block, SCIRE, Level 24‌

A week after the attack, the shadowrunners finally return to the hideout. All of the fallen Blues and the drones are gone, including two the survivors had dragged home for investigation. Evidence of the fight remains — thousands of expended Dervish darts, and a massive blood stain that could only have come from Sharp. Anise, Kazuki, Nura, and Mukami emerge from the duct work they've been hiding in and rejoin the group.

They all realize they put too many eggs in one basket and need to take better precautions against future discovery.

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