S01E02

Season 1, Episode 2
Observe Safety Precautions

Staring	Fräulein Ärtzin, Garbo, Liam, Shirayuri
With	KANZAKI Kazuki, Jordan Muraro
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Introducing	Saffron Cade, NEPU Soma
Previous Episode	S01E01 – Ice Cream Run
Next Episode	S01E03 – Attention Renraku Shoppers

The group heads back towards the mall levels in search of a way out of the SCIRE. Along the way, they gain some new companions and lose others.

Session 1 - 2023/02/02

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Scene 1
Window Shopping

Who	Fräulein Ärtzin, Garbo, Liam, Shirayuri, Loki, KANZAKI Kazuki, Jordan Muraro
When	Friday, December 19, 2059 (Day 1)
Where	SCIRE, SCIRE, Level 6‌

Between Level 10‌ and Level 6‌, the team has multiple encounters with Work Spiders going about their business. They seem to be restructuring parts of the SCIRE, working to an unknown plan.

When they reach the Club Quarter, Garbo realizes that there is no matrix activity — if there's anything or anyone online, it's running silent. Shirayuri mentions that the security cameras are all hardwired. Fräulein suggests that they could paint them over; Loki has a disguise kit with theatrical makeup.

Shirayuri spots cameras near their destination. Loki volunteers to cover up cameras, and only makes it to the first one before slipping up. From there, he realizes Shirayuri is stealtheir than he'll ever be. He uses his invisibility magic to improve her chances further and lets her handle it.

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Scene 2
Hard Rock Cafe

Who	Fräulein Ärtzin, Garbo, Liam, Shirayuri, Loki, Saffron Cade, KANZAKI Kazuki
When	Friday, December 19, 2059 (Day 1)
Where	Frag Grenade, SCIRE, Level 6‌

The team reaches the Frag Grenade, a screech metal club whose aesthetics involve hunks of twisted metal reminiscent of upscaled shrapnel, blast craters, and grey dust. The queue uses a chain-link fence with decorative barbed wire, while the entrance and exit are airlock-like iris portals.

Mr. Muraro stays behind in overwatch, while the rest sneak up and Shirayuri bypasses yet another maglock. First inside, she spots of a stack of bodies on the stage, thermographic vision indicating they may still be alive. Loki moves up to to investigate the bodies astrally with, Garbo providing cover.

The team identifies movement in the stack of bodies, but also sees a Work Spider nearby. It appears to be in standby mode, but they're not one-hundred percent certain. Shirayuri sneaks up to check on the movement, which triggers the drones to attack.

At one point, Kazuki disappears behind the terrain only reappearing to somehow save Garbo from a charging drone. It stumbles over nothing, which leads the group to believe he may have some sort of special ability.

During the fight, Shirayuri manages to extract a dwarven woman from the pile. She initially freaks out, but Garbo is able to talk her down.

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Scene 3
Helicopter Parenting

Who	Fräulein Ärtzin, Garbo, Liam, Shirayuri, Loki, Saffron Cade, KANZAKI Kazuki, Jordan Muraro
When	Friday, December 19, 2059 (Day 1)
Where	Frag Grenade VIP Landing Bay, SCIRE, Level 6‌

Mr. Muraro rejoins the group to play overwatch along with Liam and Loki as they access the landing bay. Shirayuri scouts ahead, spotting some sort of centipede drones of a make and model she has never seen before.

If they notice the group, they don't react. They appear to be depositing something on the door, lumpy and organic-looking. Loki casts ignite on one of the things that the centipede is laying, it goes up in flames and its neighbors start making a buzzing noise.

Shirayuri moves in to check out the area, but is greeted by a trio of Dervishes. She destroys one immediately, the falls back to cover. She gets the drop on a second one as it comes around that cover, while the rest of the team engages the third. They put some damage on it with spells and firearms, but Shiriyuri scores the third kill as well.

Meanwhile, the centipedes continue to do their work, ignoring the battle around them.

Session 2 - 2023/02/09

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Scene 4
Uncontrolled Air Traffic

Who	Fräulein Ärtzin, Liam, Shirayuri, Saffron Cade, NEPU Soma
When	Friday, December 19, 2059 (Day 1)
Where	Frag Grenade VIP Landing Bay Control Pod, SCIRE, Level 9‌

Shirayuri and Liam scale the elevator shaft to access the control pod and check the door controls. The shaft goes all the way up to Level 30‌, with the control pod at Level 9‌.

Inside, they find a damaged centipede segment, two injured flight controllers, and a mess of Dervish fire. They quickly determine one of the controllers is dead, but the other is only mortally wounded. Fräulein levitates herself and Saffron up the shaft while the others continue to search the area.

Shirayuri and Liam determine that the drone and the dead man were both shot by a medium caliber pistol. Blood trails from the bathroom indicate there maybe have been one (or more) additional people here. In any case, this is not a way out — the control pod has no power.

After they stabilize the dying flight controller, they rip the door from a storage locker and use it as a backboard to aid in levitating him down the elevator shaft.

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Scene 5
Temporary Accomodations

Who	Fräulein Ärtzin, Garbo, Liam, Shirayuri, Loki, Saffron Cade, KANZAKI Kazuki, Jordan Muraro, NEPU Soma
When	Friday, December 19, 2059 (Day 1)
Where	Frag Grenade VIP Landing Bay Control Pod, SCIRE, Level 9‌

While others are going up the shaft, Garbo and the others break into one of the VIP lounges. It's well appointed, with comfortable couches, a wet bar, bathrooms, and storage lockers. They loot the lockers, finding a few pieces of fashion armor and a pair of Erika See-Me-Not Anti-Paparazzo glasses — sunglasses with Flare Compensation for the camera flashes and integrated Faceless to ruin the shots.

Around 1900 the light fades; they realize the sun must have gone down, so the SCIRE's light pipes are no longer illuminating this area. Without electricity anywhere in the block, the artificial illumination doesn't come up.

The team decides they need to rest for a bit. They're concerned they wont find a safer place before Loki and Liam crash from earlier stimpatch usage, and Saffron could use more time to make sure Soma is safe to transport.

While being treated, Soma is able to provide some more information. They control pod was attacked by a group of four in Renraku company outfits. Both his co-worker and he were shot before they knew what was happening. He did hear the doors move after he was shot, before he passed out, but it wasn't long enough for a full cycle. He's uncertain if that's because he passed out or because they stopped the doors mid-cycle.

The party discusses future plans:

• Level 40‌ for medical supplies from the hospital, because the changes on Level 10‌ make them concerned it may be in use (or planned for use) by the hostiles.
• Level 48‌ to check on Mr. Muraro's wife.
• Level 51‌ because the hydroponics facilities should be full of foodstuffs and might be a good place to hole up.
• Level 231‌ to check on Shirayuri's family.

They'd also like to check on Mae's family, but they realize none of them know where she lived. There's also some conversation about where the Red Samurai are, how they've responded to the situation, where they're housed, etc.

Once they've all rested up, they head back to the elevator facility on Level 10‌.

Session 3 - 2023/02/16

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Scene 6
Elevator Lullabies

Who	Fräulein Ärtzin, Garbo, Liam, Shirayuri, Loki, Saffron Cade, KANZAKI Kazuki, Jordan Muraro, NEPU Soma
When	Saturday, December 20, 2059 (Day 2)
Where	Elevator Maintenance, SCIRE, Level 10‌

Loki is woken up by Liam's snoring and notices that Kazuki is missing. He calls the kid's microtransciever, but it's still by his bedroll. Fräulein bitches in German about being woken up. Shirayuri confirms that she can see the kid nearby, sleeping in one of the elevator cars — she doesn't mention that he's curled up with her.

Once day breaks and they're getting ready to head out, they discover he's talking to Saffron, despite having persistently refused to talk to the team. Shirayuri overhears him say they are broadcasting and its going to get them killed. A bit of back-and-forth through Saffron leads them to realize they all have matrix-enabled devices, and can't use any of them without potentially revealing their location to anybody who might be looking for them. While uncertain how Kazuki can tell without any matrix devices of his own, they heed his advice and shut down absolutely everything with a matrix transceiver in it.

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Scene 7
Up with People

Who	Fräulein Ärtzin, Garbo, Liam, Shirayuri, Loki, Saffron Cade, KANZAKI Kazuki, Jordan Muraro, NEPU Soma
When	Saturday, December 20, 2059 (Day 2)
Where	SCIRE, Level 11‌ through Level 29‌

The group makes their way over to one of the stairways, heading for the upper floors. On they way, they gain some insight into what might have happened on Level 10‌ while Mr. Muraro was locked in. The exact plans aren't obvious, but Spiders are working all over the place — moving materials around, removing walls in some places, adding walls in others, and so on. It's all taking place under the watchful eyes of Dervishes in their own spider-like sentry mode.

Superlift Stairwells

Level	Layout
30	A
29	A	B
28		B
27		B
26	A	B
25	A
24	A	B
23		B
22	A	B
21	A
20	A	B
19		B
18		B
17	A	B
16	A

The SCIRE's stairwells are integrated into the design of all superlifts starting at Level 16‌ and ending at Level 300‌. The levels within the plinth are arranged differently, to accommodate the loadbearing needs of the basements and the structure as a whole, while the upper most levels were not constructed as superlifts in the first place.

The inner sections of each level (the spaces that exist on all floors of the arcology) follow one of two floor plans, known as "A" or "B", or both arrangements combined (often unofficially called "C" for cross-over). Within each superblock, the two level types are stacked in specific order, resulting in the pattern shown (using Level 16‌ through Level 30‌ as an example).

The non-residents start to understand some of the SCIRE's layout. They can't travel via stairs more than four floors, sometimes only three, before they're forced to shift laterally to a different stairwell.

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Scene 8
Down with the Sickness

Who	Fräulein Ärtzin, Garbo, Liam, Shirayuri, Loki, Saffron Cade, KANZAKI Kazuki, Jordan Muraro, NEPU Soma
When	Saturday, December 20, 2059 (Day 2)
Where	SCIRE, Level 30‌

At Level 30‌, their progress is stopped by a biohazard containment door. The entire stairwell is sealed shut, but more interestingly appears to be powered — it has a working display screen on it explaining why it's closed. They move laterally on the floor, but every section in close proximity is sealed in the same way.

Initially, Liam wants to smash his way through but Saffron points out that if there is a real biohazard up there, all that would do is expose them all. Somebody suggests trying the elevators instead. Shirayuri is easily able to pop the external door, and they find the cross-shaft hatch is sealed and has the same biohazard warning.

Instead, they have Shirayuri bypass the seal and go up first — she'll wear what they have for protection (primarily a gas mask) and hope her integrated biomonitor doesn't go off. Fräulein will accompany her on the astral, with Liam remaining in the stairwell. Loki casts invisibility on both of them, then tasks an air spirit to bring anybody who looses consciousness back to him, Garbo and the others, who will hide out in an office cluster on Level 30‌

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Scene 9
No Foul

Who	Fräulein Ärtzin, Liam, Shirayuri
When	Saturday, December 20, 2059 (Day 2)
Where	SCIRE, Level 31‌

Shirayuri has a little trouble opening the cross-shaft hatch, they're a tougher lock than the regular residential doors. There's no immediate signal from her biomonitor, but she does notice the glow of another hatch many floors above her.

Fräulein zips up there astrally to investigate. The door is surrounded by the same things the centipede drones were deploying on the doors in the VTOL bay. When she gets close, they start squealing in a similar way the others did when Loki incinerated one. She falls back, and they go silent.

After a few more minutes of waiting for Shirayuri's biomonitor to react, which it doesn't, her and Liam pop the elevator shaft. They don't see or hear anybody from their vantage point, so slip out to look around the residential floor. Every unit they find is showing the same biohazard seal notice the stairway hatches were showing.

Session 4 - 2023/02/23

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Scene 10
Among the Sick

Who	Fräulein Ärtzin, Liam, Shirayuri
When	Saturday, December 20, 2059 (Day 2)
Where	Middle-class Housing, SCIRE, Level 31‌

Fräulein projects into a few of the units. In the first, she finds a boy playing video games while his sister complains about him monopolizing the trideo. The mother is in the kitchen fixing a meal. The father is in the bedroom, working from home. Astral investigation shows both parents have the expected light headware and their emotional state checks out — the mother is nervous, afraid, and stressed, but the father seems less concerned.

In a second unit, she finds a kid that is complaining about a throbbing headache. He assenses as very ill, and has headware. Placement suggests it's a datajack, but he's way too young. His parents are more concerned and more nervous than the mother across the hall. They're going back and forth the quarantine, the need for their son to have a datajack, and their faith in the corporation's guidance.

Fräulein reports back her findings, but as they are talking Shirayuri hears someone and hushes the group. She sneaks up to check, and Fräulein ceases manifesting. Shirayuri gets the drop on two Renraku nurses, knocking them both out.

They were carrying a tablet with instructions to bring the boy and girl Fräulein saw earlier up to Level 40‌ for surgery. They realize that between the two uniforms, Kazuki being a child, and Fräulein's stature, they might be able to infiltrate the hospital and find out more.

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Scene 11
General Hospital

Who	Fräulein Ärtzin, Liam, Shirayuri, KANZAKI Kazuki, Dr. Hara Vidhava
When	Saturday, December 20, 2059 (Day 2)
Where	SCIRE, Level 40‌

On their way up to Level 40‌, the conditions are similar to what they saw on Level 31‌ — all the doors have quarantine seals (though the stairways are not sealed). They pass multiple pairs of nurses escorting children, including a girl that can't be more than seven with her head wrapped in bandages. Fräulein notices that Kazuki does not seem surprised, he's either a good actor or legitimately unsurprised.

When they approach the hospital entrance, Shirayuri recognizes her own cybersurgeon, Dr. Vidhava. She's sporting green eyes and four extra cybernetic arms sprouting from her back, something Fräulein knows to be impossible (the human mind can't handle extra limbs like that). She is also in the company of a Red Samurai. Where you see one Red Samurai, there are almost certainly four more, so they decide to abandon the hospital and move on.

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Scene 12
Elder Abuse

Who	Fräulein Ärtzin, Liam, Shirayuri, KANZAKI Kazuki
When	Saturday, December 20, 2059 (Day 2)
Where	Muraro Residence, SCIRE, Level 48‌

With the nurse disgiuses, it's a simple matter for the team to get up to Level 48‌ where Mrs. Muraro lives. Fräulein slips in side to check on her, and finds her unconscious and dying — she's suffering from heart failure.

Liam punches his way into the room, and they do what they can to help, but it isn't enough. She passes away, with the medkit telling them that she's has a heart condition and a drug contraindicated for those with heart issues in her bloodstream.

Fräulein does an astral sweep of other parts of the level. She finds multiple units with dead bodies in them — some are singles, some are couples, but all of them are in the 60-plus age bracket.

The team quickly heads back to Level 30‌.

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Scene 13
We Regret to Inform You

Who	Fräulein Ärtzin, Garbo, Liam, Shirayuri, Loki, Saffron Cade, KANZAKI Kazuki, Jordan Muraro, NEPU Soma
When	Saturday, December 20, 2059 (Day 2)
Where	SCIRE, Level 30‌

Liam, with Saffron's help, is able to explain the situation to Mr. Muraro. He is obviously distraught. Saffron takes him out to the lobby of the office unit they're using.

The shadowrunners gather together to decide what to do next. They realize that the two nurses could be a source of information. Fräulein assenses them, immediately discovering that they have a startling amount of cyberware for nurses — extensive headware and even some bodyware.

Session 5 - 2023/03/02

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Scene 14
We Regret to Interrogate You

Who	Fräulein Ärtzin, Garbo, Liam, Shirayuri, Loki, Saffron Cade, KANZAKI Kazuki, Jordan Muraro, NEPU Soma
When	Saturday, December 20, 2059 (Day 2)
Where	SCIRE, Level 30‌

We Regret to Interrogate You

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• What is happening here? — I'm pretty sure I got hit in the head. I might have a concussion. Why can't I see?
• Why are they installing datajacks into kids? — They were ordered by Dr. Vidhava; it has something to do with diagnosing and treating the disease that's caused the quarantine.
• Do they believe the biohazard is real? — Of course, why wouldn't it be? (Garbo doesn't trust this answer)
• Who is behind this? — We don't know, and it doesn't matter. Treating the population is our job. (Garbo doesn't trust this answer)
• Do they know what happened to the people on the lower levels? — I don't know what you're talking about? We've been quite busy up here, keeping things contained and trying to treat them.

There were additional questions planned, but they didn't get answers before they were attacked.

• What else is happening beyond those lockdown levels?
• Are the Red Samurai collaborating with the drones?
• How many Red Samurai are in the quarantine zone?
• Do they know anything about Doctor Vidhava?
• Do they know about the people who came in through the VTOL hangers?

Liam doesn't want to talk to them for fear of revealing too much information, but Garbo blindfolds them and uses a different voice. Shirayuri sets up a jammer, just incase they have any implanted transmitters. They take a few minutes to figure out questions before they begin. They only get through half of them before an elevator arrives, despite the floor having no power.

Renraku Security come out the elevator tazers drawn, ordering them to come out into the hall and surrender. Liam declines to obey, informing the others they have company. The team spools up — drugs, adept powers, spells, and so-on — to fight back.

The fight initially goes against the Renraku officers, even though they quickly switch from tazers to submachine guns. It turns back in their favor when they deploy gas grenades; the team doesn't have enough gas protection to go around.

Liam tries to hold them off with suppressive fire, and is shocked when they charge directly into it. They try to dogpile him, but he and Shirayuri thin their numbers while the others escape. Fräulein holds back their reinforcements with repeated lightning balls while they fall back.

The security forces push them back all the way to Level 27‌, where they suddenly stop pressing and let the team go. Unfortunately, Soma is killed in a cross fire and Loki, who went invisible early in the engagement, somehow got lost along the way.

References

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