Tailwind
| Staring | Rook, Shiranui, Tak, Zosimos |
| Introducing | Franklin Herrold, Legate |
| Previous Episode | S01E10 – Learn from Yesterday |
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Outside the SCIRE and months before the Shutdown begins, another group of shadowrunners takes a seemingly simple abduction job, only to be thrown into the middle of a scramble — multiple groups all seeking the same target.
Session 1 - 2024/05/16
Jury Selection
Tak receives a call from his and Zosimos' mutual fixer, Legate, inviting him to meet with a Johnson at Matchstick's. He puts the team together, and they gather at the smoky jazz club.
The team is offered 200,000¥ to abduct a "high profile individual" and turn him over alive to the Johnson. They go through the standard back and forth, eventually gaining a small percentage up front and a small increase to the back end.
Terms agreed, they learn who the target is: David Hague, Fuchi's representative on the Corporate Court. They immediately realize they probably could have asked for more, and likely would have gotten it. The Johnson provides his itinerary — he'll be arriving in two days time aboard Quantas Flight 1118, a suborbital departing Tokyo and landing at Sea-Tac International to attend a meeting at Fuchi America HQ the following day.
Voir Dire
The team does some digging on Fuchi security procedures and makes a plan. They quickly realize that the two end points — Sea-Tac International and Fuchi America HQ — are entirely too tough to crack, so they'll have to grab him somewhere on the highways in between.
Matrix research indicates that Fuchi Security generally runs one of two options for a protective detail: either a three vehicle convoy (with six security in each of two cars but only the principle and a rigger in the third) or a single SUV (with the principle, a rigger, and four security). Without diving into the Fuchi America HQ host, there's no way to know which pattern he'll follow on the day.
They decide to use Tak and Zos in the Hotspur to force the convoy to stop at a pre-determined point, where Rook will be in sniper overwatch and Shiranui will be nearby as backup and to squelch comms. In the one-car configuration, when the security officers get out to clear their firelanes (a known Fuchi Security tactic), Zos will use his magic to force Hauge out of the vehicle and into the Hot Spurs. In the three car configuration, Shiranui will hack the car to open it and get Zos line-of-sight to Hague.
Mistrial
Day of Run: At Airport, Shiranui sees all sorts of activity burst into motion, it takes a second to realize it is emergency vehicles. They are heading out onto the runway, lights turn off, they turn around and they blast pass Tak and there lights come back up further away. Shiranui picks up that flight 11-18 is an overshoot. Low and fast it flies over and fireballs somewhere in the east. Johnson then calls, wants us to go to crash site and recovery briefcase and or body.
We will get an extra 10k Each.
5, 3, 5, 5 Hits on Outfits to make jumpsuits look like Docwagon.
Group meets up and goes out into the wild.
A group of 4 HRT are carrying a man, looks like could be dead, David Hague. Rook takes an epic shot, we get the case, but when we meet the Johnson the case is empty. He needs the body of David.