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 Qantas 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 Hotspur. In the three car configuration, Shiranui will hack the car to open it and get Zos line-of-sight to Hague.
Mistrial
Shiranui posts up in the airport garage, watching the international suborbital terminal for the target. She spots a flurry of activity on the runway — emergency vehicles rushing out onto the airfield. After a moment, they douse the lights and sirens and turn around, heading off the airport property. Tak and Zosimos, parked near the airport exit, see those same vehicles heading out of the airport and to the East.
From their vantage points, the whole team can see the craft blow past a high speed, followed shortly by a fireball somewhere to the east. Local news services almost immediately report that Qantas Flight 1118 is an "overshoot", meaning the suborbital's trajectory will bring it down somewhere beyond the airfield. The Johnson calls the team and offers them an extra 40,000¥ if they can get to the site and recover Hague's briefcase and his body, dead or alive.
Opposing Counsel
The team meets up and heads towards the crash site. By the time they arrive, it is swarming with emergency services of all sorts — SeaTac first responders, DocWagon paramedics, Franklin Associates firefighters and more. Realizing the need for disguises to blend in, Zosimos uses Fashion to make the teams outfits look like DocWagon standard response team gear.
They infiltrate the site, and find a group of four DocWagon high threat response team carrying a corpse — David Hague. — with a briefcase handcuffed to it. They move to intercept, and the hostile team responds by opening fire. They manage to hold off the 'runners long enough to get the body aboard their nearby helicopter.
As they're fly away, Shiranui locks in on the target's matrix signature and Rook uses it to take an epic shot. He severs the briefcase from the corpse's hand, where it plummets to the ground and they recover it. They bring it to the Johnson, who opens it only to find it empty. The case must have been a red herring, he needs the body of David Hague.
Session 2 - 2024/05/23
Cross Examination
Tak asks his contact Frank Herrold about the crash and any Helicopter's matching our escapee Not Docwagon Heli. All he wants to talk about is the crash happened and a bunch of Doc Wagon guys were shooting at each other. (Cost 600 Nuyen for roll), once Tak gets a work in, he mentioned was going the wrong direction. Why would it go further into Redmond? One was seen in Redmond and somewhere near Ames Lake.
Ames Lake Distillery is what Tak and Rook get. They find out there was a Helichopter that showed up, dropped two people off and then left. Two hours later a truck showed up, and a bunch of guys got out, 6-10. Some looked like Muscle, others looked like not soldiers, had big duffle bags and they were not military looking.
Shiranui, gets exact location and having exact location gets her the floor plans of the place. They will probably be near the generator.
Scouting the area there is a truck backed up to loading dock, sniper on the roof. Rook will counter snipe while rest of us to sneak up.
Sniper is logged into wrong Commlink, all is slaved to wrong commlink.
How many silent icons in area? 12 How many marks on sniper, None
From the North side Zos opens the window with Shape Glass, in through the Mess Hall and Rook takes out one of them.
4 Men escape. We get commlink and his body.