S01E10 – Learn from Yesterday

Who	Fräulein Ärtzin, Garbo, Liam, Shirayuri
When	Friday, January 16, 2060 (Day 29)
Where	Prisoner Pens, SCIRE, Level 11‌

Who	Fräulein Ärtzin, Garbo, Liam, Shirayuri
When	Tuesday, January 6, 2060 (Day 19) through Thursday, January 15, 2060 (Day 28)
Where	SCIRE

Staring	Fräulein Ärtzin, Garbo, Liam, Shirayuri
	With
	And
	Introducing
Previous Episode	S01E09 – Success Requires Sacrifice
Next Episode	S01E11 – Tailwind

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Session 1 - 2024/04/04

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 a Banded work detail stuck around — including Emily, Eloise, and Langdon — waiting for their return. 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.

Tongue Ties

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

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.

Two nurses move into one of the pens, they do something to the leech things and it melts away, then they move person onto their gurney/device thing. She mentions they are moving in our direction so the group hides up in the ducts. They nurses use the elevator.

Shirayuri meets up in ducts, we go over plans and she goes back to get sample of the Leech goo and also look at closer to them. They do look like a leech, they attached to metal underneath with tendrils. There is some kind of change in metal from where they attach.

Look into the Magic Leech/Slugs if we find info from Renraku system. Leave the tamper system at this place broken but put rest back together.

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Suivez L'enfant

Who	Fräulein Ärtzin, Garbo, Liam, Shirayuri, KANZAKI Kazuki
When	Friday, January 16, 2060 (Day 29)
Where	SCIRE

Next objective, get Kazuki to work with us, bribe him with candy and break into hospital systems. Garbo and Shirayuri convince him to work with us but he says unfortunate that we are no longer really runners since that is what he hired. He says Johnson only one who is supposed to talk to Shadowrunners. He also does apologize for being late.

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