Family property

## Background

A Saeder-Krupp subsidiary has lost a legal battle over custody of a child that was born in a new surrogate mother program. The company stated in small print of their legal contracts that any child born in there surrogate program can be reclaimed by the company for research within the first 30 days. This clause was overturned in a UCAS court of law through a loop hole found in the contract by a popular lawyer in the ork underground. Saeder Krupp was not pleased, and hired a runner team to get back there property and replace it with a counterfeit that was engineered to be physically identical. The stakes are high and Herr Brackhaus awaits.

The team meet with Herr Brackhaus in a middle of the road ork underground hotel room. He informs the team that the job is to retrieve their property and replace it with a counterfeit. Herr Brackhaus says that blood shed is not a deal breaker in any form and that they have until 6pm the following day to complete the job. The price is 35k nuyen and negotiated up to 38k with 8k in advance for expenses. After the team agrees, a nurse walks in with a baby and the team is told that they will be kidnapping a baby and replacing it with this one. The home and names of the parents are given to the runners and they then begin legwork.

## Legwork

The team, holding a baby, is overwhelmed with taking care of a infant, which begins crying immediately. Seabreeze goes to buy baby supplies at a stuffer shack and Howl boldly drives away to get a spirit of earth to track the location of the other baby with a search power. This shows them that the baby is, as Herr Brackhaus said, on the second layer of the OU, in a house behind a magical lodge of force 3. As howl is away, Komyo and Chaos get in Komyo's car thinking that driving will get the baby to stop crying. It does not. Sea breeze returns with a bag of baby supplies which she gives Chaos and then goes astral. She hops over to the location of the other baby and scouts a dozen people in this house, including one very wared troll and one awakened troll, both with very tired auras. Sea breeze figures that the lodge must be the bedroom of this couple and that the baby must be sleeping in the crib right now. As Howl returns, the team shares what they all have discovered and decide on a plan. Chaos and Komyo will climb the the wall of the house and get in to the room through a window and swap out the babies, as Sea breeze and Howl will walk to the front of the building and distract the occupants of the house.

## Run

The team initiates the plan. Sea Breeze and Howl decide to distract the house owners by walking up and asking them about life in the underground, and talking about how they plan to move in. Basically, by rambling as a new married couple. The door is answered by the wared father and who is distracted. Several house mates also keep a eye out on what's happening at the front door. Chaos and Komyo begin their climb with several magical buffs helping them get up unseen. That and the duo is quite sneaky on their own. Opening the window with a autopicker, team Sneaky get in and swap the babies, after making sure they are changed into the same diapers and clothes the parents put them in. Tt isn't a pleasant process but they manage, (Komyo gags as his baby poops) and climb away with the right baby. The run is a complete success.

## Aftermath

The team gives Herr Brackhaus the baby, who is incredibly relieved. After they confirm its the right baby, they pays the team in full.

## Rewards

* 38k nuyen
* 2 cdp

## Player After-Action Reports

Chaos: "Not sure how I feel about the Goth, but everyone worked pretty well together. That Komyo guy is pretty good. ...The baby grabbed me with its little fingies... I gotta go home and talk to my husband about something completely unrelated..."