Bodyjack

## Loot/Exp

* Drake // 4 games (November) // 400eb // 20ip
* Spike // 2 games (November) // 400eb // 20ip
* Flatline // 3 games (November) // 400eb // 20ip
* Cherry // 2 games (November) // 400eb // 20ip

## Summary

The Edgerunners were contacted by a Media named Carpenter with instructions to meet up at a Diner/Bodega in Little China: "Ling's Lead & Lo Mein", informed that he'd need help with an investigation into something deep and dangerous.

The group met up, after making their way to the location: Some had to sneak their way through the Triad-Controlled area; others barely arrived after their corporate vehicles were violently engaged. For Flatline this was just a walk to a local eatery to get some noodles and get ready for a job.

Once they all arrived, Carpenter soon joined them, giving them the rundown: an excursion into the Old Med Center Hot Zone to raid a subterranean lab for a Tombstoned med corp that were involved in some unethical experiments and tests, and he was going to get the party inside with the help of some guides.

Heading down into Ling's basement, the group met up with Dima, Vadim, and their veritable fucking platoon of Russian Scavs - expert Tunnel Rats, and after some conversation, evidently having a less than stellar history with Carpenter. They doubled up their numbers after hearing Edgerunners were coming along.

That said, they made great company, supplied the group with Geiger counter, suppressed some threats, and faithfully led them through metro tunnels, sewers, and even hand-dug holes, up until a point where the Scavs told the party to hang back for five minutes while they looted the place first as part of their agreement. - The PCs took the scavs' side, if only because only the Scavs had maps for the way out.

5 Minutes later with rapid gunshots down the tunnel, and a few desperate pleas in broken Streetslang, the party beat feet to get to the facility only to find everyone dead, mutilated, and a complication to the job: Make sure Carpenter stays alive, find the data he wants, and find the maps to get the fuck out.

The party searched the location, but were quickly ambushed by horrific cybernetic monsters, stalking them through the ceiling tiles, jumping out of vents. The party quickly adapted when Spike realized they were pinging as valid access points, and the party decided to stick together. Through clever tactics, coordination, and sticking together, the party defeated the 2 Bodyjacker drones haunting the location.

They could bleed: They killed them: then they went into the fucking Net Architecture, and fought what appeared to be a fairly advanced AI - fully bricking the NetArc with a virus: it only required turning Spike into an immobile vegetable for an hour, and leaving him with an emotional dependency on Chocolate milk.

Every piece of verifiable information was acquired; every monster, a trophy taken off (albeit one having been defecated upon by a certain angry Solo); hell, Carpenter got out of this without a single scratch on him, and the party found the maps to get the fuck out of dodge. Everybody had had enough of Everlife Cybernetics' shitshow monsters by that point.

Carpenter determined money well-spent, ensuring that the Edgerunners got a nice little top-up for their outstanding performance.