Zoo Day

## Background

**//FORT LEWIS ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS: Grand Opening of the New Juggernaut Habitat!//**

The Fort Lewis Zoological Gardens are making history by becoming the first-ever publicly accessible zoo to feature a live Juggernaut. As part of their joint program with EVO's Yamatetsu Naval Technologies, Fort Lewis Zoo is bringing in this one-of-a-kind exhibit. Occupying the whole of the Plains area, this majestic creature is kept contained and controlled thanks to Pensodyne's brand-new proprietary Pheromonal-Holographic Large-Environment Containment System, which gives the noble Juggernaut all the joy of roaming the open plains, while keeping zoogoers safe and sound, thanks to an innovative combination of shifting hyper-realistic holo-projections and hidden pheromone sprayers.

Update: Opening day was a phenomenal success, with over 20,000 visitors in attendance. The PHLECCS seemed to be working wonderfully, and a good time was had by all, despite a brief protest by a local environmentalist group.

## The Meet

Suite, bored of his party full of bottom feeders, walks out onto the balcony and checks checks his comm for anything interesting. Seeing something that piques his interest he makes a call; "Moth, I want the juggernaut job."

The runners met up in a lost and forgotten host filled with technocritters and were met by an ever shifting avatar that didn't seem to quite understand how humanity worked, moving and talking with mechanical precision.

The J outlined a plan, they wanted the juggernaut on display at Fort Lewis Zoological Gardens moved into a specially made transport container set up in Clover Park, Tacoma that would be used to move the massive beast to it's natural habitat. It offered a ludicrous low sum for the job but kept raising the price and acquiescing to the runners requests with next to no resistance. The J insisted on a handshake to seal the deal, despite two of the three runner's avatars not possessing arms, and left them to their own devices.

## Legwork

Suite picked up the others in his helicopter and they made their plans. They researched to zoo and security placed on the Juggernaut and Seen hired Velara Vindani to provide matrix support. While Suite grilled Óphis on their abilities an how they could benefit the mission he offered Seen some shade. Seen scouted out the park, finding several watcher spirits, awakened individuals (mostly guests) and a minor background count.

Suite announced that he planned to levitate the beast across the city, and the others would do what little they could to assist him.

## Run

After summoning spirits and layering magic over each other they arrived at the zoo under cover of darkness. They slipped easily past the guards and watchers and made it to the juggernaut enclosure. Here things began to get complicated as the beast slept in a massive den swarming with cameras. Velara looped the feeds, but even with his prodigious strength Suite would not be able to levitate the juggernaut out of the den if it started resisting. They would need some way to subdue the creature and it was up to Óphis to pull it off with a nerve strike.

Seen kept watch with some Trid phantasms while Suite and Óphis crept down into the den and discovered yet more problems; several tracking and biomonitoring tags attached to the slumbering juggernaut and some were so deeply embedded in it's thick hide that a tag eraser couldn't fry them even if they were accessible. Óphis put up an area of interference and slithered through the gaps in the curled up beast's defenses to arrive in the hollow at the center. surrounded by the juggernauts more vulnerable underbelly Óphis lined up a magicaly enhanced strike at a nerve cluster the size of their head and miraculously paralyzed the juggernaut in a single move.

With that Suite called forth a powerful golden bound spirit and the two lifted the juggernaut out of it's den in a herculean feat of spellcraft. Everyone climbed aboard and layered concealing magic upon it as Suite piloted the beast across the city.

They arrived at the drop point and surprised a couple of scraggly looking elves. they took a few panicked shots at the huge invisible mass but stood little chance of actually damaging it. Once they calmed down they revealed that they were here to collect the juggernaut and began connecting hyper concentrated neurostun canisters up to the shipping crate.

## Aftermath

The runners got paid and went on their way, but the job was soured when a few days later Óphis encountered one of the elves again and found them to be newly infested with an Insect Spirit.

## Rewards

* 32k nuyen
* 4 karma
* 2 CDP

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