009: Radar Gun

"Schedule 19 on a special election
Got our money problems right in hand
Droppin' them limits like a hot potato

Fifty down to thirty oh, man, oh, man!"

*- Radar Gun* by The Bottle Rockets

## Session Summary

Having put in a call to Bit Chaos, the Runaways (Bit Chaos, Fridge, K2, Nova, and Smoke) were reunited. Smoke managed to help out Doc Hazzard, who was alive but would need to take a fair amount of rest. Smoke had a few idea about what to do with the body of Marcus Collins, specifically that they could turn it over to the NCPD for the 150,000 eddy bounty that the serial killer had on his head. Pusik mentioned the Museum of the Damned being another option, to which the idea of turning over the remains to police, then lifting them later to resell to MotD was a possible plan. For now, though, they had to get the remains to the police.

Smoke got in contact with Trace Aldecaldo and arranged to have him meet them at the precinct in Watson so that he could record and broadcast the whole encounter. Smoke also sought to meet with Kit Samson's department superior. There was a brief confusion as the Runaways approached the precinct entrance, especially because some of them were traveling with fake IDs, but they were eventually let in. Most of the precinct had gathered to watch them, but Sampson himself did not seem to be anywhere in sight.

They were introduced to Chief of Watson Precinct, Parris Voight. He seemed trustworthy enough, at least with the minimum, so he was let in on the possible connections between AJ4X and Collins and Sampson. Parris confirmed that there was no information to be found in the NCPD database, and that itself was worth looking into. He also offered to go out to coffee with Bit Chaos, though she seemed to translate it as an invitation for someone else. With that, the Runaways bid their farewells to Trace and heads for the Afterlife.

There, the Runaways continued to use up the last 20 hours of their free drinks at the Afterlife. Guests were invited, notably Pusik and Foxy showed up, though Foxy was distinctly interested in getting some alone time with Nova. Rogue Amendiares approached them in the role of their fixer and said she had a lead on someone who might be able to help them in their efforts to get Pusik back to her superiors, and once the Runaways had sobered up after the night's celebrations, she sent them the information for a new client who lived out by way of Santo Domingo, named Luna.

The Runaways traveled to Luna's apartment at Megabuilding 7, and introduced themselves. Long story short, Luna wanted to go to space! She herself was a netrunner who had spent some time digging around in Arasaka records, only to find a gap in them. Finding such a vacancy in otherwise pristine records needled in her brain. She believed that the missing data, only labeled as a project called "Save Your Soul," was being stored in the Arasaka tech located on the O'Neill Space Station located in orbit around the Earth. Of course that meant the only way to access them was in person... and that meant building a rocket.

She had managed to get much of the supplies together herself, either from piecemeal, purchase, or purloin, but there was a final component she would need help with: a booster rocket. She had just the target in mind, but she also knew she would not be able to lift it herself: a Millitech rocket that was being transported to Night City via the Badlands roads. And just like that, and agreement was reached! But they would need a plan...

To start, they created a distraction, with Smoke discovering flaws in Alt Cunningham's code. They were able to rewrite the PSA code (featuring a deep faked Johnny Silverhand) to be used as a distraction the next day, hoping it would get Alt and AJ4X to not pay attention to them while they pulled off the job.

The group settled in to plan what was certainly going to be a heist of the century....