Inferno Galore

## Summary

Night City Vice hired the characters to collect evidence in Upper Marina. They heard rumors that joy toys were being abducted on sold to Biotechnica as human lab subjects. They believed that Calderone was behind it.

The characters first went to visit one of Mimir's contacts, a joytoy streetwalker who worked the red light district on the border between Upper Marina and Little China. From her he learned that the rumors were correct -- if joy toys refused to hand over cut of their profits to specific individuals, or refused to take certain clients or do things they didn't want to, they would "disappear" in a somewhat public way. It was sewing terror among the population of sex workers. When asked who the individual or individuals were that were causing this terror, she told Mimir to go to the strip club "The Hard Knockers". All he had to do was see what's sitting outside the Hard Knockers and that would tell him everything he needed to know.

The characters then went to the Hard Knockers, a fairly average looking strip club in the Upper Marina red light district. The bouncer, sitting outside on a stool, was a clown. Hornet noticed that the sign had changed slightly since she had last been there. It used to say "The Hard Knockers" but now, added in small print was "a subsidiary of Jumbo's Clown Room." The clown bouncer seemed polite and they entered the club. Nitya decided to try and bluff her way to talk to the manager by asking the bartender for a job. The bartender took pity on Nitya and told her "trust me you don't want to work here." Nitya insisted and the bartender told her to talk to Ronnie, the clown bouncer.

The edgerunners returned outside to talk to Ronnie. He proved to be a pretty smart clown, knowing damned well that the safest place he could be was right out there in the street. He certainly wasn't going inside the Hard Knockers to some private room where they could kill him. Frustrated, General grabbed Ronnie and dragged him into an alley. While she did so Ronnie warned her that if anything happened to him every stripper working in The Hard Knockers would disappear. The edgerunners didn't take much stock in that threat and proceeded to torture Ronnie. He gave up everything he knew fairly easily, before they could really put the hurt on him. He told them that Jumbo, the owner of Jumbo's Clown Room, a strip club in The Old Combat Zone, had begun a new business strategy that had catapulted him to rapid success. Any stripper or sex worker that gave him trouble he sold directly to biotechnica for a fairly nice payday. He made that public to the other joy toys working for him so that they would be afraid to stand up to him. The strategy was so successful that he'd been able to expand, buying out strip clubs, whore houses and pimps so that he was now directly in control not only of his Combat Zone prostitution interests but also about 80 percent of the sex workers in Upper Marina too. Jumbo gave a cut of all his earnings to Calderone, who Ronnie said had originally given Jumbo the idea and had trained him in the operation.

The edgerunners called Tubbs and told him all the evidence against Jumbo's Clown Room. Tubbs thanked the edgerunners for a job well done and vowed to organize a strike force to take down Jumbo's.

## Loot/EXP

* Hornet // 350 eb // 20 IP
* Turok // 370 eb // 20 IP
* Nitya // 350 eb // 20 IP
* Mimir // 350 eb // 20 IP
* Boombox // 370 eb // 20 IP
* General // 350 eb // 20 IP
* Additionally, everyone gained +1 Rep with Night City Vice.