Way Down We Go

## Loot/Exp

* Chappie // 1 game (December) // 200eb // 20ip
* Lambda // 1 game (December) // 200eb // 20ip
* Mr. De La Vega // 2 games (December) // 200eb // 20ip
* Theo // 2 games (December) // 200eb // 20ip
* Wrangler // 2 games (December) // 200eb // 20ip
* Hero // 2 games (December) // 200eb // 20ip
* Yumeko // 2 games (December) // 200eb // 20ip

## Summary

Night City Vice and Atomic Blonde ran a joint operation against Luis Sangre and Treadstone. They biosculpted Lambda into Luis Sangre, the multibillionaire owner of Treadstone. They sent Lambda to Sangre's residence on the Crystal Palace. The other members of the crew pretended to be the edgerunners that had rescued Sangre from the Aldecaldos, and he was taking them to his residence to host them for a week in gratitude. The crew's mission was to penetrate a data vault in Sangre's residence and find out the location of the Nostromo, a deep space explorer owned by Treadstone.

The edgerunners first took the Aldecaldo space plane to Johnson Space Platform, a low orbit transfer station. There they borded an Orbital Transfer Vehicle and traveled to the Crystal Palace at Le Grange 1.

The first person to greet them after docking was Luis Sangre's bodyguard Valkyrie. She kissed Lambda hello and led the edgerunners to their residence at the Blue Hawaiin hotel. The hotel was a braindance hotel featuring augmented reality to create a reality "better than real" (tm). Sangre's residence was an island estate in the Hawaiin islands. The edgerunners had been informed that the data vault was on the other side of the private island.

The edgerunners spent the day enjoying the first class facilities, quadrunners, jetskis and bars while Lambda spent the day enjoying Luis Sangre's girlfriend. Chappie questioned hotel staff about the person in charge of the brain dances and he was told that the "Game Master" named "Pillage Idiot" regularly dined at the Four Turtle restaurant. They took their mini sub from their private island to the restaurant, where indeed they met the Game Master and bonded over boiled, extinct sea turtle. They offerred to give the Game Master a tour of Night City in return for him giving them a tour of the brain dance facilities. Pillage agreed and Hero found a moment to plug a sabotage device provided to him by Atomic Blonde. The device seemed to have no effect.

The edgerunners returned to their private island and tried to get into the vault. It was a hatch in the ground of the island. They couldn't unlock it because Lambda, though biosculpted, didn't have Sangre's biometrics. They could have smashed through it, but that would immediately summon security. So they returned to the residence to consider their options. Shortly after they returned a hurricane struck, stranding them on their private island.

The edgerunners realized if they couldn't escape the island, that meant security couldn't reach them here, either. Now was their chance to break into the vault. Yumeko insulted Poseidan while Vega, Wrangler and Hero drove a monster truck through the hurricane to the other side of the island. There Hero ripped off the hatch and penetrated the data vault, where he searched for the data NCV was looking for. Unfortunately, it wasn't there. Instead, he discovered that the real data was in a vault on the very bottom of the crystal palace. The only way to reach it was via spacewalk. That required space suits, which the crew didn't have.

More importantly, they didn't have much time. As soon as the hurricane lifted and the power returned hotel security would discover the vault had been breached. Rather than wait for the storm to end, Wrangler piloted the mini sub back to the hotel lobby through the edge of the hurricane. The edgerunners escaped the hotel and took a shuttle back to the Crystal Palace docking bay.

There Chappie started to cause a scene at the robot terminals, demanding to see a "real human" to change his ticket to an earlier departure. He was encouraging other passengers to start smashing the terminals. That attracted the attention of Detective Miller and Sergeant Draper of the M.A.R.S. Crystal Palace police force.

Lambda and Chappie together managed to convince the cops to help them change their tickets, since the cops didn't like "edgerunners" on board "their station." The edgerunners returned to Johnson Space Platform, back on their Space Plane, and landed back at the Aldecaldo camp. They gave NCV and Atomic Blond all the information they had learned and were rewarded for their work.