A Bullet for Crockett

## Summary

The edgerunners were hired to explore Sonny's consciousness during an experimental brain dance and try to determine why he is refusing to come out of his brain lock.

When they entered they found themselves on Sonny's Cabin Cruiser watching Angela Calderone's yacht party. Sonny was on radio comms with Glass, who had discovered a bomb on board the yacht. She was asking for help and the edgerunners advised her to throw the bomb into the sea. Glass did so and the bomb went off, but it went off on Sonny's boat, not on the yacht.

The edgerunners then found themselves poolside at the Beach Club. Sonny was talking at a corner table with a woman named Callie. They were hitting it off together. The edgerunners joined them and the scene shifted to a live concert at Pacifica Playground. Sonny and Callie danced together; they seemed in love. But there was something Callie was obviously worried about, something she was holding back.

The scene shifted to a hospital room. The edgerunners were in hospital beds, weak, barely able to move. They were hooked up to EKG machines and Sonny was in one of the hospital beds in the corner, seemingly unconscious. Callie was in a chair beside him, asleep. Through an effort of will Hornet managed to lift herself off the bed just as Calderone's men entered the hospital. They chloroformed Callie and showed her face to Sonny, who couldn't move, before abducting her and taking her away.

The scene shifted to the Atlantis. The Edgerunners were on the second story with the private booths and they saw that Calderone was in one of the booths. Mr. K, using Hornet as eye candy, approached Calderone asking for a job. Calderone admitted he didn't fully trust Mr. K because he knew Mr. K worked for Vice and for Neil McCauley. Hornet helped convince Calderone by kissing him. Calderone agreed to hire Mr. K on a trial basis and gave him a manilla envelope. He said his first job would be to deliver that envelope to Sonny Crockett, show him the contents, and make sure he understood the significance.

The edgerunners opened the envelope outside of Calderone's sight. They found a medical file of Callie; surgery had been performed on her to insert a neural link and another piece of cyberware they couldn't identify. There was also a blueprint schematic of the other piece of cyberware. Callie (the edgerunner, not the NPC) believed the second piece of cyberware might be a kill switch.

They met Sonny outside of Callie (the NPC's) house. Crockett drove them to prison, mistakenly believing they were all his friend and partner Tubbs. Inside the prison was a man wearing priestly jewelry. He seemed confident and he warned Sonny that he had to keep him comfortable in prison or callie would pay.

After that the brain dance ended, but the edgerunners told Castillo and Tubbs everything they learned. It became clear to everyone that Calderone must be threatening Callie on multiple fronts: with a living assassin currently in prison and with killswitch likely installed in her head. The way to save Sonny is to save Callie.

## Loot/EXP

* Mr. K // 250 eb // 20 IP
* Callie // 250 eb // 20 IP
* Hornet // 250 eb // 20 IP
* Shalk // 250 eb // 20 IP
* General // 250 eb // 20 IP
* // Burnout // 250 eb // 20 IP
* Additionally, everyone receives +1 rep with Night City Vice (up to a maximum of 5)