Glitterman

## Background

There can only be one...

Glitterworld, a VR show biz game, first released in the 2060s, follows the life of either an aspiring performer looking to make it big, or a manager, looking to take their stars to the top. Hugely successful, topping in 2070 with its forth anniversary release, developers, Digiland, aim to release their newest version, Glitterworld: Delux Performance!

Glitterworld, a VR SIM park, opened its "doors" in July 2066, in Korea. While popular for its time, founding company, Woori Entertainment is looking to break into the American market...

No one can be sure which Glitterworld came first, but early on, the two companies decided on an unspoken truce, keeping to themselves.... But now that both companies have oddly opened Seattle offices at he same time, things have become a bit touchy...

It was just pranks... Breaking into warehouses, swapping Glitterworld merch for Glitterworld merch, ordering 50 pizzas to one office, harmless things... Until it wasn't..

The team is hired by Mr. Kim to botch an upcoming presentation by second string Idol, Sugar Ray, where she will be at the G3 Summer Games Event to announce GlitterWorld: Delux Performance and it's upcoming release.

## Legwork

The team begins research on Sugar Ray and her current schedule, having two days until her G3 performance. They find Sugar lives downtown in the Horizon Idol dorm, as well as a few of her upcoming engagements, easily found on the matrix.

Paying a contact, Damien Blackstar, Joe is able to get much more information on Sugar, an in-depth schedule, and who will be watching her at G3 (4 third string idols)

Deciding to check her out in person before G3, they head to the open of the Neko Neko Cafe, a catgirl maid themed cafe. While the team waits out front, Engima uses shapechanging abilities fly to the cafe roof and squeeze down an air vent as a rat. Crawling through the vents, they find the idols relaxing in the office before their performance (Sugar and two idol body guards). Engima managed to go undetected as they mindprobe the idol, discovering a very helpful detail. Sugar as a boyfriend, something that is very against Horizon Idol policy. Half an hour after slipping away and traveling as various animals, Enigma rejoined the team and successfully relayed the important information while conning the team to believe the information was all stuff merely overheard.

Searching this man's P2.1, they find that Sebastian, Sugar's boyfriend, lives in Tacoma, and with the help of Enigma's spirit, they are able to locate his house and put a tracker on his vehicle.

Many disguises are made, tickets to G3 are scalped.

## Run

Everyone heads to G3 the day of the performance. Tarnish and Engima finding a back kitchen/storage area of bunker down in to wait, Melody using her detection magic to locate Sebastian in the crowd, and Joe putting on the part of a Horizon Executive. Approaching Sebastian, Joe explains that he knows of his relations with Sugar, and if he didn't want things to go poorly for the both of them, Sebastian should come with him back to the office to sign some papers and discuss things going forward. Worried that he has gotten Sugar in a lot of trouble, Sebastian follows the "Executive" to his car, where Joe requests access to all the messages between Sebastian and Sugar. Reluctantly, he hands his comm over to Joe before being slapped in the face with a neurotoxin patch to knock him out.

Joe messages Sugar on Sebastian's comm, stating he had something very important to tell her and couldn't wait till after her presentation. Not wanting to tell her this important news in front of people, asks her to meet him in the kitchen/storage area.

Shortly after, Sugar enters the kitchen to find Sebastian (Enigma in disguise) who uses magic to control her thoughts and actions, getting her to go in the storage area where they kept her busy with a distracting and meaningless conversation, not allowing her mind to think about her needing to go on stage and how much time is passing. Tarnish promptly takes the idols place behind stage, fast talking her way out of explaining her disappearance to the other idols by claiming she needed to be on stage right away.

Once on stage, Tarnish starts an anti-corp rant, yelling about the mistreatment of idols and basically calling the masses Sheeple before jumping off stage and running from the building foaming at the mouth.

## Aftermath

The team pulls an Ocean's 11, walking off the job in different directions, receiving their payment from Mr. Kim after he sees the live stream of the performance.

Sugar Ray and the Boyfriend's memory was cleaned up and altered via a mix of spells like Rewind and Alter memory, unbeknownst to the team, covering the most major loose ends, removing the points of contact with the runners and it being replaced with a realistic alternate history.

The team sells pictures of Sugar and her boyfriend to Tabloids, and Tarnish keeps her Sugar Ray costume to make some extra money selling dirty photos of the idol.

Sugar Ray is forced to choose between her boyfriend and her career, upsetting many fans when she chooses her career, breaking Sebastian's heart. The idols career will recover in time...

## Rewards

+10k nuyen for botching the interview

+3k for "Sugar Ray" speaking badly of Glitterworld

+5k for impressing the Mr. Kim

+1000 from the tabloids for proof of the boyfriend

=19k nuyen

+1k to Tarnish for selling idol nudes

5 Karma

-1 for selling out the idols boyfriend

=4 karma

-2 karma for Tarnish for selling "idol nudes"

=2 karma

Tarnish

+1 Sugar Ray Idol costume of incredible accuracy

+2 CDP