A crooked plan

## Background

Everything is going according to plan, as always. Now to make a statement.

The team is contacted and told that they have a meeting with Mr. Johnson at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. They get through security, (With Ripley having to bribe an officer, along with Echo, who's butt got pinched after the bribe) and meet with the Johnson and his bodyguard at the airport bar. He offers 30k nuyen or 60k in any gear (bumped up to 35k or 70k in gear with negotiation). They are told that the job is to steal a Wuxing prototype and are given the item number, location in Hong Kong, a first class flight to Hong Kong, and a safe house on arrival near the location. They have three days from arrival to retrieve this object and contact the Johnson when they have. They are warned not to expect a extraction if they are actively evading pursuit.

After some good times on the plane, they arrive and are greeted by a driver, who takes them, into a shitty road master, to an abandoned apartment complex in a slum ward. They are told by the driver that the 12th floor is their safe house, and he leaves. The 12th floor is a medium lifestyle safe house with nice accommodations. Luna inspects the place, discovering some armed plastic explosives in the floor boards, causing them to leave in a hurry and call their Johnson, informing him of the explosives. He tells them their 3 day window is now 2 days. The building can be seen exploding in the distance.

## Legwork

The Techno duo (Echo and Ripley) begins a full dive into finding information, while the rest of the team finds a No Tell Motel and hides out there. Infected duo (Uralt and Howl) find some "food" and Chinese food before returning. The info found is about the building where the item they are looking for is. It reveals that it's a pretty average manufacturing plant almost entirely drone run. There is a on site security force. The project they are looking for is apparently called "Project Minesweeper", a new video game console being developed by Wuxing, however, what it actually is was a brainwashing detection device, which uses a very advanced agent program to see if someone was under the effects of mundane or magical manipulation. Howl sent a spirit to investigate the site and, strangely, there is no astral presence on site which is incredibly out of the norm for Wuxing. Flyspy recon shows that there is a rooftop access with a helipad (helicopter parked on it), two guards on the roof, a catwalk with about 3 guards, a first floor break room with 2 guards, and a management office on the third floor, with one guard with a sniper rifle watching the production floor. Strange things are noticed on this recon, like that 2 of the guards seem to be walking with a noticeable limp, in the sniper's perch, there is a desk with a carving of a crooked stick figure on it and a bit of dried blood on the floor. The techno's begin trying to hack into this rating 6 host. The host appears as a Buddhist temple, however,everything seems a bit off, the temple leans on an angle to the left, icons of monks that walk the grounds seem to not align with the ground or otherwise seem a bit off, The duo quickly recognize that this is a dissonant host, they decide to find the physical location of the prototype and manage to in time as a persona signs into the host looking like a monstrous lion..They jack out.

## Run

Howl runs an obnoxious tourist distraction at the front of the building, keeping two guards from the break room distracted as they come out and try to persuade her to get off the property. The techno's being close enough not to worry about noise, decide to do matrix support from there. Luna and Uralt begin sneaking into the loading area, cutting through the fence with a mini welder. They go up to the loading door that has a manual lock keeping it in place, Luna places a data tap on it hoping they spot something and sure enough the Techno's do: a rating 3 sensor is in place to detect lock picking. Hacked and picked, the lock is no longer a problem, however the door is old and badly maintained, meaning that opening this in any way where the team could get in would make a lot of noise that the guards on the cat walk could hear. They instead try the side entrance where it leads them up onto the catwalk level.

Taking out out a guard all subtl, theyd they realize that they need a distr. Data, data tappinn out guards com,thenk the team gets Techno support to send a message to all guards thre iseinr is a intruder in the back of the c. Thex, the cat walk guards begin heading tand thee, the ones who whert the front with howl make it there first and find the mini wielded hole and enteralert. Luna, Luna sneaks to the package almost unspotted, h,owever a sniper alerts her that she was spotted with a near Witht with the p,ackage Luna and Uralt fight off the guards in the warehouse and are surprised when the sniper drops down from his perch and engages them all ie withe with a. Their there helmet gets knocked off in the fight and it reviles that this is some kind of dIt'se? its all metal, no flesh, and goes down with a lot of effort on the teams Tart. they manage to get away with the package and call the Johnson and get picked up by helicopter to the Johnsons secret airport.

## Aftermath

The Johnson investigates the package and finds Project Minesweeper, thats on a deck, along with a metalink. The Johnson plays with the metalink and a audio message with a heavily distorted and disguised voice says "the crooked man calls". Following this, the Johnson breaks the deck over his knee and places it back in the box. Some of the team seem to piece it together that the comm link's statement seemed to have triggered the Johnson's apparent brainwashing causing him to destroy the prototype and not recall that he did it himself. Regardless, the team is paid what they are owed and are flown back to Seattle in first class.

## Rewards

* 4 Karma
* 35k Nuyen
* OR
* 70k Nuyen in any type of gear from Azetechnolgy, Ares, Sader Krup, Horizon, and Spin Global
* 2 CDP