Bleeding Hearts

## Loot/Exp

* Tea // 8th Game (October) // 200 eb // 20 IP // 0 DT
* Tools // 6th Game (October) // 200 eb // 20 IP // 0 DT
* Boring Girl // 8th Game (October) // 200 eb // 20 IP // 0 DT
* Izuru // 9th Game (October) // 200 eb // 20 IP // 0 DT
* Yumeko // 4th Game (October) // 200 eb // 20 IP // 7 DT

All
+1 Rep + Contact Info for "Melissa Mannix"

## Summary

The edgerunners in question this night had for whatever reason boarded the 11 PM N-CART, and had encountered a distressed, but well-off appearing exec and his bodyguard.

Many of them seeing either an opportunity to help or an opportunity to make some money, intervened and determined the source of the distress from the exec later to be determined a Robert L. Hikurt -an executive from Rocklin Augmentics: serving his wife divorce papers.

With some careful preplanning, Hikurt was able to create legitimate one-time visitor passes into the Exec Zone before arrival where they would travel, using factual information - upon arriving into the heart of the executive Zone, the Edgerunners were immediately spotted by Lazarus security forces, detained, disarmed, and frisked for additional weaponry.

With the Edgerunner's cooperation and valid credentials, this was a relatively fast and verifiably painless procedure - that Tea - or rather Akira - at the time was exempted from, given their residential status.

Afterwards, the group reconvened, was guided to Hikurt's Beaverville Mansion, where the Edgerunners were then tasked with meeting with Hikurt's wife without him - the goal clear: serve her the divorce papers, and get her to leave peaceably, unharmed if possible, without property damage.

The team were able to research Ms. Hikurt firsthand, and Boring Girl determined that she also happened to be his employee - most likely a Covert Operative under his employ - and things became much more clear: these papers weren't just a divorce, but also very likely contract termination.

The group made contact with Ms. Hikurt, and after some initial suspicion and paranoia, invited the Edgerunners indoors. While the Edgerunners were treated with hospitality, tensions were consistently on guard as she shared with the group some of her relationship woes and challenges in a bid for some awkward pleasant conversation - there it was easy to determine that Ms. Hikurt was exhibiting some early signs of developing Cyberpsychosis.

Eventually, Ms. Hikurt was served the papers, and she understood exactly what this meant - succeeding in keeping her composure, she was able to rationally assess the reality of her situation without snapping, with the Edgerunners being immediately supportive of her, offering her options to continue her life outside the employ of her Husband.

She determined the best route was via returning to her Edgerunning roots, and starting with finishing her original contract: killing her now ex-husband. With the Edgerunner's assistance, she reacquired her old edgerunning & assassination gear hidden beneath the master bedroom floorboards, shared her contact information as "Melissa Mannix" with the team, and left with Tea peaceably: promising her husband over the Edgerunner's comms that if he ever left the Exec Zone, she'd make good on her contract.

The remaining Edgerunners remained for debriefing: while Robert was less than enthused that the hunt had resumed after its 4-year marital hiatus, he acknowledged that the Edgerunners had fulfilled the mission in full, and that events had transpired significantly better than expected - assuring them that they would be paid in full.

As for the continuance of these events, where they lead remains to be