Concealed Carry OK

# Summary

Angelika, Mori, Bomb Diggity (BD), and Stitches go out for a karaoke night, which is rudely interrupted by the Kenran-Kai, who attempted to collect protection payments from the bar.

# Meet

The gang goes out for karaoke. There is no J, but Mori does push for a newly-opened, higher-end karaoke bar in Bellevue called THY VENUE, or simply VENUE because most people don't like the name. He gives a ride to most of the team. They show up, get a room, drink, and sing.

# Run

Stitches does novacoke with Mori while BD and Angelika drink. After the first round of songs, the team starts to hear the sounds of a commotion outside, and afterwards a bald, tattooed man with an SMG enters the room and stands at the door, instructing them to continue with the karaoke. When questioned about what he's doing, he tells them that it's none of their business. Angelika orders him to bow down, and when he enters a dogeza, Mori kisses him on the back of the head with neurostun-laced lipstick, which knocks him out.

Mori then stabs him in the neck with his vibro-knife; Stitches counters with a healing spell, leaving the man nearly uninjured, and takes Mori's knife, promising to mail it back to him later. The team mostly berates him until they have the bald man tied up with microphone cords, where they wake him with a stim patch. Based on his tattoos, Angelika identifies him as a member of the Kenran-Kai. Stitches casts improved invisibility on Angelika, who leaves the room to scout the bar; she finds that the place is being held up by the Yakuza members, and everyone is either trapped in their karaoke rooms or stuck at the bar.

After hearing gunfire, Angelika moves to the offices, where she spots the owner of the bar being held up by two Yakuza members who are trying to break into the safe. Realizing that Jessica, the owner, is in imminent danger, she informs the rest of the party to figure out how to deal with the Yakuza thugs with the kit they brought to the bar. Stitches makes both BD and Mori invisible, and they head out with Angelika's silenced carry pistol and an injector pen with narcojet, respectively. Stitches plays Paper Planes by M.I.A. extremely loud on their karaoke room speakers and opens the door, having BD time her shots to the gunshots in the song in order to further mask them. After dispatching the gang members at the bar and in the office, the three head to the security suites and find the underboss.

They breach the room, with Stitches using magic to make both of them blind while Angelika disabling the boss by forcing him into a bow with commanding voice. The two are captured, and Angelika talks the boss and the few remaining members into retreating and not attempting to extort this location again.

# Aftermath

The Kenran-Kai underboss gathers up his crew, along with the unconscious and dead, and leaves. Jessica attempts to pay the team for their help, but Angelika refuses payment, citing that she's also a bar owner and sympathetic to her plight. She offers a business partnership, which Jessica accepts, to be negotiated at a later date. She agrees not to let KE know about them, and the team leaves before HTR can arrive on scene.

Stitches takes her car and gives everyone else a ride, except Mori. Mori goes home by himself.

# Rewards

* 4k NuYen (if you accepted it)
* 10 karma (or 12 if you refused payment)
* 2 CDP
* Angelika has a business partner! (Jessica A.)
* Everyone thinks Mori is a creep now.
* Free passes to THY VENUE any time for the runners!

"Decks can be small, too! Decks don't always have to be huge!" - BD