A Question of Leadership

## Background

Morgan "The Demon" Vickerson, a infamous war criminal is loose in Seattle and, due to their part in releasing him, and his subsequent murder of Matt "Bullet" Porter, Seen and Óphis have been on the case to track him down and take him out.

Seen's contact Velara Vindani calls him up with a scoop; Heinrich Schacht, the man who hired runners to release Vickerson, was organizing a run and if it went well known associates of Vickerson would be present at the hand off. Schacht was being careful to keep a low profile to avoid raising the attention of Runners who had worked against him before but Vindani had pulled some strings and gotten two runners chosen for the job to lend their identities to her so that Seen and Óphis could fill their spaces.

## The Meet

The runners were told to meet at Noite Nightclub where Schacht's go-to Johnson, Hilda Schneider met with them. Seen and Óphis , disguised as Kastytis Vilkas and Dial-Up, a Lithuanian street sam and an AI hacker respectively, managed to get through the meet without raising suspicions and were tasked with with kidnapping Luiza Marszalik.

The runners left and Seen and Óphis revealed themselves to their companions, explaining the situation and promising that their vendetta would not affect the mission. Lamb and Windwalker agreed to work with them and *maybe* help out with whatever came afterwards.

## Legwork

Luiza and her husband Iwan Walkowiak were known to be staying at the Pan Pacific Hotel so the runners headed there. With the aid of a spirit they located Luiza in her room at the hotel and Windwalker astrally scouted the place while Lamb searched for any matrix threats. They found a heavily 'wared bodyguard watching over her, a docwagon bracelet on Luiza and discovered that Luiza was pregnant. These complications added much for the runners to consider and many plans to extract Luiza were floated and sank.

The final result was a social extraction. Seen called up Velara and got his hands on a burner SIN using Iwan's biometrics and bought himself an outfit based on the most recent photos of Iwan available. The team waited until nightfall when Luiza was falling asleep and Windwalker summoned a monster of an air spirit to act as a backup plan while Seen disguised himself as Iwan. Óphis provided support with a few spells on Lamb and the two walked into the building.

## Run

Seen easily got the roomkey to Luiza's suite from the front desk placed into a burner phone emitting the burner SIN and the two went upstairs to her room. He woke Luiza and demanded she get ready to leave in a hurry, as she packed he conned her bodyguard (one of Iwan's subordinates) to wait behind and follow their GPS location 3 minutes later.

Luiza was hustled out of the building and into Seen's new van. Once on the road Windwalker's spirit concealed the truck, Lamb cut off her docwagon Bracelet and Seen reverted to his Vilkas disguise. Luiza put up a brief struggle but recognized that she was outmatched and submitted to being cuffed. from there it was a quick ride to the drop point. The runners arrived and were confronted with several of Vickerson's Unit 94 comrades. They efficiently exchanged Luiza for the promised nuyen. Lamb decided that he wanted nothing more to do with Seen and Óphis' plan and left. Windwalker remained, curious to see how things played out and eager to put his air spirit to work.

## Aftermath

Óphis slithered invisibly into the building where they prepared to transport Luiza and tagged their vehicles. They called up Mailman to see what aid he could provide in tracing the men back to Vickerson but then a Cyberzombie walked out of the shadows. Óphis hit her with the Passenger spell and intercepted a direct call to Vickerson, along with the unending stream of washing machine safety instructions feeding the zombie.

The three remaining runners follow the convoy to an estate in Everett and watch as Pralka the zombie delivers Luiza directly to Vickerson and determine that this is his home base. They mark the location for Mailman and retreat for now. preparing to return in force and correct their mistake for good.

## Rewards

* 23,440 Nuyen (after contact fees)

* For Seen: Sensei quality and Squeals Mcphillips as a 4/1 contact

* For everyone else: 7 Karma, 2 CDP

## Player After-Action Reports

*In Character* accounts of events, general impressions, or memorable moments

\*\*Seen\*\*: Hey don't forget that I learned Lithuanian! It was nice to finally be able to do a Run without having to fraggin shoot someone...