017: Ain't No Right

Motherfuckin' bad wind came, blew down my home.
Now the green grass grows.
Bad wind came, blew down my home.

Goddamn goodness knows!

Where green grass grows there can't be wrong.

And goodness knows, there ain't no right!

*- Ain't No Right* by **Jane's Addiction**

## Session Summary

Kerry joined the Runaways in quarantine. Only Micah showed signs of plague, and synthetic antibiotics helped him fully recovery in thirty-six hours.

When quarantine ended, the Runaways found Johnny and Foxy outside waiting for them. They went to Caliente’s to celebrate, then to Kerry’s to plan their next steps.

Nova and Foxy went to a drive in theater to relax.

Bit and Fridge went on a dumpster diving date where they were jumped by 5 Maelstrom and only escaped due to the strategic deployment of a smoke bomb.

The rest partied at Kerry’s, with Smoke offering K2 a comfy spot with plenty of pillows in their cuddle puddle.

The next day as Smoke made breakfast, Bit came in with her arm in bad shape from the night before, which Nova treated with med kits.

Over breakfast, Bit asked Smoke if he could look for her prior acquaintance Third on the net. The good news: Third had been spotted in Watson, near the Kabuki and in Mox territory. The bad news: an Ajax-like security program embedded in the CCTV spotted Smoke.

Starting their search at Lizzie’s, the club was closed with Third was inside claiming to have a bomb ans holding several workers hostage. The Runaways went in, allowing themselves to be locked behind a blast shield.

They heard Third in a back room shouting nonsensical phrases; Smoke said he thought AJ4X was in control and not Third.

Using her history with Third, Bit successfully negotiated the exchange of hostages for herself. Fridge kept an eye on her through the scope of one of his guns, and Smoke patched through the building’s security for audio.

It seemed Third held a thermal grenade in one hand as he complained about all that had happened to him since Bit left, before concluding that “the woman behind the wall” would take care of everything. Bit and Third talked in circles, with Bit trying to extract a promise from Third that the others could leave if she stayed behind.

When Third seemed ready to blow the bomb, Fridge shot through the wall and cleanly killed Third with a bullet to the head. The box Third held was just that - a box with nothing in it. He was a hollow man with empty threats.

The woman behind the wall was not.

Smoke noticed a dead man’s switch, wrapped his cyber hand around it, and (with the help of Nova and K2) detached his arm and placed it in Lizzie’s safe just before the grenade went off. Smoke incurred a significant debt to Arasaka to replace it.

That night they got drunk at Kerry’s and played a few rounds of “No Shit, There I Was”

The next morning Smoke explained they belonged to an organization with offices at the newly-built Continental. Smoke had concerns: an agent named Zeus recently turned up dead - the result of an apparent mugging.

They met two other employees of the Continental - Styx (concierge) and Anders (manager) - and agreed to take on the Zeus case while not becoming full members of the Continental (though the offer was made). As a result, they were paid an advance in gold coins, not eddies,