I'm So Excited

The edgerunners were hired to throw money around and look flashy and attract the attention of assassins who had a bounty on anyone associated with Night City Vice. Once they smoked the assassins out they were tasked with killing them.

The edgerunners decided to begin their hunt at the Afterlife, perhaps the least flashy of the nightclubs in Upper Marina. Upon entering the first circle of hell Nitya started dancing. She was the only one dancing and, wearing a Baliwood costume, the solo patrons of the Afterlife decided she must be the entertainment and started watching her. Mayami used the NC Vice company credit card to buy everyone in the bar a round of drinks. Mr K hired a room in the third circle of hell. As he was trying to figure out how to post a potential job for solos on the ticker-style video boards mounted throughout the first circle he was approached by Margaret, a beautiful woman who claimed to be a model agent. She offered to help him figure out how to use the video board.

Meanwhile, Valerie, another beautiful bystander, began dancing with Nitya and clearly hitting on her. When Valery saw Margaret go in back with Mr K she admitted that Margaret was a friend of hers and she wanted to make sure she was safe and started following her. Nitya went with them.

Mr K and Margaret started to post a fake job posting while Valery made her move on Nitya and started kissing her in the private room in the third circle of hell. At that point Valery and Margaret both revealed themselves as assassins. Valery grabbed Nitya and began choking her out while Margaret slammed Mr K's head into the table. Mr K grabbed Margaret and dragged her into the hall but Margaret used Judo to both escape and break Mr K's arm. Pedro helped his boss by grabbing Margaret, only to have both of his arms broken by the assassin. Nitya was about to lose consciousness when Mr. K burst back into the private room and grabbed her out of Valery's arms.

Hearing them call for help over coms, the rest of the edgerunners rushed into the second circle of hell toward them. They were hindered by the doorman's warning that anyone who drew weapons would be fired upon by the club's turrets. Nitya and Mr. K had both drawn swords, and no turrets had popped out, but the rest of the edgerunners were worried if they drew guns things might be different. Just using melee weapons, they managed a desperate fight in the tight hallway of the third circle and subdued atmosphere of the second circle and eventually killed both assassins.

But hardly had they done that then a third assassin, a woman with four arms, a grenade launcher, and a flamethrower entered the second circle yelling "Justice for Johnny Inferno!" The turrets were not shooting her. But she was shooting at the edgerunners with her grenade launcher. As they fought Hornet heard screaming from one of the private rooms in the third circle and suddenly turrets popped out of the ceilings and started shooting at anyone with guns. Hornet kicked down the door to find a fourth assassin, a netrunner, whose brain had been fried by black ice.

The edgerunners eventually managed to kill "Jenny Inferno", as she called herself, and gained the applause and admiration of the watching solos. The culture of the Afterlife, it seemed, was to allow anyone with beaf to fight it out as long as they didn't involve the other patrons, which none of the edgerunners or assassins had. The house rule, though, was all bodies belonged to the Afterlife, so the group wasn't able to loot any of the assassins. A Solo named Snake Blitzken told Wrench he was impressed by his courage, but suggested he needed something that hit a little harder than a medium pistol. He gave Wrench his own heavy pistol, which had a black cobra etched into either side of the grip.

The edgerunners returned to Night City Vice, who gave them 400 eb for killing the assassins and hospital vouchers to get their injuries treated. Nitya, Mr K and Wrench all immediately used their vouchers to get their various critical injuries treated.

## Loot/EXP

* Hornet // 400 eb // 40 IP // NCH Hospital Voucher // +1 rep Night City Vice
* Nitya // 400 eb // 40 IP // +1 rep Night City Vice
* Mr K / 400 eb // 40 IP // +1 rep Night City Vice
* Wrench // 400 eb // 40 IP // SQ Heavy Pistol // +1 rep Night City Vice
* Nathan "Irish" McNulty // 400 eb/ 40 IP // NCH Hospital Voucher // +1 rep Night City Vice
* Mayami // 400 eb / 40 IP // NCH Hospital Voucher // +1 rep Night City Vice