99 Luftballons

## Summary

Atomic Blonde drove the edgerunners to South Night City, where there were parades in the streets celebrating the six month anniversary of the new government. Mr K found a vendor to purchase biotoxin for Nitya. That same vendor was also selling balloons, so Mr. K bought a bouquet to hide his face. Atomic Blonde decided that was a great idea and bought all of the vendor's balloons so that each edgerunner had two big bouquets of helium balloons in either hand.

They followed Spyglass to the target. He took them into the thicker crowd of parades. Then they saw protestors coming toward them holding anti-government signs and screaming for freedom. Atomic Blonde decided this was dangerous and turned around against the crowd. As the edgerunners tried to move away from the impending confrontation, a hidden sniper started shooting at them from a building. Only Hornet could see where the shots were coming from everyone else had to react blindly. The group used their balloons to mask themselves from the sniper and escaped into a side alley.

They circled around to an apartment building and walked inside while Spyglass stayed outside and waited for them. Atomic Blonde led them up a stairwell toward the fifth floor and they were ambushed by shotgun-wielding men in east german Polizei uniforms. They fought through the enemies onto the fifth floor where two turrets opened up on Atomic Blonde and SMG-wielding assassins began popping out of doors.

The Edgerunners began to systematically shoot out the turrets, but when one died another popped into existence. Mr K, Atomic Blonde, Nitya and Turok grabbed SMG-ers and choked or biotoxined them while Callie provided medical aid and Hornet blew away turrets with her pistol.

The leader of the assassins knew his days were numbered so he took a little girl hostage -- a little girl who turned out to be Atomic Blonde's target. He held her as a human shield and threatened to throw away his key card which would cause the turrets to target him and thereby kill his child human shield. Nitya tried to disarm him with an aimed shot but he resisted the biotoxin. Then everyone attacked him with melee so he couldn't interpose the child. He threw down the girl and defended himself. When it was clear he was going to die he autofired his assault rifle at the girl, who barely survived.

Atomic Blonde gave the girl to the edgerunners and told them to deliver her to the hotel while she drew away any more police. They stole two Polizei cars and drove alongside the bay on the way back toward the Old Combat Zone. A garbage truck slammed into Atomic Blonde's car from a side street, T-boning it and smashing through the guard rails, causing both vehicles to fly into the bay. Nitya and Mr. K jumped out of their speeding car, skipping along the pavement painfully, and then dove into the bay to see if they could rescue Atomic Blonde and Spyglass. Spyglass, it turned out, was killed by the impact, but they were able to drag Atomic Blonde out of the car and save her.

They left Atomic Blonde with the girl, who turned out to be Atomic Blonde's daughter, at the hotel. As they left they saw Atomic Blonde preparing her signature ice bath.

## Loot/EXP

* Nitya // 300 eb // 40 IP
* Mr K // 300 eb // 40 IP
* Callie // 300 eb // 40 IP // Arasaka Rapid Assault (SQ Shotgun)
* Hornet // 300 eb // 40 IP // Arasaka WAA Bullpup
* Turok // 300 eb // 40 IP