Necromancy.exe

## Background

Mr Johnson thought he was careful enough. But he wasnt, he received the message over AR, a clock counting down from five minutes. He wasnt surprised but he really hoped seeing this clock that the crooked man would lose all the work he put into that unholy project of his, of course, more importantly, he wanted to make sure his daughter Belle lived. the Runners walked into his bar, his soon to be grave, and he began telling them what he needed.

As the runners walked in to the downtown bar they were told that the plain looking mister Johnson, who seemed to be drinking, has 5 minutes before his head explodes, he gives the team a datachip with details and tells them that he needs them to rescue his daughter from a blacksite under his house. The blacksite is apparently run by half or all of the 10 megacorps doing something awful down there. He tells them that they are being paid up front with a stack of doooge coin (stocks in them that if sold today will get them 60k nuyen each), the team could very well leave right now, the Johnson is desperate and running on borrowed time. The team chooses to do it anyway and head out, Uralt stays behind to make sure that the Johnson was telling the truth about exploding and experiences the area bomb in his head, walking it off the team gets to work and bails before KE shows up. The data chip has a floor plan of the house the black site rests under, that the garage is where the entrance to this blacksite is, a photo of the daughter, and a news story about the block of Bellevue the house is in being evacuated for a "Bomb threat" inside the target house, it is being patrolled by a dozen KE officers with two drones high in the sky.

## Legwork

Heading into the sewers, the team heads to the property in Bellevue, coming up under a KE command trailer on the street in front of the house. They spot the patrol and after some talk decide on a plan to plant a bomb under this trailer and then jump a fence at the back of the house and head inside the house while KE is distracted they head through the back, the drones are hacked by Sarge and disabled to allow the team to get to the black site without interference.

## Run

Sure enough the plan works! The team enter and discover a medical clean area with a lot PPE in storage and a hallway that has a lot of battle damage, acid and claw marks, the team recognizes this as bug spirit damage. getting past a damaged trap the team discovers 3 bug spirits in FBA stuffed into drone charging stations locked behind ballistic glass that seems open, alive and horribly wounded, something has been able to handle them. They hear as they keep exploring heavy metal footsteps, that get closer and further with time in a pattern, and a loud beastly scream through speakers. Several bodies are found with turned off metalinks that reveal a narrative about research into E-ghosts and copying them. After exploring, they discover a hidden door with a massive troll sized four armed anthro combat drone that seems to be pacing a path in a hidden hall, the hall leads them to a hidden security room and they explore most of this floor before descending. There is a research terminal with videos about a researcher saying they are dissecting an E-ghost's psyche in an effort to work the fragments into several autonomous combat drones, a cat is seen in the last video smiling before it ends. They also discover a lab that seems to be experimenting on FAB 2, the same FAB 2 that is in all the walls and floors of this black site.

On the second floor, they find living areas and a server room chilled cold. A cat is on top of one of the server racks and, as Luna tries to catch it, it jumps from server to server until it leads them into a ambush for two bug spirits that seem to be wounded and are leaking a modified strain of FAB 2. As the magical duo square up to sword duel, Uralt gets covered in the bacteria and has to deal with that. After this they enter a huge makeshift testing area that looks more like a rec room for prisoners, 5 Anthro drones are locked into walls. Before they enter they take the cat and Sarge discovers that this cat has a persona and a firewall of 12, a techno critter. As they enter this room with the cat the anthrodrones activate and begin combat loosely, one seems to think Sarge is a man named Barry and tries to grapple him and run off with him before being destroyed, an Anthro drone shouting math is punching people, one is crying and is taking down one that did not activate and tries running with it, one seems to think Typhoon is a puppy and wants to pet them very roughly.

After the drones are murdered, the team finds a hidden security room with another anthrodrone and the target, Belle who now has broken legs. The drone seems to be acting like a child and the target is brought back to consciousness and is relieved to be rescued, the drone follows the party as they leave, they ask it some questions and it tells them that before things happened there was a very mean cat that hurt them a lot before Daryl woke up in this body with other Daryls, they were being experimented on and he doesn't want to stay here alone.

## Aftermath

As Luna climbs up out of the black site she sees 6 KE officers waiting with guns out, Luna starts trying to con them but the officer calls them out almost immediately and hands them a non Ares weapon and tells them to kill the bugs left behind, after that they will let the runners go, claiming to have never seen them. The runners head out and leave. Bomb takes the cat home. Typhoon takes the drone and kid, allowing Belle to stay with her and offering Daryl to the local branch of Skraacha in hopes of finding him occupation and shelter outside of corporate view, only to find out later that the big guy just vanished not too long later.

## Rewards

* 20 Karma
* 60k Nuyen
* 2CDP