The Laundraumat

## Background

The runners were contacted by their Fixers - a Matrix meet was originally planned, but with one of the runners being computer-illiterate and the other being a walking Noise generator, a physical meet was scheduled instead.

## The Meet

The meet took place in an Ares Roadmaster, and the 'Johnson' turned out to be the fellow Market member and shadowrunner Trample. She explained that there was an annual charity event, hosted by a famous Matrix influencer, where the wealthy and connected showed off by making donations to the poor and SINless. A new figure named Mikey Sour had gotten involved with unknown motives, and Trample felt suspicious for reasons she couldn't explain. She asked the two of them to infiltrate the event and determine what was going on - for the lack of solid intel and very wide-open mission objectives, the pair negotiated a substantial increase in the offered payout from 6000-8000NY each to 12000NY.

## Legwork

Both runners immediately began by reaching out to their substantial network of contacts. WindWalker talked to a Matrix-obsessed friend to gather information on the Shine A Light campaign, receiving a promotional video cut by Horizon, the corporate sponsor of the event. Tabula Rasa called up a private detective they knew and hired him to investigate Mikey Sour. While this was in progress, Rasa also got in touch with their preferred SIN forger and ordered a short-duration burner SIN to use at the event, working up a disguise and spending several days immersing themself in the role of a sound technician though method acting. The detective's legwork turned up little on Sour except that he had been meeting with several wealthy donors and local politicians, for unknown purposes. With little more to go on, the two were left to wait and play events by ear as they unfolded.

## Run

In the guise of their adopted persona Chad Chadson, Tabula Rasa infiltrated the hired event staff, talking his way past a curious security guard while WindWalker maintained surveillance from above. Once Mikey Sour was located, both of them kept tabs on the man until he slipped away from the crowd and snuck down a hallway towards a back door. Rasa was unable to get close enough to follow, but succeeded in bluffing another tech into helping him boost the reception of a sound amplifier to transmit the conversation between Sour and an odd woman in ill-fitting finery. Their discussion was short and mostly consisted of complaints for 'the plan' being changed on short notice, before Sour returned to the party. As the woman left, WindWalker applied a touch of subtle mind magic to Influence her into repeating the details of 'the plan' to herself out loud where he could hear. They learned that Sour would unlock several of the event's back doors leading to an area close to Redmond, letting the woman and the rest her unknown group inside, for unknown purposes.

A call was made back to Trample, reporting their progress. Having confirmed that Sour was up to no good, but lacking details on what, Trample instructed them to continue investigating, to the point of letting Sour's plan go into action if that allowed them to secure evidence he was responsible. Tabula Rasa reached out yet again to the SIN forger, contracting their services as a decker to hack into the building's security cameras near the doors to catch Sour in the act. Meanwhile, WindWalker shadowed the mystery lady back to Redmond, tracking her to an abandoned building where she met with a large gang of thugs. As WindWalker spied on them via a summoned air spirit, the group was elated at the chance for revenge against the party's attendees, with rhetoric and tones that implied violence.

Back at the event building, "Chad" was approached by Mikey Sour directly, and told to go unlock a set of doors at the back of the building for him. Agreebly, Tabula Rasa headed back to an unobserved alcove, then proceeded to resculpt their face and body to a perfect duplicate of Mikey Sour before unlocking the specified doors in full view of the security cameras. Resuming the Chad cover identity, he calculated which route Sour would be most likely to use while escaping once mayhem began and positioned himself in ambush. WindWalker , in turn, set his spirit minion to warn him when the gangers were close to the event building and returned to join Rasa lying in wait. Still lacking definite details, they watched and waited as the gangers arrived, entering the building and beginning a rampage of blood and slaughter through the guards and VIP donors. Sour fled along the predicted route, at which point Rasa knocked him out with a stun glove and dragged the body along with WindWalker to a suitably private location. There, they combined WindWalker's mind magic with Rasa's supernatural persuasion powers and another summoned spirit's ability to inflict bad luck, compelling the captured Sauer into a total confession. While being recorded, he admitted his true identity as a Horizon executive in a thick LA accent and his intent to provoke such an accident among the donors at this event. WindWalker scrubbed the local Astral of their signatures, and after knocking Sour unconscious again they fled just ahead of the arriving HTR teams. The requested evidence was provided to their employer, who paid the arranged fee without further comment.

## Aftermath

Both runners recieved 12,000 nuyen, and walked away with clean lack of consciences. Eight people were killed by the rampaging gangers and several dozen were maimed or crippled. Damages to the reputation of the event and its sponsor are yet to be determined.

## Rewards

* 3 Karma
* 10,000 Nuyen
* 6 CDP

## Player After-Action Reports

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