The Train

## Summary

Neil McCauly asked E-Gore to put together a crew for him. The heist was a train: the client wanted to recover a data shard that had been stolen by the mysterious group known on the street as "Mission: Unpossible". The datashard was being transported via train to the Executive Zone for safe keeping. Neil wanted to rob the train as it dipped into a tunnel running under Morro Bay. He had hired Leon the Professional to pilot an AV-4 provided to him by the client.

E-gore had no idea who to hire so he ran out of the Atlantis, where he works, and pulled random people who looked like edgerunners off the street. Fortunately for E-Gore, his legendary luck prevailed and they turned out to be competent. The group got in the AV-4, where they met Leon's friend and co-pilot, a young girl named Mathilda. Then they flew off after the train.

Zrox, Torah, Christian Smirk, and E-Gore jumped onto the rear car while M and Czar stayed in the AV-4, M telling Leon to take them to the front car for a pincer move. As soon as they landed, everyone on top of the train were buffeted by hurricane force winds as the train raced 100 mph beneath them. Machinegun turrets popped up and started firing at the edgerunners while six Mission Unpossible Agents wearing suits climbed out onto the roof to confront them.

Most of the edgerunners confronted the Mission Unpossible Agents while Zrox used a turret as a node to jack into the train's netarch. The netarch was extremely simple, consisting mostly of nodes with only two black ice ravens defending it. But there was also a netrunner protecting it. Zrox fought in the virtual space for a time, but it was difficult fighting three against one versus the black ice and the netrunner. He did manage to permanantly destroy the ravens with his killer, but he was eventually forcibly jacked out with a Deckcrash.

Meanwhile, the rest of the edgerunners fought through the Mission Impossible Agents and broke through the hatches into the train below. There they found four women and a dog waiting for them: Atomic Blonde, La Femme Nikita, Paloma and Sofia. Zrox recognized Paloma as the netrunner who had deckcrashed him and charged her in a rage, but he was restrained by Sofia's cyberhound "Zues."

The datashard was in a titanium case handcuffed to Atomic Blonde. She offered the edgerunners a deal: She would give them the datashard. In return, the edgerunners would have to do a future job for her for free. The edgerunners agreed to the terms of the deal. Atomic Blonde informed someone named "Ilsa" to stop the train. Leon the Professional landed the AV-4, the edgerunners disembarked from the train, got onto the AV, and flew away to give Neil his datashard.

E-Gore told Neil the truth about what had happened, to the best of his memory. Neil was sure that Atomic Blonde must have planted the datashard with a listening device and a tracking beacon. This was some elaborate Mission Unpossible ploy to spy on his client. But Neil decided that wasn't his problem. His client had hired him to get the datashard, no more and no less. So the job was a success. He paid out the edgerunners and took their contact information for future potential heists.

## Loot/EXP

* Czar // 1 game // 450 eb // 30 IP // 7 dt
* Christian Smirk // 1 games // 450 eb // 30 IP // 7 dt
* E-Gore // 5 games // 450 eb // 30 IP
* Torah // 5 games // 450 eb // 30 IP
* Zrox // 2 games // 450 eb // 30 IP // 7 dt
* M // 8 games // 450 eb // 30 IP
* Additionally, everyone received +1 rep with Neil McCauly.