Dance Monkey

## Summary

The Edgerunners arrived at a location about a half hour south of Night City that was a little romanesque town nestled into a badlands canyon. On the ridge over the town were parked four vehicles: a silver Aston Martin DB 5 surrounded by two black Landrovers and green Qadra Mustang. Saint Lucifer was standing on a large barrel watching the Aston Martin while his lackey Gabriel was approaching the silver sportscar, gun raised and pointing at its windshield. The edgerunners could see that Craig Daniels was in the Aston Martin's driver's seat and Paloma was next to him. They were arguing. Shift telephone Paloma who re-iterated the gig's objectives: save Nikita or convince Craig Daniels to get out of the car and trade his life for Nikita's. Shift could hear Craig Daniels complaining to Paloma in the background that he didn't want to die and angry at her that she would betray him like this.

M, in a badass fury road meets maelstrom high performance groundcar driven by her backup, Maurice and Monique, swerved right down into the canyon and slammed the car to a halt in a cloud of dust out of sight behind a building. Shift decided that was a good idea and dipped his chopper to land right behind her. Saint Lucifer came to the edge of the cliff and began to monologue to them, telling them if they didn't get "James Bond" out of the car he would do it himself. During the monologue M heard gunfire to the southeast. Maurice raced the car forward to see M's arch nemesis Viper holding a gun and shooting at Nikita, who was tied up against a toppled statue of Stalin. She had a shot glass on her head that Viper was trying to shoot off. Fight on!

The cars blocking Craig Daniels veered away to intercept M. Craig took the opportunity to drive away -- which turned out to be more crashing away. Saint Lucifer and his lackey Gabriel jumped onto the Aston Martin and began to smash the bulletproof glass. Paloma asked for help so while the rest of the edgerunners raced to rescue Nikita, Shift lifted his helicopter and banked to the north to follow the DB 5.

A chaotic two-part battle ensued, with Shift, Paloma and Craig Daniels, in a helicopter and supercar, respectively, fighting Saint Lucifer and Gabriel in the north. M, Colt, Kidd and Michonne fought Viper, Kate Tania, Franco Bulitt and Monty Karloff in the south, all driving landrovers and Bulitt's mustang, many of which had combat plows. M tore off Nikita's ropes with her sigma and gave her synth coke. Nikita told M that if she died M had to tell Atomic Blonde what Nikita had learned in captivity: that Shadow Corp was part of an international organization named El Spectro. They have undercover cells everywhere. Shadow Corp is just the Night City chapter of a much larger group. "El Spectro -- remember the name!" she urged. Yet despite having no armor, the edgerunners managed to keep Nikita alive and rescue her, due in no small part to a timely speedheal by Colt and a timely jury rig of the maelstrom high performance ground car by Kidd.

Meanwhile, during the fight in the north, Paloma started to get turned on by Craig Daniels. He was as incompetent as always, but his various attempts at heroics made her see him in a new light. When they sped away they were clearly heading for a love hotel and Shift hung up on them, disgusted by their overt sexual desire for each other.

The edgerunners successfully extracted Nikita, leaving Viper and Kate Tania dead behind them. Rest in pieces

## Loot

* 400 eb / 35 ip / 7 dt / Colt (3rd game) / @S| Colt (VI)
* 400 eb / 35 ip / 7 dt / Kidd (1st game) / @Noxolous
* 400 eb / 35 ip / 0 dt / Michonne (5th game) / @S| Michonne | Kati (6)
* 400 eb / 40 ip / 0 dt / M / @S | Notevenagoat
* 400 eb / 35 ip / 0 dt / Shift (5th game) / @S| Shift | (5)