Miami Heat

## Background

The CAS tries to keep a tight grip on its border with the Caribbean League, but the border remains porous with plenty of smuggling and trafficking crossing in both directions along the coast and though the swamps of Florida.

## The Meet

The Johnson met the team enroute to a remote airport in the CAS, onboard a large cargo plane. He wanted the team to deliver a small package, unopened, to a contact of his in Miami across the border. This contact would exchange it for a similar-sized package, which needed to be brought back across the border to the airport where the Johnson's plane would be waiting. Skillful negotiation on the runners' part bought a mediocre payout offer up by over 40%, but payable only on completion.

## Legwork

The two commonly used routes into the League were laid out as 1) slipping through the road checkpoints unobtrusively, or 2) attempting to run the border in a rented airboat and evading border patrols. With the cargo plane being large enough to transport Trample's Roadmaster vehicle, keeping operations contained and moving by road rather than risking offroad travel was judged best. For a cover story, the team decided to purchase appropriately tacky clothing from a local market and enter the League as business tourists. Despite the best efforts of an unusually honest retail salesman, an assortment of hideous tye-dye shirts, ball caps, and sunglasses were acquired.

## Run

Crossing through the CAS-Carribbean League border checkpoint was quick and uneventful, though a close call with the scanners came very close to flagging the SINs used as fake. Once in Miami, the team headed to the bar that was their listed meeting point, identifying their contact as the only man sitting alone. Challenge phrases were exchanged between Tabula Rasa and the Johnson's contact, and a secondary meetup was scheduled at an office nearby where the packages were exchanged. Rather than cross back immediately, the team elected to stay overnight in Miami to avoid the suspicion of leaving so soon after they entered.

The next morning, the team re-united and headed north back into the CAS. They took the second of the two interstate roads, but upon being questioned and inspected, one of the guards appeared to notice something about the Roadmaster's license plane and started to call in for backup. While Tabula Rasa acted out the part of an entitled corporate manager throwing a fit to draw the guards' attention, quick thinking and action on the part of Grond used mind-magic to convince the guard he had misread the license plate and that it was simply very dirty. This diffused whatever suspicions had been roused, avoiding any violence and allowing the team to continue on their way uneventfully. The Johnson was surprised and pleased to see them return so quickly, giving a small bonus as reward.

## Aftermath

No casualties were incurred on either part, or violence of any kind at all. Whatever caused the guard to become suspicious was not determined by the runners, not that it mattered once they were paid and flew home.

## Rewards

* 4 Karma
* 10,000 Nuyen
* 2 CDP

## Player After-Action Reports

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