The Eclipse King

## Background

When we last left our heroes they had uncovered a scheme by Michał Marszalik to recruit Field Marshal Marian Martwek to assist him in performing a coup on the provisional government of Poland before the nation's first election since it's occupation by Russia. While on this run they had noticed a couple of attempts to tail and hack their devises but the perpetrators remained elusive.

## The Meet

At the anarcho-socialist commune that served as their home Óphis was informed by Doug, an Orkish trade school dropout, that a rather sketchy individual had arrived at the compound and asked for them specifically. Alarmed, the naga went to meet the them, finding a emotionless, ware'd man with a nice scarf, concealing his identity, surrounded by a group of armed commune members. a patch for the Global Defense Council, a known anarchist network, on the man's jacket likely the only thing that had prevented immediate violence against him.

The man didn't speak, communicating exclusively through DNI. He identified himself as a member of the Polish Workers Council/NIL, a polish division of the GDC, and one of the men tailing the runners on their last trip to Poland. He claimed that NIL considered themselves to we working on the same side as the runners, though with different aims, and wished to hire them for a job. Óphis informed the others of the offer, and the potential compromise of their security, and offered the site of their lodge (that was being moved shortly anyway) as a secure place to meet with Mr. Johnson.

Lamb agreed to the meeting, though Snowcone decided that her security was more important and prepared to move. Óphis cast Interference to prevented Scarf from communicating his position to anyone and drove the man to the meeting place. Once everyone had gathered Scarf produced a hardlight conference drone that connected them to one Sylwester Siwy, a wealthy anarchist. he explained that NIL had intended to use the Polish election to put forth their own candidate to disband Poland's government but Michał's coup put that plan in jeopardy.

To prepare for the coup he wished to arm his fellow anarchists and had recruited Antônio Corte-Real, an Ares weapons designer wishing to defect, to design a switch kit that would cheaply turn the [affordable pistol] into a submachine gun in exchange for aid in escaping Ares. Unfortunately his partner, Rachel McAndrews, had learned of the plans and snitched on him, putting Ares on alert. NIL is primarily an intelligence gathering operation and didn't have operatives capable of handling the additional security.

With a bit of haggling Lamb and Óphis agreed to the job. in addition for the offered NuYen for retrieving Antônio uninjured they would eliminate the security detail and Rachel in exchange for the destruction of the information NIL had gathered on the runners and Polish SINs.

## Legwork

NIL had already planned the operation. Antônio and Rachel were being transported from Albufeira to Porto by train. The runners would be flown to Lisbon where they would be able to board the train, take out the security detail and call in Scarf to extract everyone by helicopter.

## Run

The pair boarded the train and quickly found their target. in a stroke of luck the two guards were separated and Lamb found one smoking by himself in the back of the train. He moved to assassinate the man but he managed to barely survive the first blow and hold on to life long enough to inform his partner and get a few shots off. Meanwhile Óphis was in position over the remaining muscle, one Rosinha Fernandes, and took the opportunity to literally get the drop on her as she received her partner's message and move to defend her charges. Unfortunately Óphis' fangs found no purchase on the woman's armour. Lamb was able to quickly sprint to the scene before Óphis was murdered and there was a brief but brutal scuffle. Óphis attempted to subdue and debilitate the guardian while Lamb attacked. In the end Óphis was hurt and rattled and Lamb was heavily injured and needed to resort to Kamikaze in order to land the finishing blow.

Scarf arrived with the chopper and Antônio was shaken from his shock and shepherded in. The two runners briefly came to blows over taking out Rosinha as a secondary objective but were cut short by rail security arriving and Scarf mowing the woman down with the chopper's minigun.

## Aftermath

Óphis and Lamb were taken to a discreet location to get their injuries treated (Lamb was diagnosed with Kamikaze addiction) and were payed in full. Though they had only Sylwester's word that their data on the runners had been erased.

## Rewards

* 14k Nuyen
* 7 karma
* 2 CDP
* 1 rank in Anarchists
* Rating 5 Sin (Must be polish name)

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