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# Summary

Some people get together for a pickup football game. It’s casual stuff, you know; a 9 kg bomb as the ball and a 16.6 km field with the other endzone at Federated-Boeing’s extraterritorial border.

# Meet

The squad assembles at an empty office complex near Northwest Snohomish after hours, directed to meet at a corner office on the fourth floor. Puzzled by the lack of Johnson and trying to minimize their time inside the building, Scraps calls out the magic word: football. It summons an anthrodrone, who repels from the top of the building and crashes through the plate glass with a football cradled in its arms.

It does little more than dance and reek of explosives (to Guard Dog, at least), and occasionally offers scrambled communications via text; an attempt at negotiation involving the words "signing bonus", "draft picks", and "combine" are received well, but the counter-offer is made for -20,000 NuYen and a 6 month suspension. They eventually settle on a more reasonable and positive amount of money (2,000 NuYen) upfront before it reveals the field of play: a 16.6 km long field, 160 feet wide, and 500 km high reaching out towards the Federated-Boeing HQ, stopping right at the extraterritoriality border. Any attempt to leave the field of play will result in detonation of the football and a failure. The back border is directly behind them, leaving no access to stairs or elevators.

With the deal struck, it places the football on the conference table and swan dives out the window to its destruction. The office alarm is blaring, and KE sirens are drawing near.

# Run

The team has to rappel down the side of the building and take off running through a suburban area to escape. They find their first obstacle: a small lake. Scraps manages to hold it together, and while ALL-CITY and Guard Dog swim across, Scraps uses his grappling hook to hijack and unsuspecting swan boat (it’s not a motor vehicle) and chase off the occupants. Raijin and Scraps ride across and the team runs across a golf course before KE can respond.

They next find themselves facing an office building surrounded by KE. Guard Dog calls Rocket Racoon in an attempt to call in a distracting bomb threat, but Rocket claims that he was blown off due to their office building having been already threatened. The team stuffs the football into Raijin’s chemsealed armor to avoid detection from the guard dogs and go inside; unfortunately, the field does not extend to any rear entrances. Using their security design knowledge, Guard Dog and Raijin punch out some cinder blocks and structural components below the windows to avoid setting off alarms, allowing the team to crawl out, steal bikes (one of which was a tandem bike), and be on their way.

They later cross the Snohomish river (with Scraps riding a log float) and then the I-5, failing to notice a KE officer in a speed trap who flashes their light at them. They take off running into the next suburban area and disable a drone tail, effectively losing them.

200 yards from the end zone, the team stops to survey the standoff area from F-B’s extraterritorial fenceline; there are pressure meshes, cameras, and pop-up turrets, but they’re identified before they can cause trouble. ALL-CITY stealths across the field with the help of some looper rounds, and top rocks into the endzone, performing a windmill with the spinning ball as celebration. It lights up and arms.

An illusory AR robot appears to dance, then the field turns into a circle with a 70 yard diameter. ALL-CITY runs out for the 2 point conversion and the bomb detonates, knocking down several sections and scrambling F-B’s security forces. Everyone’s pay is wired to them.

# Aftermath

The team scatters. Guard Dog picks up a tail - "no pun intended" - but loses it by transforming into a dog in a bush and escaping.

# Rewards

* 22,000 NuYen, 2 Karma, 2 CDP
* One tandem bike