Art Sioux

## Background

Each Runner had a call from their Fixer. Deacon's call was particularly entertaining, as her Fixer was driving like a maniac down the highway as she called. The fixers gave a VR address to the Runners to meet in a Host.

## The Meet

The Runners met the Johnson in an AR host. It was a large field, and a big table with food, with a massive tree. The Johnson's persona was a hawk. Seen had some trouble with his Gremlins issues, glitching out of the meet at one point. The Johnson wanted them to make a plan to steal several artifacts. He offered 10K Nuyen as startup funds each, to make a plan to infiltrate the museum and retrieve the artifacts. Bonus pay for each artifact retrieved. All of the items are ancient Sioux artifacts, and the Johnson reveals himself to work for the Sioux Nation.

## Legwork

The team checks out the museum. Jason does a Matrix search to get some blueprints, and other info. He then visits the Host of the museum. He found out that the Museum curator was one Beileag Donaghue, a satyr woman.

The ground crew goes to the museum in person. Ras, Seen, and Deacon. Moray gives a fly-spy to Seen. Deacon dresses Seen up as a woman, and Seen changes his face to be more feminine. She also gives him a Smart wig, and a bra, stuffing it with tissues. With their disguises secure, Deacon and Seen paid their admission fee, and perused the displays. They made a show of enjoying the exhibits, and cased the joint. A central "employees only" area was locked off, that was the target. Seen used reflections to watch a guard enter the central area, from which the helix of the building extended. It was a very strange design(as Cookie put it, "that is one ugly building") They found that several of the ten items they were looking for were on display, and noted the defences of each. 4 were missing though.

Deacon distracted one of the guards, and Seen took his chance. He got out of the view of any cameras, other than the one that Jason hacked and looped. He punched in the code on the pad, and slipped in. He luckily found a keycard that a guard had left lying in the breakroom, and used it to gain access to the elevator. He took it down to the storage room, where items not on display were presented. He managed to locate one of the missing items. But the other 3 appeared to be missing. He found a metal door that appeared to lead to an office, but was unable to open it. He boogied on out of there. He found the guard in the break room looking for his keycard on the floor. Seen, invisibly, slipped the keycard into the guard's pocket. He slipped out without incident, noone seemed any the wiser... Seen summoned an air spirit and had it scout the building astrally, and discovered a hidden sub-basement beneath the storage room. The spirit quickly blinked out of existence due to a dispelling. But he managed to get a glimpse of a vault with a powerful mana barrier on it. Whoever these guys were, they were hiding something in that basement, Seen guessed probably the missing 3 artifacts. It was likely these were magical, and would be worth much more to the Johnson than the others.

## Run

Rasputin and Seen hit the ground, and made their way into the museum through a back door. Ras popped the maglock open and opened it while Jason hacked into the host again and took control of the cameras on the door, and all the cameras leading to the elevator. Seen and Ras made their way to the elevator, Seen again inputting the password. There were guards walking around with flashlights, but between Seen's invisibility spell on himself, and the RPC on Ras' armor, they weren't spotted. Above them in the air, Jason and Moray waited, Deacon, her part of the job finished, had left, with pressing business elsewhere.

They rode the elevator down, and stopped in the storage room. They went and grabbed the artifacts they needed from that area. Seen summoned a spirit, and used it to scout the basement. And found that the fuckers were waiting for them. 4 men in combat armor, and each held the leash of a barghest. With them was Beileag. Turns out she was awakened. And also, turns out that a spider, Roje Gayle, was helping her, and had managed to get into the commlink of Seen, and knew every damn thing the team had said to eachother, and the Johnson. Ras was not discouraged though. He told Seen to wait up here, he would clear the room, and then Seen could come down and deal with the barrier. He stepped in the elevator, and unhooked two neurostun gas grenades. He set them off just after the doors closed. He exited the elevatorm shrugging off a spray of APDS bullets. His tough, chromed exterior was more than a match for petty bullets. The clouds of neurostun gas billowed out of the elevator, filling the room in seconds. The barghests stood no change. At the same time as Ras exited the elevator, his own rifle spitting APDS rounds, killing men and dogs, an anthropomorphic lightning cloud descended from the ceiling. Seen had summoned a force 8 Air spirit to give Ras some backup, and it lashed out with lightning, stunning and frying the flesh of the OpFor. After a few more brutal killings by Ras, Beileag surrendered, and Ras demanded she open the vault and give them the artifacts. She stated that the people who owned what was in that vault would kill her if she did.

The team were cut off from eachother. Jason fought for his life in the Matrix against the Spider. His skillset was subtle, though, not brutal. His cybercombat skills were not up to par with the enemy spider. He desperately tried to simply jack out, but was locked into the matrix by the Spider. He eventually managed to get out, suffering some dumpshock. Moray told him to strap in, she was going in for a landing. They managed to get a message through to the ground team, they were coming in hot, and they needed to get the fuck out of there. HTR reinforcements were en route.

Seen pleaded with Ras to ditch the girl and run. They needed to get the fuck out of there. Seen wasn't about to go to prison on his second job. Over the intercom they heard the spider, speaking to Beileag, asking her where the fuck she was, stating she needed to get out of there soon, and not to fuck him over. Ras took her hostage, and demanded the Spider get the elevator up to let them out. Seen summoned another spirit and used it to get the elevator moving faster. He then commanded it to go and gather up the artifacts on the main floor, without damaging them, and bring them to the roof. This it did, while practically destroying all the displays, and shocking not a few security guards who got in its way.

Seen then summoned another spirit when the team got to the roof. There was an argument over what to do with the girl, most of the team wanted to leave her here. Ras didn't want to give up his bargaining chip. Seen ended the arguement by putting a sticknshock round into her back, knocking her out. They hauled her onto the plane, and Seen used another spirit to get movement and concealment on the plane. THe team stole the commlink from the Satyr, and deposited her on top of a mountain with her docwagon bracelet on. They would pick her up. The team delivered the artifacts, and got their Nuyen.

## Aftermath

Seen, Moray, and Jason spent a couple weeks in Asia having a lovely vacation, waiting for the heat to die down a bit. Ras was not welcome, since he brought an unwanted guest into Moray's plane.

## Rewards

* 8 Karma
* 20K Nuyen
* 2 CDP
* 1 point of notoriety and public awareness(dreked that job up, Chummers.)

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