Lighting It Up 💡 🔦

## Loot/Exp

* Sunset // 3rd Game (December) // 300 eb // 30 IP // 7 DT
* Bow-Tie Karl // 3rd Game (December) // 300 eb // 30 IP // 7 DT
* Sentinel // 4th Game (December) // 300 eb // 35 IP // 7 DT
* Cross / 7th Game (December) // 300 eb // 35 IP // 0 DT

## Summary

Blinging Eddie hires Edgerunners to get him some lights, spotlights, and lasers. He suggests to the Edgerunners that they go to three different locations, two of which they could speak to people and attempt to purchase them, while the third location he points out is run by people who probably deserve a beating, but "I'm not hiring you guys to murder anyone or get yourselves killed" - Eddie.

The general consensus was to go get it from the people across the block from Eddie's place, the people who harassed him asking him to shut-down his music and not run his bar. This was to send a message, and become "the bigger fish in the pond".
Eddie seemed to agree, and give them a new directive: "Shake up their nest, and let them know that I'm the bigger fish".

Edgerunners approach the location, Bowtie Karl and Sentinel enter the location from the front door learning that they fabricate and sell Synthcoke and Black Lace from here. While Cross, Sunset, and Tequila approach from the back entrance seeing a cargo truck just heading out, their garage door open, and a guard standing there keeping an eye-out for the truck holding an SMG. Sunset approaches the guard who seems very adamant to get them out of here, threatening them with his SMG; this triggered a Katana slash against him causing him to run and gun autofiring as he went. Triggering combat, the others inside hear gunshots and are asked to leave while security personnel begin to move and activate their defenses against the attackers.

Karl and Sentinel pretend that they're complying, moving to the door, using that opportunity to make a couple of well-placed attacks against the initial members at this location. More security personnel approach, one badly hurts Sentinel, just as Sunset shoots and sets-off a chain-reaction of explosives causing a quarter of the building to collapse. She then takes an unlucky headshot against bringing her to the brink of death (Tarot Headshot - death saves), Cross & Sentinel put themselves in the middle of danger in a bad-ass moment of running and leaping past a moving conveyor belt in order to rescue Sunset, Tequilla tries to Netrun the basic NET-Arc to disable the conveyor-belt and open some doors, Karl gets dragged over to the crusher at the end of the conveyor belt, and Cross becomes the target of multiple shotgunners and a security drone for being at the tail-end of the crew and closest to the guards.

Bowtie Karl miraculously escapes the crusher, and grabs onto one of the members there, escaping with him in tow. This was an older fellow who was managing reception, giving orders, triggering some security protocols, and barely able to do much besides firing a shotgun. Edgerunners appear at Eddie's doorstep near death's door, beaten, shot, bloodied, and nearly killed; this sets off his inner-rage as he has gotten close to these Edgerunners after they've helped him find, secure, move, and begin setting up his new bar. He is presented with this old man who turns out to be a respected leader of security for the location across the block. For the first time to anyone, Eddie shows some aggression and combat skills as he pops-up his Spiked Steel Bat and knocks the security-lead on the head, throwing him inside his office and locking it up while telling the Edgerunners that he'll use him to 'conduct negotiations'... one way or another.