Run Boy Run

## Summary

The edgerunners responded to a call for help from a man named Tomas Cruz. He had somehow gotten himself trapped on the roof of the Night City Opera, which was a multi-use building over 10 stories tall. The edgerunners quickly determined a place to climb the tower where their was a "tier" about twenty meters up. Nick led the way parkouring up the sheer surface, using tiny window insets as footing. Michonne followed him using the same path. Li Min, Radio Radio and Friendly grapple gunned and batmanned up the sheer surface. Luca looked up a floor plan of the Opera Tower while Zero started scanning for radio channels.

The climbing group arrived on the first tier to discover it was a balcony restaurant with a city view. Friendly, rocking his Torrel & Chiang suit, strode right by, even stealing a shrimp from a diner's plate. Nick similarly had no problem, confident in his high fashion shoes. Li Min effectively pretended to be with Friendly, as did Michonne. Radio Radio needed know help as he rocked his puffer jacket and bowl cut to perfection. The gang looked so styling that they walked in slow motion, and a handsome playboy tried to get Li Min's number. She ignored the playboy as they piled in the elevator.

While scanning the radio channels Zero landed on channel "7", where a woman's voice told him she'd pay them each 350 eddies to rescue Tomas Cruz. She directed him to a fire door that was open and led to a set of emergency stairs. Eventually Zero was able to get all of the edgerunners to join channel 7, where a second woman's voice could be heard talking about "acquiring a target".

The edgerunners emerged onto the roof to Mr. Cruz' relief. He begged them to take him back down the elevator but the woman on comms told them not to. The money she was offering was to take him to a neighboring roof, away from the Opera. Nick ascertained that they could use grapple guns to create a zipline to a neighboring building and then descend from it to the ground. They implemented the plan and as they crossed the giant chasm Radio Radio noticed a woman come out of a side door to the Opera far below them. The woman was wearing a yellow formal dress and carrying a sniper rifle in one hand. She leapt onto a roadbike and raced away.

Hardly had the edgerunners landed on the neighboring roof than a flight of attack helicopters appeared, racing in on an attack run. The woman on comms told them that she had fed the choppers their position. The only way to escape would be to take Tomas from rooftop to rooftop into South Night City, where the choppers wouldn't dare follow from fear of the SNC no fly zone. Growing somewhat distrustful of their new employer, but with no real choices left, the edgerunners began to jump from rooftop to rooftop as the helicopters zeroed in on them. Eventually it became obvious that the real mission was to draw the helicopters away from a woman named "Ilsa Faust", who was performing some sort of covert operation inside the Opera. When Tomas was wounded the edgerunners asked if it was necessary to save him or just draw away the helicopters. The answer they got is that they would only get paid if they saved Tomas.

Things looked grim as one of the helicopter pilots, a man named Silvio Sky, swooped past Tomas and grabbed him. Friendly made a lucky shot, breaking Silvio's arm and forcing him to drop Tomas. Then Li Min flying kicked Silvio right out of his helicopter. At that point Silvio offered a deal: he'd allow the edgerunners to escape with Tomas, who he called "Ethan Hunt", if they let him and his teammates go. The edgerunners agreed to the Silvio's offer to retreat while Tomas yelled "who the hell is Ethan Hunt?!"

The voice on the line told the edgerunners that had turned out to be much more difficult than she expected so she paid them each a 100 eddie bonus. The money appeared in their accounts, coming from an encrypted bank account.

## Loot/EXP

450 eb / 40 ip / 7 dt / Zero (2nd Game) / @P| 07 Zero | Grey Tide (1)

450 eb / 40 ip / 7 dt / Li Min Wei (2nd Game) / @P| Li Min Wei (1) // Luca

450 eb / 40 ip / 7 dt / Radio Radio (3rd Game) / @S| Radio Radio (3) | DF

450 eb / 40 ip / 0 dt / Nick Wild (5th Game) / @P| 20 Nick Wild | Lugosi (5)

450 eb / 40 ip / 0 dt / Friendly (7th Game) / @P| 17 Friendly | John (6) /

450 eb / 40 ip / 0 dt / Michonne (8th Game) / @P| 13 Michonne | Kati (7)