Things that Go Splash

Johnson	The Suited Lady
Summary
Meet	11/02/2076 (Tuesday)
Legwork	09/02/2076 (Sunday) – 20/02/2076 (Thursday)
Pay	£70,000
Game Time	13/09/2018 – 27/09/2018 (3 Sessions)

Details

09/02/2076 (Sunday)

Jack is at a Screaming Barons party. Approached afterwards by Helen Poole about a job.

11/02/2076 (Tuesday)

Meet:

• Pascal has a new identity
• Father Finley, an elderly Catholic Priest

Helen Poole has brought in some matrix support:

Sanguine

• Albino, not hidden
• Medium height
• White clothing, short haired
• Eyes – Solid red eyes, tinted contact lenses (?), plus eyelid tattoos
• Gun holster. Large Revolver

Johnson:

• Human Female
• Business Suit
• Likely Corp

Extraction Job:

• From a Circus
• Opening in a week 14/2/76, London, Highly attended, awakened emerged animals (not all awakened), Just under 4 weeks open, closes 09/03/2076
• Target – Dolphin, Kumo – Bottlenose
• Highly intelligent
• Potentially Awakened?
• Needed alive
• Pay: £50,000 + £10,000 expenses + £10,000 (Negotiated)
• Weed of Gilly – Breath underwater (4+ESS hours)

Circus is located in a High Lifestyle Area

• Hyde Park
• Northeast section
• Circus has already arrived

Sanguine’s searches:

• ‘Flashy’ Circus
• Rumours they mIstreat their animals
• Have had protesters
• £50 entry
• 2 hr act
• Show(s) outside of main event and theatre

Recon:

• Area cordoned off – metal barriers and chain-link
• Tents and temporary building
• Security staff
• Patrols
• Tasers and Rifles? (How?)
• Sprite set to search for why they can carry firearms

• Guided to part of the cordon closest to the tanks – Sanguine
• Chainlink fence, near the back stage parts of the camp, Campervans and trailers
• Over the fence
• Sneaking through the camp
• Tank is in a tent
• Slipped under the side of the tent, no one inside
• Magic barrier inside the tent
• Tank-circular takes up most of the tent
• 1.5m deep

Kumo is a Technocritter

• Intelligent enough to communicate, can access the matrix
• Assensed
• Sanguine commiting its matrix signature to memory (+4 dice)
• Is space for a van around the back
• 3 dolphins in the tank, only one is a technocritter
• Front of the tent is for viewing
• But shows happen elsewhere
• Dolphin is 3.5m – would fit in Epsilon 17

Levitate Test run – Dolphin started to spam AR with emoji, alerting some of the circus employees

• Harry
• Sanguine – sprite placed cookie on their comms (½ hour duration)

Ideas:

• Anaesthetise or Jam the dolphin
• Adjust a head jammer?
• Dolphin is levitated out for the show, is clearly clever enough to know the time though

What we need:

• Knock out dolphin
• Keep it alive whilst knocked out
• Get a van in to circus
• Get dolphin in to van
• Get out of circus
• Make sure dolphin can’t be tracked

13/02/2076 (Wednesday)

Sanguine’s search

• Have an exception for firearms
• Filled with tranq/SnS rounds
• Incase animals escape

Matrix meet to plan

• Forge a Delivery as our way in
• Sanguine hacked into host and tracking deliveries
• Fishmongers delivery – ⅔ days worth
• Hacked personnel files – identified dolphin workers + headshots – Sent to Pascal
• Harriet Martin is trainer ‘Harry’
• Need some barrels and a hand pump for water
• Jack to learn Oxygenate spell (From Holly Kendrick) – 6 Days
• Smith to modify a head-jammer to fit a dolphin + waterproofing
• Acquire Tranq patches from Kwack

14/02/2076 (Thursday)

• Jack goes to the circus £30
• Father Finley attends the circus and closely observes one of the aquarium staff
• 6 Dice Disguise as a member of staff
• Overalls bought

20/02/2076 (Wednesday)

Plan:

• Forge delivery for fish on host 4-5am
• Father Finley goes in alone, prior to the van imitating the vet
• Rest of team drives up in van
• Head to dolphin tank
• Try and persuade dolphin that it’s time for training?
• Attach headjammer when needed
• Tranq if it struggles too much
• Levitate dolphin out of tank and into van
• Check for tags
• Drive out

Run:

00:00

• Father Finley climbs in over the fence
• Disguised as ‘Max’
• Pretending to be drunk, gets directed to the right caravan
• Sneaks inside and attacks the real Max, knocking him out

16:00

• Rest of group buys some fish – £500
• Titania has been repainted
• Sanguine hacking host
• Gets in and edits in forged delivery file

Van drives up to the gate

• Guards confused
• Check out the van
• Let us in after checking in the back

• Finley meets up with the van (smacked in the face by the door) to accept the delivery
• Putting on an act at being outraged at the delivery – needs sorting!

• Get the van to the tent and backing up inside the mana barrier
• Sanguine negotiating with the Dolphin
• Successfully levitated
• Feeding it fish as we go

• Dolphin gone VR and headed off in the matrix – communicating with a commlink
• 2 tranq patches – not unconscious yet
• Head jammer
• Into the van successfully

• Harry and 2 others approaching the front
• Finley attempting to delay them

• 1 more patch – Dolphin unconscious
• Oxygenated

• ‘Max’ Proposes…
• Gets slapped

• Driving away – some people are moving to follow the van
• Jack goes astral to clean up and encounters an astral form that asks him who he is
• Mana barrier around it
• It attacks him

• Machine sprite gremlins on pursuer’s comms

• Resonance veil – to Harriet’s comm to fake dolphin signal

• Up to the gate
• Finley gets there first chatting with the guards to distract them
• Resonance veil to spoof a message saying they’d found the dolphin

• Drop off is in the barrens

• Dolphin successfully transferred

• Paid: £60,000
• Run expenses
• £800 Tranq
• £500 Fish

• £68,700 total – £13,740 each