It’s Always the Father
| Johnson | Dominic Sharpe |
|---|---|
| Summary | Rescue |
| Meet | 17/11/2075 (Sunday) |
| Run | 18/11/2075 (Monday) – 19/11/2075 (Tuesday) |
| Pay | £25,000 (£6,250 each), 10 karma |
Details
17/11/2075 (Sunday)
- Whilst working at the bar, Jack is met by his contact Dominic Sharpe, a Professor specialising in ghoul research
- Dominic discusses a problem he has and Jack offers to put him in contact with someone he knows: ‘Schaefer’, who might be able to help
- The daughter of one of his colleagues (Natalie James) has gone missing. Police are not being much help
- Jack visits her that evening. She is a gaunt, caucasian woman. Reacts badly to him attempting to assense her and asks him to leave
- She is a Ghoul
18/11/2075 (Monday)
- Jack met up with her again the next morning
- Her daughter, also a ghoul, is involved with Dominic Sharpe’s research
- Donna James. 12 years old. Acquired a photo and daughter’s comm number
- Didn’t make it home from school 3 days ago. Peers saw her get on the bus home and get off around 1545 in Sawston
- Worried she has been taken by a corp or a ghoul pride group. Specifically Titan Bionics who have been contacting her about access to a paid clinical trial
- Child’s father is one Philip Stokes who works for NeoNET
- She is offering £25,000 to get her back
- Jack contacted the rest of the team about the job and they met up in Cambridge that afternoon
- Walking the route Donna would have taken home the team identify cameras that might have seen anything and spot some tyre marks outside ‘John’s Corner shop’
- Borat hacks into the shop camera and finds footage of the bus arriving
- 4 people get off the bus including Donna at 15:48
- As she walks along the road she passes behind a Black GMC Bulldog and vanishes. Van has an identifiable license plate which the team track to a local church
- A quick investigation of the church reveals that the plates were stolen from the church van
- Jack sent out a Spirit of Beasts to try and track the girl but the spirit was attacked and killed
- Hacking traffic cameras Borat is able to spot the van driving north
- Similar location to Titan Bionics
- Using the cameras the team tracked the van to a multi-storey car park north of Cambridge
- Appears to have been dumped there on the Friday
- Security video inside the carpark had been hacked to obscure faces but were able to identify 3 people leaving the van (one was a troll) carrying something
- Inside the van, the team found Donna’s backpack and Commlink
- Kidnappers trail was lost
- As the team exited the carpark their path was blocked by a car and they were engaged in combat by what appeared to be a Corp security team, including mages
- Killed 2 and knocked out 3. Took them prisoner. (Acquired 3 Ares Light Fires and 5 rating 3 Commlinks)
- Loaded the dead bodies and prisoners into the attackers car and had it follow Vlad’s car
- Contacted Seb for a location to hide and interrogate the attackers
- Drove out to an old abandoned office building with attached carpark
- Dragged the prisoners inside where they were interrogated by Jack and Borat
- They were a team from Titan Bionics looking for a stolen van
- Contacted their boss, Charles Coleman and informed him that they had his team
- Arranged to exchange hostages for information
- Met at an open carpark
- Arrived 5 min early and scouted the area. Jack summoned a force 3 spirit of water
- Coleman ‘arrived’ in an Ares Roadmaster and deployed a humanoid drone for communication
- Explained that a possible Shadowrunning team had stolen the van
- Their investigations had pulled up a connection to a group called the ‘Ghoul Fathers’
- Team returned to Jack’s home to rest
- Acquired a new car ID and stolen plates for Vlad’s vehicle. £100
- Called Dominic Sharpe, who was able to tell them that the Ghoul Fathers are a local ‘ghoul pride’ group and that they tend to occupy part of an old industrial district
19/11/2075 (Tuesday)
- Early the next morning the team headed to the industrial district
- Jack’s spirit identified 6 ghouls in the building, 5 upstairs and 1 down
- Smith climbed up to the 1st floor and looked in through the windows
- Second window: 2 female ghouls
- Third window: 3 ghouls (Female human, male dwarf and Donna James)
- Jack summoned Force 5 Spirit of beasts
- Team decided to hit all 3 locations simultaneously
- Smith breached through window 3 as Vlad charged into the second room – All ghouls killed
- Jack and Spirit attacked the ghoul downstairs – Ghoul knocked out and captured
- Stuffed in Vlad’s boot
- Acquired Fichetti executive action, 5 Meta Links and a Yamaha Growler
- Vlad injured in combat, scratched by a ghoul
- Burnt his chameleon suit
- Donna returned home
- Called Dominic Sharpe about Vlad’s scratch, he referred the team to a specialist called ‘Checkmate’
- Visited his home
- Elderly human gentleman
- Offered to take Vlad in for observation for 5 days for £5000 or a ‘favour’
- Took the captured ghoul to the abandoned office building for interrogation
- Ghoul claimed he didn’t perform the kidnapping. They were paid to keep Donna by an individual called ‘Magnesium’ 4 days ago
- Told to hold her for 1 week max
- 9 ghouls in group
- Ghoul executed
Downtime
Vlad
- Went to Angel biotech labs for observation incase of infection
- Offered a Job by Checkmate
Smith
- Bought cleaning supplied and returned to the Ghoul Father’s hideout, cleaned up the mess and moved the bodies
- Staked out the site
- After 1 day 4 ghouls arrived but did not enter
- Day 2: Van labelled ‘Titan Bionics’ drove up. Mg exited
- Smith shot him, knocked him out and restrained him
- Found van full of drones and equipment. Destroyed them with a frag grenade
- Took Mg to the abandoned office building for interrogation with Vlad
- Was hired by a troll – Philip Stokes
- Called his boss ‘Platinum’
- She refused to trade for Mg, killed him with a cortex bomb
Jack
- Returned home
- Worked at bar
- Learnt more Parazoology
Borat
- Learnt to drive