This led Rusty to a postal box rental shop where a package had been delivered to his brother the day after his disappearance. Finding this to be a curious turn of events, Rusty, Fyfy and Bunyip traveled to the shop where they were able to hack the bio-metric lock system to retrieve a package. Once the package was opened they determined that the contents were an unusual wetware chip, octagonal in shape. After it was researched, it was discovered that this was most likely a Consciousness Transference Chip, used in recording and transferal of complete memory and personality. A vital clue was also found, in that the name on the account was that of Judas Iscariot, a potential connection to the apostle that betrayed Christ, but also a potential enemy of Apostlecorp. Perhaps even an inside betrayer. This could be a link to confirm the issue mentioned by the Cyberinquisitor.

The Meeting

In place, the group were only awaiting the arrival of the Cyberinquisitor. As expected he arrived with a driver exactly on time. He then met with Kitty and Gimmy, where he got the basics of the prior evenings events. This lead to a somewhat tense discussion concerning keeping quiet and being monetarily compensated for doing so.

The discussion ended with a somewhat tense agreement to consider compensation in return for silence, but it was not a well received suggestion. The meeting broke up a short while later with little resolution.

Reviewing Facts

The group reconvened at the storage facility where they began discussing theories and talking about the chip that had been recovered from the postal box facility. The theory that somehow the hacked police robots that prompted the riots, Rusty’s brother’s disappearance, and the possible connection to a hacked street preacher and his avenging angels. There was additional conjecture that somehow the CTC was also involved in some way.

Before the group could consider all the possibilities, there was an incident. An EMP burst shut down the teams ability to watch their perimeter. This prompted Gimmy and Fyfy to head to the roof to prepare for a potential attack.

Upon reaching the roof, the pair witnessed the arrival of a group of Avenging Angels. It appeared that the church was done asking nicely. As the Angels advanced, Coop made a call to the Cyberinquisitor and made an attempt to stop the pending attack. After a curt warning, The attack was called off, but an implied threat was made, when an Angel handed both Gimmy and Fyfy a bullet and told them that they had been spared for the time being. It seemed that their silence on the matter was now required.

A Word of Advice

Realizing that they needed information and a little guidance, Gimmy and Bunyip made their way to the Church of New Transfiguration in East Township, where they had a meeting with Street Preacher Fredericks.

They described the situation with the Corporate church and provided the details of the events that had taken place earlier at Jerry’s Bar in Mumbly.

After hearing all this information, Fredericks advised them to be wary of how they dealt with Cyberinquisitor Max, as he was known to be ruthless if he felt he was being threatened. They also learned that the Avenging Angels receive their instructions directly from the Holy Mainframe. the pair were also warned about Skellig Donaar, an inquisitor assigned to Frontier as a strong-arm man against heretical teaching.

Armed with this new information, the pair returned to the facility at Go Store It, to share their information with the others.

A Little Bit of Old-Fashioned Investigation

Meanwhile, Coop had driven to his home to recover the core from the damaged Police Robot that had been damaged near the docks during an earlier riot. He quickly pulled the data core and headed for the police station.

Upon his arrival he met with “Pants-less” and asked him to run a check on the bio-metric data that had been associated with the mail box facility recovered by Bunyip, Fyfy and Rusty. This is the same bio-metric data that was listed at that site as “Judas Iscariot”.

The officer returned a short while later with a micro-disc containing the information requested from the records search. coop took this micro-disc with him back to the facility to share his findings with the team.

Windmill

While the team were working to resolve their own problems with the rapidly deteriorating situation surrounding Apostlecorp, a mysterious Ransom-ware attack dubbed Windmill was beginning to wreck its way through the city’s legal infrastructure.

Suddenly in the middle of an already dangerous situation, the Police were being forced to release people from jail, as they could not be held without charges. It seemed that the Ransom-ware was systematically erasing or obfuscating criminal records and preventing additional records from being created.

This would lead to the declaration of martial law in the city, and the eventual assumption of policing duties by Futuretech using an army of 50,000 Proxies.

The Not-So-Big Reveal

As events unfolded in the city, the team reassembled to reveal what they had discovered. After Bunyip provided the advise that Fredericks had given, he took the micro-disc from Coop and opened it. Not surprisingly the bio-metric data belonged to none other than Skellig Donaar. For the first time, there was a direct link between Apostlecorp and the disappearance of Kelvin McIntosh.

still watching a live feed of on the Windmill Ransom-ware, Kitty hit upon the idea of polling the audience around any additional robot, proxy or computer failures. She was beginning to think that the incidents of Police Robot attacks, the Street preacher’s abnormal behavior and other issues may be related. Asking the data feed for additional information and stories, she acquired some useful data, almost certainly pointing towards a common cause.

The Demand

While the team was planning their next move, Kitty received a phone call from none other than Skellig. He demanded that the “device” that had been recovered from the mail center be brought out to him immediately. He offered to trade rusty’s brother Kelvin for the chip.

Bill had placed the Chip in a safe which had been moved to the Turan Mirage behind the facility. Now faced with a possibility of losing Rusty’s brother the group decided to work towards saving Kelvin.

Once off the phone with Skellig, Kitty immediately turned around and contacted Cyberinquisitor Cornelius Max. She explained what was happening and provided proof that the Street Preacher was brain hacked. This convinced the inquisitor to send a dispatch for Avenging Angels to the scene. The team only had to hold out for 7 minutes, to await their arrival.

The team decided to place the chip in a special static bag, which was given to Rusty for safe-keeping. Additionally bill gave Rusty a nanosolution that would destroy the chip if used on it. In the case, Bill rigged a flash-bang grenade to detonate when the inner case was opened.

Escalation

Fyfy and Todd headed to the roof to provide overwatch support for the team headed towards the exchange. Rusty, Kitty and Gimmy would be making the exchange. Coop, Will and Bunyip would be positioned in Bill’s Lenko Dominator to race to support the exchange team or for evacuation if needed.

As the team prepared for the exchange to take place, additional Apostlecorp troops arrived. Two Crucible APCs each carrying 15 assault troopers wearing Hectate body armor arrived, and their troops deployed adjacent to the vehicle holding Kelvin.

Being forced to move earlier than desired, the exchange team went to make the exchange. It was here that everything went sideways. As the team approached the hand-off point, a pair of Archangel AV Assaults each carrying 12 assault troopers wearing Hectate body armor arrived on site as well.

Forced into a difficult spot, the team decided that their best course of action was to employ delaying tactics. To this end, they attempted to draw out the exchange as much as possible.

Although they had a solid plan of action, they were forced to deal with the situation earlier than they desired. When Skellig threatened to have Kelvin killed, Rusty turned over the case. After some fumbling with the bio-metric lock, rusty finally got the case open and the inner case was removed. When the soldier ordered to open the inner case did so, the flash-bang grenade detonated, giving the team an opportunity to head for cover.

During the ensuing gunfight, Skellig shot Kelvin in the head, killing him. Fyfy and Todd attempted to neutralize him, but he activated an Optical Camouflage system, making long-distance targeting impossible.

As everything popped off, the troops began to advance, and with the support of the Crucible APCs, the team was forced to rapidly withdraw. At around this same time, the team lost their over-watch as the Archangels began to spray the rooftop with mini-gun fire.

during the retreat from the front of the facility, Rusty was knocked unconscious, but Gimmy carried him out of the line of fire, while Kitty and later Todd covered the team.

Realizing the fight was lost, the team called for a general retreat, and Coop, driving the Dominator, burst through the back perimeter wall surrounding the Go Store It.

As the vehicle sped into an open field it was engaged by one of the Archangels, spraying the resilient vehicle with heavy mini-gun fire. Meanwhile at the facility, now surrounded by assault troops, Fyfy, decided to exit behind the Dominator, driving his Lenko Adze.

As the pair of vehicles raced away from the facility, a massive explosion destroyed the facility in a massive ball of flame, leveling several of the nearby storage structures at the same time. The Dominator caught fire as a result of the mini-gun damage that it sustained, but continued to drive.

To assist Fyfy matched speed with the Dominator to allow Bunyip to make the jump between vehicles. Bunyip missed but managed to avoid harm. Shortly afterwards, Coop stopped the vehicle to escape it. While he managed to get free, a rocket struck the vehicle badly injuring Bill and placing into critical condition. Fyfy was able to pick up Bill, Coop and Bunyip and evaded a repeat attack by the Archangels.

Meanwhile, Gimmy, Todd, Kitty and Rusty were being pushed by the APCs and assault troops deeper into the wrecked facility. Making a sharp turn, they ran towards the wall which they scaled to escape the compound. Rusty and Kitty were fortunate to survive an attempt by the APC driver to run them over, but the vehicle became stuck on a portion of the now partial wall.

The second team took shelter in a wrecked insurance building and watched as the enemy began to surround them. It appeared to be the end for the team trapped there.

Salvation

It was about this time, that the time quoted to them by Max reached zero. As if on cue, a series of sonic booms reverberated through the area as a group of four Avenging Angels arrived on site, dropped from an orbital platform, high above the city.

These impacts slammed into the Archangels, destroying them in midair. The other pair slammed into the APCs, wrecking them on impact. The resultant Angels then engaged the other Apostlecorp forces at the site, ripping through them.

Skellig, seeing he had been thwarted, decided to escape empty-handed. in the ensuing confusion the team decided that they should also retreat.

Safe Places

Bunyip lead FyFy, Coop, and the badly injured Bill to a safe-house run by Nona Ritter. There, the team was provided food shelter and medical attention. Thanks to Coops ability to perform first aid, Bill survived the journey and was able to acquire additional medical care.

Meanwhile, on the other side of the city, Gimmy led Todd, Rusty and Kitty to a Great Khans’ safe-house operated by Vulkana. There the team was provided everything they needed to recover.

Checking in

The following morning the team was split from the general retreat the night prior. As each roused for the day, they made contact with their respective hosts to assess the situation and were offered resources to aid them on their way.

At around 8:00 A.M.. Kitty reached out to the other half of the team, FyFy, Bunyip, Bill and Coop to check on their status. She learned the seriousness of Bill’s condition, which meant he was out of action for a couple of days.

Kitty had asked Bunyip to see if Coop could get a hold of an pristine Inmara Control Module from one of the patched Police robots, so that it could be compared line-by line with the corrupted core they already possessed from the first riot.

Bunyip arranged for bill’s ongoing medical care, and asked Coop to acquire an additional core as Kitty requested. In response, Coop requested that Bunyip locate video of any of the Police Robots that may have been destroyed during the latest round of riots.

Data Mining

In order to try to get a better handle on the situation, Kitty began to make additional inquiries. Her first call was to Cyberinquisitor Cornelius Max concerning Skellig Donaar. kitty discovered that Max had been chastised for intervening in the Skellig operation the night prior. The Elders of the church had not been convinced that the “Brain Hack” of Street Preacher Todd as sufficient evidence that Skellig was acting outside his authority. Max warned Kitty that Skellig was still operational and most likely planning his next encounter with the team soon. Max also pointed out that he noted that one of the assailants in the video Kitty had sent was a Proxy. He suggested that Kitty go to Androids and she would see the same evidence he had noticed.

Kitty wanted additional information concerning the connective link binding all the seemingly disconnected robot failures she was spotting. To follow up on that she contacted a netrunner friend that she knew, Parallel Life. Parallel, turned Kitty on to a net myth concerning the Hackability of the supposedly unhackable Inmara Control Module found in an alarmingly large number of devices.

She told Kitty the story of an unnamed Indian White hat who had discovered the exploitable flaw in the Inmara Control Modules, and when he approached Inmara with the information and an offer to assist with the issue, they killed his family in an attempt to kill him. The White hat security man assumed the identity of the hacker Bleakstar, who then wrote and developed the Black Hat Protocol, a step-by-step explanation of how to hijack and sabotage the Inmara systems. While Parallel indicated that Inmara was actively scrubbing the Hypernet for the document and actively killing those who possessed it, she also indicated that it may be possible to acquire a copy via the Darknet Markets, although she advised caution.

Kitty also learned that the strange chip they had wasn’t just a CTC, but it was a prototype Quantum processor chip developed by the Foresight Institute as an alternative to Inmara devices. Supposedly the chip could reprogram the Inmara systems to operate on the new Interface on it’s own. This could rapidly increase Consciousness Transfer to take place in minutes rather than hours.

Gearing Up

Gimmy and Rusty were give access to the packs armory, which was used to acquire additional ammo for their weapons. They were also given permission to use the Great Khans’ War Wagon, which made their actions official pack vengeance.

Despite Todd’s desire to not use the gasoline powered vehicle, in favor of something more modern, Gimmy insisted and the War Wagon was decided upon.

The Core of the Problem

Coop and FyFy learned that three of the police robots had been destroyed by a street gang called the Moa, run by Black Dahlia. As a result, they traveled to Liberty Docks, where they met with Big Boss, leader of the United Dockworkers Nomad Pack.

Coop was referred to a one-time member of the pack, Trevor Stattum, a pusher with strong ties to the Moa. Trevor conducted his business at a converted post office building.

Once inside, FyFy and Coop managed to secure a meeting with Trevor. They were able to arrange to buy two of the cores from the destroyed Robots, although they were a bit pricey. with Cores in-hand, they pair returned to pick up Bunyip and then headed to Hammys to meet the rest of the team.

A Trip to Androids

Kitty, Gimmy and Todd headed to Androids to look at some of the Proxies as suggested by Max to Kitty in their earlier conversation. This lead to Kitty confirming the suspicion that one of the people responsible for the brain hack on the Street preacher was, in fact, a Proxy. After this confirmation, Kitty and her team headed to Hammys to meet with the others.

Data Dissemination

The Team assembled outside a closed Hammys, most likely closed as a result of the difficulties faced by the city. The Bastard Brigade had moved into a high alert status, expecting an attack by police, military or corporate forces at any time.

With so little activity, it was a simple matter for the team to trade the information they had acquired and set about planning for the resolution to their problem.

The Plan

After discussing the information that the two teams had collected, it was decided to follow up on the only two leads that they possessed. One of those was the Black Hat protocol and the code comparison, while the other was to follow up on the location in the Bailey, where Rusty’s brother Kelvin headed into causing his eventual disappearance and capture by Skellig Donaar.

The Dark Net

To start with, Bunyip along with Kitty would remain at Hammys while Bunyip performed a code comparison on the two Inmara Control Modules they had acquired. One was pre-patch, and the second was post-patch. After digging through nearly 10-million lines of code, Bunyip could only locate one change to the code, which was presumably the patch that had been announced to the public.

However, upon review, it was determined that all the patch accomplished was to disable the functionality of an optical diagnostic port located on the Control Module. As that port was only a read port in the first place, it meant that the patch was ineffectual and would have no affect on preventing the hijacking of the control module.

Armed with this information, Bunyip had no choice but to dive into the Dark Net in an attempt to acquire the fabled Black hat protocol. With Kitty agreeing to watch his mortal body, while he handled the dive, Bunyip dropped into the net and maneuvered himself into the darkest recesses of the Dark net until he was able to locate the Darknet Market, Utopia.

There he maneuvered through the file tree until he located the information brokerage dedicated to Inmara. Entering the market brokerage, he was surprised to find himself in a near perfect realization of the Inmara Corporate Lobby. There were Brokerbots interacting with virtual icons, as well as a “commodities” ticker board.

Bunyip took a look around and spotted an icon resembling the Hindu Monkey God Haruman. After a display of ability, and a difficult haggling session, Bunyip was able to finally acquire the Black Hat Protocol. It was probably helpful that another hacker Blackheart was also pushing Haruman to provide a service.

Once the Protocol was retrieved, Bunyip was able to look at the code for the Protocol and determine how it worked. It was determined that the protocl worked by hijacking the signals that transpired between the Inmara Control Modules, editing it and sending the newly reformatted message back to the device it was intended for. this allowed the hacker to bypass the security in the Control module hardware, by iintercepting the signal outside the controlled system.

Now that the method was understood, it became very apparent why this was such a dangerous issue. Fundamentally, this could allow relative easy control of a given Hypercube Network. It would also be very scalable.

The Drug House

Thinking back to the fact that Skellig Donaar had possession of Kelvin McIntosh, who had disappeared after the attack on a supposed Drug House in the Bailey, the team wondered if there were any clues at the site that might aid them in unraveling the larger picture that was unfolding around them. With a solid connection to the CTC chip connecting both Skellig and Kelvin, and the drug house now as well, there were worse ideas than checking out the site.

The team arrived, parking in front of the building, which appeared to be abandoned. At the time, Rusty, FyFy, Coop, and Gimmy entered the building. Todd stayed with the War Wagon. The team noted a group of Devil’s Henchmen across the street, where the group maintained a small club house.

Once in the building, Gimmy moved up to the second floor to act as over-watch. Arriving there, he checked lines-of-fire verifying site-lines and taking note of the building’s immediate surroundings. he then moved to a blown out window in the front of the building where he took up an over-watch position guarding Todd and the van out front.

Rusty began to search through the front of the building, where he located a desk containing a few interesting items. Most notably a Security Bracelet and a smart paper RFID business card. When the bracelet and the card were brought into proximity to the utility room of the building the card displayed a security access code to the panel located in the utility room (cleverly disguised as a smart thermostat). It was later discovered that entering this code, which changed each time, into the panel would activate the utility room elevator into the lower level clean room.

FyFy had searched the rear area of the first floor, identifying the utility room as odd. At that time, the team did not realize that the room was an elevator, but it would eventually be revealed.

Coop had identified something odd about the center shaft that appeared to be an enclosed fire place and chimney, but it was not scan-able. This led him to surmise that it was an elevator, although later it would be determined that it was the location of the elevator’s mechanical systems.

While waiting outside, a member of the henchmen approached Todd and demanded CR 2,000 from him. Todd refused and as things prepared to spiral out of control and into a firefight, the team realized that there was a Henchman’s club house directly across the street, although they did not know how many of the gang was present. FyFy managed to defuse the situation, by paying the henchman CR 5,000 and letting him take a punch at FyFy, to make a good show for his gang members.The hit, destroyed FyFy’s hectate helmet, but at only a loss of pride, FyFy’s quick thinking managed to defuse the situation. Todd was sent inside and no further issues with the Henchmen occurred.

It was around this time that Todd and coop had been drawn to the oddity that was the utility room. as they were inside investigating it, Rusty discovered at this time that the security bracelet he found activated a smart paper business card revealing the access code to be entered on the faux thermostat in the utility room.

After a couple of attempts, Coop managed to get the code entered before it expired and the pair , Coop and Todd) found themselves trapped in an elevator descending down a shaft into an unknown area.

The Clean Room

As the Elevator activated, the access door to the Utility room sealed with a magnetic lock, and Gimmy attempted to open it with conventional 40-mm grenades, in an attempt to reach the pair. The effort was in vain, and the duo arrived on the lower floor where a sliding door granted them access to a clean room.

The room was in the process of being packed or unpacked, and a pair of Proxy security models immediately engaged the pair. Firing chest based rocket packs and high-powered lasers at the pair, resulted in a destroyed access panel, as well as each of the two being burned through the torso by a high-powered laser.

Coop managed to destroy one of the Proxies with his weapon, but the pair were unable to deal with the other one conventionally, because of a countermeasure that had activated making the situation exceptionally dire.

A safety protocol known as the “Inferno Protocol had been activated in the clean room after Gimmy detonated three ”/wikis/etr" class=“wiki-page-link”> ETR at the utility room door, which interrupted the clean room’s computer system. The protocol caused Aerated CHOO₂ to be deployed into the room. Unable to use lasers or firearms, the remaining proxy went into hand-to-hand mode injuring Todd.

Realizing that the aeration would be followed by an ignition sequence, the pair retreated to the elevator car, where they quickly rewired the elevator to take them to the upper floor. They narrowly avoided the ignition sequence in the room below, which destroyed any evidence of the facility’s product, and destroyed the two Proxies on site.

Medical Recovery

The team that had checked out the house, left after the detonation in the basement clean room. They returned back to the Great Khans nomad pack, but it became apparent that the med-tech on the site did not have the skill to properly treat the laser injuries suffered by Coop and Todd. She recommended a visit to the hospital to stay in a Nutrient Tank. They made contact with Kitty, who along with Bunyip had returned to Nona Ritter’s, where Bill was now much more recovered.

Bill, although unable to perform the medical procedure, enlisted Bunyip and Kitty to put together the materials needed to handle the injuries when the injured arrived.

Kitty, under Bill’s guidance mixed the Nutrients that would be needed to feed the nanites once applied. The mixture consisted of simple syrups, saline, crushed multi-vitamins, electrolytes and carbohydrate powder. Bunyip in the meantime, prepared the seals, and the nanite solution ready for deployment. Once they arrived, Bill and Bunyip went to work applying the makeshift nanite patches to their wounded teammates.

The Pen is Mightier…

As the group reconvened, they fell into the discussion of the object found at the false drug house that they had raided prior. This in turn led to Rusty inspecting the security bracelet and smart card, but finding little tangible evidence that would generate a new lead.

In a more productive effort, Coop managed to break apart one of the pens that Rusty had recovered from the site, and was able to identify them as trackers. Additionally, he was able to identify the signature of the tracker’s manufacturer as the notorious hacker, Dread Core AKA Gislaine Zachiel. This placed the supposed drug house into a direct, although long-term contact with the political group the Union of Human Rights.

As a staunch anti-robot political group, the UHR had plenty of motive to cause chaos by interfering with the Inmara Corporation as well as Futuretech and the Police robots used by the Frontier Police department. A little digging revealed that the original Electrical company, whose logo was found on the pen had been destroyed years ago in a bombing, and that the site was currently occupied by LEV8 Conciousness a Political Action Service.

A brief trip to the LEV8 site led Fyfy and Gimmy to an accounting firm that provided Amit Ganaka as the head of the UHR, and a staunch anti-robot politician. this was a second link to the group found.

Bars Do Not A Prison Make…

With Coop’s assistance, Kitty, Bunyip and Coop made their way to the Bailey Maximum Security Prison, where they arranged to meet with two prior UHR terrorists named Gislaine Zachiel and Anin Kiko.

The three met with Gislaine first and received some information concerning the origin of the Black Hat Protocol, the Windmill/ Smokescreen Software and the likely plans in place by Amit Ganaka. In return for possible assistance in being released, Gislain provided Kitty with a pass-phrase of _ “The phoenix’s ashes fall from the sunniest of skies.” _ This phrase was guaranteed to get the group a meeting with Amit.

After Gislaine was sent back to her cell the trio met with Anin, who was very helpful, confirming the plan to produce corrupted Imara modules, providing a timeline and demonstrating his skill as an escape artist at the same time. His only request was that the Japanese Embassy be advised of his whereabouts.

Show Me the Money!

Realizing that they had the opportunity for a payday, Kitty reached out to her sister Melody for assistance in locating a suitable contact with Foresight Institute who was likely to be able to assist with a reward for locating the returned quantum chip that they had located.

Melody identified, Charles Hollister as the best candidate to approach, and Kitty was able to arrange an exchange of the chip for CR 800,000 and a Petabyte Compiler, which could be used to restore Miss Aver’s memory issues.

Acquiring Proof

With the evidence that UHR involvement being the best explanation for the events of recent days, and indirectly responsible for the issues that the team faced, Kitty and the Others decided to visit the UHR headquarters in Northside.

Arriving on site, Kitty used the pass-phrase provided by Gislaine and the team was immediately show in to see Amit Ganaka. It seemed that the pass-phrase was designed to initiate the rescue of the two imprisoned individuals in the bailey, but it also provided the team with all the proof they needed. With Gimmy and Kitty recording the conversation the evidence was indisputable.

Additionally, the team was provided the laptop that contained the original smokescreen and the modified Windmill software that the team needed to confirm that the UHR was responsible for the chaos in the city. It also contained a virus specifically designed to be placed within the Holy Mainframe which would collect all the MAC addresses for the entire Avenging Angel contingent in the city, adding them to the potential Inmara police Robots already accessible to the group.

With them creating chaos, their political anti-robot agenda could not fail.

Contemplating Heresy

Kitty made contact with Cyber Inquisitior Cornelius Max, meeting him along with her allies at the Battleground. There she provided him with the Simsense recording of their conversation with Ganaka, as well as the laptop containing the virus.

Max returned to the Church and was able to convince the elders to sanction Ganaka. As a sign of his gratitude for their assistance, Max paid the team CR 160,000 for their assistance. With Ganaka’s plans ruined, things quickly returned to the norm, especially once the timer on Windmill expired, restoring the Police networks.

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At Fyfy’s suggestion Coop accessed the FPD records associated with Rei, to discover a number of minor entanglements over the years between their client and the police. These included public drunkenness, DUI, a Weapons violation, some assault charges and a number of traffic violations. Coop also discovered that Rei had immigrated to Australia 3 years prior from the Shinjuku neighborhood of Tokyo Japan. He learned that Rei had some distinguishing scars from bullet wounds and had extensive tattoo removal performed prior to his arrival. This last bit of information l;ed the trio to wonder whether there were ties to the Yakuza.

Additionally Bunyip was able to access the Frontier-Me™ scores of their client, and was surprised to learn that he had recently suffered a serious (212) point hit to his professional score just over three weeks prior. This may be the impetus for the personal attack on the apartment and car if the group could figure out why the hit was levied. Additionally, Bunyip managed to gain access to Rei’s corporate data access, by working out that his username was RYasunari and his password was BIGWIG1. This gave the team access to the corporate organizational chart which allowed them to identify Ton Uyeno as Rei’s immediate subordinate. This allowed Bunyip to then review Ton’s Frontier-Me™ score to reveal that the junior man was much higher rated then his boss, offering a potential motive for the attack, if Ton were responsible for it’s implementation.

After finishing their meal, the trio headed to Kitty’s to share their information.

Forging Relationships

Rusty and Todd arrived at the Ironworks where they were stopped at the front gates. As they were unexpected, and due to the security at the facility, they were forced to wait until Rei would allow them entrance. Interestingly enough, although Rei authorized them to wait in his office, they never met with their client, who was busy with a foundry inspection.

Instead, they had the opportunity to meet with Ton Uyeno and Satomi Yanzo. As such, they were able to assess Ton’s abilities, demeanor and skills. This would strengthen any belief that he may be the one responsible for the vandalism at the apartment.

The two were also able to meet and assess, although limited by the language barrier, Satomi. learning another little bit of information shedding light on their Client’s demeanor and personality.

After being stood up for their “meeting” with Rei, the pair left with a better impression of their client, acquired by inspecting his office and the two people closest positioned to him. They returned to kitty’s apartment to share information.

Meanwhile back at the Apartment…

Once everyone had returned, the teams shared their information. added to these reports, Bill was able to confirm that there was no record of any child where Rei was concerned. In addition, it seemed that Rei had no identifiable family at all, making him an effective orphan as far as records showed. Coupled with the knowledge that there was extensive Tattoo removal, the possibility that he was in some way associated with the Yakuza in Japan seemed more likely.

Bunyip decided to attempt to crack the encryption on the tablet, only to discover that he did not have sufficient processing power available to him at the apartment. The group decided to relocate to the share-space that Bunyip used for his programming projects and attempt to readdress the encryption. after another attempt, it became clear that Bunyip just did not have the equipment he needed to be successful.

I Need More Power!

However, an unlikely answer appeared. Rusty’s sister Verna Baker, not only had the equipment, but was an expert in encryption. With a phone call, Rusty convinced her to assist in the decryption of the data files on the tablet in exchange for a favor. Happy with that exchange, Verna arrived at the share-space with a van full of mobile equipment.

Once set up, it took her an hour to crack the 3TB encryption on the files.

The data, however, seemed encoded further. A ledger like table seemed to create a series of numbers associated with a decimalized weight measured in kilograms. It was Todd, using some data that he had seen in Rei’s Office that figured out the meaning of the numbers. It was revealed that the numbers were the atomic weights for the rare and precious metals Titanium (TI 47.867), Cesium (CS 132.91), Iridium (IR 192.22), Gold (AU 196.97), Silver (AG 107.87) and Platinum (PT 195.08) followed by a decimal weight (such as 0.012455 Kg). It was obvious at this point that these were minuscule amounts of precious materials that were “stolen” from the foundry. Todd suspected that there was most likely a programmer involved, since any spillage or splash slag was cleaned up and recycled by robots at the plant. He and Rusty had witnessed this in action while there.

A second data set seemed to indicate a series of payments in Credits to three individuals listed as RY, PS and PZ. It was not difficult to determine that RY was Rei Yasunari. but the names associated with the abbreviations PS and PZ were unknown at that time.

To determine who these people might be, Bunyip once again delved into the corporate personnel records for the Ironworks in an attempt to match possible people with the initials PZ and/or PS. While no PZ existed, he was able to identify the only person in the facility with the initials PS, Payton Style, a level two robot programmer.

Fyfy suggested that PZ may not be a company employee but perhaps a street contact, maybe a fixer. Using this knowledge Kitty was able to work through the names of low-level or mid-level movers in the city whose initials might match. Her efforts yielded the name Parker Zion, a moderately successful fence in stolen goods. Since it is difficult to track precious metals on the black market, it seemed likely that Parker was the most likely candidate for PZ in the ledger.

Armed with this new information, the team had now uncovered a trio involved in a theft and resale of stolen precious metals. Now they just had to decide what they should do with their new found knowledge.

A Course of Action

After significant deliberation, the team was able to determine that the best payout for the job would be to turn over the data implicating their employer to Mitsuhama for review.

This would guarantee that there would be no chance of being seen as complicit in his wrongdoing, if and when the corporation uncovered his operation.

To move forward with this plan, the team determined first to provide the recovered tablet to the employer and collect the 5,000 CR each that they were promised. Only after that would they move forward with turning the data over to Mitsuhama.

Arranging the Exchange

To facilitate returning the tablet to the client, Kitty called to arrange a meeting between Yanasuri and the team. Yanasuri was very quick to arrange the meeting within 30-minutes of the call at the upper level of a parking garage in Mumbly. Because of the speed of the meeting, Kitty because concerned of a possible doublecross and so contacted [[:e angie-davis |Angie Davis]] to act as an overwatch and countersniper should it be needed.

The team made their way to the meet point and Kitty, FyFy and Gimmy made the meet on the top level of the parking Garage, while the others waitied one floor down to act as support if needed.

Yanasuri arrived by AV, using a private security firm utilizing a Meurot Traveler as transport to carry the client and the security team. It was unclear whether the client was intending on starting trouble or not.

Kitty took the initiative to begin the conversation around the payment for the recovered tablet. The client was exceptionally displeased that those responsible, namely the Finks had not been dealt with. Kitty assured him that he did not want to take that on, as the bikie gang would be more likely to come back for vengeance. She refused to conduct that aspect of the job, but insisted on the payment for the recovered tablet.

Preparing the Bonfire

After he departed, the team moved onto discrediting and dealing with the client, who fundamentally threatened them. To deal with this properly, Kitty was forced to make a few calls to street contacts to forewarn them of the move, so that they were able to distance themselves from the client.

To this ends, she began by contacting her contact, Dorian Byrn, to confirm that the elimination of the client would not interfere with his business. Having confirmed this, she then contacted Parker Zion, Rei’s partner in the precious metals smuggling operation. Kitty warned him of the impending incident, so that he could stay clear of any trouble that may be headed his way as a result of the team’s next action.

Revelation

Kitty then put the plan into motion by contacting Ton Uyeno and advising him of the information that they had obtained from the tablet. They agreed to 50% of the reward that the company would provide Ton by revealing the theft, and the team wanted to rough up the clinet just a little before he was taken into custody by the corporation.

Ton agreed to these conditions, and took possession of the data.

Feel the Burn

Ton made contact the following day with Kitty to advise that he had taken the needed actions to start the inquiry into Rei’s activities. He also advised that he had made the arrangements for the same security company that had transported Rei to the group’s last meeting, to transport Rei again, but this time to the Battleground, where the team could intercept him and deal a little street justice, prior to him being turned over to corporate authorities.

Kitty notified the team, and they all headed to the Battleground to await Rei’s delivery.

Once the AV landed, the hired security escort, drug Rei free from the AV, and turned him over to the team for his beating. All things considered, the team was reserved in their punishment, and left him with only some soreness and bruising. After the distribution of justice, the security escort transported Rei to corporate custody.

Aftermath

The following day, Ton made contact with Kitty to arrange for the payment. After everything was said and done, the payout was 81,500 CR per person. In addition, Rei was processed through Corporate Legal, and Ton became the new manager for the Mitsuhama Ironworks .

Episodes	Episode 01: Lucky Winner Episode 02: Cleanup On Aisle Four Episode 03: The Job Episode 04: But for the Grace of God, Go I Episode 05: My Daughter’s Keeper Episode 06: A Kiss Before Dying Episode 07: Army of the Apostle Episode 08: A Quick Trip to the Chip Factory Episode 09: Unplanned Obsolescence Episode 10: Socialized Healthcare Episode 11: A Walk in the Park Episode 12: All-Star Defense Episode 13: The Proxy Server Episode 14: Soup for One Episode 15: Where’s the Earth-Shattering Kaboom? Episodes Season 1 Episodes Index

Quick Meal, owned by Bander Marley offered the members of the group 250 CR at any Quick Meal locations across the city, or 500 CR that if they chose to only use his Quick Meal. His store carries a variety of higher-end prepackaged foodstuff and a broader selection of sundries than most Quick Meal locations.

The final option was to gain access to the Helios batteries that powered the train car and pull them. Once removed the car would belly-flop onto the tracks, rapidly slowing, but in a much more survivable manner.

With time rapidly running out, Coop and Rusty attempted to gain access to the battery compartment, located on the outside rear of the car. Their efforts were made easier by the fact that the military had blown out the windows of the car during their assault at the Orient Station. While Rusty held him, Coop attempted to gain access to the compartment, but was defeated by the security system and mechanical lock. He had been traveling without his tools, so he had little means to gain access.

However, it turned out that Rusty had his tools with him. The two rapidly swapped places, and Rusty climbed out onto the back of the train car. As they reached the Bends Station, Rusty managed to get the compartment opened and with one last bit of assistance from Coop managed to extract the batteries from the compartment.

The result was that the train immediately lost power to all of it’s magnetic coils at simultaneously, resulting in the car crashing belly down into the tracks. Von Cyborg was thrown from the wreckage, and escaped.

The passengers in the car managed to ex-filtrate from the scene of the crash before the police arrived. They were certain that being caught close to the events would result in their arrest or engaged with the police in hostilities due to their role in stopping the train.

Traintown Market

During their trip, it became apparent that the group had all been heading to the same place, the Traintown Market in East Township. Since they all felt that it might not be a bad idea to continue to travel together, especially if they encountered the police, they decided to hail a Maxi Taxi to take them to their destination.

Upon arrival, the group broke into smaller groups to help each other fulfill the individual need for traveling to the Market in the first place.

To this effect, it was discovered that both Bunyip and Bill were going to meet with Sacha Hamilton a pusher of medical grade street drugs. While Bill was looking to purchase some for his medical practice, Bunyip had been asked by a friend, Nona Ritter to repair one of the cold storage unit that Sacha needed for his business. This proved interesting because FyFy and Sacha had once been roommates, and knew each other well.

Coop, departed from the group and headed to the a local Thai Restaurant known as Phi Ning Thai to meet Amberlynn Kindricks. They were matched through a dating app, MeetMate™ and had been scheduled to have an early dinner together there. However, due to the incident with the train he was almost an hour late and she had left angry. He left her a message and rejoined his new associates.

Meanwhile, FyFy, after helping make introductions with Sacha, made his way over to the Taco Republic food truck, where he was to meet with a man named Agave Joe. A prearranged exchange was conducted and the encounter completed without complications.

As FyFy was visiting the Taco truck, Kitty, Bunyip and Bill made their way to The Heap to make contact with a tech fixer named Walker. There Kitty negotiated for a box of excellent condition SimSense recording chips.

Gimmy met with a contact, Cassidy Ming who claimed to have video that she captured in Orient, concerning the illegal dumping of hazardous materials in an alley in the neighborhood. They made the exchange of the video, and Gimmy then joined Rusty and FyFy, to help the nomad acquire 6 boxes of military grade SCOOP! for the pack from a fixer named Charro. They met in an alleyway adjacent to the nearby Jackpoint. The meeting went well enough, but there was some disagreement concerning the price of the goods. It was resolved peacefully and all parties went on their way.

With the business concluded, Kitty invited everyone to the Ozone Club later than night for drinks and dancing.

The Ozone Club

The group arrived at around 9 pm that night, and made their way into the bar. Many spent the evening prowling for potential playmates, drinking and otherwise carousing. Bunyip noted the presence of his sister, Sian Taylor. While Kitty conducted a little business with Tyrone King.

There were no dangerous encounters that night, and everyone left alive and well.

The Notice

The following morning, however, would bring a different set of problems for those who had been unlucky enough to find themselves caught in that fateful train car the day prior.

It began with Coops arrival at work the next morning. He was escorted to the precinct Captain’s office where he was exposed to a pair of predatory and disrespectful Detectives from Internal Affairs. He was advised that the department was considering prosecuting him for interfering in an ongoing police operation (by stopping the train), destruction of property (the train), and for the theft of some very expensive batteries (the Helios batteries had been taken from the train).

However, he would not be prosecuted if he would undertake a temporary posting with the Special Operations Division under Captain Sandra Marks. Failure to perform or cooperate would result in the worst.

He made his way down to the third floor, to meet with Captain Marks. There it was revealed to him that the other individuals that had shared the train car with him had been notified to report to the Police Precinct no later than 9 am that day, or face freezing of all assets assigned to their RINGs.

One-by-one, they awoke and discovered this message, and realizing that they would have a great deal of difficulty living without their RINGs, they each, made their way to the Police Precinct, to see what was in store for them.

The Contract

It turns out that someone up the chain had decided that this particular group was the answer to the city’s ongoing Von Cyborg problem. As they were the only individuals to encounter him in such proximity during a rampage and live, the powers-that-be had decided to force them to work together and bring down the big, bad, cyborg.

There was no pay involved with this job, in fact, it was not voluntary at all. It was approached under a threat of action if the members of the newly formed team did not cooperate.

Marks however, did not like the approach from upstairs and offered the group limited material support, and agreed to fund them 15,000 CR for additional needs. This resulted in a boost of drugs for the Doctor, a new Royal Enfield Arms AR-6 Hellion for Gimmy; a new Franchi SPAS-12 Auto Assault Shotgun with some FSDU Rounds for Coop FyFy received a pair of top-end Vigor Glasses.

All in the Details

Marks explained that some Analysts with the Police Department had developed a theory that Von Cyborg was actually more than one individual, each of which sported more sophisticated and dangerous enhancements as encounters progressed. As a result of video surveillance in the city, the Police were able to pinpoint the first appearance of Von Cyborg near the border of Northside and Humphrey. Most of the cameras in Northside are destroyed as a result of Gang activity in the area, so they suspect that this Von Cyborg originated in that neighborhood.

The police suspect that there is a Ripperdoc involved in the upgrading and installation of the new augments that Von Cyborg sports with each new appearance. The Department wants the survivors from the train car to enter Northside, track down Von Cyborg and/or his support and base of operations and eliminate them.

Data Mining

The group, once released from the police station made their way to FyFy’s place, where Bunyip conducted some data mining. Pulling old data from the various Von Cyborg appearances, it became clear that the rampages were getting longer, more destructive and that they were farther ranging. One of the more interesting points was the fact that a Cronacorp storage facility was damaged during this latest attack.

Using video acquired from Edge Media Network by Gimmy, it was possible to determine that the different incarnations of Von Cyborg were very different, indicating that it was likely that the individual playing the Von Cyborg role has changed.

Northside

The group realized that they needed to head into Northside in order to undertake their next stage of their investigation. Gimmy contacted an associate named Yuri who made arrangements for Gimmy to be able to meet Dietrich Heinrich, leader of the Volksfront.

It was also mention that there was a possibility that Aesop at Aesops Cybershop or some one at Tommy’s Tap may also be able to help them find Von Cyborg.

The Volksfront

The group made their way, via Rusty’s Ute, to the area of Northside known as Gang Street, where the Volksfront kept their headquarters. The group was stopped by members of the Ozonerz street gang, but were able to avoid conflict long enough to allow Gimmy and Bunyip to meet with the Volksfront.

To appease the Ozonerz, Bill provided them group of guards with 3 doses of Drencrom he had acquired at the police station earlier that day.

Gimmy and Bunyip, meanwhile, made their way up to the second floor where they met with Dietrich. The two managed to gain safe passage through the neighborhood, under Volksfront protection while they looked into finding Von Cyborg. In return, for that and contacts at Aesop’s and Tommy’s, Gimmy gave Dietrich FyFy’s contact info stating that FyFy could acquire guns for the movement.

Tommy’s Tap

The group made their way over to Tommy’s Tap, where they mingled a little to get some information. There Bunyip ran into one of his friends with the Mavericks, Noir. They were able to confirm that Aesop’s would be a good place to go next.

They were also told that there was an old abandoned factory, partially bombed out during the Pacific Conflict that many avoided in the area. This seemed like a good place to also investigate.

Aesop’s Cybershop

After the crew finished at Tommy’s, they decided to head to Aesop’s Cybershop, the second location suggested as a possible location for cyberware sourcing for Von Cyborg.

The crew arrived in time to see a group of Hammerheads stripping a crashed armored truck near the shop. Kitty, Bunyip and Fyfy headed inside while the others watched the nearby gangers with concern.

The door required the teller inside to buzz them into the building. After stating that they were looking for cyberware, they were allowed inside, and were then able to ask the clerk questions.

Once they made the subject of Von Cyborg known, the clerk refused to assist them without a payment. Kitty agreed to a 5,000 credit payment in return for any information. This info was of limited value, since the store did not knowingly provide any hardware for Von Cyborg.

However, Aesop was able to shed a little light on the issue for the group. He told them about some mastermind cybernetics ripperdoc located in the basement of a bombed out building in Northside named Miss Aver. He told them that she was occasionally buying up all cyberware on the street, stripped from people dispatched or those pieces scavenged from corpses. He told them that the building was near the heart of Great White/ Hammerhead territory, and that there was an agreement between the groups and the ripperdoc.

Armed with new information, the group headed to Jerry’s Bar once again to discuss the information they had, and to see what else they could acquire.

Jerry’s Bar – Another Round

The group ordered drinks and discussed what they knew, which seemed like just enough to get them all killed. In an effort to decrease the chances of their deaths, they decided to hit their contacts and see hat other information they could gather.

Research uncovered the location of the bombed out building. It also uncovered the history of the attack made on it and the death of Doctor Elizabeth Avery, a renowned scientist working there.

New Information

It turns out that the partially collapsed building had been a Cronacorp research facility in operation during the Pacific Conflict. The building was home to several research projects, most notably Project Alter Ego and Project Sentry. These projects were developed upon the framework set out by Doctor Elizabeth Avery’s groundbreaking work in Simsense, ASIST and Consciousness Transfer technology.

While the technology was hers, she had strong moral arguments against the use of the technology as a weapon of war. She discovered the goals of the program were to torture prisoners of war for the extraction of critical intelligence and immediately threatened to terminate the program and withdraw her licensing rights from the corporation. Two days later, an alleged Chinese agent entered the building and detonated a suicide explosive package. This collapsed the building, killing hundreds of employees and also Doctor Avery, who was in the sub-basement levels.

And so it seemed that seemed to be the end of things. However, the group decided that this tidbit of information could not be coincidental. This was especially true of the fact that Doctor Avery was a pioneer in Consciousness Transfer. All evidence and some speculation pointed to a possibility that Miss Aver, could be a reborn Doctor Elizabeth Avery. Perhaps a Persona Fix or some other technology related to Consciousness Transfer. It began to appear that Zero Von Cyborg was nothing more than a very blunt tool for revenge against her enemies.

Three Options

The Group made some arrangements to deal with Avers. It was unclear exactly what the means would be, but the options were limited to really only three choices.

The First Option would be to go in guns blazing. This method would only be successful if they were able to completely eliminate any of the possible three versions of Von Cyborg, likely to be at the location, as well as Miss Aver. Additionally, the group may need to deal with either one or both groups of Great Whites or Hammerheads, depending on the situation.

The Second Option was to manage to Eliminate Von Cyborg quietly without alerting Miss Aver, which was believed to be difficult at best. This option would allow the group to fulfill their agreement to the Frontier Police Department and possibly avoid any direct interaction with Miss Aver, a person they would need to steer clear of in the future.

The Third option would be to convince miss Aver to give up Von Cyborg, and in return gain some assistance against her enemies going forward. This would satisfy the need to bring in Von Cyborg for the police and turn Miss Aver into an ally, although at the risk of turning two megacorps ( Cronacorp and Futuretech) into enemies.

The Evil Lair

The group waited for the cover of darkness to make their way into Northside. They were prepared to provide some combat drugs to the gangers should they be encountered, but ideally they were hoping to avoid contact and make their way directly to the collapsed building.

The group approached the building carefully, masking their approach by sticking to rubble piles left over from the original bombing of the structure, and of those buildings nearby when the explosive was detonated.

Being proactive, Gimmy used a series of small personal drones to scout the area around the building. He was able to penetrate the structure and identify possible entry points. However, initial attempts to find any viable access through the interior of the remaining structure proved impossible due to the damage the building had incurred in the initial blast.

However, this initial scouting run, allowed Gimmy, to determine the existence of a subterranean parking structure under the front half of the building. Redeploying the drones, Gimmy was able to locate a viable entry into the parking structure and led the group inside.

Once inside, it became very obvious that the damage was extensive. The first sub-level of the parking garage was trashed, and the group were forced to make their way down to the second sub-level before they were able to find any viable access point.

Here, they were able to gain access to a security checkpoint and the elevator shafts that it guarded. It was clear that other individuals had made access to this point and that the group was following in their footsteps.

The group used the elevator shafts and ventilation duct-work to eventually gain access the sub-level one research lab. This area opened into a kennel, filled with long dead canines. Nearby signage identified this area as Project Sentry labs. A small pack of chihuahuas were roaming the area. Not to be fooled by the dog’s small size, the group proceeded cautiously, using drugged meat-flavored protein bars as bait. When two of the dos fell prey to this tactic, the group was horrified to watch the remaining members of the pack begin tearing apart their pack mates. This however, revealed the presence of some sort of metallic cylinder inside the animals intestines, indicating a greater threat than initially thought. The smaller dogs lost interest and moved on allowing the group to continue.

Accessing a partially collapsed stairwell allowed the group to make their way down to sub-level two. It was unclear what this area had been used for, but it seemed to be a partially functional cybernetics design and development lab. Here was the possible location at which Von Cyborg could have been developed, upgraded or repaired. Several components were identified that made it a very real possibility that this was the location used for the creation of the Von Cyborg unit.

Exiting this level, using a second set of stairs, Gimmy discovered one of the unit’s security features, an Elesec Mat. It gave him a slight shock, since he didn’t make strong contact with the mat. However, in an attempt to disable it, Bunyip was shocked to unconsciousness. After he recovered it, he was able to disarm it by accessing the power switch on the underside. Once disarmed the group was able to access the third sub-level.

Here, the group encountered another one of the buildings defenses. in addition to a pile of long dead bodies, a pair of automated rotary cannons were found. Fortunately the weapons had long run out of ammunition.

At this point, the group had reached the Cognitive Science Research Labs, which was the primary lab for Doctor Avery. As expected they found an automated table working to repair the latest Von Cyborg, two older versions of the same, one newer version and Miss Aver. The group was about to test their luck.

Dealing with an Insane Icon of Genius

The group had decided to attempt to negotiate with Aver, especially since they had pieced together the timeline that had caused her to be in the situation she was currently living.

Shortly after the blast that had wrecked the building, Doctor Avery had found herself trapped in the sub-levels with other survivors. She had managed to contact members of the Cronacorp board and CEO to let them know that she and others were alive. They had promised help, but none had materialized. Desperate to survive, she had been forced to upload her consciousness into the building’s mainframe computer, in the hopes that eventually someone would arrive to salvage something and provide her with a chance for escape. She waited for ten years, before a few individuals got word that some valuable tech may still be buried in the basement of the building that Cronacorp had abandoned.

A group managed to gain access, and one of the members of that team, a netrunner made the mistake of jacking into the barely functional mainframe. Miss Aver was born. The other members were either killed or in the case of one of them, converted into the very first Zero Von Cyborg, the vehicle of her revenge.

She told Cronacorp she was coming and set her first version loose. She hit them, each time cutting a broader swath of destruction across the city in an attempt to leverage pressure against the Corporation, leaving a trail of clues to lead the police to conclude that Cronacorp was responsible.

There was only one significant problem, someone was deleting all the data related to the attacks, leaving the police clueless. In effect Cronacorp was managing to avoid her revenge.

The group brought up several of these points, highlighting her broad collateral damage, and how her attacks weren’t harming her enemies at all, but only harming innocent individuals instead. The team managed to convince her to turn over Von Cyborg to them, and they would assist her in regaining control of her corporations, perhaps through support of a controversial legislative bill called the Digital Consciousness Act, which would allow her to reclaim her partial ownership in her companies. Barring that, other actions could be taken to aid her, including arranging a Proxy body for her to use, assisting in more direct actions against the corporations that wronged her, and spinning media favor to her cause.

Miss Aver liked the proposal and ripped critical components out of the most recent Von Cyborg and turned it over to the group in exchange for their assistance. No one knows what the future may hold as a result of this agreement.

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