First, thanks for the inside. It is very helpful and worrisome at the same time.
About the setup and result it is a little bit complicated. The Mission is part of my Chicago project/campaign and some of the background information would spoil the campaign. In addition, my gm style is flexible, sometimes I cheat and adapt the story based on what my player want, roll, guessed or talked on the table. I once had a “flexible” criminal adventure, half of the adventure passed and I as the GM still did not know who the murderer was.
I can only give you everything my players know and some of the less sensitive stuff, and some of the information about this run could take months (rl) before I can unveil write about it.
Sorry if I can’t give you much.
I started Chicago with specific demands for the main characters. In summary and simplified “Chicago is your home base, you have no resources or connections to run in another city”. We have rotating GMs, multiple characters and a flexible player pool. Rule of fun; I allow “guest” characters to jump in and out.
Runner
Burnout Adept – ganger
Combat Hacker /novice rigger – ucas ex military and wanted
Ork Sam – ucas ex military
Melee adept (mystic) – and this character/player is just … a chapter for itself* (permanent guest character)
Thief and Infiltrator – this char isn’t a Neal caffrey but augmented and likes drone, as target praxis (guest character)
Johnson
Somebody who wanted the meet in VR. Johnson uses a female custom avatar and named herself (it/him) twilight.
The Run
Johnson wants 3 things;
1. She wants the base commander/general** discredit and retired. She suggest to steal some weaponized FABIII, but is happy with whatever the runners come up. The only lead she has is that there are hints that he is frequently using call girls.
2. She wants the runner to steal, to dig up … to obtain cyberware part of specific series. She explaind that they will be necessary for a switch and blast to conceal the theft of …
3. She wants the runners to infiltrate the Chicago military base to steal experiment military control rigs. She did not explain what for rigs exactly but gave the player roundup of its features and capabilities. In short it is a cyber-ware package with a control rig (2-3, alpha-omega), sim rig, sim transmitter, data jack math cpu** and an optional set of cyber eyes.
Payment
Johnson only wants on set, the runner can keep the rest.
So there is no real secret that they wanna bust into a military base and Johnson will provide some fitting IDs. But my player’s aren’t there jet. And Johnson doesn’t want to explain Step 3 in detail before the runner finished 1 and 2.
The runners had 2 weeks for the completion of phase/step 1 and 2. My players weren’t in the mod to steal military mana tech, so they did some background checking about their target. Male, divorced, daughter and mother living in New York, every weekend he drives back, alone, into the OHare Sub were he has an apartment in a hotel (AA). He frequently uses a escort services. He was a respected officer but Chicago, the quarantine, changed him. Made him hard, bitter and manic(?).
My players try to force a breakdown with a left right combo of drugs and the fake news of his daughter’s death. But I am not sure if I let them pass this.
On the cyber ware part front they did some grave digging and are left with a choice, they either do some wet work or hit an Ares recycling facility (specialized in cyber ware and medical goods).
That it was. I only started the run, and it will take some time until we will resume it. Like I wrote we have rotating GMs and Chicago started as filler. I finished my version of ghost cartel over Sylvester, so Chicago will get more time but someone else is gm next sessions.
*In german I would say “dingsich”
** In my ignorance for military structure I gave him a general rang.
*** Any guesses from with book I sole this one?
