HERE'S WHAT HAPPENED THIS WEEK.
SO we left off last week and Medium Smoke had just told Vincent Cabrini that it was Ninja's contact they sold his dope to. So this week Cabrini asked them if this friend of their had a name. They said Ninja and Cabrini asked if this guy was Japanese. The said yes. Cabrini says "Japanese paying in Ares script huh." "How good of friend is this guy. Medium Smoke says "we just met him." Cabrini's goons handcuff the unconcious Ninja and put him into a burlap sack. then they put him in the trunk of a car and the car leaves. Twitch also takes this opportunity to rob passed-out-mafia-sacrifice Ninja. He gets 10k and doesn't share this with the rest of the gang waiting inside with Vincent Cabrini.
None of the players suspects that Ninja is going to escape and come back. They all assume the Mob is going to kill him. It should be funny when, ignorant of their betrayal, he knocks on their door in a couple of weeks. Maybe he will die just cause I don't feel like dealing with him. As of now he is going to escape and track down the team cause he thinks their still friends. If they accept him back this will make trouble with the mob. As in end their relationship and put them on a hit list.
After this "unpleasantness" was handled Cabrini asked for his whiskey back without telling the players who's whiskey it was and told them he was going to take the bottle they drank outta their pay. He's not really but they think that. He told the players they could consider the money they made selling the dope as an advance. He then tells them that the players are going to work of their debt to the Mafia. He doesn't mention his rank or which family he represents. He proceeds to tell the players that the guy they carjacked is blood so he can't have him killed. He then tells the players that he is a fucking idiot and he hates the guy. He tells the players that Giovani will just be relaying orders and gives Medium Smoke his commlink. He tells him to only call if Giovani gives them ridiculous orders that jeopardize the mission and only then. He will deal with it.
Cabrini tells them he is a busy man and has business to attend to and that Giovani is waiting for them in the hall. They go out into the hall and see the man they carjacked yesterday, still wearing the same clothes. Giovani stairs at them like he wants to kill them and says "You muther fuckers...you's got any idea what you have cost me.....you muther fuckers.. give me your commlinks, all of you..... I'll call you to setup a meet latter."
It's about 11am, they just sold out a member of the gang to the Mafia, and the rental office at the Friendly Arm's is open. They drive to the ten story apartment building in Bargain basement. There is a small strip of parking spots labeled rental office right in front of the office on the ground floor. On the corner of the building is a small dive bar called Cocktails. Immediately upon parking the players are assaulted by a swarm of eyespy drones. They realise this swarm of drones patrols the building. They examine the drones and realize they all belong to different people.
Medium Smoke and Twitch ,cause Twitch is the only one with ID, go in the rental office and there is a fat women sitting behind a computer, she hardly looks up from her computer. She ask them if she can help them, they say they're looking for a three bedroom apartment. She tells them there's a 3rd floor corner penthouse available and it's $5000 a month, $5500 with parking, comes with a grid subscription, and the rents due on the first. Doesn't offer to show them the apartment, doesn't ask them to sign a lease, in fact she ask them who's name is the apartment gonna be under, they say Twitch. She ask them how many keys they need and they ask for 5 keys. She takes their $5500 cash and Twitches SIN and that's that.
At this point they are suspicious, they think they are in the right place. They all drive into the underground garage and I tell them to make perception rolls. Twitch scores seven hits so I tell him that almost every vehicle to a car in this garage is some type of model used by a corporation. Over half the vehicles are vans, most the same model he's got. They see a few people in the garage and they are all armed and wearing armored clothing. The players now realize they are in the right place and this is the perfect apartment building. It should be hilarious when we run Splintered State in the opening scene where the cops show up to arrest the players. In our game the cops don't go into Redmond or Puyallup except in force. I can't wait to run that scene
But i digress.
They go upstairs and see their neighbor Cleopatra Brown. She's on her way to Cocktails to watch her little sister, who's bar-tending. Medium Smoke decides to join her. They chat and he offers her a job. Says he's expecting one soon and that he will call her when it's time.
In the mean time Cypher is searching the Matrix looking for information on Vincent Cabrini. She scores three hits on her second try, so an hour later she discovers that Vincent Cabrini is the Soto Capo of Tacoma for the Gianelli Family. This is all she finds out on the Matrix. With this information they start working their criminal contacts to find out about Giovani now that they know who he works for.
Medium Smoke calls up Debo first off, on speaker phone for the team, and Debo tells him "If you ever do that to me again let me know first." He tells them about the $5k in Giovani's wallet, Medium Smoke ask if he took the money, he says hell know he drove the guy straight to Gianelli's Restaurant and delivered the kid straight to Don GIanelli himself. He tells Medium Smoke that he owes him a favor now. Then he tells him to start doing his own background checks when he abducts somebody. But he's welcome to drop someone like this in his lap anytime he wants. I boosted the loyalty from 1 to 2 for the contact.
EDIT: Debo informs them Giovani is DOn GIanelli's bastard love child.
The team decides to get some sleep. Around 10pm Giovani calls Medium Smoke and tells him to meet him at 'The Blue Lagoon" Downtown. The group goes and realizes it's a finer establishment and they will need SIN's to get in. They call Giovani and tell him, he says "you fuckin mooks don't even have ID, Jesus Crist. I'm coming outside. SO he goes outside and climbs in the van. At this point they are crammed in an ambulance, six people now. He doesn't bother to ask who the new person is. He is cursing the characters the entire time.
He tells them they are to blow up a biker gang meeting in the Verge. The gang is the Toxic Rangers. They don't have to take the entire building down but there is a bonus in it for them if they do. The job pays $25k. It's monday now and he wants the meeting bombed two Mondays from now. He tells them to take him to his car and he will give them one plot portion of explosives.
The Medium Smoke decides to call Scarecow, his Haloweener contact, and ask him what he knows about the Toxic Rangers. Scarecrow scores three hits so I decide he knows that they are working for both the Yakuza and the Mafia. The players decide this is a good reason for why the Mafia is having them kill these guys.
EDIT: Scarecrow has the knowledge skill Gang's specialized in the Haloweeners at much higher pool than the players limited Seattle Street Gangs skill.
Cypher does a Matrix search on the Toxic Rangers and scores a bunch of hits so I decide she hinds a comprehensive gang watch site that says the gang is an all male biker gang of about fifty members. They are based outta "Redd's" bar in the Verge. They ask if this corresponds to the address that Giovani gave them. I tell them it does.
Twitch sends an eyespy to the bar to do recon. It's 1am before the drone gets there. It see's about 40 bikes parked out front in the street and that the streets in front of the bar are only accessible why bike. They see bikers milling around, the bar empties out around 4AM and at 5AM a Male troll locks up and leaves on a bike. There are about 25 bikes left out front. There are bikers coming and going this entire time.
They decide the next day that Medium Smoke, Gunshow, and Cleopatra Brown will go to the bar and pretend to be pitching a burlesque act. Twitch sends drone with them and waits in the van while Cypher does Matrix Perception to look for wireless security. After two attempts she discovers two wireless camera's and sensor on the door.
They park around the corner from the bar around 1pm and watch on the drones for it to open. Around 2:30 a redheaded elf comes out of the apartments upstairs and goes into the bar, locking the doors behind her. They wait for her to put on the open sign and unlock the doors. There are bikers coming and going during this time.
