So I basically popped this in so we could have a laugh at the weird and sometimes hystericaly funny situations we can find ourselves in runnning the shadows.
One of our early jobs was to steal an outbound shipment of vintage cars and motorcycles, from Detroit, belonging to a General Motors VP. We were in that much trouble with our Johnson from the previous fiasco. But for a change we had our act together: a rented semi, faked invoices and manifests for a pick-up, our human gunner disguised as an orc to match the borrowed SIN ...
From the start, our truck gets held up at the front gate security checkpoint, right behind the extra squad of security sent to guard the shipment from us. Said pros decide they don't need to prove their identity to the Port rent-a-cop. He decides otherwise, throws them off the property, and after no less than three tries against that SIN waves our guy on in. The professionals are still parked on the street, arguing over their commlinks, as our team drives out with the goods, yanking and tanking RFID tags as fast as they could find them. Our mage on astral overwatch managed to sneak in twice, and only almost got caught leaving.
As I understand it, Ares Macrotechnology isn't exactly known for the quietest or safest shadow operations themselves. But the look on the NEST team's faces when we 'jacked even the failsafe demolition charges from a target site ... Maybe they shouldn't have told us to "grab everything"?
We did, after all, manage to screw up being the fall guys for a corporate operation overseas. Now, some teams would be upset to learn that, and some might respond negatively. No drek, one sub-team lead said, "I don't really blame them." Our mechanic asked "What went wrong? Didn't we do what we were told to do?"
When told flat out that that left a potentially lethal field op to us: "When do we go?"
