Game 09
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Mr Alfie is contacted by the Tong Ren explaining that they have backed the wrong faction and need protection. They ask Herman Alfie to bring Basaraki and company to Bogotá. Basaraki is currently conducting air ops with the Fly and they quickly land to pickup herman for the quick flight to the city.
Andrew Mosai has used his connections with the Tong Ren to make CrystalJack Softwiring triggered by a black cocaine analog. His hit teams then move in to kill the Tong Ren who helped develop the CrystalJack. As Basarak and Catholic are strolling into Andrew's old blockhouse they encounter one of these wannabee RedEyes on his way out the door. At the house they have one of andrew's lieutenants call him so they can get him to call off the hit. Andrew refuses, explaining that the Tong Ren are betraying him and "know the trigger".
With no other options, our heroes the real redeyes leave to track these wannabees and foil their plans. Just after they cross thru a police checkpoint they stop in front of a karaoke bar/nightclub. As the team is following them (with Herman's flying spybot keeping tabs from above), the team decides to fling a couple of herman's EMP grenades into the hover truck the wannabees are using as they drive past. Since herman is busy operating his remote unit, Basaraki and Aiko volunteer to do it. Bararaki gets his into the bed without being noticed, but Aiko isn't so lucky though and they notice her doing it. After the grenades go off with many sparks and lightning the hover truck settles to the ground as its engine fails and the various wannabees experience some difficulty as their cyberwear overloads and reboots.
Catholic drives her car around the corner and hermann dispatches his spybot to hover overhead and see what happens. The wannabees stumble out, dragging one of their team with them into the bar. Catholic, Basaraki and Aiko sneak down the alley behind the bar to see about getting inside and after Aiko gets the lock open, Catholic and Barasaki sneak in. Inside the club they find the wannabees occupying a corner booth obviously still suffering some effects from the EMP. They stroll over and sit down. The wannabees recognise them for who they are, the REAL redeyes and become edgy and nervous. As this is going on, Hermann has switched to remote operating one of his spiders and planted it under the bumper of the hover truck, figuring if they do leave he can monitor their position as long as he's within a kilometer of it. At the very least he can try and log into it occassionally and see if they're coming to where the team wants them to go. Meanwhile back in the bar, Catholic strikes up a conversation with their leader and tells them to leave the Tong Ren alone. They refuse and offer her a bribe to tell them where they're hiding. She accepts it and gives a location for the Tong Ren in Dorinaga territory. They then get up and leave the same way they came into the bar to drive off to Dorinaga territory and stir up a reception for the wannabees.
When they reach Dorinaga territory they get out of their car in what seems the right spot and start asking around for where their closest blockhouse is. Of course their reputation as the RedEyes is well known around the city and during this time Basaraki notices a sniper setting up on a rooftop above them and promptly puts a 37mm fragmentation grenade onto the exact spot the sniper rested his bipod for his rifle. After the explosion many small guns come out among the crowd, many bigger guns and grenade launchers among our heroes and Aiko goes dashing off for the building hoping to if not provide first aid, to get some more eyes for her pickle jar.
As a tense situation appears to be developing, some fast talking by catholic diffuses the situation enough for our team to explain why they were there and about the impending arrival of some wannabee redeye hit teams from Andrew's gang looking to stir up trouble and execute a hit on someone. Always up for a fight, the Dorinaga's rush off to where Catholic said the hit teams are heading to setup an ambush of their own.
After leaving Dorinaga territory the team goes back to where they left the wannabees and discover their hovertruck still parked out front. Wondering what's up, they do the sneak-a-roo again and this time Aiko joins them on going into the bar from the back. As Catholic and Basaraki take up position to observe the booth with the hit team still in it, Aiko goes up to the stage and joins a japanese businessman in a duet on the karaoke machine. The hit team see her do this and become visibly agitated. Quick human perception rolls by Basaraki and Catholic and they realize its because they've made her as one of the people who threw the grenades at her. Complicating things further are that there's a guy with the hit team that is apparently about to spill his guts about the TongRen. Attempting to be sneaky about it, Basaraki and Catholic both try throwing a couple of Basaraki's throwing knives at the guy, and both succeed in hitting him right in the throat almost perfectly together. Unfortunetly they both threw the knives with "Kayaiieeee" noises spoiling the whole "sneaky" part of trying to shut this guy up. The hit team immediately know the shit is about to hit the fan, and trigger their speedwares and bring out the guns. Basaraki and Catholic respond in kind with Basaraki going for his handguns and Catholic his sword. A quick little fight ensues where some innocent bystanders are shot, the hit team is alternative sliced and diced and had heads blown off but a couple are left alive and bleeding, to tell andrew how the redeyes silenced their witness and maybe the tip about their location was accurate.
After the team exits the bar, they get a call from OEC explaining that they've lost touch with an important hacker who was collecting vital espionage for them, and arrangements have been made to relocate them already away from the hit teams. With some legwork, the team tracks down the errant hacker who has found religion and is supposedly in an old church in an outlying squat. Once they force their way into the church, they discover that the pastor is non other than Vaughn, a Night City expat who is completely insane and thinks that he can hack the spirit world. As part of the team deals with Vaughn to keep him out of their hair, the others finally find the missing hacker. Dead in a closet of an apparent suicide. When confronted with his body, Vaughn explains that the hacker has had to go to Cairo as he originally explained to them, but couldn't afford the trip, so had to go without his body.
Finally convinced that the hacker actually did a datatape dump of himself to a location in Cairo, the team arranges for a quick suborbital shuttle to Egypt, and find themselves painfully under-equipped upon their arrival (as they can't bring explosives, ammunition or longarms along).
While in Cairo, they're followed from the airport by a couple motorcyclists back to their hotel and try hiding in the lobby with Herman doing his best police academy movie hooker impersonation under the doorman's podium. Afterwards with the obvious need to up-gun themselves, Basaraki and Hermann go shopping while Catholic and Aiko go and enjoy the hotel's spa together.
Joining up back at the hotel, the team proceeds to the soccer stadium where the massive servers for where the hacker's trail apparently leads. Splitting up, they eventually all find themselves inside and on the way down to the basement levels. Along the way Basaraki spots a white figure taking aim at them with a sniper rifle and promptly kills it. On closer examination it appears to be a genderless plastic body, and a naked one at that. After looking around they find another such body wandering around, without a mouth but with data ports. Logging into a terminal to go onto the 'net, Aiko and Catholic are trying to find the target datafort.
In the net, the team discovers that the plastic body is indeed housing a ghosthack of the missing hacker. With the help of both the hacker and Vaughn logged in from Bogotá, the team grabs the data the hacker was originally trying to secure from the CairoPlastics IEG Consortium. In the process of uploading the data to Herman, the deceased hacker also uploads a copy of his personality engram into Herman's head.
Somewhere in all the carnage back in Bogotá, one of the Tong Ren was killed in the aftermath of the double cross with Andrew. Now down to 4 of the original 6 members, the Tong Ren have renamed themselves the Quian Gen.
