Game 11
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After picking up the pieces from the events of the previous few days in nightcity looking for Hermann's cousin as well as Andrew's kidnapped daughter, Basaraki is mostly recovered from the trauma he received during the gunfight with the Arasaka BlackOps team in the apartments above Totentanz's and he's running down leads with his expanding network of contacts about where else the kidnappers may have taken the daughter.
One of those leads provides details on the flightplan of the aircraft which the team followed to nightcity, including a stopover it made in taiwan at a private airfield. The team suspecting this is where the missing girl actually ended up decides they should make their way to taiwan, which unfortunetly is going to prove rather difficult given the unrest in the area with the remains of the Arasaka fleet planning to invade the island nation.
Fortunetly the team manages to locate Janet (Hermann's cousin) and after ensuring that she's physically alright, if a bit disoriented and still unaware of how she got to NightCity decide to leave her behind at a hotel for Hermann to come collect her. They then use another of Basaraki's contacts to secure passage by high-speed hydrafoil transport across the pacific ocean to Taiwan.
Reaching Taiwan just hours before the Arasaka fleet is due to begin its attack, the team makes their way ashore to a beach where they soon discover a large rave is going on as various island residents celebrate the coming invasion, sorta a last hoorah before fleeing to mainland china. The team decides to mingle amongst the crowd to try and pickup some leads on where the private airport and eventually after learning this they make their way there to surveil it and gather intell.
While observing the airport they discover there seems to be two different groups of security forces at work. The group inside the airport fencing are all looking outwards while a second ring of forces around the outside fence are all looking inwards. Shortly afterwards a patrol belonging to the outer security group approaches them and after a short exchange they discover that this is a group working for the taiwanese government to keep tabs on the comings and goings from the airfield, which so far has mainly been large quantities of weapons and arasaka personnel likely to be used during the coming invasion.
After hanging out with some of the off-duty government paid troops for awhile, the team gets tries to dig up some leads on where the girl might be, included in this search is the discovery that pretty much everyone in taiwan speaks mandarin and not cantonese, and that all the signs are also... in mandarin. Basaraki secures some Taiwanese Special Operations Skillchips though and after further investigation the team gets a lead on a possible safe house location for the missing girl, and using catholic's OE connections secures a car & driver from the local branch office to chauffeur the team to that location. The eager young executive assigned to drive the car delivers them to a large mansion estate with a high stone wall around it and a private pond on the grounds.
Unfortunetly during this time, Hermann calls them on his cell demanding to know if Janet is with them or not. Apparently when he got to Nightcity she was no longer at the place the team had left them, and had disappeared again without a trace. Great... we find her and we lose her again. But back to the problem with the daughter, so after deciding that this must be the safe house, Catholic slips on his new militech ghostsuit and hops out of the car to slip down the wall and try and get onto the grounds of the estate.
Just after hopping up onto the fence and then down onto the ground, Catholic observes a bunch of men and a girl run out the back door of the mansion towards what appears to be a boathouse by the pond. The team quickly realizes its more likely a garage with vehicles inside that a boathouse, and take up positions to block them off if they should try and get out thru the main gate. Just as they're ready two large armored 4x4s burst out of the garage and make for the gate.
Catholic having had time to assemble his new Arasaka WSSX Sniper System takes aim at the lead vehicle and puts an armor-piercing round thru the front armor damaging its motive gear causing it to slow up a bit. As the second one swings around to get clear of it, Basaraki takes a couple shots with the undermounted shotgun on his Militech Ronin Stealth Edition Subgun putting one of the AP Slugs thru the windshield of it. This one then rams its way thru the gate of the estate and into the OE exec's car which had been parked in front of it to try and prevent their escape. It knocks his car out of the way and then goes crashing into a house across the street.
Now with the other armored car approaching the gate itself while trailing smoke behind it, Akai drops a couple of her cyber-hamsters on the ground in its path and as it passes over them, detonates them blowing one of the wheels off. Catholic also puts another couple rounds from her WSSX into it including one in the fuel tank, which combined with the missing wheel causes it to careen out of control into the street and then grind to halt, visibly on fire now.
Meanwhile the one that crashed into the house has now gone all the way thru it and popped out the other side of it onto the street on the next block over. As it turns and tries to race away, Catholic pulls off a lucky shot which hits it and disables it also. As Basaraki covers the burning vehicle waiting to see if anyone gets out, Akai pops out her scooter and chases after the one that went thru the house to see if she can catch up to it.
Catching up to it one of the goons hops out the passenger side and starts shooting at her with a SMG. Miraculously he only grazes her with a single bullet, but shoots up the neighbourhood, blowing holes in the car a family is washing in their driveway, the buckets of water, and little timmy's head. Poor timmy. Akai then guns her scooter and nails him in the groin at full throttle, knocking him out of the way. As she makes her way to the van, she looks inside then ducks back as the guy who got out on the driver's side takes a blind shot at her shooting up mostly the inside of the armored car but also catching her with a couple shots.
Meanwhile back at the estate, the burning car has exploded and Basaraki decides to chase after the first one on foot thru the yards, while Catholic gets back off the fence and into the exec's damaged car to go around block by the road. As Akai is busily engaged with a couple goons on her own, Basaraki clear the corner of a house just in time to see one of them working his way around to sneak up behind her. A quick and quiet 3-shot burst by Basaraki from his subgun takes care of that, and after checking on Akai briefly he looks inside the armored car to find the girl they've been looking for lying unconscious on the back seat.
Mistaking some pink residue on the seats for her brains, Basaraki panics as he realizes the hole in the windshield lines up with where her head would be as the bullet went thru the cabin. In reality it was just chewing gum stuck to the seats. Next he hears over the radio in the armored call that AV support is enroute and he tries to bluff them that everything is fine now, bad radition leak, we can handle it, stuff like that. About this time Catholic and young exec rattle up in his car and after quickly tending to various persons wounds they bundle the daughter up into the car and try and find away off the damn island, as the shelling from the Arasaka fleet begins from offshore.
Exploiting Basaraki's network of contacts again they learn that all the refugees are fleeing to the other side of the island and the docks where the Chinese Navy has gathered to take them to safety and to fight off the remaining arasaka fleet as China reasserts its historical claim to its wayward province. Making their way to the docks, the team sweettalk their way thru the guards after they show their Orbital Energy IDs and are led to a General Wang's private yacht, who it turns out is the now not-so-silent partner in OE's merger. He's here to oversea the takeover and crushing of the arasaka forces and decides to transport the team and the missing girl back to columbia personally. Along the way they learn that both the daughter and Janet have been victims of the Donovan program of ghosthacked personalities, and that apparently the program is only about 50% effective on female subjects. This leads to effects similar to people multiple personality disorders except this time, one of them is that of a trained black ops operative. In the case of Andrew's daughter, she's being reprogrammed so that the loyalties of her hidden persona belong with OEC now, and a week later the team find themselves back in columbia and the daughter back in andrew's care and a missing cousin of Hermann's to track down. Which will be the next adventure....
