GURPS Cyberpunk 2078 Session 16: Request of the Clone

Characters:

Alexander "Specter" Marshal - Solo
Pat "Peacock" Watson - "Former" Nomad
Ruby "Paxos" Lang - Netrunner

Braxton "Jar" Jiggs - Cybertech/Ripperdoc     NPC

Personal Details

Paxos sent her boyfriend, Mitch, into the bedroom and gave him a pistol "in case", then buzzed over the intercom to ask the clone at her door what she wanted.  The young girl said she was looking for Ruby Lang, a woman who might lived here at one point.  Maybe she knew her?  Paxos asked why she was looking for her, and the clone said she needed her help with a job stealing software from Arasaka.  Paxos examined the girl on the camera for a bit then Pinged her to scan for weapons, but ultimately figured she was sincere (and unarmed) and let her in.

The clone looked like she was 10 or 11, but clones almost always aged at an altered rate, so that didn't mean much.  They sat down on the couch and, after Paxos confirmed that she was Ruby, the girl made her request.  She wanted Paxos to steal a program from Arasaka, and in exchange, the girl would give her legitimate credentials to a corpo datafortress.  Paxos eyed the girl warily; while it depended on the corp, those credentials were tens of thousands of eddies at the minimum.  Before agreeing to anything, she wanted to know who the clone was working for, and how she'd found her.

She insisted she'd come on her own and was only working with her sisters, and that she'd found her name and old address in a collection of files available to someone called "Ruslan Sokolov" that had been left behind by an employee who had been terminated.  There had been some sort of shakeup, leaving Sokolov out of the picture but the data was still around, and she'd gotten access.  With that, she'd gone to Paxos' old landlord and was able to get her current address with a bit more investigating.

GURPS Cyberpunk 2078 Session 15: Fencing a Brainchip

Characters:

Alexander "Specter" Marshal - Solo
Pat "Peacock" Watson - "Former" Nomad
Ruby "Paxos" Lang - Netrunner

Braxton "Jar" Jiggs - Cybertech/Ripperdoc     NPC

Layin' Low

By the time the crew left the safehouse and walked out into the cool rain, it was already halfway through October.  They decided to keep a low profile through to November to give the heat some time to clear before they took on any new jobs or tried to fence the bioware.  Once that was done, they went out shopping for new gear and furthering their goals; Peacock in particular picked up a heavy tech pistol so they could punch through armour.  Specter bribed the front-desk employees of the No-Tell Motel to let him know when someone worth blackmailing came through so that he could send a gang underling to take incriminating photos.  Paxos did more research into Peru to get a sense for the local language, and also started learning Spanish.

Peacock, meanwhile, started carjacking people to get some vehicles for their taxi company.  A risky proposition, but they didn't see any consequences so far.  During the day, they would look into the shard they'd gotten from Jennifer Thracker several months ago, the one about the Militech operation that had been cloning their sister Mary Jane, and came out with two names.  Jackie Wu, one of Specter's many ex-girlfriends, was a Militech exec in charge of the cloning program, and had provided their Mary's DNA.  Rin Shimamura, an Arasaka scientist (and recent defector from Yorinobu's faction to Michiko's), had provided the patents and formulae needed for the brain implants and the firmitas anti-psychotic.

They decided to start looking into Shimamura, as she was lower ranking, and tracked down someone at Arasaka who might know more: Bonya Slade, who was Jar's ex-lover.  Specter continued strengthening the Wingless Dragon Gang's position by stealing a shipment of cyberware from Maelstrom and planting it at a Tyger Claws hideout.  The death rate in Watson doubled overnight.  Paxos did another course of luxury therapy, and felt much better about all the killing.