GURPS Cyberpunk 2078 Session 22: Family Reunion

Characters:

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

Braxton "Jar" Jiggs - Cybertech/Ripperdoc     NPC

Kidnapping

With the guard bleeding out of his empty eye socket on the floor, the crew headed down the hall to regroup with Specter.  There were four cells with floor-to-ceiling glass (assumed bulletproof) facing the hallway, one of which was blocked off by curtains.  The cell adjacent held a bunch of medical equipment and was connected to the curtained room by a door inside.  Paxos ran a Ping on the curtained room and detected the kind of devices you'd see if someone was living there (TV, kettle, microwave, etc).  There was also a person with the typical cyberware, including a biomonitor.  The dying man on the floor also had a biomonitor.

Paxos spun up a Jam to hopefully convince whoever was monitoring the biomonitor that it was a false alarm or something while frantically getting into her netrunner suit as quickly as possible.  While she was undressing, she also let the others know that there were gun turrets concealed in the ceiling of the hall, though if they came online odds were the crew were dead anyway.  The Peacock searched the guard's body and grabbed his ID badge, which they swiped through the card reader on the cell with the medical equipment.  It blinked green and the glass door slid open.

Specter and The Peacock drew their weapons and continued onto the side door and went into the curtained room, which looked to have been converted into something resembling a slightly large studio apartment.  Standing in the corner was Mary Jane, The Peacock's sister, though she looked gaunt and sickly, with an IV running to her arm.  The Peacock told her who they were, but given they'd had extensive reconstructive surgery a month or so ago, she didn't believe them.  They tried to think of some touching family memory only the two of them would know, but came up totally blank.

GURPS Cyberpunk 2078 Session 21: Execution

Characters:

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

Braxton "Jar" Jiggs - Cybertech/Ripperdoc     NPC

Get in the Trunk

Specter picked up some kevlar suits for himself and The Peacock to better look like bodyguards, while Paxos went over the footage of Hua Luo: turned out she wore glasses, which meant Paxos could bring her own pair of smart glasses.  Jar threw together a collapsible stretcher for carrying Mary-Jane out of Millitech tower, and The Peacock stashed an AV from their nomad family under the highway in Japantown and covered it with a tarp.  When the day came, they split up and went to North Oaks to kidnap and impersonate the execs; Specter and Jar went to Fenris Moneaux's mansion, and Paxos and The Peacock went to Luo's.

Jar disabled the security fence, and cut a hole for himself and Specter with his toolhand, then the pair snuck across the lawns to the front door, where Moneaux's bodyguard was waiting for the exec.  Once he emerged from the mansion, Specter snuck up behind the two of them, triggered his sandy, and knocked Moneaux out with a blow to the back of the head; the goon, though, reacted quickly enough to block it.  This led to a brief scuffle where Specter overpowered him and knocked him out as well, but it left Specter with a few new bruises.  Jar swapped into Fenris' clothes (some ridiculous haute couture), and the pair stuffed the bodies in the bodyguard's car's trunk and drove off to the AV pickup at the edge of Charter Hills.

Meanwhile, Paxos and The Peacock were climbing over the wall of Hua Luo's mansion.  Paxos hacked into the cameras and looped them, letting them make it to the front door, which she also hacked to shut down its camera.  She hit the buzzer and said she was here to pick up Ms. Luo, who replied over the intercom that the camera seemed to be on the fritz, and that she'd be down shortly.  Before Luo made it down, though, the actual security guard showed up, forcing them to scuttle into a hedge to hide.  They didn't fully escape his notice, though, and the guard relayed over his radio that he was going to take a closer look.

GURPS Cyberpunk 2078 Session 20: Setup

Characters:

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

Braxton "Jar" Jiggs - Cybertech/Ripperdoc     NPC

Coming Up With A Plan

With help from Jar on the back-end, The Peacock impersonated a Night Corp employee and called into Militech's logistics division, asking for plans for the tower because they were getting a new set of automated garbage trucks and needed precise measurements.  Plans in hand, Paxos and Specter analyzed them, looking for weak points and places suited for long-term habitation where they might be storing Mary-Jane, The Peacock's sister.  Two places stuck out: animal pens (used for live ammunition tests, naturally), and some of the security holding cells about halfway up the tower.

Typically, the cells were for relatively short-term while they worked out extradition treaties with whichever company's agents had been captured (mercenaries like the crew would simply be killed).  In terms of alternate entry points, there were multiple AV landing pads at different heights, rather than a single hangar, and the "gorilla chute" which let out waste from the animal pens on the fifth floor.  They also learned some fun facts: at 71 stories aboveground, it is 1 higher than Arasaka Tower.  After its construction was completed, a city ordinance was passed banning construction over 69 stories.

Figuring flying in on AV sounded better than the gorilla chute, they started looking into them.  Jar looked into the specific models that were in use so they'd blend in, while The Peacock reached out to, Kei Honda, a certified pilot they knew who flew under Airs United, one of many fly-by-night (literally!) companies that existed to ferry executives who felt being driving to work was below them.  Kei wasn't working with Militech at the moment, but to give them a start she knew a company that did: 1776 Holdings.  Specter went dumpster diving outside their offices to see if they'd thrown out anything interesting, but got distracted instead and didn't find anything.

GURPS Cyberpunk 2078 Session 19: Jumping Out Of Windows

 Characters:

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

Braxton "Jar" Jiggs - Cybertech/Ripperdoc     NPC

Back In The Safehouse

Two hundred large was more than enough for the crew, so they took Fernandez' offer ("Specter, what do you think?" "Give me the money") and then went off to each do their own thing with their ill-gotten gains.  It was the holidays, so naturally nobody did anything fun; The Peacock got therapy, and Paxos ignored her boyfriend to arrange bribes to officials in Peru.  Specter arranged to move into a penthouse suite starting on the 1st, but he spent the rest of 2078 skulking in the ventilation ducts of Tyger Claw hangouts to gain intel for the Wingless Dragons.  

In the new year, the crew picked up word that, despite their best efforts, Arasaka had gotten an idea of who had robbed them and was hunting them down.  Figuring it was because The Peacock had suspiciously never shown up again after the heist, they got extreme cosmetic surgery (a 6" height increase + alterations to their bone structure and skin to look Japanese, and started styling their hair in the undercut style of fem-V from the game), then they all went to ground in a safehouse Downtown.

After two weeks, The Peacock (aka Peacock, The) got sick of "wasting" time and left the safehouse to go look for more intel on Mary Jane, their missing sister.  They tracked down Bonya Slade, who was working under Rin Shimamura at Konpeki Plaza, and eavesdropped in on a girls' night out.  Over a long night and many drinks, they eventually confirmed that the person whose DNA had been used for the clones (who The Peacock knew to be Mary Jane), was on the books as a Militech employee.