Game summary for October 22, 2019, Into The Shadows campaign, Shadowrun 5th Edition, for Phoenix Gaming Club. Session included: Ballyhoo (Human Augmenter played by Andrew Renfrow), Clutch (Human Transport Rigger played by Peyton Harmon), and Hollywood (Human Combat Medic played by Chris Harmon). Game Master for this session was Charles Plemons.
As Hollywood hung up the commlink with Tauren, it began to ring. They noted the number but did not answer. Instead, they used one of Clutch’s burner commlinks and called. After a brief exchange, the person on the other end claimed to be Agent Seth Dietrich. He told them of the extreme danger they are in and that he is willing to buy the commlink back for 100,000 nuyen. He said to meet him at the zoo in Fort Lewis at 15:00 by the basilisk exhibit and bring the commlink.
The group debated for several minutes when the front door of Clutch’s place crashed in, and a heavily-cybered Italian man with gold-plated cyber arms came striding in smirking and saying, “Knock, knock!” Two goons carrying SMGs came in with him. The man rushed Ballyhoo, just narrowly missing him with a right hook driven with piston-like force by his robotic arms. Ballyhoo countered with an acid stream spell that devastated the man with its burning power. Meanwhile, the goons inside opened fire on Clutch while goons outside hurled Molotov cocktails at the windows. Some of the bullets flattened against Clutch’s body armor, bruising him badly, but several rounds punched through and sprayed blood across the room. Terribly injured, he scrabbled toward his van while firing his pistol at his assailants.
Hollywood drew forth his Savalette Guardian pistol, flipped it to burst fire and opened up on their attackers. The gold-armed man, injured by bullets and magic, fled back through the front door. Hollywood pumped rounds into the goons, and Ballyhoo blasted a ragged hole right through one of them with a nasty spell. Clutch opened fire with the van’s assault rifle, but his aim was compromised by his profuse injuries. Hollywood and Ballyhoo dove into the van, and Clutch ran through his garage door and out onto the street. One of the goons ran after and unloaded the rest of his magazine at them.
The team sped off into the night, and Hollywood and Ballyhoo used magic and first aid to patch up Clutch the best they could. Clutch did some Matrix searching and identified the cybered man as Caesar “Chrome” Ciarniello, a known Mafioso. Hollywood called Fast Freddy and woke him up to ask more about Caesar. They learned he is the son of Vince “Numbers” Ciarniello, Don of the Ciarniello crime family! When Freddy learned they had just severely injured Caesar he yelled at Hollywood for calling him and hung up the link.
The group speculated for a while about how they may have been compromised. They came up with several theories but were uncertain of any single one. They decided Clutch’s fake SIN may be compromised, so they parked his van in a parking lot, and they all shut off all their wireless gear. They moved over to a soykaf shop to watch and see if anyone showed up at the van looking for them.
