Lucky Flight

 12/15/2022 Our party of 3 chooms were chilling in their local Cy POP saloon when Charlie Sand approached them in need of “extralegal troubleshooters.” They agreed to roll the Lucky Flight Casino with a promise to destroy the offline debt records and rescue Batu if possible.

On arrival, the team worked on reconnaissance, with Cash gambling until he ended up very ahead, at the cost of his sole glitch. Yann was able to hack into the system without being noticed (a very difficult move) and was able to ping the area above where the credit exchanges were flowing to be logged. Thiz attempted to bluff his way into the VIP area, but was rebuffed by Security. He did get a fair view of that area of the Casino before being shooed down the stairs. Yann later successfully probed the electricity circuits, giving an indication of where the generator was located.

Thiz decided to head outside and use his grappling gun to scale the building to see behind down into the canal side. This was critically effective, and he ended up swinging down and landing on a boat full of blitzed rockers unloading their gear for their casino show. He was able to wander into the green room acting like a roady without being noticed by the intoxicated band or crew.

The team’s original plan was to come back later to roll the Casino during closing hours, but after Thiz found himself in the Green room they improvised a new plan. Yann hacked the band, giving them a message in their RCDs that impending chaos was part of the streamcast plan and to KEEP ON PLAYING. Thiz hit the stage elevator button dropping the band down in mid-set. Yann and Cash jumped through the space in the middle of the chaos to get to the Green room, and then Thiz sent the stage back up as if the whole thing was part of the show.

As Yann and Cash rolled into the room, a fistfight broke out between Pheen>>ex and his manager in the Green room. Thiz slapped the manager, who hastily fled the room. Pheen>>ex was so thankful that he gave Thiz a special mix-tape and also exchanged numbers in case he ever needed muscle in the future.

Cash was able to pick the lock out of the Green room and the team stormed into the Sec Ops office. There were only 2 sec ops in the room, and the team attempted to quietly take them out with surprise. Unfortunately, the stealth attacks all missed and the Sec ops were able to sound the alarm.

Wattana burst from the locker room and a tense melee ensued. Yann’s first hacking attempt led to a backlash that broadcast seconds of the fight to the entire casino. The team was really struggling with getting though Wattana’s armor, though Thiz was able to grenade the sec ops enough that they fled out the door to the canal. Yann hit big with an APP that stunned Wattana for 4 rounds, allowing the team to take him out. We ended session 1 with the knowledge that reinforcements were seconds away as the team remained resolved to blow the Power Core. Broadcasting the fight to the entire Casino created a mass panic, which bought the team a sliver of time as the Sec Ops were distracted with panicked customers screaming and stampeding for the doors.

1/5/23 The party split with Cash sprinting into the powercore room and succeeding with a difficult check to skillfully sabotage the power plant. He was able to ensure about a 5 minute delay before the powercore would explode. A pack of Sec Ops came down the elevator, being met by Thiz with a grenade launcher. The damage was minimal however, and 4 armed SecOPs stormed out of the elevator. Yann was able to stun one of the security with an App, while Cash smacked another with his crowbar. Several SecOps opened fire on Thiz with their 9mm firearms and Thiz went down to the battered state, saved from doom by his perfect armor roll. His autoinjector fired, waking him up with a bonus to his rolls for the rest of the battle. He mowed the group down with an overwhelming display of autofire. Yann again hacked the local vid feeds and broadcast images of dying SecOps and the damaged powercore, demanding that everyone in the building flee immediately before the while place exploded.

Cash and Yann each looted a 9mm from the dead Sec Ops in the elevator as they went up to the second floor with only a few minutes remaining. They sprinted toward the area Yann had earlier identified likely held the offline database. A heroic contingent of dedicated and fearless bouncers and Sec Ops held the room in desperate defense, but the party dispatched them in a flurry of autofire from Thiz’s rifle and from the other’s new 9mm’s. Cash took a bullet in the firefight, but was saved by his Kevlar vest.

The team really struggled getting the vault door opened, with Yann burning out his knock app in a fumble. Cash struggled with opening the door with several tries using his special ability. With less than a minute until the powercore exploded, Yann took a devil’s bargain to overclock his dataterm to help give Cash advantage on the roll with the stipulation that the dataterm would fry and need an expensive replacement if the roll failed. The stars aligned, and Cash managed to get them into the database room with seconds left on the countdown.

Thiz took off toward the front door, while Yann and Cash quickly assessed the situation involving the living database chained in the room. With no time to spare, they destroyed the database by unloading a 9mm clip into the database’s cranium, ending his misery forever. They scooped a crate of cred chips and sprinted out, vaulting down to the first floor off the balcony with both player’s agility checks successful in allowing them to land without damage. They sprinted out of the building seconds before it was rocked by a phenomenal explosion.

Back home, the guys were relaxing at the Cy POP Saloon when they saw themselves in an add for UCS services. Deciding to lean into the notoriety, they prepared their own montage of graphic recordings from the job with prominent branding of their new moniker: PCP (Power Core Punks) and released it into the dark net. They also see a segment about the breakout sludgewave artist Pheen>>EX, who has just inked a deal for a massive stadium concert in CY. Batu met up with the team and offered them crash space in the Bodega basement in gratitude for saving him. He also had a set of keys to the decommissioned patrol car which was a real thing. No one, including Batu, knows who Charlie Sand is/was.

The PCP get a text from Pheen>>EX requesting a meet. He comes in the next evening with several huge cybered bodyguards. He tells a sad tale of how his sister and her friend were roofied by a horrible gladiator named Steel Jackhammer. Pheen>>EX has been offered funds to make a new music video, and his deepest desire is to feature Jackhammer’s famous cyber legs in the video, liberated from their owner, of course. He offered a tidy sum for the job, and the party are able to negotiate getting their PCP logo also featured prominently in the video.