4 Menace in Venice

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Prepping

Premise: The Crew uncovers a bomb plot to kill Jack Entropy while he's performing on a floating stage in Venice. The plot is part of a Wortrac (operating with CINO) gambit to bring down their tourism rivals Seal GmbH (operating with OTEC), with whom they've had a low-scale corporate war for about a year.

Theme

• Can Jack Entropy be saved?
  • ...or is he justified in his destruction?
  • ...or is he justified in his depressive anger?

Running

Setup

Player Goals

• Tell the story of the Militech escapade they attempted last session.
  • Deal out the loot
• Deal with Jack Entropy and Tammi Lu.
• Relax in Bern and repair stuff.
• Arrive in Venice, where Ace McLeod presents The Crew with a Wortrac Exec, Mantegna,
  • who says that their rival, Seal GmbH, is planning to blow up the Entropy concert.
  • he links this to Salvare Venetia, an ecoterrorist group.

Storyteller Goals

• Present Bern, Switzerland as a chill place where you can gather your spirits.
• "Solve" (or progress) the conflict between Tammi Lu, Jack Entropy & Hex
• Solve past events
  • The Crew sent images and information to French Samizdat regarding the NetWatch & OrbitalAir conflict
  • Some French corpos are now more anarchist - this leads into a French Republic law that upsets the Germans, criticism and EC discussion
  • Hex leaked information about Captain Effirm Danala regarding the conflict that degenerated Paris.

Execution

Player Goals

• call from the green fairy about black flag swipping creds
• Find out what Venice is all about.
  • Green Fairy bar/club
  • Romani Gondolier
  • Tourists & pickpockets
• Meeting Helena, who we later find out is a Seal GmbH Exec tasked with keeping tabs on The Crew. Of course, Hex is interested in her.

Storyteller Goals

• Introduce the various gangs:
  • Camicie Rosse (Red Shirts), nationalist Garibaldi-poser with mods to all look like the esteemed revolutionary
  • Bandiere Nere e Carciofi (Black Flags & Artichokes) - an anarchist poetry gathering group that spray the unwary with fluorescent ink, hotwiring autogondolas
  • Pescecani, motherfuckers on jetskis
  • Stranieri e Zingari, itinerant workers all over the place
• Introduce the secretary of Mantegna, who dies in the church after telling The Crew that Wortrac is actually responsible for the bombing
• Captain Effirm Danala will establish 2 Militech squadrons in Venice to watch over the Eurotour

Turning Point

Player Goals

• The Crew finds info about Bailey (The Wheat), Wortrac IDs and they obtain the location of Alessandro Benetti, a Russian infiltrator organizing the Salvare Venetia group.
  • Interrogate Alessandro Benetti. Find out about Giacomo Lampari and (even) the three SalVen crew on the concert.
• The Crew also has befriended some Russians currently working on the stage who they might be able to gleam info from.
• The feeling of being hunted: Militech wants your asses for assaulting an officer, Wortrac sees this and takes advantage of it. If you're stopped at a Militech checkpoint, Wortrac will try to bomb both
  • + jetski idiots

Storyteller Goals

• Helena tells The Crew Seal GmbH would never harm Jack Entropy and gives them info regarding their enemy, Wortrac.
• sister info about Tammi Lu
• claire monet info about Wortrac
• Mood: late evening, night's creeping in.
• Captain Effirm Danala destroys Hex by sending him an audio clip of Tammi Lu's last breaths.
• Introduce Alessandro Benneti and offer up information.
  • Weapons and the ability to use them. Surrounded by 2d6 Terrorists.
  • Trying to make him open up will reveal he doesn't know who his backer is, although he assumes it is Cosa Nostra through Giacomo Lampari.
  • Pushed to talk, he gives the last names (and then the first names) of his infiltrated SalVen guys
• Giacomo Lampari
  • 2 MLA Solos at all times. Bailey hired him.
  • If captured, Wortrac pulls everything to save him.
• After dealing with two Wortrac Solos, Wortrac (and Bailey) begins hunting The Crew.
  • Five good Solos^[1] + a Netrunner^[2]
  • Sudden Sinking of a gondola
  • Fucking up the AV
  • Construction equipment going haywire
  • Hard-to-trace poison
  • Booby-traps: I.E.Ds, monowires in canals while riding the gondolas, flooding with salt water, then electrify, masonry bridge dropping on the targets,

End

Player Goals

• You know who the bombers are. But one of them is missing (else, you'll interrogate a guy who doesn't know shit but acts like he does), dead in a hotel on the outskirts of Venice. if you have time for that, you can go find that out. (Bailey killed him).
  • The two bombers still there are still waiting orders, both combat engineers (thats what they did in their service)
• You can even hack Wortrac and get info on Bailey.
• If you get to Bailey, you'll find all sorts of technical data on the location and data about the bomb
• Finding the bomb is tricky and takes time, right as Jack Entropy starts singing.

Storyteller Goals

• Reveal where Bailey is. Hotel Danieli.
  • Bailey is a bigger challenge than his Solos. +22 and Quality 4 Reflexware + a Berserker OS, allowing him to go Cyberpsycho at will, as well as throwing knives implants (poisoned), and a speedboat to escape.
  • Approaching him friendly-like will cause him to drop info, then set his goons (Solo, +20, two) on The Crew as he escapes.