5 Touring the Margin

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Prepping

Premise: After taking down Captain Effirm Danala in 4.5 Hunting the Hunter, The Crew return to Rome right as Jimenez tells them to get packing, cause they'll have to talk to Clements and schedule a gig and a venue in Stockholm.
In Stockholm, they'll find that Lars-Olov Skeppsholm has disappeared without a trace. After finding him chained up by a chromer metal band (Rules/CPRED/Combat/Combat ensues!), they have to make a choice about the actual gig organizer

Theme

• Our car is on fire but the Acid Rain will put it out, so it's ok.

Mood

• Acid Rain Countryside. Deal damage or reduce armor.
• 9 month night. Penalties for night combat.

Motifs

• Corporate Tension
• Welcome to Stockholm
• I couldn't care less about you
• Swedish Post-Whatever Rock
• A drink with some Russians
• A drive through the acid rain countryside
• Maddogs Music (Chromer Metal)

Running

Setup

Player Goals

• Resolve previous incidents
  • call from the Green Fairy (Venice) about the Black Flag anarchists swiping creds
  • Laz (GM)'s recurring nightmares relating to his aunt
  • Pick the new SovOil company member for Laz (GM)
    • SovOil Surgeon, Valodia
  • Hex, Natalie and the elephant in the room
• Settle down in Stockholm and suspect that Lars-Olov Skeppsholm is missing.
  • Begin the investigation
  • Spend 70eb on the taxi ride to the hotel. Single Rooms
    

Storyteller Goals

• Introduce Stockholm as a "temperate" version of everything you've dealt with before ("fairly hygienic and low lethality")
  • Early Rules/CPRED/Combat/Combat encounter with 2d6 ganggoons with knives and burnt synapses (SynthCoke users)
  • If encounter ends with police involvement, force spending 1 night in the comfiest jail cell
• Other consequences: the Ripperdoc clinic where you had your surgeries done ain't exactly a commercially-licensed business and they've threatened to tell the EEC about the job unless you give them 10.000eb

Execution

Player Goals

• Try to find out what can be done about Lars-Olov Skeppsholm
  • Figure out if other agents can be hired
  • Go to his apartment, where Lars' input claims there's blood and signs of a struggle
  • Go to the Rockhalet (Rockhole) to find more information
  • Go to the Maddogs' hangout.

Storyteller Goals

• Introduce Lars' disappearance as worrysome and urgent^[1], as well as threatening
  • Clues
• Introduce the patron of the Rockcave, Margrethe Auken.
  • The entire bar's atmosphere is easy-going, although Auken claims this is a dangerous, yet respectable establishment. Even Silverhand sung here back when SAMURAI was together. You might get additional information about the Maddogs being bad news from other patrons, but...
• The Crew learns of the Maddogs' regular hideout, the basement of a seamy counterculture store, selling anything from tattoos to booze, niche CDs and drug paraphernalia.
  • Guess what, they're not home! Lars' kidnapping has forced them out of the hideout.
  • 3 guards at the entrance, 1 is alone. Some Rules/CPRED/Cyberware/Cyberware, max Quality 3
  • Den: Vaporwave smell, backstreet brawl, 2d6 Nomads^[2]

Turning Point

The Crew continues to chase after the Maddogs.
They encounter a prisoner exchange in the swamps, right before the cabin.
4 Brit insurrectionists exchange captured narcotics agent for the (2) French NP (+1 Sniper) giving them 3 gunrunners caught off the cost of Bretagne.
Swap is near a bridge in a desert town.
Brits have a minivan, French NP have an unmarked sedan.
Four Maddogs, Chromed but not that dangerous.
Upon being saved, Lars-Olov Skeppsholm insists on a wine & dine.

End

The next morning, Lars-Olov Skeppsholm proposes a stroll through Stockholm and a meeting with two potential promoters: Janis Voss and Petra Olsson. Voss is willing to screw over The Crew for this gig so, if they don't accept, he'll send some Russian thugs^[3] to beat you up. Break something of value to The Crew. When leaving Stockholm, you're greeted by more Russian thugs^[4] who will try to ram you off the road.

The Crew was hurt badly during the Swamps incident, right after hitting the Maddogs. This meant they had to back off, but they stirred enough shit that Lars was able to escape.
We continue directly into 6 Plundering Praha.