Fated, Faithful, Fatal

#gig #4cw Neon City Overdrive Fourth Corporate War
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...we're walking into a slaughterhouse... and the butcher's still there

Hex to The Gang upon entering the Midnight Slut

Premise

The Gang move to Heywood (presumably) and begin preparing for the big showdown with Iwasao Koremichi. Unlucky for them, a lot of shit is catching up with them, and not in the fun way.

At this point, too many things are happening at once and you need to get your priorities straight.

After Action Report

The gang moved to a hybrid three-floor building in Heywood, where they used their contacts within The Mob to get an architect to do a review of the building's condition. They moved their gear into the new base. Ray Null tried reaching Santiago Aldecado, but he said he was "busy raiding corporate convoys".

Hex got a new Linear Frame, but he had to lean on Nat in order to get it. This impacted their relationship, since Hex is getting more transactional with it.

The Gang went to the Afterlife in order to recruit a Netrunner for their base and hired Deadmeat as their permanent deep diver, with Lowkey as a one-time Edgerunner for the "gig of a lifetime" they were trying to pull.
They helped Deadmeat move her gear to the ASG Headquarters (Heywood) and convinced Corpse Reviver to help them by sending Big Shark to spike a drink.

The Gang planned out how to take out Iwasao Koremichi (as ordained to them by Morgan Blackhand during Seven Nation Army). They did scouting on Trauma Team response times and eventually geared up their own AV to match perfectly with the system. They followed the guy till he reached the Midnight Slut, a Maelstrom bar.

Unfortunately, they didn't account for one thing: the grim reaper coming to collect. They pretended to be sent by Arasaka as well, but Ray Null took off his mask. At that moment, Smasher recognized him. He could've killed him, but instead hounded him by saying "Claire gives her regards" and giving him a concussion. Iwasao Koremichi had been wiped by Adam Smasher, so The Gang resolved to take his corpse, confirm his death, get their pay and then dump him in the Badlands' trash mountains.

Ray Null called Claire Monet, asking her what the fuck was going on. She gave an unsatisfying answer to him - yet again they are on opposite sides, he's playing second fiddle for Militech and she's sold her soul (or so it appears) to Arasaka.

A Maelstrom cold-called Hex, teasing him about having caught Nat and her entire squad.

In the future