BC-001 - 2025-11-27

Summary

Mysterious fixer offers the chance to speed up entry into Mapouriki City—with a quick score

Goal

Get into Mapouriki
Score a Package for Kirk

Log

Location: LOC-Arrivals Sector

• The Butterfly, Doc Halo and Morgan are preparing to Score a Package for Kirk and are at a van loaded with weapons. The weapons are decent quality and conspicuous.
• Kirk's Van Guard is chilling, smoking (nice-smelling vape). For him, working for Kirk is just a gig on and off. He doesn't like Kirk. We've never seen him before (so who knows if he lives in the city or what). He usually does small jobs (like beat people up).

Doc Halo checks if items are bloodstained

d: [<=3] FAIL. 
=> We can see that these are made from 3D-printed gun parts, with tools for breaking and entering. Passable quality. 

• We ask the guard if we can negotiate for more from Kirk, since he said what we asked for isn't a lot. No. Kirk is a cheapskate.

• Kirk's Van Guard just walks away, after we ask him questions. Guess he's done with his vapes.

• The Butterfly, Doc Halo and Morgan agree on a plan. Doc Halo will act as distraction, and the ladies will score the item from the SS Andrea. The code word is black bird; that's how we'll know the distraction worked.

• Morgan and The Butterfly head towards the crane.

• Doc Halo wears a disguise: van driver.

Doc Halo lets the van start rolling and alerts the guards: watch out!

d: Risky d6: partial success
=> gets into position, manouevre it, cordon nearby with around 4 Red Crown looking bored. He aimed the truck towards the guards. The van starts heading in that direction. Yelling watch out! The guards get out of the way, and the van hits a shipping container. 

• TheRed Crown guards are pissed.

Morgan and The Butterfly climb the crane

d: d6 Success
=> Starts climbing up the steel crane. No guards have looked (distraction working). Made it to the top.

Morgan and The Butterfly try to rapel down quietly (using Alice's climbing gear)

d: d6 Partial Success
=> Rapels down together. Land on top of control tower with a thud. The rope is discreet, but they hear a guard in the control area below go "The hell?" 

• The Red Crownguards are arguing with Doc Halo. He slips "Blackbird" into the convo.
• The guard wants to call his supervisor.

Doc Halo tries to convince guard not to call

d: d6 + Influence +1 for diguise + Push Myself -> Success. 
=> "Fine. Save it for tomorrow". Doesn't call. Nice. 

• Morgan and The Butterfly are tense. The guard below says "Ah forget it". Nobody comes out. We see maintenance hatches or maybe we can enter the bridge.
• They creep around for options: maintenance hatches, proper hatch to main stairwell (door is locked).

The Butterfly interfaces with the lock on the main door

d: 2d6 + Assist -> Success
=> Plugs into the lock. Light goes green. Open the door. We're inside. No guards at the moment. 

• The Butterfly has a blueprint of the ship model.
• They listen to the faint beep of the RFID scanner. It gets louder as they go downstairs. The ship is fairly deserted.
• Towards the bottom of the ship in the cargo, the beeping gets louder. In the cargo hold, it is pitch black.

• Red Crown guards are still pissed and now impatient. "Get this crap out of here." The van stalls.
• Doc Halo is trying to stall, pretending to fix it. The guard is annoyed. Another guard opens the hood. Yet another guard is looking at the inside of the van. That guard opens the side of van. Doc feigns ignorance of anything inside. The guard pulls off the blanket and sees the weapons.
• "Put your hands where I can see 'em!" Doc complies and feigns ignorance.
• He spots a gas mask— it is blood stained.
• The guard trains a gun on Doc Halo and pistol whips him.

Doc Halo gets level 1 harm: pistol whip

• The guard remembers him from card games
• All of the crew get a text notification

META
Alert Clock: 3/6. 

• Over text to speech from an unknown number: "You're all in deep shit." Kirk doesn't know that someone else is trying to get the implant. (We just found out the package is an implant.)
• Morgan calls back the number.
• Kiwi accent male:
  • "The Angels are about to hit that ship."
  • "Did you even ask what you're getting??"
  • "Call me Cam. I'll give you money (6 coin) and entry into Mapouriki if you give ME the implant."
  • (Gives us the meetup coordinates.)
  • (Call disconnects.)
• The coordinates are for the tunnel Morgan heard about. Kirk's meetup spot is on the way there.
• The Butterfly and Morganmove through cargo hold. They arrive at a bulkhead, and the scanner indicates the package should be here... but it's not.
• They hear a whining sound coming from the hatch.
• A quadcopter drone is lowering.
• We move to hide and try to hack this thing.

• A car drives up, and the guard he beat at gambling walks up to the group. The officer recognises Doc Halo. "Who put you up to this?" "Kirk or Cake" "Kirk?" Everyone found this funny because Kirk knows nothing.
• Doc Halo spots movement in the distance of the dock yard and points it out to the guards.. "Must have something to do with those guys?"
• A medium-sized truck drives towards them.

Doc Halo dives out of the way.

d: Finess -> Fail 
=> Truck smashes several guards. Also hits Doc Halo.
d: Resist level 3 harm -> Critical success
=> Doc Halo -1 Stress. Gets behind crates

• Several men get out and start shooting (presuming these are the Angels, and they see Doc Halo.

• A drone with sound and sight continues descending. We hear gunshots from inside ship.

The Butterfly Interfaces with the drone

d: Success
=> Camera feed on loop. The drone is not Red Crown controlled. Someone nearby is likely watching and cannot trace Alice back. but knows that the feed is compromised.

• [?] Who owned/operated this drone? (Not Red Crown)

Morgan tries to find the implant

d: fail 
=> don't find anything. hear footsteps annnd flashlights. 

FLASHBACK: Morgan set up explosives

d: Morgan (+Alice assist +Devil's Bargain) -> Fail
=> "Watch out!" Bomb detonates. Guns are raised. "We see you!" 3 people got past.

Update this part!

• People are wearing biker vests. vest design on the back varies. aaaaaall faces covered.

• Doc Halo: "let me help you out"...... one angel goon is watching him with pistol pointing at him. goon "oh yeah fuck kirk" "what job?"

• [risky push myself influence: partial success]

• => guard eases up. plastic zip tie. ties doc up. he's all alone. trying to get out of it. +melee weapon to get himself free.

• rrrrred crown guards are dead. hears gunshots in the bridge area.

• run up plank trying to act as distraction. +gun aaaaaand suitcase lol

• [influence doc morgan] success

• => 3 guys chasing him. plenty of cover.

• 3 goons are trapped with us. put explosives on the drone. ddddduct tape.

• [success interface kamikazee drone]

• => hits one of the guards in the face. guards trying to shoot the drone.

• [pppppprowl morgan risky + push yoursself] success.

• => pistol pink and purple with stickers. glitter. we empty guns into the guards. 3 of them are dead. gunshots above.

• [controlled alice fail study to check guards if there's anything about the implant.]

• [morgan survey find door devil's bargain]

• success: finds something but level 1 harm nasty cut (devil's bargain). switch. ssssssmell. 3 dead bodies. pretty dead.

• tracker is beeping for the guy's implant (dead)

• doc halo

• dash and slide for launch of the little dinghy. pain from ribs [(invoke harm)]. [devil's bargain roll finesse fail] +1 experience.

• => switch jams. bullet hits his arm. resist. 3 stress. angels have guns pointing at him. throw suitcase in their direction.

• tries to hit the switch. launch slams down into the water. off-kilter. shooting at him. sirens in the distance.

• [cut it out finesse alice assist] takes too long.

• [finesse morgan] pppartial success. bloody. good news. we have the implant. we are covered in blood. let doc halo know we have the implant.

• we rush to the exit using blueprint. get to the deck.

• doc halo flashback heading to try and get us.

• [group action prowl morgan. partial success]

• => we're running. red crown vans. one sees us. smoke grenade from explosives bandolier. we go to doc halo. there's a drone seeing us. we are soaked and bloody.

• [alice interface partial success to drone] => trace is being done on us. red crown drone. cyberdeck armour expended to try and reduce the effect.

• tttrying to get back to land. get back on land. need to try and get to Cam.

• [ointerface push self assist] partial success. remote pilot the launch go somewhjere else. dumb shock from ICE. [resist. stress 1] they're following the launch.

• moving towards cam and try to avoid the kirk meetup point. alerts. sirens. gunfire in the distance. not sure what's happening with the angels.

• cyberware implant seems ordinary.

• call cam Bruna - woman is a hacker. confirm if we ccccccan get in. angels already got to kirk.

• keep moving. red crown not worry. but there are 3 goons from angels in our way. (talking about kirk) almost there.

• [partial success interface alice lights] smoke grenade + lights = goons go investigate that. ccccccyber shock harm (level 1 becomes level 2)

• woman's voice give us a minute. sound of drones stop. we go to the tunnel. get past spider drone (immobilised) dog sized by crawling. drone starts up but heads away from us. manhole cover.

Location: LOC-Mapouriki

• get up into an alleyway. nice alleyway. there are buildings and stuff. ssssssedan. 2 guys. 1 at attention. 1 man in a rugby (faded) ta moko tattoo.Cam cccccam arangia, check our systems. licenses with our pictures. get credit chits. we get in the car. dojn't worry about stains. scenic route. seems likely it'sw gionna be pinned on the angels. implant? bbbbbbelonged to a hacker. premium, cyberware. ask bruna Brunathe hacker.
• morgan was ripped off. why she's here.
• doc was here because oof corruuption forced outof acadenuc --- ancient history. (tells truth) make a buck.
• alice has come to try and catch up with her brother.
• cam says more work later.
• canals with boats. lots of people on sidewalks. tall buildings only in core area. 10 stories high for most places.
• hotel go through backdoor gives us key cards. rest up for a few nights. welcome to mapouriki. give me a call if you want work or vice versa. clean up. get into bed.
• we did =n'tdie on our first score!

Meta

• Climbing gear can assist a second person.

• Your wallet can only contain so much Coin (part of game mechanics—no in-character reason as of yet).

Karma

+2 for challenge
+1 fir background
+1 from dystopia

=4 kkkkkkarma for Alice.

Coin

+2 coin each
Total 6 coin from score