Ongoing Plots

Favors Owed

Saturn owes Stinky Joe a favor for helping her scout the cannery.

Reputations

Renraku and the Sprawl yakuza have a photo of Kambei and Maniac in a yakuza vehicle during the kidnapping of a Renraku executive.

Job Offers

Taking the Corners Back [Minor]

The Brain Eaters are looking to muscle up and approached Mac with an offer to put him and his comrades to work. While they've been able to use their automated security to hold their territory in Touristville, the Rusted Stilettos have pushed them out of the area near Glow City, where the Brain Eaters had been running a profitable trading operation with the local mutants: salvaged tech from the nuclear reactor, infused with the toxic spirit of Glow City, in return for BTLs, chems, and weapons. The Eaters are confident that, as the Stilettos don't have as much use for the resonant tech, a few good hits on their crews, followed by some overwatch to help with any retaliations, should get the gang back their territory.

The Brain Eaters will pay each runner a few thousand nuyen (a tier 1 reward) once their territory near Glow City is secured. In addition, a good reputation with the Eaters will make it easier to find computer gear, make it easier to find decking support, and leads to higher-profit jobs driven by the info they can pull down from the Matrix.

Eliminating the Competition [Minor]

The Red Hot Nukes want to make it clear that they're the only law on the Barrens highways and so reached out to Maniac with a job offer. Lone Star has been running test convoys of goods out of factories in the Barrens, which risks cutting into the Nukes own protection business. They want to avoid directly confronting Lone Star, so they need an independent group to keep hijacking shipments until the businesses get the point. One rule, none of the hijackings can make the roads any more impassable, as the Nukes want to keep running cargo once the Star is gone. The Nukes will provide information regarding the convoys, including timing and load information.

The Red Hot Nukes wouldn't normally need outside help to take a convoy, and so are charging half the value of any convoy taken for providing the convoy information. This leaves each runner a tier 1 cash parcel for each load taken, after the Nukes' cut, until Lone Star is scared off. In addition, a good reputation with the Nukes will make it easier to find ground vehicles and get assistance on the Barrens roadways.

The Duke’s Apartment

Janus Koskey, proprietor of Crusher 495, has learned that a Tir Tairngire Duke has a luxurious penthouse apartment in Touristville that he uses when he visits the Barrens for some of its illicit pleasures. The apartment is decorated with elven works of art, the closet filled with fine clothing, and the bar stocked with expensive fey liqueurs. Koskey has a contact with building security that can get them access to the building, though they’ll still have to figure out how to deal with the additional security that the apartment itself is likely to have.

Stealing the valuables can be expected to bring in hundreds of thousands of nuyen, which after Koskey’s cut, results in a tier 2 reward for each PC.

The Big D

One of Urni’s street contacts overheard an off-duty Lone Star officer speaking at a cop bar in Bellevue, hinting, after a few too many drinks, that some sort of metahuman riot would be prompted in Redmond during Dunkelzahn’s campaign stop in the Sprawl. The dragon will be forced to choose whether to support the rioting metahumans, either depressing his metahuman base or hurting his ability to widen his appeal. There’s no sign of a paycheck anywhere in this, but if someone doesn’t do something it could be a real blow to the great dragon’s campaign on the eve of the second debate.