Lots of ways that could happen:
- Someone non-Yak has set one up, and the Yak want it taken out -- they don't want competition in this segment. And you could make this new competition extra weird and creepy, because they are catering to things beyond what the Yak normally permit. Various meta-human variants, bio and cyber modifications, and body extremes (a very tall and muscular troll lady; a massively fat human woman who weighs nearly as much; women with surgery to be cat girls, or look like little girls, or both at once; women modified to have cartoon-like proportions; woman or man with heavy pain blockers and fast healing for physical sadists, etc
- Or, the Yak have kidnapped someone and are holding them in the Bunraku parlour, with the implied threat of what will happen if their terms are not met. Team has to do the run and extract the target without being identified or doing too much damage (this is what happened in my game -- there was an escalating war in Tacoma, and the Yak kidnapped the teenage daughter of the financial controller of the mafia owned group of companies in the area, trying to turn him into a double agent. He 'borrowed' money from the job to pay the runners to get his daughter back. Which could have all gone very badly for him if someone hadn't blown up the Church where most of the local mafia leadership were attending Christmas midnight service a couple of months later.)
- Or it is being run by a different local division/department of the Yaks, and the ones your group is tied into think that it is bringing dishonour on the organization due to its excesses, and want it quietly dealt with.
I don't have my notes for that run in my game anymore, but from memory
- the place was attached to a high-class restaurant (the easier for patrons to go in unobtrusively), which added a strategic element to consider (the restaurant being above board, responses are different than for the puppet house at the back)
- the mostly seen security/minders were sculpted, dressed, and geared for the part. Massively muscled roman gladiators, women in video game outfits, etc. So not very practical armour, only cyber or concealed weapons (except for blades the gladiators were wearing). Oh, and a couple of traditional looking samurai warriors who were about 0.2 essence and all of it alpha or beta wear, and that samurai armor is actually sculpted security grade armor. Then behind the scenes are a small team of more traditional security, but they are mostly on stand-by until something happens so take a little bit to deploy. Which makes for a mix of challenges.
- a very definite background count, as what is left of the puppets' minds are mostly in a maelstrom of panic, horror, grief, and madness.
- as I recall it, my group arranged a four pronged assault: for a biker gang to shake down the restaurant, a hired hacker went loud and hard at security, then a little bit into that had a combat team stage an assault on one entrance (modified an old car to make a ram to smash open the doors, they brought along extra hired guns and plenty of thermal smoke and flash bangs so they could penetrate into the building a ways and then 'get pinned down' by security for a minute. Meanwhile a stealth team had gotten onto the roof ahead of time and hacked the roof access lock, then used everything else to allow them to to get down into the basement where their target was without setting off additional alarms. At which point things went fairly sideways but they managed to cause enough sudden violence to buy enough time to open all the cells, and fortunately the chipped vampire went after the 'traditional samurai warrior' cybermonster, letting them make their escape. It was the most expensive, expansive, run we'd done up until that point.
