I am claiming a karma point by writing the recap of this week's session, but I'm doing it to be helpful to the rest of the team who couldn't make the game. Really, it's not about self-interest.
Stop judging me.
Our main goal in the session was to track down Vincent Parazzo, aka Vinnie the Snitch. Draven and Sam were doing the legwork and surprisingly this did not end in a firefight or manhunt.
After investigating the various activities of the underworld it appears Vinnie the Snitch is an Ork Rigger who ran with a street crew that ran guns and drugs around the L.A. area.
There are three distinct groups that want a piece (sometimes literally) of Vinnie. His crew wants an explanation for what's been going on since Vinnie was released from police custody within one day of being picked up and the police hit eight locations known to Vinnie in one day.
Vinnie’s street racing crew wants a word with Vinnie to see what’s happened – they’re willing to offer 20,000¥ in weapons (delivery time one week, within reason) of guns for him to be delivered alive. If we take this offer, Draven is looking at a Barrett 121T and an HK Urban Fighter, and Sam is looking at an RPK HMG. Granted that’s 16,500¥ of 20,000¥ so we can probably look at changing wants/needs when Sera and Shift look at what items they want to grab.
Sage, the leader of the Ardientes, is less forgiving and the gang is looking for proof of death and Vinnie’s huevos, deliverable to Sage. Draven’s mob contacts have indicated they want his ear (no proof of death necessary). The Ardientes and the mob are offering 50,000¥ each, so the total possible payout is 120,000¥ for this job.
Based on a tip from a snitch, Nikolai Rostov, we tracked Vinnie to a hanger at an abandoned airstrip outside of Barstow. After having NPC-mode Sera and Shift disable the security and astrally surveyed the area, Sam infiltrated the hangar and found the dead bodies of Little Joe and his matrix teammate, low-end Shadowrunners who’d been killed without a mark left on them. There were tire tracks moving out of the abandoned airport that indicate Vinnie’s escaped in a Ford-Canada Bison/Buffalo and is headed out to the desert.
Rolls to be made: for each of the four months, roll Ettiquette with all appropriate modifiers. The number of hits count as “contact points” used however desired, no loyalty above three, no connection above 4.