The group is contacted by a
Legwork
Researching: TechNiche
- TechNiche is a local start-up focused on developing Human-Matrix Interfacing and interaction. It has around 20 employees and a middle sized office at the edge of town. Searching for TechNiche the name Acid Burn pops up. Acid Burn is an activist blogger who seems to have a more than average interest in the company TechNiche and its CEO Marco Schoenmaker.
- Acid Burn - Reveals a blog post on techtruth.unl "Local start-up TechNiche is flirting with the Triple-A's in an effort to peddle their latest drek. A project by the name of Tchaikovsky's Ballet (Snobbish much?) has been attracting attention from SK affiliates. CEO Marco Schoenmaker was recently exonerated from involvement (on a technicality, convenient much?) in his former business partner Lukas Gritt's untimely death and wastes no time to cash in on his former friend's demise. That makes you wonder who his next cash cow is and how long it will be before we find his body in the gutter (or dissapears completely in the Northern Wastelands). More on thus story as it develops."
- Marco Schoenmaker
CEO TechNiche. After the death of business partner Lukas Gritt Marco reinvested in a new start-up and called it TechNiche. Their mission statement and vision focuses on novel ways to interact with the 2070s technology for corporations and the public.
- Kris Wolfe
TechNiche Lead Programmer most recently associated with the Tchaikovsky’s Ballet project. There is a removed social media post that leaked to several techblogs regarding the project, but nothing insightful can be gleaned from it.
- Project Tchaikovsky's Ballet
- Black Swan
Part of project Tchaikovsky's Ballet. A Matrix manipulation tech said to revolutionise the way Corporation can perceive and interact with the Matrix.
Saeder-Krupp (Really high treshold, more like a bonus bit of info when the searching goes really well or when someone has a good contact in S-K)
- Valerie de Graaff
SK middle management in Acquisition department, would be involved in the buying of this kind of tech. Social network activity places her in 'Stairway to Heaven' (Local Club) a lot during her downtime.
The Convoy
3x Renault-Fiat Eurovan (GMC Bulldog Stats)
Leader of the convoy security detail:
Name: Jeannette Karry - an ex-Knight's Errand officer that was bought by a mercenary group for a bigger percentage.
[spoiler]Movement Rate: 8/16
Composure: 7
Judge Intent: 7
Lift/Carry: 6
Memory: 7
BOD: 4
AGI: 4
REA: 6
STR: 2
WIL: 3
INT: 3
LOG: 4
CHA: 4
ESS: 5
MAG: 0
RES: 0
Physical Limit: 5
Mental Limit: 5
Social Limit: 5
Qualities: -None-
Skills: Automatics [3], Pistols [6], Longarms [3], Unarmed [6], Blunt [5], Perception [3]
Cyberware:
Reaction Enhancer (R2)
CyberEyes (R2) w/ flare compensation, image link, low-light vision, smartlink & thermographic vision
Weapons:
[Longarms] Enfield AS-7: ACC (4/5), Damage 13P, AP (-1), SA/BF, Ammo: 10 or 24
[Pistols] Colt New Agent: ACC (5), Damage 8P, AP (-), S/A, Ammo: 8
[Pistols] Defiance EX Shocker: ACC (4), Damage 11Se, AP (-5), SS, Ammo: 4
[Blunt] Extendable Baton: ACC (5), Reach (1), Damage 4P, AP (-)
Armor:
Armored Vest [AR 9]
(with thanks to the 5th ed Mook Generator)[/spoiler]
3x 3 Corporate Security Grunts
The Cargo
In the van they pull open (if they have the right one) there is a white crate with no markings on it. It's a pretty decent sized crate (LWH 2mtrs/1,5mtrs/1mtrs). On both sides there's two clasps. In the center of the lid is a display, it is currently turned off. A feint hum can be heard from the inside.
[Through banging around, or a stray bullet or whatever, the crate malfunctions. The technomancer, Codenamed 'Black Swan' inside awakens, and immediately weaves a courrier sprite to contact someone to come save her. This friend is 4d6 minutes away at the moment of malfunction]
[After the courier sprite is sent away Black Swan starts to hack away at the player commlinks, trying to find her bearings and disable their ability to communicate with each other (in my game I used a lvl 4 sprite to 'Gremlin' their devices]
Codename: Black Swan
[spoiler]
Metatype: Elf
== Attributes ==
BOD: 2
AGI: 4
REA: 3
STR: 2
CHA: 5
INT: 5
LOG: 5
WIL: 5
EDG: 1
RES: 6
== Active Skills ==
Compiling : 5 Pool: 11
Computer : 1 Pool: 6
Con : 2 Pool: 7
Cybercombat : 1 Pool: 6
Decompiling : 5 Pool: 11
Electronic Warfare : 1 Pool: 6
Forgery : 3 Pool: 8
Gymnastics : 2 Pool: 6
Hacking : 1 Pool: 6
Hardware : 1 Pool: 6
Impersonation : 3 Pool: 8
Negotiation : 1 Pool: 6
Perception : 4 Pool: 9
Pilot Aerospace : 1 Pool: 4
Pilot Aircraft : 1 Pool: 4
Pilot Ground Craft : 1 Pool: 4
Pilot Walker : 1 Pool: 4
Pilot Watercraft : 1 Pool: 4
Pistols : 1 Pool: 5
Registering : 5 Pool: 11
Running : 2 Pool: 4
Software : 1 Pool: 6
== Qualities ==
Addiction (Severe) (Psyche)
Analytical Mind
Codeslinger (Erase Mark)
Low-Light Vision
Technomancer
Weak Immune System
Will to Live (Rating 3)
== Living Persona ==
ATT: 5, SLZ: 5, DP: 5, FWL: 5
== Registered Sprites ==
Courrier Sprite Rt6: Favours owed = 4
Crack Sprite Rt6: Favours owed = 4
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