This one was again a rather short session. It literally was just the rest of session 2, but a week later. It took all of 90 minutes and then we were finished.
They already had planned stuff out beforehand, so it was mostly just a matter of running through this, figuring out the details of the plan, and getting in.
Of course then the twist happens, but they were well ahead of that and managed to get around it.
Their main plan was getting into the facility via the sewers and the air ducts as before during their scouting missions. They were using a small arachnodrone to get in there, all the while the cat Shaman did watch out on the Astral plane.
The hacker managed to capture first the security cameras and afterwards got into the file store to download the rather large file.
I had previously wondered how to deal with the matrix role when we don’t play with a decker, and decided to introduce an NPC called Cypher.
Cypher can do everything, but only on the matrix. He/she cannot take part in the physical part of runs, but they can do basically all the things that are needed. It would be stupid if they would fail rolls and ruin the run without player input, so if something goes wrong in the matrix it will merely cause a delay, not complete failure. Cypher is good.
They have their own agenda though, and one that might be at odds with the PCs.
In any case, the run went off nearly without hitch. There was another team (Fuchi-funded) breaking in and trying to get the same file, but thanks to the planning by the players they were mostly left with a tripped alarm when the arachnodrone moved out of the air ducts.
The last the players heard of them was gunfire from the research center, as they hightailed out of there.
Successful mission.
There will be a few news items available later on, some of which might tell the players absolutely nothing.
One thing that never was established in the lore was what that Silver Angel file was actually about to be so in demand. I assume it’s some cybertech, but as I said it never was picked up again.
Next weekend Glimmer’s player will GM the first part of Harlequin. Looking forward to actually playing again.