Shadowrun: Garretts Blog

Alright, so for those of you just getting your subscriptions in, I had to hire in a new team recently. The last one, Harveys Gambit, kinda bit the dust during the last run. The plane that slammed into the Aztechnologies building in the Rotten Apple? My guys were the ones with the flaming 'chutes diving outta the wreckage. They were a buncha idiots, but I figured they'd have more sense than that. But, then again, they finished the run and, what a charitable bunch, left their fixer with the full payout. Real thoughtful of 'em.

So this new outfit, they call themselves Smokin' Minors, run by my buddy Beast, right? So they've been doing a bunch of minor runs, deliveries mostly, for me for a while. They've been hungry for something a little more big time. I think it's the smell of big money for something they'd be out doing regardless. I dunno. Point is, Beast is a bloodthirsty little fucker, and the whole team's pretty reliable, so when Mister Johnson came calling with a body request I knew just who to call in as a new team.

The job was real easy. Some contractor for an Aztechnology firm (I keep getting under their skin. Slimy corp anyway.) apparently got under Mr. J's skin, and Mr. J wanted the guys meat suit brought back to them. So, happy to deliver, yours truly called up the Minors (who the hell came up with this name? Geez.). Had to remind them several times that actually smoking minors tends to be in bad taste for most teams, but they seemed to get it figured out pretty quick.

So, I was gonna go check progress, swing by Beasts place see if they were underway yet, when I hear gunshots from an alleyway and see one of beasts dogs come bounding out. So, deciding maybe I didnt want any part of that action, I made myself scarce and just watched. Know what I saw next? fucking ghost tree, looked like something outta a fantasy sim, comes outta a wall and heads down the alley that the dog came out of. Now, I know a spirit when I see one, and I knew their shaman had to be at the reigns, but I also didn't wanna be there when the thing has had enough. So I waited and, a few minutes later, it comes back carrying some dude, probably some homeless bastard if I had to guess, into the building. At this point I had to know what was going on, so I went ahead and took some liberties with one of the cameras inside the building in time to see the Shaman (he goes by Spirit, I think) telling the ghost to drain the poor sap into an oil barrel. You heard that right. He told his fucking ghost to drain someone into a barrel. Yeah. Maybe I didn't stress that this team is brutal enough.

So after draining the barrel into a couple gallon containers (they just left the body lying on the ground. I have no idea what they plan to do with that little souvenir), they loaded the van with blood and headed out. I went ahead and stayed connected to the node I had so I could keep an eye on 'em.  took a bit of doing too, but I was determined to figure out what the fuck they were going to do with a couple gallons of blood.

They pulled up to the house of the target. Poor sap wasn't even home and you can't even imagine the ways these fuckers were talking about pulling this thing off. Spirit seemed to be the only one wanting to discuss the option of NOT killing the guys kids. Eventually they settle on waiting to get the guy until he got home. So they had to figure out how to get that information. So the Technomancer, a guy calling himself Lightbringer (silly asshole likes it spelled with numbers. Maybe once I know him a little better.) decides to bring down the cameras in the house and then just ask the daughter himself. He then proceeds to bring the whole security system offline before it could even send up the alarm signal. So then he walks up to the door, little girl answers and spills all the information he needs. real charming for a runner. Though I suppose this team needed a face, may as well be the pretty boy with the built in commlink.

So things are going great, relatively speaking. Little girl gets back inside, Lightbrite gets back in the van and they wait. Just before the poor sap gets home they pile out and go god knows where. Spirit summons up another of those fucking ghosts, this one a giant, ugly dog and leaves it in the van with Beasts toys. So here I am, about to disconnect because I figured they must have gone into the house to wait, when the van kicks into reverse and the doors open. Next thing I know they have the guy in the back of the van, the ghost snaps his neck as soon as it gets its jaws around him, and they are speeding off.

What I figure happened is they threw the van into reverse, caught the guy at the knees so he'd fall forward into the van, and then silenced him quick. Aside from witnesses it was a pretty clean job. Everybody got paid, everybody lived, and Mister Johnson was made happy.

I still don't know what the point of the gallons of blood is. Probably some stupid hocus pocus reason. All I know is I am glad I'm the one giving the jobs, not on the receiving end yet.

So, those of you in the know will know how to reach me. If you wanna hire the Minors, they're between jobs right now. maybe I'll give ya a good price.