Okay what will follow is my write up for the first scheduled game in this campaign for  my real life group. As of yet I have no maps online, so this will solely be the write up. I may split the posts into sections, depending on space limitations.

Feel free to add commentary or ask questions. Also feel free to use this in your own games, or any part of it.

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First Case File

Synopsis: The PC's are hired by a neighborhood woman who's son has disappeared, after last being seen in the company of a local chip dealer.

Game Stats: Start game Tuesday May 26th 2065.

Weather conditions: The week previous to the game was a wet, and rainy week, with a lot of precipitation. The day the game starts is cloudy, and humid with temperatures in the mid to upper seventies. Three days after the game starts the winds will shift from the South to the East, coming in from the west and bringing more rain. During those three days the weather will be muggy, with little wind.

No natural disasters are scheduled during this period of the game. The Moon will be in it's Last Quarter, with a new Moon on the 4th of June.

Background: Monique Fuentes and her son Grant live in an apartment building just a few blocks from the PC's building. Monique works as a waitress during the day and during the night she attends College part time. (Monday, Thursday and Friday nights.) Her son Grant is eight, and is a physical adept who has just recently discovered his powers, which he has shared with very few people, and not with his mother. He is a talented athlete, and smart responsible boy. While his mother is at College he either spends his evenings with friends, at the local YMCA, or at church.

When Monique came home from school last night she discovered that Grant was not home, and after contacting the church she called his best friend, Sally Rider, and could not locate him there. Worried she contacted the Police and filed a missing persons report via the on line system, but has yet to be contacted by officials from Lone Star in person. Scraping together what little money she has in savings (5,000 Nuyen) she has turned to the Player Characters.

She wants to the player characters to locate and retrieve her son.

The Leg Work: The PC's obviously have a number of places they can begin. Below is a detailed list of each, and how they factor in:

Saint Matthews

Grant arrived at Saint Matthews after school at 1530, where he attended an hour long class on the bible, and played for two hours on the Church floor hockey team, in the Saint Matthews School gymnasium. Saint Matthews is four blocks from his home. The Bible course was run by Father Peter Karam, and the floor hockey was organized by the youth minister Kevin Beder. Both speak highly of Grant, and his mother-both have spotless criminal records and no apparent connection to the crime.

The Youth Minister, Kevin Beder saw Grant leave the grounds around 2030, about ten minutes after they finished the floor hockey games. He says that Grant left alone, like he usually does, and was wearing jeans, a red tee shirt and a Seattle Thunderbirds cap. (The local professional hockey team.) He did not notice anyone unusual in the area or following Grant, but will admit he was busy with the other kids.

Tiberius Rex: Just a few blocks from Saint Matthews is this all night noodle and news kiosk. Run by Ban Chao and his two sons this kiosk sells cheap foods-noodles, simple soups, and sushi-and matrix/multimedia access, as well as old fashioned style news papers and magazines. Ban Chao works the day shift, and his eldest son works evenings. (Gan Ying) If the PC's speak with ban Chao he will admit to knowing the boy, and have a generally positive opinion of him. Grant stopped for noodles on occasion. Gan Ying, if interviewed, will admit he saw the boy pass by on the night in question around 2100, and even said hello to him. The boy purchased a soda, and continued on his way.

If pressed he will remember seeing a short gaunt man, who smelled heavily of cheap after shave stopping at the Kiosk a few minutes later, but leaving pretty quickly. Gan Ying will describe the man as human, young and skinny, with a leather jacket, and messy hair that wasn't short, but wasn't long.

The rest of the route home: If the PC's walk the route and pay attention they will notice that two blocks from the boys home a bum is wearing an undersized Thunderbirds cap, that looks pretty new, and way too small for him. If they press him the bum will lead them to an alley way where he found it. An examination of the alley will reveal tire tracks. There are no security cameras in the alley way, but just outside the alley way, and down the block is a Pawn Shop, with a camera on it's door to record the faces of those who enter and exit.

Armour Jeweler's: Owned by Bryant Armour this pawn shop trades in legit, and illicit goods. Armour is a stand offish man, who will accede to the PC's viewing his security tapes, if the price is right. (Bryant is a black male human, late 50's with a goatee, and short hair. He has a single piece of obvious cyberware, his datajack.)



The Players: Grant was taken by a Tamanous operation that has just recently opened up a portable chop shop in the area. Operating out of two semi-tractor trailer's they are efficiently and quietly harvesting organs for resale. In most cases they have simply assaulted their victims, removing one or two nonessential organs, however they do have a quota of high priority and difficult to harvest organs, and unfortunately for Grant Fuentes his rare blood type (AB En(a-) ) makes him a prime target. (His blood type matches that of a child who has Waldenstrom's macroglobulinemia, a rare blood disorder that is characterized by the presence of abnormally large numbers of a particular kind of white blood cell known as B lymphocytes. As these cells accumulate in the body, excessive quantities of an antibody known as IgM are produced. This causes the blood to become thick (hyperviscosity) and affects the flow of blood through the smaller blood vessels, leading to the symptoms of the disorder. The organs fed by these small blood vessels do not receive sufficient blood and oxygen, potentially resulting in partial or complete failure of the organ. His parents are rich and powerful, and with out hopes of a cure have turned to Tamanous-who is receiving five hundred thousand Nuyen for enough blood to do three total blood transfusions.)

Tamanous has set up shop in an abandoned warehouse in the Barrens, some distance south of down town. Security is tight, and they've managed to pay off the locals to work as look outs. (The locals receive a discounted price on goods and wares, as well as services, plus a small stipend for their services. As there are few actual locals in this area, this has proven cost effective. They utilize a variety of calls, whistles, and noises.)

Physical security: The warehouse serves as the initial defensive ring, camouflaging the trailers and the work that goes on inside the ware house. All of the windows have either been boarded over, or blacked out with spray paint. The Warehouse itself is a three story structure, which means it has height advantage over the nearest surrounding buildings in a four block radius.

There are two main entries, and a tertiary point of entry. The main entry point is the large warehouse door, which is on a chain track, and motorized. It measures 20 feet in height and 40 feet across. It is pulled slowly open by an electronically powered wench. The secondary entry point is a standard sized door that has a steel reinforced frame. The tertiary entry point is in the main ware house floor, a six foot section of sewer access that was used when washing trucks, for water drainage. This point of entry is protected by a padlock, and an iron grate.

There is a catwalk along the roof that is patrolled by Tamanous hard boys, staggered times and irregular numbers, with irregular routes as their not expecting any serious trouble and have come to rely on the Ghouls who work in tandem with them as an early warning system. Entry points are also guarded, with the exception of the sewer grate (Covered later.), by two guards. The total guard compliment is 20 men, who work in shifts. (These shifts tend to be staggered, but more from disorganization than any real plan.) Guards are lightly equipped (Submachine gun's with silencers or suppressors, pistols, tasers  and the occasional melee weapon. Most carry no more than three spare magazines of ammunition. All are equipped with Armored Vests, and a few have also purchased armored clothing.), and have orders to suppress first, and kill only as a last resort, or if operational security is jeopardized. If they have some need for it, or reasonable suspicion of its need, the guards have shotguns, two assault rifles and a machine gun (LMG) available for use. Most of the guards have received some sort of biotechnological upgrade or are using. (These are men who have fallen on hard times or are too weird to be accepted into the ranks of most organized criminal units.)

The operation has mounted some cameras (CCTV) around the main entry, and a few inside the warehouse as well, which are routed into the old warehouse office, where they have a portable system set up. This set up uses a wireless matrix link, but is completely separate from the rest of the operation. The buildings fire alarms still work, as does the bell that sounds whenever the main door is opened. The rear of the warehouse has the added benefit of being covered in debris from various scrap vehicles being dumped over the years, and acts as additional layer of ballistic protection from this direction.

Matrix: There is no matrix protection to speak of, as most of the operation is compartmentalized. None of the equipment needed for processing is connected, nor are the vehicles, or the security cameras. As such the few computers needed are lap top style machines. These machines are expected to be losses if and when the operation is compromised.

Magical: Primarily magical security consists of the ghouls who travel with the Tamanous operation, some of which have an active role in the organization. Others have filtered into the area as the word filters out that Tamanous is operating in the area. Three of the Ghoul's who are actively involved with the operation are physical adepts, and initiates. None of the rest have much more than rudimentary skills or combat abilities.

Two of the Tamanous doctors are Mages, but not combat orientated. They both do have some knowledge of some combat spells, and a number of manipulation orientated spells. One of the "Facilitators" (Who purchases organs and person from hospitals, morgues and independents as well as marking individuals for procurement) is a twisted Shaman, who follows the path of the Raven. A tall gaunt elf, with long black hair and pale skin who tends to wear leather jackets and jeans. He has bound a single spirit, twisted like himself as security for the operational zone.

The Operation:Currently the operation is in it's fourth week of activity, and sixth week of being in Seattle. During the set up period, which was the first two weeks, the Operation encountered one small problem: a girl (Cassie "String" Montez) managed to escape from the cages, and was able to get some help relocating from her sister, who "bangs" with the Latin Counts. String attempted to make a police report with Lone Star, but has an active file and as such when the Star attempted to affect her capture on a felony warrant she managed to elude the authorities and has hidden with her sisters gang.  The Operation would pay good money for her location, as well as any information leading to her capture or who she has spoken with about them.

The operation has run smoothly since, with no operational glitches. They plan on running for another six weeks, and then closing up shop, and moving on. If Operational Security is seriously compromised they will immediately liquidate any remaining assets, and pull up stakes. (The building will be torched, after the bodies have been dismembered and  placed in barrels of acid.) If necessary the operational team leaders have the authority to liquidate equipment, manpower and even product.

The Cast and Crew

Monique Fuentes
Human-Female-32-Widowed

B: 2   Active Skills:
Q: 3      None    
S: 2   
C: 4   Knowledge Skills:
I: 3      Waitressing 5
W: 3      Local neighborhood 3
R: 3      Law 1

Grant Fuentes
Human-Male-8-Student and son

B: 3   Active Skills:
S: 3      Athletics 3
Q: 4
C: 3   Knowledge Skills:
I: 3      Local neighborhood 2
W: 3      Sports 3
R: 3