The four of you were meeting with Jon Marubeni at his garage; he had a job offer for people with your particular skill set that had come from his uncle.

He is looking at hiring you to break into a secret lab and retrieve a prototype of a powerful new weapon being developed there. They are free to take anything else they want from the lab.

He has a few details that they have managed to find out about the lab so far:

• Its general location: it is located under a run-down abandoned power plant in Trenton.
• The lab is heavily shielded against wireless intrusion. Once inside, the runners will be cut off from the Matrix & outside assistance.
• There is limited staff at the facility. He is confident there are a maximum of 6 personnel, primarily scientists/technicians. They live within the lab facility.
• There will be some automated defences, though he is not sure of their extent.
• The prototype is scheduled to be delivered in 3 weeks. The job will need to be completed before then.

He is offering 50,000¥ for the retrieval of the prototype, plus whatever else the runners collect from the lab.

As he is explaining the job, Jon receives a com-call & steps out of the room to take it. After a few moments he returns, with an anxious look on his face.

He explains:

The call was from a friend and associate of his named Hugh Washita. His daughter has been accosted by some gangers and has taken shelter in a building to hide, but they followed her. The call from his daughter cut off, but he managed to get some details.

Details:

• The target (Susan Washita) has taken shelter in the residential building at the NE corner of 29th Street & Johnson Ave. (in Old Detroit, about a 5 minute drive from the garage, barring traffic)
• There were at least a half-dozen gangers after her. Shew didn’t ID them before the call cut off.

Mr Washita contacted him because he knew that he had some contacts with some ‘unsavory’ characters and is begging for his assistance. He knows that getting help will not be cheap, and he is offering all he has available; 30,000¥ for Jon to find people to help her. Jon will add another 10,000¥.

The rescue of Susan Washita from the gangers went well.

The party was able to quickly identify the general location of their target as the basement using divination magics, and, using a combination of stealth and impersonation, were able to enter the building and make their way past the 3-man search parties to the basement.

With a group of the Skulls gangers closing in on the likely location of their target, the party quickly set up an ambush, and felled the trio of nearby gangers without them being able to get a shot off.

With the gangers dead, the party quickly searched the nearby rooms and found their target hiding in one of the nearby storage rooms. However, she was not alone; a young boy was with her.

It took a bit of work, but the party managed to get the story from Susan. The gangers were not after her, but her friend Willis, due to his being ‘special’.

Getting out of the building was not difficult. Discarding their first plan to attempt to draw the gangers away with another ambush, the party used invisibility spells to smuggle the children out.

With the kids safely out off the building, the party returned to the garage. While they waited for their pay, they learned more about Willis. He was what they call a technomancer, and the gangers wanted to ‘invite’ him into their gang.

With this new info, the party, with Marubeni’s approval, offered Willis a new home; the Marubeni garage.

Willis was happy to accept; he was tired of living on the street.

Run Rewards

• Karma: 4
• Nuyen: 40,000¥

Other Loot

• Armoured Jacket
• Defiance T250 shotgun w/ smartlink
• 3 Knives
• 2 Browning Ultra-P
• 4 clips extra ammo (heavy pistol)
• 2 Meta link Commlinks
• 10 doses of Cram (identified by Red)
• 2 armored vests
• 3 credsticks; 1,025Y total

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Preparing for The Second Run

In preparation for retrieving the prototype the Runners began the investigation of the area where the secret lab is reputed to be located.

Hikaru & Riku

Scanning the abandoned power plant was a significant endeavor, and required moving around several times; the range of the spell was simply not enough to get the entire plant from a single point without getting right up to the building in person.

Despite this, Hikaru believes he has eliminated most of the building. Between rubble, collapsed walls and narrow corridors, there is no way there could have been any way large equipment could have been moved through the building.

Most of the floors are covered in rubble and garbage, and the few windows are very grimy, letting very little light into the building and reducing the visibility considerably. Finally, it looks like there may have been squatters at some point in the past, but it does not look like there have been any in quite some time.

He is quite confident that whatever the entrance is, it must be in the old main generating room, which is a good 20m x 30m on its own. Unfortunately, he could not scan the entire area without getting closer to the building

Apart from this, he didn’t see any guards or surveillance, though he can’t guarantee he didn’t miss something well concealed.

It has taken almost an hour to scan the entire building, and he is beginning to feel the strain. A hit of Psyche is starting to look very tempting…

While this was going on, Riku kept an eye out for anyone that may take notice of their presence, but everything seemed quiet. There were several large transport trucks that passed by, but they all appeared to be either self-controlled or being run by riggers; no drivers were visible.

Kabuki

While this was going on, Kabuki was in contact with her hacker contact, and he managed a few pieces of information. He has found some old plans for the building, The Clancey St Generator Facility, dating from its conversion from a coal plant to a garbage-burning one. They were the newest set of plans he could find, and even these are 50 years old…

Looking at the plans, there does not seem to be much of a basement to the building; the main generating floor is actually set below ground level, but the foundations for the entire building appear to be over-engineered & do not include basement levels.

He also managed to find the owner of the land. It is a small land-holding company called McKay Holdings. It owns a half-dozen plots of land in Detroit, in various wards and is itself owned by a half-dozen private shareholders. The only name he was able to dig up was K. Heinzfeld, a former ARES project manager, who was let go for what appears to be unauthorized use of company resources.

With the preliminary scan of the old generator station complete and what they believed was the entrance located, Hikaru decided to take a look astrally. Sending his mind into the astral plane, he quickly made his way down the shaft below the possible elevator and located what appeared to be a small facility, containing about a half-dozen rooms, with four people present. The facility contained a number of lab rooms, as well as living quarters and offices for four people, and he quickly scanned all of their auras. Nothing unusual presented itself, and he located what he believed was the target for retrieval in the far rear lab.

With the astral scout complete, the runners decided to stake it out in an attempt to catch one of the lab techs outside the facility. Unfortunately, the local conditions were so bad that they had to rotate the watcher daily. They went through a total of 8 days watching the lab with no-one setting foot outside. During this time, they also managed to secure a wireless signal jammer, which they had failed to do previously.

With time beginning to become a factor, the decision was made to try and force their way into the lab. Using what turned out to be a large cargo elevator concealed in the old ruins, the group descended into the facility. As the elevator descended, the ambient lighting turned on, illuminating the large entry hall and security door. As Kyu made his way to the door to crack it with his sequencer, a pair of concealed gun turrets descended from the ceiling in the far corners and turned to open fire on him…

Luckily, the two concealed gun turrets didn’t manage to catch anyone flat-footed, and, despite Kyu taking a solid hit in the chest from one of the guns, the party managed to take them down quickly.

With the guns taken out, the security doors were the next challenge, and they did not slow the party down at all; a few seconds of work with the security panel quickly unlocked the doors. Assuming defensive positions, beforehand, the party opened the doors, expecting immediate attack from inside; what they got was silence; the doors opened to a dark and quiet hallway.

While Kabuki and Hikaru remained on overwatch, the expert door openers proceeded inside to the first air-lock style door. They rapidly cut open the first door, but it quickly became apparent why the doors were built in this fashion; some form of gas filled the hallway, and while their respirators helped, they did not stop it from entering their lungs. In addition, it also made their skin feel as if it were on fire.

The next 30 seconds were a rush of combat and desperate action; the head of the facility was staking cover within the room, and opened fire on the party, while the nasty gas slowly took them down, one by one. He resisted the first few attempts to force him to stand down, and even after he appeared to give up and turned off the gas, Hikaru was forced to kill him when he went for a concealed weapon under his lab coat.

With what turned out to be Karl Heinzfeld dead, the runners took a few minutes to rest while the gas cleared from the main hallway, and then proceeded to the back lab where the prototype was being worked on. Along the way, they found the facility’s servers slagged; some form of explosive charge had been detonated, destroying them.

Arriving at the lab the party was interrupted by the voice of the technician within the lab, Marie Kulchinski. In exchange for the party confirming the death (by showing her the severed head) of Karl Heinzfeld, she would let them have the prototype, and point out some other valuable tidbits that they could take. She also wanted the party to take her to a cybersurgeon; she had a cortical bomb in her head that she desperately wanted out.

The party quickly agreed, and made their way out of the lab before the security Marie indicated Heinzfeld would have called, arrived.

Luckily their haste was enough, and the party, with Marie in tow, managed to get out of the area and back to the Marubeni garage.

Jon, and his uncle (who was in fact backing the run) were very pleased, and provided a bonus for rescuing Marie.

Run Rewards

• 5 Karma
• 60,000¥
• 8,000¥ in electronics bits, etc. (sold)

Loot

• AA-16 assault shotgun w/ laser sight & ammo drum.
• 30 rounds shotgun ammo
• Defiance EX Taser
• Goggles R3 w/Low-light Vision, Flare Compensation, Image Link.

New Contact
The runners have made a new contact: Marie Kulchinski
She presently has a loyalty rating of 1.

Kabuki was contacted by her hacker/smuggler contact Digiraja. He has a small job offer for the group. It involves snatching the goods from a rival smuggler (William Hayes from Chitown ) before he can ship it out.

• The goods are scheduled to ship out in 3 days.
• The goods (4 crates of primarily low-end electronics), are being temporarily stored in a rent-by-the-month storage locker (Dymon Storage Solutions).
• The storage locker is located in Dearborn, just on the other side of the Old Detroit border. The locker number is 4-02.

The job at the Dymon storage facility was not going well. The party, through Kabuki, secured a storage unit near the target unit, and used it as a pretext for scouting the facility. There was not much to see. The units were garage-sized concrete boxes, with reasonably secure garage doors, controlled by keypad entry. The entire complex was covered with decent lighting and security cameras, and a pair of standard (armored vest, uniform, pistol & stun baton) patrolled the area on a fairly random pattern.

The party came up with a straight-forward plan. Rent a van under one of their variety of fake SINs and then use it to visit the facility and break in to the target unit. A couple HE grenades were also secured in case the entire plan went wrong, and they would simply settle for destroying the smuggled merchandise. A second van, from the Marubeni garage was secured to trans-ship the goods.

Unfortunately, bad luck began to strike when Kabuki went to secure the rental van. The security check run by the rental company flagged her cover identity as fake. Luckily Kabuki was able to talk her way out of the agency before any security was called, but the fake SIN was now worthless.

The party decided to continue with the plan, and decided that camouflaging the Marubeni van would have to do.

After his unrelated meeting, Hikaru performed a quick astral scan of the unit, which did not reveal any guards or other threats within the unit. The party moved forward with the plan.

Accessing their rental unit, as cover, Riku and Yoshi made their way to the target unit, on the opposite side of the block of lockers. Riku made his way over the roof, and Yoshi went around the end.

Making a final visual scan of the area, Riku spotted a small camera mounted on the wall directly across from the target unit. He quickly jumped over the gulf between units and neutralized the camera, but with subsequent events either was not completely successful, or he missed something.

Using their sequencer to unlock the door, Riku and Yoshi quickly came under fire from a pair of SMG-wielding gunmen within the unit. With Hikaru and Kabuki coming from the other side of the building with the van, a brief but intense fire-fight erupted.

The party managed to take the guards down fairly quickly, but the firefight produced several results:

• one of the crates had been damaged severely, from an errant shotgun blast from Yoshi at one of the gunmen;
• several of the team were somewhat injured by gunfire, and the flash-bang grenade tossed by a desperate gunman;
• and the facility guards were alerted, arriving on the scene only seconds after the last of the gunmen dropped from a well-placed roundhouse kick from Riku, who had charged into the unit.

In addition to dropping the last gunman, Riku’s charge into the storage unit revealed something else: tucked into the corner behind one of the stacks of crates (and partly hidden by the corpse of a gunman) was a well-cut hole in the rear wall of the unit, with what looked like a false piece of wall/cover lying next to it. Judging from its position, Riku guesses that it goes to the unit directly behind the target unit, which would put it right next to the team’s unit…

Unfortunately, Riku didn’t have time to investigate the hole, as the facility guards arrived at the scene, calling for the team to drop their weapons, and bringing up their pistols…

The guards did not last long; expecting the police to react quickly to the firefight, the party responded to the guards’ appearance with full force, and downed them quickly and without mercy.

With the guards dealt with, Riku and Yoshi quickly loaded the crates into the back of the van while Hikaru and Kabuki investigated the concealed passage to the other storage unit.

There was not much to see in the unit; it was obviously set up as a temporary base, with a pair of cots, a small table with hotplate/cook stove, and other mundane accoutrements. A trio of small vid screens were set up on the wall, taking feeds from cameras set up to cover the approaches to the unit with the smuggled goods.

With the loading complete and the other unit checked, the team did a quick frisk of the two gunmen that had ambushed them, finding several items of interest before departing the facility. Most of the team piled in to the van, while Hikaru turned invisible and walked out of the facility.

The downed gunmen had some useful gear, which was tossed in to the van:

• 2 Armored Jackets [Armour 12]
• 2 Goggles (R3 w/flare compensation, smartlink, image link)
• 2 Sets Ear buds (R1 w/sound dampeners)
• 2 Ares Executioner [SMG; Acc4(6), 7P, AP-, SA/BF/FA, RC, 30c]
• 5 clips (150 rounds) Regular SMG ammo
• 2 Erika Elite com (Rating 4)
• 3 flash-bang grenades
• 2 Credsticks 500¥ total

As they made their way back to the Marubeni garage via a circuitous route (to lose anyone following), Kabuki received a comm-call from her contact Hanu Rajesh. He looked and sounded concerned; he had found out that the entire job had been a mole-hunting operation by Hayes; his contact within Hayes’s organization had been picked up, and there were armed men coming to his home. He begged for the team to come assist him, as he was not sure his bodyguards would be able to hold them off.

The team changed their destination to Hanu’s address, and Hikaru and Yoshi called for their motorcycles to make their way to near the target building, to be nearby should they need them.

Minutes before the team arrived, Kabuki received another call from Hanu, indicating that he had intercepted a call indicating more armed men were on their way, as his security had managed to stop the armed attackers; his bodyguards were down, an only his armored door was stopping the intruders for the moment.

As the team arrived a few minutes later, Kabuki attempted to call Hanu to let him know they were there, but the call would not go through. In addition, a car was parked suspiciously on the sidewalk in front of the building. It appeared to be a civilian-issue GM-Nissan Patrol 1. Keeping an eye on the car, the team made their way to the building entrance. Just as they arrived, the elevator inside opened, with Hanu and 2 armed men in similar garb as the gunmen from the storage unit.

Another quick firefight erupted, and the party dropped the two gunmen inside quickly. Unfortunately, they had not spotted a sniper outside the building, and Riku was almost killed by a high-velocity round through his chest. In addition, Hikaru was knocked unconscious by a combination of drain from spellcasting and a lucky burst of SMG fire into his chest.

Scrambling to save Riku, the party had little luck. Al their attempts were close, but they could not stop the bleeding. Finally, they managed to locate a trauma patch in Hanu’s apartment and slapped it on his chest as he was seconds from death.

With everyone stabilized, the team quickly turned to planning their next move; getting out of the building without getting shot by the sniper. Luckily a simple solution presented itself. Hikaru, conscious due to a stim patch, turned invisible and went and got the van, and pulled it around back of the building. The rest of the team then bribed one of the ground floor residents to use his window to exit the back of the building and clamber into the van.

No shots were fired at them as they departed & the party managed to make it safely away, with most returning to the Marubeni garage, and Hikaru going home to collapse into unconsciousness.

Run Rewards

• Karma: 8 total from the mission to the storage garage and rescuing Hanu Rajesh.
• Pay: 37,500¥ (This includes the payment from Hanu and the profit from selling off the recovered electronics etc from the smuggler’s crates.)

The party also managed to pick up a few other items:

• 3 secure storage containers; Approximately 1m x 1m x1.5m. Structure 8/Armour 8 with 2 R4 mechanical locks each. They are also lightly shielded against wireless transmission, acting as R2 signal jammers against items inside the containers.

In addition Hanu, while presently not in a good situation due to having lost much of his gear, etc in his home, is appreciative of the team’s rescuing him, and is working to offer them suitable recompense. He will see what he can do about getting them some new fake SINs (and likely some for himself) free, or at least for a significant discount. He will need some time however, as he has some rebuilding to do.

The next day, Jon invites the team to attend the monthly motorcycle races at the Motown Raceway. They don’t start till mid-afternoon, so the team will have plenty of time to sleep in. He wants the Ronin to at least show their colors, and there are supposed to be several notable racers that are supposed to be attending this month. Riku would only be able to attend the preliminaries without missing his girlfriend’s party, and Kabuki may find it difficult getting back into the city without a fake SIN.

In addition, he has another business opportunity to discuss with the team. It is a more long-term undertaking, so there is no time pressure on it. He is looking to ‘acquire’ the neighboring lot, a small packaging plant. He would like the team’s assistance in doing so.

Taking a long rest after the job at the storage facility and rescuing Hanu Rajesh, the team decides to take Jon up on his idea of going to the races at the Motown speedway. After taking care of some chores and placing orders for gear, etc., they assemble at the garage with the rest of the Ronin, and make their way out of the city and in to the Burbs, where the speedway is located. Jon covers the entry fee for everyone, and the rest of the day is spent watching the races, drinking and generally having a restful day.

There is a little bit of everything for everyone; some good racing, some nasty crashes, and even a few small fights amongst the spectators. And gambling on everything; the outcome of the races, the chance that a crash survivor will actually walk away or have to be carried, and of course the victor in the various small fights.

By the time Riku has to leave for his party (and miss the final race), the team is up about 1,000¥ from various bets, though they had to restrain Kabuki from going overboard on the gambling.

The final race is quite exciting, though most of the local racers have been eliminated, and it is dominated by the professional and semi-professional racers, including:

• Von “The Ghost” Lacasse
• Diego “The Dog” Chivez
• “Cassandra“
• Charles “Highflyer” DeGwinn

During the periods between the races, Jon spells out his long-term job offer. What he wants to do is expand the facilities for the garage. Unfortunately, the only direction to expand is to the east of the existing facility; the south and west are bordered by the street, and the north backs on to a large warehouse facility owned by Twin Cities Transnational.

The property to the east is a small combination warehouse and packaging facility owned by a small company called Sigma Packaging, which is involved in producing shipping packaging for food shipping.

He has made some discreet inquiries regarding purchasing the property though some intermediaries, and there has been little in the way of interest apart from a tentative offer from the smallest shareholder to sell his 25% share for 500,000¥, which is more than he has available.

What he knows about Sigma Packaging:
Produces packaging for food shipping.
Run by a 3-party partnership:

• Jonas Mycroft; An independent businessman from Windsor. Quite young for his success. (Owns 35% of Sigma)
• Diogenes Foods; a small food manufacturing company based in Old Detroit. (Owns 40% of Sigma)
• Purcell Trucking; a small trucking firm based in Plymouth. (Owns 25% of Sigma)

Jon has 350,000¥ available for this potential expansion. The team can keep whatever is left over from this amount if they manage to secure the property for him.

Riku: the Party

The party goes quite well, and people enjoy themselves quite thoroughly. A significant amount of alcohol and other adult substances make their way through the party-goers, enhancing the effects of the music and the lights. The party finally breaks up around 4:00am, and Riku collapses into bed.

Around noon the next day, Hikaru gets a call from Riku’s girlfriend Melanie asking him to come over; she thinks there is something wrong with Riku.

Arriving at Riku’s place, Hikaru finds him hiding under the bed, trying to get away from the giant frog monsters that are trying to eat him. In addition to what appear to be (hopefully) hallucinations, he seems to have severe mental issues; he can barely concentrate on anything, and his short-term memory appears to be severely compromised; he greets Hikaru several times, forgetting shortly thereafter that he is there.

The conditions seem to last about 12 hours; by the time midnight rolls around Riku seems to be mostly recovered, though he has little recollection of the events.

Despite their efforts, Riku and Hikaru were not very successful in determining what caused Riku’s hallucinations. Assensing Riku, Hikaru’s best estimate is that Riku was dosed with some form of magically active drug, possibly similar to Bliss, Zen or other existing chemical, but neither of them knew of anything that produced the hallucinatory effects.

Using his medkit, Riku took some blood samples and other readings and forwarded them to a street doc contact of his, who agreed to look into the matter. Off the top of her head, she did not know of anything that would produce these effects, but would be very interested in obtaining a pure sample. She informed Riku that she would examine the sample and see what she could find out.

Looking in to the warehouse matter proposed by Jon Marubeni, the team found out some general information about the packaging plant next door.

• It employs a little over 30 people
• The plant operates 2 10-hour shifts; the main from 6am to 4pm, the second from 4pm to 2am. The remaining 4 hours are used for maintenance, etc.
• The plant seems to be fairly automated, with industrial drones doing most of the heavy work, with the staff mostly acting as maintenance, troubleshooting and double-checking the automated systems and operating the industrial drones.
• Each shift has 10 workers on the floor, with a supervisor.
• During the main shift, from 8am to 4pm the plant management is also in, including Wendell Schofield (the plant manager) and a pair of office workers.
• During the night and downtime, there are security guards (3 × 2-man teams w/dogs) that patrol the facility. These appear to be fairly standard guards (armored vests, pistols, batons)
• The entire plant (large manufacturing area/warehouse in the front and small office area in the back) is surrounded by chain fence, and there are surveillance cameras mounted on the building corners, etc.
• The plant owners are fairly frequent visitors to the plant; one or more of them visits every few days, typically for an hour or so. Magical scrying on one of the visits did not reveal anything suspicious.
• The company is valued around 2,000,000¥, including the property, plant, etc.
• There are a variety of trucks belonging to other companies coming in and out. These include trucks from Diogenes Foods as well as Purcell Trucking, in addition to others.

More information was also found about the plant’s owners and staff.

• Wendell Schofield (the plant manager) is a bit of a control freak/micromanager that many staff find annoying.
• However, he does appear to be competent/good at his job.

*Jonas Mycroft, the independent businessman, owns bits of many different businesses, including a 5% share of Purcell Trucking. He runs a holding company (Mycroft Holdings) to manage his portfolio. He is from Windsor.

• Diogenes Foods, the largest shareholder, is run by a mother-son team, and is a decent-sized company specializing in foods made from vat-grown kelp as an alternative to soy. Company worth about 3,000,000¥. Based in Old Detroit.
• Illona McKeon is the President of Diogenes Foods
• Alvin McKeon (her son) is VP and Chief Scientific Officer

• Purcell Trucking (the smallest shareholder) is operated by John Purcell, an ork businessman, and is based in Plymouth
• Specializes in the shipping of foodstuffs, including refrigerated trucking.

So far the team has spent a week observing the plant, shopping, training etc. This includes the day at the races & Riku’s day of hallucinations. The date is now Oct 1 2099, and rent (lifestyle costs) is due…

Whisper finally got back to Riku in regards to the blood sample that he gave her.

She has a couple items of interest to share.

1. She doesn’t think that it had the desired effect. She was able to somewhat isolate what she believes is the compound in question, and she found that it seemed to be fused to alcohol molecules. She is fairly certain that this was not by design.

2. She has been unable to identify the specific alcohol in question. Chemistry is not her best skill, and she is not that knowledgeable about alcohols. She is fairly certain that it is not a good-quality alcohol though. She sent along her findings; a better chemist may be able to tell you more.

Dropping by the garage to speak with Jon Marubeni, to enquire regarding Marie Kulchinski. He informs you that she is off working for his uncle on some secret project. Also, he does not think that chemistry is her thing; she appears to be primarily a mechanical engineer.

However, he can pass the data to Hugh Washita to have a look. He is a biochemist, and should be amenable to assisting you, as the team did rescue his daughter from the gangers…

With Hikaru probing your mind you are able to narrow things down considerably. You manage to eliminate most of the drinks based on Whisper’s assertion that it appears to be a not high-quality alcohol. By discounting anything with a name you recognize, you’ve managed to reduce the field to only 3 likely suspects; a pair of bottles of ‘home-brew’ and a bottle of cheap knock-off liquor.

Checking all the leftover bottles only takes a few minutes. Unfortunately, most have gone out in the trash, but fortune smiles on you; you manage to find two of the bottles in question. Checking them with the medkit (the bio monitor is not sophisticated enough) you find that the bottle of knock-off liquor tests positive for the same compound that was in Riku’s blood.

On a hunch, Hikaru risks looking at the bottle with his magical sight, and it has a very faint magical aura. It would most likely be lost in the background if not looking for it specifically.

Speaking with Melanie, and looking back through all the photos & videos of the party, you believe you’ve isolated whoever brought the bottle: Dwayne “D-Wayne” Fischer, a local tough and underground fighter. He is the ‘boyfriend’ of one of Melanie’s friends who was at the party.

Riku puts the bottle in a plastic bag for later.

The next 3 weeks pass quickly and quietly.

A few more reports of Yakuza-friendly businesses being harassed come in, but they provide little to no additional information; the Yakuza’s attempts to locate the perpetrators has turned up nothing of use. The one lead they had turned in to an ambush, which caused the death of two yakuza footsoldiers. Between these losses and the clan’s previous losses due to the capture of the old Oyabun by Knight Errant, the Yakuza are feeling sore pressed…

Wesley has recovered fully from his wounds, but has little more to add to what is known; the first indication of trouble he saw was the rear door of the car open and a man step out and point a gun at him. The limited description he can give sounds like the same man Kabuki saw: Sato Kazui, one of the Yakuza from Japan that had disappeared with Tomo Yamaguchi a few months previous.

In the matter of Riku’s hallucinations, Hugh Washita had limited success. He was able to isolate a dose of the chemical from the samples provided, but he has been unable to identify where it came from, though he would be willing to bet it was not some street-made concoction. He is sure that at least a fairly large Corp or other organization had a hand in its creation.

This being Detroit, he would say Ares, but it is not their usual field. The combination of chemical and magic would also suggest Massive Dynamic. They have been known to experiment with the combination of arcane and technological forces.

He has provided the team with the sample of the chemical, which he has named LK-431, based on its properties.
1 Dose of LK-431