CY_BORG: VIP Abduction

[Wrathbone]

I've got back in the taxi, where I'm remodelling the back seats with my multitool's miniature scissors.

[Mantis]

"Oi, slick! You damage the upholstery and I'm billin' you creds!"

*For reference, the inside of the taxi is already in the absolute worst and most disgusting state you can possibly imagine*

[Wrathbone]

"You got it, boss!"

Full of pent-up nervous energy from endless ad bombardment, I start using the mini-pliers to remove all my nose hairs instead.

[Sly Boots]

"If you boys don't settle down and start behaving, we'll turn this cab right back round!"

[Mantis]

Once we're all sorted and back on the road Zola will start discussing plans of action.

"What you say then boys? Wait 'til he's picking up his stims, hack the limo to open the doors, toss the geezer driver into a meat grinder, sit tight and wait for our boy to get back in before we take him on a little ride?"

[Wrathbone]

I wipe the blood and other substances oozing from my nostrils.

"Maybe we should check out the stim place first? What if the deal goes south and our guy don't get back to the limo?"

[Animalmother]

Do the high end limos have automated defences?

[Sly Boots]

I wipe the blood and other substances oozing from my nostrils.

"Maybe we should check out the stim place first? What if the deal goes south and our guy don't get back to the limo?"

Doze pats her pocket (gently), to indicate the surveillance drone.

"We can do that without even setting a foot inside, thanks to this little fella."

[Mantis]

I wipe the blood and other substances oozing from my nostrils.

"Maybe we should check out the stim place first? What if the deal goes south and our guy don't get back to the limo?"

Zola shrugs.

"Free limo?"

[Wrathbone]

"But the job, boss! The job!"

Sen is surprisingly principled about completing a job once hired.

[Mantis]

"'Course chooms, 'course, we want that big payday so we'll scope the dealer out too! But if it all goes tits, no harm in adding a limo to our little fleet and living to cruise the Oceanwave another day!"

[Stormbringer]

Suddenly...

BOOM!

The punks hear an earth-shattering explosion; the taxi rocks in the blast wave. A fireball leaps into the sky from a nearby shopfront. The building's façade has been torn apart and debris and bodies are thrown far and wide.

From out of the flames, a giant bipedal MECH comes striding out across the road, lets out a horrific metallic scream, then starts firing its giant arm-mounted full-auto M.A.R.A.U.D.E.R. guns into the crowds, tearing through flesh and vehicles alike. The streets are thrown into chaos and panic; the thunder of the guns drowning out the shrieks and shouts of the terrified pedestrians. The mech stands over it all, shooting at every target in sight, an awe-inspiring pinnacle of mankind’s murderous ingenuity. Death personified in steel. A destroyer of worlds. The horrifying end state of humanity’s desire for fusion powered, blood-soaked cyber-apotheosis.

Doze knows that such monstrosities can either be piloted remotely through an RCD (like a drone) piloted manually by an encased human, or could be entirely AI-controlled.

The chaos up ahead forces Zola to slam on the brakes, causing the taxi to come screeching to a halt.

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Everyone: make a Presence check (d20 +/- your Presence stat)

[Animalmother]

That'll be a 10 on the D20 for Volley.

[Sly Boots]

17-1 = 16

At the next suitable moment, Doze will whip out her new cyberdeck and see if she can hack into this thing.

[Wrathbone]

9 + 2 = 11