D&A Session 7 - The East Is Burning Red

"No bad debt goes unpaid; the revolutionary zeal of seven centuries cannot be contained; if you set aside your self to tend to compromise, will there be anything left the next time around?"

Table Members

 * ForteNoir as the MC
 * SquashDemon as Jacopo Giuseppe Dux
 * Kixandra as Akamai Reyes
 * Dimin as Oliver Moorland
 * Elgar as Antonio Cervantes
 * RedAngelAlnet as CINO Ketaminé

Session Summary
Several weeks after being transferred into the custody of KoBar's New York base, Tony, CINO, Ollie, Knight, and Dux are flown to Taiwan to conduct their first operation as bonded mercenaries. Their mission is to locate and capture Deng Lee, a Chinese government engineer who has gone missing along with plans and prototype stolen from a next-generation AF development project. Likewise, the group is tasked with destroying and sabotaging any working prototypes or production facilities, as the Beijing government believes that Lee is attempting to arm a Taiwanese rebel group, the Green Sash Resistance.

On the ground in Kaohsiung City, CINO and Knight visit the Liuhe Night Market for parts to rebuild Knight's cyberdeck. Dux reaches out to a former human trafficker embedded in the region in order to purchase illegal firearms, while Ollie and Tony canvas the city. CINO and Knight eventually return to Liuhe and gain access to the local security camera infrastructure; the group learns about a local cyberware surgeon who may have helped Deng Lee in disguising himself so as to hide from government surveillance.

After confronting aging surgeon Duck Li, the team learns that Deng Lee is a pseudonym shared by three identical nonbinary triplets, all of whom have received extensive facial cyberware implants that allow them to change their facial features at will. Knight cross-references footage from near Duck Li's hideout, identifies the triplets, and works with Dux to track them in real time using a remote drone. When the triplets arrive at a disused auto repair shop in Linluo Township, the drone is quickly destroyed by an unknown AF.

The group make their move on the repair shop and succeed in taking one of the Lee triplets by surprise. CINO captures their laptop, and Knight breaches its security to find the whereabouts of the other two Lees; both of them are preparing to meet with the local Triad cell as part of business arrangements pertaining to the mass production of the stolen AF plans, with one expected at an opium den in the west and another expected at an industrial storage park in the east.

Ollie, Tony, and Dux deploy to the Qianzhen District to capture one target as CINO and Knight remain in Linluo to find the other. Dux and Ollie enter the outer parlor of the opium den, disguised as a Mahjong hall and bar, but Tony notices that local police forces are preparing to move on the location as part of their own effort to capture the Lees. CINO and Knight likewise encounter trouble with the Triads guarding the warehouses in Linluo, and Knight learns that OMER is on location as a Chrome Road liaison for the Green Sash Resistance along with a her own new AF.

After escaping Chinese authorities in the sewers beneath the opium den, Tony, Ollie, and Dux are bailed out by CARDINAL on KoBar's behest, having captured the second of the Lees. They hurry to aid the other team. Meanwhile, CINO finds the incomplete prototype AKATSUKI, and steals it after capturing the third Lee triplet to defend himself against OMER's assault. After arriving on the scene, Tony receives unexpected help from KoBar as a customized Kodiak II is air-dropped nearby for his use. CINO and Tony defeat OMER in a pitched battle, recover Knight, and leave the scene before the Chinese authorities descend on the area.

After returning to New York, the damaged AKATSUKI is cast into the sea, and the Lee triplets are extradited to the USIE. In Taiwan, government forces succeed in annihilating several Green Sash Resistance cells. The team is returned to their house arrest to wait for their next assignment...