Chapter 1: The Three Sisters IC, The In Character Thread Options

[Ronin Soul]

A rainy evening, 7:56pm, Sunday, 4th September, 2061, Downtown Seattle

When you first took up Shadowrunning, you expected it to be exciting in it’s own way. Staying one step ahead of the corps, making pileloads of nuyen, maybe even learning more about yourself. Yet somehow you never really realised just how boring some runs can be.

Take this current one for example. It was well paying and sounded like a cakewalk. 1000 :nuyen: a day for simple surveillance, plus expenses. Sounded too good to be true.
Well, until tonight it just was a sweet, if boring deal. You were hired to run surveillance on one Tatashiro Hamada, one of the high ups in Shiawase Atomics. No more detail than that and his address. No indication as to why your Johnson is interested in gathering intel on Hamada-san but no surprise there. However as the old adage goes “Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth.”
One little peculiarity was that you were also told to pay particular attention to his house.
Oh, and one other thing you were told: if trouble breaks out you are two immediately attempt to extract any Hamadas still in their house, no exceptions. If necessity demanded this then you were promised a big reward to make it worth your while.

So for the past week you’ve been staking out his rather nice house in Downtown Seattle and following him around the city. In other words, boring stuff. Boring but safe.
(The following is what you know:
* On weekdays Hamada-san leaves at 7am to go to work at the main Shiawase headquarters in Seattle. He gets back home at 7pm. He is driven in a chauffeured car with 2 bodyguards.
* On Saturday he left home at 2pm and didn’t get home until 1am. His wife (interestingly enough a non-Japanese elf.) went with him. You weren’t able to track him but you suspect it was a party or some form of corporate function.
* Today is Sunday. Once again Hamada-san left at 2pm but this time his wife didn’t go with him. He drove to Shiawase Seattle headquarters and hasn’t emerged since.
* His wife has been at home all day.
* The Hamadas have three kids, aged 7 (a human girl), 5 (an elven boy) and 2 (a human boy). They receive tutorship at home and don’t go out much. They played outside on Sunday but went inside after it started raining (about 3pm).
* The eldest appears to have some sort of psychological problem – possibly autism or some other behavioural related condition. She has exhibited severe and sudden mood swings that are difficult to otherwise explain.
* The house is a three storeyed affair, quite old, built in the 1980s. It has a perimeter fence, alarmed but not razor-wired or electrified with a single gate at the driveway. There are no guards within the grounds. Instead it relies on the Knight Errant and Lone Star patrols that are regular in this area.
* The Hamadas do have a pet dog. It’s a German Shepard so it’s quite noisy. It appears to mainly be a house pet though)
* Tatashiro Hamada is a rather fussy man in his late 30s. For a Japanese man he is very liberal it would appear, speaking fluent English and very good Sperethiel and Salish.
* He is armed. He frequently practices range shooting using a light pistol.
* He has two bodyguards, both human. One you’ve picked as Awakened, probably a mage of some sort. The other is mundane but appears to be packing some decent ‘ware. This evening the bodyguards are in the house, a variation on the usual routine.
* The house has a main two-door front door, a side door on either wing and a back door. The bottom floor windows are quite large, making them nearly as good as doors.
OOC – if you want any more info on what you think you’d also know, ask me in the OOC thread and I’ll expand this bit via edit.)

That’s how things are. Now it’s a wet, cold, Sunday evening. It’s been raining steadily for hours and not much is moving in the Hamada house.
Until about 3 minutes ago. 2 black Westwinds pulled up in front of the house. The 6 men who were in them walked up to the gate and were let in. Someone was obviously expecting them in the house so they were let in. The gate was left open. That seemed unusual. What was really unusual was about 30 seconds ago when you heard gunfire from the house. Not just a pistol shot, but full auto gunfire.

You remember your Johnson’s instructions. This sounds like trouble to your experienced ears.

What do you do?