By the way, the shadowtalk on pg 28 in SoE references the expected results of this adventure.
Since I don't have to work today, I thought I might as well put up Chapter 4 (it isn't referenced in SoE). The title is Die Loge, or the box (personally, I think the false friend the Lodge, given the particulars sounds better but that's just me).
This chapter is also by Falk Behr. I have actually no earthly idea who this is. No listing or pop-up at the SAR team at shadowrun.de. Cochise, M¥$T1C, any help?
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Note: based on booklords comments, I have edited this for clarity. My changes are in Italics.
The background is that the FBV has been asking itself since the failed kidnapping attempt why Proteus wants to take over the FBV. Now, as booklord pointed out, the president knows that Nachtmeister interceded in the Proteus v. AG Chemie miniwar started by Chong Chao, but she doesn't know why. Remember, it does appear that Nachtmeister is an outside party. The fact that he did something must have some grounds for why (incidently, this is what caused Lofwyr to learn about the Nachtmeister-Proteus connection and start his investigations as to what was the connection. Also made it clear to him that he should kill Nachtmeister because he could only gain). Analyzing all bank transactions by the AGC and Proteus through the FBV based on this possible Nachtmeister connection, they have found that money has probably been diverted from shell companies of the AGC to Proteus through the FBV. Not conclusive proof, so they send in a spy from the shadows to the AGC (FBV owns 11% of the AGC). This mole, named Vigaro, has found something but he's also blown his cover and is hidding out in Berlin (been there, lovely city). The runners have to extract the mole and bring him back to the FBV. They know him because he or his contact people will react to a password. Perhaps the main opponent in this adventure is time. Perhaps the main opponent in this adventure is time. You have to be quick to find the guy before the AGC does.
Scene1: The runners are hired and sent to Berlin. 1st stop: the mole's apartment. There is a string of clues which will lead the runners to find the mole. This is pretty much a large part of the run. The problem is that the apartment as well as some of the places the clues lead to are being watched by AGC as they want to recover or silence the spy. Slowly but surely, the AGC is going to become aware of the runners and start tailing them (the quickness the AGC figures out that the runners are on the right track depends on if they consider that the apartment is bugged and the other places the clues lead to are being watched. Changing team members, spells, etc is usually pretty good to dodge this). Of remark are the books on Confusius and other things that foreshadow where to find the mole when the team puts it all together. EDIT: Also remember that unless the runners take precautions, the AGC will note that the same auto came near here and then left and went to the cocktail bar. Again, a combo of magic, switching vehicles, and other things forces the AGC to really watch the cocktail bar (which makes sense, the apartment is a targeting area, but the bar is more of a sift for understanding who is really on which side).
Scene2: 1 of the clues leads to a cocktail bar (yes, perception tests to get the clue if it doesn't immediately become aparent that little things might be important). This leads them to another locale, but also makes the AGC start to wonder who are these people following the clues, which leads to the implementation of something on par with a firewatch team (and they are tough). It is stated in the book that after the AGC have an idea that the runners are runners, they will start using one of their teams to plan an ambush. The ambush happens during the chip handoff later on. The barkeep (there's cliche there) can lead the runners onto scene 3. The AGC are also watching this location (they got there the same way the runners did, using the clues in the apartment). It's possible that there are spies there listening for clues. There is definitively, however, survailence of the bar.
Scene3: Basically, while the runners are at this local, which is a waltzing club with old fashioned telephones on each table and such, 3 things happen. 1) one of the waiters is a contact man for Vigaro and can inform Vigaro that runners are looking for him per a password from the FBV. 2) a new report comes on in the locale. The mole, using his fake name, is blamed for blowing up a boarding school and killing 163 kids and teachers. Great, publicity and the additional bonus of having € 20,000 on his head. AGC reveals, read lies, that one of its security corps was watching the school (remember, Berlin West is run by the cons and they have their own zones) has filmed Vigaro in the act of bringing several packages to a wall of a building. He leaves and shortly after is the explosion. There are clear pictures of his face. Thus Vigaro is a wanted terrorist (yes, they do call him a terrorist), which restricts his actions and such. 3) Vigaro telephones the runners at their table, informing them of a meet the next night. He mixes Confusian phrases into his words, giving the runners another clue on how to find him, should the meet go south. He uses a 17 second rythem to make the call harder to trace, but it's more than likely that the AGC is listening in even if they can't trace it.
Scene4: Alright, what happens at the meet? (We all probably have an idea). Well, there is a young man carrying a datachip who meets the runners. Unfortunately, this is the waiter from scene3. Well, right when he's getting ready to make the handoff, his chest opens up and he starts bleeding. Yep, snipers. The TET team from the AGC takes this moment to try and attack. Hopefully, the runners will grab the chip and also notice a poster for the Confusius soup kitchen. The chip contains only that phrase which Vigaro said about "those who want to rule a people must feed them." Hopefully, the runners get the hint. One of the fallouts of this scene is that a news broadcast after the fight is made, in which the runners are named as accomplices of Vigaro in the school bombing. € 20,000 per runner is also put out as a bounty for these "hardened child killers". The TET purposely took pictures of the runners faces and added them to the list of accomplises, thus limiting the possible actions of the runners, not to mention their ability to leave the city (remember, Berlin is full of security checkpoints, and is a walled city with a wall surrounding the entire city, not to mention a wal dividing east and west.
Scene5: Okay, at the soup kitchen. It is possible that the TET team tries again, having found out that the runners are that (this is a "tightening the thumbscrews" suggestion) . Here, a rat shaman makes contact with the runners. Now comes the hard part, Vigaro was shot while he escaped from a trap by the AGC and they have his blood for ritual magic purposes. The runners need to get some sort of ward or something up so that Vigaro can get away without being zapped magically by the AGC. The rat shaman does possess the severing metamagic, and can relate that he has had to use it to help Vigaro a couple of times since Vigaro paid him to set up a ward at his hiding place, keep an eye out for contact and also basic magical bodyguarding.
Scene6: Getting out of Berlin. Good luck, as you are now probably worth at least € 100,000 to the lucky people who capture you. Remember, Berlin is a walled city with lots of security checkpoints. The runners have to find some way out with Vigaro (and make sure that the way out is warded so that Vigaro won't get zapped).
Ending: After escaping the city, Vigaro, who is also a runner as well as professional spy, requests that the runners do not bring him to the FBV. He also takes the time to get a mage buddy of his to do reverse ritual magic to cook off all of the material links he left behind in the hands of the AGC. He will pay them for bodyguard work but prefers a meeting with the president and the runners in the Matrix. There, he relates his findings. There is a secret lodge in the AGC that has given money through the FBV to Proteus. Not only that but they have also given Proteus patents. This lodge operates in a cell structure and has many members both in Germany and abroad. Heck, according to Shockwaves, there is some other guy who is president of AGC and he and other members of the board are in this lodge. The lodge concentrates on special projects and sends some results and money to Proteus. Vigaro gives all the accumulated data he could get, as he seduced one of the librarians into getting access. The results are stored in 2 optical chip libraries, 1 in Berlin and the other in Helgoland for Proteus. Vigaro gives all the accumulated data he could get, as he seduced one of the librarians into getting access. This data forms the hook for the next adventure. On the bright side, so to speak, the girl Vigaro seduced is named as the real culprit who probably had ties to organized crime, anarchists, and other social unfriendlies. An SK subsidiary analyzes the data and reveals false play and doctored records. The bounty on Vigaro and the runners is cancelled. The AGC is probably, however, still looking for the runners afterwards in the shadows. On another point, the runners are sent on vacation by the FBV (no, not eliminated, just supposed to be missing should AGC come looking for them. In no way sinister.
Any questions? BTW, sorry for the length of the posts. That's a summary of a 15 page adventure.
Don