Cyberpunk Sunday Recap

The Setting

It wasnt just any rainy day in San Francisco. The unseasonably strong gale force winds had mutated into a full blown storm, and when coupled with the heaviest rainfall in over 200 years, this wednesday in October was more dreary than anyone could ever remember. Nearly two thirds of the city was without power, and three days prior a large cargo ship had sank at the mouth of the bay.

But enough about the news, how are you?

The Protagonists

'Seal', an ex navy seal and current contract operative.
Johnny D, a second story man of some repute.

The Plot

Our protagonists have been called to an urgent meeting with a local fixer they all knew at a metal club called, ironically, 'Jazzhands'. When they arrive Jocko, the fixer, is waiting with his bodyguard Demetrius. Jocko is decked out in a black leather jacket with flange, a leather vest and tight jeans. He has a giant wad of chew in his mouth and is constantly spitting brown juice when he talks. Demetrius is a bald, hugely fat, black man with little to say. He just stands menacingly behind Jocko as he talks.

In no uncertain terms he tells the players, and two others who are present, that he has a high paying, very risky job that must be completed tonight by 5am. One of the others leaves, citing that he has somewhere to be at 6am. He indicates that its 25k to split between the survivors how ever they see fit.

It seems that cargo ship that sank in the bay was an Arasaka freighter loaded with weapons. Jocko doesnt care about those; any you retrieve are yours. Its a single box, 5x1x1, about 300 pounds that he cares about. Its somewhere in the stores of that ship. The good news is the weather is so terrible there will not be any air patrols.

The bad news is, well, everything else. No craft are allowed on the water because of the storm, and the police are heavily patrolling the dock area because of flooding. Piloting a small craft on these waters would be folly, and a dive is suicide.