Session Date: 05/09/2025
Friday, October 6th, 2045
Combat
Lasts one entire round before Charley headshots baseball bat and once baseball bat falls into death saves, the other Nuclear Chrome groupies fucking bail. Baseball bat fails his death save, and officially dies.
After Combat
Charley tells us to get in the car and Alice immediately starts driving and we all manage to avoid the cops as she navigates around them. Juice calls Charley as we’re cruising, and screams at Charley as we’re going. Juice is pissed about us killing someone in the middle of the street.
Alice looks back to Emerick and tells him to call the new band manager - Kade Sredex - and call in a favor. Emerick calls Kade and asks for a favor, saying that if he scratches our back, we’ll scratch his and do whatever gig he pushes to us. Kade asks what’s going on and Emerick asks him to pay off the media to stop the story about Curb Stomping Word Vomit band members killing someone in the street, and he says sure, asking what the issue was. Emerick explains it was Nuclear Chrome, and Kade says that’s easy, he’ll let us know about the gig later. Emerick hangs up and nods to Alice, and she tells Charley it’s fixed and to let Juice know.
Charley yells at Juice that it’s fixed and Juice asks what the fuck that means, and Charley says that we no longer need Juice, and then he hangs up. He asks Alice how far out we are, and she says, and then asks if we have any outside help. Emerick mentions Phoenix, and then also mentions that Net has family ties to a gang.
Charley first calls Phoenix and she agrees to help, and then he calls Net to talk about the gang. Net asks why the hell Charley is calling, and Charley explains that he told Juice to fuck off, and then explains the chain of events to get us here. Net asks if Charley is willing to owe another guy a favor to get this done, and that guy is Net, as Net is going to have to call in a favor from his uncle to get this done. Charley agrees to anything, and Net says preem, fine. Net then asks what we are doing.
Emerick texts Seo asking who’s where, and Seo says he’s with Ri in the practice room. Crack Pipe and Powder are in the garage. Emerick relays this information to Charley and then immediately calls Seo to give him the rundown of what’s going on.
Net
Net calls his uncle El Charro Negro and his uncle picks up, asking what the fuck Net is calling for, they’re just getting back from a job gone sideways. Net says that he needs to call in his favor. His uncle says that they’re about an hour and a half out, so that’s a nonstarter for now. Net calls back and lets us know, then agrees to meet where we all are parked.
Sulfur
Emerick hesitates and then suggests that Charley call Sulfur because he has some friends and many resources. Charley calls Sulfur and explains Emerick mentioned that Sulfur has friends, and Sulfur says his friends are only pest control, so he’s not sure how he can help. Charley explains he has a rather big pest to deal with, and Sulfur realizes that he’s talking about Juice, which Emerick texted about earlier.
Sulfur says he will see what he can do and then he calls Molly and starts to beg for help on this. He says that there will be Russian killing, and she immediately says yes and gives him the AV and Molly herself will come.
Saint
Emerick messages Saint and lets him know that we are going to need some help because of what Charley said to Juice. Saint asks if we need additional medtechs, and Emerick says it’s not a bad idea - Saint says he can get three medtechs for us.
Everyone Arrives
Everyone arrives around 9pm and Charley steps ahead and admits that he fucked things up. He is grateful we all showed up despite not necessarily needing to.
On the drive over, Emerick notices Charley really deep in thought, hovering over his Agent. He texts a couple of times, but he’s contemplating something heavy at the moment. Emerick asks if he’s okay, and Charley presses a button before sleeping his phone and putting it away. Charley explains he was sending Kade a message, wanting to cut ties with Juice formally. Emerick says that makes sense, and then asks Charley if he’s ready for this.
Charley admits he’s unsure if he made the right choice, and he isn’t sure that Kade is any better than Juice, but it’s too late now. He admits he isn’t sure he’ll ever be really happy, but he looks around at everyone around him and is glad that we are all here, and he wants the rest of us to be happy.
Emerick admits that he doesn’t know Kade personally, but he thinks Kade is a pretty alright guy. He won’t go out of his way to fuck the band over
Ryne
In Juice’s office, he records a video from the left side of the room at the door and sends it. Juice is throwing his temper tantrum, Ogre is there, and across from him Seo and Ri are also in there, bound and on their knees. Juice is on his desk bitching about what all’s going on. Ryne also moves and there’s another person in the room that’s not visible in the footage: he’s completely unable to show them in the footage.
This other person is standing opposite the room and is peeking through the blinds, looking down at the group gathering outside. They speak aloud and it’s clear that they are quite upset despite their deadpan and inflectionless voice, speaking only in Russian. Juice - for once - looks afraid, and is pleading and begging. It’s clear that Juice is very afraid of this, and Juice’s name is said: Anton Grekov.
When Saša leaves, Juice holds his head in his hands and says fuck. Juice says they want the band cut out of this thing, they’re done with it. Juice isn’t sure how to do that, he’d need at least a million dollars to just consider it a wash.
He decides to send a message, and tells Ogre to bring her in so that he can send the appropriate message. Ogre drags Powder in and throws her between Seo and Ri. He tells Powder that she’s the most beloved, and then pulls his pistol out of his holster, and grabs Powder. She’s cuffed at the moment and holds her as a human shield. He tells everyone to follow and get this done and over with.
There’s about four others of Juice’s gang members within the house. Juice steps outside as the AV with Sulfur comes in.
The Standoff
Juice steps outside holding Powder, with Ogre and Ryne in tow. He sets foot outside, noticing the AV. He comments on our gathering. Juice says that we both didn’t want things to get this bad, did we, Charley?
Juice looks us all over, and then says he doesn’t care about them. Never has, never will. We’ve cost him too much money, and he’d rather cut us off from the world than let us poison it further. He pulls the hammer back on his revolver.
Charley steps forward when he hears the click. Juice says that if Charley takes another step forward, he pulls the trigger now, and Ogre and Ryne take two steps forward. We hear an AV power up behind the warehouse and we see it leave, meaning that Saša has left.
Net speaks up and says that we are all clearly in a state of emotional duress. If he kills Powder, then it will just piss us off, and doing so will gain nothing: it won’t make Juice any money, it’ll just fuck him over. Net points out that this isn’t a very wise business decision. Juice comments that we said we’re done with you and Net agrees, and tells him to walk away. Juice says that he will need a million eddies, or things will get messy.
A nice car pulls up and Kade steps out, commenting that a business man should be able to conduct business, and he doesn’t see why this can’t be resolved peacefully.
Current state of affairs:
- Net aiming at Ogre
- Phoenix aiming at Ryne
- Saint aiming at Juice
- Sulfur aiming to disarm Juice
- Emerick ready to push Kade out of the way should gunfire starts
Juice offers to take the million and leave, never to bother us again. Emerick speaks up and asks what will happen to Ryne, and says to let him go so he can stay with us. Net can tell that Juice is absolutely terrified, and is sweating bullets. He offers to give over the slates for Ryne and Emerick at 500k a piece.
Net says that he hears the offer. He comments that Juice is a businessman, yes, and Net’s also a businessman. He would like to say one thing, Mr. Grekov: his friends are not for sale, and that’s super not cool and shitty to do, and he looks desperate and out of options. Net comments that he likely doesn’t want to actually sell anyone, but get rid of them. Juice is unimpressed and goes to push a button on his slate, and Emerick comments that Saša likely wouldn’t appreciate the way this is playing out. He can find things, Juice knows, and it won’t be hard to find them. Juice says to go ahead, he’ll gladly read Emerick’s obit tomorrow.
He explodes Ryne, and then Kade steps forward to complete the transaction. He pays the 1.5 million to get Emerick’s slate and free him, and Emerick disables his corporate protection and surveillance. Juice turns to leave and suddenly a crack of a gun and Juice gets shot in the head. Gunfire rings out and Emerick approaches Juice, putting one final hole in his head.
The After
Ogre
- Neural inhibitor: cannot speak at all
- Neural inhibitor: memory suppressant
- He will ultimately have to come to terms with everything and will need a lot of therapy (mechanically, he’s at humanity 1)
Net loots Juice’s body…
- Juice’s Agent (password locked, a word)
- Juice’s magnum (excellent very heavy pistol)
- Alt fire: bottom barrel injector
- Various amounts and kinds of drugs
- Synthcoke
- Blue glass
- City Special
- etc etc
- Note in pocket
- Written in Russian, with an address associated with it
- The address is another warehouse close to the industrial docks on the south side of Night City
Ryne has 3600ed worth of cyberware. It’s all damaged, so it’s 1800ed worth of scrap that would go toward Net’s stockpile. Net doesn’t particularly care to salvage him for parts. He decides to give Net the scrap, and then the hoverboard as well.
Net takes the agent and pistol and also grabs the note to pocket. He waves Charley over to show the drugs, asking what to do with them. Seo suggests we just pitch them, since none of us want them. Charley asks about the body, and Molly says she’ll take care of it. Sulfur speaks up and says that he has an idea: he has C4, and Net says not to waste it.
Net suddenly remembers to call his uncle and call off the favor. His uncle explains things are fine and they all got away clean. He asks what’s going on, and Net sends a picture of Juice’s corpse, and his uncle responds that he’s proud of him. Net stares at his phone and it starts to sink in what it means for his uncle to be proud of him, and he gets up and goes. Emerick offers to be an ear to him, if he ever needs.
The band and Emerick go inside, and Crack Pipe and Powder sit outside staring into space.
In Reality
Ryne suddenly jumps awake after being torn apart from an explosion. He’s in a very high tech room that he’s never been in before, and is panicking. He starts to get a bit aggressive, ripping things off of him. Very quickly after, alarms start going off. Within seconds the door to the room swings open, and Juice - much older than Ryne last saw him 10 minutes ago, he’s aged 30 years - comes running in with Ogre, who is somehow bigger than he was 10 minutes ago. A third person comes in, stepping forward: screens go over his eyes and he immediately fells himself short circuit and he loses consciousness.
Housekeeping: Party Funds & The Deal with Kade
We found 900k of items we can turn a profit on. We have a mission to go fuck with Red Hop Up the next day or so. The next week we will be organizing the warehouse and cleaning up. This 900k is party funds for the band equipment, warehouse, etc. The only debt we have to pay off is the small gig that we owe Kade.