Date: June 29th, 2076
Location: Malibu
Mr. Johnson: Kaz
Team: Carbon Copy, Fender, Rex Dart, Steps in Shadows, Woodstock
Run Type: Bodyguard / Extraction
Overview: The runners act as bodyguard for Dae, while she is on a ‘date’ with a Mafia Lt. then track down and eliminate a group of assassins hired to kill Kaz..

The runners wake in the morning to find a surprisingly chipper Kaz making breakfast.  Over the mean, he informs the runners that he has been summoned to a private meeting later that afternoon with ‘Gray-Wolf’. The runners are to escort Dae to a different meeting.

Dae accompanies Mob boss Caesar Ciarniello to be his “date” at a poker game and sit-down with several other mob and corporate big-wigs, including with Toju Shotu, a real estate investor from Hong Kong (who the runners soon discover has ties to the Red Dragon Triad). Bringing a Korean beauty into a card game is a slap in the face to Toju and certain to distract him from his cards. The runners keep an eye on Dae (and the game) for a few hours before they are interrupted by two things: Brother 9 arrives and brings an urgent message to Toju, and Fender receives a call from Kaz informing him that there was an attempt on his life. Kaz tells Fender that the entire meeting was a setup; instead of meeting Gray-Wolf, Kaz found himself surrounded by assassins. He wants the team to track down the killers and bring him their leader.

The team heads to the location of the meeting (a warehouse complex that Fender’s seen before), and searches for clues. They find Kaz’s guards bodies as well as the bodies of two Yakuza assassins. Carbon Copy tracks the assassins to a nearby hotel, and the pursue the Yakuza onto the freeway. After a brief but bloody fight they capture the assassin’s captain and return him to Kaz.

The day after, Kaz asks that the runners accompany him to a meet. There they find several Komun’go strongmen, and Grey-Wolf waiting for them. Beneath an obvious sheet of tension, Kaz and Grey-Wolf engage in small talk about sports for the first few innings. Kaz then casually opens a briefcase and shows Gray-Wolf a patch of tattooed skin that he shaved off the assassin captain’s corpse. He asks calmly if Gray-Wolf sold him out. Gray-Wolf admits that it was necessary evil and expects that If the roles were reversed he would expect Kaz to do the same. He argues that flipside is bad for Komun’go business and he wants to cut his losses—. After some heated back and forth, Kaz tells the Komun’go leader he won’t denounce Gray-Wolf’s treachery to the Ring and risk a schism, but warns that if he has anything to do with it, the Komun’go will be dealing tempo for a long time to come.

Rewards:
9 Karma per person
¥10,000 per person
+1 Notoriety
-1 Street Cred

+1 Loyalty with Kaz Yakamura (Loyalty 5)
-1 Loyalty with Brother 9
Rep with Komun’go -1
Rep with Red Dragon Triad -1
Rep with Sapphire Crane Society -1
Rep with Kenran-kai -2
Rep with The Milano Family -1
Rep with The Ricca Family -1