Date: July 25th, 2076
Location: Los Angeles, Downtown
Mr. Johnson: Dae
Team: Fender, Rex Dart, Steps in Shadows, Woodstock
Run Type: Kidnapping / Wetwork
Overview: The team is hired to assassinate the shan chu of the Red Dragon triad, and the oyabun of the Kenran-kai during their scheduled poker game with Caeser Ciarniello at the Shangri-LA Casino, and he wants the runners to frame the Mafia Milano family.
The team gets a call from Kaz, who’s been laying low, and says that he has ‘one more job’ that he needs to talk to them about. The team meets him in a trailer, in the shanty-town at Han Free Market. Kaz is worse for the wear, and a bit paranoid, but he’s still very happy to see his favorite runners. He tells them about a plan that will set the Mob and the Triads at each other’s throats, send an unequivocal message to the Kenra-Kai, and ensure Gray-Wolf will have no choice but to follow Kaz’s lead, all in one blow. He offers the group ¥250,000 for some high profile wetwork.
He wants the Red Dragon Triad’s Shan Chu, Hanzo Shotu, and the oyabun of the Kenran-kai, Shigenobu Nagamori, assassinated during their weekly poker game with Caesar Ciarniello at the Shangri-LA Casino, and he wants the runners to frame the Milano family. The team has five days to plan and execute the hit.
The plan calls for the runners to slip into the sewers under the parking lot used by the VIPs and plant explosives before the game starts. Once they are on site, all the runners have to do is trigger the bombs. The fall guy chosen is Harry “Fingers” Barducci, a long-time button man for the Milanos. The team researches the location, the sewers, and their patsy. They find that the sewers are blocked off from the main system, but that some older storm sewers can still be accessed from the bay not too far away. Some scuba diving proves them right.
Carbon Copy knows a guy who can plant the explosives, and they begin some excavation so that they can access the private parking garage. They manage to get the explosives in place with a few hours to spare. The team also tails ‘Fingers’ for a few days, and on ‘game day’ they manage to catch him with his pants down… literally. After a short altercation, they subdue him.
On game day everything goes off without a hitch…even though one of the targets is late. They wait out their quarry, and detonate the explosives in time to take out both men. ‘Fingers’ body is dropped not too far away, with enough evidence to indicate that he was the trigger man.
Rewards:
15 Karma per person
¥50,000 each
Free flight to Hong Kong
+1 Loyalty with Kaz Yakamura (Max Loyalty 5)
Rep with Red Dragon Triad -1
Rep with Sapphire Crane Society -1
Rep with Kenran-kai -1
Rep with The Milano Family -1
I noticed your network didn’t publish anything about this:
Could a strange substance found by an Ark-La-Tex man be part of secret government testing program? That’s the question at the heart of a phenomenon called “Chemtrails.” In a KSLA News 12 investigation, Reporter Jeff Ferrell shows us the results of testing we had done about what’s in our skies.
“It seemed like some mornings it was just criss-crossing the whole sky. It was just like a giant checkerboard,” described Bill Nichols. He snapped several photos of the strange clouds from his home in Stamps, in southwest Arkansas. Nichols said these unusual clouds begin as normal contrails from a jet engine. But unlike normal contrails, these do ‘not’ fade away.
Soon after a recent episode he saw particles in the air. “We’d see it drop to the ground in a haze,” added Nichols. He then noticed the material collecting on the ground.
“This is water and stuff that I collected in bowls. I had it sitting out in my backyard in my dad’s pick-up truck,” said Nichols as he handed us a mason jar in the KSLA News 12 parking lot back in September after driving down from Arkansas.
KSLA News 12 had the sample tested at a lab. The results: A high level of barium, 6.8 parts per million, (ppm). That’s more than three times the toxic level set by the Environmental Protection Agency, or EPA.
Armed with these lab results about the high levels of barium found in our sample, we decided to contact the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality. They told us that, ‘yes,’ these levels are very unusual. But at the same time they added the caveat that proving the source is a whole ‘nother matter.
We discovered during our investigation that Barium is a hallmark of other chemtrail testing. This phenomenon even attracted the attention of a Los Angeles network affiliate, which aired a report entitled, “Toxic Sky?”
There’s already no shortage of unclassified weather modification programs by the government. But those who fear chemtrails could be secret biological and chemical testing on the public point to the 1977 U.S. Senate hearings which confirmed 239 populated areas had been contaminated with biological agents between 1949 and 1969. Later, the 1994 Rockefeller Report concluded hundreds of thousands of military personnel were also subjected to secret biological experiments over the last 60-years.
But could secret testing be underway yet again? “I’d rather it be something inert and you know something that’s not causing any damage but I’d like to know what it is,” concluded Nichols.
KSLA News 12 discovered chemtrails are even mentioned by name in the initial draft of HR 2977 back in 2061, under the Space Preservation Act. But the military denies any such program exists.
It turns out, until just nine years ago the government had the right, under U.S. law, to conduct secret testing on the American public, under specific conditions. Only a public outcry repealed part of that law, with some “exceptions.”
Mark Ryan, Director of the Poison Control Center, explained that short term exposure to barium can lead to anything from stomach to chest pains, with long-term exposure causing blood pressure problems.
Ryan addressed concerns by chemtrail researchers that barium could be meant to wear down a person’s immune system. “Anything that causes ill effects on the body long-term, chronically, is going to affect your ability, it’s just constantly working on the body. So from that aspect yeah it’s a potential.”
Ryan told us he’s conducted research of his own about secret government testing on the public. But he’s still a bit skeptical about chemtrails at the moment, especially considering that his Poison Control Center has seen no calls about barium exposure.
“Indian, Indian what did you die for?
Indian says, nothing at all.”