Soul Steelers

General Summary

From the back booths of Club Penunmbra, your fixer Yantho offered you a straight-forward hijacking job. Humanis stole a shipment from the anonymous client, and the client wanted it back by any means necessary. A tip lead you to a BTL den in the Redmond Barrens, followed by the subsequent slaughter of the Fooseball Furies inhabiting it (and the secret kill bots). The decker, Mina, hacked into a hidden Humanis data hub which provided the exact planned route as well as the identity of the driver, Zeke: A racist rigger run paranoid after committing a few small atrocities, now insisted that his transport truck be turned into a 16-wheeled war machine. He was right to be afraid in more ways than he knew.

Your runner team ambushed his convoy with a classic daisy chain of C4. The explosion rocked the war rig, disturbing the cargo within. Emitting pale blue beams of light, the obsidian ingots etched with magic runes smoked a mist into the Humanis stormtroopers, flooding their minds with nightmares. When the howling light settled, poor dead Zeke's sins were now yours to bear. An enraged war party of armored vehicles driven by the Sons of Sauron unleashed their gahad-fueled bloodlust on the Humanis truck you were now driving.

The high-speed chase tore through the barrens as they threw every weapon they had at you. Never wanting to miss a party, the battle drew in the inferno-belching bikes of the 405 Hellhounds and their alpha-werewolf captain. A slick skid by your driver, Squid, hurled the shapeshifter out of your rig; his eyes turning blue as he was hit by one of the obsidian ingots and proceeded to rip apart the war chief's hovercraft as they spiraled out into the dust behind you.

The drop-off went smoothly as you left the rig in the lot of an abandoned Ikea for your unnamed employer, a dwarf in a maroon suit. The Cascade Ork tribals he hired drove the strange cargo off to its next destination as he gave you a bonus for your trouble and the promise of more work in the future.

Secrets Uncovered

The shadowrunners were transporting strange obsidian-alloy ingots etched with red runes. They glow blue and wail when struck, causing severe mental distress). (this unknown metal would later be named Brimsteel).
The 405 Hellhounds are werewolf bikers. Great.
Humanis recently faked a VITAS outbreak in Redmond. Zeke then transported tainted medicine to a Redmond clinic that mostly serviced orks and trolls, killing dozens.
The Sons of Sauron went full war party in retaliation against Humanis. Their attack on the runners was just a silly misunderstanding.
The Humanis leader that masterminded the initial brimsteel heist calls himself Father Jericho.
Mina downloaded a message history between various public figures and politicians expressing their racist views. She made a neat nuyen for it.
Humanis's matrix security, much like their worldview, is embarrassingly outdated.