Spellbound

Spellbound is a side job in.

Walkthrough
Netrunner Nix messages V and asks them to stop by the Afterlife to discuss a job, which involves purchasing a rare "Spellbook" from the netrunner R3n0. As simple as the errand appears to be, Nix wants V to buy the Spellbook in his stead just in case the exchange unexpectedly goes wrong, and he intends to compensate V for both the expense and the pickup. Nix sends R3n0's contact into to V. Call her to set up a meeting.

Travel to the restaurant Au Cabanon in Charter Hill, next to the Lele Park fast travel point. R3n0 is waiting by the bar with a laptop. At this point, V has two ways to get the Spellbook. The first way is to speak with R3n0 and buy the Spellbook for 7300, which concludes the deal without violence despite V's misgivings that R3n0 is a scammer; if V has a Corpo background, they have an extra dialogue option to deduce that R3n0 is stealing from her employer and can blackmail her into dropping her price to  1800. The second way is to avoid paying R3n0 at all by attacking her (scanning her laptop will also immediately turn her hostile), then jacking into her laptop after she is unconscious or dead. The Spellbook's coordinates are in the laptop's messages, which also reveal how R3n0 came into possession of the Spellbook: she is an employee of Hard Wire Ltd. named Clarity, and her boss asked her to review the data on an old cyberdeck that had been found in storage in one of their warehouses. Clarity could not get past the Spellbook's malware, but recognized its value to a more skilled netrunner and decided to sell it without her boss's knowledge.

V is then directed to a shopping plaza across the street. Open the suitcase, tucked away next to a vending machine, to reveal the Spellbook: a genuine Zetatech XPR tablet. Johnny Silverhand will comment that it was cutting edge tech back in 2020 and he used to own one. Take the Spellbook. V can optionally crack the Spellbook themselves before returning to Nix, which can potentially reward cash (Datamine_V2 and Datamine_V3), the Epic variant of the Weapon Glitch quickhack (Datamine: Copy Malware), and the crafting spec for the Legendary variant of the System Reset quickhack (Datamine: Crafting Specs).

Return to Nix to hand over the Spellbook and receive payment. If V has an Intelligence rank of 9, they can point out that the Spellbook is worth much more than Nix is paying, and he will reluctantly give V a bonus.

Journal Entry

 * A job from Nix? Should be interesting. Guy's got a rep for being an expert on antique tech, pre-Krash hardware. Decks, mag disks, yada yada yada. Some people'll tell you it's all as useful as a typewriter, a record player, a pile of dried cat shit. But me... I wouldn't be so sure about that.

Objectives

 * Talk to Nix.
 * Call R3n0.
 * Go to the coordinates given by R3n0.
 * Talk to R3n0.
 * Defeat R3n0. [Optional]
 * Steal data from R3n0's computer. [Optional]
 * Collect the goods from the stash.
 * Open the stash.
 * Talk to Johnny.
 * Take the Book of Spells.
 * Open your Shards menu and decrypt the Book of Spells. [Optional]
 * Return to Nix.

Trivia

 * The quest is named after Spellbound, a song from the album Juju by Siouxsie and the Banshee.