The Fall of the Towers

The Fall of the Towers is a mini-adventure featured in based on a portion of the events of. It revolves around a Militech strike team led by Morgan Blackhand - with the help of Johnny Silverhand and other individuals - in their mission to infiltrate the Arasaka Towers in 2023, during the Fourth Corporate War. More parts of the event are explained in the Black Dog adventure.



Into the Maelstrom
Johnny Silverhand leads Team Alpha, consisting of a few Militech SpecialOps, a group of Aldecaldos known as the Lobos, the solos Rogue and Shaitan, the media Lyle Thompson, and a netrunner by the name of Spider Murphy. The task force dropps out of an AV on the top floor of the Arasaka Towers, with the mission of infiltrating the laboratories ten levels down into the building and retrieve Alt Cunningham, who is trapped in the Arasaka network, and destroy Soulkiller.

After breaching into the building, Alpha Team rushes to the labs, where Spider accesses the computers in order to contact with Alt and rescue her. After transferring her into Spider's data suitcase, the netrunner proceeds to download some kind of information into datachips, and upload a virus to destroy any information regarding Soulkiller from the Arasaka net. When questioned by Thompson about the datachips, Spider lies saying they were just information on the Arasaka development team, and other basic knowledge.

Deaths Head Dance
Alpha Team is suddenly attacked by Adam Smasher and Arasaka troopers, taking down many of the Militech operatives and Lobos in the first attack, badly injuring Thompson, and pinning down the rest of the team in the labs. While both groups fire at each other, Spider sneaks to her data suitcase in order to connect to the Net and scatter the various portions of Alt, each tagged with a marker with the hopes of finding them someday.

During these events, Johnny, who had been knocked off by the initial attack, manages to stand up. A Militech SMG on one hand, and his Malorian on the other. Silverhand then shouts and provokes Smasher, emptying his guns on the borg. Smasher turnss around, astonished at the audacity of the rockerboy, and then fires his autoshotgun at him, cutting Silverhand in half. Shaitan takes advantage of the distraction to grapple and immobilize Smasher, telling the rest of the crew to leave. Spider Murphy tries to reach Silverhand, but Rogue stops her, telling the netrunner he's already gone. Spider reaches inside her jacket and pulls out a data slug Alt had downloaded to her a long time ago. Whispering she's sorry to Johnny, Spider inserts the chip into the back of the dying rocker's skull. She tries to reach for her data suitcase, but realizes it has been destroyed in the crossfire. Wishing Alt good luck, Spider helps Rogue and the surviving Lobos to drag the wounded Thompson into the elevator. Spider knows Johnny will be avenged, and while touching her remaining datachips in her pocket, she knows Rache Bartmoss will be as well.

Once on the top of the building, Alpha Team got into the extraction AV. One of the Lobos was pondering where Morgan Blackhand was, as he had left with a heavy suitcase and disappeared heading down a stairwell. It was during the lifting off when they saw Blackhand going against Smasher on top of the Arasaka Towers. A few minutes later, once the AV was quite far away from the building, a nuke went off.

Main

 * Johnny Silverhand
 * Spider Murphy
 * Alt Cunningham
 * Adam Smasher
 * Morgan Blackhand

Secondary

 * Thompson
 * Rogue
 * Shaitan
 * Unnamed Lobo
 * Antonio

Mentioned

 * Santiago Aldecaldo
 * Rache Bartmoss

Locations

 * Night City
 * Arasaka Towers