The Goodwin Contract

Overview

Two hours after the handoff, Roselyn Monroe cleared her worktable and laid out schematics, photographs, and a small crate with Kinetic Logistics branding. Inside: six advanced grazer pistols — the same model the crew have been running into since Thides — that have been appearing on the black market around Eris III. The evidence in Julija’s bag pointed at Goodwin Investments as the connection.

The terms were simple and stated once. Her contact wants Peter Goodwin delivered to Storage B-342 on the spaceport grounds. In exchange, the crew get a properly coded transponder for The Albatross — the one thing standing between them and every routine federal ping in occupied space. If they fail, the contact comes after them. Roselyn was very clear about that part. The contact has no name.

The crew knew the target. Goodwin was on MacMillian Station IV, wined and dined by the station manager the night of The Room 2002 Cover-Up. He runs his operation from the 17th floor of the Firetemic Tower in central Aethel; his home sits in a gated community under heavy private security; the tower’s elevators are biometric. Roselyn provided what she had and stepped back. Getting him out is the crew’s problem.

Participants

See frontmatter. Roselyn also named Mariana Pesaro, head of The Bamboo Union, as a contact who could smuggle people into the city — for money the crew do not have.

Outcome

Accepted, and in motion by session’s end: Shackleton Magellan and Rock Lavey surveilled the tower’s two-stage armored garage and pulled service-elevator intelligence from Firetemic engineers at a bar, while Six went under the city through the Aethel City Sewers and rode an armored transport’s roof through both garage gates under his chameleon suit. The session ends with Six alone inside the restricted basement garage and Goodwin unaware, seventeen floors up.

Session 8: the target is in hand. Peter Goodwin was taken from his 17th-floor office in The Firetemic Tower Raid and carried into the Aethel City Sewers unconscious and bound to Six’s back. Delivery to Storage B-342 and the coded transponder are still owed at session’s end, with the DMZ crossing ahead and a federal presence at the tower behind.

Session 9: completed. Peter Goodwin reached Storage B-342 through The Sewer Breakout and was handed to Leonard Romeijn (The Storage B-342 Handoff). Roselyn Monroe paid the transponder: a legal federal transponder installed beneath The Albatross and registered to Shackleton Magellan. She also passed Shackleton a frequency code for her network of unofficial jobs.