Shadowrun: Street Legends Supplemental - Title

investigations where her skills and contacts made her invaluable
as a consultant or conduit to connecting the right dots. That
was how the FedPols brought her in to find Laurent Bonta, who
had been kidnapped from Kingdom Seven in Columbia in full
view of the patrons. No one seemed to know anything, but she
had contacts in the Vory who would sooner die than cooperate
with them. They at least helped her direct the FedPols to his
body, and she was instrumental in everyone burying the story
with him.
> the vory wanted him dead for backstabbing them on a deal involving guns
back in his native Armenia. I cannot understand why they wouldn’t have just
killed him (and countless others) at the club for that betrayal. I heard that
the UCAS was eager to bury it themselves once their CIA was told what he
was smuggling by the UGB. the vory did them a favor.
> Red Anya
> You know, it’s funny that she was called in on an extraction job when it was
done with the kind of bravado that she has been known to employ. Hard
exit often goes for the clandestine, sneaky extractions. She’s especially fond
of that motif when those are voluntary extractions, because there is less of
a chance for the client to get harmed in the process. there are other times,
however, when she’s pulled off jobs with the kind of flair and brazenness
that one would usually only expect from the likes of Kane. Base jumping
off the top of the eighty-story Columbia tower like the kidnappers did with
Bonta definitely falls into the latter category.
> Sticks
> Yeah. Funny that.
> Hard exit
The funny thing is that for as much as she hates Lone Star,
Hard Exit knows a hell of a lot of people in Lone Star, and she
has a lot of knowledge about the corp. Part of that comes from
the fact that her father is a former city chief who now works
in the Security Consulting Services division. He’s an old-school
cop first and a corporate executive a distant second. Word has
it he sometimes directs people her way in those instances when
Lone Star bean-counters or politics keep justice from being
served. Of course, he would be loathe to have them contact his
daughter, so it’s fortunate for everyone involved that Hard Exit
is often times a nebulous persona thanks to Jess’ proclivity for
disguises, false identities, and misdirection. I jest with her about
the fact that most Johnsons, spyrunners, or random folks are just
as likely to meet the rugged, male ex-cop that could have stepped
out of a P.I. simflick as they are to meet Yesica la Tejana.
> there’s a lot of that going around. You just don’t know who you can trust
these days. For all I know, the ork Johnson who hired me could have been
nadja Daviar in disguise.
> ma’Fan
> of course, it also works in reverse. no one really believed that the guy sitting
across from me at a bar in puyallup was Jonathan Blake even though he was
all but screaming it physically and electronically. Sometimes the truth is so
absurd that it is the best disguise.
> Bull
> Indeed. one time I just walked up to the ep team guarding their client and
said I was there to kill her. they laughed. I did my job. Whoops.
> Riser
> So where does your buddy Kincaid fall into all this? ex-DIp Captain turned
shitty puyallup paranormal investigator? there’s got to be a story there.
> Sticks
> If he won’t talk about it, what makes you think I will? Don’t you have some
bones to pick clean somewhere?
> Hard exit
When Jess isn’t extracting people from the Towers in
Manhattan or retrieving a kidnapped child in San Diego, she’s
been spending quite a bit of time in Bogotá. Her anti-Azzie stance
is well known, but so is her skill in keeping people alive when they
shouldn’t be and finding people who don’t want to be found.
There’s a lot of work in those fields, and the war and her rep have
afforded her quite a few luxuries to keep her running the shadows
at top speed for a lot of different actors. She also spends time back
in the Yucatán and the Caribbean, but I think the Yucatán jobs
are more related to the whole debacle where she lost her arm on
that UN job she described in the Spy Games posting. There are
still a lot of loose ends from what I’ve heard, and also a sense of
duty to right things that went awry during the Azzie campaign to
destabilize the UN presence in the Chetumal region.
Hard eXit
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