A trio of edgerunners drove their stolen van away from their latest act of super-crime, traveling at a speed slow enough not to be pulled over, but fast enough not to be immediately suspicious for obeying the speed limit. In the car:
- Mover the Solo
- Redtail the Medic
- Torch the Tech
They had just dropped off the goods from their latest heist and were on the way to pick up their payout from the fixer. Said fixer, name of Lazlo, gave the Solo a call on his disposal burner phone - a violation of protocol that ran against the very purpose of a burner phone. The Solo, buffoon that he was, answered the call. Lazlo told him that the location of the pickup had changed - they'd be picking up their payout in the industrial side of Heywood. The group immediately suspected a double-cross, but wanted the money more than they wanted to spend the night in complete safety.
Large sections of the industrial district were still "under construction", caught between Night City's successive waves of deindustrialization and reclamation as the real estate keiretsu waited out a more favorable economic climate to rebuild. The pickup was set for an alleyway in the shadow of a skeletal building, whose rebar was laid so long ago it was already starting to rust. The group parked the van a block away and approached on foot. Mover peered into the alley with his cybernetic eye and spotted several armed figures waiting in ambush, one of whom wore a Night City Police badge under a hoodie. He casually strolled around the block and set up behind them without attracting their attention.
Redtail and Torch pretended they hadn't noticed anything amiss, and went down the alley to collect their paycheck. One of the goons came down the alley in response, clad in a hoodie and carrying a briefcase cuffed to his wrist. He stopped and fussed over the key, unlocking it and inadvertently dropping it on the ground after about half a minute of fiddling.
Torch took the case. Two more plainclothes cops stepped into the alley, blocking his egress.
"He's got a gun!" one of them shouted.
