If it makes you feel better my first idea for a plan was "shoot smoke grenades through the window and send in the gas mask troopers"
What happened after I left? I want all the details.
We killed everyone in the diner who didn't run (robots shot most of them to pieces and we were basically untouched), looted its contents for a cool 13k nuyen, let free some prisoners so that they may live to be butchered for food another day, found the ownership documents and claimed the place for ourselves, brought back some info for Mr. T the oddly influential bouncer (who was miffed that he and his associate couldn't jack any additional funds from the information stored on a laptop we stole) and got four new quests, should we choose to accept them. We worked out that we will, in order:
- Kill a Christian magical cult leader and steal his shit to get the magical waitress of Red's Bar and Grille to do magic for us since Neonivek's not keen on taking one for the team and having a roaring good time with her instead for some reason.
- Vanquish a giant spirit beast for the good of the community and also probably magical reagents.
- Get on with the mildly disturbing cannibal plot at work in Boston and meet some mercs they were dealing with (then probably kill them and steal their shit as per SOP).
We also unfortunately didn't know that HMHVV-infected zombie hearts make for very good and expensive magical reagents that could have made us a bundle of nuyen. And now we likely never will.
Oh, and we also discovered that nobody in the party has the faintest clue about talking to people, and that we have no masters of the facial arts among us.