This may feel a little bit out of context, I'm cutting out a lot that I don't want to influence the ideas.
Local MCT Head of Security is supposed to commit seppuku. My players are hired to fake it and extract him. Extracting the family too is bonus pay. It is supposed to look as if he does it and family disappears. If MCT doesn't suspect anything, it won't be looking for the family afterwards.
I am wondering what are acceptable ways it could be organized but can't find the details in the books.
- a meeting in MCT HQ - will be hard to fake and extract, but if they figure it out, MCT will not be suspecting anything
- in their home, recorded and sent to local CEO - I think MCT should accept this as valid, making the whole thing easier, as long as nothing looks weird
Do you have any other ideas?
Of course, the question why fake it instead of just extracting the whole family at once is valid, but at this point this is a question to my players. How thorough do they want to be.
Having the seppuku process be sort of unofficial/taboo but expected thing might be a solid theme to start with, like the official gives some sort of final-wordsy speech/document then heads off to his home alone. Everyone knows what he is doing and fully expects an obituary the next day, but nobody talks about it. The twist that involves your players might be the local CEO expecting foul play but not knowing specifics and breaking the taboo by sending either surveillance or a kill team to make sure he follows through. Players would have to find a way to either bribe or fool the CEO to ensure the official isn't hunted or convince him to fake-seppuku in a way that wouldn't leave a body, like driving off a cliff with his family or walking off into the woods. Instead of having to provide irrefutable evidence to the whole company, the players would only have to fool the CEO as long as the disappearance wasn't unusual.
From what I see in Market Panic, I would not expect it to be unofficial/taboo.
But I like the idea of CEO sending a kill squad "just in case"