Wow. It feels like forever since I posted
here.
So one thing that you quickly learn as a
Runner is that there’s a whole world of different types of Mister Johnson. Not
just different behaviours depending on which company (or whatever else) they
represent, but also their approach to the run and the runners they’ve hired for
it. On this last run we encountered one of these types in the form of the
meticulous overplanner.
This type has a rather unique approach to
their operations. They’ve basically plotted out the entire run in advance, and think
they know exactly how it’s going to go. The only reason they’ve hired Runenrs
is because they’re expendable deniable assets; otherwise, they’d do the entire
fragging thing themselves. Of course, this type has two weaknesses. The first
is that their plans rarely account for anything untoward happening on the run;
rather, they simply assume it’s all going to go off like clockwork. The second
is that they hate it when the Runners they’ve hired decide to creatively reinterpret
their orders in a way they feel is better.
We definitely had one of those on our last
job. And in our decision to go off-plan, we not only saved the job but probably
saved our lives as well.
