Possible Plan A:<br/>Stacy and Nadia on Hotel - Stacy has Palming 4 and probably has the best chance of swapping the case, Nadia can make sure there's no RFID or other tracking issue with swapping the case through technomancy.  If they tend to hire escorts, they can probably get in that way easily enough.<br/><br/>Stella and Fist on Gang - Stella has her cover - though, does she really want to be playing a show under her real name? - and can play a local dive bar, with Butterfly along as her bodyguard.  She plays the show, we try to delay them. Gang leader may try to chat up one or both of us, we can delay, maybe let things progress.  (Alternative A, route the band-van through their Puyallup territory and bait ourselves, but that would require such a van.)<br/><br/>This leaves Junkcat on reserve and able to respond.  One option there - Junkcat goes to the bar separately and Opium Den's the room to get moods up and people having a good time. (Hexed, if you give Junkcat Euphoria instead of Opium Den, you can target just the gang leader or specific members instead of the whole room - including Stella and Fist.  Or you could keep Opium Den and get Stella and Fist in there too).<br/><br/>Plan B:<br/>Hotel - stun the marks, dose them with drugs, leave them in the room until the gangers attack.  Gives away the briefcase swap to the marks, but if the gangers kill them in the attack ... no secret gets out.<br/><br/>Gang - Provoke a bar brawl, piss off the gang enough that shit gets real.<br/><br/>Plan C:  At this point, expect to earn Stone's ire.<br/>Hotel - kill the marks, swap the briefcase, and masquerade as the marks when the gangers attack.  Be 'forced to retreat' without the the briefcase.  In case of plan D, fake deaths with demo.<br/><br/>Gang - Break the rules of the bar brawl, go weapons free.  This either means kill the gang and prevent the attack, or sting the gang enough they're provoked into following.  Depending on level of escalation, this could end up in gang-rape territory, which<em>would</em>delay the gang, but would also be a very ... dramatic breaking in for poor Stella.  Of course, depending on escalation this could end up with us dead in ditches, so ... risky.<br/><br/>E:<br/>Check exit routes from hotel and places to go to ground.<br/><br/>Check exit routes from potential dive bar and places to go to ground.