Fatal Snow
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Fatal Snow
(or 'deception' or 'reindeer games' or 'the film that lost face' or....)
GM: Stuart
Game Date: 12th March 2063
Held at Al's on the 12th March 2005
Back to Seattle Campaign
Cast of Characters
- Lake [ Corin ]
- Pathfinder [ Foz ]
- Fidelity [ Al ]
- JC [ Al ]
- Mole [ Chris ]
- Jesse [ Met ]
- Wraith [ Richard ]
- Katsu [ Stephen ]
- Webb [ Ivo ]
Prologue
Extended Fatal Snow/Prologue
Pathfinder and a group from the Knights Of Tarislar come across a gang getting wiped out by Shedim and take the only survior back home to look after her. Katsu wakes up in and Pathfinder explains how all her gang are now dead.
Pathfinder gets asked out to dinner at Fu Man Chows by Misty Knight his bounty hunter contact. She is looking for information on a guy called The Surgeon and has a photo (which is in fact Jesse) which has been taken for Hillary Jacobs mind by a police Vicr.
Events
Mole gets contacted by Mr Hobbs for a meet in the top class 714 Lounge. Mr Hobbs seems to imply that the Mole (Pins, and Shade as well) have worked for him before.
Mole tries to get ahold of Shade, but Shade has only left an answering machine on his phone and never gets back to The Mole.
Mole calls Jesse to the meet for job.
Pathfinder contacts Lake and Webb.
Everyone meets up.
Pathfinder is surprised to see the 'surgeon' (Jesse) arrive at the meet and even more surprised when he turns out to be a member of the team... Could this be the traitor who got Pins killed? Nah, Webb vouches for him and it's all OK. Realising he'll have a problem since he's wanted, The Mole does a make up job on him. As is usual for the mole, some critical information is missed.
Mr Hobbs gives mission briefing: A corp scientist Andrew Preist who works for Mitsuhama wants to defect - as career advancements for a caucasian in a Japanese corp are minimal. His area is advanced cybernetics - neuralware. He normally works in a japanese arcology - but is due for a 1 week holiday in the Crysdale Heights ski resort in Tsimsham - which would be a better place to extract him. He has agreed in principle to defect - but doesn't know when it will happen. He has a fiancee Melanie Delaney who we must take with us.
Last time someone in his department tried to leave they were found dead. The lesson being that you should not try to leave. Hence the team have to babysit him for a few days after the snatch to keep him safe. Mr Hobbs introduces his associate, Anowat who works for Tsimsham Haidanational Front freedom fighters (not terrorists - as Mole puts it) who can get us into the country with a gun smuggling run they are doing - guns paid for by Mr Hobbs to cover pay for their assistance. They will get some of us into the country and to a safehouse - while the rest fly into the resort as 'guests' to approach Andrew and scout the inside.
The ski resort is very isolated and highgly secure. Andrew arrives on 18th - team arrives on 15th. Jesse's make up plays up and has to be wiped off with Lake temporarily masking him. Fi is unhappy with salary, not unreasonably thinking that a long term out of town job like this should be worth more than 12k per person. Lake is also unhappy and after getting the team's pay raised then successfully negotiates a bigger cut for himself (comes out of Path Finder's share). Team is helpless before Lake's magically enhanced charisma. Pay raised from 100K to 200K. Lake gets 40k.
Lake, Jesse and Mole go with Mr Hobbs to get fake MCT ID's. They then travel by plane to Kitiwat. Once there they take a Federated Boeing Commuter to Crysdale Heights. All the way they get coprorate 1st class + treatment.
Beta team (JC, Wraith, Pathfinder, Webb, Katsu) go with Anowat who gets the across the border into Salish Shidhe and then into the Athabaskan Council. The team stop off at St Andrew Airfield whihc is a smuggling stop over. Here they meet up with a T-Bird pilot troll, Grease Monkey. Grease Monkey is delivering weapons to the Haida National Front. Team go for a drink with him and regret it later. The group then meet up with Twister an insane chopper pilot who flys them across the border into Tsimshian. He puts the helicopter down in an old strip mine. The astral space around the mine is vile and twisted with a high background count.
Pathfinder uses ritual sourcery to communicate with Lake. Pathfinder beats Wraith at MGS (metal gear solid) 7 on Gamesphere but loses repeatedly whilst playing it's food based knock off, MSG 4. Path Finder's trousers vanish. Wraith playing silly beggars again.
Plan is to wait until Andrew is departing - and snatch him at the 'airport' which is just outside the resort and fractionally less secure.
Alpha team get one look at Melanie Delaney and drool for a few hours (and wonder how a corporate dude gets such a hot fiancee) - Lake gets slapped by Faia. Jesse gets to know the local security people. The Mole goes skiing. Lake gets a massage... Everyone goes out to dinner together but eat some bad shrimp. Mole doesn't notice, Jesse is a bit ill and Lake and Mr Hobbs redecorate their bathrooms and spend two days in the infirmary. Lake gets accosted by Dr Gunther Hubraken who recognises him from a conferance (as Lake), and he quickly palms the guy onto Jesse who's forced to have a drinking competion with him, Jesse looses. The next day is action day and Jesse has a hangover.
Lake makes contact with Andrew Priest about getting ready to leave. Lake plans to hijack the plane as they leave.
As beta team move towards the resort they cross through an area of environmental disaster where a forest has been destroyed. They are intercepted by a toxic free spirit which kills Anowat. Webb shoot ineffectively at the spirit and Wraith lasers into temporary disruption.
Beta team arrive - Webb checks to see if the fence is electrified - and gets away with a mild non-damagind shock. Beta team cross the fence - and Pathfinder and Webb disguised as cabin crew head towards the plane. Wraith and Katsu hide behind a building ready to go into action (Wraith casts invisibility on Katsu so she is ready to run around and kill as many guards as she can).
Webb signals the team to move and Katsu runs out over an exposed runway towards the guards - one of whom is a mage and warns security. JC mana bolts the mage to death and strips his corpse of at least three sustaining foci - beak and two claws,see (GM please provide ratings)- and the guards flick on ultra-sound sights and start shooting Katsu. One manages to hit her - her armour taking the brunt of it and knocking her over. She gets back up and runs towards the plane for cover dodging more shots. Katsu draws most of the fire - while Lake gets into the plane and takes control of the pilot. Webb shoots some of the guys shooting katsu - drawing some of the fire from her as she's losing a bit of steam - though not for long as she spectacularily runs horizontally along the side of the wing and fuselage - making the guards stop firing at her for fear of hitting the plane - Mole, unarmed, charges one of the guards - though Webb kills the guard before Mole reaches him. Wraith casts a massive spell at the control tower - shaking it violently and knocking herself unconscious, Katsu grabs her and stows her in the plane, team all get in and take off. Team swap to a helicopter at some distance, and rig plane to fly off and crash. While trying to run the border in the helicopter a ritual sorcery visibly starts affecting Andrew - so team call ahead for a mage to be ready to cast astral barrier on Andrew (as none of the team mages know that spell) and land for that protection. Team then head out again - heading to seattle while the spell is sustained - and they can then hide Andrew in Pathfinder's shamanic lodge. Team are suspicious about Melanie and she picks up on this and does a runner - JC stuns her, brings her back to be mind probed - and it is revealed she's a Mitsuhama plant to protect and spy on Andrew. Team dose her with liase, and dump her in the streets.
Path Finder wonders how he can get his contact (and the cops) off Jesse's back since Shade destroyed the evidence of the real surgeon.
And who killed Pins? Next on Shadowrun: When undead zombie teammates attack!
