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GM: Richard
Game Date: 5th June 2063
Held at Stuarts on the 5th June 2005
Back to Seattle Campaign
Cast of Characters
Prologue
Mole gets a call about a meet at 8:30pm at The Blue Lagoon. Mole visits Katsu and invites her. Mole calls Control. Katsu calls 'Aaron' (AKA Mark). All four meet up at The Chateau Royale at 7pm to prepare, then head to the The Blue Lagoon. Missing scientist, and missing security team. Missions - find scientist and his research - 3 weeks missing. Control negotiates and gets 40K per person, hospital treatment if necessary, and repayment of lost assets up to a limit of 80K. 20% upfront (8K per person) and another 10% after investigation identifies scientist's location and we're need to go in. 16K goes from team into kitty.
Target: Dr Yankovich (heads up a genetic research division) - worked for them 10 years
info on him and his 3 'associates' - bodyguards mage (Sark), street sam, physad
Last known location: going on a conferance to Washington D.C. by private jet. He got on, plane didn't land where it was supposed to. It landed at a small airfield, which we can be taken too, where it was abandoned.
Team depart The Chateau Royale and go to The Apple And Pears bar.
Day 1
Control reads up the files - and tries to monitor any unusual spendings on the financial details. Mark and Katsu head to a health spa - a known hangout of the street sam bodyguard. Mole researches, and 3 years after Yankovich joined the corp, all publications stop.
Steet sam (Kaplan) and scientist closed off bank accounts, other two didn't. Shows premeditation. Pilot found dead in D.C. - bodyguards not. Indicates bodyguards were in on it. Kaplan also certified 200K from his bank, and traded them for diamonds.
Info from Mr Sommers - 5K's worth.
Day 2
Mole gets a file from Mr Sommers - a TV news video clip dated yesterday. The physad caught on film, wearing big trench coat, dumped out of a van, then got up and standing in a street, then explodes - an explosive belt harness.
Mark goes to health spa and finds out that Kaplan knew a girl called Jamie. Katsu goes to talk to Jamie and pretends to have been stood up by Kaplan - from info can tell Jamie hasn't had word in a month and has no idea of where Kaplan is. Jamie heads back to her office, and Control, Mole and Mark identify her office and tap into her mobile phone, and get the idea Jamie has no idea. Katsu has to get a taxi to join the rest, half-way there Control calls her up and tells her to go back to the health spa and hang-out all day bitching about Kaplan to see if he has any other girlfriends there.
Day 3
Team kidnap Jamie. Mark stunballs her. Mole snatches her, and we drive off with her. Mark mind-probes her and it seems her story is true.
Team go to D.C. taking any equipment they need including Control's van.
Control talks to night porter of a regular hotel in D.C. Kaplan used to use, and Kaplan was there as recently as 1 week ago. He indicates a club in D.C. where monied people might hang out - Chics. Team pair off and go clubbing. Katsu & Control, Mark and Mole.
Control approaches a known 'girlfriend' of Kaplan pretending to be a business associate, and she sounds exasperated, saying he doesn't know and she told that to the last guy (brown hair, 5' 10") who asked her. Control gets the number that the last person gave her. Katsu calls the number pretending to be one of the women he gave his number too, and arranges a meet the next day at a nearby pub at 10:30am.
Day 4
Mole and Mark arrive independantly at 10:15 and 9 respectively, ready to spot the guy when he arrives. Katsu arrives late at 10:45. Control outside on overwatch. An other guy arrives at 10am - brown hair, 5' 10". Two other guys arrive at 10:25.
10:35am brown hair 5' 10" guy goes to walks out and Katsu walks in, takes him over to Mark, and chat briefly. Team assume he is Sark. Team persuade him to go to their van and chat further. 2 months ago Kaplan started acting funny, small things, put it down to stress. After scientist had a conferance in D.C. thigs started going wrong. Plane got diverted, Kaplan said landing wasn't safe and plane diverted. Scientist taken to safehouse, Kaplan joine dlater (after killing pilot?). Fiona (physad) said he was acting suspicious and mentioned something that didn't seem to make sense. Scientist then dissapeared from inside the safehouse - when Fiona and Sark were sleeping. Kaplan woke them up and said Scientist had dissapeared. Team split up to look for Scientist, and not met up since.
Sark reveals he was working for UCAS govnt (Army). Sark and Mark mindprobe each other to check we're telling each other the truth - they are.
Mole calls Mr Sommers wanting a hacker to hack into D.C. telecom grid - and gets a cell location so we can narrow down his location, which is triangulated to North Washington D.C. a smallish installation in a fairly rural area. Control sends up a recon drone, spots security guards - leaning arund chatting types, so probably not military. A tracked drone patrols too. Control uses laser microphone to pick up on chatter, doesn't get anything useful. ditto on building windows.
2 storey building, perimeter a high chain-link fence Y-topped. Mole sneaks up and spots it humming - hence electrified, and probably tapped with monofilament. Control hacks intop the encrypted comms channel and listens in.
Mole spots no cameras, and Control spots a few wireless cameras, 2 on front entrance, and a couple on fence entrance.
Mole, Katsu and Mark get through fence at midnight, Mole goes to fire door and hacks the lock, gets in and disables an ultrasound sensor. Katsu and Mark follow Mole up and enter building. Team set up in an empty office, their base of operations. Mole looks in file cabinets, and finds documents about project Helix - changing appearance and genetic signatures to create infiltrators.
Cleaning drone comes in, Mark uses trid-phantasm to hide group.
Mark goes astral, and Mole walks around in ruthenium polymers. Katsu guards Mark's body. Mark identifies a lone man, and Mole sneaks past the guard room and narcojets the lone man and knocks him unconscious. Mole moves him off the chair and looks at what he was working on, something about subject B coming along nicely and still being stable. Mark and Katsu join Mole, and Mark mindprobes the unconscious guy. Yankovich was here a month ago, went downstairs to use the machine, and 3 weeks ago went to meet some people and has since not been seen. This 'machine' is a project helix device. He's seen Kaplan (a subject) around, he's a willing participant. Yankovich is the organiser of project helix, and this instalation is run by Yankovich. Facility has been running for several years, with Yankovich making irregular visits.
Mark astrally and Mole physically, go downstairs, in basement there is a lab, with vats that contain people (one appearing to be a clone of the Mole) and operating the machines are two technicians and another guy walking around. Mark tells Katsu about the Mole clone issue, and Katsu suggests to mindprobe the unconscious tech and work out how project helix works, to see it Mole in vat is original or not.
