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
Data Dump
Pathfinder and his people 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.
Mole gets contacted by Mr Hobbs for a meet. Mole tries to get ahold of Shade who is missing. Pathfinder gets given a job by Misty Knight to find out about 'the surgeon' and is given a photo of Jesse. 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. 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 a 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 we have to babysit him for a few days after the snatch to keep him safe. Mr Hobbs has an associate who works for Tsimsham freedom fighters 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. Alpha team go to resort (Lake, Jesse, Mole). Beta team (JC, Wraith, Pathfinder, Webb, Katsu) get across the border. Stop off briefly at St. Andrew's rigger base to oversee weapons transfer. Share a drink with T-Bird pilot troll, Grease Monkey. Regret it later. Then, arrive at safehouse. Pathfinder uses ritual sourcery to communicate with Lake. Original plan to wait at safehouse binned after it's realised Twister can run the border. 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 and drool for a few hours - Lake gets slapped by Faia. Alpha team poisoned. Accidently. With shrimp. Mole doesn't notice, Jesse doesn't eat fish and Lake and Mr Hobbs spend two days in the infirmary. Lake gets accosted by someone who recognises him from a conferance, and he quickly palms the guy onto Jesse who's forced to have a drinking competion with him. The next day is action day and Jesse has a hangover.
As beta team move towards the resort they are intercepted by a toxic free spirit - that Wraith lasers into temporary disruption as it is about to attack Webb for shooting it. Toxic free wolf spirit kills Anowat. 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 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 vertically 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!
