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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.
