A Pound Of Flesh
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A Pound of Flesh
GM: Stuart
Game Date: 20th February 2063
Held at Stuart's on the 19th February 2005
Back to Seattle Campaign
Cast of Characters
- Stephen [ Pins ]
- Richard [ Shade ]
- Joe [ Speedy ]
- Chris [ The Mole ]
- Al [ JC ]
- Ivo [ Webb ]
- Metin [ Jesse Love Jnr ]
- Alex [ Kelly ]
Before Game Downtime
Stephen makes it clear to GM he wants to spend karma on buying up a few things - never actually says what assuming he can work out the costs later from home - then has the dichotomy that at the end of the session he has no karma to spend due to using the Hand Of God rule - and is wondering if the GM will still let him spend the karma that he was using for stuff he was learning/improving before the game started.
Prologue by Evil GM
- Webb has just arrived in New Orleans from the Russian Federation. Having been stuck in a Russian Federation prison camp for a few months after being captured in a run gone bad in Poland (working for Polish freedom fighters), Webb has finnaly been busted out of gulag. Luckily for him the leader of his team, Sarge' (who didn't make it) took out a runner insurance policy with new fixer on the block Maclaine's start up company Assets Insured. Maclaine hired a team to break him out of gulag and bring him back. Now he's back in the game Maclaines assistant Mm Du Ponte has a new job offer for him...
Prologue
Jesse receives a call asking him to meet at the Free Coffee Republic - caller knew his real name - which worries him. Jesse goes there - orders an exotic coffe - then gets hired to do some investigative work.
A young (half asian - half caucasian) woman was assaulted - and doesn'tbelieve the local police will be able to bring effective justice - and so she wants professional help. Jesse is given contact details for Pins who has worked for her before - but he won't remmeber it.
Jesse gets 10K upfront - 50% of final fee. 20K upfront for expenses, and 100K expenses to hire other people to be paid on completion.
She Karen Mac Mannis was found in 11-70 nightclub - in Renton.
Johnson takes Jesse to Seattle Memorial hospital - taken to a small room where he meets a doctor (Dr David Finn). He says what happened to her, beaten up, drugged with liase, and a professional surgeon had removed one of her kidneys and both her eyes.
Johnson tells Jesse he can find Pins at he Apple And Pears pub - or his associate Shade.
Jesse calls Pins - leaves answerphone message.
The Mole gets a call saying Wendy's body along with others in a morgue have gone missing.
Webb in New Orleans gets hired to eat a Big Cheese.
Speedy is hired to locate and rescue Stepin Node.
Day 1
Pins calls Jesse - and invites him down to the Apple And Pears where he has a backroom hired out.
Jesse heads down and buys a tray of drinks - and brings them with him to the backroom.
Jesse outlins the job - The Mole comes into the backroom and joins the chat.
Webb heads back to his old apartment - which has been stripped of fittings and furnishings - and has squatters - and all his gear has gone. He tries quizzing the super who pulls the classic 'Are those trolls looking for you?' line and runs away. Webb catches up and interrogates him - and finds out the block is 'owned' by a mob guy - Frankie.
Speedy calls JC while Webb 'arranges' his new apartment.
Shade calls JC about the job.
Teams gets a list of the 7 bodies snatched from morgue. And the 6 people who were assaulted, liased, and had bodyparts taken.
Team do some general investigation.
All affected people were insured by Medi Care (subsidiary of Doc Wagon) - whose target market is the lower end - and cheap/minor stuff.
Shade finds their next target/victim: Hillary Jacobs - lives in a towerblock in Renton.
Team pile around there - and leave Jesse to knock on her door.
He starts chatting her up - pretending to also have a 5yr old son.
Jesse spends the night in a room 2 doors down. Mole, Webb and Kelly grab a room 2 floors up. Speedy, Pins and Shade in van downstairs. JC flies around.
Jesse and Hillary go out - and visit the job centre. Team follow around.
Hillary collapses in supermarket - a doctor is there - he calls a paramedic and an ambulance turns up to take her. Pins pretends to be her husband to go with her - and travels with them in the back.
Speedy, Jesse and Shade follow in Pins' land rover.
One of them attacks Pins, his friends grabbing Pins to let the man slit Pins' throat - and 'kill' him. Pins uses Hand Of God to stay alive.
Webb, Kelly and JC pick up The Mole - and head to the building the 'ambulance' has arrived at.
JC powerballs the doors - and speedy drives on through, everyone diving out the back doors except for The Mole who is looking for another way in.
Kelly shoots 2 guys. Jesse shoots 4 times and misses a guy.
Mole kicks in a door, and throws a grenade through. JC ran around a bit. Kelly shot another guy.
Webb opens up on a guy with full auto - and is hit by 1 round of EX-explosive - and dies.
JC casts invisibility on himself.
Some bad guy drops a grenade and it goes boom.
JC walks into a room and gets attacked by a mage - and shields himself successfully. In room with mage is another man with 2 scalpels.JC manabolts the mage and kills him. Physad with scalpels throws one at JC - and he dodges.
JC powerballs the Physad - and then loots the bodies.
Mole finds Hillary strapped to a table - with an incision in her chest.
Mole takes Pins to a streetdoc.
Shade takes a bad guy to abandoned warehouse for interrogation. His ID claims he is Joe Sanchez.
He starts talking - and mentions Papa Mubassa - Speedy says Vinne Vinneera killed this Papa Mubassa chap.
He says that Stepin Node is with Papa Mubassa - number 1087 a mansion in Tacoma.
Shade pulls a gun to kill the prisoner. Webb and Kelly pull guns on Shade. JC shoots prisoner to defuse the standoff.
Shade does some investigation on the property, so does Mole. Property is owned by Jack Newman - a Mafia guy - the one Wendy killed. Property is currently inhabited by Carl Newman.
Speedy sends a drone in and spots tons of zombies in the grounds of the mansion.
Shade attempts to persuade the team that Carl Newman needs to be killed. Everyone disagrees.
Don Ginelli calls Speedy and tells him thet the property used to be leased out - and since Carl Newman tookover he cancelled the leased and let it out to some out of town guys - and Carl has been seen talking to some jamaican types.
Team argue about what to do - so JC wanders off and calls in 16 SWAT guys and goes in with them.
Shade finds out after that SWAT killed everyone in there - probably including Stepin Node.
Papa Mubassa escaped.
Epilogue
Jesse pays 25K to Mole, Shade and Pins.
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