The Portland Protocol
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The Portland Protocol
GM: Stuart
Game Date: 23rd April 2063
Held at Stuart's on the 23rd April 2005
Back to Seattle Campaign
Cast of Characters
Prologue
Irish guy with a limp, Mac Namarra. Carries a cane. He's a talent scout and is looking to put together a new team to send on jobs, for a cut. Making a pitch to be our fixer.
Day 1
He calls each of us and invites to a meet.
Matchstick jazz club, 8pm - Miss Johnson.
Kelly arrives first. Everyone else arrives.
Johnson arrives - leather trenchcoat and leather top - she's elf and magical.
Job is in Portland - Tir Tairngire. Walled city where outsiders can visit. She can arrange all necessary permits - travelling legitimately. A medium security lab (6 storey stand alone building) that we need to remove things from, then demolish. She wants 3000MP of computer files. Pay 80K between 6 - 20K of it upfront. She pays us in Saeder Krupp corporate script rather than nuyen.
Facility is owned by Universal Omnitech - AA / 2nd tier corp - major shareholder also holds shares in Aztechnology. Heavily involved with biogenetics - one of its current projects is to get the 2bn prize for determining the genetic basis for magical activity/metagenes. They run their own security, the building is in a business park. the 6 floors are split into 2 sets of 3 tiers... garden on lower floor of each tier. Lab (13) is on 5th floor. Business park is surrounded by a security wall - 5m concrete wall. Magical security not known.
We'll be booked into a travel hotel which will be our initial safehouse.
Tomorrow we'll give her orders for eq and she'll take out details for ID - meet at warehouse.
Day 2
Meet at warehouse to get ID's made. We'll all be listed as members of a company.
Day 3
Go to airport - some random man shot to death by security forces. Go to hotel, we have 6 rooms on floor 4. Leaves 4 other rooms on that floor we don't have. MINI BAR!!!!!
Second doesn't sleep well - neighbours playing music all night.
Ork brothers, Zach and Eddie come on over to make the delivery. They were sent by 'The Dog' a troll who operates things in this area.
Boxes with Saeder Krupp logos holding our equipment.
Late afternoon all get together.
Katsu and Second drive to take a look at the place.
Razor wire on walls, guard posts.
Day 4 (Saturday)
Katsu in the getaway van, waiting outside if things go tits up. Everyone else goes in. 2 mages look for a security guard to knock out and mind probe.
A small drone zips around now and then. Mark heads into garden and gets grabbed by a magically active anti-mage vine. Team cut him down.
Quicksilver prunes a bush, and it shoots stun pollen into his face and knocks him unconscious. We wakes up some time later hallucinating.
Kelly prunes a bush, picks up a bit and his whole arm goes dead.
Internal team turn off comms as security drone picks it up.
Outside Katsu spots swat and police vans pulling into compound.
Team blow lab and server room doors, and server room turns out to be a cleaning cupboard.
Drone pops out some security systems.
Quicksilver shoots at the drone, and bullets ping. Drone shoots 2 darts at Quicksilver - and he gets tasered with a serious (burning 1pt of bad karma).
Mark casts a trid phantasm of a wall in front of the drone, and takes a light drain. Kelly sets up a satchel charge and spots a map indicating the server room in the opposite part of the building than the original map. Team turn on comms and Katsu finally can warn them about the SWAT teams outside. Team try to bug out and the blast barriers in corridor are down.
Drone heads away from fake blast door and heads towrds Second and Talon. Talon lightning bolts the drone, and nothing happens.
Team decide to run like the cowardly run away babies they are.
Talon lightning balls a bit of garden, and it explodes in fire - and keeps burning. Team change their mind and decide to take the stairs. Elemental starts to manifest.
Kelly kicks open door to stairs, it's another cupboard. Quicksilver kicks in another door, it's an office. Talon levitates the drone and 'throws' it into burning garden, it explodes putting out the fire. Mark mana bolts and kills the elemental. Second runs into garden and uses grenades to blow chunks of hedge away to clear 2 levels worth of garden. Second requests Mark to assist him.
Kelly satchel charges some blast doors and makes his way to the server room on his own.
Mark strips naked, gives his armour to Second, and then turns himself into a bird.
Kelly grabs harddrive, and spots swat and starts running away. Kelly granades towards swat and all team are now in Garden. Team drop down level by level until they get to carpark. Bird-form (hawk) Mark stun balls the group of 4 SWAT. Kelly blows satchel charges remotely, and whole 5th floor goes kaboom!!!!
Teams kills 6 Peace Force guards, and run around corner, to find a steel Lynx drone wheeling out of a SWAT van. Katsu blows the main gate with a LAW rocket, but tire traps are still present. Second fires grenade into SWAT van, it goes boom, steel lynx drone survives.
Mark creates a steel lynx trid fantasm and sends it off against the real one.
Team run around buildings and make it to van and Katsu drives off.
Team dump the van with most of the weapons in a long stay car park.
Katsu scouts out the hotel, police turn up, Katsu infusion boosts for extra stealth and wall-runs down the side of the building.
Team assemble in coffee shop - and then news report comes on tv about the team being terrorists, with pictures. Team split into twos.
Team go to seedy part of town and try to plan.
Second calls Zach - and arranges a meet - Zach wants us to meet at the Edge nightclub.
Second and Kelly go in to talk to the Ork brothers, and ask to meet The Dog - wanting to sell the hard disk to someone.
Orks suggest that they and Dog act as a go between to arrange and supervise the meet between us and Miss Johnson - at a place called The Ivanhoe.
Team 'buy' a boosted car from local gangers Zach puts us in touch with.
Second, Katsu and Talon go in to meet The Dog in The Ivanhoe. He calls out 'Banshee' (Miss Johnson). She tells us that her Johnson sorted out all the I Ds etc. and told her to buy Saeder Krupp eq. Her Mr Johsnon is the Head of a section of Telestrian Industries - Count Parris. He is a shadowy type and she is still supposed to take him the hard drive.
Team plan to hand hd back to Universal Omnitech in exchange for them dropping the public fuss. We can also give them the real info of who's after them.
The Dog knows a Johnson at Universal - who can put a meet together. Dog wants 30K of our 60K payoff - Katsu negotiates him down to 20K.
Plan: stash half hard drives and info about the whole deal in a station baggage locker, then call Universal Omnitech. In the morning news, there is a development announcing that the previously announced criminal gang has eliminated them from enquiries. We contact Omnitech again and give them the info about Parris and we head out of town. Banshee hands over last disks, and tells us Count Parris is very pissed off at us he used to shadowrun as Blackwing - we can expect tir assassins.
Prologue
Team payoff: 10K total each.
Mac Namarra calls.. asking if he can have his 5% - we offer him 5% of 2 tir assassins, he waives his cut.
