Open Fire at the Fire Station

Friday 8th may 2009 - Shadowrun Game

Halo, Ned, Lifeline, HuWen, and Tom were in a bar. No punchline.

'Travel Agent' calls for 'Tour Guide'. Looking for 'a company'. There's a small bar - gives address, out of the way. 2 hours time. Job - immediate start. Ask at bar for Mr Beaumont. HuWen calls Lifeline and invites to meet, and asks Lifeline to call the others. He does.

At meet: out of town work, good pay, 2-3 days of work. He'll handle travel and equipment (has a goodd source). A retreival job - a box. 1m X 1m X 2m. Standard shipping crate. It's on a truck that got hijacked, but hijackers aren't interested in the cargo. Destination, Reno, Pueblo. He tells us some background story about Reno, police not being paid, riots in the streets. Local militias put down rioters. Last vestiges of the govnt gave them access to military weaponry. After reno was split between rival factions, Ute and Comanche, then Reno was split in half. The area is a big spot for truch movements, but there's a tendency for trucks to be hijacked unless a fee is paid. Fee was paid to Ute side, but not Comanche side. We need to provide intelligence oon where the truck is while he negotiates with Ute tribal leaders. Mr Beaumont is coming with us. We come recommended, even though he hadn't heard of us before.

We leave 2am tomorrow morning, helicopter to near Reno. We'll get some nice kit, quality military merchandise (body armour, weaponry, safehouse, and medevac if required), and pay of 30K total. This could be a negotiating ploy by the Ute cheif for greater bribes. Truck driver left in desert w/ no food/water and now dead. Found eaten by barghests.

Halo gibbers about ways we can make more money and get killed.

Cargo perishable, we have 3 days and 2 hours. If we don't retrieve it, we don't get full pay, just get nominal comission (eq).

He gives us address of private air field - we need to meet at 2am. When we get there to ask for Hawk.

We go there. It's out of the way, annd we see an old battered Huey. And on the deck-chair, is Hawk. Mr Beaumont arrives, and we fly off. Halo and HuWen spot that Mr Beaumont looks slightly different. Tom gets spirit to astrally perceive Mr Beaumont, he has cyberware and isn't magically active.

Helicopter eventually gets there. A vehicle pulls up, a landrover, our connecting transport. Mike the AmerIndian drives us from there to safehouse. At the safehouse there are 'presents'. Ares new deltaforce line, tactical assult rifles and accessories, ares delta tactical shotguns, and ares tactical combat gear inc HUDs. Corp special forces gear. Light armour, medium armour, and breach armour.

Meeting with Ute Chief at 6pm at an old Firestation.

We head out to the meet wearing Ares armour, with Ares weaponry, looking more professional than we are. Closer we get to destination, the more 'observers' we see on rooftops. Arriving at firestation there are about 6 AK-97 wielding guys. My Beaumont says we're here to see the chief. We head in, through a large firedoor. We head to the stairs and up. We can see a bunch of more people sitting down there.

2 guards in the doorway, Mr Beaumont sits, and we all look ominous and buisness-like.

Militant-warlord looking guy walks in. But Mr Beaumont recognises it isn't Nikei, who can't make it. It's his #1 instead. There's a bit of banter about protecting shipment or not etc etc, then the guy says he'll look into it.

Guards leave as the Chief walks off, saying wwe can be trusted. But Halo and Lifeline don't like this, and follow the guards in time to see one trying to throw a grenade at us. Lifeline turns him to Goo, grenade drops to floor. Halo drags Lifeline back into the room, and grenade goes off.

Lifeine then runs back out and throws a smoke grenage at some guys in the end room, Halo backs up, and HuWen does too. Guard steps into doorway of sideroom and shoots at Lifeline, who gets hit, and takes 2 boxes of stun. Then a sidedoor opens, and gunfire opens up on Lifeline, he dodges one guy, and second guy opens up on Lifeline who dodges again. Another guy from first door pops out too shoot at HuWen, who dodges. Halo loses patience, and despite HuWen and Lifeline being in his field of fire, shoots at two guards and kills them. Another two take their place, the first shoots HuWen who dodges, and the second shoots Lifeline who dodges both shots.

Then Tom the dwarf wanders up to Lifeline and HuWen and uses peers around them to fire a stunball into the far end room and does 8 levels of stun damage which knocks both guys to the floor and takes 5 boxes of stun drain.

HuWen runs into sideroom and punches a guy to the floor, a gun tries to shoot at him and misses. Lifeline then casts demolish gun on his line of sight. He does 3 damage (-1) to each gun, and takes 6 boxes of stun. Tom does a stunball again at the far two guards, and fully drops them, annd takes no drain.

HuWen then punches another guy, triggering him to fire his gun and take out one of his own guys. Tom then casts combat reflexes on himself.

Two guards left, Lifeline steps past HuWen, and Turns to Goo on the furthest guy, HuWen punches out the last guy. That's the top floor cleared. Suddenly there's an explosion. Halo heads downstairs, and gets fired by a bunch of guards, dodging 6 shots.

Lifeline runs back into the room and opens a hatch in the ceiling, HuWen follows up, and pulls over fridge and pulls himself up onto the roof and sees 2 guards looking dowwn into the street with guns waiting. Focuses inner self on attribute boost Agility.

Halo pulls out his APDS loaded pistol and starts blowing away bad guys. Lifeline summons a force 4 spirit of the beast. Huwen runs quietly across the roof and pushes the two guards off, they fall and splat. HuWen spots guards on other roofs, one reloading an RPG, also see smoke rising up from a damaged car (our get away car!!).

Lifeline jumps up on the roof, and commands his spirit to take out the RPG wielder. HuWen, still on roof, drops down behind roof ledge to take cover. Spirit starts laying into RPG wielder.

HuWen heads to roof door to stairs, opens, and calls down 'How are we doing?' Lifeline stunbolts some guards from another roof, and knocks him down. Ned calls the lift, the door opens. Some guards uselessly fire at the spirit. Some guards shoot at Lifeline, who full dodges.

Tom uses air-spirits movement power to move a carpet to magic-carpet up onto the roof. Halo opens the ground floor stairwell door, where there are 6 guys with guns. Halo throws a flashbang around at them. Tom grabs and pulls Lifeline and HuWen onto the magic carpet.

Guard otherside of Halo's door fires an RPG into the stairwell where Halo is, he just about throws himself into cover. Lifeline stunbolts another guy on a nearby roof, which makes him sway. Tom manabolts that same guard, and he drops. Spirit finally kills the RPG wielder and friend.

We all get onto magic carpet and fly and flee. Decide to evac to the safehouse, and discuss.

Mr Beaumont needs information, he has a contact at the bazaar. Ned and HuWen will go with him. Mr beaumont nano-pastes his face to change his appearance, ditto for Ned's appearance. HuWen isn't anglo looking, so is ok. We meet with his contact and he asks what's going on with the Ute chief guy. Contact looks very nervous. We go into his tent and he says word on the street is that the chief was gunned down by COmanches in an ambush, his #1 is now in charge. but he has heard from some medicin sans frontier people that the comanche dead bodies from the ambush shoot-out were cold - so not all is as it seems. The new chief either wants more money from Ares, or is trying to set up a deal with a rival corp. Mr beaumont is signalling to shut up his contact when he says 'ares might send people down' implying Beaumont is not from Ares. Beaumont asks for where the battle site is, and is taken to a doctor who knows where it is but needs some convincing to show us where it is.

Doctor reports he was pulled in to treat survivors, but wasn't given time to check old chief.

As we're checking the battle scene,.. a huge bear turns up.

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Ned and HuWhen meet with Bear Stone. he was Nikei's shaman. He was ambushed when Nikei was (different places). At Nikei's ambush site he found a corpse, in Comanche tribal markings.

Bear stone suspects Urei. And after Urei tried to kill us, that's a likely thing.

Bear Stone knows some of Urei's leuitenants and can ddirect us possible places to find missing trucks/cargo.

Ramen - mid-level lietenant, a big Urei supporter.

Blackwing is Raven Shamen of the Comanches, another good person to talk to we can find him at 'this bar' in comanche territory.

Bear Shamen has his 2 guys help us: Nightshade (Chris - female human caucasian) and Banzai (Joe - male japanese dwarf).

We return back to the safehouse.

Decide to split up into two groups and visit both possible sources of information.

Halo, Tom, Nightshade, and Ned go to visit Ramen.

Banzai, Lifeline, and HuWen go to Comanches. Place looks like a battle hospital, lots of bodybags. Lifeline heals a few of the injured. Blackwing comes over, and sincerely thanks Lifeline. He knows Nikei has dissapeared and urei is in charge, but not why. We show picture of the dead COmanche that was supposedly with the comanche's that killed Nikei. It's a guy who went missing 5 days before, with 6 others who were never found. They were left at site of Nikei's ambush, a ruse to lay blame on Comanches. Suddenly there's an incoming attack. We get out fine, and return to safehouse.

At the bar, the other team are having a drink, Halo chatting up Nightshade. Ramen walks in with 4/5 armed guys. Ramen brags and stuff, then goes to loo. Nightshade follows him in with intention to knock him out. He walks towards her, aiming to chat her up, and she lashes out. He isn't surprised and fights back. After a few traded blows, he is out. Nightshade calls halo for assistance and they sneak him out. Some of Ramen's companions are suspicious, look around and then find the team. There's a fight. Gunfire, and Halo kills the 2 suspicious guys. The rest rush outside to see what's going on. Tom stunballs the room, taking out Ramen's goons, catching Ned in the area of affect. They dash for the jeep, Ned getting carried, and bug out. They take Ramen back to the safehouse where Tom pulls out the mindprobe - which reveals Urei's 'truck storage zone' 'down south'.

We all head out in that direction, Banzai's drones helping spot the place. Banzai sends in an arachnoid drone to scout the area out. Halo sneaks and in amglock pass-keys in. He hears goons talking about some 'guy' downstairs being all crazy like. Halo rolls in Banzai's roller drone which flashpaks the room and Halo starts shooting. Then there is return fire. Then Halo says the room is clear, opens the big roller doors, and we drive in.

We find the box we're after, but it has wards on. It also shows it was opened 3 days ago. Halo rinds employer and relays this. We are told to open box to double check. Lifeline and Tom have spirits to hand, and then Halo opens box. It has a naked woman - she is crispy/frozen. Looks like she was flash frozen. This device is tissue storage, not life preserving. Lifeline perceives her, she doesn't look alive. Employer asks if she has amulet around her neck, she doesn't have it.

We decide to go down and see if crazy guy has the amulet. Coser we get, stench of death. As we approach we discover it is Nikei. We talk a bit about Urei being the bad guy, then a shambling zombie attacks Halo. Halo shoots it. Ned and Lifeline free Nikei. Tom spots a spirit leaving the zombie, sends his own spirit to attack it, but splat. Then a booming voice says we have come to our deaths. He approaches, it is Urei. Halo shoots, it just goes right through him. It isn't really Urei, it claims Urei is now dead, Urei released 'him' to bring destruction to the earth. Then more zombies (Shedim) attack.

We're stuck in a narrow corridor, shedim either side, andd fight for our lives. Tom stuns a whole heck, HuWen pulls spinal chord out of one that had tried and failed to hit him. Halo blows one up, then Tom tries stunning down the other side of the corridor, staggers some Shediim, others drop. Nightshade knocks the head off a staggering Shedim.

HuWen and Nightshade parry some attacks. We wipe out the last few Shedim, and bug on out.

The evil bad guy returns for some monologing. Then some corpses ignite in flames and head towards us (Banzai can't see them through his drones).

Hu attacks the flaming things, and nothing happens. Banzai spots a concealed person, and paints a target on image link to alert people, HuWen has no image link and so doesn't notice. Nightshade throws some knives in that direction (fighting blind) and they seem to hit something in the air, then fall to the ground.

Lifeline flings HuWen at the bad guy with fling. HuWen smacks into the thing and takes 3 stun. HuWen then hits the spirit, and does a bit of damage.

Tom is astrallay perceiving, and sees a spell effect on Halo. Tom attacks the spell, and it phuts.

Spirit bugs out and a body drops to the floor.

We try to bug out. But then spirit within Halo attacks and shoots Tom in the head. HuWen punches Halo to the floor, then Nightshade wallops him with a staff - no damage. Lifeline stunbolts him. HuWen hits again, but Halo parries. Nightshade staff-wallops again - and renders Halo unconcious.

We all pile into the truck and Lifeline stabilises Tom with magic.

Get back to safehouse, and Mr Beaumont is missing!

Dun dun dun!!!