[Oops! Our router died so I spent a weekend without internet access. I typed this up but couldn't post it (I do all my writing in Word) and then forgot once the week started and the repair guy replaced our router. Mea culpa!]
[These sessions happened June 19th and June 26th,
2017, and were run by the New GM. After
writing up Session 5, I saw how short it was and how short Session 6 would be,
so I decided to combine them.]
PCs
Baelthor – male human mage with a loud mouth
Void – female night elf physical adept B&E specialist, a
shadow that blends in easily
Killroy – male human street samurai, specializes in
hand-to-hand combat (and apparently machineguns)
Sin – male human rigger, knows exactly the wrong thing to
say and says it
Wren – male human that registers as an elf, no explanation
as to why
Prometheus – male human street samurai, handy with any
firearm
NPCs
Bookie – male elf alcoholic hacker, favors whiskey with a
whiskey chaser
The Fin – female human con artist and gambler from India, by
way of Russia, posh and elegant
Dai – male human fixer who operates in Cara’Sir, recommended
by The Fin
June 30, 2076
7:23 AM
The team would spend the day establishing their cover story. Bookie, as Dr. Reynold, called Dr. Valdi, the
inside man in New Dawn Technologies, to meet for lunch. The cover story for this meeting was that Reynold and Valdi
were old college friends meeting to catch up.
Dr. Valdi picked a place off the New Dawn Technologies campus and agreed
to me Bookie there at Noon.
Prometheus and Void took the list of significant Post-Awakening
North American Elvish Architecture sites and started scouting them out for
filming. Two of these sites “happened”
to be adjacent to the New Dawn Technologies campus, allowing for unobtrusive
scouting of that site. This led to the
realization that the group was going to need another mage for the level of
magical support that was needed.
Noon
Bookie met Dr. Valdi for lunch.
They spent some time “catching up” [actually explaining Bookie’s cover
ID to Dr. Valdi], during which Bookie dropped the correct code words to
indicate he was a safe contact. After
they ate, Bookie explained the team was in Cara’Sir and working out a plan for
the extraction and Dr. Valdi should go about his business normally. Dr. Valdi asked if Dr. Reynold would like a
tour of the facilities and Bookie accepted.
He was wearing one of Sin’s FlySpies, so everything would be recorded
and added to a virtual model the team could plan off of later. The two of them went back to the New Dawn
Technologies campus and Bookie received a tour of the interior as Dr. Valdi’s
guest.
3:17 PM
Prometheus and Void returned to the Windsong Corporate Apartments.
Prometheus contacted The Fin and asked
if she could recommend an available mage in Cara’Sir, preferably an elf of some
sort. She said she had “an elf of some
sort” who would be perfect and arranged a meeting at one of the few barbeque
joints in Cara’Sir.
4:30 PM
Bookie returned from his tour and relayed some of the security
items Dr. Valdi had given him. In the evenings, the main halls of the research building's first floors had
basilisks wandering them, from 8:00 PM until 5:00 AM. Each hall section was locked off and had a
single trained basilisk wandering it.
Further, during the day 310 biodrones flew around the campus, disguised
as part of the large bird population.
Finally, cockatrices roamed the campus at night. This was far from good news.
5:23 PM
Prometheus and Void met Wren at the barbeque joint. Wren was an elf…except he had round ears,
round eyes, and…holy shit, he’s actually human!
Void later confided to Prometheus that Wren felt like an elf to her and
if it wasn’t for her Shadowrunner attention to detail [read: paranoia], she
wouldn’t have noticed he wasn’t.
Void outlined the rough edges of the job to Wren and asked if it
was something he was interested in. Wren
said he was interested and they discussed what he could bring to the
table. His spell selection included
infiltration spells, surveillance spells, and some offensive spells. This was exactly the mix the team would need
and so Wren was brought on board.
The trio headed over to the safe house at the Windsong and Wren
was introduced to the rest of the team.
The details of the job were explained to him and the team started
discussing their next steps. The team
decided more information was needed on New Dawn Technologies’ physical site
security. Ms. Johnson was contacted and
a set of wireless video cameras and recording equipment were requested. Ms. Johnson said she could get the equipment
to the team by 9:00AM, which was good enough for the team.
July 1, 2076
9:00 AM
A set of all-weather, low-light capable, video cameras and a
receiver set arrived at the apartment office from a local retailer. Void went down and signed for it in Dr.
Reynold’s name. Sin did a quick check on
the cameras and set them for encrypted transmission. Void spent the next two hours deploying them
in hidden locations with a clear view of the east end of the New Dawn
Technologies campus. Sin set them to
record for the next 48 hours.
The team spent the next two days in character as their cover,
driving all over the city investigating Post-Awakening North American Elvish
Architecture sites.
July 3, 2076
Noon
After a morning filming Bookie pretend to be too drunk to record
architecture lectures [very successfully I might add], the team returned to the safe house to review the
recordings of the New Dawn Technologies campus.
What they learned wasn’t terrible, but it wasn’t great, either.
The video confirmed that cockatrices roamed the campus at night,
but they were confined to the perimeter by a series of fences. Further, the biodrones were only active
during the day. At night they all
returned to roost in hutches on the other side of the campus from the labs the
teams was interested in.
One thing the video showed that Dr. Valdi had not mentioned were
video drones on the rooftop perimeters of the buildings. The drones moved back and forth along a
guidewire all night, providing regular, but not total, video coverage of the
grounds around each building. On the
plus side, they appeared to be wireless, so Bookie should be able to hack into
them, but only one at a time.
This was going to take some serious planning.
End of Sessions
[There was much more to the discussion between Bookie and
Dr. Valdi, but I wasn’t involved and didn’t get much in the way of notes
because I was helping the new player finish up his character, Wren. Wren’s player is a friend of mine from back
when I ran a game store and was one of my employees until he went into IT for
better money (retail doesn’t pay that well and I eventually followed that path
as well). His job recently transferred
him to a site near where I live and my wife and I had a spare room, so he moved
in with us and became available for the game.
(He is not the first roommate we’ve had and the amount he kicks in helps
with bills.)]
[We started late for Session 6 and it was mostly an
information dump by New GM, so a separate write-up would have been very
short. Therefore, I combined sessions 5 and 6.]
Session 8 (not yet written)
Session 9 (not yet written)
Session 10 (not yet written)
Session 11 (not yet written)
Session 12 (not yet written)
Session 13 (not yet written)
Session 14 (not yet written)
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