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Makiiat0: Vip3r's PAAR

2021-04-23T05:10:00Z

Vip3r's PAAR

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	==Player After Action Reports (AARs)==		==Player After Action Reports (AARs)==
	===Skimmer===		===[[Skimmer]]===
	"Got a call about a young girl who was used by the darkest of forces to no end. Ghaz asked me to avenge her, and that's just what I set out to do. The Lord walks in mysterious ways, but I will never understand why he allows the sacrifice of an innocent in the name of evil. Not for me to understand I guess. With a bit of teamwork and more luck, we found the way into the place controlled by Tamanous, and I swear it was just like that old nintendo game from way back, Super Mario Brothers. Dodging pits and traps and nasty beasties, it all ends up with the princess being in another castle. Or the bad guy Dr. Foreman in this case. What little satisfaction we could garner from taking down a Tamanous operation was overshadowed by the guilt at not being able to avenge that poor girl's death. Maybe this one isn't over yet, but it still leaves a hollow pit in one's soul for the time being..."		"Got a call about a young girl who was used by the darkest of forces to no end. Ghaz asked me to avenge her, and that's just what I set out to do. The Lord walks in mysterious ways, but I will never understand why he allows the sacrifice of an innocent in the name of evil. Not for me to understand I guess. With a bit of teamwork and more luck, we found the way into the place controlled by Tamanous, and I swear it was just like that old nintendo game from way back, Super Mario Brothers. Dodging pits and traps and nasty beasties, it all ends up with the princess being in another castle. Or the bad guy Dr. Foreman in this case. What little satisfaction we could garner from taking down a Tamanous operation was overshadowed by the guilt at not being able to avenge that poor girl's death. Maybe this one isn't over yet, but it still leaves a hollow pit in one's soul for the time being..."

	===Babylon===		===[[Babylon]]===
	Fucking Foreman. Fucking Herenight. Fucking ''Tamanous organ farm under the fucking ACHE''! FUCK! What a goddamn mess this was - we had him, dead to fucking rights complete with a nice hole in the ground to leave him in, and he slipped away because that fucking bloodsucker interfered, ''and it's my fucking fault for calling him!'' Gah, that bastard played me like a goddamn fiddle, told me everything I wanted to hear - I'd be impressed if I wasn't ''blinded by all-consuming rage!'' He'll pay for that, but I'll have to be careful given who he works for... Foreman though, that one's more than earned the death that's coming for him. The ritual agony would have been enough to make me kill him slowly, but for what he did to Mary Jane I'm going to drag him into the sun and watch him burn alive.		Fucking Foreman. Fucking Herenight. Fucking ''Tamanous organ farm under the fucking ACHE''! FUCK! What a goddamn mess this was - we had him, dead to fucking rights complete with a nice hole in the ground to leave him in, and he slipped away because that fucking bloodsucker interfered, ''and it's my fucking fault for calling him!'' Gah, that bastard played me like a goddamn fiddle, told me everything I wanted to hear - I'd be impressed if I wasn't ''blinded by all-consuming rage!'' He'll pay for that, but I'll have to be careful given who he works for... Foreman though, that one's more than earned the death that's coming for him. The ritual agony would have been enough to make me kill him slowly, but for what he did to Mary Jane I'm going to drag him into the sun and watch him burn alive.

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	Fuck, I need a drink.		Fuck, I need a drink.

			===[[Vip3r]]===
			Well, ''that'' was a clusterfrag. We got out alive, and thankfully it wasn't bad enough for me to want to laes myself, but I'm still gonna be having nightmares about being under the fraggin' ACHE again for at ''least'' a week. I'm willing to finish fulfilling this favor to [[Zenith]] if we ever find out more about Foreman, but I will ''never'' trust bloodsuckers, and I will '''''never''''' trust Babylon. I have no respect for anyone who goes behind their team's back to try and frag them over.

			But again; at least we got out alive, and at least we got paid.

	[[Category:Runs]]		[[Category:Runs]]

Sarcarian: Babylon's pAAR.

2021-04-22T02:13:40Z

Babylon's pAAR.

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	===Skimmer===		===Skimmer===
	"Got a call about a young girl who was used by the darkest of forces to no end. Ghaz asked me to avenge her, and that's just what I set out to do. The Lord walks in mysterious ways, but I will never understand why he allows the sacrifice of an innocent in the name of evil. Not for me to understand I guess. With a bit of teamwork and more luck, we found the way into the place controlled by Tamanous, and I swear it was just like that old nintendo game from way back, Super Mario Brothers. Dodging pits and traps and nasty beasties, it all ends up with the princess being in another castle. Or the bad guy Dr. Foreman in this case. What little satisfaction we could garner from taking down a Tamanous operation was overshadowed by the guilt at not being able to avenge that poor girl's death. Maybe this one isn't over yet, but it still leaves a hollow pit in one's soul for the time being..."		"Got a call about a young girl who was used by the darkest of forces to no end. Ghaz asked me to avenge her, and that's just what I set out to do. The Lord walks in mysterious ways, but I will never understand why he allows the sacrifice of an innocent in the name of evil. Not for me to understand I guess. With a bit of teamwork and more luck, we found the way into the place controlled by Tamanous, and I swear it was just like that old nintendo game from way back, Super Mario Brothers. Dodging pits and traps and nasty beasties, it all ends up with the princess being in another castle. Or the bad guy Dr. Foreman in this case. What little satisfaction we could garner from taking down a Tamanous operation was overshadowed by the guilt at not being able to avenge that poor girl's death. Maybe this one isn't over yet, but it still leaves a hollow pit in one's soul for the time being..."

			===Babylon===
			Fucking Foreman. Fucking Herenight. Fucking ''Tamanous organ farm under the fucking ACHE''! FUCK! What a goddamn mess this was - we had him, dead to fucking rights complete with a nice hole in the ground to leave him in, and he slipped away because that fucking bloodsucker interfered, ''and it's my fucking fault for calling him!'' Gah, that bastard played me like a goddamn fiddle, told me everything I wanted to hear - I'd be impressed if I wasn't ''blinded by all-consuming rage!'' He'll pay for that, but I'll have to be careful given who he works for... Foreman though, that one's more than earned the death that's coming for him. The ritual agony would have been enough to make me kill him slowly, but for what he did to Mary Jane I'm going to drag him into the sun and watch him burn alive.

			Gah. Lots of burnt goodwill with the team on this one though. Skimmer seems like he didn't really get all the stuff going on in the background, but he was friends with that Ghaz guy who tipped us off in the first place and seemed happy enough to have put a stop to what was happening there (I think he's taking the whole God thing more seriously now?). Zenith though, I'm going to have to do some explaining to him - he deserves that much at least, and I don't want someone like that thinking I stabbed him in the back by going to Herenight. Vip3r... I don't know what to do about that one. Seems I have a knack for pissing off the toasterfraggers. Maybe I can talk to her, I dunno - not like she won't just see it as the spooky black mage trying to pull her strings further. Whatever. Goddamnit.

			As for what was happening down there... the less that's said about that the better. I don't think I'm going to sleep right for months. Those people... there must have been thousands of them, getting... harvested... it makes me shudder to even contemplate the magnitude of such a thing. Worse than any horror [[Pump King Jack\|that goddamn shadow spirit]] has inflicted on the world. Better that it all burned - if I ever run into any more of those Tamanous bastards who were responsible for it they'll meet the same fate. My only solace is that Gomorrah didn't have to be subjected to the sights down there; at least she remains innocent in that at least if nothing else.

			Fuck, I need a drink.

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Shadowhand: /* Player After Action Reports (AARs) */

2021-04-21T20:05:47Z

Player After Action Reports (AARs)

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	==Player After Action Reports (AARs)==		==Player After Action Reports (AARs)==
			===Skimmer===
			"Got a call about a young girl who was used by the darkest of forces to no end. Ghaz asked me to avenge her, and that's just what I set out to do. The Lord walks in mysterious ways, but I will never understand why he allows the sacrifice of an innocent in the name of evil. Not for me to understand I guess. With a bit of teamwork and more luck, we found the way into the place controlled by Tamanous, and I swear it was just like that old nintendo game from way back, Super Mario Brothers. Dodging pits and traps and nasty beasties, it all ends up with the princess being in another castle. Or the bad guy Dr. Foreman in this case. What little satisfaction we could garner from taking down a Tamanous operation was overshadowed by the guilt at not being able to avenge that poor girl's death. Maybe this one isn't over yet, but it still leaves a hollow pit in one's soul for the time being..."

	[[Category:Runs]]		[[Category:Runs]]

Asmodeus at 11:20, 12 April 2021

2021-04-12T11:20:08Z

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	\|Ally=Skraacha		\|Ally=Skraacha
	\|Ally2=Ghaz		\|Ally2=Ghaz
	\|RunnerList={{AARCharacterList\|Babylon\|Zenith\|Vip3r\|Skimmer}}		\|RunnerList={{AARCharacterList\|Babylon\|Zenith\|Vip3r\|Skimmer\|Mr. Herenight}}
	\|RunnerCasualties=None.		\|RunnerCasualties=None.
	\|OppositionFaction=Tamanous		\|OppositionFaction=Tamanous
	\|OppositionFaction2=Black Lodge		\|OppositionFaction2=Black Lodge
	\|OppositionUnits=		\|OppositionUnits={{AARCharacterList\|Organ Tank\|Tamanous Security\|Gnawer\|Feral Ghouls\|Abrams Lobsters\|Garry Foreman}}
	\|~~OppositionUnits2=[[Mr. Herenight]]~~
	\|OppositionCasualties=Organ Farm		\|OppositionCasualties=Organ Farm
	\|Threat=Semi-Prime		\|Threat=Semi-Prime

Asmodeus at 11:18, 12 April 2021

2021-04-12T11:18:27Z

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	\|OppositionFaction2=Black Lodge		\|OppositionFaction2=Black Lodge
	\|OppositionUnits=		\|OppositionUnits=
	\|OppositionUnits2=Mr. Herenight		\|OppositionUnits2=[[Mr. Herenight]]
	\|OppositionCasualties=Organ Farm		\|OppositionCasualties=Organ Farm
	\|Threat=Semi-Prime		\|Threat=Semi-Prime

Asmodeus at 11:18, 12 April 2021

2021-04-12T11:18:14Z

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	\|Ally=Skraacha		\|Ally=Skraacha
	\|Ally2=Ghaz		\|Ally2=Ghaz
	~~\|Ally3=Mr. Herenight~~
	\|RunnerList={{AARCharacterList\|Babylon\|Zenith\|Vip3r\|Skimmer}}		\|RunnerList={{AARCharacterList\|Babylon\|Zenith\|Vip3r\|Skimmer}}
	\|RunnerCasualties=None.		\|RunnerCasualties=None.
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	\|OppositionUnits=		\|OppositionUnits=
			\|OppositionUnits2=Mr. Herenight
	\|OppositionCasualties=Organ Farm		\|OppositionCasualties=Organ Farm
	\|Threat=Semi-Prime		\|Threat=Semi-Prime

Asmodeus at 11:17, 12 April 2021

2021-04-12T11:17:54Z

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	\|Location=Seattle, Renraku Arcology		\|Location=Seattle, Renraku Arcology
	\|Ally=Skraacha		\|Ally=Skraacha
			\|Ally2=Ghaz
			\|Ally3=Mr. Herenight
	\|RunnerList={{AARCharacterList\|Babylon\|Zenith\|Vip3r\|Skimmer}}		\|RunnerList={{AARCharacterList\|Babylon\|Zenith\|Vip3r\|Skimmer}}
	\|RunnerCasualties=None.		\|RunnerCasualties=None.

Asmodeus at 11:17, 12 April 2021

2021-04-12T11:17:23Z

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	\|Location=Seattle, Renraku Arcology		\|Location=Seattle, Renraku Arcology
	\|Ally=Skraacha		\|Ally=Skraacha
	~~\|Ally2=Black Lodge~~
	\|RunnerList={{AARCharacterList\|Babylon\|Zenith\|Vip3r\|Skimmer}}		\|RunnerList={{AARCharacterList\|Babylon\|Zenith\|Vip3r\|Skimmer}}
	\|RunnerCasualties=None.		\|RunnerCasualties=None.

Asmodeus at 11:17, 12 April 2021

2021-04-12T11:17:06Z

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	\|GM=Asmodeus		\|GM=Asmodeus
	\|Location=Seattle, Renraku Arcology		\|Location=Seattle, Renraku Arcology
	\|Ally=~~None?~~		\|Ally=Skraacha
			\|Ally2=Black Lodge
	\|RunnerList={{AARCharacterList\|Babylon\|Zenith\|Vip3r\|Skimmer}}		\|RunnerList={{AARCharacterList\|Babylon\|Zenith\|Vip3r\|Skimmer}}
	\|RunnerCasualties=None.		\|RunnerCasualties=None.
	\|OppositionFaction=Tamanous & Black Lodge		\|OppositionFaction=Tamanous
			\|OppositionFaction2=Black Lodge
	\|OppositionUnits=		\|OppositionUnits=
	\|OppositionCasualties=Organ Farm		\|OppositionCasualties=Organ Farm

Asmodeus at 11:14, 12 April 2021

2021-04-12T11:14:33Z

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	Once inside, she starts getting her bearings. First, devices. Camera feeds, organizational files, floor plans. She accesses what she pleases, when she pleases, and even encryption and data bombs don't phase her at this point. She's been pushed around enough on the way here, but the Matrix is her turf. The spiders are unaware of the technomancer infiltrating their system even as she checks the cameras and spots Foreman in the organ farm's overseer's office on the other end of the compound. She leaves the mantraps surrounding the place cracked before letting go, making sure they all have a clear avenue. Unable to resist getting some payback, however, she leaves with a parting gift, Resonance Spiking one of the colossal rust construct personas that are Tamanous spiders with jarring amounts of data destruction. It shears off practically an entire limb of the persona, but it doesn't seem to notice until after she's left the host. High speed, low drag.		Once inside, she starts getting her bearings. First, devices. Camera feeds, organizational files, floor plans. She accesses what she pleases, when she pleases, and even encryption and data bombs don't phase her at this point. She's been pushed around enough on the way here, but the Matrix is her turf. The spiders are unaware of the technomancer infiltrating their system even as she checks the cameras and spots Foreman in the organ farm's overseer's office on the other end of the compound. She leaves the mantraps surrounding the place cracked before letting go, making sure they all have a clear avenue. Unable to resist getting some payback, however, she leaves with a parting gift, Resonance Spiking one of the colossal rust construct personas that are Tamanous spiders with jarring amounts of data destruction. It shears off practically an entire limb of the persona, but it doesn't seem to notice until after she's left the host. High speed, low drag.

	Unfortunately, while she's being held up by a spirit and groping a camera, Zenith and Skimmer hear a patrol coming by to investigate the noise. A corpulent abomination, a walking organ farm on legs like the one [[Samsara]] encountered in [[~~Pulling~~ It By The Roots]]		Unfortunately, while she's being held up by a spirit and groping a camera, Zenith and Skimmer hear a patrol coming by to investigate the noise. A corpulent abomination, a walking organ farm on legs like the one [[Samsara]] encountered in [[Pull It By The Roots]] walks alongside an armored Tamanous grunt. The team lays an ambush and they do get a leg up on the duo, but they're elite forces for Tamanous. Skimmer and Zenith unload on the behemoth, but it barely seems to notice hailstorms of bullets sinking into its flaps of skin and fat. The shotgunner behind it opens fire and riddles the corridor with razor sharp flechettes -- unfortunately, he's up against Skimmer and the elven samurai is best at avoiding getting shot. As much as the grunt tries to aim at him, the elf moves like a blur, impossible to catch even with a wide spread. He comes close when the organ tank tries grabbing him into a grapple, but manages to thankfully squeeze by it just as well. His depleted uranium does thank the creature for its efforts, however, and with a combined effort of Babylon's Lightning Bolts, Zenith's bulls-eye bursts and Skimmer's indiscriminate full auto fire, the thing finally falls. Really, the shotgunner's not even close to as difficult. He's blown through by Zenith in a single volley.

			The mantraps open for the team as if inviting them in, something that really shouldn't be happening according to Vip3r. As she touches the doors, she sees they've been rebooted since -- just as she does, however, the organ farms lights all go out and chaos ensues within. The team uses this opening to run in and sneak past the welcoming committee, staying against the far wall as much as possible until they're out of earshot range. As they're sprinting down the massive complex, they feel an earth-shattering tremor and look behind them to see a magical explosion of unparalleled strength vaporizing most of their opposition. The only ones still alive are seared and charred organ tanks, two of which are wandering around trying to look for intruders. The actual security personnel are a combination of red-painted wall smears, melted plasteel and ballistic mask fragments. More than happy to not have to worry about that, they climb up to the overseer's office, stacking on the door and preparing for the breach.

	==Aftermath==		==Aftermath==
	--		Bam.

			The door's kicked in and the team flows into the overseer's office where only a few minutes back they'd seen Foreman conducting some kind of ritual. However, all they see now is a man in his underwear, handcuffed and down on the floor... and Herenight, sitting down and slow clapping his hands with a wide smile. He applauds the team for giving the perfect distraction so organic he couldn't have arranged it better even if he tried. In utter disbelief and rage, Babylon explodes into a rant, shouting out everything he and the Black Lodge stands for. Demanding to see where Foreman is, Herenight scoffs -- of course he tipped him off and told him to leave before the team got there. He's likely at an airport already, leaving the country. This plan had worked perfectly, as internal motivation such as vengeance is the most powerful motivator of all.

			The Black Lodge had arranged this run from square one and Herenight was here to not only congratulate them, but also offer them a helping hand in offering them an easier exfil route. Zenith considers with the team whether they should pop a bullet in the vampire's head, but Herenight gently gestures for them to look down -- rats gnawing on all of their boots, grenades embedded inside of their bodies. During their breach and utter disbelief, the perfect distraction to hold them at a figurative gunpoint had been achieved. Herenight suggests the runners act like good little pawns and leave, having done a great service to Seattle. This isn't very satisfying, and as Herenight mist forms out of the complex, the actual overseer begs for the team to let him go. He gives them the necklaces to let the fake restaurant chefs to not question them as they take a cargo elevator to the Arcology mall's loading bays, then stays behind to care for his 'sick daughter' as he claims to.

			After, Ghaz contacts the runners, telling them that a silver-haired man stopped by and left them all packages. He checked them but didn't find anything immediately dangerous. Nuyen and back room sources for equipment, rewards for a job well done, but the money the team gets to hold feels tainted. Wrong. This wasn't what they wanted, but it's all they got. Babylon's unsatisfied, if anything she's more angered than ever. Zenith is, most likely, feeling just as peeved -- and what's worse, Herenight left Babylon a recording, admitting that he and Foreman planned this all along. Even Jane's murder and manipulation was all to exploit her fiery temperament and vindictive urges, given that she wanted to deal with dark forces so badly. Tamanous isn't kidnapping hundreds of innocents on the streets anymore, but the fact of the matter is that the girl Babylon and Zenith had tried to save wasn't avenged.

			It should be a celebration.

			But it isn't.

	==Rewards==		==Rewards==
	--		* 40,000 Nuyen or 80,000 Nuyen worth of Armor, Vehicles and Foci up to 20 Availability
			* 20 Karma.
			* -70 Tamanous Reputation
			* +10 Black Lodge Reputation
			* +5 Skraacha Reputation
			* +5 Starscreamers Reputation
			* '''For Babylon:''' -5 Night Throne Reputation
			* '''Optional Contact:''' [[Mr. Herenight]], 7/1 Black Lodge Magician (7 RVP)
			* 2 CDP

	==Player After Action Reports (AARs)==		==Player After Action Reports (AARs)==