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

2025-09-13T22:59:46Z

Player After Action Reports (AARs)

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	===[[Dango]]===		===[[Dango]]===
	"Heh...we pulled it off Sensei. Guess I shouldn't be so negative. We did, with some new allies. Yeah...honestly...I was scared I wouldn't do your name justice...but turns out I do have what it takes. Oh? A celebration...? Fresh dango made by your hand?!?! I'll be there right after I drop off my allies!"		"Heh...we pulled it off Sensei. Guess I shouldn't be so negative. We did, with some new allies. Yeah...honestly...I was scared I wouldn't do your name justice...but turns out I do have what it takes. Oh? A celebration...? Fresh dango made by your hand?!?! I'll be there right after I drop off my allies!"

			===[[Red Rover]]===
			"Ugh... feel like drek. But they're fraggin' dead. This city ain't gonna burn. Even if that Asura chick don't like me much, glad my team got my hoop in the end, yeah? And that Wych King lady, DAMN was she nova. Really saved us. Guess that's what Dog is all about, yeah? Teamwork? Hopefully these chummers honor that and don't go leakin' the whole, uh, drake thing. Heh..."

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

2025-02-08T06:20:59Z

Player After Action Reports (AARs)

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	''There isn't much to say for her. But that's alright. Her body is torn, singed, and crumpled once again. But like before, she will be whole again. And unlike before, she smiles. She knows she did what was right, there.''		''There isn't much to say for her. But that's alright. Her body is torn, singed, and crumpled once again. But like before, she will be whole again. And unlike before, she smiles. She knows she did what was right, there.''

			===[[Dango]]===
			"Heh...we pulled it off Sensei. Guess I shouldn't be so negative. We did, with some new allies. Yeah...honestly...I was scared I wouldn't do your name justice...but turns out I do have what it takes. Oh? A celebration...? Fresh dango made by your hand?!?! I'll be there right after I drop off my allies!"

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

2025-02-03T15:30:36Z

Player After Action Reports (AARs)

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

			===[[Asura]]===

			''There isn't much to say for her. But that's alright. Her body is torn, singed, and crumpled once again. But like before, she will be whole again. And unlike before, she smiles. She knows she did what was right, there.''

Breezy at 15:26, 3 February 2025

2025-02-03T15:26:13Z

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Breezy at 15:24, 3 February 2025

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Breezy: /* Rewards */

2025-02-03T15:23:29Z

Rewards

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	==Rewards==		==Rewards==
			20,000 nuyen (10 RVP)

			8 karma (8 RVP)

			6 CDP (2 RVP + base)

			+3 SVFD reputation

			1 Street Cred (for saving many innocent lives)

			1 Public Awareness (for making it onto the news)

			May join the Seattle Volunteer Fire Department for 2 RVP

			Optional Contact: Eddie Moreno (C2/L2 Volunteer Fire Chief)

			Optional Gear Reward: Firefighting equipment* @ 2:1 cost

			*Firefighting equipment includes but is not limited to: Medkits, wool blankets, self-contained breathing apparatti, lighting and power equipment, portable extinguishers, axes, shovels, picks, ropes, pike poles (extendable, two to six meters long), sledges, battering rams, bolt and wire cutters, hydraulic spreaders, power saws, blocks and tackles, portable exhaust fans, stretchers, resuscitators, life nets, scaling ladders, grappling guns, various nozzles, wrenches, and fittings for connecting to hydrants and gas mains, as well as a complete assortment of appropriate drones and hand tools.

			For Asura:
			Sharpshooter (WotS) @ chargen rates

			For Dango:
			Mundie ascension rewards (5 RVP)

			Narrative Consequences:

			-Harmon's fire cult is stopped at the apex of their calling ritual, averting disaster and keeping the death count for the incident in the dozens rather than the thousands; sporadic fires break out all over the district, but the remaining cultists are swiftly and methodically hunted down.

			-The SVFD receives much good PR for responding to the blaze visibly on the news and providing vital evidence to Harmon's conviction; Franklin Associates meanwhile is plagued by sandal for employing the crazed pyromaniacs, and an investigation is instigated by the Governor's office.

	==Game Quotes==		==Game Quotes==

Breezy: /* Aftermath */

2025-02-03T15:22:06Z

Aftermath

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	==Aftermath==		==Aftermath==

			Under the spotlight of the Horizon news helicopter above, the team had bigger things to worry about than a bit of publicity. They worked together to move Wychking and the other survivors onto the medical evacuation helicopters as Phototaxis retreated back into the Astral, and with Dango's piloting skills they flew away from the scene.

			the SYFD and KE worked to quell the fires and apprehend the remaining cultists. Harmon was convicted for the crimes of that day. And dozens were lost where there could have been thousands. In the end...it went better than one usually expects from the 6th. Perhaps could can triumph over Evil in this world after all. Perhaps there is no need for Gods to descend and incinerate the unclean, to start from a clean slate. Perhaps things are better than we give them credit for.

	==Rewards==		==Rewards==

Breezy: /* The Run */

2025-02-03T15:18:02Z

The Run

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	==The Run==		==The Run==

			There was no time for subtlety, but by the time Asura had broken down the glass of the locked building doors in the front to get in they had already begun to notice the handiwork of the cultists - fire spirits possessing the victims of their wrath, hacked to bits by axes and left on death's door to be a suitable host for their assailants to use like tools. As they arose, Wychking descended from the stairs, woefully unaware of what was going on. A fight ensued, the team getting their first taste of how durable and dangerous these spirits - 7 dumas as the opening gift - were going to be like. After a rather chaotic fight and recognition that this was the famous bug slaughtering Wychking and a part of the Haven, the team informed her of the situation and she decided to assist, getting an emergency supply of reagents dropped out of her blimp so that she could at least prepare herself a bit better.

			Wychking's levitation and a quick breach through the elevators stuck on the ground floors allowed the team to pass through the elevator shaft much faster than the normally would have been able to, but the heat was felt in the astral and physical equally, the fire suppression systems having been sabotaged to ensure no one could help these people. It was arduous, even with gas masks and fire resistant armor to push through, and the elevators in particular were dangerous, the team having to barely escape them as backdraft of flame surged through it shortly after them. This left them up on the 15th floor, where another group of spirits, some possessing willing cultists, others freely roaming about, and all at about 8 dumas of force crashed down upon the group. It was a much harder battle than before, leaving Red Rover unconscious for a moment and draining quite a lot from the group due to the suppression of a flamethrower down the corridor. But they pushed past, they defeated their assailants, and after a brief moment to heal their wounds and recuperate they continued their steady march upwards.

			The hellish flames grew greater and greater with each floor they scaled, until the way was barred; the intensity of the fires had managed to warp and desiccate the stairwell, leaving it crumbling and inaccessible with the team lacking the means to scale through normally. So, they had to split from there: Wychking was too heavy for the two grappling lines the team had available, so she had to hide herself from the curious Horizon news-copters outside as she lifted herself up to someplace she could rejoin the others at. Asura, Dango, and Red Rover scaled the walls of the stairwell carefully using their grappling lines, with Asura carrying Dango and Rover scaling up the lines in her draconic state and help from the line. Zanzan, the odd one out but the most durable of the 5, braved the fires of the corridors herself, encountering a battle between Harmon's forces and spirits and those of Lord Emberrage, whom assisted her after a brief bout of confusion as she was unsure which one was friend or foe. With that, the entire group managed to reconvene, close now to the top. The Climax.

			Dango took the time to do a quick check for devices, finding the commlinks of survivors and Harmon's forces, finding that they were only able to remain safe for the time being due to the pool at the balcony for the night club at the top which was keeping the fires at bay, though they would not last against the scorching sun Harmon was audibly chanting for through the commlink. She found a place for a direct connection to the host, quickly working to undo the sabotage of the cult and get the fire suppression systems online, only to find that they had also ensured there was a manual blockage to keep the water from flowing as well that the team would have to find. To ensure that the one responsible did not undo her work once more, she remained behind, subsequently knocking out the RCC of the enemy's matrix operative as the team climbed rapidly up the stairs.

			They reached the top, entering into the final building top before they would be met by the blistering Seattle Night, when out of nowhere but the astral descended four rather monstrous spirits and a tall, porcelain woman who was strikingly familiar to many in the party: Phototaxis, who had been preparing the entire week and was waiting for her chance to drop in and assist. With her help they broke into the utility closet where the manual controls for the fire suppression were located, but Asura could hear one more assailant waiting to stop her inside just as a fire spirit appeared near the exit to the outdoors to bar their path. In the last desperate struggle, the team worked to kill the remaining foes barring their way and got the fire suppression system online to combat the infernos below, breaking out into the outside where even more of Harmon's forces and the bastard himself were still in the midst of the ritual, halfway to completion. Wychking's help, through a spirit's terrifying presence and a massive Slash spell which knocked her out, disrupted the path and cleared the way to the leader. Phototaxis moved to protect the now defenseless bug hunter, Dango kept the team alive and safe with her well-timed assists and defenses, Zan Zan and Rover worked through culling the numbers of the cultists that remained, and Asura placed one more shot into Harmon to knock him unconscious and keep him from continuing the ritual. The battles leading to this point were intense. Draining. Scarring.

			But they had won.

	==Aftermath==		==Aftermath==

Breezy: /* The Plan */

2025-02-03T14:37:15Z

The Plan

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	==The Plan==		==The Plan==

			Thea team was connected to Dango's PITAC for support, with Asura taking the lead on maneuvering everyone through the trials to come. ZZ would be the most effective at dealing with the mystical defenses of spirits, and she and Asura would be the ones to blast through their forces with Red Rover's magic and Dango's drones and matrix skills to back them up. There was no main plan however. All that mattered was that they saved as many people as possible and stop Harmon. They had to keep climbing up to do that.

	==The Run==		==The Run==

Breezy: /* The Meet */

2025-02-03T14:32:52Z

The Meet

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	==The Meet==		==The Meet==

			Slowly, the runners arrived at the fire department in Purity, Redmond. Asura, Dango, and Red Rover were there from the job prior. Phototaxis was not exactly hired by Eddie after that last job due to group tensions and her academic focus being more suited for investigations, so in her stead was an experienced spirit hunter, Zan Zan. The runners gave brief introductions but knew there was no time to waste, and so they met with Eddie inside. The entirety of the Seattle Volunteer Fire Department was preparing for the storm that was to come, The team was given some minor provisions to help them deal with the fire that was to come in the form of fire resistant armors and the like to supplement their own preparations, but in the horizons of both the mundane and the astral, the world was already churning with the tumultuous energy of the cataclysm that was to come. There was no time for subtlety, or negotiations. They got ready, headed for one of the fire trucks, and were driven off to the tower.

			Unbeknownst to her, Wychking was at the epicenter of this entire ordeal, handling business in the other levels of the bank some time prior to the whole murderous debacle, settling some financial errands and unprepared for what was to come. Simply walking down the stairs to find herself in...quite the situation.

	==The Plan==		==The Plan==