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Jit: /* Aftermath */

2024-08-02T07:54:13Z

Aftermath

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	[[Buck]] is able to take the skull home and present it to [[Cairn]], who is ''very'' pleased with his work, and promises rewards in the future for his efforts.		[[Buck]] is able to take the skull home and present it to [[Cairn]], who is ''very'' pleased with his work, and promises rewards in the future for his efforts.

			Somewhere distant, a woman with purple eyes stands shoreside to the Pacific. She gazes contemplatively toward the horizon, and considers, briefly, a skull.

	==Rewards==		==Rewards==

Jit: /* Background */

2024-07-18T21:16:32Z

Background

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	==Background==		==Background==
	Caliban has done a [[Battle Not With Monsters\|terrible thing]]. In the wake of the destruction she's wrought, three technomancers, once bright-eyed and eager for the treasure hunt they'd stumbled across, languish in hopeless Matrix homelessness. Further straining their relationship, one of them, a technomancer with a harlequinn-esque, clown-adjacent living persona named b0z0, lashes out and latches onto insane conspiracy theories. His hostile prodding pushes the three apart.		[[Caliban]] has done a [[Battle Not With Monsters\|terrible thing]]. In the wake of the destruction she's wrought, three technomancers, once bright-eyed and eager for the treasure hunt they'd stumbled across, languish in hopeless Matrix homelessness. Further straining their relationship, one of them, a technomancer with a harlequinn-esque, clown-adjacent living persona named b0z0, lashes out and latches onto insane conspiracy theories. His hostile prodding pushes the three apart.

	chiTIN hurts for this, and for his friends as well. Despite being attacked and yelled at, he checks in on b0z0 every now and then, though hasn't heard from him in a week now. Fearing the worst, and unable to find or trace his icon on the Matrix, he resolves to ask for a few favors from some hacker friends of his, and the winding tendrils of his desperate plea snake into the shadows where the lowest amongst us might hear them.		chiTIN hurts for this, and for his friends as well. Despite being attacked and yelled at, he checks in on b0z0 every now and then, though hasn't heard from him in a week now. Fearing the worst, and unable to find or trace his icon on the Matrix, he resolves to ask for a few favors from some hacker friends of his, and the winding tendrils of his desperate plea snake into the shadows where the lowest amongst us might hear them.

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

2024-07-18T19:52:20Z

Player After Action Reports (AARs)

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	==Player After Action Reports (AARs)==		==Player After Action Reports (AARs)==
	[[Digifex]] - "Everything was simple going until the damn kid had to be dissonant. If he's not fully gone, I can only hope that something can help, whether a paragon's divine blessing or a wiz doc, I don't care, just don't let one more of us fade into nothing. I'll say I won't hold out hope, but Paragons, I have to."		===[[Digifex]]===
			"Everything was simple going until the damn kid had to be dissonant. If he's not fully gone, I can only hope that something can help, whether a paragon's divine blessing or a wiz doc, I don't care, just don't let one more of us fade into nothing. I'll say I won't hold out hope, but Paragons, I have to."

	[[Buck]] - "You know, usually I like my dust-ups with a little less creepy-murder-basement-pits and a little more fun-in-the-sun. But then again, any day I get to save a sick kid and put down some racists is a good day. And everybody important walked away more or less unscathed. Or... Well, almost everybody..."		===[[Buck]]===
			"You know, usually I like my dust-ups with a little less creepy-murder-basement-pits and a little more fun-in-the-sun. But then again, any day I get to save a sick kid and put down some racists is a good day. And everybody important walked away more or less unscathed. Or... Well, almost everybody..."

	[[Saint]] - "They were ''seriously'' gonna kill some kid over the 'beach that makes you evil' or some shit - the frag does that even mean? Drek, he's got people who ''love'' him, you see how big that hug was? Glad he made it outta there - he'll be fine with friends like that by his side... <small>Hope the girl makes it too.</small>"		===[[Saint]]===
			"They were ''seriously'' gonna kill some kid over the 'beach that makes you evil' or some shit - the frag does that even mean? Drek, he's got people who ''love'' him, you see how big that hug was? Glad he made it outta there - he'll be fine with friends like that by his side... <small>Hope the girl makes it too.</small>"

Jit: /* The Beach That Makes You Evil */

2024-07-18T19:50:47Z

The Beach That Makes You Evil

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	When she emerges, she grabs a gun and agrees. [[Digifex]] argues that this disease will ''spread'' and that it ''cannot'' be allowed to. [[Saint]] tells him, bluntly, that if he ''really'' believes that then to just shut up, stop being so morally grand-standing, and just do it, fully prepared to disarm him when he tries. [[Buck]] goes a step further, planting his wide body firmly between the barrel of a gun and the kid scrabbling in dirt, informing both of them he will be leaving with the kid hefted over his shoulder, alive, though the rest of them need not be.		When she emerges, she grabs a gun and agrees. [[Digifex]] argues that this disease will ''spread'' and that it ''cannot'' be allowed to. [[Saint]] tells him, bluntly, that if he ''really'' believes that then to just shut up, stop being so morally grand-standing, and just do it, fully prepared to disarm him when he tries. [[Buck]] goes a step further, planting his wide body firmly between the barrel of a gun and the kid scrabbling in dirt, informing both of them he will be leaving with the kid hefted over his shoulder, alive, though the rest of them need not be.

	[[Lanius]] counters, though inelegantly, that [[Digifex]] is right. With the repeated words "the beach that makes you evil" however, the two proponents of choosing life are radically unimpressed and unconvinced. [[Digifex]], ~~when faced with~~ the ~~actual reality~~ of ~~pulling the trigger on a child~~, ~~reluctantly lowers~~ his gun, and questions his commitment to his beliefs.		[[Lanius]] counters, though inelegantly, that [[Digifex]] is right. With the repeated words "the beach that makes you evil" however, the two proponents of choosing life are radically unimpressed and unconvinced. [[Digifex]], as he lifts the gun to fire, finds it being kicked swiftly out of his grip, and [[Buck]] reaffirming his role as a wall. Before the gun is picked up, he wirelessly ejects the magazine, and with a conflicted heart, he questions his commitment to his beliefs.

	In the end, all four emerge and load up before [[Knight Errant]] are able to arrive.		In the end, all four emerge and load up before [[Knight Errant]] are able to arrive.

Jit at 19:45, 18 July 2024

2024-07-18T19:45:01Z

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	<!-- Optional: Any factions who were allied to the runners -->		<!-- Optional: Any factions who were allied to the runners -->
	\|Ally=~~ch1t1n~~		\|Ally=chiTIN
	\|Ally2=		\|Ally2=
	\|Ally3=		\|Ally3=

Jit: /* Rewards */

2024-07-18T19:44:39Z

Rewards

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	==Rewards==		==Rewards==
			*500 nuyen (0 RVP but ch1t1n is a man of his word)
			*10 Karma (Didn't shoot the kid, saved Charlie)
			*14 cdp (6 RVP)
			*+2 Positive Ancient Reputation, Digifex gets +5
			*-20 Night Hunters Rep, Lanius gets -30
			*-10 Humanis Policlub Reputation, Lanius gets -20

			*1 Public Awareness, 2 for Lanius for the photo shoot

			*Lanius gets 5 rep with CAPWF

			*Optional Qualities:
			**Analytical mind for the searchers
			**Touch as Nails for Buck (physical or stun)

			*Optional Rewards:
			**Up to 28k in legal or restricted delivery drones/cars (basically nothing military, nothing with guns on it, use your best judgement, this will be subtracted from the run rewards like an optional qualities)

			*Relevant Parties may take a submersion discount.

			*Buck gets +1 chip on Cairn for bringing it a REALLY fucked up skull (he LOVES it)

			*Narrative Consequences:
			**Charlie (the woman of the night that was caught in the crossfire) survives the nights event, however she is hospitalized with an extended stay. She is currently in a coma.
			**b0z0 lives and is entrusted into the care of ch1t1n and br34k3r. It is unclear whether he will recover from the brush with dissonance.
			**Lanius's new single does very well for about three hours before it is struck down with threatened legal action.
			**Derrick Clark, the Home Owner's Association Attorney bankrolling that chapter of the Night Hunters is very publically dead. Humanis starts using this in their advertising for the upcoming election.

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

Jit: /* Aftermath */

2024-07-18T19:41:37Z

Aftermath

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	==Aftermath==		==Aftermath==
	~~Lanius publishes~~ a ~~video (~~with the ~~other~~ runners ~~edited out)~~ of the ~~massacre, lending~~ her ~~public awareness~~ and ~~insane negative reputation with~~ the ~~involved factions. Lanius also researches~~ the Beach that Makes You ~~Dissonant~~ and ~~sends Caliban~~ a ~~nastily worded message about what she did during~~ [[~~Battle Not With Monsters~~]]. ~~Buck brings Cairn the weird skull and Cairn~~ is ~~all about it, he loves it~~. ~~Digifex~~ is broken, torn between breaking the Dissonance that he ~~sees as~~ an affront to the divinity of the Matrix and the innocence of a child afflicted with it~~. Saint doesn~~'~~t get any of this resonance drek but pats ch1t1n on~~ the ~~head~~ for ~~a job well done protecting~~ his ~~friend~~.		An anxious kid in a hoodie sits outside a Barrens dive, and glows with relief as the runners roll up with his friend in tow. Without waiting for them to approach, he dashes forward and dives to engulf his lost friend in an enormous hug. With [[Lanius]] hard at work online submitting her footage of the run to her agent and picking away at the secrets of the Beach that Makes You Evil, [[Saint]] and [[Buck]] emerge and congratulate the kid on a job well done. [[Saint]] ruffles his hair, and even smiles seeing their reunion.

			[[Digifex]] is not so pleased. He is broken, torn between breaking the Dissonance that he ''knows'' is an affront to the divinity of the Matrix, and consolidating that with the innocence of this boy barely more than a child afflicted by it. He leaves the scene with fewer answers than he arrived with.

			[[Buck]] is able to take the skull home and present it to [[Cairn]], who is ''very'' pleased with his work, and promises rewards in the future for his efforts.

	==Rewards==		==Rewards==

Jit: /* The Run */

2024-07-18T19:36:22Z

The Run

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	To the man glaring daggers at her through face tattoos and cybereyes, [[Saint\|she]] asks if he has any keebs in the building. Yeah, he says. Obviously. There's one in the basement. He asks if he should raise a white flag, and Saint wonders out loud if the people he hurt ever did. He has a kid, he says, and she asks if he has a wife too, to balance out all the [[Humanis Policlub\|Humanis]] drek. She asks him if he teaches his kid to do shit like this too, and he says that's rich coming from such a chromed out knife-ear like [[Saint]]. She asks him who made her like that. He has no answer save to spit on her, and with a swift overhead strike, she executes him with only a trickle of remorse for half-orphaning a child.		To the man glaring daggers at her through face tattoos and cybereyes, [[Saint\|she]] asks if he has any keebs in the building. Yeah, he says. Obviously. There's one in the basement. He asks if he should raise a white flag, and Saint wonders out loud if the people he hurt ever did. He has a kid, he says, and she asks if he has a wife too, to balance out all the [[Humanis Policlub\|Humanis]] drek. She asks him if he teaches his kid to do shit like this too, and he says that's rich coming from such a chromed out knife-ear like [[Saint]]. She asks him who made her like that. He has no answer save to spit on her, and with a swift overhead strike, she executes him with only a trickle of remorse for half-orphaning a child.

			==The Beach That Makes You Evil==

			While [[Saint]] is being dramatic, the others find an escort shot by a bullet through the wall in the other room of the house. [[Lanius]] swiftly checks if she's with the supremacists, while the others argue that, even if she is, they did already surrender. After some deliberation and the compromise to revisit the issue if and when they can confirm her identity, the runners apply a trauma patch to staunch her bleeding and resolve to bring her with them before the police arrive. [[Buck]] gladly begins carrying her back to the vehicle. Kind of a situation they themselves caused, but at least their hearts are in the right place.

			When the four regroup, they descend into the home's basement, a terrible, lightless little patch of dirt. Rotting food scraps sit untouched on two plates, and the corpse of a days-dead ork lies opposite the ladder, facing the wall.

			To their immense relief, a wilted green elf, feral like an animal, scrambles away from the light the trap door brings and digs his little nails into the compact earth. He seethes and hisses that the skull is ''here'', that all the lines ''connect'', that it ''whispers'' to him, that ''this is the core of everything''. And sure enough, half-emerged from that buried Earth, a human skull protrudes.

			[[Digifex]], with more context than any of them, instantly tells them that the kid needs to die. [[Saint]], too baffled to even be angry, bluntly asks why, and [[Digifex]] waxes about disruption to order and dissonant chords, while [[Lanius]] instead beelines to pull the skull from the Earth.

			[[Lanius]] visits the beach. (Please have Bean fill out her experiences here).

			When she emerges, she grabs a gun and agrees. [[Digifex]] argues that this disease will ''spread'' and that it ''cannot'' be allowed to. [[Saint]] tells him, bluntly, that if he ''really'' believes that then to just shut up, stop being so morally grand-standing, and just do it, fully prepared to disarm him when he tries. [[Buck]] goes a step further, planting his wide body firmly between the barrel of a gun and the kid scrabbling in dirt, informing both of them he will be leaving with the kid hefted over his shoulder, alive, though the rest of them need not be.

			[[Lanius]] counters, though inelegantly, that [[Digifex]] is right. With the repeated words "the beach that makes you evil" however, the two proponents of choosing life are radically unimpressed and unconvinced. [[Digifex]], when faced with the actual reality of pulling the trigger on a child, reluctantly lowers his gun, and questions his commitment to his beliefs.

			In the end, all four emerge and load up before [[Knight Errant]] are able to arrive.

	==Aftermath==		==Aftermath==

Jit: /* The Run */

2024-07-18T19:35:55Z

The Run

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	==The Run==		==The Run==
	~~Fight time, technos do techno things and surreptitiously get~~ marks on the host by brushing their ~~hand~~ against a slaved car ~~so they can go inside and hit their guns and other wireless objects~~. ~~Saint saints~~, ~~Buck bucks~~, ~~Lanius clinches, and Digifex fex them~~ up~~. Clearing~~ the ~~outside guard,~~ Saint ~~goes~~ to ~~a side door and gets punched through~~ the ~~wood - she wheezes~~ with ~~the effort~~, and her ~~stitches tear open slightly. She is not making her doctor happy~~.		The two Technomancers begin by sleazing marks onto the modest host the [[Night Hunters]] have set up here at their outpost by brushing their skinlinked hands up against a slaved car. With access granted, and the presence of a small-time security spider on-hand as well, the team opens up strong with direct connections on all the wireless tech the [[Night Hunters]] have on them and powerful data spikes to brick their shots as [[Saint]] and [[Buck]] race ahead to create the front line. [[Lanius]] follows with clinches, grapples, and holds as devices fry to smoke in her grip.

	~~Ashford's evil racist twin emerges. Digifex~~, in ~~a cruel twist~~ of ~~meta~~-~~irony~~, ~~bricks his gun~~ and ~~puts him down as well~~.		With the outside clearing up, [[Saint]], without a thought in her brain, rushes forward to the wooden door leading to the inside of the house - and is promptly sucker punched by a fist firing straight through. She wheezes with the effort, and her stitches tear open slightly. Her doctor is displeased.

	~~Shots go~~ through the ~~walls~~ of the ~~home~~ to ~~ping several other humanis gamers~~. Saint tosses a frag ~~into the garages~~ and ~~eats another couple of blows to dash~~ through ~~them~~ to the interior of the ~~house. It salsafies one of them~~, ~~though two others remain, who promptly surrender~~.		When the sawdust clears, two much more potent [[Night Hunters]] emerge from the home, their faces coated in tattoos, their bodies overwhelmed with highly illegal ware - one through the door that [[Saint]] just saw break, and one from the other end of the house. [[Digifex]] works swiftly on the Matrix to brick the full-auto weapon from the farside, while trusting [[Saint]] and [[Buck]] to handle the rest. As [[Buck]] full-autos through the walls to clear the chaff, [[Saint]] quickly confirms the lack of innocents in the garage and tosses a frag before sprinting after it. Though knives and fists reach for her, she squeezes through to the interior of the shredded home unbothered, briefly noting a trap door in the garage on the way.

	~~Saint has a moment with the leader?~~ The ~~big guy, who has much more obvious tattoos and ware, like this dude is obviously not living~~ a ~~normal life outside~~ of ~~his dream job here~~. ~~Oh don't forget the trap door in the garage that's important. She asks if he has any keebs in the building,~~ and ~~he says yeah, there's one~~ in the basement. He asks if he should raise a white flag, and Saint wonders if the people he hurt ever did. He has a kid, he says. She asks him if he teaches his kid to do shit like this, and if he's got a wife to take over for him instead, and he says that's rich coming from someone so chromed out. She asks him who made her like that. He doesn't have an answer save to spit on her, and she kills him.		The crew are treated to a helping of chunky salsa. The grunts break formation and drop their weapons in fearful defeat.

	~~They find an escort shot by a bullet~~ through ~~the wall~~ in the ~~other room of the house~~. ~~After some deliberation~~, ~~the runners apply a trauma patch and resolve to bring her with them before the police arrive to make sure she gets the care she needs~~. ~~Kind of a situation they themselves caused, but at least their hearts are~~ in ~~the right place.~~		To the man glaring daggers at her through face tattoos and cybereyes, [[Saint\|she]] asks if he has any keebs in the building. Yeah, he says. Obviously. There's one in the basement. He asks if he should raise a white flag, and Saint wonders out loud if the people he hurt ever did. He has a kid, he says, and she asks if he has a wife too, to balance out all the [[Humanis Policlub\|Humanis]] drek. She asks him if he teaches his kid to do shit like this too, and he says that's rich coming from such a chromed out knife-ear like [[Saint]]. She asks him who made her like that. He has no answer save to spit on her, and with a swift overhead strike, she executes him with only a trickle of remorse for half-orphaning a child.

	~~Into~~ the basement~~. b0z0, the chlorophyll elf, is alive and not well~~. He~~, like~~ a ~~feral animal~~, ~~scrambles away from the light~~ and ~~digs his little nails into~~ the ~~compacted dirt in~~ a ~~corner of the basement room. Across from him~~, ~~an ork's body lies dead in the dirt~~, ~~freshly killed. In the dirt is a skull - Lanius grabs it~~ and has a ~~really bad time. Digifex is convinced that this is dissonance and that the kid needs to be put down~~, ~~though Saint and Buck both object~~ to ~~this~~. ~~Saint tells Digifex to stop being so morally grand-standing and to just shoot the kid~~ if he ~~really believes he should die, fully prepared~~ to ~~disarm him when he does. Buck, similarly though far more bluntly, says that he is leaving~~ this ~~room with the kid over his shoulder~~, ~~alive.~~

	~~Lanius escapes from the Beach that makes you dissonant~~ and~~, similarly,~~ says ~~the kid~~'s ~~gotta die~~. ~~The group eventually come to the consensus~~ that no~~, he doesn't actually have~~ to ~~die~~, and ~~they bring~~ him ~~back to ch1t1n's meat body,~~ a ~~sad human in a hoodie waiting outside~~ a ~~house in Redmond~~.

	==Aftermath==		==Aftermath==

Jit: /* The Plan */

2024-07-17T23:29:04Z

The Plan

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	==The Plan==		==The Plan==
	~~Connections are made~~, and ~~it seems likely that b0z0 is a Xapiri Thepe, but like, with umlauts above~~ the e's ~~I don't make the rules~~. ~~The area is occupied largely by Humanis~~ and ~~Humanis sympathizers~~, ~~including the thrill gang Night Hunters~~, ~~which are themselves~~ a ~~more extremist cell tied directly to Humanis Policlub. A green elf in the wrong gang's neighborhood is just asking for trouble. They narrow the likely safehouses down to~~ a ~~specific suburb,~~ and ~~keep~~ a distant watch on the situation just to confirm this is their target. The guys loitering outside seem suspicious enough - shaved heads, and Humanis tattoos on deniable areas of their bodies like the forearm. ~~Seems good~~.		After some quick reassurances and gentle pats on the back, the two major Matrix nerds in the group break to track down his online presence and trace his physical location from the pieces he's left. Saint and Buck, presumably, recline back at home. Saint, prodded into action by Lanius, "helps" with a Matrix search by screencapping a page of Gizoogle results and sending it as a compressed .jpg.

	~~In lieu~~ of an ~~actual plan~~, the ~~crew deign to~~ just ~~waltz~~ in and ~~start swinging~~, ~~which seems pretty typical~~ of this particular ~~team composition to be honest~~.		Nonetheless, they find their mark. His persona went offline deep in [[Night Hunters]] territory - unfortunate, of course, when coupled with the other fact uncovered by their sleuthing. b0z0 is most likely a Xapiri Thëpë, an elven metavariant that is exceedingly rare, and one that unfortunately plasters their chlorophyll-filled, nature loving bodies in a bright and [[Ancients\|Ancient]] green.

			Given that he disappeared right in the middle of [[Night Hunters]] territory, if he weren't in danger just by being an elf, he is ''definitely'' in danger of being mistaken for a proper [[Ancients\|Ancient]]. The team move swiftly, and agree to meet in the suburb closest to his last known location, the most poorly kept secret of a dozen [[Night Hunters\|Night Hunter]] safe houses in an area rich with [[Humanis Policlub]] sympathizers.

			On site, the crew adopt a stealthy approach and surveil the various properties. One of them is particularly notable - half a dozen skinheads sit outside, smoking, laughing, drinking - they sport plausibly deniable humanis tattoos, ones that can easily be covered with long sleeves and shirts. The presence of a small host on the Matrix seals the deal for the team's suspicions regarding this house in particular - and if they're wrong, hey, who's gonna feel bad about hitting [[Humanis Policlub\|Humanis]]?

			Some brief discussion regarding strategy is had, but come on. Have you seen the list of runners up there? There's no way this ends in anything but an out-and-out slugfest.

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