BugBears

BugBears
Date 2083-12-03 GM Edward Location Salish-Sidhe Status Threat Level: Deadly
Factions Involved
ShadowHaven	Major Corp
Ryan Danes Rougarou Prince	Character1 Character2

Summary

After dealing with some unnatural beasts on their base, Johnson puts out an emergency call for runners. Crossing the border, the rapid-response team performed a short investigation to hunt down the culprits and ended up hotboxing and funneling out a series of devious insect spirits.

The Meet

The runners got a series of calls from their fixers, it was a rush job, involving a border crossing to deal with a para critter research facility. Accepting a link to a matrix meet, the runners all met in a particularly seedy corner of the digital world with a stereotypical scientist persona seeming to be rather panicked, blabbering about a disastrous encounter with a series of bear-like creatures which attacked and dragged off a few of the survivors. With an offer of a hefty cash prize for helping the researchers solve their para critter problem, the runners accepted and met up in meatspace on the road.

Seeing that they would have to cross the border, the runners immediately got to work hunting down a smuggling route to take to get to their locations, after some quick map jotting with Prince and Rogarou, the runners got on their way, with M3chan1c steering them safely through the tense perimeter before speeding off to the location.

The Plan

Coming up on the facility, it appeared that there was once a powerful perimeter line set up to defend the location, though, some of the more perceptive members quickly pointed out the large swaths of blood covering the barricades, as well as a nearby researcher waving the group into one of the hutches nearby. Stepping out to question the frantically packing scientists and guards, Prince and Roguaru started their investigation. Witness reports described the bear creatures being covered in an odd, glistening armor they weren't certain of. Going over the description, M3chan1c and Prince pointed out that it sounded like a bug's carapace, a sort of natural armor common in many oddly magical critters.

Pulling up some camera feeds of the facility, Rougarou recognized the creatures as Piasma, a form of awakened black bears with limited magical powers to cause fear and paralysis in individuals. Considering the insect properties these critters were known for, the runners decided to grab a series of bug-spray gas grenades to help keep them back while M3chan1c grabbed a spare under barrel attachment from one of the dead guards splattered across the field.

Working together, Prince and Rougarou spotted a set of tracks heading out of the camp, seeming to perfectly match those of the Piasma, eventually leading the party out towards a cave nearby. After studying the cave, the runners decided they'd hunt down any sort of alternate exits for the tunnel network, with one of M3chan1c's drones heading out with Rougarou, they ended up running into a massive, clawed hole, seeming to be exactly the size of a massive, looming hostile bear-bug whatever. Regardless of the official name, the runners decided a good solution to the problem was strapping a brick of C4 to the roof of the exit and prepping it for a cave-in the moment the runners started firing off bug gas into the cave.

Getting the drones into position, as well as strapping Prince and his sniper rifle onto the railing of M3chan1c's dustoff drone and sending it up into the air with the rigger's sniper drone, the runners sent Rougarou ahead to stand near the front of the cave as the grenades flew, their flamethrower firing up as the screams of hostile bug spirits echoed through the caverns.

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