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The team does some preliminary investigations on the miles-wide radius where the literal crucifixions have been occurring and do some legwork in the form of checking the place. Astral projection, drone swarms, you name it. | The team does some preliminary investigations on the miles-wide radius where the literal crucifixions have been occurring and do some legwork in the form of checking the place. Astral projection, drone swarms, you name it. The entire search radius is covered in an astral signature, making tracking difficult. The runners bump into a fresh new crucifixion victim thrown out from an alleyway but aren't able to save him from his wounds. Stygian and Babylon realize that this signature feels like that of a shadow spirit. Worrying! | ||
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Revision as of 00:48, 29 December 2020
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Babylon Stygian Relay Rougarou | Rager Viktor | ||||||||
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| Pump King Jack | Elven Mercenaries that knocked themselves out, Viktor and Pump King Jack | ||||||||
Summary
Team gets hired to take out an impostor, end up goading two shadow spirits to d-d-d-duel!
Background
The Halloweeners had been devastated by the Ancients and only recently managed to start building themselves together. One of the local gang leaders, Rager Viktor, noticed that someone was pushing onto their turf of jack-o'lanterns and slasher movie tropes.
The Meet
Things don't start off well. Babylon, having realized who's hiring them proudly waves the Ancient colors on her vehicle and binds a powerful spirit to herself. The Halloweeners don't take kindly to this and concentrate plenty of laser sights to her chest when she tries approaching. A Rager personally shows up with a pair of rocket launchers and tells her to stay outside if she wants to play that game, tossing her a burner commlink to communicate with. Shes smarmy as can be expected of a black mage and agrees. The rest, however, manage to get in without much issue. It turns out that this Rager Viktor is surrounded by female elven mercenaries, all of which are Awakened. He quickly explains that there's someone going around stealing his thunder and that he wants to get rid of it. Not only is he willing to pay inexorbitant amounts for this job which gives pause to all of the runners right away, he also mentions discreetly to Stygian that he didn't want to hire them but it's not his choice.
The Plan
The team does some preliminary investigations on the miles-wide radius where the literal crucifixions have been occurring and do some legwork in the form of checking the place. Astral projection, drone swarms, you name it. The entire search radius is covered in an astral signature, making tracking difficult. The runners bump into a fresh new crucifixion victim thrown out from an alleyway but aren't able to save him from his wounds. Stygian and Babylon realize that this signature feels like that of a shadow spirit. Worrying!
The Run
When Babylon breaks a mana barrier-infused manhole cover, astral fires explode from every manhole in sight and ethereal laughter echoes throughout the Barrens. Babylon gets a glitched message to her commlink that even Relay can't properly figure out. Given that it has a ping on their Gridguide, they follow it to an abandoned parking lot filled with jack-o'lanterns. With a comically large pair of signs with arrows and HERE! written on it, they enter the designated manhole and find that someone's been building a rollercoaster of horrors in the sewer system. Even dead bodies of people have been used as haunted house puppets, hoisted on strings and all.
The team does encounter someone pinned to the cart going along the tracks of the ride but don't manage to take him off it; Relay gets a good smack on his drone from this very evil cart. The team finally manages to find the source as the background count and noise of the underground hideout skyrockets: a massive spectre surrounded by Halloweener-looking crazies. AS it manifests into the physical realm, Relay immediately opens fire which the spirit aptly dodges. In return, it sends its axe flying at the drone and calls Relay rude for opening fire. The drone survives, but only barely. Babylon is wary, but tries talking from behind cover.
Surprisingly, the spirit is more than jovial and the two start hashing things out. As it stands out, this thing is undeniably a shadow spirit of fear, also known as a Nightmare. Yet he's friendly, admittedly amoral and cooperative to a reasonable degree.