The Observer Effect

The Observer Effect
Date 2086-09-24 GM John Location Glacier Peak Valleys, SSC Status Threat Level: High
Factions Involved
ShadowHaven	Spetznas Deserter & Co
Armadillo Memento Mori Hierophant	Marcus Hill A Bound Earth Spirit Cynthia Raymond Leopold "Roach" Tolles
Casualties and losses
None	All OPFOR were neutralized upon contact

Summary

A former member of the Spetznaz and friend to the SSC had found his morals compromised when outside influence began to encroach upon his duties. He choose morality, and nearly died for it. Knowing his time was short, he took someone he cared about and had a tentative situationship with into the SSC wilderness to work on a means of escape.

Unfortunately, the 6th world is not a place in which morals are valued above profits. Some cannot afford to be picky. Others cannot be bothered to choose the high ground. The shadows the world operates within are quick to swallow up all of that context, and leave us with only the hunters and the hunted in the end.

It is a shame that his morals could not save him in the end.

Background

Leopold "Roach" Tolles was a former member of the Spetznaz, but recently he had been working with Orc Tribes in the Salish-Shidhe Council. This worked, for a time, but the problem came when interference from Aztechnology started pushing things to a darker path. Leopold, highly trained and wared to the gills, thought he could make an exit of defiance. It nearly became a blaze of glory, and Roach was on the run. With the help of a contact of his, Marcus Hill, he arranged for a temporary place to stay and prepare for a long trek through the woods - after, of course, he healed up at cyberdocs in Seattle, which gave his pursuers a place to start following him. But Roach, injured and a little rusty, had decided to bring a friend and confidant Cynthia Raymond along to keep him company. A hermetic mystic adept whom he had a..."it's complicated" relationship with, but whom he did ultimately cared for in the end.

Aztechnology, meanwhile, wanted this little problem dealt with.

Due to "project deadlines" and his escape into the woods making things far more problematic for them to track him down, the more cost effective route for handling this was simply to off-load this to deniable assets. Having shadowrunners who could track him down and kill him was a far easier and cheaper solution than sending an entire team to hunt down the former Spetznaz. And so, Mr. Jacobson was sent out to gather a team to tie up loose ends

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