Heathers

Heathers
Date 2081-03-02 GM DocMcGuffin Location Crime Mall
Factions Involved
ShadowHaven Chop Shop Riot Valet Mendacius

Summary

Mrs. Johnson (Veronica) recently joined a new DocWagon HTR squad known as the "Untouchables" as one of the squad's Combat Medics, and everything was fine at first. But recently things have taken a turn and normal workplace hazing has escalated to dangerous levels, with the pranks now putting her life on the line. Deciding to get them before they get her, Veronica has approached the Haven to put out a hit on the rest of her squad.

Background

Not a lot of background is provided by the Johnson. and with a less than 24 hour mission clock to work with not a lot of time is available to dig the info up. What is provided is that the Untouchables are a team of classic mean girls all named Heather. Heather A is the team's magical support, a Christian Theurge mage, Heather B is the teams second combat medic, and Heather C is the team's tech specialist. Veronica is also able to provide the most likely place to find the targets when they're off duty or on break, the Crime Mall.

The Meet

Veronica meets with the team at a bar downtown, showing up in full DocWagon uniform openly carrying her weapons and everything. Almost immediately she lays out that the job is to make sure she "never sees" her coworkers again as the on the job hazing has recently taken a dangerous turn, her team having replaced her ammo with paint rounds and tampered with her armor before shifts.

The Plan

Most of the team pushes to try to get a feel for targets to try for the disappear instead of a kill, so the team loads up and heads out to the crime mall. Once there they manage to easily find the targets as they are just hanging out in front of a Soybucks in full DocWagon HTR battle gear, but the approach stumbles a bit as no one feels comfortable approaching the heavily armed and armored Heathers. Eventually it's settle on to use Incubus Shroud to try to get an in with the group, and Valet is chosen as the team member to make an approach while Chop Shop and Mendacius set up in the parking lot for an ambush as a back-up.

The Run

The approach plan hits its first stumbling block when Valet's adopted daughter makes an appearance at the crime mall, putting the team down one member before they've even made contact with the targets. While Valet was dealing with her daughter, Mendacius and Chop Shop headed out to the parking lot to start some Matrix Searches and to be in position to launch an ambush if the targets started moving. In the mall the team tried to come up with an approach strategy and finally settled on putting an Incubus Shroud on Valet and sending her in to make contact. Not wanting to to make a direct approach, Valet headed for the interior of the Soybucks while passing flirty looks to the Heathers, but was prompty confronted by another DocWagon HTR member, Brad, just inside the door. To add an extra hitch, Brad failed his resistance to Incubus Shroud and appeared to be under the impression that Valet was Veronica.

With an extra body to deal with, and having identified the likely cause of the Heathers turning on Veronica, the team shifted strategy to plan B, the parking lot ambush. Valet lured Brad out first, the pair of them leaving being enough to lure out the Heathers as well. As the ambush approached spells and spirits were brought out and then it was on.

Brad went down easily enough to a sneaky shock hand, but the rest of the squad proved to be tough customers. Heather A went down fast in the initial barrage, but Heathers B and C turned out defensively solid if overwhelmed and unable to really put up much offensively. Heahter A managed to yoyo once due to a slap patch, but the fight was over half way through the second round of combat, but that was only with the Heathers unconscious, not dead. Sure that they trio had to have their own DocWagon contracts and thus had a second HTR team on the way, the team turned to trying to figure out how to kill the three they already had on hand. Heather's A and C died with some judicious application of bullets, but Heather B turned out to be made of far sterner stuff, surviving a shot through the eye and being engulfed in a Napalm Wall. Not wanting to waste too much more time with an impending HTR response, the other Heathers were quickly rolled for grenades, turning up an HE Grenade which was promptly shoved down Heather B's armor and detonated, answering the age old question of what will break first, the armor or the person inside.

Aftermath

The team managed to put down the HTR squad and break contact before the DocWagon responders could show up.

Rewards

• ¥26000
• 3 Karma
• 2 CDP

Game Quotes

"The silence is in character" - multiple people