Finding the Author

Finding the Author
Part of Dead Gods Stir
Date 2082-06-17 GM PatGriffin Location Seattle Status Threat Level: High
Factions Involved
ShadowHaven	Cult of the Horned Gods	The Heavenly Host
Lambda Artemisia Zenith Delphi	Air Spirit Jenna and Mitch Brodwhich	Hyperion Handraniel
Casualties and losses
0	Jenna's Ritual Focus	Hyperion's Pride

Summary

Teldragon hires a group of runners to steal a spirit formula from a group of cultist that he wanted. Then after Delphi receives some visions starts to see a larger problem growing within the city, and complications of the run. Ending with the runners handing over the formula to some trusted allies and only giving Teldragon a particular book.

Background

Lambda is contacted by Dollmaster to go to a location for a job. Lamdba says yes and decides and takes a few items before leaving for Century Park in Downtown Seattle.

Zenith is making frog legs with Harriet for dinner. After eating dinner he receives a call from Johns saying that there is a frog with him wanting to speak with Zenith. Zenith speaks with the frog that says that their master wants to speak with them for a job and Zenith agrees.

Delphi while working in her office recieves a call from a novacoked out Sarah Snow. Sarah Snow has a frog that is looking for runners to do a job and asks Delphi to help. Delphi agrees to take the job and sees the DA asking about novacoke before the feed cuts out and Delphi calls for a ride to Century Park.

Artemisia receives a knock on her door and looks down and sees a few small frogs. The frogs tell her that Teldragon has a mission for her and to go to Century Park. Artemisia grabs her stuff and leaves.

The Meet

The runners arrive at Century Park and begin to speak with each other. The runners speak with each other about the situation and after seeing all the frogs agree that it is weird. The runners eventually enter the park and follow the frogs until they come upon a large group of them. Emerging from a tree Teldragon greets the runners. Teldragon explains that there is a group called The Cult of The Horned God and that there was a book owned by a girl named Jenna Brodwhich who he wishes for them to retrieve her book. Teldragon also advises that they should not kill her and just steal the book as not to bring more heat down on the runners. Teldragon offers the runners some vague advice about Jenna Brodwhich and her brother. Teldragon offers them 20,000 Nuyen in the form of a golden apple. Artemisia asks for information and Teldragon offers her information on her cult leader. After finishing a few more words with Teldragon they decide to leave, with Teldragon bidding them fair well.

The Plan

The runners begin to plot what they will do to take the book. The runners discovering that the Brodwhich twins are known Wizgangers who are wanted by Lonestar

The Run

The runners place themselves around the shipping company. With Artemisia on top of a building overlooking the whole facility, Lambda not running silent just watching the building, and Zenith and Delphi sitting in a car. Delphi becomes an earth spirit and is able to snoop around the place, discovering that there are only five people within the building and that there are several awakened individuals within the building along with an air elemental above the building.

While this is going on, Lambda begins to peak around the host when he starts to receive messages from someone asking if he wants to go. Lambda says "You first" and he gets an invite to a video call. Lambda joins and comes face to face with Hyperion. Hyperion says that Lambda and crew should back off with whatever they are doing. Lambda tells Hyperion to leave or he will hurt him. Hyperion leaves with the

Aftermath

After stealing the book, Delphi and Zenith return to Delphi's office where Delphi looks over the notes within the book. After discovering that the spirit formula within the book belong most likely a powerful spirit and ancient spirit known as the Horned One. That within the journal it covers information how there are possibly two sides of The Horned One, the Holy King and The Oak King and the different qualities of each of these sides.

Delphi and Zenith invite Artemisia and Lambda to her office where they begin to speak on what they will do with the spirit formula. Delphi and Zenith say that they should hide it from Teldragon, Artemisia says that they should destroy it, and Lambda says that they should give it to Teldragon. After a short argument between Lambda and Delphi, Zenith takes a marker from Lambda for one service in the future. Lambda leaves Delphi's office and says that he is no longer involved.

Zenith, Artemisia, and Delphi leave her office and drive towards Vancouver Island, where the runners inexchange for a few favors to Wushan and Informer they are able to hide the part of the spirit formula.

The runners return to Century Park and call out Teldragon's name, from which he pulls himself out of a tree. Teldragon asks the runners for the book and they hand it to him. Teldragon flipping through it asks if that was all and the runners say yes, with Teldragon shrugging and paying them with the golden apples and giving Arti her information. With Teldragon's last words to the runners being, "As they say in Italy, Memento Mori."

Rewards

20,000 Nuyen (10 RVP) 6 Karma (6 RVP) 4 CDP (2 RVP)

Wusan and Informer know where part of the Horned God's Spirit Formula is hidden Arti knows where her cult leader is now

2 CDP

Optional Reward Teldragon Connection 5 Loyalty 1 (5 RVP)

For Lambda Handraniel Connection 3 Loyalty 1 (3 RVP)

For Arti Strive for Perfection (12 RVP) Shoot First, Don't Ask (2 RVP)

Game Quotes

Horizon: "I'll let you leave now and pretend this never happened, aight?" Lambda: "Now you listen to me, you pathetic little shit. You're going to turn around and go back to whatever hole you crawled out from and I don't murder every last one of your kind just to make an example out of you." Horizon: "...I'M LEAVING OF MY O W N VOLITION, AIGHT? AZAZEL WILL HEAR ABOUT THIS!".