Gnashing and Hissing Sounds
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ShadowHaven Gator Bayou Bill Justice Alexander-James Brodrick Johnson III | Horizon | ||||||||
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Sticks Crunch Oberon Neznayka |
Gus Other Zoomazium Employeers | ||||||||
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| Gus Lost His Job | |||||||||
Summary
Horizon experiences the first skirmish in the battle for Liberation.
Background
Bayou Bill was unfortunately killed in battle during Kill Bill, however he left behind his trusted companion, Gator. Always a man to plan ahead, he set aside a war plan to be enacted in two years, cutting away at Horizon's rule. This war would be carried out, rain or shine, swamp or sprawl, dead or alive.
Now it is time. 100 gators need rescuing from the cruel Horizon Zoomazium. They will become the foot soldiers in Gator's army.
Let the Gator War ... begin!
The Meet
The various runers are gathered to an undisclosed location in Snohomish. After the typical banter, the runners enter and are greeted by the one and only Gator. He, in the stumbling way of a large aquatic reptile, he flops over to the table next to him and turns on a commlink, which plays an automated message from the late Bayou Bill.
The post-mortem gator wrangler informs them that 100 gators are in the Horizon Zoomazium and he wants them liberated. Gator, being an alligator, makes no mention of payment and somehow, somehow, the runners agree to the job anyway.
The Plan
The runners call a number of contacts, including the honorable Alexander-James Brodrick Johnson III being talked into converting his Most Urban Brawl arena beneath Seattle into a Gator themed locale, a 1-1 recreation of the Louisiana swamp. Chloe Green and Jaelisha are both brought onto the project as consultants after Brodie J brings up the radical idea of 'Gator-Tubes', access points where the gators can swim to various locations in Seattle and wander freely. This idea is scaled back slightly, limited only to bodies of water. Willis is contacted to provide Dragonjapes moving vans and, later Creer as well provides vans. Finally, gator himself is brought onto the team to provide gator traffic direction.
The team moves in to do some scouting, first with Oberon spotting out cameras, guard rotations and watcher spirits and then the rest of the team performing a social infiltration. Neznayka and Sticks find a Horned Bear enclosure, supposedly from Russia and strike up a conversation with Gus, its handler. Crunch does an inventory of the other creatures finding shadowhounds, snakes, bandits, a pegasus, a greater wolverine, snakes and agropelters, many in subpar or cruel containment. Nez and Sticks convince Gus to part with his keycard, in the name of freeing the creatures for a good cause, under the stipulation that no one gets hurt.
Neznayka calls up Chloe Green to establish a long-term home for the creatures once they're out and assembles a doctor disguise, blending in with the ones that do animal testing on sight. With that, the team moves into position. Time for freedom!