The Sewers Aren't Safe
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| Part of Hail to the Pumpking | ||||||||||
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ShadowHaven Ghaz Skraacha | Von Neumann | Feral Ghouls | ||||||||
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Sang Monyet Triage Čarivnýk | Drone Swarm | Ghouls | ||||||||
Summary
Saul Amundi gets rescued. Again.
Background
Number of folks have gone missing from Sophocles in October. Chalking it up a bit to Halloween shenanigans, Bone Daddy still doesn't want to take it laying down and calls a guy: Ghaz. Together, they arrange something to fix the issue.
The Meet
Meeting in the Renton parking building that some veteran runners once thwarted Humanis from, Ghaz and BD elaborate that they want to talk to this one kid that went missing. They believe he has some answers to questions they have about the disappearances, although they suspect that he's personally responsible. Ghaz works with this because some Skraacha gangers tried calling him but they only spoke in horror before going dark and later getting discovered dead. Matrix searches imply this boy was in the area at the time. The employers share a photo to the team and tell the team to get moving.
The Plan
Matrix Searches, tracking rolls, planning on where to execute the spirit search, the usual legwork begins. The team does a few searches basically instantly after the meet, but they start heading down the OU tunnels with a bit of help from Skraacha navigation to start moving north.
The Run
They manage to avoid getting super irradiated thanks to hauling pass past the underground tunnels of Glow City, but the lead takes them noticeably more north into Redmond. Finally, they catch up to the trail of the guy and come to the conclusion that he's fucked. Feral ghouls are scared and trying to evade a drone swarm that seems dead set on executing every last one of the Strain 3 critters. Triage spies the ghouls erupting in bleeding sores and guesses that they're being shot with cutter nanites. Horrified, he warrants the team shouldn't engage. Instead, they crawl under metro carriages and evade detection from most ghouls and drones. They get across to Saul and the Monolith ganger decides to take him and run down the metro tunnel while Sang Monyet distracts the team with some staffwork to make sure Triage doesn't get eaten by ghouls.
The drones escalate firepower by firing grenades, but due to the constrained proportions of the tunnels, the grenade causes the decrepit tunnel to collapse, letting a heavily injured Sang Monyet and Triage escape while Cari takes Saul to a safer-ish location.
Aftermath
Cari exchanges contact information with Saul who wishes to not be disturbed. Always a champion of the common folk, Cari lets him go and informs Ghaz and BD that the boy is alive but not willing to come and talk to them. BD is frustrated, but at least someone's life didn't end up on a pike this time around. The team reconvenes and gets a small but earned paycheck from street level work.
Rewards
- 4,000 Nuyen (2 RVP)
- 4 Karma (4 RVP)
- 10 CDP (4 RVP)
- +1 Starscreamers Reputation
- Saul Amundi gets to walk away after almost getting murked for the thirtieth time
- BD doesn't get any more intel about his mystery concern because the runners didn't give Saul's new commcode to him
- Ghaz remains perturbed as to what the case with the Skraacha hideout east of Sophocles tried to talk to him about.