Ghost of a Chance
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ShadowHaven N-51 Starscreamers | 162s | ||||||||
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Ryan Danes Marionette Orchid Runner4 |
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Summary
During a humanitarian mission into Sophecles, the N-51s meet resistance from gangers, spirits, and the locals, and decide that hiring a group of diplomatically, astrally, and mechanically inclined runners would solve their problems. These are all done so in record time, and with no problems.
Background
The Meet
The meet was in Sophocles at the old field hospital, the area was rather flush with mercenaries from N-51, keeping the peace as well as keeping the local community-service serving gangers in check. La Borgornion, a medic involved with N-51 met the group outside in the cold rain. Looking closely, the group could see these mercs hadn't slept in quite a while, with some obvious signs of long-haul reliance. Stepping inside after their client, the group could see there was a surprisingly small number of patients, about 4 to be exact. As the group got down to business, Borgonion explained that the mercs had been dealing with several problems, ambushes on a number of their patrols with explosives, as well as repeated radio broadcast interruptions from some strange channels that seem to ebb and flow in their area. With the current state of the sleepless men at the FOB, N-51 decided it was time to hire runners to take care of the out-missions. Borgornion explained that a good first step would be getting in contact with a remnant of Pumpking Jack's old gang who are well-respected by the locals, though, there had been some issues in doing so, as most of the gang members appear to be mute, with certain designated individuals being marked as 'speakers' who can actually do so.
The Plan
After some discussion amongst themselves, and some negotiation for a higher per-day rate of pay, the group decided they would fiddle around with some burner commlinks in order to triangulate the source of the strange signals as they go about their other tasks, starting with investigating the ambush site. After a simple drive to the ambush location, the group exchanged credentials with the soldiers on location and were allowed in. There were 3 N-51 bodies at the location, seeming to have been torn apart from a well-placed grenade, the group (not including M3chan1c, who sent his drones out of dislike of the rain,) disembarked and started to investigate the area. According to the story, there was a 4th who survived the encounter, with a chance to fire back before being incapacitated. Looking over the bodies, it appeared that two of the soldiers immediately were torn to shreds by the grenade, with a third seeming to have only received grievous wounds, with the more obvious culprit for their demise being the mass of assault rifle rounds buried in their chest. With some investigation from Marionette, the group was lead to a nearby rooftop which could have been the lair of the ambush team, sending the drones up, a series shell casings and cigarettes proved these right, with some magical trickery, Marionette was able to dig out a recording of the event out of some of the discarded materials, which simply revealed that the group was filled with poorly-equipped guerillas which all had cybereyes installed, a the latter detail of which drew Marionette to the assumption that they must have been ghouls. After some discussion, the group counted out the Jack gangers for this attack, as they had also been shown speaking during the ambush.
Before the group left, M3chan1c got to work rigging up a basic trace on the radio signal, holing up in the Roadmaster, they grabbed their first point for their triangulation strategy. As this went down, Orchid decided to disembark and go about digging some information out of the locals in the area. Through some risque conversation, they were able to get a description of the ambush team's vehicle, a Hyundai Shin Yun, an excessively common vehicle in the area, likely something owned by a local, as well as some information that many of the locals are rather annoyed with the N-51 group, longing for the 'good old days' where Jack's gang used to run the place, keeping it secure and free, something the N-51 are struggling to do, much to the annoyance of the afflicted civilians. Thinking through the information given, the group determined that a local branch of the 162s might be involved, whether instigating the event, or being hired as a proxy by another group. With this, they returned to base to give their report in person.
Back at base, the group was told to stay back from engaging with the 162s, as the N-51s would prefer to claim the area through winning the local populace over, rather than start a gang war while the soldiers are already undermanned and sleep-deprived. While waiting on M3chan1c to run his radio trace, the group spoke with the survivor of the ambush, Hank, finding out much of the same information as they found on the scene, and gabbed some kick-ass French military rations before getting back on the road to talk to the Speaker of the Starscreamers gang.