Emergency Decathlon
| Emergency Decathlon | |||||||||
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| Part of The Crow of Seattle | |||||||||
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| Factions Involved | |||||||||
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ShadowHaven The Golden Hind Asahiro Kunitoshi Proteus AG | Shedim | ||||||||
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Katherine Tyler Samsara | Unbreakables | ||||||||
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| Kate's confidence got a minor bump. | All and none. Depends on perspective. | ||||||||
| Counts as Ascension/Initiation if desired. | |||||||||
Summary
Samsara and Kate put their running shoes on. Kate almost kills herself, Samsara almost splatters into a wall and Kate duels Asahiro.
Background
Due to the events of Idiot you negotiated with a dragon there's a power player on the board: a Master Shedim enslaved by Leviathan, the Great Sea Dragon. It uses its Astral Gateway power to bring in more power from its own plane and uses these pawns to infiltrate the Black Lodge; however this also means there's more Shedim on this side of the globe.
The Meet
The meet happens after some pains with Bautista and the The Golden Hind. Kate was forwarded the request by Asahiro Kunitoshi who wants her to see if she can find any useful data from the obvious Proteus AG job. They meet two scientists huddled in a dark room over a singular online trid projector terminal: Dr. Keller Cross and Dr. Richard Rosenberg. Cross has a kink bomb in his head, Rosenberg a F12 geas. They elaborate that some worker in the facility violated security protocols and opened a cargo door to go out for a smoke during a break instead of going through a ward. This apparently had let shedim inside that began to wreak havoc in the area and managed to catch the deep sea HTR team off guard. The HTR's abandoned vessels are now trapped in the lower levels, but they also mangled the main generator, preventing the arcoblock from having enough power. Strained long enough, the other generators won't be able to compensate forever and the entire arcoblock will sink, not to mention letting the corpses free. The duet accept the job, not wanting civilians to die (and if Dr. Cross or Dr. Rosenberg had called Proteus AG management their families would've been fired for this level of fuck-up).