Before they are lost to us
| Before they are lost to us | |||||||
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| Part of Dance Around The Fire That We Once Believed - The Ex-Firewatch Story | |||||||
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Shadowhaven Paladin Trash Panda Shark Evans Doyle |
Phantasm Intelligence Security Team Project Pyro Hive | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
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9 Security Staff Fleshform Wasp Scout | |||||||
Background
"Thanks to some data a team pulled, we know that there is a group of mages in danger of losing themselves. We need them extracted, stat."
The Meet
The Legwork
The Plan
The Run
Aftermath
- 3 mages join up with the Ex-Firewatch faction.
- 3 mages and 10 wageslaves escape becoming bugs.
- A security team has most of it's members die. The survivors undergo several years of therapy.
Rewards
- 8,000¥ (+2000¥ for Trash Panda)
- 8 karma
- +1 faction rep Ex-Firewatch
Player After Action Reports (AARs)
Paladin
Another bughunt, or whatever. Same J as before, this time asking us to spring some mages before they get turned into bug spirits or have to see Knight's withered 120 year old penis or whatever. Trash Panda gets the idea to live out her trid idols and decides to tunnel into it. When asked about her engineering expertise she mutters something about an earth elemental. We find the place, do some scouting in the tunnels underneath, and decide to proceed with it. She brings a whopper of a spirit that gets us to the first sublevel where I drop one of two goons holding folks. New guy, Doyle, has apparently not been informed of the less-lethal preference and the 2nd guard is quickly doing the ADPS gore dance and security goes into maximum response. Elevator opens and gets to say high to Doyle's rifle'nade. I get the terrified civilians out and moving to our microbus evac before we head up to the second sublevel just as the elemental breaches there. I'm in first, pulse weave, practicing my mantra of the fragging fraggers, raiden in one hand, blade in the other, when two goons open up on me with ex-ex. Pings off the armor and they find out being knocked off your feet and hitting your head on the way down is only moderately less painful than just getting stabbed. We find the last person we're looking for, this rambling civilian mundane, and...some guy who didn't show up on Panda's Detect Life spell. I order them to surrender in my best Dragonslayer voice and he tells me to frag off. Dragonslayer informs me to kill the drek out of this dude, immediately. I relay this to the rest of the team, and Panda complies and the dudes melts into a wasp spirit. Er. A dead one..
Later on I mentioned that last bit to the J and Panda gets a bonus but not the rest of us. Mental note, drop anyone who doesn't immediately go down to mojo, under an expansion of the Geek The Mage rule.