"ZZ Top?" "No! I said Isotopes!"

"ZZ Top?" "No! I said Isotopes!"
Date 2083-10-DD08"2083-10-DD08" contains an extrinsic dash or other characters that are invalid for a date interpretation. GM Zerre Location {{{place}}} Status Threat Level: Extreme
Factions Involved
ShadowHaven	Green Paradise	Psychotic Wizard Fuck
Ryan Danes Pell Nu11st@ck Corpse Maker Heart of the Tempest	Mad Dog Michelle Terran Warren Gordon Steele	Chernobog
Casualties and losses
	All, Steele-Deceased	All, Chernobog-Deceased

Summary

After losing a shipment of radioactive isotope in a magic-heavy hijacking, Johnson hires a group of runners get her goods back, sending the group through investigation, intrigue, and into the heart of a raging volcano to get the goods back home.

The Run

Poking over the wall, Tempest fired off a powerful stunbolt to start the fight, slinging it straight towards Michelle, immediately knocking the mage off her feet and leaving the party open for their battle plan. Pell stepped into the gateway, raising her weapon and blasting off a shot towards Mad Dog, the gel-round they fired immediately knocking the leader out, giving him a bloody nose as they collapsed to the ground. Following up, M3chan1c drove up, blocking the gateway as his mounted minigun hosed down one of the remaining terrorists, leaving them barely standing under the hail of Gel Rounds, leading to the wounded soldier throwing a pathetic shot towards Pell, who gracefully danced to the side, dodging the shot just before impact. Null fired off a flash grenade, dazing the soldiers as they desperately tried to return fire, the previously wounded one collapsing as a pair of his comrades fired off towards Pell, earning them both a pair of misses against the graceful gunner. Retaliating, M3chan1c's AI drone flew over the wall, bathing one of the struggling holdouts in gel-rounds, sending them hurtling across one of the nearby cars. Once again, Another flash bang soared over the wall thanks to Corpse Maker's drones, eliciting even more panic from the standing soldiers. Seeing that the group already had enough enemies taken alive, Tempest decided to end things with a bang, firing off a lightning bolt to instantly fry one of the fleeing soldiers to a crisp, as Pell followed off with another shot to the final target, sending them spiraling into the dirt with an impressively shot gel round, cracking the poor punk's skull with what was supposed to be a non-lethal round.

Taking their hostages inside the motel, the group got to to work on their investigation. Pell called out to the others, realizing that the mage in this group wasn't exactly a toxic one, meaning they still had one individual from the attack unaccounted for. As Nu11 got to work cracking their commlinks, he quickly found information about the job, these terrorists were hired to deliver the stolen isotope to a man named Chernobog. According to their messages, Chernobog was meant to swing by the motel to pick up the package and deliver payment rather recently, as a comm code was left wide open, the decker took full advantage of it, tracing the commlink back to a cave within the volcano. As the group gathered up to head off to the next location, M3chan1c called one of his contacts, Frank Grover, in order to report the unconscious and tied up terrorists, turning them in in exchange for some good reputation with Knight-Errant.

As the group made their way off towards the cave, amidst the heavy heat, the group's geiger counters started to tick off, getting rather intense near the entrance of the cave. Putting two and two together, Pell realized just what Chernobog's plan was, creating a nuclear spirit factory due to the interaction between the radioactive material and the active volcano. Realizing they didn't want to waste any time, the group hopped out and made their way for the cave, sneaking carefully inside. Stepping into the main threshold, the group spotted a massive fire spirit held within a ward with the isotope, flanked by a pair of smaller nuclear spirits, with no sign of Chernobog, with the area being violently bathed in radiation, realizing the situation called for immediate action, the party prepared to fight, with Pell tripping over a spare rock and alerting the enemies to the group's presence.

Scanning the area within the astral, Pell found the missing supervillain, Chernobog, lurking around the fire spirit's ward. Raising her rifle, she fired off in his direction, blowing out the chest of the nuclear spirit standing in the way of her shot, immediately causing it to vaporize before her. Pulling up his Lynx, M3chan1c fired off a shot towards the remaining nuclear spirit, blasting off a large chunk of its form, the beast barely standing as it bled radioactive waste and howled at the paty. Looking back into the room, a powerful blast of radiation shot out from beside the ward, a shot from the resident toxic mage, while most of the runners were able to jump out of the way, Tempest unfortunately was caught in the blast, taking some exposure but resisting their body's urge to vomit as they began to suffer radiation's effects. Nu11 sent one of their drones forwards, firing off a blast at the remaining nuclear spirit, taking off more of their ethereal form as the beast charged for Pell. Upon reaching Pell, the spirit lunged forward in attack, thankfully being skillfully dodged by Pell as she hit the dirt just in time to avoid getting roasted. Quickly retaliating, Tempest fired off a mana bolt in response, dispelling the spirit before it had a chance to retaliate. As M3chan1c's drone flew forward, firing out blindly towards the source of the earlier radiation blast, managing to nail the hiding mage with a few shots. Leaping forward, the Mage dropped his invisibility spell, screaming madly "If I'm going down, You're coming with me!" as he fired off a powerful radiation beam, Pell, missing his shot as he collapsed on the ground, dead from magical drain, just in time for the fire spirit, previously trapped within the mage's ward, to step out and incinerate the cursed mage, before demanding the party take their cursed material and leave, an action which the runners rather frantically completed, scooting out of the cave before they pissed off the very large and angry being made of fire. As the runners left, the spirit gave off a gracious thanks before turning to purge its home of the taint Chernobog brought in.

Game Quotes

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Player After Action Reports (AARs)

Nu11st@ck: "Toxic mages, toxic spirits, captured free fire spirits.. Too much magic. I like a good spell as much as the next but cant these guys just leave nature alone. Last thing we need is that dam volcano erupting again."