This Is Halloween, Part 2
| This Is Halloween, Part 2 | |||||||||
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| Part of Hail to the Pumpking | |||||||||
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ShadowHaven Pump King Jack | Horizon | ||||||||
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Babylon Swerve Lumina Cleaner Cleaner |
Horizon Black Ops Team Hotel California | ||||||||
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| Swerve's clothes | Horizon Black Ops | ||||||||
Summary
The Sophocles community council is acting weird, people discover two of them are probably brainwashed by Horizon's psy op division.
Background
After the Starscreamers and Pump-King Jack took over Sophocles and he was subsequently banished, the area had been relatively untouched by outside interests. The Vory's debt-racketing hospital was demolished, other gangs didn't have much interest in toiling with such a dangerous and demonic gang and after the fact the place was so steeped in rancid astral energies that few wanted to have anything to do with it. Seizing the opportunity, locals formed their own Community Council to decide on matters pertaining to Sophocles.
The Meet
The meet happens in the City Hall, a repurposed office building that the Community Council decided to just outright start squatting in for their meetings. When the team arrives, they find Bone Daddy, a local full-body-replacement cyborg with tailored greyware implants looking like human bones. He and two former Starscreamers opened fire and declared the Community Council to be hostages until the runners' job is done. BD explains to the team that recently more and more of the council has started to vote pro-corporate which should be the opposite of the council's purpose: staying independent. He wants them to check the whole council lineup for foul play, or if they're just really feeling that way. One of the council members, Jennifer Ashton, has pull over a lot of the young men in Sophocles and will no doubt accrue a hate mob outside if she's gone for eight hours or longer. Things might get ugly and collateral damage is possible if the team can't solve it in that time, so that's the guaranteed safety limit he offers. Past that, things will get difficult.
The Plan
Swerve and Babylon aim to interrogate every council member while CC and Lumina do security around the building, ensuring no weird people are in there and occasionally hitting the field to investigate leads.
The Run
The investigation starts bit by bit. BD offers crude dossiers on all of the members:
- Mason Stonehall is a large Fomorian Troll and a Magic 8 Physical Adept who owns a Stonehome-built single family apartment in Sophocles, the only one of its kind. Some suspect he's a drake, he's also wealthy.
- Eunie Jacques Myria was an Ares SINner approached during her graduation by Shiawase. Apparently they tried poaching her, she refused and as revenge she was framed for corporate espionage, losing her future in Ares. She's now stuck here.
- Jennifer Ashton is a former fashion supermodel for Horizon. She toured across the world but at some point lost favor and was kicked out of her circles. She now collects e-orbiters to fuel her ego in Sophocles.
- The Speaker is a former Starscreamers member, her aura tainted by blood magic despite being mundane and her eyes replaced with blood crystals that can assense people.
- Eustace is a man who has been across Canada and American continents, rolling with various gangs and generally flirts with anyone he finds attractive.
- Raphael Vidius is a devout Christian who cares about community safety and is vehemently anti-Infected.
Aftermath
Rewards
Game Quotes
Player After Action Reports (AARs)
Lumina: "So Horizon was behind it all, using mind magic to manipulate members of the council? I suppose that explains the mind magic that was attempted on me from those corporate infiltrators. Those men were dangerous, wielding laser weapons that put a lot of strain on me while I was being shot at with them. It's a miracle I survived at all, and thankfully, we were able to stop them before things escalated out of control."