Ghost Train Part 2

Ghost Train Part 2
	Part of All Aboard!
Date	2085-06-02
GM	Villiers
Location	Craigellachie, Salish-Shidhe Council
Status	Threat Level: High
Factions Involved
	Funk; Ryuuji; Trades

Summary

The team makes plans to meet up near Craigellachie in the SSC before they begin their travel. The team regroups at some cabins at the Last Spike Lodging before performing some matrix legwork. Eventually, they decide to meet up with Sholeetsa, Carleton's contact with the model train society. During the drive over, the team notices some masks that had shown up in Trades' dream vision, which prompts the team to begin trying to create images of the people they saw in order to start searching for them. The team arrives at the bar and begin socializing with the club. After Ryuuji breaches the topic of the team's plan to awaken the Canadian Pacific Ghost Train, everyone heads over to the memorial to perform the ritual.

Background

After the events of Ghost Train Part 1, Carleton Moreau contacted the runners in order to finish awakening the Canadian pacific ghost train.

The Meet

The team arrives to bargain with Carleton Moreau at the Zephyr-South Multi-Use building in order to work out a deal with the team. Once the team arrives, he starts explaining the situation. He needs the team to travel to Craigellachie in order to drive the silver spike into the ground at the Last Spike memorial. However, he informs the team that he'll need them to scope out their competition at the nearby model train convention. Furthermore, there's been an additional complication. There's an ongoing wargame in the area which means that the airspace is restricted. Carleton offers to provide fake visas to the team in order to facilitate travel into the area. Some additional negotiations are finished with him offering the knowledge that a wild spirit that has been awoken can be asked for a R3 spirit marker in compensation for the act as well as offering to provide goods from Neural Net BioLogix as a potential replacement for hard nuyen.

The Plan

The team decides to split up with Ryuuji and Funk taking the team's contraband into the SSC via a blimp. Meanwhile, Trades will travel via land in her Armadillo in order to ensure that the team will have ground transportation while they're on-site. The zeppelin team manages to make their way past the security and makes it to the destination in about a day. Trades manages to pass through the SSC border without being harassed. During their trip over Funk and Trades begin performing a few matrix searches in order to gather some initial data. On her way to Last Spike Lodging, Trades is stopped by a tribal police car who just checks in to make sure that she knows where she's going. One of the officers was hoping to introduce themselves to her, so she exchanges her program carrier commlink's number with him in case they might have information about the wargame's scheduling. A little bit before Trades arrives, the team detects some Haida speakers from cabin 1 discussing taking pictures of the environment of the surrounding area. When Trades arrives at the Last Spike Lodging where the team is waiting, the police go into the main building while her team is at the third cabin.

The team heads into the camp store where they socialize with the cops for awhile. They're able to learn that both sides of the wargame are spending their off time heckling each other at the last spike memorial. Furthermore, the conflict is limited to the hours between 9 to 5. During the off-hours, the different sides generally remain separated, but do head into the nearby towns in order to find activities to keep themselves busy during the downtime. In addition, the resident of cabin 2 enters the camp store. They're flying the SIN for a "Geraldine Kim." Funk does some basic research on the different leaders of the model train club and discovers that Geraldine Kim is a 72 year old wheel chair bound woman. Trades and Funk begin poking the mystery woman's commlink to dig into their message history. It turns out that the woman has been in contact with the 3 people from cabin 1. They've planned something at the memorial tomorrow night.

The team calls Sholeetsa Two Birds who invites the team to come to a bar where Ryuuji and Trades enter to talk with the model train club. They're initially ribbed for their choice of high fashion armor at a working-class establishment. The team plays into the ribbing as they begin to circulate amongst the club. Trades chats with Deborah, the club treasurer while Ryuuji circulates and digs for information regarding The Meet CPR No. 5500 project, a plan to create a vehicle spirit in a train engine. Eventually, Ryuuji brings up the team's mission to awaken the CPGT before the group becomes ecstatic. They drunkenly suggest going immediately to the memorial in order to try awakening the train. Fortunately, Trades is able to drop into hot-sim and drive the club in 3 cars she remotely controls in order to safely deliver them to the memorial.

The Run

The team arrives at the memorial with the drunken model railway club in tow. Two groups of soldiers from the ongoing war game heckle each other across the railway tracks. Meanwhile, the team and the soused club members find a nice place for Ryuuji to surgically punch the spike into the ground. With a burst of magic, the Canadian Pacific Ghost Train materializes and thanks the gathered people for awakening it. It grants all of the people in the surrounding area a spirit marker for participating in its awakening before the team brokers a deal with it wherein they take on a status in exchange for spirit markers at appropriate intervals. With a payment of karma to begin the transaction, the team departs to get magical tattoos inked onto their skin.

Aftermath

The team, the Revelstoke Model Railway Club, a group of the 1st Brigade SDF, and a group of the 3rd Salish Rangers all receive a rating 3 spirit marker from the Canadian Pacific Ghost Train.
Carleton Moreau gains access to a covert method of transport along the trans-canadian railway so his anti-fascist associates can sneak around to accomplish their goals.
The team all pay a karma each to broker deals to take magical tattoos made with iron reagents in the ink in exchange for a spirit marker of varying durations (4 runs, when rent is paid defines weeks and months). One daily, one weekly, and so on. Each status condition is received once. Spirit markers can be negotiated for in other ways of course.

Rewards

Rewards for Ghost Train Part II
High TL - 16 RVP x1.3 Reward Multiplier: 21 RVP

20,000 nuyen - 10 RVP or 40,000 nuyen worth of gear from Neural Net Biologix

Pilot programs, autosofts, agents, weapon personalities, skill softs, lingua softs, know softs, et cetera of 18 availability or less.

10 karma - 10 RVP
Negotiation bonus - Rating 3 Spirit Mark Canadian Pacific Ghost Train
2 CDP - 1 RVP
2 CDP - base
Optional - Thunder +1 Loyalty with Carleton Moreau - 1 RVP
Optional - Trades +1 Loyalty with Carleton Moreau - 1 RVP
Optional - Sholeetsa Two Birds C4L1 - 4 RVP
Optional - Canadian Pacific Ghost Train C6L1 - 6 RVP
Optional - Trades - Start the clock on tattoo status - 1 RVP
Optional - Ryuuji - Start the clock on tattoo status - 1 RVP
Optional - Funk - Start the clock on tattoo status - 1 RVP

Game Quotes

Amusing quote from game.

Player After Action Reports (AARs)

Trades

"It was kind of surprising that we did end up just walking up to the memorial and pounding the stake in. I wonder what the guests in cabins 1 and 2 were up to? At the very least, I'm glad that making a deal with the ghost train went smoothly. Having a reliable way to transport my vehicles cross country is excellent even if I need to drive up to Vancouver to catch the train. I hope that I can work with Carleton in the future; I've enjoyed getting to work with spirits and dip my toes into magic even if I'll never be able to perform it. I'm still deciding where to put the tattoo. I'm thinking that I might put it on my arms and start forgoing my long coat."

Funk

"That was awesome! I took a blimp ride to the SSC, did some intensive Matrix Searching, and got to help awaken a Great Train Spirit! Going to the monument and having SSC troops right there was pretty scary, but I guess it helped that everyone except Trades, Ryuuji, and I were pretty drekking drunk. The model train mages being the people who worked at the monument definitely helped this all seem pretty legit I think as well! And after that, I got a pretty sweet tattoo that gets me in good with the spirit, or so Trades tells me. I guess I need to stock up on iron reagents and a sledgehammer? Now, if this Ghost-damned tattoo would just stop itching already-"{end of message}