The Curious Ascension of Epsilon Grey
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ShadowHaven The Grey | Wuxing but not really | ||||||||
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Geodesic Hierophant Invictus Ubuntu Colcannon | Template:Mr. Zhang | ||||||||
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| The initial run date for this run is off because we lost the thread on he great thread lossening of 7/30/2025 so I just put in finishing date and told the team to use the AAR as the run link. | |||||||||
Summary
Vic brings our team a "straightforward" extraction that takes them on an international bullet train to weirdsville as they end up a summit of increasingly bizarre parties, and ultimately lead to betray their client with an offer they can't refuse.
Background
Marcy Zhang, aka Episilom Grey was an early admission prodigy to MIT&T, who took a Senior trip with her father and met Pierre Duboise and Madalyn Zaropfsky of the Realism church. She saw a chance to ascend out of a boring life strapped to the Wuxing hierarchy and out of the tradition and jumped on it. Her father had other ideas, contracting Vic to hire a running team to retrieve her,but ultimately not trusting the team and forcing their hand to a resolution that did not end well for him.
The Meet
Vic meets the team at Lakewood Shezan in Tacoma and lays out the basics, ultimately convincing them to take the job at rate and stonewalling most advanced measures.
He does give the team their initial 20K operator fund and informs them that's all he's got from the client so far.
The team stays and a couple of them eat lightly before they decide to search out the target using spirits and a a magical approach and realize she is likely not in the Seattle Metroplex that night.
The Plan
The team decides to brace her Boyfriend and go from there.
The Run
The team tracked down her boyfriend and stuck out his stuffer shack job until he left. Grabbing him and bracing him to find out that she was no longer his GF, and now was seeing Gamma Grey, local chapter leader of spirit cult/gang "The Grey" and that she had gone to San Fransisco to seek "ascension" under Dr. Grey's scalpel.
The team opted to hop on the bullet train to San Fransisco at this point and attempt to stop the surgery from happening, lest he client not want his kid back turned into an alien freak. On the way out of the town Geodesic made a fly spy tail and traced it back to the Wuxing warehouse the father worked at. Running matrix searches as they head to San Fransisco.
It did not take long for them to find themselves heading into the heart of they Grey's 8 blocks of the Mission District in San Fransisco, with half the team taking up position across from a party and Ubuntu and Invictus walking straight to the door and schmoozing their way into the party.
The party itself was not at all what was expected. The Grey's "alien ship" interior made for an ineteresting backdrop and Epsilom's ascension was performed in front of a large crowd of assembled Grey, Psions and members of the Realism church. All of them tied together by the efforts of Epsilon.
Invictus identifies gamma and gets an opportunity to chat, after the ascension at hand. EPisolon gets her surgery and Doc Grey retreats from the public eye, allowing the threee factions to mingle where he can keep eyes on.
The team gets made on the opposite roof and invited to the party. Where they do manage to keep from their unique traits and attitudes from blowing the job for 45 minutes, and watch the ascension of Epsiolon, as well as the ascension of The Grey to an official sect of the Realism faith, and increasingly popular among the Psionics. In 10 more years, Gamma notes, Epsilon might be in charge of this entire growing conglomerate.
Aftermath
Rewards
8.5 hours 1.4 Multiplier on 17 RVP= 24 RVP.
24000 Nuyen (12 RVP) (Can be taken as gear rewards for Lifestyle, Foci up to 18F, Reagents, Drugs.) 5 Karma (5 RVP) Vic (3/2 Freelance J) 4 RVP (Owes 2 Chips if Selected.) Or Gamma Gey (2/2 Gang Boss) 3 RVP and an additional 2000k/Gear Reward(1 RVP). 6 CDP (2 RVP) 1 Street Cred (1 RVP) Invictus may purchase Closer at Chargen Rate. (I think that's 3?)
+2 Reputation The Grey +1 Reputation Psionic College -10 Reputation Colcannon- San Francisco Transit Authority/SFPD (Will be stopped and detailed for questioning on a possible magic use in public violation. )
Notoriety 1 Everyone: Client Betrayal- Mr. Zhang talks drek. (Would have been worse, Vic stepped on him pretty hard so it's limited to public circles and his friends not big wuxing negative rep, fyi. ) Notoriety 1: Invictus (Mind Magic)
Game Quotes
Player After Action Reports (AARs)
"Well that was... a thing. Not sure which was stranger, the cult of aliens, the Realies, the Wuxing folks, or the fact that this ultimately turned into a really fraggin' epic case of Mommy/Daddy issues. Therapy, therapy for all you bitches." - Invictus