It's Starting Again
| It's Starting Again | |||||||||
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| ShadowHaven | Spooky Haunts | ||||||||
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Coil Stray Augur | Beccy Vaughn | ||||||||
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| Stray was infected with Slum Slime, but all runners survived | Disrupted | ||||||||
Summary
The month of October is the signal to the world that the frights should begin. Beyond the holiday cheer of Halloween and other celebrations like it, there is of course the supernatural significance of the month. It seems as if the entire world is alight with magic and spirits and beasts of all kinds. On this 3rd night of October, a group of newer runners were sent off to investigate a particular haunting at a community kitchen. An angered spirit in need of rest or banishment of some kind. It should be simple.
It never really is.
Background
Becca Voughn once ran a Konbini Store above the place of her haunting. This is a clear sign of a happy ending. She had drawn the ire of one of the members of the Red Vory, one of their higher ups. Though, ire is not exactly accurate. It was more like he believed her to be a hag who was out to curse him. Out of fear, he ordered the store to be burned down, and Becca refused to leave her beloved store. She burned in there with it, dying alongside it.
The Red Vory Boss had been killed 3 months later, apparently tripping in the shower and breaking his neck.
That was in 2074. Now, in 2085, Bone Daddy had turned the area a floor down that had been abandoned some time ago into a community kitchen, always looking out for his community. Unfortunately over the week the place had been having some difficulties. The cooks were incredibly irritable at times, always passively annoyed, some raising their voices and throwing knives and pots at times of anger and stress. One of them, Matt Eastside, seemed to be getting paranoid, irritable, and shut in even before the week. Maybe a week or two before even. Bone Daddy thought "...this place might be haunted", and without being able to muster the help of Shiawase Exorcists who didn't deem this big enough to care about, he turned to the Haven once again.
The Meet
Bone Daddy met with three other...interesting runners on the 3rd. Coil, a massive naga magician. Stray, a massive INFECTED magician. And Augur. An ex catholic. What a group. They met and discussed the basics of the job - the location, the suspected hauntings or spirit problems, all of that mess, and the price point of 2000 nuyen. This was...very low, but Augur managed to at least get Bone Daddy to offer bolt holes and places to stay for the time being after the job. With that arranged, he gave a number of places and people to speak to to start their investigation off: the cooks, a therapist who worked with them, and the shiawase exorcists. With that matter settled, the team was off.
The Plan
The matter of investigating the whole building and getting firsthand accounts of the experience was the main lynchpin of what the gang was looking for in planning. Stray outright refused to work with those corporate dogs, so the team planned to go to the therapist first and then the cooks. There was also a number of contact calls to gather background information on the building itself, which is how the team managed to find some (but not all) of the information on Ms. Voughn during their travels. After investigating the therapist and the cooks, they'd head to the kitchen itself to pin down exact location and then deal with this angry spirit. Simple!
The Run
Aftermath
Rewards
Game Quotes
Player After Action Reports (AARs)
Coil "There are Naga ancestors in some form interredin the metaplanes? I must investigate this further, this is potentially world changing for my people and its history. Also of interesting note, it seems that a ghost, may not be one and the same as a spirt, this creature was strange. Shockingly potent in astral combat. I must bolster my defense further to prepare for others like this if I am to survive a planar journey."