Bellevue Blunders
| Bellevue Blunders | |||||||
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| Part of Get Off My Lawn | |||||||
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Usagi Tanuki Rambozo Moth Kani |
SpinGlobal Game Over Gang NeoNeon | ||||||
Summary
The runners became aware of an attack on their neighborhood. A gang, the Game Over gang, was trying to claim their neighborhood as its turf. The gang appeared to be all women, dressed in very bright neon colors. They were playing absolutely terrible music. Corporate drek.
The runners fought back, and defeated the attackers. They saved two hostages.
With the fight over, they investigated who was behind the attack, and got some leads.
Background
The runners were already on edge. Someone named NeoNeon had attacked Usagi, and most of the haven, with a virus that caused their user name to cycle through names intended to embarrass the runner.
The runners were having quiet evenings at home when two cars of gangers pulled up to the neighborhood corner store. Two gangers went inside, and two remained outside. AR tags began to flood the neighborhood, even as they began to physically grafitti the store.
The runners who were home that night made their way to the store.
Each took a moment to 'gear up' for trouble, choosing what to wear and what to bring with them, to defend their homes.
The Meet
Usagi arrived first and began to try to talk the gang into leaving peacefully, but one of the gang members got right in his face, holding a gun to his neck.
Usagi alerted the neighborhood via DNI, connecting the friends.
Tanuki and Rambozo arrived next, tearing down the road in Tanuki's vehicle, and quickly disabled one of the vehicles.
Moth walked up next, rallying them over the DNI with inspiring words.
Kani had to wait for full sunset, and kicked open the door to the 2nd story balcony of Wolf House, and took up a sniper position.
The Plan
Everyone wanted to defend their home, and make sure the neighborhood was safe. And learn who was behind the attack.
The runners began with a goal of using non-lethal means. A focus on disarming the gangers and getting them to surrender.
But it became clear that the gang was there for murder. Specifically with silver weapons to try to kill Kani.
The Run
It was quite a battle.
The Game Over gangers appeared ill informed as to who exactly lived on the street, beyond preparations to kill a vampire. But they were well equipped. Expensive gear, suggesting corporate levels of funding.
Usagi subdued one ganger, convincing her to surrender, and faced down a drone that was shooting a lot of guns. He shrugged off all the gunfire, taking only the slightest damage. He destroyed the gun drone with a devastating attack.
Tanuki initially focused on taking out the vehicles, disabling one quickly.
Rambozo dropped a striker rigged to explode into the second vehicle, and then fought with two gangers out front of the store. He began by grappling one, but she proved to be an adept and hit him with a powerful touch attack, though he largely shrugged it off. He managed to knock her unconscious, but the second ganger in front of the store kept fighting him. Even trying to kick him (nutcracker style) when she was disarmed.
Kani had managed to disarm the two gangers in front of the store by shooting off their gun belts, bricking their guns, and causing their pants to drop to their ankles. She then shot a sword at of one of their hands, embedding it in the side of the store. She jumped down to the street to continue the fight.
Moth kept encouraging everyone to work quickly and to really shine, while not killing anyone unnecessarily.
The stakes were raised by several events that happened next.
First, a third vehicle approached and hit Kani with a flash bang grenade coated in silver, catching Moth also in the radius of the blast. Silver!
Then, it became clear that there was an invisible attacker. Something on all fours?
Then, the runners fighting their way to the store realized that there were two hostages inside. The store's owner and Inigo, a sweet kid from the neighborhood who had been friendly to the runners.
Kani became totally focused on the vehicle launching the silver grenades. She hit it with a powerful gun blast that completely destroyed the vehicle, ejecting the nearly dead rigger.
More drones and rigger-controlled attack devices rained down from the sky, rendered useless.
Usagi walked right between Rambozo and the ganger fighting him to get into the store, and caught sight of the hostages.
Kani ignored the invisible attacker, knowing she was much faster, inspired as she was, and had several actions more before it could act again, and ran over and got a trauma patch on the nearly dead rigger.
Usagi and Rambozo coordinated to attack the two gangers holding the two hostages. Usagi shot one through the mouth, cleaning severing the spine, so the body would not twitch and pull the trigger on the hostage. Rambozo used stick and shock to knock the other unconscious, while pushing the woman still fighting him out of the way so he could take the shot.
The two hostages were saved! But Inigo was so incensed that he grabbed a pair of scissors and looked like he was going to attack the unconscious ganger. Usagi intervened and got Inigo to back off and run home to his family, before the boy committed any violence.
Moth and Tanuki kept rallying the runners to keep doing what was needed to save the neighborhood and the innocent hostages, helping make it all possible.
The invisible attacker clawed at Kani. Silvered claws!
Kani was able to knock the invisible attacker unconscious. It turned out to be a surgeling panther, with silvered claws and silver in her fur.
There was now only one conscious ganger left. The one who had been fighting Rambozo, and was mostly wearing green. Surely she would not last long against the team. However, she put up a darn good fight. Usagi, Rambozo, and