The Legend of the Mars Bars
| The Legend of the Mars Bars | |||||||
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ShadowHaven Bruno Pereira | Metagenica Research Consortium (MRC) | ||||||
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Ironclad Koi Moth | |||||||
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| 1 leader ghoul; 15 feral ghoul | |||||||
Summary
The runners got into a conversation about Mars bars, and decided to try to find some for Ironclad who was craving them. A remembered flavor from his youth. After chasing a number of leads, they learned of a bunker connected to a building Moth had helped clear for Bruno Pereira and his refugees the prior week.
They explored the bunker - a preserved slice of history - finding a number of relics of interest, and ultimately the Mars bars. They donated all they found to Bruno's group to continue to build up their hideaway.
But they also found a ghoul cult, and a nefarious plot that is going to take a lot more effort to explore...
Background
Bruno Pereira and a group of refugees were fleeing a gang war, involving two factions of the Halloweeners. Previously, Ironclad had helped protect innocents and punished the gang factions for their violence; see report.
And then, Bruno had gotten help from Moth to clear the future site of the hideaway - a nest of buildings hidden in an overgrown park. See report. In the course of clearing the buildings, Moth and her runner companions found a saferoom at the bottom of one of the buildings. They also found a toxic pollution spirit in the shape of a sewage rat.
The Meet
When Ironclad, Koi, and Moth initially met up, they weren't sure where to begin to search for Mars bars. With some matrix searching, they began to realize that they would need a place that was stocked historically, and not touched since. An underground bunker, either owned by a private citizen like a disaster prepper, or by the military. But where could they find a bunker like that in Seattle? The three most likely locations were Everett, Redmond, or Puyallup. They reasoned that there ought to be financial records of a structure like that - building permits?, purchase history? But, in many cases, the records would be pre-2011 when so much data was lost. Any remaining records would be too rare to find in a public library.
Ironclad reached out to Ruben the Scottish Kid, who had access to a college's libraries and academic professors. Perhaps he could find the related records? Ruben initially struggled and Ironclad badgered him relentlessly, an angry drill sergeant. The boy burst into tears. He eventually produced information about a construction that did a wide range of construction in the period of interest (from 1935 forward, when the candy bars were first available), including some underground construction. Moth was concerned by how the boy had been treated, and encouraged Ironclad to apologize and offer the boy a homemade meal to make it up to him. While Ruben did not immediately respond, he eventually admitted that his favorite food was breaded chicken fingers.