Pull It By The Roots

Pull It By The Roots
Part of Festering Infestation
Date 2081-12-12 GM Asmodeus Location Renton Status Threat Level: Medium
Factions Involved
ShadowHaven Skraacha	Tamanous
Samsara Skimmer Marionette Stygian Ghaz Amelie and Jean-Baptiste	Organ Tank L'etranger
Casualties and losses
	Organ Tank

Summary

FInally, the source of the ghoul infestation is revealed: a Tamanous dumping ground for burnt out organ farm victims.

Background

For the last month or so, Renton has been destabilized by the Renton Crusade, an amalgamation of metaracist gangs headed by Carolina Petrovski, a Humanis cell leader. Under the streets, however, the situation's been just as bad. A horde of ghouls has harassed a Skraacha settlement built into an underground parking lot/storage warehouse. After building a set of barricades in the Underground's tunnels to prevent further incursions and receiving Skraacha reinforcements, the settlement's acquired breathing room. Defensive measures only go so far, however. It's time to go on the offensive and (title drop) pull the problem by the roots.

The Meet

While Skimmer and Samsara are already familiar with the situation, they are happy to encounter some fresh faces like Marionette and Stygian, all of which find their way on site relatively easily. A young elven boy is eagerly serving soykaf and running around barefeet, helping where-ever he can. Upon entering the lone saloon built into the underground favela, titled the 'p-ORK CHOPPERS' the group meet Ghaz drinking a mixture of Hurlg and Jack Daniels whiskey. He pitches a shot glass of the latter for both Samsara and Skimmer as familiar faces and offers the team the following information: Skraacha scouts have moved carefully on the surface and pinpointed a building that connects to The Pit, a location in the OU where the ghoul horde often congregates to feed on corpses that are dumped down a garbage disposal hatch. He can't provide incredible amounts of detail due to increased tensions limiting his scouts' time table topside, but gives them a location, a route and a limited visual feed. While Ghaz is getting close to dry on nuyen, he instead offers some of the merchandise he's been supplying: EX-Explosive rounds of various calibers, while Samsara is offered a ruthenium-polymer cloak to let her be a bit more discreet.

The Plan

Once the team gets on site, they try to find a discreet location to park at and after some failures succeed. The legwork begins: hacking two local cameras and doing some lockpicking in a back alley, the team obtains enough information to start investigating. Their task is to obtain information about the origin of this ghoul horde, and this is as close to a source as they can get. Whether it's the infection vector is another question entirely.

Aftermath

For Skimmer and Marionette: Up to 300 rounds of EX-Explosive Rounds of his choosing (assault rifle, heavy pistol, etc.); cost is 50% of usual due to being given as a gear reward For Sarcarian: Ruthenium Polymer Cloak R4 which costs 8,000 Nuyen due to being given as a gear reward For Stygian: Amelie and Jean-Baptiste +1 Connection (deduct 5 RVP from the default rewards)

Rewards

• 8,000 Nuyen
• 9 Karma
• 2 CDP
• 1 Skraacha Faction Rep
• For Skimmer and Marionette: Up to 300 rounds of EX-Explosive Rounds of his choosing (assault rifle, heavy pistol, etc.); cost is 50% of usual due to being given as a gear reward
• For Samsara: Ruthenium Polymer Cloak R4; replaces the 8,000 Nuyen bounty for the run
• For Stygian: Amelie and Jean-Baptiste's Connection Rating is increased by +1. Reduce 5 RVP from the run rewards to compensate.

Game Quotes

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