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==The Meet== | ==The Meet== | ||
The meet occurs piecemeal in an Awakened BMW Luxus limousine. The limousine goes by the name of Gilgamesh and finds the troll, elves and humans to be irritating passengers. [[Katherine Tyler]] gets warned by Masaru to not cross him by going on the job. Her and [[Shy]] both get sent a pre-recorded message from Asahiro whose diviners have seen the end of a shedim infestation in the cards. Thunder, Bleach and Babylon get less ominous portents, although [[Babylon]] gets contacted by [[Silas Vespasiano]] regarding the job. [[Mojo Joe]] encounters [[Ezekyle Burton]] who reveals his nature to be that of a relatively potent Horror Show shedim wishing to be freed from the Master Shedim, who he fears may attempt to re-assert control over Burton in the future. Mojo agrees considering this being will aid him in clearing the infestation's root cause. | The meet occurs piecemeal in an Awakened BMW Luxus limousine. The limousine goes by the name of Gilgamesh and finds the troll, elves and humans to be irritating passengers. [[Katherine Tyler]] gets warned by Masaru to not cross him by going on the job. Her and [[Shy]] both get sent a pre-recorded message from Asahiro whose diviners have seen the end of a shedim infestation in the cards. Thunder, Bleach and Babylon get less ominous portents, although [[Babylon]] gets contacted by [[Silas Vespasiano]] regarding the job. [[Mojo Joe]] encounters [[Ezekyle Burton]] who reveals his nature to be that of a relatively potent Horror Show shedim wishing to be freed from the Master Shedim, who he fears may attempt to re-assert control over Burton in the future. Mojo agrees considering this being will aid him in clearing the infestation's root cause. | ||
[[Shy]] strives to aid Charon who has promised to use the Lodge's vast influence to aid the [[N-51]] in the future if she survives. | |||
[[Babylon]] plans on letting the Lodge get destroyed, she's more interested in saving the Baobhan Sith spirit pacted to Charon. | |||
[[Katherine Tyler]] intends to play both sides and destroy the Master instead of capturing it for Charon. | |||
[[Bleach]] intends to do the job and help Charon. | |||
[[Thunder]] intends to do the job and help Charon by capturing the spirit in unique mage restraints. | |||
[[Mojo Joe]] intends to destroy the Master Shedim at any cost; helping Charon or the Lodge is secondary and mostly irrelevant. | |||
==The Plan== | ==The Plan== | ||
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Summary
Charon attempts to finally strike back at Leviathan and get her body back.
Background
See The Crow of Seattle. Charon's managed to break most of the shackles keeping her in line and now seeks to regain her body by having a team assemble and capture the Force 20 Master Shedim alive.
The Meet
The meet occurs piecemeal in an Awakened BMW Luxus limousine. The limousine goes by the name of Gilgamesh and finds the troll, elves and humans to be irritating passengers. Katherine Tyler gets warned by Masaru to not cross him by going on the job. Her and Shy both get sent a pre-recorded message from Asahiro whose diviners have seen the end of a shedim infestation in the cards. Thunder, Bleach and Babylon get less ominous portents, although Babylon gets contacted by Silas Vespasiano regarding the job. Mojo Joe encounters Ezekyle Burton who reveals his nature to be that of a relatively potent Horror Show shedim wishing to be freed from the Master Shedim, who he fears may attempt to re-assert control over Burton in the future. Mojo agrees considering this being will aid him in clearing the infestation's root cause.
Shy strives to aid Charon who has promised to use the Lodge's vast influence to aid the N-51 in the future if she survives. Babylon plans on letting the Lodge get destroyed, she's more interested in saving the Baobhan Sith spirit pacted to Charon. Katherine Tyler intends to play both sides and destroy the Master instead of capturing it for Charon. Bleach intends to do the job and help Charon. Thunder intends to do the job and help Charon by capturing the spirit in unique mage restraints. Mojo Joe intends to destroy the Master Shedim at any cost; helping Charon or the Lodge is secondary and mostly irrelevant.
The Plan
The plan is at first horrifyingly bleak. Mojo received some intel about the locations: the Master has some kind of ace in the sleeve against Charon, its lair is underground, Leviathan provides it with drowned corpses of sailors lost at sea to possess and hitsquads coordinated by sea drakes will regularly mobilize to track Charon down. He also got a joker card with a question mark, though he's missing the intent of it. Limited intel is received at first, but eventually The Golden Hind manages to uncover some intel, as do Der_Opa and Treasa ke'Vedryn. The former uncovers limited information of a mage in Tacoma's docks that might be useful information-wise if she can be extracted. Trea'sa refuses to perform Astral Doppelgänger on Babylon as she's not touching this run with a ten foot pole, but offloads the responsibility to an 'acquaintance' that she guides Babylon to go meet.
The Run
This contact turns out to be Harlequin, the one who held Charon's leash before. He assures the elf is hit with the Compulsion power after a brief back and forth to betray the team at the right moment and ensure that the Master Shedim is not touched. The rest of the team discovers the true identity of the 'mage' at the Tacoma Docks -- Woedica Kryptman, a former blood mage held captive by the Draco Foundation for research purposes who is performing some kind of magical research by the docks under careful guard. They drive a boat close to do a quick smash and grab, but the security detail has a heavily augmented mundane that completely destroys Kate's speedboat and engages in a bloody, drawn out brawl with the CAS Navy trooper. In the end of the fight, much is lost and gained; Kate is almost killed in a lethal point blank explosion as a bomb is slammed right into her chestplate and detonated in a vice tight grapple by the shotgunner, Catherine. Shy, Woedica Kryptman and Bleach are all completely soaked in Kate's blood, contaminated with Strain 2 and 3. While Bleach has no injuries, having managed to get possessesed by Mojo Joe's water spirit to kidnap Woedica in the midst of chaos, Woedica and Shy are heavily injured and are exposed to both strains simultaneously. Kate finally manages to get barely conscious and pilots the stolen Vory boat away as it's barely left intact, the Draco Foundation security member having been blown out into the water by the explosion.