Rise of Jaguar News
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ShadowHaven Aztechnology Corp. | Horizon Corp Runners | ||||||||
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Ryan Danes Ahriman Dez Throwback |
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Summary
Background
The Meet
The Plan
The Run
The first spirit raising its arms in a fear-inducing shriek, a split second passing before a banishment from Ahriman dissipated them instantly, followed immediately by the second being blown to astral wisps as a shot from M3chan1c ended it. Following this, one of the rigger's drones turned about, firing out at one of the drones mounted up outside, blasting a chunk out of its armor and sending the thing on a banzai charge towards the Rigger van, setting off a massive C4 charge, which merely rocked the vehicle without causing any major damage. Seeing this wasn't effective, a pair of the remaining drones popped out their secondary weapons, sending a pair of rockets careening towards the runners, the first being stopped by another of the hostile drones, with the second blasting into the van, rattling the hinges a bit as the runners shouted from within.
While throwback got to work trying to tag the drones for the other runners, Dex sprinted for the antenna, installing the datatap and getting the matrix-runners access inside finally, surprisingly, M3chan1c was surprised to see this action result in the marks on his deck suddenly disappear just as this went about, while the hostile drones began to waiver and struggle to fight back against the running team. Firing off another coordinated strike with his dogbrained drone, M3chan1c was able to eliminate the remaining dobermans outside, watching them explode in fire and shrapnel as the runners took a moment to catch their breath.
Looking through the camera provided by the datatap, the runners got a sight of one of their targets and some hostages, a quick trace showed them exactly where they were looking. Stepping up to the main door, Throwback and a cloaked Doberman drone pried open the front door, spotting a de-powered, empty hallway, thinking better of this path, the runners dipped back out, standing up on a physical barrier produced by Dez as they cut open a window on the second floor. Before the runners stepped inside, M3chan1c called out a tripwire, looking up, the runners spotted a grenade bouquet, with another... and another... Sending M3chan1c's drone in first, the rigger was able to quickly disarm the series of explosives throughout the floor, carefully stockpiling the grenades for potential use later as the runners made their way to the hostage's room.
Getting a call from J, the runners were suddenly informed of the missing information on their third HVT, a physical adept Orc, following his profile, the runners immediately groaned, requesting whether or not the HVT could be harmed, but not killed in the pursuit of rescuing them. With a promise of digression from Johnson, the runners planned to go as non-lethal as possible against the potentially mind-controlled HVT.
On the way, a series of propane tanks were spotted through the floor, coated in nails dripping with a red substance. Cracking open the door with their technomancer abilities, Throwback opened the door, being alerted to a pair of icons in the room, he reached up, popping open the vent, one of the HVT's dropped out of the ceiling, setting the runner's numbers to 2/3 targets.
As the first HVT's and standard hostages were extracted, one of the pair, the news reporter, produced a detonator, warning the runners of a bomb placed downstairs in the hostile team's van, linked to the specific detonator through a radio signal. Taking the device, gathering the signal, and then disarming the physical mechanism, the runners were patched the radio signal needed to blow up the van in case of emergency. Having disarmed the enemy team's ace in the hole, the runners made their way upstairs, carefully opening the door with m3chan1c's drone and sending in a fly spy, all that could be found was a pile of cellphones and a camera smeared with jam.
Realizing the distraction, the runners made their way downstairs, stacking up the same way before, the runners opened the door, triggering a kitchen timer which sent the group running, expecting a trap of some sort. Though, as the runners sprinted off, the sounds of nails on tile sounded off, following the group, eventually revealing a fox with a jacket and a trode setup mounted on it. After a token attempt from Dex to calm the critter down and bring it back over his way, the creature continued to sprint off for the exit, Sensing a potential threat, M3chan1c's drone UNDER ORDERS FROM THE PARTY AND VERY DEFINITELY ON AUTOPILOT AND NOT ANYTHING ELSE proceeded to taze the ever-living shit out of it, sending the creature screeching and sprinting towards the rest of the evacuees.
Stepping into the first floor, a rack of employee of the month portraits were first seen, parading the fox as the most responsible and beloved member of the entire team, after an agreement that it was probably completely deserved, the runners investigated the first floor, not spotting anything majorly threatening, and finding the garage empty of anything concerning. Making their way to the massive steel basement door, the entry team got to work prying the doorway open, feeling the background count raise suddenly as the lab was exposed, with essence-consuming fungus coating the area, and the many corpses laying across the floor plan.
Not wanting to die an excruciating death, the physical runners sent out their personal drones to join M3chan1c's in the basement. Scanning over the area, it appeared that there must have been some kind of containment breach causing the infestation and killing both the opfor team and the researchers down below. Dipping in further, the drones were able to spot their target, alive, and still within a sealed room. As the runners got to work preparing their extraction strategy, M3chan1c's rotodrone pinged the party with a warning of approaching hostiles, jumping into the sniper bot, M3chan1c watched a drone with a machine gun zip into the building before he could bring his weapon to bear, spotting a twitching troll with a massive sword making their way for the entryway the runners had made, he started the fight by sending a round square into the metahuman's shoulder. As the shot impacted, an adept moving at a speed so high it skipped the drone's sensors sprinted into the building and slammed into Throwback, stunning the runner a bit, who retaliated with their shotgun, barely missing the speedster, as well as a jostled shot from Dez bouncing a napalm spell about the room, missing both enemy and ally as it bounced off the wall, then back towards the target who managed to barely dodge it with a sprint for his very life.
Swinging with a scabbard-covered sword, the troll sam stormed into the room, taking a swing at the runners and barely missing Dex, with the rotodrone retaliating with a laser blast, downing the troll, and forcing the speedy adept to flee with the rest of his team, giving the runners some breathing room.
Aftermath
The runners managed to remotely free their final VIP, escorting them out, as well as the downed troll. After discussing the fact that this runner had gone non-lethal in going after the party, it was decided they would dump them somewhere obscure as a token of respect between runners.
Just as this was finished, the runners gathered over at the van, eventually meeting up with Johnson. Answering some question, and explaining just how much he DIDN'T want to know what they found down below, the runners were quickly paid, and made their separate ways.