Under the Sea!

Under the Sea!
Date 2081-07-06 GM Chrisst111 Location Los Angeles Status Threat Level: Medium
Factions Involved
ShadowHaven	Horizon
Twitch Rigs Doris Ironclad	CorpSec Jessica Stevens

Summary

A Johnson hires Rigs, Twitch, Doris, and Ironclad to extract a high ranking undersea engineer from Horizon's new Party Egg - an underwater entertainment district - off the coast of Los Angeles.

The Meet

The team was warned that their job will require accessing an underwater location. They were offered plane tickets from SeaTac to Los Angeles, but everyone declined due to their desire to keep their heavy equipment and an abundance of vehicles that can make the trip to LA. Ironclad rode down the coast with Doris on her houseboat with most of the explosives and guns, while Rigs and Twitch drove down. Rigs outran the police while Twitch autopiloted and played VR games the entire way. Upon arriving in the half-sunken downtown area of LA where the meet was to occur, Doris moored her houseboat at a major thoroughfare and Twitch drove the team over to the high rise where they stayed the night and met the Johnson.

The Johnson wanted construction of Horizon's new Party Egg to be delayed by extracting one of the three shift engineers onsite, and chose Jessica Stevens, the night shift engineer, as the extraction target. He also requested that the team do not fully destroy or flood the structure since his organization couldn't handle that much heat. After Ironclad negotiated for SCUBA equipment and extra pay, the team accepted.

The Plan

Doris and Rigs prepared a large length of linear cutting charges in preparation for breaching a section of the Party Egg, while Twitch gathered information on the Party Egg via matrix search. Twitch found that this Party Egg was still under construction and was to be a replacement for an original structure which was destroyed by The Sea Dragon. It's a mobile glass dome structure which is capable of lowering itself down the continental shelf in order to show off deep sea life and provide other entertainment for exclusive clientele. He is able to locate the shift engineer schedule and the security complement, then discovers that Jessica is due to go on vacation within a few days.

While the facility is not fully operational, tours are still available to potential clients through a travel agency. Twitch hacks the travel agency's host and finds a tour scheduled for a marine biologist in eight hours, then edits the personnel manifest and the pickup location to suit the team. Doris orders the water spirit originally summoned to guard her houseboat to search the Party Egg for Jessica, any airlocks, and any magical security. The water spirit reports back after successfully locating Jessica, a main vehicle airlock, several auxiliary security airlocks, and no magical security detail.

The plan is to infiltrate the Party Egg by claiming to be a marine biologist and her entourage interested in using the Party Egg as a long term observation facility. Jessica and any escorts would be knocked out, and Baby would be brought to the airlock for extraction.

Aftermath

Jessica is dropped off to the Johnson successfully, and everyone chastises Rigs for not owning any nonlethal ammunition, despite Ironclad having the exact same issue. Doris has 3 meters of prepared Effective Rating 11 Linear Cutting Charges with a standard blasting cap that is still unused.

Rewards

• 12,000 NuYen
• 6 karma
• 2 CDP

Game Quotes

Doris: "It'll be fine, Rigs! You have me, and the others, and Baby, and 100 yards of rope to tow you with!" Rigs: "Uhhhhh..." Doris: "And I can just oxygenate you so that if your helmet falls off you won't drown, and if you go to the surface your lungs won't explode!" Rigs: "UHHHHHHH..." Ironclad: "GET IN THE WATER YOU TWAT!"

"Go lick that coral." - Atlatl

Ironclad: "Rigs, you're the tour guide. Twitch, you're a rich kid, Doris, you're his kid." Doris: "I'm too weird looking to be someone's kid!" Ironclad: "Naw, I've seen some weird kids."

GM: "As you descend one elevator, you see Rigs going up the other." Ironclad DNI: RIGS YA SILLY BASTARD YOU'RE GOING THE WRONG WAY! OTHER ELEVATOR! GO DOWN! Rigs DNI: wait... Doris DNI: We're down on the first floor! Rigs DNI: Are you sure? Doris DNI: Yes! Rigs is looking at a sign displaying the floor level. Ironclad DNI: No, just let me ask the descending elevator... YES I'M FUCKING SURE Rigs DNI: huh

Rigs: "Hey, man, you want a smoke?" CorpSec: "Where's your tour guide?" Rigs: "... I am the tour guide." CorpSec: "The facility tour guide." Rigs: "What facility?" Rigs shoots him with a complex full auto. Rigs: "I told you I am the tour guide!"

Twitch, after Rigs shoots a hole in the pressure shell.: "Hey, you didn't change your ammo like we talked about before?" Rigs: "What?" Twitch: "Remember when we talked about using nonlethal rounds so we wouldn't puncture the shell?" Rigs: "... Shiiiittt, I think I might have smoked some real good kush..."

Player After Action Reports (AARs)

Rigs

Shiiiit dude... First run and it's LA of all places.... Not only that it was underwater of all places.... Buttt other then that the run went just perfect, this one dude didn't belive me that I was a tour guide so I shot him. He is fine I think? Anyway bought some SnS and paid my homage to folks back home...