ALIENS?!
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ShadowHaven Skraacha Underhaven Grotto Hotel The Grey | Major Corp | ||||||||
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Huntress Moreau Zero Alkali Samsara |
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Summary
Following up on Underhaven Grotto Prep 1, The Grey sent their main Los Angeles enforcer with his team down the tunnels to look for the terrible vibes. They have been gone for almost a month, leading to Gamma reporting in to the underhaven and getting some additional support from a few places to hire a team of runners with very specific skills and organizational ties to check out a major problem in the deep Bellevue underground.
Background
The Underhaven Hotel Skraacha have maintained stable roads from the hotel to the Bellevue access tunnel controlled by The Grey for about 7 months now, everyone casually ignoring the trouble down deep underground. When the Undergrotto Hotel folks demanded an accounting, the Grey sent a team from Los Angeles to investigate. That team quickly turned into hosts for bug larvae as their leader went full bug shaman.
The Meet
Gator reached out to Moreau and asked to help out a friend where some gators had disappeared underground doing some work for. Gamma Grey reached out directly to Samsara through Warboss and then Weirdboi Zero was texted an invite to the meet by Whistleblower Hamish reached out to Alkali and told him to go help out with a little thing. Horned Bear was contacted by the grey, and Huntress was deployed by Ashen Hand to get a look at that section of the underground and the operation of the gang and the syndicate.
Gamma Grey met the team at a Social Hall in the Northwestern Redmond neighborhood the Grey have taken over. Observing the streets to be relatively chill as far as the traveling laymen could see. As they began to scope the gang itself a few eyebrows were raised, but not many. Gamma explained he situation and laid out a significant reward up front. The team asked for a bit of extra ware or
The Plan
The gang, upon hearing it was likely a spiritual incursion, headed directly down to the tunnels to explore and raise hell with minimum preparation.
The Run
The team took to the tunnels quickly. About an hour into the depths they encountered a pack of ghouls that they promptly slipped past without confrontation, they also encountered a new warren of young orks using a tributary tunnel to steal the horizon drones that had drifted down that way.
The Background Count steadily increased as they headed down, leading to an astrally scouting Alkali to encounter an enganknto that had recently arrived and wanted to offer a contract. Alkali beat it's influence on the way past.
Eventually they would find a branch tunnel with multiple possesed flesh form metahumans in an unconcious dormant form and one cicada infused tiger.
They managed to get the drop on the tiger, taking it out as they cleared the hive mind, then they detected the channting in a room behind.
They found Delta Grey, clearly defected to foreign powers, in the process of turning a Nymph into a queen. The team stormed the room silently, getting an early attack and largely taking out the shaman in the first few seconds. The surprise round allowing them to largely clean up the haphazard collection of Century Cicada that had been taking over the Grey and leaving Dormant bodies down here for who knows how long at this point.
The fluctuating background count caused by Zero's Aura, Alkali's cleansing, the bug ritual and a lot of death destabilized the alchera portion of the cave, sending everyone running and jumping out of it just in the nick of time before the tributary tunnel seemed to cave in.
Aftermath
Thankfully things went relatively well for the runners in the explore and rescue team.
The team returned Delta's head to Gamma, and explained the situation as delicately as possible. Got their pay, and took word of the potentially much worse infestation below to their individual groups. Anyone accepting the implants does travel to San Fransisco to go under the knife at Dr. Grey's private office and lab.
All signs point to a queen being active in the OU, and one that seems disinterested in he nest she left behind for a Shaman to grow.
Rewards
20K Cash Reward (4K of that was upfront) or up to 40K in Foci, Reagents, Magical Gear, Cyberware/Bioware up to Beta 18 availability installed by a strangely professional Dr. Grey. (10 RVP, Can be split so long as evenly on RVP lines)
7 Karma (7 RVP)
4 CDP (1 RVP)
+1 Reputation Skraacha +1 Reputation Underhaven Grotto Hotel +2 Reputation The Grey +1 Wild Reputation +1 Reputation Streets of Redmond
Huntress: +1 Reputation, Horned Bear Addiction: Kami
Optional Contact: Gamma Grey https://shreloaded.net/wiki/Gamma_Grey 2/2 3 CDP/RVP
1 Rank Battle Hardened at Chargen Cost
Game Quotes
Player After Action Reports (AARs)
Huntress: "I believe I performed up to the standards required of me. I am thankful for that other runner who helped guide me through the tunnels. Hopefully I can work with them again in the future. Those... things down there, the 'Insect Spirits.' I do not... enjoy the prospect of them being so abundant. I must inform the captain of this when I recover from my augmentation surgery."
Moreau
"Bug Spirits. Fascinating effects on physiology, but deleterious to metahumanity's survival in the long run. And there are more of them in the deep tunnels. Represents a potential threat to the tubes.
I think the other runners liked me!"