A Bleeding Window
| A Bleeding Window | |||||||||
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| ShadowHaven | Magical Vigilantes | ||||||||
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Asura Red Rover Zero line |
Pedro Martinez The Cursed Blade | ||||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||||
| None | Pedro Martinez was killed. The Blade was destroyed, though the whereabouts of the spirit within are unknown | ||||||||
Summary
A tale of justice and how it is twisted. Of anger, and righteousness, and avenging those one has lost. A need to know more, a need to fix mistakes, and a need to clear a poor sinner's name.
Background
Andrew Morgan was killed in an altercation with Knight Errant after a seemingly random surge of killing around his bakery a month prior to the events of the run.
Andrew Morgan was always a soft man. A passionate person, who wanted to continue the baking his mother had instilled such a great amount of passion in him over while they worked together in his youth. He had wanted to continue that work as an adult, to continue to share the love that his late mother put into every dish. But opening such a bakery when one is coming from an orphaned state and lacking funds is a difficult endeavor. And the desperately passionate people can be the perfect marks for miscreants. Cutters offered a loan, and that loan ate away at the man time and time and time again. It builds anger, at the injustice of the system on top of loss and hardship for a lifetime. And that makes someone vulnerable to even more unsavory types.
How Andrew came about the knife is unknown. But it pushed him into striking out. Empowered by its temptations, he took to the night and struck out again and again to deal with monstrous criminals and threats, nominally gangers and the Cutters. But using that power weakens one ability to resist its call more and more and more.
And now, Leah Morgan was alone, and in need of answers. She could not believe that her darling brother could cause this. She had to be certain it wasn't just him. And if possible, have whoever was responsible for this pay.
The Meet
Asura, Red Rover, and Zero line were called into a meeting at a park in Puyallup to discuss the details of the job. Ms. Morgan was suffering somewhat already but, at the very least they didn't cause too much of a fuss with their presence in the area. They were offered 5000 nuyen to handle the job, finding out more about the incident and possibly bringing about justice, which the gang knew was small but didn't really feel like pushing a grieving woman on. She offered a few locations for them to check out, namely the storage where she kept his things and the old home he lived in and the bakery. While there were some awkward exchanges of goodbyes, she needed time to prepare herself mentally.
The Plan
the plan was simple:
1) find leads into the details of the attack using Asura's Psychometry
2) use Red Rover's myriad contacts to cover their weak spots
3) Zero Line focusing on their surroundings would keep the gang covered throughout the investigation as Asura was preoccupied
Putting their heads together, along with contacts, wild summoning, and a myriad of visions, the group managed to track down the leads to one Pedro Martinez. One of the men who took down Andrew, and seemed to have been possessed by the blade and hid its involvement for his own newly twisted aims. And, possibly, this same man is responsible for disrupting a contact of Asura's, "Philip". Much to her chagrin.
Due to Red Rover's Decker assistant, there was a now a chance to meet Pedro Martinez-thinking that this was some blackmailing scheme about his cover up and recent failing reports.
So, Asura and Red Rover went to the meeting spot (the bakery the murders originally took place) and staked it out as they set up a means for Red Rover to cover Asura when she entered the building.
The Run
Asura and Red had scouted out the location before the meeting, but apparently not before Pedro had gotten a chance to set the grenade trap that blew up in the FBRs face. Unfortunately, grenades and a full volley of APDS only amount to scratches on Asura, and Pedro retreated. The two chased him down, and managed to bring him down. Unfortunately, this led to the Blade being released, messing with their minds, and eventually making Asura shooting Red Rover into unconsciousness and run off into the sewers with the knife.
Red Rover was, thankfully, rescued by her associate Maya Velt from DIMR, who was waiting to take the knife off their hands safely and realized that the gunshots through the call were not normal. She awoke to an ambulance, informing Maya of Asura's situation and trying to get in contact with them.
Asura, in the meantime, had been running through the sewers and fighting the urges imposed on her by the Blade. Again and again she failed to break out, broke out and struggled to damage it, tried to contact help, anything, until eventually she managed to finally break the Blade with her own, the gift from Father Figaro. Though, not without a cost: It had pierced its hooks into her, changed her, even if subdued.
Asura and Red Rover made (heated) contact again, and a DIMR team was sent to retrieve the knife's shards and ensure the street samurai was no longer possessed.
Aftermath
Asura was found to be herself and released after a few days of observation by the DIMR, thankfully. She and Maya had a talk about potentially working together in the future, and she was free to go.
The two disputing shadowrunners managed to make some amends in the wake of their return to one another, a mutual understanding born of shared failure and continued attempt at making things right.
Leah learned the true fate of her brother, thankfully, and though she was pained she can hopefully move on from the grief now, satisfied knowing that her brother was still just as kind as she remembered.
Rewards
All Runners get:
5000 Nuyen (2.5 RVP)
5 Karma (5 RVP)
1 CDP (.5 RVP)
Asura and Red Rover get to choose also from the following:
10 CDP of magic knowledge skills and/or DIMR contacts - 5 RVP
3 Karma - 3 RVP
+2 DIMR Rep
OR
6 Karma - 6 RVP
+2 DIMR Rep
As memories of her time with The Blade linger, Asura potentially could have continued effects. Perhaps it still is out there, somewhere. Waiting for her to claim it. She can claim the following in addition to all other rewards.
- 5 Karma
- A negative quality chosen from the following list
> PSC Combat Monster > PSC Sadistic > Combat Junkie
Game Quotes
Player After Action Reports (AARs)
"...Horrifying. Utterly horrifying."
"Gah... Nasty mojo does nasty drek. Glad Niamh pulled through for us so much. Wish we knew how to deal with that fragging knife better. And, like... Wish Asura didn't shoot me. Still, I get it. Hate things like that... things I can't counterspell and all. Gotta figure out how to deal with drek like this better..."