Dumb Wednesday Night Impromptu number forty seven
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ShadowHaven Cascade Orks | Major Corp | ||||||
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Obsidian Garuda Phototaxis Ryuuji |
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Summary
A Laesa syndicate watercraft had been reported 25 nautical miles off the coast of Seattle and an unscrupulous talismonger sent a runner team out to loot it. (in the middle of a manastorm)
Background
The Leasa Syndicate ran afoul of a large spirit of beasts that manifests as a large orca traveling with pods of Orca as an astral gaurdian and sometimes possesion spirit along the western coastline in winter, helping pods migrate to the warmer southern waters.
A shedim had followed it all season lurking behind to pick off young and play with it and it refused to move after the creature when guarding its own. It was finally down to a final pod of very late season orca and was distracted when orders came from "below" to go get a powerful foci from the yacht the Pc's J had discovered and send them to rob.
The Meet
The team met up with Miss. Hattie at Tacoma style. Everyone promptly seeing through each other's masking and getting a feel. The meet was relatively inert, barring the moment when Phototaxis crit glitched and casually insulted the client, leading to a lot of the team balking at her. Ultimately no discounts were to be had and no contact was to be made long term with Miss Hattie on this run. (her pilot however..)
The Plan
The J had hired a "boat and pilot" meaning "Fogerty in the stolen undersea facility shuttle" to take the team out to investigate the drifting leasa syndicate craft. The team pretty much went over, hopped on board with some minor shopping and headed out to sea after summoning their "ride" with an underwater beacon.
The Run
It did not take long for Garuda to sus out that their pilot was a free artificial intelligence. The team was not overly concerned, more so with Garuda's strugglign with the long cylindrical tube that was the craft and the terror of being trapped below the waves for any length of times.
The ride out was relatively uneventful, all characters passing a nausea test to avoid struggling with the choppy waves.
Upon getting a naval kilometer or two out, the team realize the ambient manasphere is getting increasingly erratic and they are sailing into something weird.
Obsidian summons a water spirit who is touched by the erratic mana and after a bit of cajoling comes back to explain that they are currently inside a manastorm and headed towards the eye. Also that the spiritual profile of this area is far higher than they would have realized. With a spirit of orca nearby and incredibly powerful, as well as a dark spirit kepeping its distance.
Rather than engage with the Orca violently, the team opted to go the negotiation route. (a very good idea) Obsidian and Ryujji pulled efforts to wild summon the Spirit, which surfaced, possesing a massive orca. They got a better lay of the land from it. It was in Gaia's migration cycle and protecting a slow moving pod. But was tasked by "something stronger" to reclaim a necklace it happened to be near on the sea. It went and wrecked the yacht with its pod, but found itself in a position of being trapped between its natural duty to protect the pod and the task it had been set on. As a hopper shedim was waiting in the dark depths to claim the bodies it had created and possibly its children.
It agreed to allow the PC's to retrieve its target and when it left with its pod, to kill the Shedim, in exchange it would be on its way and not wreck their boat.
In the meantime Garuda takes over the drifting boat while Obsidian steps up on Deck to investigate it with Clairvoyance. Phototaxis brings her and Ryuuji across with Obsidian. The boat begins to drift closer to the watercraft the team is based in risking a collision as Garuda tracks damage, the A.I. sends over a broken Shiwase Idoll with a repair kit to try and get a propeller moving.
Obsidian touches down on the boat and takes human form, pulling an armor jacket off a body and leading the way down to the hold and the hidden door to it. Between her and Garuda they found a booby trap that prevented the boat from exploading and cut it off. It doesn't take long to find the foci, and return it to the whale who promptly leaves, triggering the Shedim's arrival. At the same time a Laesa scout is coming quickly following a now squeltched distress beacon.
When Orca leaves the Shedim promptlymakes its way to the surface, and the leasa syndicate scouts are detected off in the distance. The Manastorm begins to fade but Ryuuji does stay on deck to Hearmoniously defend against the effects of the storm for the majority of the rest of the run.
Ryujji braces for Shedim impact while Garuda monitors systems and sensors, Obsidian travels back to the initial craft as the A.I. Fogerty does get a bit of repair work done on the target craft.
Obsidian makes short work of the pilots of the scout craft while Ryujji plays whack a mole with a hopper who has ample bodies for a few passes, finally landing a hit on the corpose of a dolphin in the water and chasing it back up to the unarmored body on deck of the target boat to dispatch it. The team quickly loads the remaining cases (skipping the hidden safe in favor of allowing the A.I. to run interference to the incoming heavy smuggling craft.) and everyone heads home. Garuda a bit traumatized by the experience.
Aftermath
A couple dead Leasa smugglers, an unimpressed but happy to pay Johnson, and an A.I. upgraded into a military grade stealth boat.
Rewards
12K In Nuyen or 24K in Reagents, Telesma, Foci, Spell Formula, Fetishes, Awakened Drugs, other assorted magical goods up to 18 Avail. (6 RVP)
6 Karma for assisting the physical embodiment of migratory Orca finish its yearly journey, and killing that pesky hopper that had been following it too far north.
Fogerty 3 Connection at 2 Loyalty (4 RVP) +1 Chip (Now living in a much improved vehicle.) https://shreloaded.net/wiki/Fogerty
+2 CDP (guarantee)
Optional Reward: Water Sprite Quality at Cost
Non RVP rewards +1 Reputation Cascade Orcs
Game Quotes
Player After Action Reports (AARs)
Garuda
"...I'm never going on a job on international waters again."