Errands Suck
| Errands Suck | |||||||||
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ShadowHaven Hellsing | Night Hunters | ||||||||
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Coil White Thistle Felix |
One Night Hunter Lieutenant 2 Night Hunter Purgers 2 Night Hunter Chargers | ||||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||||
| None | 4 dead, with the lieutenant sent off to be dealt with by Hellsing. | ||||||||
Summary
A sudden call by a fixer to check in on her network led three runners moving all over the Sprawl, doing their good deeds for the day by helping the helpless and killing metaracists.
Background
Hellsing is a busy woman with a lot of minor and not-so-minor business to conduct. She also has a doting wife and some enemies making her life a pain in the ass at times. Today in particular she had her own...personal business to attend to. But Seattle is not a sleeping city. Things happen whether you want em to or not, and she can't just set everything aside for her wife like she wants to. And while she normally *has* someone for impromptu work, things are...tense. She's poking a lot of nests as always, and she's aware something might go wrong. So...runners would have to do.
The Meet
The meet was a rushed thing. White Thistle was the only one to go in person - Coil and Felix weren't really interested in risking themselves, so they went on the astral instead to say hi. Hellsing didn't mind, rushed and up early in the afternoon for this anyways so she had time to get these guys out before her wife got antsy. She offered them their payout, turned down their ask for reagents but giving half up front, and gave them their tasks via a datapad handed over to Thistle.
1. Check on her informants in certain areas 2. Make a delivery to the Medallion Hospital, with a crate she gave them. They were NOT to be caught with this on them by the police. 3. Check on the residents of a little safehouse Hellsing set aside. Let her know if they needed any accommodations made.
With that, Hellsing promptly got them out and left them to their devices with their delivery ready and their routes to plan. She had her own errands to run all day...
The Plan
Now, the first thing Thistle did was call these other bozos to actually establish DNI with them. The second, was sniffing the case and getting hit with a whiff of blood. A worrying sign! And probably why Hellsing didn't want them caught with it. The ghoul worked on getting something savory and spicy on the stove to overwhelm that aroma as she stashed the case aside.
Coil worked out routes for the team to take to make things more efficient: He would visit the informant in Redmond astrally while Felix did the same in Renton and Bellevue, and meanwhile Thistle would see the Downtown informant on the way to Redmond so she could do the handoff. It should be easy enough.
The Run
Visiting the informants and getting what they needed from them was easy enough. Felix and Coil handled their tasks swiftly, being astral forms, with Redmond being...well, Redmond, and Renton's informant being a little skittish of the Night Hunters in the area getting more active. Thistle, traveling physically, made it to her informant a little slower than the others. He reported in that he felt...watched. And after some time taking a search herself...she agreed. Red goggles watching her from a distance for a moment before disappearing. She urged the informant to hide out, let the team know what was up, and started giving her truck's pilot program a number of odd destinations, delaying her arrival to the hospital but at the very least seemed to lose her pursuers.
The hospital was happy to receive the package without any difficulties or any law enforcement on the trail. Coil had met up physically with Thistle to talk as Felix checked in on the Bellevue informant and prepared to keep overwatch if these Hunters proved to be a problem. Coil and Thistle met up with one Meliana Strahd, a doctor and as they found out strain 1 vampire who was working in Medallion Hospital. Thistle gave her a hard time, but Coil seemed eager to speak more with her about her...condition. She said she'd think about it, but she really had to get the goods back inside fast. Now the team just had to get back to the safehouse.
The team went south through Bellevue to Renton to then reach the Safehouse in Tacoma, Coil swapping back to the astral as Felix met up physically with Thistle to provide support and detection with his spirits. And lo and behold, his spirit was picking up enemies as they started traveling around. Coil zoomed over and assenssed them, feeling a surge of anger and hate from the mage, 2 adepts, and the two mundanes in the truck. Felix, had an idea.
Accidents happen, after all.
His spirit of man made sure of that.
The crew stopped quickly to grab one of the would-be assailants, whom Thistle realized were the Night Hunters, and as the crew drove to the safehouse they decided to interrogate this chump before giving him to Hellsing to sweeten their deal. The guy was uncooperative at first, but after some real physical pain and Thistle's terrifying self bearing down on him, he spilled the beans: the Night Hunters had been keeping an eye on Hellsing's operations for a while, and when they saw she was working with a ghoul? They wanted to get their licks in and make Hellsing's life hell. Thistle found this hilarious, gaslit this guy into thinking he got infected by her, and the crew continued to the safehouse.
There were only 3 people in the safehouse. An older human man, a young human woman, and a gravely injured elven girl. The older man seemed on his last legs, and the young elf had her arm missing. They weren't doing so hot. They thought they were hearing some things in the night, but they couldn't really pin anything down. The crew decided to move the girl, which Hellsing helped them arrange by giving them a temporary holding spot while she sorted things out, and just in case the remaining two were in danger of the hunters, moved them up a floor with a parting gift of healing from Felix for the old man.
They hid Vanessa, the young elven girl, as they transported her up to the safehouse. A guardian spirit watched her until Hellsing could send someone to collect her, and they finally went to deliver the lieutenant they snagged to Hellsing for her to do as she pleased.
Aftermath
Hellsing wasn't planning on these three coming back to her to get their pay, but at the same time they handled it fast and brought her a snack to enjoy, so she was more than willing to give them a little bonus even if she didn't let them come inside the bar again for the day. They got their reagents and lodge materials, and Hellsing got a bit more info on those working against her.
The refugees that Hellsing was hiding from syndicate forces managed to get out of Seattle safely, without any third party interference, thanks to the runners.
Meliana was made aware of the Hunters being on Hellsing's trail, and will keep a note of that in case they try anything against Medallion Hospital.
Rewards
Rewards for "Errands Suck" (11 rvp)
8k Nuyen for (4 RVP)
Can substitute for up to 16k in reagents/Lodge Materials for gear rates
5 karma (5 RVP)
6 CDP (2 RVP + 2 Base)
Optional Rewards
Can take Hellsing as a contact (C3/L2) (4 RVP)
Game Quotes
Player After Action Reports (AARs)
Coil - "Well that went swimmingly. I must reach back out to that good doctor. A medical perspective on being an infected in this lifestyle would do wonders for my research."