Gold and/or Glory
| Gold and/or Glory | |||||||||
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| Part of Two Steps Ahead | |||||||||
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| ShadowHaven | Major Corp | ||||||||
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Neznayka Samael Shy Zenith |
Character1 Character2 | ||||||||
Summary
The team sneaks through the desert to avoid much of the Tripoli Hot Zone in order to recover a VIP asset and, despite a brief showdown with some mercs on the way out, get out clean and without any added Public Awareness.
Background
"An asset of mine embedded within a rival corporation has been discovered by his employers, and they have decided to make an example of him on live pay-per-view - fortunately, this gives a team of brave freelancers a chance to rescue him from this fate."
-G01d3nI
The Meet
The team gathers at Thun Field in Puyallup, where they encounter a floating holo drone that explains we're going to be dropped into Egypt with little support until they find their contact for extraction. After some brief gear related negotiations, the team gets on the plane to head out.
The Plan
Plan
- Pfft. Zenith was here!
Legwork
- Meat
- Matrix
- Azzies will use specific Desert Wars personnel or people they're cutting lose.
- Target has huge bounty on them due to being a corporate traitor
- Likely teams will not be the full bore HTR, will likely be more sporting, using Gladiators (slaves, indentured servants, etc)
- Killsquads are generally in milspec, but for "sporting" teams it'll be more flashy / mad maxy armor.
- Mercs are more likely to be properly adapted armor and heavier kit
- Blood magic likely but not super obvious from broadcasts.
- Magic
- Blood spirits are likely due to Azzies
- Shadow spirits may be present due to conflict
- Toxic stuff may be present due to hot spots of unsafe areas
The Run
- The team lands about 20 km out of the hot zone to avoid a parachute landing and begins making their way to the marker, having kitted themselves up in weather adapted FBA or desert suits.
- They make some initial scouting, noting there is a large city cluster they will have to avoid and circumvent in order to get to the extraction point
- During the first day, the team sees a drone overhead that seems super advanced and likely rigger piloted, but are concealed well enough to not be spotted.
- They opt to skirt the edge of the desert and avoid the main city and opponents. Day two brings an encounter with some ghouls laying an ambush in the desert.
- Later that day, they find a juiced up juggernaut that's been dropped in from prior Desert Wars episodes but they manage to sneak past it.
- As the team comes up to the oasis, they find the drone again and try to disable it, though the opfor runners spot Nez and they attempt to crash the drone into her.
- After recovering the target at the oasis, the team makes a break for the exfil spot.
- They run across the opfor mercenary crew on the way to the exfil, and a... well... sort of negotiation happens.
- Said negotiation fails when the "exploding credstick" trick meets the "unexplodable Borg".
- A combat breaks out. And then Shy happens - and the borg explodes.
- The merc team chooses to negotiate from there and both teams go their separate ways.
Aftermath
After some additional time in the desert, the team exfils with the VIP and returns to Seattle.
Rewards
- 30,000 nuyen
- 3 karma
- 6 CDP
- Optional Contact: Amrei Veidt (C6/L1 S-K Prime Operative) for 6 RVP or 12 CDP
- Optional Gear Reward: Weapons, Armor, Electronic Parts, Augmentations @ 2:1 cost
For Nez:
Perceptive @ chargen price (for those insane sight checks)
For Sam:
Tough as Nails (Stun) @ chargen price (for taking the bullet)
Narrative Consequences:
- Dr. Xiuhcoatl Montezuma is rescued from Golden Glory by the efforts of the runners and remanded into SK custody; his expertise on the Blood Hawk is covertly passed to the N-51, per Shy and Amrei's previous agreement.
- The enemy team ("Destripadors de Calaveras") survive to live another day, minus one borg shell.
Game Quotes
Player After Action Reports (AARs)
Samael - So. That was Zenith. And Shy. I am uncertain what it says about me that I have ended up on a run with those two names, though it certainly highlights some levels of my own places to grow. Job was clean, more or less, and rather blessedly direct compared to some of the recent ones. Always a pleasure to work with Ms. Nezneyka again - and to acquit myself better this time than when we saw each other last.