Ullr
Date: January 15, 2077
Subject: Yet again to helping Cypher
Locations: MSP'Plex
Notes:
Since it was going to be hard to get all of them, we decided to get Spyder's first the Zergy's. We had Spyder get as many of her lieutenants to an abandoned warehouse on West Side. We had Spyder arrange the meet at 1 am.
Grelig turned the office of the warehouse into a deathtrap by rigging grenades to blow up the room.
While we waited, there were numerous very large explosions in the MSP'plex. Eventually we figured out that it was a couple of power stations and some substations.
After the explosions, the Matrix dropped out. We were limited to connecting to things that are very close to us.
Shortly before one, three of the lietenants showed up. They went in with three security goons.
The explosion went off. It appeared that only the ones who stayed by the cars were fine. Grelig took care of them.
We set an ambush for the fourth of Spyder's lieutenants. We defeated them as well. We finished all of her lieutenants at this point.
Koryak then called someone named Frosty to help us trap the spirit so that we can fight Sellz after we killed all of Zergy's lieutenants.
We started hitting some of the headquarters to further disrupt his network.
Zergy set up a meeting at 6 for his lieutenants. We got ready for them, I created improved invisibility preparations again. I sped everyone up and summoned another Valkyrie. Two showed up and were blown up by Grelig's explosives. We waited for the other two to show up.
We let Zergy go and I followed him in the astral so that we could kill him. I got the message that he has given us the code and I sent my Valkyrie to kill him.
We went looking for the other lieutenants. We got to a building where there were between one hundred and two hundred goon.
I cast several spells on Koryak and he snuck into the building. He killed the lieutenant and got out of the building. We returned to the silo.
(Karma Earned: 4)
Date: January 15, 2077
Subject: Yet again to helping Cypher
Locations: MSP'Plex
Notes:
01/14/2077
Quarantine was getting more serious as CFD spread. It was going to be hard to get the nanites that we needed to fix it.
Thorn left the group since he didn't want people to get into trouble. Gode Jensen remained in Jail. Bearsark Gerd was pissed off at thing. Gyde said I'm the senior person right now. At some point the lodge will have to move when the remodeling starts. She wanted me to handle field ops if anything came up. The church wa in a rented space, leaving only the lodge.
Grimmar called and said that he had a witness for the astral killhouse. A kid said he saw ten spirits appear and torch the place. They looked like spirits of men.
Cypher thought that Sellz was a free spirit. He seemed to have a lot of technical ability if that was true.
I received a text from Grimmar in the morning. He found the Johnson that dealt with Astral Killhouse. He had a meet at Lindy's Ribs to find out their last job. I summoned a spirit and sent it with Grimmar to the meet.
Eva knew of two meets where we could possibly get one of Sellz's sub-bosses (XY Zergy) or lieutenants. We might be able to track him down if we have one of their commlinks.
We decided to try and grab Zergy and Cypher let the mafia know about the lieutenant. We headed over to Westside so Eva could buy some grenades for her alpha.
Grimmar called me about the meet. It was to break into black sites in the Barrens. I released my spirit.
We then headed down to Chaska and arrived around noon which should be close to when Zergy would be having his meet.
On the way down we heard one of the Lone Start holding facilities had suffered a breach and about 280 inmates are loose in the city.
I summoned a Fire Giant to find Zergy. It came back around 1pm and showed me the location of Zergy. It wass an industrial location in Bloomington that Eva knew about.
We decided to drive back to Bloomington and parked a drone there that can keep watch and tracked the vehicle when Zergy left. We headed back to Chaska to waited for Zergy to start moving.
We waited, the sun set. I summoned a Storm Spirit to help capture Zergy alive. I created invisiblity potions for everyone including the spirit. I then sped up everyone's reflexes including my spirit.
The drone showed Zergy heading to a gravel pit to the southwest of Chaska. We continued to wait for the meeting to be done.
We blocked the end of the driveway and attacked. The Storm Spirit appeared in the car with Zergy and tried to take out the driver. We quickly took out the guards and grabbed Zergy and threw him in our car. Cypher scanned the bodies of the guys for the nano virus thing. The other two vehicles from the meet attacked us, but we were able to escape.
I spent my time cleaning out my astral signature as the car pulled away. As I headed back to the truck and left the astral I saw Cypher holding something that glowed in the astral. When I left the astral I saw that it was a Fairlight Caliban Commlink. It looked like some kind of arcanatech, but I had no idea what it might do.
I called the church and tried to find Tyr Steffanson. They said he was probably at hotel and after a verification question gave me his number. He agreed to try and see what the enchantment was. He was staying in the Shady Shack. We arrived late at a hotel that was built in the middle of the last century. The sign had been spray painted Shady Shack. I knocked on Tyr's. He let us in and then examined the Fairlight Caliban commlink. He described what it does because he doesn't understand computers and the Matrix. He said that it if were like a bound foci, but it's not bound to the user. Instead it was bound to the device itself or the data in it. So you could only look at the data on the screen. If you broke the binding then you could access it normally, but the bound person would know and would probably remove the data. If we just looked at the data on the commlink we should be fine.
Cypher contacted his mafia friends and they arranged for a location to keep Zergy. It was almost midnight when we finally got there. We were let in and I summoned a dwarf to carry Zergy down to the room for him. It was a concrete room with a steel door and chains in the wall.
Cypher examined Zyergy's commlink. It looked like he was pretty good and deleted things that were no longer relevant. There were texts to and from Blood Axe. The last one said 'Get me out of here and I'll give you all the silver back'.
Zergy eventually woke up. He agreed to tell us. He was a downtown lawyer, intelligent, successful with enhancements. He was also a jerk. Then he was infected and he was contacted by someone named Sellz onto us. Sellz said there haves and have nots and he was a haves. He made a deal if Zergy handled murders and executions and Sellz would take 10%. Zergy realized that he had skillset that worked for murder and executing. He had a few augmentations that would work well for that. He had skill wires for those that he needs. So he agreed to join in an agreement with Sellz. His had been supplying cyberwear that has been infected.
Bloodaxe was a Mexican hitman, not associated with the Mexican organization that is already here. They paid him with 32 pairs of dermal armor to do some work for them. The stuff being dropped of today were muscle augmenters instead of the dermal armor from before.
He suggested that if we are able to cripple Sellz's organization, he would be forced back here. He then offered to give us the lieutenants and a bank account if we let him go. We talked and decided that if we do let him go, a spirit will kill him as soon as he gave us the money and information that we needed. However, we kept him in a cell for now.
I checked the site of our battle and three of the people were dead and one wasn't there. The two cars were gone as well.
We rested the night, with my dwarf guarding us.
1/15/2077
Cypher contacted Spyder and we met at a Suffer Shack so we could talk to her. She told us to to come in disguise or in a hoody. I cast physical mask on all of us. Eva and Cypher had a 200k bounty being offered to the syndicates. They are offering a smaller amount to the gangs. Cypher started working with Spyder on how to take out all of the lieutenants all at once as well as taking out the grunts in the organization. I studied her commlink and it also seemed enchanted. It was a little different, but mostly similar to Zergy's. We started getting a loose idea of gathering the lieutenants together and gathering as many competent individuals as possible and killing them all at once. She didn't seem to know that Sellz is a spirit. We still needed to figure out how to deal with that.
(Karma Earned: 3)
Date: January 01, 2077
Subject: Yet again to helping Cypher
Locations: MSP'Plex
Notes:
1/1/2077
Yesterday we waited for things to fall into place.
Cypher received a call about a meeting with the person that was going to help us with getting Sellz out of his hidey hole. We went to a meet where there was a van. He gave Grelig the commchannel that the other team would be using. They would be drive up and tear down the front doors. There were three eight man teams going in. Two of the teams would sweep the along the sides. The third team and us would go down the middle to encounter Sellz. Since Knight Errant was inside, the teams would be shooting a combination of gel and stick and shock. There would be eight people holding the doors. There would be another eight people hitting the side of the building opposite from the door. The man's name is LMG or Harris.
I created invisibility and heal preparations for everyone. I increased the reflexes for me, Grelig and Eva. I summoned a very powerful valkyrie. We got ready and went to the waiting area. The assault started and we were able to quickly make it to the safe room in the middle. Sellz had apparently left, but we found a closet full of vials and notebook paper. The note said 'If it is about money, I have money. If it is something you need and you have the money, I have the time. Call commcode.' I noticed a drawer that sagged from the weight. Inside of it was a pre-Crash 2.0 cyberdeck.
We blew everything up in the room and the cooling towers. We safely got out of the building and back to our vehicle. We drove around for a while. We gave the information to the doctor.
Cypher called Sellz and talked to him about buying a fix to the nano disease thing. While he talked to Sellz, he was also trying to track to where Sellz was.
We need some clean nanites or something and those to fix the issue.
When we got back I see that I have a several messages from Gydje Andersson.
The first three are did I get her message.
The next message, was that there had been a fire at the institute. The new building burned down. The board of the institute were all found dead. Gode Jensen was arrested and has lawyered up. She told me to lawyer up if needed and to let her know what happens.
I called her up and she said that they were fighting the fire until the police and fire showed up. Nils did see spirits were around. They looked like spirits of man, but wasn't able to determine the tradition. She suggestsedI check with the Danes about why they closed.
I called the Danish American Institute. They said they closed for financial reasons, but I thought he was lying. I told him about the fire and he said would me back. I gave him the number of the Swedish American Institute and gave my name and the Gode, Gydje names and said that we were anxious to speak with them.
I woke up at noon and I had a message. The Danish American Institute left a message that their problem solver wanted to talk, his name is: Grimar Sigbjornson. I asked Cypher if he could find out some information about Grimar. He is a runner from Quebec, specifically an anti-government runner. His specializations were breaking and entering and covert ops. He attacked an embassy in Quebec four years ago.
Eva's contact in the police department was in the hospital and she didn't know why. She would like us to help her figure out what happened.
I called Grimar and he suggests we meet in person. I say we should meet at the Web at 3 and he agreed.
The group went to the Web. I headed in by myself and I saw him sitting at a table. I headed over to him. He said the Danish Institute was hit by a huge electrical storm according to the insurance adjuster. Their one magician has been missing for about eight weeks. He had been looking into what happened to a couple of magician groups in the Barrens. He had learned that Peaxxe had moved out of the metroplex. He had friends in the Astral Killers who had all disappeared.
People thought the electrical storm was magic, but there was no evidence of it.
I asked Gydje about the magical groups and she says that sometimes they buy reagents from Peaxxe, but haven't done business with them for a while.
Peaxxe are apparently a new agey group. Have a good reputation, but recently said they were leaving.
Astral Killers are hunters and considered a combination of a mage group and a go gang. Another MSP'lex Johnson has been getting more hunting jobs because their normal hunters aren't around.
We headed over to Peaxxe's old hangout to see what we could find. Once there we saw a note saying the building has been condemned by Knight Errant. The note was dated late October, 2076. I assensed around the building and sensed a fading background related to the tradition of the group.
We then headed over to the Astral Killer's hangout. It looked like it was a house, but it had mostly burned with only brick walls still standing. I assensed around there and found the remains of a lodge. I looked around the area and I saw the remains of old books, I also saw the remains from some old weapons. I gathered up the remains of the books and the weapons and brought them along.
I headed back to the Peaxxe house astrally to see if I could see anything inside of the building. I didn't find anything of interest. I let Gydje and Grimar know that I didn't find anything, but I'd keep looking. Grimar said that the Peaxxe building wasn't condemned when he was there, but he'd look into what is up with the condemnation.
(Karma Earned: 2)
Date: December 30, 2076
Subject: Yet again to helping Cypher
Locations: MSP'Plex
Notes:
12/25/2076
Cypher found a location in Westside related to his mission. It was building on Carlson Drive with scrubby forest on the NE. It was surrounded by a 3 meter fence. There didn't seem to be a lot of people there. There wasn't any wireless from the building, other than personal commlinks. The SW had another building on that side. There were some decorative trees between the road and the building. Further away the area is all residential. SW has retail type shops.
I summoned a spirit and patrolled around the building. There are a lot of spirits moving around the building. They seemed to be spirits of man on tasks. They seemed to be slightly weaker than the spirits I summon. There were between 5 and 8 of them. I returned to the group and let them know about the spirits. Grelig suggested that I watch around sundown to see if the spirits all disappear, implying that they were all summoned and not bound.
Grelig and Cypher wandered off.
I headed back over to the building near dusk to see what happened to the spirits around the building when the sun set. None of the spirits of man disappear That indicated that they were bound spirits.
We start staking out the building. Grelig and Eva were first. They found out that the locks are maglocks and passkeys. A motion sensor went to the fence. There was a laser scanner and cameras.
12/26/2076
After midnight we took over. I turned Cypher and myself invisible to make it less obvious we were watching the building. We saw the first changeover in the morning around 6am, a Knight Errant van drove up. It parked in front of the building and people got out one or two at a time until 22 guards went in. The door appeared to have retina and voice authentication. There were apparently jammers around the building preventing the use of commlinks into the building. After they were all inside 22 guards come out of the building and get in the van. The last two brought out four containers onto a dolly and took them in the building, four more trips brought in breakdown containers into the building. They got into the van left.
Cypher put a drone on the top of the van and we started following it. He left behind another drone so that it could continue to observe the building while we were following the van. They drove along and the sped up on a highway. We fell back so that they don't notice us. We slowed down and used the drone to find out where it went. It ended up at the Knight Errant building downtown. He detached the drone before the van enters the building.
Two people came into the building and two came out. We followed them to the their home, but that is it.
We then returned to the building so that Eva and Grelig can take over at 8am.
We then took over at 4pm. The only thing of interest was a homeless person wandered too close to the fence and a barghest is released to chase him away. There wasn't been another shift change.
12/27/2076
We watched, nothing much happens
12/28/2076
In the morning, Cypher and I saw eleven recognized Knight Errant guards and eleven new Knight Errant guards come out of the building. 22 new people went into the building. Two civilian types are the same.
We all headed over to one of the civilian's buildings. Eva and Grelig went to one and Cyper and I went to the other. I scanned around as we approach the nice apartment.
We followed our guy around all day and he went out, had some fun then returned to his apartment.
12/29/2076
We headed over to the Web so that Cypher could talk to Spyder.
We planned on grabbing a new civilian after the shift change tomorrow.
12/30/2076
Another shift change. All the guards change this time. We waited for the civilians and followed the second one. We decided to plan for the day to grab him tomorrow.
Grelig bought a used Gopher.
We grabbed one of the civilians and threw him in the Gopher. We went to a camera dead zone and switched vehicles. Grelig sent the Gopher back to the Barrens on its own. We then drove to the Barrens in Cypher's vehicle. I summoned a dwarf and have him carry the unconscious civilian around after Grelig put it in the back of the Gopher.
We took him back to the Web so that Eva could question him.
Eva questioned him for a while with a Fire Giant's and Grelig's help. He told us Sellz was in there and described the building to us.
After questioning him, we took him to the clinic so he can be studied for his nano infection. We get checked out, and apparently we are supposed to wear stunners.
We headed off to the guy that sold us weak stun guns to help us not get infected. We each bought one.
Cypher went to talk to the Mafia and Eva went to talk to her cop friend to warn him about the infection of the Knight Errant officers who were working at the building.
(Karma Earned: 2)
Date: December 07, 2076
Subject: Continuing to Help Cypher
Locations: MSP'Plex
Notes:
Cypher gave us a bunch of information about what he investigated about the personality changing affect. There seemed to be a bunch of street sams that had been affected. The lt. of this group and Sellz now know Cypher's online persona. Spyder's name was Victoria Evensworth. She helped give work to the street sams. They continued to work against Mafia and Triad targets.
Grelig and I waited outside while Cypher went to the meet with the mafia guy. The meet was at Club Left Hand.
We were planned on hitting Spyder tomorrow with her guards Black, White and Red. They carry guns.
12/08/2076
We were all invisible. I summoned a storm spirit to cause an accident on those using guns in the car. Grelig put a grenade under the car when it stopped at an intersection. There were five people in the limo not the four we expected. They retreated from the vehicle behind some other cars. Spyder ran off. I told my spirit to look for her. We headed to the lower road where she ran to and tried to find her. Grelig and Cypher grabbed the unknown person as well. After not finding her we hid until my spirit found her. Cypher looked for her in the matrix. My spirit returned and told us where she was located. I told my spirit to follow her until she got off the metro she was riding. fifteen minutes later she had gotten off at the Mall of America.
Meanwhile Grelig woke up the unknown fifth person. He did indeed work for Spyder. They questioned him for a while, then knocked him unconcious again. Cypher then spoke to Spyder for a while.
We headed to the Barrens Clinic. They brought in the unconscious one that apparently had been infected with whatever it is. Grelig spoke to the doctor after we went in. Afterwords we headed out of the Barrens.
12/09/2076
We headed over to the Web to hang out and watch Cypher tend bar.
(Karma Earned: 2)
Date: September 16, 2076
Subject: Helping Cypher still
Locations: MSP'Plex
Notes:
We headed off to talk to the gang leader of the Silver Fangs. She wanted to talk to us as soon as we could get there. When we got there it looked like a war zone. The bar had strange elfy food like bacon flavored dandelions. Grelig and Cypher went into the bar with Syndron. I stayed in the car and went astral. There was an animal spirit patrolling around and it followed me around. There were some wards in the building. I didn't try and penetrate the wards and hung out with the animal spirit.
When they got into the bar, they were led into one of the rooms behind the wards. I continued to wait in the astral outside of the wards.
They came back out of the bar and we headed to Dirty Jacks. We had to pass through Crypt Keeper territory to get there. I summoned a valkyrie and protected myself with an Armor spell. We then went into the building. We asked to speak to him and we were allowed to go to a private waiting room. We saw Dirty Jack on a monitor in the waiting room. We talked to him and he had apparently done similar work to all of the gangs on the Westside except for the Children of Gaia. Cypher paid him and got a list of the gang members who had the same sort of strange work as the Silver Fangs that we knew about. There were about 120 names on the list. Cypher negotiated to buy his future patient schedule.
Someone was willing to lease a cryotube. They were a syndicate of some sort and they wanted us to kill a "bad person" and an Aztechnology prototype delivered to them. There was a convention going on where the target is located. We had 18 hours to complete.
Ignatio Lopen, 26 year old programmer, brown hair brown eyes, athletic glowing tattoos, european ethnicity. At a hotel downtown. Fenced in grounds. No security outside of hotel because its downtown. There were cameras around, but that was it. He moved between there and convention center. Lots of physical security. There was a guard complement comprised mostly of uniformed security guards on the ground floor. There were drones and possibly watcher spirits. There may have an antimagic complete. R8 host for the hotel. Prototype is briefcase sized and should be non-hazardous.
9/16/2076
We did some legwork and trid to find information about the target.
Cypher's contact told us that Bodyguard does not seem to be augmented. Eye Spy patrolled when he moved. There was another member of the detail that may be a sniper or drone with a gun. Some sort of overwatch. Bodyguard used a taser and a big pistol.
Cypher arranged for a specific car to be used for the pickup. I disguised Grelig so he looks normal. I summoned a Fire Giant to use its noxious breath. When the limo came to pick us up, we stunned him. We threw the driver in Cypher's vehicle. We then were able to pick up the target and the bodyguard. We took out the bodyguard and Grelig killed the target. We then grabbed everything and went to the meet.
They paid us 1000 nuyen each even though we were just doing it for the cryochamber lease.
We then went to the meet for the cryochamber for Syndron.
We needed to buy new commlinks because of some malware that has infected our devices.
Miranda will buy our commlinks for 25% of cost.
(Karma Earned: 3)
Date: September 14, 2076
Subject: Helping Cypher
Locations: MSP'Plex
Notes:
9/14/2076
I got up in the morning and called the Institute. I was very low on reagents and bought some there. I hung out and studied a bit with them to learn the Increase Reaction spell. I headed home to watch some trids. I thought about setting up my lodge, but it would take too long while learning a spell. I'd have to remember to do that once I finish learning this spell.
Cypher asked us to come along and stakeout an area. We headed out into the Barrens at night for this stakeout. We headed through Tyr's Right Hand get to the area. We got to the right location. It looked like this place was ready to collapse. Not too surprising for the Barrens.
I summoned a Valkyrie in case there was combat.
Cypher got out of the car and Grelig followed. I went astral and followed them. They investigated some boxes. We then headed to the next location.
We came to a roadblock and we decided to go by foot. I turned us all invisible and my spirit concealed us. We approached the building and started looking for a way in. There was a battle going on near us. There were hostiles in the building. We worked our way through the building. We found the person we were trying to recover and she is pinned down by several gangers. We worked to get her free. I turned her invisible and Cypher and Grelig tried to take out the gangers so that our target can get away. We took out the gangers and headed out. Our vehicle has apparently been blown up, so we hoofed it out far enough that Miranda was able to pick us up and took us to our place.
While we were hanging out with Miranda, we are alerted that we were entering our house. When we looked at the cameras there, there were people that look vaguely like use spreading gasoline around the inside which they then light. By the time we got there, the fire department was putting out the fire. I turned Grelig invisible so that he could grab his gun that is sitting in the front porch. Our landlord kicked us out and we'd have to find another place to live.
Cypher's friend pulled out a data chip from her shoe and gave it to Cypher. Apparently, she had been forgetting things and the data chip had everything that she needed to remind herself of everyday. She was apparently blacking out and it is happening more and more frequently. It was supposed to happen tonight. She seemed to be heading to The Web, a runner bar. Selz was interested in this bar as well.
She decided to take the Long Haul so that she doesn't fall asleep tonight. We could try and find a doctor tomorrow morning. We loaded up Cypher's new car and found someplace safe to park.
9/15/2076
I called Dr. Terrington and ask if he knows someone that might be able to help with this strange sleep issue that she is having. In the Barrens, Dr Riley worked at same clinic as him. Young, but smart.
We headed to her clinic. Grelig volunteers to help and I called the doctor about the issue with the woman. She sent an ork named Tark into the line to get us. He took us into an examination room past many other people. We passed by Grelig being escorted by an old woman. Dr. Riley was in the examination room and examined the woman.
After Riley finished examining her, she said there is good and bad news. The doctor said that she has CFD. If nothing is done, then one day she just won't wake up. There is one treatment. She needs to get to a space center and get a deep space cryofreeze.
(Karma Earned: 2)
Date: September 13, 2076
Subject: Ridgedale Mystery
Locations: MSP'Plex
Notes:
9/13/2015
Eva called us about details for a job. She said one of her contacts needed help. He could meet at Lindy's Noodles in the Mall of America. We told her to tell Dirty Sanchez, her cop friend, to meet us at 11am.
We headed over there and met him. He said there have been 17 mysterious deaths at the Ridgedale Sprawl Mall. The Mall had bad reputation and pretty ugly in non-AR. The deaths seemed to be random and he believed that they were supernatural. That was why he called us. He couldn't pay us much, but if we were able to bring a sim-sense record he'd pay us 200 nuyen. He did have some video footage of the deaths that he gave us. He said to give him a call when the job is done. After we agreed to the job he gave us the video. They victims were 16-64, both sexes, sinners and non-sinners from all over the city. One was a suffocated electrical worker. Another was a vehicular manslaughter hit and run. Someone slashed in the bathroom. First death happened on August 30, the most recent was this morning. That victim was a dumpshock victim that showed that he was offline when it happened.
We headed to the mall and went where the dumpshock victim died. I assensed by the police tape. I found an aura that looked like one I have seen before. It looked like a grim reaper, a free shadow spirit. They were sometimes known as ghosts. After looking over the deaths, it seemed likely that it was using one of its powers to cause the deaths in a Rube Goldberg way. I noticed that the time span between deaths seemed to be getting shorter. The next day was this evening.
We were looking around and there was a strong background count in the remodeled area of the mall and part of an adjacent wing. The remodeled area was one of the oldest expansions. It was two stories tall. After tracing out the border, we looked for the center of the background count. It was one of the main entrances on the second floor with all the standard amenities at such places.
As we looked around near the center and we noticed a plaque on the pillar. It had been there a while and it commemorated the 29 people of the 8/29/2023 mass shooting at this location. I asked Cypher if he could look and see if there has been a pattern of disturbances over the last past 53 years. He determined that it has more than the average number of deaths, but nothing like the current spike of 17 over the past month.
We decided that I'd scout astrally while Cypher tried to look at it physically.
Background area is called a haunt and its power was not related to the power of the spirit. Grim Reapers have a deathly aura and some have energy drain. This particular one does have it.
I took a nap in the back seat so I'm rested when the sun sets. The others kept doing research for the job.
We headed off to see the people from some paranomal show. When we got there I assensed the hosts and they seemed to be cybered not awakened. They were filming when we got there, so we had to wait. I talked to them briefly, but they were filming. Afterwords they were heading to the third floor. She said they were good at gathering evidence from observation rather than being awakened. We followed them around to observe how they do things. They interviewed a few people.
Janitor found Rory from the Sioux Nation, construction worker. He was found hanged of apparent suicide. I felt cold chill of death.
This didn't seem useful so I went back to the car to nap. My alarm went off at seven and I did a quick patrol of the mall. We spotted a spirit leaving the haunt. I alerted the team and went back to following them. Grelig caught up. The spirit moved to the truck that man was heading towards. I warned them. We defeated it.
We met up with Dirty Sanchez and get paid.
(Karma Earned: 3)
Date: August 30, 2076
Subject: Genemorph Hunting
Locations: MSP'Plex
Notes:
8/30/2015
It was State Fair time.
In the last couple of days there were a couple of break-ins by someone with bluish fur. The police weren't looking into it anymore. It seemed to have a concealment or adaptive covering power. Both occured in Southside at Big Tina's Partners and Agasties Clothes. They were spotted at the last location and it attacked, but fled when the witness jumped on a bus.
This morning Eva got a call from one of her contacts. Her contact was contacted by another Johnson who wanted us to meet at O'Slammahans on the Southside at 4pm. We got a number so that we could tell him whether we were going to meet him or not. We could use the number she gave us to identify him at the restaurant. It was a hunt for a critter on the run.
The blue critter sounded like it might be a genemorph grown somewhere. It could be made up of an embracer or sand chameleon, maybe something else.
We headed to the meet at the mall. We saw his id in AR as Mr Johnson. We invited him to our table and he told us it was a double recovery of a doctor and critter. They needed to be unharmed and there was a small cover up as well. It was mostly in the Northside Barrens with a bonus if done in less than 12 hours.
Pay was 18k each 10% down remainder on delivery. A bonus was offered of 3k if done in less than 12 hours.
Dr Kathy 'Scarlet' Addis, was doing development in the black and hanging out with the Children of Gaia. The business was to be torched to the ground. Ballser was a lieutenant in the gang and Scarlet's sister.
He could make a dozen thermite grenades for purchase to burn it to the ground. The location was in the Tyr's Right Hand territory. Nothing should be taken from the shop before it was burned to the ground.
She did sidework. Her customers have been pushing cyberwear to customers even when they didn't want any. She has been doing experiments on uplifts.
Cypher negotiated with the Johnson and was able to increase the pay by 3600 nuyen for a total of 21.6k nuyen.
The uplift genemorph they wanted us to recover was Angela, a combination of metahuman, embracers, sand chameleon and hmhvv. She was thought to be in Silver Fang territory based on where the thefts took place. The items from the thefts were fenced just hours after they occurred.
We headed to Miranda's to pick up the grenades. She told us that a drone would deliver them to us. It delivered it to us and Grelig takes them.
We headed down check out the office that we had to burn. I went astral and checked to see if there are any wards or auras and don't see any.
We headed to Children of Gaia territory and I summoned an thunder spirit to search for Scarlet. It came back and told me she was in an underground hideout with stone doors. There were many people with the doctor both above and below ground. Above ground there was farm greenhouse complex 300m ssw of lake that looked like an upside down human pancreas. The entrance is under the central grain barn at the farm. The lake was northeast of here. Cypher looked in the matrix and found Snail Lake that matched the description.
While we headed to the farm, I created two improved invisibility fortune cookies.
Cypher sent drones to scout and I went astral. There were many living creatures around, I found the entrance under the barn in the SW corner. I followed the underground area through a stone door into a room. There were 6-8 people carrying gear, but didn't look to have lost essence.
Grelig bought some smoke grenades from a friend and we headed to the office so that we can burn it to the ground.
8/31/2075
Grelig climbed around and does his bit and set up the grenades. He found an old burner phone that has a message about someone wanting her to work for him. It is signed Sells. He fiddles with it so Cypher can access it, then left the office, his demolitions setup complete.
We drove away and Cypher set off the grenades.
I contacted Dr. Tarrington about Sells, but he hasn't heard of him. He did say biotech was starting to get harder because of the Syndicate Wars.
We went back to the farm and Cypher and Grelig snuck in. Me and my Valkyie stayed in the astral. I went forward to scout and saw that there are a lot of people around the barn. There were wounded people that are being tended. Others were wounded, but were not being tended. The ones who were not being tended also have cyberware.
Cypher called Peaches, the one who runs the farm and made an offer to take Scarlet away. Peaches said she'd get back to us.
Cypher called our Johnson, after a pause she said that she represented someone from Future Group a Saeder-Krupp subsidiary.
They went into the farm to speak directly to Scarlet. They talked to her and she said she would stay at the farm until we recovered the critter. Ballser offered some help to take down the blue guy if we found it.
We heade to Silver Fang territory. I sent my Valkyrie to find the blue beast.
We went to speak with a Silver Fang friend of Cypher. Not sure what happened, but then we went to speak to some sort of fence.
He received some video from the fence that showed a house with a bunch of gangers.
The Valkyrie returned and confirmed what Cypher suspected as to the location of the Blue Critter.
With a bunch of gas grenades and a couple of shots. We were able to get the creature out of the house. The valkyrie ended up going into the gas filled house with turned her invisible with one of my enchantments and got her out.
Cypher called the Johnson and he told us to meet him at the Last Gas Station in the Barrens. We headed back to pick up Crimson and Ballser. There were a pair trucks filled with heavily armed thugs. Crimson was in the back of one of the trucks. We headed out.
We made the exchange of Crimson and the critter with the Johnson.
As we headed back one of Cypher's commlink rings and there is a message on it. 'Well Played for Now - Sells'
(Karma Earned: 2)
Date: August 3, 2076
Subject: Hunting Infected
Locations: MSP'Plex
Notes:
2076-08-02
We were contacted by Miranda about a job to hunt an infected. The meeting was at noon. We went past southside for the meet. The address we were given wass an old school bus garage.
Grelig, Cypher, Eva and I met with her and she said that there was an attack and two people were killed at a factory that was used as a warehouse. They thought the perpetrator was an infected. They were offering a 25k bonded fee that wouldl be paid two days after completion of the mission. The location was closed using the excuse of a worker comp investigation. They didn't want to involve the police. It needed to be done in four days.
We took the job.
We headed over to the factory building. It looked better than the rest of the area. I summoned a valkyrie. I sent her into the factory to look for awakened creatures. She said she saw what looks to be an infected. It was in the northwest corner of the warehouse.
I increased my reflexes and we entered the warehouse. We found it and Grelig and Eva were able to bring it down. Cypher looked up where to deliver the body. Cypher tried to break into the commlink. We drove to a farmhouse even farther south.
On the way south we were attacked by two black SUVs. We were able to take out both of them. We continued traveling and arrived at the deserted farmhouse. There is no one there, it looked like someone may have been here recently. There was a car and when we opened it there were two bodies that died maybe an hour ago. Grelig and Eva looked inside the house to see if there is anyone in there. I sent a message to Miranda and told her that it looked like something happened to the Johnson. They discovered three bodies in the house. The woman looked like she might be the Johnson. It looked like they were killed in a gunfight.
We talked to Miranda and decided that the best thing to do is put all of the bodies in the house and set it on fire. We looted the bodies and took the car. Miranda said she would be interested in buying the car. We headed back to the Barrens. We arrived at Miranda's and sold stuff.
2076-08-03
Eva got a call from Big Mama, apparently there is a succubus that needed killing. If it isn't killed, it could start a gang war because of who she is killing. We agreed to do so. She thought that it was in Northside Barrens because there are six people that have been killed in a way that looks like the succubus had done. The gang territories where the killings occurred were the Bonegnawers, Red Talon, Firemen(2), Crypt Keeper and the Northside Kings(2).
We did some footwork to tried and find out more about the attacks. Gode Jensen needed something delivered to Valkyrie of Tyr's Right Hand. We went to the World Serpent. She wass willing to tell us where the killing occurred. Patty's Orgy Wagon was where the Northside Kings killed occurred. Facebooker, syndicate hacker was killed. Maul, Northside Kings enforcer, were killed at the wagon. Maul had issues with some Firemen. She thought one of the security forces or one of the syndicates would benefit most from the war.
Eva got addresses from a friend for Zeda, Brandy, Rob, Carl.
Big Mama had address for Facebooker.
He didn't have an address for Padpinyo
Valkyrie had address for Maul.
We headed to Patty's Orgy Wagon. I saw the place where Maul was killed, but didn't get much out of it. Grelig talked to the man running the wagon and found out that a large breasted red-headed woman came with Maul and left in a Chrysler-Nissan Jackrabbit that headed north. Body was picked up by a member of the Northside Kings.
Some friends of Cypher knew who the red-headed woman was. It was apparently one of Tokyo Rose's best women, Crimson Valkyrie. We started heading to Tokyo Roses, but hit a Tyr's Right Hand Checkpoint. We waited it out then headed to the brothel. When we got there Grelig and Cypher headed to the food. Eva and I made a reservation to see Crimson Rose this evening.
We waited until 5 and Grelig took my place as part of the pair. Cypher and I sat in the restaurant so we can observe.
I assensed when Crimson Valkyrie appears. It is the succubus and it wass actually a materialized spirit, not an possesed human. We fought her and were able to defeat her, though the fight was difficult.
(Karma Earned: 4)
Date: June 14, 2076
Subject: Helping the Doc
Locations: MSP'Plex
Notes:
6/13/2076
Eva gave us a call about a potential job at 8am. He told us the meet was at 8am at a warehouse by the Lowry Bridge in Westside.
6/14/2076
We picked up Bloodhound and headed to the meet.. Grelig drove as usual. We arrived at the warehouse and it seemed pretty dead. Grelig noticed the ARO for a Mr. Johnson. Grelig and Bloodhound went in, while I stayed in the car and kept watch astrally.
Johnson said that there was a thing terrorizing the neightborhood. It tended to tear victims apart. It looked like a giant dog, a giant barghest or giant cat. I reviewed the footage and I thought it might be a big mountain lion or maybe a chimeric mountain lion. There was also a text file. It described the killing of a two man bounty hunting team. In eight days there were two killings a couple of blocks apart. Ten days ago was the first killing. All happened in one neighborhood in Westside that was a mix of residential and light commercial. It looked like the people were surprised before the attack. We agreed to the job and they offered 18k nuyen each. We needed to end the threat and figure out who has caused this. We had until midnight on June 20th.
Mr Johnson gave us a number and a location to call and meet them when we have finished the run.
I called Frank and he said it looks like a big cat and mentions that the Sioux Wildcats sometimes use cats as part of their teams.
The others talked to people, but they aren't able to find much more than what we already knew. Bloodhound learned about areas that animals avoided. A guy that Grelig's contact knew had been filming it and narrowed down the location. He bought the video and we were able to review it. It looked like the troll version of a mountain lion. They eyes looked artificial. It was also wearing armor and possibly some saddle bags.
Grelig studied the video and tried to find out what augmentations it had. It had bone density, reaction enhancer and possibly an auto injector. Some of the gear was a built in med-kit. It seemed to be the size of a dumpster.
We headed over to the alley and did some tracking. We looked for a while and eventually found a hole in the ground by a parking lot. We looked for more holes, but didn't find anymore. I had my valkyrie fly Bloodhound up to the roof to make sure it wasn't nesting there. We waited for security to investigate what happened on the roof.
I sent my valkyrie to see if the critter was in its lair or not. The tunnel went ten meters to a water catch. The water was a meter deep. It then continued another five meters north to a 3 by 3 meter hole. It was possibly a meter or two below the ground. It was in there.
Bloodhound had a bear trap delivered. He placed it in front of the hole. I cast physical mask to disguise myself.
The thing charged out of the hole and combat ensued. We defeated it and shove it into the trunk of the Americar.
Cypher did some matrixy stuff and found an address downtown for the cyberwear. He founds a house pan in a loft in the warehouse district, an expensive part of downtown. The building had good security. There was one hidden node on the floor, which was the house network.
6/15/2076
We went downtown early to watch who came out of the building. Bloodhound panhandled around the building so he cound be near. Grelig and I hung out at an oxygen bar. Bloodhound was able to get in and to the right floor. MorEu was the name on the door. He knocked and the door is opened by a 40-50 year old man. He managed to get a donation of thousands of Saeder-Krupp script. He didn't seem to know what the Barrens is and doesn't seem to have a concept of money. They are unmarked sequential bills. He got out. We used the fingerprints on the bills, a description of part of his face, and his address to give to the Johnson.
We met him around 10pm. He brought a bunch of armed goons, but he paid us and things went well.
(Karma Earned: 2, Edge Spent 0)
Date: April 12, 2076
Subject: Helping the Doc
Locations: MSP'Plex
Notes:
Eva told us to meeting a Johnson.
He hired us to get a barghast variant out of refinery in Rosemont. The Johnson offered 60k, + 6k for non-disclosure +12k for damage waiver, +12k for getting done in six hours
We bought some sound dampeners in preparation because the creature had sound based attacks.
I knew Barghasts are a metaspecies of english mastiff. It weighs 170kg and is 80cm tall with a massive muscled body. Spines protrude from back, red eyes they have glowy saliva. They are big, strong and reasonably quick. High intimidation and perception. Armored, dual natured and paralyzing howl.
We watched the video and they seemed bigger than the standard barghast. Weapons didn't seem to do much. There was a lot of running away from the other investigators. The one on the video didn't have the spines of the standard barghast. Its skin is bumpier and was a different color. In some videos it had been shot, but it wasn't wounded on subsequent videos.
We got in the Americar and headed to the facility. We saw there was a lot of security when we arrived. We were given some fake ids to get into the facility. There were drones that on patrol.
We spoke with Alex Morris, the scene commander.
After talking to him. We went into the complex. I went astral and started looking.
Four things came in on the west side of the facility. There was a series of pits on that side. They seemed to be moving across the pits at a high rate of speed towards a big part of the facility in the middle western part of it. I then went into the building and I saw it. It saw me. I retreated and as I did so, one of the four people summoned a spirit. It looked like a spirit of Man.
I flew back and warned the group. Cypher did something to watch the four people. I put improved reflexes on myself and Grelig. We approached the building. We tried to open the door and it's locked. We got it open and it was dark inside.
We looked around the warehouse and and found it. It was indeed glowing green and was covered in pustules. Grelig shots it and I cast silence on it. The fight continued and we were eventually able to bring it down.
As we were recovering, Cypher told us that those riders were getting closer. We hid and got ready. They began the assault against us. An ork was dropped in the doorway and a drone was destroyed before they decide to retreat.
We chased them off and then we contacted Alex. He told us that for 100 nuyen they wouldl bring a vehicle to help us. I cleaned up my astral signatures. We stripped weapons and ammo off the drone, then loaded up the Americar and drove to the farm where we were supposed to meet Alex.
(Karma Earned: 1, Edge Spent 0)
Date: March 30, 2076
Subject: Helping the Doc
Locations: MSP'Plex
Notes:
3/29/2076
Dr. Terrington called me and asked if could help him.
He wanted me to look into an incident that involved a friend, Dr Gaylord Kanjirathinga, a Sri Lankan sex therapist. He is a 42 year old human with a Saeder-Krupp SIN. He lives on the east side. He has a reputation for having a short temper. He had killed a sinless man a couple of months ago, but it was judged to be self-defense. Dr Kanjirathinga was arrested for eating all of the organ transplants in a DocWagon thunderbird that had crashed near his house. There were witnesses and he was arrested. The reason for his arrest has already been made public.
When I mentioned it to the group, Cypher mentioned that there have been several other random acts of violence on the westside as well recently.
We headed out to the scene of the crime. When we arrived at the crime scene I tried assensing, but something went wrong. I suddenly could not see into the astral, but before the sight faded I saw something has changed in my aura. I was not blind to the astral.
We headed out into the area and started looking around. A drone notified us that we were approaching a crime scene and we should not get any closer. After we showed my PI license we approached and we feel a lingering affect.
I summoned a valkyrie to help investigate the area. She said something powerful used the influence power. It showed me its aura so that I could recognize it. Based on the fading aura, the creature was probably around during the crash.
I determined where the pilot of the thunderbird was taken by contacting Doc Wagon. The Pilot - Frank Sullivan was at the DocWagon Park Nicollet Center on Excelsior.
We drove to the hospital so that we could see the pilot. We are not allowed to physically see him, but I sent my valkyrie in astrally to examine him. It looked like the same creature used accident on the pilot. I asked my valkyrie to examine the aura again, and she thought that the spirit was force 10.
Detective Michael Nash was the lead investigator for DocWagon. Cypher called him so that we could tell him about the auras. I called Dr Terrington. He told me to stay there and wait for the lawyer. Wang Ling Lawyer called me and said he would send an investigator. He asked if I would testify and I said I would if necessary.
I examined the eight other events that occurred and it seemed like it also had the powers of compulsion - homicidal rage, influence, accident, energy drain and fear. Gode Jensen said it sounded like a wraith, a shadow spirit. One of the nastier spirits out there. It feeds on violence, death and carnage. A common tactic is to find a dangerous person or vulnerable people and induce homicidal rage.
Cypher did some analysis and figured out that there should be an attack sometime between 5 and 9 on the 30th. We figured out a good location for where an attack might happen. We got some drugs that would make someone berserk and gave it to a drug dealer so that we could make someone angry and attract the wraith.
3/30/2076
I summoned a fire giant but kept it in the nether realm until the wraith showed up.
The drug user went berserk and our plan went into action. Frank moved in and was taken over immediately by over by the spirit and started killing druggies. We were able to take out the spirit. I was rushed over to Doctors Without Borders. When I came to, I found out that Greta a friend of Dr. Terrington had patched me up. I find out she was born in 1998.
(Karma Earned: 4, Edge Spent 0)
Date: March 20, 2076
Subject: Spring Equinox Blot
Locations: MSP'Plex
Notes:
Gode Jensen woke me early. We had been up late the previous night studying the fundamentals of magic. He continued to tell me that I could further my knowledge of magic. I had been studying so much that I had been staying at the Swedish American Institute. We once again cleansed ourselves in the Sauna before once again dressing in our ceremonial leathers. Gode Jensen lit all of the braziers with his magic as we entered the holy chamber. We then sat around the central fire pit and inhaled the holy smoke until the light of the rising sun entered the chamber.
Tyr Steffanson stood up as the room was further lightened by the sun. He led the prayer to Loki. He then sacrificed a rat to appease Loki's anger about his failure to prevent the coming of spring.
Gydje Strand then stood up and led the prayer to Freya. She then sacrificed a dove to thank Freya for a successful planting and fecund animals.
Gydje Andersson stood up and led the prayer to Thor. She then sacrificed a snake to thank Thor for protecting those who feed the world.
Finally, Gode Jensen stood and led the prayer to Odin. He then sacrificed a goat to thank the Allfather for protecting them from the creatures of the dark.
Then Gode Jensen told a story about the renewal of life. All of the sacrificed animals were then roasted over the braziers. We then ate them in thanks for the bounty of the future. He then led us in prayers to the four gods again.
Then it was over. We then spent the day greeting visitors and taking them on tours of the holy areas of the Institute.
(Karma Earned: 0, Edge Spent 0)
Date: January 25 - February 24, 2076
Subject: Instinct Metaplanar Quest
Locations: MSP'Plex
Notes:
The room was lit only by candles as I lay down on the hay bed. I closed my eyes and entered the astral. I summoned a valkyrie and asked her to take me to a primal metaplane. She nodded and drew her sword. A beam of light shot out of the sword into the depths of the astral. We both followed the beam of light.
We traveled for a long time, but were stopped by the bulk of Jörmungandr, the World Serpent. This was my first test. In order to continue to the metaplanes, I had to pass him. I thought about the best way to do this and ultimately drifted over to the great beast's head. I challenged him to a contest of riddles like the heroes in the old stories. The worm was old and had seem much of the world pass underneath him, but he also liked to sleep and missed much. I was able to ask him riddles from the time before magic had returned and he mostly asked me riddles that were in the old stories. It was hard, but I was able to beat him in the contest. After he admitted defeat, I was able to continue to the metaplanes.
Eventually we came to what looked like an island covered in forests and mountains floating in the astral. The Valkyrie sheathed her sword and watched me. We had arrived.
I floated to the island and felt a moment of disorientation as I entered the realm. Something was off as I looked around. The forest around me seemed to be wrong somehow. It was then that I noticed that I was in the body of a big black wolf. Then I heard the horns blowing and the sounds of dogs. I wasn't sure what I was supposed to be doing, so I headed towards the horns. I padded through the woods and the scent of dog grew stronger and stronger. Up ahead, I saw a break in the woods. And I saw the source of the horns. Giants riding horses the size of semi-trucks. They were huge. And their dogs were scaled to their masters.
Suddenly one of the dogs caught my sent and I knew that I was their prey. I fled back into the woods. I had never been hunted like this before. I wasn't able to climb into the trees because as a wolf. I kept trying to thing of a escaping the hunters. I just wasn't able to shake them. In despair I finally gave up thinking and let the wolf take over. I don't remember anything after that, but when I came back to myself the dogs were dead. The giants were no where to be seen.
I felt myself being pulled out of my body. Another brief disorientation and I was standing by the valkyrie again. She silently drew her sword and once again we followed the beam of light. I re-entered my body and felt the new power flowing around me.
(Karma Earned: 0, Edge Spent 0)
Date: December 23, 2075
Subject: Stopping the Ritual and Rescuing the Girls
Locations: MSP'Plex
Notes:
12/23/2075
After the barrier went down Koriak dropped the lead summoner and I attempted to knockout the rest of the summoners. I hit them with two stunballs, but it is too much and I passed out.
We all woke up in one of the buildings. The Bear Sark was killed along with several others. The surviving women were in a different building. Eva said there was something strange outside.
I looked outside and saw an astral shallow that was strangely dark. The strange gear/altar thing was strangely deformed and looked completely unnatural. The gear seemed to have body parts that are slowly moving and changing in disgusting ways. It looked horrible.
We continued to rest and recover. After another hour I checked outside again and the astral shallow had faded a bit. The astral did seem to be recovering.
I contacted Miranda to arrange transport for us and the women. She agreed to come out with enough vehicles. I then contacted Gode Jensen and told him about the astral shallows and that Gunvor Sinason died. He said that he and Nils would come out. I finally contacted Doctor Terrington and told him about the girls. I put a medkit on one of them and he figured out what he needs. I promised to give him 2400 nuyen to pay for the antidote that they are going to need. I texted Miranda where they wanted to be picked up.
Miranda contacted me and said she should be here around 230am.
Several hours after I first looked at the astral shallows, it faded away. I hoped there would be something for Gode Jensen and Nils to investigate. At the least there was the wheel thing.
Cypher found where all the stormcrows were being housed. There weren't any left.
Miranda arrived with Dr. Terrington and my church mates. Dr Terrington took care of the girls. Gode Jensen and Nils took notes about what people saw from the astral shallow. They saw the gear was evil, probably artifact. Nils suggested that we bury it deep somewhere. We were able to load it up on one of the trucks.
We gave Miranda the Roadmaster as payment. We paid Dr Terrington with money from the loot. On the way back to the city we stopped at a random location and buried the artifact.
We notifid all of the families when we got back and dropped off the women at a Stuffer Shack so they could be picked up. We got enough for each of us to get 2500 nuyen from the families.
(Karma Earned: 6, Edge Spent 1, Notoriety 1)
Date: December 23, 2075
Subject: Taking the Perimeter
Locations: MSP'Plex
Notes:
We drove over to where we see an obvious encampment right around sundown. We sneak up and start attacking the defenders. I am able to drop what I think is an adept. We continue fighting them. I am forced to use my magic to stun groups which is very draining. I realize I don't have any stim patches, so I have to head over to Grelig to get one. Otherwise I am likely to pass out from all of the spells I am casting.
I get a stim patch from Grelig and we get up those who had been knocked unconcious. We then continue into the base. We work our way into the base and are attacked several times. We are able to defeat everyone outside of the physical barrier. We surround three sides of it and attack.
We drop the barrier and there are many of the evil cold spirits as well as some summoners.
(Karma Earned: 4, Edge Spent 3)
Date: December 21, 2075
Subject: Winter Solstice Blot
Locations: MSP'Plex
Notes:
I arrived well before dawn to the Swedish American Institute. All the others were already up and were waiting for me. I quickly undressed and entered the sauna with the rest of the group. We purified ourselves in the steam of the sauna until about a half hour before dawn. We dressed in our ceremonial leathers and sat quietly with our thoughts until shortly before dawn. Gode Jensen lit all of the braziers with his magic as we entered the holy chamber. We then sat around the central fire pit and inhaled the holy smoke until the light of the rising sun entered the chamber.
Tyr Steffanson stood up as the room was further lightened by the sun. He led the prayer to Loki. He then told a story about Loki to amuse the trickster and distract him from stealing the sun.
Gydje Strand then stood up and led the prayer to Freya. She then told a story about how the lengthening of the days leads to the spring and the renewal of life.
Gydje Andersson stood up and led the prayer to Thor. She then told a story about how Thor guards the earth from the creatures from beyond who seek to take advantage of the darkness. He stops the dark creatures and their defeat allows the days to start lengthening again.
Finally, Gode Jensen stood and led the prayer to Odin. He then told a story about how the Allfather taught man how to build shelters and protect themselves from the creatures of the dark.
When Gode Jensen finished his story, a valkyrie brought in a real goat into the chamber. Gode Jensen took the goat and placed it on the stone table next to the fire pit. He then led us in prayers to the four gods again and when those were completed, he sacrificed the goat with a ritual dagger. He then gave the eyes, brain, heart and genitals to the fire as an offering to the gods. He then sliced off a piece of meat for all of us and we ate it raw. We finished our meal as the sun reached its zenith.
Then it was over. We had a hearty meal to celebrate the solstice and the lengthening of the days. We then spent the day greeting visitors and taking them on tours of the holy areas of the Institute.
It was a good day. I replenished me after the hard days that we had recently.
(Karma Earned: 1, Edge Spent 0)
Date: December 18, 2075
Subject: OMG fight
Locations: Up North
Notes:
We attacked the cultists. They reacted by taking cover and surrounding the buildings with smoke. The spirit was able to take out several of the cultists. I told it to find out what happened with the women. The Valkyrie told me the women were in kitchen by the garage. I told it to materialize and attack those inside the house. It managed to defeat one of them before being disrupted.
Cypher and I stayed in the van where it was parked. I did not see any benefit to heading towards the fight on foot and neither of us thought we could successfully drive there before the fight ends. I summoned another Valkyrie and sent her into the fight. She defeated another one before being disrupted.
I summoned a storm spirit to help in the fight. I sent it on a remote service to try and stop the van. It slowed it down, but didn't stop it.
I summoned another storm spirit, but fell unconscious from the strain.
I woke up when Grelig put a stim patch on me. I healed Frank a little and then turned Frank, Grelig and Koryak invisible again and sent my storm spirit with him. The house was empty and we figured out they are in a culvert north of the road. The three plus spirit headed that way and attacked the van. Grelig attacked the cultists that charged out. The van came to a stop. My spirit moved to help Grelig and missed with its attack. It is then disrupted.
Grelig, Koryak and Frank were all dropped by the cultists. The cultists then ignored them and loaded up the van. I memorized all of their auras while they entered the van.
After they left, I healed the trio up and we got to the van and I fell unconscious. We headed to a small town to rest after getting stuck many, many times.
12/19/2075
We rested all day
(Karma Earned: 3, Edge Spent 5)
Date: December 7, 2075
Subject: Looking for the Missing Girls
Locations: MSP'plex, Up North
Notes:
I checked the astral around the arcology. I couldn't see through the shadowy outside. I did see three white robed priest spirits patrol around the outside. It will be hard to get past them, but is certainly possible.
We got a call from Miranda letting us know that she had found us a possible replacement for Abe. We toldl her that we'd meet him at the World Serpent at noon. She said his name is Koryak and he'd be there.
We headed down to the the World Serpent early so that we could observe him when he arrived. Grelig decided to drive the van. We arrived there and saw there are a bunch trolls and orks. We grabbed a table and I order a mead. Koryak arrived. Apparently he was the only survivor of one of the groups that encountered the ice spirits. He was looking for the red haired girls that had gone missing. Similar to what the group was looking at before. Koryak is able to get me an armored jacket with insulation on the 9th.
We agreed to meet at the armorers on the 9th.
I did a matrix search and find basic information about the people on the Johnson list.
I called Miranda and asked her if she could find anything out about which Johnson gave out the information on us.
I called Gydje Anderson about buying some more reagents tomorrow.
I spent the rest of the day learning my Mask spell.
Bought 100 reagents and a ward ritual formula. She also gave me a piece of fresh baked bread.
12/8/2075
I attempted to bind a spirit spending 200 reagents. I don't remember much from that day. I woke up late at night after the members of the group were able to rescue me and perform first aid on me.
12/9/2075
I rested after my failed attempt at binding a spirit. I also got my my armored jacket
12/10/2075
I made three armor preparations using 18 reagents. I also summoned a force 6 fire spirit with guard and search.
We drove north. On the way Grelig gets us lost. We were able to eventually find our way and we made it to Center City. We spent hours looking around for some sort of clue where the women are. We found a clue among some latrines. It pointed to the northeast.
We got back into the van and head northeast. We eventually get to the are where we did our milk run. We arrived there around midnight.
12/11/2075
We decided to have my fire giant to search for the missing girls. We decide that starting in Center City is the best so we headed back that way. We found out the most recent person missing, Alma Webb. I send my fire giant to find her. It is unsuccessful.
I summoned a valkyrie as we decide to stake out the area.
12/12/2075
Miranda called me back and tells me that she was able to get info on who she thinks it is. She talked to a mafia guy who is an op sec guy. Both teams he had for storm crows and were killed were hired by the same Johnson. They met at Tony Jaros and she was able to get a description of the guy and she was able to match Henri Bernays. She guessed it might be the same guy.
12/18/2075
I saw another Citymaster park on a hill nearby. Half an hour later a big group of armed people and prisoners appeared downtown. Their armament does not look modern. They had melee weapons and shotguns, sort of like tribal warriors and entered a building. Some guards go in the building with the prisoners. The others spread out around a couple of buildings. 10 in front, 10 in back 7 inside and 20 prisoners. Leader inside, subleader inside, subleader inside.
I turned Koryak and Grelig invisibile. They started heading towards the building. Koryak got hit by an arrow.
(Karma Earned: 2, Edge Spent 1)
Date: November 23, 2075
Subject: Hiding Out
Locations: MSP'plex, Up North
Notes:
We found out that we were tried in absentia on the 18th and found guilty of contempt of court. We basically have to stay hidden for the next four years until the statute of limitation has passed.
We are pretty sure that the bounty hunters will give up around the beginning of December. We should have more freedom to move after that.
When I was talking to Gode Jensen, Verner Swenhaugen needed some sort of help. Unfortunately, with everything else that was happening I wasn't able to talk to him. He also pointed us towards the Tyr's Right Hand and to ask for Valkyrie. They are likely to help because of their Scandinavian connections.
Eva and Cypher were contacted by Gary Ullman, VP of Watch the Watchers. He gave them a contact number and told us he had been contacted to do a job for us. Cypher contacted him and said that he would watch a person, place or thing of our choosing for a week and return the information for us. If they don't find anything then we don't pay. The cost was 3k nuyen for the week. The week started today regardless of whether we choose to use his services. So at the end of the week our opportunity to use them passes. After talking with him we all spent the day thinking of ways to find the ones who ruined our lives.
11/24/2075
We worked all night and Cypher finished his search around 6 am. He figured out that:
1) DA for MSP'plex, Charlie Fairbane, was tipped off from a friend in the MN department of State, James Miller. Miller was tipped off by UCAS Department of State's subdirector of Diplomatic Security, George Chambers. The call was placed six weeks ago from downtown in the New Arcology - Swiss Bank AG using a burner ID.
2) DA gave the file to Steve Shade, assistant director of the FBI. They then acted on it.
3) FBI performed surveillance and contracted out the job to gather information on us.
4) Cypher thinks a Johnson may have been the one to give the information to the Subdirector. Probably someone connected with the New Arcology.
Grelig thought that politics and military didn't seem to be involved. KE is a large percentage of UCAS military. Local commanding officers may know our names.
This sounded familiar to me. It is a popular trope on how people are forced into the shadowrunning life.
I noticed that stormcrows jobs were filling up the board. Two groups hunting them were killed off recently, at least one by one of those awful ice spirits who were in the presence of the stormcrows. They were often connected with spirits of air rather than earth. A large number of them could generate storms or other effects that are the opposite of earth. They are bigger than normal awakened crows. Others said said that there are a lot of jobs for finding them. No one seems to be able to find them..
Cypher checked out Watch the Watchers and the seemed like a legitimate business. The Director of the business is a secret.
We were hidden in the hanger doing our research when three more of those ice spirits attacked. Grelig and Abe were dropped immediately. Cypher and I hid under the helicopter. My valkyrie hits one and it collapses to the ground. that is when we discovered that the spirits were able to regenerate. The fight continued and one of them disappeared. My valkyrie managed to avoid several attacks. Between myself and Cypher we were able to banish and my valkyrie destroyed the other one. I healed Grelig, but Abe was killed by the spirits. His body was completely frozen. Apparently this was what the bodies looked like when the group went on a job up north.
We decided it was time to head back to the building the Wolf provided to Abe in the Barrens. Once there Grelig and Cypher worked on selling some of Abe's gear.
A contact of Cypher gave him some information about the Arcology. The Arcology security is good, but it does have guided tours. The tour doesn't go anywhere sensitive and the guide is security trained. There is a high security area that has lots of sensors to check that you are where you're supposed to be. There are five entrances into the building. The tour goes through a visitor's entrance.
I sent the spirit video to Gode Karl. He was going to look at it. He said it might be shadow spirits. Winternight was bad when they brought around Crash 2.0. They used blood magic. They teamed up with evil technomancer and caused Crash 2.0. The spirits looked like some merger of technomancer and blood magic. The town where the group first encountered the spirits seems to be important. I asked if Gydje Andersson can get me a lodge and the mask spell. She would get it to me on the 25th.
11/25/2014
We worked on making our new abode more livable. It involved lots of hammer work. We requested that Watch the Watchers get a list of possible Johnsons from Swiss Bank AG.
I received the spell formula and lodge materials. I started working on my lodge.
11/29/2075
Watch the Watchers got us a list of possible runners and special ops types.
Male
Isak Jansson
Henri Bernays
Stefan Persson
Stefan Johansson
Hugo Carlsson
Joseph Andersson
Gösta i Broby Gustafsson (Runners)
Sundberg Pettersson (Runners)
Edvard Kron Jönsson (Runners)
Kolar-Alfred Pettersson (Runners)
Female names
Kristina Jansson
Elin Nilsson
Emma Eriksson
Hanna Olsson
Märta Jansson (Runners)
Kerstin Petersson (Runners)
(Karma Earned: 3, Edge Spent 1)
Date: November 9, 2075
Subject: Winter Storm
Locations: MSP'plex, Up North
Notes:
I arrived late last night from Duluth. It's a good thing Abe sent his Americar for me.
I received a message from Miranda shortly after midnight. In fact, several of us did. She warned us that the FBI and MN Bureau of Criminal Activity are bringing charges against us. We piled into Abe's van and headed into the Barrens.
I summoned a Dark Fae to conceal us from any searching spirits.
We reached our location and Grelig went in to make sure that the place is safe. I turned him invisible to aid him. The Dark Fae kept us hidden until sunrise. I then summoned a Valkyrie and had her continue to conceal us and shoot magic fire into the fireplace to keep us warm.
I bought 60 days of rations for 300 nuyen. So does Eva.
We decided to head Center City. Abe had to abandon his car to the Silver Fangs. We arrived and found a house slightly better than where we stayed earlier.
11/10/2075
I continued to summon a Valkyrie to keep us warm and conceal us. As we hung out in Abe's van, two spirits that looked like an undulating pile of body parts surrounded by flies and other carrion appeared in the van. Apparently my Valkyrie's concealment wasn't quite good enough. We were able to fight them off, but my Valkyrie was defeated. I banished one of the spirits and the others finish off the other.
I healed Cypher and we continue north to Sunrise. There is a big abandoned building where we take shelter.
Abe decided to send a message to his helicopter to fly out to somewhere we can meet it. He used one of his throw away commlinks. He told it to fly between Horseshoe and Fish Lakes. We traveled west reasonably close to 35 to wait for its arrival.
We boarded the helicopter and head over to Motley. We got the helicopter into one of the abandoned hangers. We decided to rest here.
Now its time to figure out who did this to us and why.
(Karma Earned: 3, Edge Spent 4)
Date: August 3, 2075
Subject: David Callahan - Ares Kidnapping
Locations: MSP'plex, Duluth
Notes:
Last Seen: 7/18/2075 at Stinger's
When Noticed: Missed training on 7/19/2075
Kidnappers':
Jeanne Kelly, 31 Green Bay
Justin Anderson, 17 Green Bay
Arrived in the last couple of years and tend to work against Ares or Saeder-Krupp. Probably work for an A or smaller corp. Were at Stinger's. Used a jammer and paid for drinks in cash. Talked about sports. Eventually left the bar.
I summed a storm spirit to look for David, but is unable to find him. We did find a couple of places he is known to hang out. Grelig and I headed downtown high rise that has a gun range he frequented. I spoke with the desk attendants about David. The last time he was at the gun range was in the second week of July. We booked a session and looked at guns. We sent the session as a reward for being a loyal customer and Eric monitored it to see when he received it.
Eva headed to a doctor's office and tried to get information from them. They don't give her much. A doctor does call her and said that David is not on any medication or treatments that are life threatening. He did miss an appointment. Last missed appointment was five or six years ago. He has experimental, cultured bioware that could fail if he missed his treatment. It could fail in another week. The bioware was a cellular modification that made him have a type O body. We received a list of physicians who would be able to treat David. We get twelve, including three in the Barrens. Eric looked for ones that might be using a smaller security firm, but came up empty.
List of possible doctors:
Dr Terrington
Zona - posts Jackpoint
Ronald 'The Judge' Butler - go gang doctor
'Mad Jack' Paul Buchanan - works in the Cog.
I called Dr Terrington. He said that Knight Errant did issue crime alert from Brooklyn Center office regarding several attempted medical thefts in Plymouth which is Yak or Mafia territory
Eric did a search and narrowed down where David might be. I sent another storm spirit to find him. The spirit is once again unsuccessful.
Eva talked to a friend and he gets her the hardware numbers for the autodocs and medkits that were stolen. It cost 7k nuyen for the information.
We started flying around and Eric tried to find the specific items. We ended up north of Duluth where Eric found them. I astrally looked around and there are two men above. As I went deeper, it looked like everyone was on one level.
We decided to hit the min and I gave Grelig, Eva and Bloodhound an invisibility amulet. I then increased their reflexes so that they can react faster in hostile situations. They defeated the defenders of the min. They treated the wounded and moved in. They found the autodoc with David. It was performing a live autopsy on him. The technicians said that they would do more damage if they stopped the operation. They rounded up all the tecnicians and the autodoc and take them to the helicopter. We turned them in an got the money. Ares took all of the physical evidence so they could use it at the Corporate Court. We each received 2100 nuyen.
(Karma Earned: 3, Edge Spent 1)
Date: July 20, 2075
Subjects: Milk Run, Emma, Kidnapping.
Location: MSP'plex, Duluth
Notes:
Miranda contacted us for a milk run. She sent us to Rick Steelsky and he had five trucks that we ended up guarding. We followed the trucks in Abe's vehicle. We traveled up and around the Northside Barrens and into Wisconsin north of St Croix. We reached our destination in the middle of nowhere and the trucks unhitched their trailers. We were paid by Miranda at Tony Jaros.
We decided that the bounty we would work on was a kidnapping. We contacted Agent Ash for information about the it. Mijo Jungaid Bakema was a 56 year old male. He worked at an agroplant at 280 Ingerson Rd North, Maple Plane, MN. He was originally from Charleston, WV and works at Festival Foods. He was a mini-wargamer and erotic fanfic writer. He ran agridrones at Festival Foods. He was kidnapped as he was driving to the farm. 10 gangers on motorcycles grabbed him on July 3rd. No mage or technomancer was noticed. No gangers ran silent, but they only had metalink commlinks with terrible fake sins.
Eric identified the gangers as Blue Bloods based on the Purple and Black colors with a dwarf head on a spike.
July 21, 2075
People did research. Apparently some Blue Bloods hadn't been seen since the kidnapping. I continued studying my magic.
July 22, 2075
Eric found out that they were at least 20km away before he lost the trail. I continued to study my magic.
7/23/2075
We dropped the group off at the abduction site. I stayed in Abe's helicopter. We flew to where were Eric lost the motorcycles. Abe found a bunch of discarded cowlings from the kidnappers' bikes. We continued heading west and noticed someone wearing purple and black at an old dairy farm.
I went astral and tried to find Mijo. There were people scattered throughout the buildings of the farm. A rabbit spirit takes offense at me and attacks. I defeated it and went back to my body. I summed a storm spirit to try and find Mijo. It does find him and we landed the group so they grabbed him. My storm spirit hid them and I armored them with magic. There was a fight, but we were able to recover Mijo. Grelig and Eric collected the reward which went into the business fund.
Gydje Andersson called and told me there was a problem with a member of the church. I went over and spoke with Gode Jensen. Bear Sark Gunvor was in the office as well. I found out that Emma didn't return from her day job or her evening job. He had searched for her with spirits and found her in the Barrens. The spirit was attacked. It looked like it was chinese magic. It turned out it was Tony Sang causing trouble again. He was near Como Zoo, which was Red Talon territory. He was actually at The Yard. Gode Jensen sent a valkyrie named Gunner with us.
We went to the yard and looked on the main floor but didn't find him. I paid 5 nuyen to get onto the upper floor. I found an area where I thought he was. I arranged for the others to attack while I snuck through the barrier guarding the room. I was attacked by some sort of spirit. I tried to fight it off, but I lost.
I woke up and healed myself. I then turned Emma invisible and we walked out. I brought down the barrier so I could erase our astral signatures. After we are safe I healed Emma and we returned her to the Swedish American Institute.
(Karma Earned: 4, Edge Spent 5)
Date: June 11, 2075
Subjects: Jauchekafer, archaeologists
Location: MSP'plex, Duluth
Notes:
We continued dealing with the Jauchekafer. We heard that there was another team of four that went down and didn't make it back. Eric looked for their electronic signature. That led us to their bodies in one of the tunnels. Three of them are unconscious and one is conscious. One of the group was awakened, two had cyberwear. Grelic and Bloodhound stabilized them and took them back to the entrance. I memorized the awakened individuals aura. They were brought to the van so that I can heal them. I was able to heal three of them enough that they were able to communicate. We got their names. They gave us a credstick with 1000 nuyen in it. I put it in the business fund. They were trying to get the jauchekafer but weren't able to handle them. The group headed back into the sewers.
We gathered more jauchekafer. While gathering, we were attacked by several hordes of them. They managed to block the tunnel by spitting acid. My spirit gathered up the eggs and we bring in 28 jauchekafer. We were paid 14850 nuyen. 4850 nuyen went into the business fund, the rest of us earned 2000 nuyen.
Abe received a call from Donny Blank and was told that he had to go to Duluth. There we talked to Jean Green. He told us that there is a lab in the Piedmont Haunts that had gold. A group of archaeologists went in but needed supplies. We were to drop off the supplies and then extract the archaeologists. Jean Green said he wanted the names of pictures of anyone who wanted to get paid. Abe, Grelic and Eric all gave him their names.
We flew to Duluth and I summoned a fire giant. We dropped off the package and waited for the pickup signal. We received the signal and headed into the astral shallows of the Piedmont Haunts. We were attacked by spirits while we were waiting for the archaeologists. We fought them off and were able to deliver them. Each of us was paid 10800 for retrieval.
(Karma Earned: 4, Edge Spent 4)
Date: June 8, 2075
Subjects: Jauchekafer, captured hunters
Location: MSP'plex
Notes:
After months of distraction, our targets were the Jauchekafer. I spent weeks preparing.
I summoned a valkyrie and followed Eric, Grelig and Abe astrally to the official entrance for the job. I had the valkyrie conceal the group. The hunt was somewhat successful.
1) 2 jauchekafer taken down by drones and Grelig. It took a long time for him to drag them back.
2) 7 jauchekafer taken down by drones and Grelig. They are put into cages and dragged back to the entrance by swordbot.
3) 6 jauchekafer controlled by my spirit and brought back with the seven taken above.
4) 7 jauchekafer taken down or controlled with the help of my spirit.
We stopped at that point because Grelig's armor was damaged and his chem suit was breached.
All 6600 nuyen earned to this point were put into the business fund.
Lyle Gurka contacted Abe. He said that he had some hunter friends that needed help. Gurka was at Abe's hanger. Abe agreed to help him pick up Gurka's friends who had been captured by some anti-tech wilderness types. They had been hunting firebirds before they were captured. We agreed to go with him and headed to Multon Lake. We arrived there and after some searching found the hunters. I went in with a Fire Giant spirit and intimidated the captures to release the hunters. We then flew home.
(Karma Earned: 3, Edge Spent 2)
Date: March 30, 2075
Subjects: Hackers Levon, Trevor, Tybi, Dynamite
Location: MSP'plex
Notes:
Received bounty from Eva's friend Winston. No one had gone after bounty for a while.
Gelig's contact mentioned Dispatch Sgt. O'Roarke as being the last one with the case against the four. He met with the O'Roarke at Club Jaeger, but did not get much useful information.
Abe received some information about the four from Wolf.
- Was betrayed or felt betrayed by the mafia
- Spent 30 days in jail in September 2074.
- Were vacationing in Florida when they spent time in jail for 1000 nuyen of fake NeoNet script.
- October 31, 2074 - 12 mafia members were picked up on anonymous tips. Tips were from hackers.
- 30 pieces of silverware were found on the Don's mansion's doorstep. This was probably why they were turned over to Knight Errant.
- Trevor's brother, Lou, works the 6pm-3am shift as a bartender at Falafel King.
Gelig and Abe went to Falafel King to talk to Lou. He gave them the name of a fence that can direct them to a high-end fence for fake sins. We hoped that this was his brother. We went to the fence and the negotiations went bad. Abe dropped one person and my summoned valkyrie drops the other. I erased my signature from the area and we left. Hopefully they avoided being identified.
While we waited for additional information about the hackers, we decided to go after some jauchkafers. Gelig bought a hazmat suit in preparation, but then the information arrived.
The Bounty Hunters association told Gelig they they like to gamble at only the finest gambling establishments. In early 2074, they hung out at the Great Lakes Casino in Duluth.
Abe and Gelig returned to speak to the fence Abe did the talking. He found out that Levon was gambling at Above It All, a resort on a dirigible.
We met with Eric the IT guy back at base. He is the ghost I once saw in the basement. He joined us for the mission since our target was four people reputed to be hackers.
Gelig and Eric enter Above It All since they were the only ones with real SINs.
While they were in the dirigible, Abe and I patrolled in his helicopter. I scanned the dirigible astrally and saw that it had some sort of technological ward. I would have been hard for me to get in astrally if I had tried.
A helicopter landed on the dirigible. Four individuals who matched the description of the hackers boarded the helicopter. Once they had boarded and cleared the dirigibles airspace, I sent my Storm Spirit to cause the pilot to crash the helicopter.
The pilot brought the helicopter to the ground in a controlled crash. We landed nearby and I ran over to heal the pilot.
The Abe sent his drones against the four hackers. I sent my spirit after them as well. The storm spirit took out the hackers. It is then banished by someone. I summoned another storm spirit with noxious breath and an elemental attack. All of the counterfeiters were caught. We grabbed the bodies and took it to Abe's helicopter. I dumped their biomonitors and turned off their cyberdecks. We also grabbed the helicopter pilot so we could bring him to the hospital. We landed and took the bodies to our base. I got out then Eric and Grelig took the bodies to Knight Errant.
I grabbed the amulet and the three rings that looked like foci. I took them to Gode Jensen to see what they are. He directed me to Tyr Johanas Stephanson. He was able to identify two of them, but not the others. I left them with him for him to identify. He did figure them out.
We learned that Officer Clade is responsible for the Jauchekafer bounty.
We ended up being sued for the helicopter crash. After Eric does some research we fought it in court. We won but it cost us 13,000 nuyen.
(Karma Earned: 3, Edge Spent 0)
(Karma Earned: 1, Edge Spent 4)
(Karma Earned: 2, Edge Spent 0)
Date: March 16, 2075
Subjects: Agropelters, Emma Soderberg
Location: MSP'plex
Notes:
Studied Astral Signature of Emma Soderberg and the three summoners of Mushu watcher spirits.
We went after agropelters near the Lake of the Woods. We were able to get 18 of them. We took them down to the MSP'plex and turn them over. Ten went to Wayne in Jack's at Taylor's Falls. Eight went to Harry at a street corner in the Northside Barrens. I gathered one reagent from the agropelter bodies.
I was contacted by Emma Soderberg, a cousin of Gydje. She is a dancer at the Web and needed some help. A loan she took at Ming's Tavern was actually with Tony Sang of the Triads. He called the loan due, but he would forgive the debt if she got the access code to her boyfriend's RCC. If she did not pay back the loan she would become a meat puppet. We decided it was too dangerous and I told Gydje that she should giver her cousin the money to pay back the debt.
(Karma Earned: 3, Edge Spent 1)
Date: March 2, 2075
Subjects: Volleying Porcupines, Ghouls
Location: MSP'plex
Notes:
Our target was a gang consisting of three members, a female ork and two male humans. I summoned a storm spirit to look for the ork. It found her in under an hour. Once again summoning spirits tired me out.
I bought forty drams of reagents in case I needed them while hunting the gang.
Gelig spoke to some people at Stringers. I'm not sure it accomplished anything.
I rested while Abe sends his drones to search the area that my spirit described. After I recovered from my summoning, I scouted astrally and found three figures in a garage. They had taken precautions to make it hard to find them in the astral.
I created some alchemical preparations and give them to Gelig. I then summoned a dwarf. It concealed Gelig and Abe's two drones as they approached the house. I followed astrally.
A fight ensued and the gang tried to flee in a vehicle. We disabled the vehicle and chased them on foot. My dwarf was able to disable one of them and the other two surrendered.
We were paid 27000 nuyen. 3000 went into the group's fund and the three of us each received 8000 nuyen.
(Karma Earned: 3, Edge Spent 4)
Date: February 22, 2075
Subjects: Volleying Porcupines, Ghouls
Location: MSP'plex
Notes:
We decided to go after the recent infestation of volleying porcupines. I called Frank to find out what he knew about the best place to hunt them. He told me about Pillsbury Park near Brainerd. He also told me that they like salt.
Based on that information, Abe had been spending a lot of time scouting the park with his drones. We also bought 20 animal cages since we needed to capture them alive.
We headed north on the 16th. On the way there, I summoned a valkyrie. It took longer than I expected and I ended up having to summon another one. Using my spirit, we were able to capture nine of them before midnight. We head back to the MSP'plex to give them to Control on the west side of the 'plex.
I bought some cold weather gear for 150 nuyen. I any gear that was good enough for the wilds of northern Minnesota.
We flew back, but were only able to find two of the porcupines on the 17th.
On the 18th, we were able to get nine more. I was tired from summoning all of the spirits and I strained getting them here.
On the 19th we caught our final four porcupines and headed back to the 'plex. We turned in the fifteen porcupines to two different addresses.
Five go to Jerry on the West Side. Abe knows him through a friend. He said that he had too many of them already and did not want to pay us for them. We did end up getting 1350 nuyen for them.
10 went to Bob on the West Side. He was a friend of a friend of Eva. It goes fine.
After expenses and putting money into the business petty cash, we each get 3000 nuyen. I end up spending 10 nuyen getting cleaned up from porcupine stink.
I spent the next couple of days working on normal cases for Eva's detective cases.
On the night of the 22nd we went hunting in the Northside Barrens for HMHVV infected. I summon a storm spirit to accompany us.
We were driving around the barrens, getting lost and trying to find our way around. We were ambushed by ten ghouls as we drove along a road in Crypt Keeper territory. They attacked Abe's van, but we were able to fight them off. The van was nearly destroyed and Abe had to bring in his helicopter to pick us up and his van.
We turned in the ghoul heads for 30,000 nuyen. We gave Abe 15,000 nuyen to fix his van. We put 3000 nuyen into the group fund and we each received 4,000 nuyen.
(Karma Earned: 2, Edge Spent 3)
Date: January 19, 2075
Subject: Darrel Treeplanter Bounty
Location: MSP'plex
Notes:
Eva found us a bounty through her contacts.
Darrel Treeplanter wanted dead or alive for the theft of a Roadmaster. He was known to have fled into the northern portion of the Northside Barrens. Police and private organizations unable to capture Treeplanter.
Treeplanter has two known associates, Souldropper Cornfarmer and Tyden Jawan. Both are also known criminals.
He has one known hangout, The Last Station in the Barrens.
He was recently seen at Steak and Steak and Vieira Airfield.
My attempts at finding him using Storm Spirits was initially unsuccessful. A physical search was also unsuccessful. After finding out about the sighting at Vieira Airfield, my Storm Spirit was able to locate Treeplanter. He is under a bridge with the Roadmaster, another vehicle and a mud hut.
Abraham sends out his drones while Eva and Grelig approach on foot. While they approach I scout the area. I confirm there is a human in the Roadmaster. I discover the mud hut contained a lodge when I ran into the lodge's mana barrier. Luckily the barrier collapsed as I collided with it.
The human in the Roadmaster starts firing at Grelig and Eva. Grelig goes down. I send my Dwarf to attack the human in the Roadmaster. This distracts him and he stops firing at Grelig and Eva. I manifest and confirm that the shooter is Treeplanter. My Dwarf continues to distract him until Abraham's drones are able to bring him down.
We turn him in and each receive 2250 nuyen. In addition, we returned the Roadmaster and received 50 nuyen each.
My lack of attention when Gode Jensen was teaching me about assensing auras almost got me into trouble. I will have to speak to him about correcting my lack of ability.
(Karma Earned: 2, Edge Spent 2)
Comments (1)
Jeff said
at 12:52 pm on Apr 25, 2014
I think some of your stuff you have on April 30, happened on the 31st...
And I think you sent your spirit against the 4 hackers, not your pilot.
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