Session 19th & 26th Oct 08
Dark Night Going Down
Karl gets medication from the shooting that he received in the previous session and is back up to working as intended.
After a little messing around the team finally open the door to the Dark Night base and the team enter going two by two by two.
They encounter a couple of squads of Dark Night troops, this time they are not as impressive as the last time. There is the usual give and take with some people wanting to kill other people's almost dead bad guys.
The session ends with one of the Elite Troopers under the command of Callum shooting Fex in the back of the head with a three round burst from an assault rifle, he goes down; taking three wounds and becoming incapacitated (permanently losing one step of Smarts - ouch).
Next Session
Fex is medicated up so that he is able to function again. He is almost working as intended, exploring the area the team find a chasam which breaks the corridor of the base, a short temporary bridge has been placed over breech. Looking around Fex notices that there are some holes in the walls and that the holes were made by Depleted Urainum rounds, the kind of ammunition used by either Thresher or on a War World.
Some of the team cross the bridge, on doing so they are almost ambushed by several spider drones. The drones open up with fully automatic fire (the 5mm CAF doesn't worry anyone however).
The team leap into action and find that shooting the little blighters is alot harder than smashing them to pieces with a power-claymore. LZ decideds to smash one to pieces and picks one up, it uses in intrigal chain weapon to chomp away some of his armour. On attempting to smash it into a wall the drone whips up onto the back of his head, this starts the new sport of attempting to shoot or smash a drone from LZ's head.
This is ended after LZ throws himself to the ground (head first) in an attempt to crush the drone but it just crawled onto his face. This is where Cherry attempted to stomp upon it, seeing an oppertunity the drone leaped onto Cherry's leg and crawled up her body to attack her face.
The game changed to 'shoot Cherry in the face' which Leenisha wins, this prompts the aweful command from Cherry of "stop it, just smash it!" LZ complies with this command and smashes the drone into Cherry's face, destroying the drone and giving Cherry another wound.
A fun time was had by all.
Monday, 27 October 2008
Wednesday, 22 October 2008
Newton Towers Job Centre, Down town
20th October 2008, Arson Fire (10)
The Squad decide to search the whole of the building that is rented by the employment offices, which turns out to be 4 floors (but only the first 2 really in use). Tinkerbell decides to hide the receiver / recording unit they have for there CCTV in the false ceiling space of one of the unused office floors. German Jones returning from his decontamination duty helps out by asking for CCTV footage of the victims (and gets a set of still pictures kept for that purpose by security). Harry takes a closer look at the lockers and discovers that the almost brand new lockers have a mixture of old and new name tags on them. Stacy meanwhile decides check the basement finding both a carpark and a rather large plant room, intrigued she investigates the plant room and discovers that several of the entrances are in fact not locked.
After planting the CCTV hub in the floor/ceiling space Tinkerbell heads down towards the basement on the way checking out the 2 sets of fire escapes and working out that one of the fire escapes is on the odd CCTV sequence away from the filling and rest room areas where as the other one is on the way in to the very same areas. Tinkerbell than decides to get a palm top computer so that she my program the interment CCTV route times and sequences into it. Down in the basement Stacy hits paydirt first with the discovery of a route down into the maintenance tunnels to the sector and levels below (the door of which has a broken look made to look fine) and then with a scrap of pink material caught on a wire cage. At this point both Tinkerbell and Meridian arrive in the basement to help with the search.
Upstairs German and Harry are asked to find out who was wearing pink when they disappeared, it is quickly shown to be Eleanor Hampton the last person to disappear. She is last pictured going into the locker rooms holding the front of her pink blouse out from her although they can not clearly see why. The duo question her immediate co-workers and discover just before she disappeared a client had broken a pen that had subsequently leaked on her. The man who had argued with her and broken the pen a Mr Graham White (something to do with his file going missing) is due in today, they decide to question him.
Stacy continues her digging around in the plant room and discovers a hidden room behind a large tool cabinet inside there is approximately 10 sets of chains (2 of which show recent use) a couple of mattress and a few lockers and filing cabinets. Also discovered are 4 electronic apparatus and the obligatory TV. The lockers contain items of clothing and personal effects from the missing personnel, of note being the heavily bloodstain shirt worn they believe by Marvin Allford, and 3 DataTech overalls (one bloodstained over shoulder) each with eligible name tags. Tinkerbell examines the Electronics and discovers the following.
The Squad decide to search the whole of the building that is rented by the employment offices, which turns out to be 4 floors (but only the first 2 really in use). Tinkerbell decides to hide the receiver / recording unit they have for there CCTV in the false ceiling space of one of the unused office floors. German Jones returning from his decontamination duty helps out by asking for CCTV footage of the victims (and gets a set of still pictures kept for that purpose by security). Harry takes a closer look at the lockers and discovers that the almost brand new lockers have a mixture of old and new name tags on them. Stacy meanwhile decides check the basement finding both a carpark and a rather large plant room, intrigued she investigates the plant room and discovers that several of the entrances are in fact not locked.
After planting the CCTV hub in the floor/ceiling space Tinkerbell heads down towards the basement on the way checking out the 2 sets of fire escapes and working out that one of the fire escapes is on the odd CCTV sequence away from the filling and rest room areas where as the other one is on the way in to the very same areas. Tinkerbell than decides to get a palm top computer so that she my program the interment CCTV route times and sequences into it. Down in the basement Stacy hits paydirt first with the discovery of a route down into the maintenance tunnels to the sector and levels below (the door of which has a broken look made to look fine) and then with a scrap of pink material caught on a wire cage. At this point both Tinkerbell and Meridian arrive in the basement to help with the search.
Upstairs German and Harry are asked to find out who was wearing pink when they disappeared, it is quickly shown to be Eleanor Hampton the last person to disappear. She is last pictured going into the locker rooms holding the front of her pink blouse out from her although they can not clearly see why. The duo question her immediate co-workers and discover just before she disappeared a client had broken a pen that had subsequently leaked on her. The man who had argued with her and broken the pen a Mr Graham White (something to do with his file going missing) is due in today, they decide to question him.
Stacy continues her digging around in the plant room and discovers a hidden room behind a large tool cabinet inside there is approximately 10 sets of chains (2 of which show recent use) a couple of mattress and a few lockers and filing cabinets. Also discovered are 4 electronic apparatus and the obligatory TV. The lockers contain items of clothing and personal effects from the missing personnel, of note being the heavily bloodstain shirt worn they believe by Marvin Allford, and 3 DataTech overalls (one bloodstained over shoulder) each with eligible name tags. Tinkerbell examines the Electronics and discovers the following.
- A remote switching device used to activate other electronic devices remotely, that can be programed (this can also be used to trigger a bomb)
- A CCTV hub that is tuned into a few sets of hidden cameras around the building
- A Electronic lock picker
- A TechTrex remote controll unit.
Tuesday, 14 October 2008
'Broken Taboos' Upper Down Town
13th October 2008. Arson Fire (9)
The clear up of the successful operation goes well, the squad give a fine account of themselves to the reporter from 13th Victim (Michel Hughes) Meridian in particular doing very well in front of camera.
Shortly before the end of the night Gemma turns up to tell all the team that the BPN is done and transfer them there credits and assign them the SCL level increase she also happens to inform them that she can get them a financier if they wish, in the end leaving them a card for "Edward Conrad Financier to the stars".
A New BPN
The squad decide to take a couple of days off, before sending "grubby" to the BPN hall to look for something interesting. After nearly 6 hours Harry returns with a nice shiny white one.
After a short phone call to Ms Pilgrim they decide to start in the morning.
Newton Towers Job Centre, Down town
After a uncomfortable trip on public transport the team arrive at the depressing edifice that is the dole offices at Newton towers and after a little run around get the information about the BPN direct from Megan (who is a frumpy forty something office manager). She tells them that some files (the so called dead files, where the claimant has missed there signing date by more than a week) and 4 employees (Jerome Petty 6 months in the Job , Marvin Allford in job 3 years , Wanda Booker 10 years & Eleanor Hampton 5 years) have gone missing, during the past month.
Hunting for Clues
The team quickly go to search the areas that the missing employees where last seen (they where all away from there desks or normal work positions when last seen). The 2 paper file rooms, rest room, toilets & lockers are examined. The squad quickly come to these conclusion there appears to have been a lot of maintenance in a place that has not been touched in years. The mainly non working CCTV system appears to have random intermittent faults that follow a pattern allowing someone move about unseen. The filing cabinets show signs of lock picking and several have been recently replaced.
Too much of a good thing?
The company with the maintenance contract DataTech has a regular maintenance engineer Russ Allen who has been coming here once per quarter for a few years, but two months ago just after his regular visit 2 new guys from DataTech showed up to over a couple of weeks and fixed up a load of stuff. The squad discover that the visitors book only shows Russ signing in over that time period even thoe the securty guards claim that he was only there once.
The clear up of the successful operation goes well, the squad give a fine account of themselves to the reporter from 13th Victim (Michel Hughes) Meridian in particular doing very well in front of camera.
Shortly before the end of the night Gemma turns up to tell all the team that the BPN is done and transfer them there credits and assign them the SCL level increase she also happens to inform them that she can get them a financier if they wish, in the end leaving them a card for "Edward Conrad Financier to the stars".
A New BPN
The squad decide to take a couple of days off, before sending "grubby" to the BPN hall to look for something interesting. After nearly 6 hours Harry returns with a nice shiny white one.
After a short phone call to Ms Pilgrim they decide to start in the morning.
Newton Towers Job Centre, Down town
After a uncomfortable trip on public transport the team arrive at the depressing edifice that is the dole offices at Newton towers and after a little run around get the information about the BPN direct from Megan (who is a frumpy forty something office manager). She tells them that some files (the so called dead files, where the claimant has missed there signing date by more than a week) and 4 employees (Jerome Petty 6 months in the Job , Marvin Allford in job 3 years , Wanda Booker 10 years & Eleanor Hampton 5 years) have gone missing, during the past month.
Hunting for Clues
The team quickly go to search the areas that the missing employees where last seen (they where all away from there desks or normal work positions when last seen). The 2 paper file rooms, rest room, toilets & lockers are examined. The squad quickly come to these conclusion there appears to have been a lot of maintenance in a place that has not been touched in years. The mainly non working CCTV system appears to have random intermittent faults that follow a pattern allowing someone move about unseen. The filing cabinets show signs of lock picking and several have been recently replaced.
Too much of a good thing?
The company with the maintenance contract DataTech has a regular maintenance engineer Russ Allen who has been coming here once per quarter for a few years, but two months ago just after his regular visit 2 new guys from DataTech showed up to over a couple of weeks and fixed up a load of stuff. The squad discover that the visitors book only shows Russ signing in over that time period even thoe the securty guards claim that he was only there once.
Monday, 13 October 2008
Bayerneese VI
Session 12th Oct 08
The Following Evening
Miranda Golden sends an invite (more like a summons) to Callum, he is to go to her personal room that evening...
He is ejected from the room at some time past 3am, naked. This would have gone undetected if only a roving media team hadn't bumped into him and asked him for an interview about how well he and his team did in repelling the Dark Night agents.
Time for Payback
The next day's activities are filled with everyone making ready for the planned assault upon the newly discovered Dark Night base upon this planet. Tick-Tick-Boom have been tasked with destroying the power plant which the base has.
They have been issued with some heavy equipment for this purpose as well as a team of 'Assault Troops.'
The Drop
The team and their squad are dropped in the jungle close to the target's entry point, all they need to do is discover the entrance, find the power plant, plant the explosives, escape then make it all go boom.
Karl thought that he would make things harder by finding a sniping platform and attempting to make friends with it. After taking a shot to the chest and then one to his left arm he thought that he would lay down a while. Leenisha didn't like Karl's new friends, so she blew them away with her new big gun (borrowed from Caliban Enterprises).
The Following Evening
Miranda Golden sends an invite (more like a summons) to Callum, he is to go to her personal room that evening...
He is ejected from the room at some time past 3am, naked. This would have gone undetected if only a roving media team hadn't bumped into him and asked him for an interview about how well he and his team did in repelling the Dark Night agents.
Time for Payback
The next day's activities are filled with everyone making ready for the planned assault upon the newly discovered Dark Night base upon this planet. Tick-Tick-Boom have been tasked with destroying the power plant which the base has.
They have been issued with some heavy equipment for this purpose as well as a team of 'Assault Troops.'
The Drop
The team and their squad are dropped in the jungle close to the target's entry point, all they need to do is discover the entrance, find the power plant, plant the explosives, escape then make it all go boom.
Karl thought that he would make things harder by finding a sniping platform and attempting to make friends with it. After taking a shot to the chest and then one to his left arm he thought that he would lay down a while. Leenisha didn't like Karl's new friends, so she blew them away with her new big gun (borrowed from Caliban Enterprises).
Sunday, 12 October 2008
House Rules
The first House Rule:
You don't have to spend an entire advance to get a new skill, you just treat it like you're advancing it from its d4-2 default to a d4.
You don't have to spend an entire advance to get a new skill, you just treat it like you're advancing it from its d4-2 default to a d4.
Tuesday, 7 October 2008
'Broken Taboos' Upper Down Town
7th October 2008. Arson Fire (8)
Friday 13th?
The Squad start the session by discussing there plans for trapping the serial killer "the Decoupler" and come to a few conclusions.
After a few hours of waiting the they finally notice a suspicious figure in a duster and with what looks like a hooded top underneath, on the roof. After a short while the figure makes they're way down to the top floor and make a circuit stopping outside several of the rooms near there doors. The strange figure then makes there way back to the roof. The team in the observation post find out that the suspicious figure seems to be wearing dark night Body armour and is removing his duster and attaching a rope opposite the skylight that the bait team are under.
The Observation team rush to outside the door of the Bait room and Stacy is just stopped from opening the door and possibly warning the Killer as he has left a device there. The suspect removes a pane from the skylight and pulls out a long blade, he then much to the surprise of the squad hurls it down and into the back of Sarah, Harry just manages to not get impaled by the same strike. Stacy acts and fires a shot though the roof into the suspect and Meridian start the run up to the roof. Both Harry and Sarah dart out of the line of sight from the skylight and the suspect drops though the skylight.
From here it all gets a bit frantic the Suspect try to stab Harry and first Tinkerbel then Stacy rush in and give him a smack, then just shortly after Meridian drops from the skylight and hits him as well. After this brief but vicious kicking the suspect is soon subdued.
Meridian boosts his skills to allow him to remove the rather lethal blade implanted in Sarah (a Dark Night DN-A Slipknife Dagger that without careful removal fragments causing greater injury) and the team are rewarded with there Completion money (250cr each and .5 SCL) plus cash (150cr between the team)for the apprehension of the Decoupler and the fact that a team of 13th victim reporters just so happened to be there to catch all the action.
Friday 13th?
The Squad start the session by discussing there plans for trapping the serial killer "the Decoupler" and come to a few conclusions.
- That the killer only seems to strike in bedrooms.
- There are reports of peeping toms and stalkers around the time of the crimes (many of the doors show signs of a device being pushed under the door, like a optic wand).
- That there are 4 skylights on the top floor 2 of which open on too separate small box rooms / bedrooms.
- The killer has used a sharp bladed instrument in the last 4 killings.
After a few hours of waiting the they finally notice a suspicious figure in a duster and with what looks like a hooded top underneath, on the roof. After a short while the figure makes they're way down to the top floor and make a circuit stopping outside several of the rooms near there doors. The strange figure then makes there way back to the roof. The team in the observation post find out that the suspicious figure seems to be wearing dark night Body armour and is removing his duster and attaching a rope opposite the skylight that the bait team are under.
The Observation team rush to outside the door of the Bait room and Stacy is just stopped from opening the door and possibly warning the Killer as he has left a device there. The suspect removes a pane from the skylight and pulls out a long blade, he then much to the surprise of the squad hurls it down and into the back of Sarah, Harry just manages to not get impaled by the same strike. Stacy acts and fires a shot though the roof into the suspect and Meridian start the run up to the roof. Both Harry and Sarah dart out of the line of sight from the skylight and the suspect drops though the skylight.
From here it all gets a bit frantic the Suspect try to stab Harry and first Tinkerbel then Stacy rush in and give him a smack, then just shortly after Meridian drops from the skylight and hits him as well. After this brief but vicious kicking the suspect is soon subdued.
Meridian boosts his skills to allow him to remove the rather lethal blade implanted in Sarah (a Dark Night DN-A Slipknife Dagger that without careful removal fragments causing greater injury) and the team are rewarded with there Completion money (250cr each and .5 SCL) plus cash (150cr between the team)for the apprehension of the Decoupler and the fact that a team of 13th victim reporters just so happened to be there to catch all the action.
Bayerneese VI
Session 28st Sept 08 & 5th Oct 08
That Same Evening
Miranda Golden has invited all current contestants to an evening meal and disco so that the operatives can get to know each other.
Things go quite well, apart from Cherry's insult of Miranda being recorded and broadcast to the watching millions.
Before things could get worse for Cherry Dark Night pull her fat out of the fire by assaulting the Caliban Enterprises base.
All contestants are asked to suit up and help in the battle.
Events from the battle are as follows:
Awards:
The team will be awarded 300cr each and 0.3 SCL increase.
Additionally the team will be reimbursed for all costs incurred by the combat. Armour will be repaired, ammunition & drugs will be replaced and medical costs paid.
My thoughts:
I'm sorry that this combat in essence lasted for two sessions. In hindsight I should have not given the opponents the protection which I did. The damage that was required to put them out was far too high.
That Same Evening
Miranda Golden has invited all current contestants to an evening meal and disco so that the operatives can get to know each other.
Things go quite well, apart from Cherry's insult of Miranda being recorded and broadcast to the watching millions.
Before things could get worse for Cherry Dark Night pull her fat out of the fire by assaulting the Caliban Enterprises base.
All contestants are asked to suit up and help in the battle.
Events from the battle are as follows:
- Dark Night have assaulted the compound, blown a hole in the wall and entered. It looks like they are placing explosives on everything they come across.
- Callum works on finding the detonation codes for the Dark Night explosives, which works after a fashion and he detonates several charges in his local vicinity, killing 3 Dark Night agents in the resulting explosions.
- Karl played hide and seek with two experienced Dark Night operatives that got the better of him. One riddled him with bullets then closed for the kill, while the other looked for Callum with assassination in mind. Karl managed to overcome his injuries and still give a good account of himself, only running away like a pansy girl once.
- Leenisha should be awarded the fire power award for ammo expendature as she went through at least 120 rounds of ammo. All to little effect (see my comments below).
- Fex played the part of a sniper. Shame he was only playing otherwise he would have been effective. Poor Dave just couldn't roll over 5 on his d10 + d6 Shooting skill.
- Cherry gave good support where she could, tossing in blasts of fire and fearing when she was able.
- LZ defended Callum until someone shot at him, then he just ran off after the "bad man" leaving Callum to his own devises.
- Just as the battle was about to turn in favour of Tick-Tick-Boom a group of Dark Night troops using Jump Jets turned up, their aim to kidnap Miranda Golden. The new troops using their mobility advantage quickly took out Fex (only after he threw himself from a container, landing on his head)
- Callum was having his own difficulties and in an attempt to removing himself from his own container managed to get himself caught on the damn thing. So he spent a long time being suspended upside down while attempting to make a difference. The difference included throwing an explosive charge "somewhere" then detonating it to see where it landed (possibilities at the time included in the midst of Karl, LZ and two Dark Night "assassins"), shooting Karl in the "vitals" with some 10mm HEAP ammo, right out of his FEN 603 followed up by shooting Miranda in the back with the same ammo. Admitidly he was aiming to shoot the Dark Night jump troopers kidnaping Miranda at the time.
- LZ continued to run around on a rampage, as only a Chagrin can.
- Leenisha helped out as much as she could, but even more ammo wasn't enough.
- Cherry made the best move and picked up Fex's rifle and proved to be a better sniper than him.
Awards:
The team will be awarded 300cr each and 0.3 SCL increase.
Additionally the team will be reimbursed for all costs incurred by the combat. Armour will be repaired, ammunition & drugs will be replaced and medical costs paid.
My thoughts:
I'm sorry that this combat in essence lasted for two sessions. In hindsight I should have not given the opponents the protection which I did. The damage that was required to put them out was far too high.
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