DEEEEEEATH!
Nov. 30th, 2002 01:08 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
terryclothTonight was Lazar's Friday game... we did some more shopping (why!?), then planned out an honest-to-god shadowrun, then went to a rave. No one tried to kill anyone at the rave, but several people died anyway, including Marten.
Last time, Call had located a mage who for a small fee (actually, a very large fee, but it was small compared to the hideous amount of money Marten had gotten from the dragon's hoard) was willing to enhance any statistic by 1-3 levels. The 2 level enhancement was most cost effective, and everyone had it done for their key stats, except for Marten, who had it done to all his stats.
After a bit more shopping, it was on to plan the run. The target was a Boeing-Sendai laboratory located somewhere on Ur, designed specifically to survive an all out attack by Murrikai mages or dragons. Shadowrunners, now... well, it was designed to keep them out too, but that's a bit trickier.
The defenses were impressive -- the guards were all highly trained, armed with casters, and magically enhanced, magical security drones roamed the halls looking for any sign of disloyalty, there were cameras (with guns!) everywhere, and the walls were made out of a special Murrikai material 'impregnable to technology'. The outer fence, and a box around the entire facility, was a null-magic zone, strong enough to overcome Flitters' magic enhancement. Plus, the lab did magical research, so all the scientists that would normally be helpless bystanders were powerful mages in their own right.
However, the party got a lot of information on the layout of the facility from Mr. Smith, plus the offer of ANY technological device they'd need and that the backers could get ahold of. To actually take out the target, the party was given SIX SUITCASE NUKES. Or rather, was told that they'd be given six nukes when the time came to do the run. They were also promised resurrection in a cloned body if they should die. The party asked if they could have some nerve gas, and Mr. Smith said they could, but they'd appreciate them not killing their covert agents if possible, although they were of course expendable. So they decided to use sleep gas instead, if they could find a good place to introduce it. Since they didn't know where that would be ahead of time, it wasn't part of the main plan.
Mr. Smith and Gyu-Chan (an NPC who'd be coming along with the party) asked Marten if he'd have any reservations going through with the plan. Marten, who'd been half-seriously considering betraying the entire party to his long-term employers (Boeing-Sendai) admitted that there were. After explaining how important this mission was to the safety of the human race and Earth itself, and promising to give him a new job that paid better doing basically the same thing (testing weird tech), they managed to secure his cooperation. Then the planning stage began.
The plan was for Zelder and Marten (with one of Nazir's drones) to phase through the walls into the laboratories to the north and plant four of the nukes, which would be smuggled in inside Marten's briefcase of holding (which was safe to carry through a null magic zone as long as it was dialed to an empty compartment before entering). The briefcase would be filled with as much loot as they could carry for later reverse engineering. After the bombs were planted, they'd meet the other group (Call, Gyu-chan, and Abir) whose mission was to kill Mr. Maritachi, the head of the facility.
After completing those two objectives, the combined group would plant the second to last nuke in a mysterious area whose contents were unknown, take over security, and move on to the basement where 'the artifact' was stored, and plant the last nuke.
Of course, before the plan could be put into action, it was time for another party! This wasn't one of NKN's raves, so there was no hyper-aphrodesiac mist and it didn't devolve into an orgy. Zelder was phased out (a side effect of one of the tests they'd done on the walls of Mist's mansion, which were of the same substance as the facility they'd be hitting) and apparently VERY OPEN to other peoples' thoughts, as he didn't really remember much of the first seven hours. After rematerializing and coming back to his senses, he went to talk to Geneviere, the save point.
Call didn't believe in taking drugs, but a dealer managed to convince him that alchemical mixtures weren't the same thing as drugs, and doped him up good. He ended up in love with an Illiski, and very very unhappy about the whole experience.
Marten decided, as per his normal procedure, to take one of everything he hadn't tried. Unfortunately, half a dozen or so of the things he thought he hadn't tried turned out to be Draxin, which he had tried... and overdosing on Draxin is often a bad thing, because every time you overdose you get a new, random, permanent effect. Marten's new effect was to have his soul bound to and merged with that of the dragon Jen, who was currently locked in Drakivolki form on Earth, leading a group of draks in some unknown maneuver. This made him a schizoid, which among other things meant that he could never return to Earth (and Jen, similarly, could never return to Ur).
By the time he realized that the flashes weren't just hallucinations, and tested himself with the Skypass portal to verify that he was, in fact, totally screwed, he went to Vorshath and tried to cash in the favor the golem owed him. "Can you *fix* it?"
It turned out that Vorshath couldn't magically make it go away, although he offered to arrange a hit on Jen, which would solve the problem by placing the entire merged soul in Marten's body. Marten didn't like that idea, since (through Jen) he knew how powerful and vengeful Jen's mother, Lixia, the ruler of the Isthmus and the entire drakivolki race, could be if her children were harmed.
So, Vorshath summoned Nathaniel, who told Marten that he *could* separate the souls, since they were radically different species and not yet fully merged. However, in order to do this, Marten would have to die. Temporarily.
After a bit of reassurance, Marten agreed to the plan, and found himself briefly in Jen's body... and then floating through blackness, towards a bright, beautiful light. He floated towards the light... and was intercepted. Jen's soul was ripped away from him, and he was shoved back into his body, alive again and no longer a schizoid.
"The charge will be 5 rubies," Nathaniel said, "Oh, and I didn't bother to resurrect Jen, so she's still dead. That's probably best, for now." Needless to say, Marten had mixed feelings about that assessment.
Then the group met up again, and Zelder related what he could remember of Geneviere's predictions to them. It sounded like their plan was basically sound, although she couldn't predict what would happen once they entered the basement.
[OOCly, I'm a bit disappointed that there was a way to separate Marten from Jen, since it would have been kind of fun to play her again. She was an NPC from when I was GMing.]
last week next week
Last time, Call had located a mage who for a small fee (actually, a very large fee, but it was small compared to the hideous amount of money Marten had gotten from the dragon's hoard) was willing to enhance any statistic by 1-3 levels. The 2 level enhancement was most cost effective, and everyone had it done for their key stats, except for Marten, who had it done to all his stats.
After a bit more shopping, it was on to plan the run. The target was a Boeing-Sendai laboratory located somewhere on Ur, designed specifically to survive an all out attack by Murrikai mages or dragons. Shadowrunners, now... well, it was designed to keep them out too, but that's a bit trickier.
The defenses were impressive -- the guards were all highly trained, armed with casters, and magically enhanced, magical security drones roamed the halls looking for any sign of disloyalty, there were cameras (with guns!) everywhere, and the walls were made out of a special Murrikai material 'impregnable to technology'. The outer fence, and a box around the entire facility, was a null-magic zone, strong enough to overcome Flitters' magic enhancement. Plus, the lab did magical research, so all the scientists that would normally be helpless bystanders were powerful mages in their own right.
However, the party got a lot of information on the layout of the facility from Mr. Smith, plus the offer of ANY technological device they'd need and that the backers could get ahold of. To actually take out the target, the party was given SIX SUITCASE NUKES. Or rather, was told that they'd be given six nukes when the time came to do the run. They were also promised resurrection in a cloned body if they should die. The party asked if they could have some nerve gas, and Mr. Smith said they could, but they'd appreciate them not killing their covert agents if possible, although they were of course expendable. So they decided to use sleep gas instead, if they could find a good place to introduce it. Since they didn't know where that would be ahead of time, it wasn't part of the main plan.
Mr. Smith and Gyu-Chan (an NPC who'd be coming along with the party) asked Marten if he'd have any reservations going through with the plan. Marten, who'd been half-seriously considering betraying the entire party to his long-term employers (Boeing-Sendai) admitted that there were. After explaining how important this mission was to the safety of the human race and Earth itself, and promising to give him a new job that paid better doing basically the same thing (testing weird tech), they managed to secure his cooperation. Then the planning stage began.
The plan was for Zelder and Marten (with one of Nazir's drones) to phase through the walls into the laboratories to the north and plant four of the nukes, which would be smuggled in inside Marten's briefcase of holding (which was safe to carry through a null magic zone as long as it was dialed to an empty compartment before entering). The briefcase would be filled with as much loot as they could carry for later reverse engineering. After the bombs were planted, they'd meet the other group (Call, Gyu-chan, and Abir) whose mission was to kill Mr. Maritachi, the head of the facility.
After completing those two objectives, the combined group would plant the second to last nuke in a mysterious area whose contents were unknown, take over security, and move on to the basement where 'the artifact' was stored, and plant the last nuke.
Of course, before the plan could be put into action, it was time for another party! This wasn't one of NKN's raves, so there was no hyper-aphrodesiac mist and it didn't devolve into an orgy. Zelder was phased out (a side effect of one of the tests they'd done on the walls of Mist's mansion, which were of the same substance as the facility they'd be hitting) and apparently VERY OPEN to other peoples' thoughts, as he didn't really remember much of the first seven hours. After rematerializing and coming back to his senses, he went to talk to Geneviere, the save point.
Call didn't believe in taking drugs, but a dealer managed to convince him that alchemical mixtures weren't the same thing as drugs, and doped him up good. He ended up in love with an Illiski, and very very unhappy about the whole experience.
Marten decided, as per his normal procedure, to take one of everything he hadn't tried. Unfortunately, half a dozen or so of the things he thought he hadn't tried turned out to be Draxin, which he had tried... and overdosing on Draxin is often a bad thing, because every time you overdose you get a new, random, permanent effect. Marten's new effect was to have his soul bound to and merged with that of the dragon Jen, who was currently locked in Drakivolki form on Earth, leading a group of draks in some unknown maneuver. This made him a schizoid, which among other things meant that he could never return to Earth (and Jen, similarly, could never return to Ur).
By the time he realized that the flashes weren't just hallucinations, and tested himself with the Skypass portal to verify that he was, in fact, totally screwed, he went to Vorshath and tried to cash in the favor the golem owed him. "Can you *fix* it?"
It turned out that Vorshath couldn't magically make it go away, although he offered to arrange a hit on Jen, which would solve the problem by placing the entire merged soul in Marten's body. Marten didn't like that idea, since (through Jen) he knew how powerful and vengeful Jen's mother, Lixia, the ruler of the Isthmus and the entire drakivolki race, could be if her children were harmed.
So, Vorshath summoned Nathaniel, who told Marten that he *could* separate the souls, since they were radically different species and not yet fully merged. However, in order to do this, Marten would have to die. Temporarily.
After a bit of reassurance, Marten agreed to the plan, and found himself briefly in Jen's body... and then floating through blackness, towards a bright, beautiful light. He floated towards the light... and was intercepted. Jen's soul was ripped away from him, and he was shoved back into his body, alive again and no longer a schizoid.
"The charge will be 5 rubies," Nathaniel said, "Oh, and I didn't bother to resurrect Jen, so she's still dead. That's probably best, for now." Needless to say, Marten had mixed feelings about that assessment.
Then the group met up again, and Zelder related what he could remember of Geneviere's predictions to them. It sounded like their plan was basically sound, although she couldn't predict what would happen once they entered the basement.
[OOCly, I'm a bit disappointed that there was a way to separate Marten from Jen, since it would have been kind of fun to play her again. She was an NPC from when I was GMing.]
last week next week
