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Sun Feb 28 11:53:59 2021

Denver, Asia Town, Silver Lotus Temple, February 10th 2081

As other things happen in town Lotus has retreated to Asia Town to enter the New Year in a more ceremonial way. Praying at the Silver Lotus Temple, she notices Darius and Walker among the crowd. None of them being Buddhist, she clearly realizes that those two are merely here to enjoy the cultural variety of Denver. Well, the freely available drinks and entertainment certainly also helps. A bath in a, for once, happy crowd being something positive for a mage after all. So, the three mages of various traditions are taking in the emanated positive emotions and enjoy the time.

When Walker gets aware of some guy using a cyberdeck on a console placed in the Temple things get more serious, though. Listening with the others, who he made aware of the odd happenstance, the mages realize that these two guys, clearly members of a local Tong Clan, seem to be preparing some trap to attack a local Yakuza Oyabun who wants to serve up his own compliments to the ancestors sometime soon. The fact that these guys are seemingly in the process of installing a bomb of sorts, which would certainly kill more than just a few innocents, is what prompts the runners to interfere with this action. As Walker starts to distract the crowds and the assassins with an oratory about the virtues of the Buddhist faith, relying on Lotus's whispered input for that, after the Asian woman had sadly failed to get the crowds attention. It is Lotus who then sneaks out to remove the bomb and carry it away. When one of the would-be assassins draws a gun to silence Walker it is a shot from Darius, who used this way to get the attention of the crowd towards the true culprits, using Gel ammo.

After that, the second Assassin turns to flee, but once again Darius is faster, catching the man in an impressive spurt for the afterwards totally pumped out mage. Proof delivered by Lotus finally gives the local law a well-received opportunity to shine. And aside from that gel round shot by Darius the crowd is not even aware of the danger they just escaped. All in all, it is a good day for Denver.

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