GM: Torrent
Players: Torrent, Haley, Dalton
Synopsis: A team is gathered to clean out a mine from an infestation of paracritters, Martichoras.
Date: March 21, 2070
«Plot» Torrent says, "Welcome to another attempt at Torrent running a plot :) The Run is cleaning out a mine of a paracritter infestation. No HMHVV paracritters, but still there is always a chance of death. So, please 'Consent' for the purpose of the log."
«Plot» Dalton says, "I consent"
«Plot» Haley` says, "I consent for Haley!"
The call goes out looking for help. A small mining company is in need for help from the Shadows. They contact someone, who contacts someone else, and badda bing, we all get the call or e-mail or however your preference for recieving information is. The meet is in the park near a the fountain at the middle. The Johnsons are a group of dwarves that will patiently be waiting for you to arrive at 1:30pm.
Dalton gathers his few things and leaves his apartment. He rides to the meet on his scorpion, parking somewhere near the park and taking a look around carefully. Finally after he is sure its safe he moves up to the park itself and finds a spot to park the bike. He summons a pair of watchers to guard the vehicle, then makes his way towards the fountain to wait for the Johnsons.
Walking into the park, Haley adjusts her glasses as she heads towards the fountain. In her hand she carries a black briefcase, she looks around and spots the tiny Johnsons. The smile shows brighter on her lips as she moves towards them saying, "Hiya," cheerfully.
Torrent pulls up on his motorcylce. After he takes off his helmet he checks his hair in the side view mirror before topping his noggin off with his hat. He walks towards the fountain and finds the dwarves and greets them with a cheerful "hello!" Looking around he notices Dalton and Haley and gives them a nod that conveys his good mood at their appearance.
The dwarves are assembled and one steps forward. "Hey. Are you all the help we sent out for?" If you were to stop and count the dwarves you would notice that there are seven of them, scanning his group of halfers the front man continues, "Yeah, we all kind of embraced the Snow White stereotype, you'd be surprised how profitable it can be to follow a cliche'."
Dalton nods his head, crossing his arms and listening "So what do you need?" he inquires of the leader.
Taking a seat on the edge of the fountain Haley gets comfortable and she looks over the dwarves. She places her briefcase down next to her right leg as she looks around the park, watching people as they go about doing whatever they're doing.
The front dwarf introduces himself and stretches his hand up to Dalton to shake, "I'm Gregory." he chuckles softly, "I actually have a doctorite, so it's alright if you'd like to refer to me as 'Doc'. No need to share your names though" he says looking at the group, "I know how you all like to be secretive. The job, I hope, is simple. Our current mine has been overrun by some creatures. We don't know much about them, but we want to kind of keep this quiet so it doesn't look negatively to our investors."
Another dwarf, near Haley gruffs at the 'Doc' comment, showing his disdain for how much they all embraced Disney cliche'. The group calls him 'Grumpy'
Dalton nods "Can you describe them to me at all, or have you only seen evidence of thier presence?"
With a laugh Haley says, "Aw shoot, this is gonna be a gas." She lifts her brows and she says, "Oi've neva had to go huntin' crittas before but Oi got just tha thing here." She pats her briefcase and places it across her lap.
Doc shuffles in his pocket and pulls out a pocsec with a picture already pulled up on it. What it appears to be is something like a lion with longer fur and a wider mouth. The teeth look none too pleseant either, almost resembling that of a shark's. It's tail, instead of the fluff of hair a lion would have, instead holds a couple of porcupinelike spines. He hands the pocsec over to the group, "Yeah … we don't really know the exact count of these things, our best guess is around 3 or 4. Honestly, when we saw them, we started running."
Torrent looks over Dalton's shoulder to get a glimpse of the picture, his face loses some of it's good day gleam, "Well damn … this may be fun, right?"
«Auto-Judge[]» Dalton (#8435) rolls Parazoology:
2
Dalton shakes his head after looking at the picture "Not sure I know what it is, looks like a manticore, but I don't know anything about them. Alright, so how much is this extermination job paying?"
«Plot» Torrent says, "Just for having that skill, I'm giving you some fun knowledge from it. It's a Martichoras … mean, fast, and has a venomous bite."
Doc replies to Dalton, "If you can get them all so our mine is safe again, we're willing to give you each thirty thousand nuyen. But that's with the intention that all the beasts are gone or dead, our cave is in one piece, and our investors do not discover about this critters roaming around."
Dalton nods "Sounds resonable, we can make sure they are all cleaned out, but you'll have to dispose of the evidence yourself. We don't have a way to sneak the bodies out of your mine, your going to have to figure that out."
Grumpy chuckles, "Don' worry none about that … there are many deep holes in which we can dump 'em. Dried out veins and the such."
"Do you guys know what they eat," asks Haley looking to Dalton. She then looks back to the dwarves and she asks, "Is the mine a tunnel, or is it just a cave?" She pulls a poc-sec out of her pocket and she offers it to Doc saying, "Tap in the GPS positon of the mine so we can find it."
Doc reaches up to the poc-sec and slides it to a new image, "It's a series of tunnels that we've dug out. These things moved in when we were out for a weekend." The poc sec image is a map of the mine itself, detailing tunnels and the varying levels of the mine. "Our first encounter with them was right here," Doc points to a series of tunnels that have recently been created. "Don't know exactly what they eat, but they looked hungry enough to eat the flesh off our bones."
A dwarf that looks like he's barely in the conversation walks over to Haley and tells her the location of the mine and provides detailed driving directions. You can call him 'Sleepy'.
Dalton nods looking over the pocsec map "They are venomous if I am correct, so probably leave the mine to hunt anything with meat."
Torrent nods, "So how do we contact you guys?"
Doc says, "Just simply call the number listed in that poc-sec and you can reach us. You can contact us if you run into problems and to report when the job is done."
Dalton nods, then looks to the other runners "Any other questions?" he seems to have none that come to his mind.
Torrent smiles, "Kill the beasties, seems easy enough … these things do go down with bullets, right?"
With a smile, Haley says, "Nope, ready ta go." She points to the parking lot and she says, "We can take my van if you guys want, there's plenty of room. If ya want to ride with the breeze in your hair, Oi can get my convertible."
Torrent's smile returns, "I'm always grateful for a ride. I don't really trust myself on my bike yet."
Dalton nods to Haley "Your van sounds fine, we shouldn't take all that long to get this done. I'll wanna take my bike home first, think you can pick me up at my apartment?"
"Oh sure," says Haley to Dalton like they've been friends for years. She stands up and picks up her briefcase and starts to walk towards the parking lot. To Torrent she says, "Just buckle up, because I drive a little fast."
Dalton takes his bike home, then rides with Haley and Torrent to the cave tucked in the mountains.
The cave is tucked away in the mountains. The area around here has been harvested many times over the years, but the new opening can be easily spotted with the fresh cut rock and the modern equipment waiting outside. The cave has a claim sign in front of it that has '7 Dwarf Mining' written on it. There is a generator next to the cave entrance with electrical wiring running into the cave. Switches are labeled to indicate "lights / jackhammer / power 1 / power 2 / power 3"
Torrent walks up to the cave, dressed down letting most of his armor showing. He's not too eager to get his walking around clothes gunked up by the cave. His guns rest under his shoulders and he checks them to make sure they're all loaded and ready to go. Torrent does a quick check on his glasses to make sure they're operating well and is prepped to go into the cave. "Is there really a tactic to this? Or do we just go in and hope we see them before they see us?"
Dalton looks around, frowning then nods "I guess we just go in, lets make sure the lights are on and we have some flashlights to see with, or this will get messy fast."
With the lights on there's a dim glow traveling down the cave. The bulbs have layers of sediment on them, dulling them a bit (low light) and cast ominious shadows throughout the cave.
Carefully adjusting her glasses, Haley says, "Oi'm okay, Oi have thermo." She opens up her briefcase and pulls out a machine pistol and give clips. She starts arranging them into her belt as she looks around. She tosses the empty case into her van and locks the door using the auto-nav to park the van ten meters away from the cave.
Dalton switches on his astral perceptions, and uses that to move into the cave, as soon as he is inside the cave he pauses and reaches out to touch the rocks, calling on a mountain spirit to assit them. He is covered by a black hood and cloak suddenly that blows back as if in the wind.
«Auto-Judge[]» Dalton (#8435) rolls Conjuring vs TN 5 for "Summoning f5 Mountain Spirit":
1 2 4 4 5 5 = 2 Successes
«Auto-Judge[]» Dalton (#8435) rolls Charisma vs TN 5 for "Resist 5L drain":
1 1 1 2 3 3 3 4 5 5 = 2 Successes
«OOC» Torrent says, "my Sunglasses have thermo and lowlight"
Dalton whispers to his spirit "I need you to guard me and my companions, as well as confuse anything that could be a threat to us. Thank you my friend." There is a groan from inside the cave, as if the earth itself is answering
A small mountain goat walks around a corner and heads straight into the cave in front of Dalton. Dalton turns to the others and nods "Ok, lets go."
Torrent bows to the companions, "Into the abyss." and he starts off into the cave.
Dalton moves after Torrent into the cave, knowing the gunslinger will need a clear shot and he isnt going to stand in the guys way.
Moving behind Dalton, Haley keeps watch behind them as they move. Her steps are casual, but cautious as she wanders along behind the humans. She turns around and she asks, "So how big are these things anyhow?"
Torrent draws his guns ready to shoot at almost anything at this point.
Going deeper into the cave it's mostly uneventful for the first couple dozen of meters. The goat, however makes a motion towards Dalton to indicate that an unfriendly occupant is up ahead. The goat opens its mouth but no noise comes out. Then sound is returned from around the corner in an angry roar.
«OOC» Dalton says, "Creature has to roll willpower/5 to make an action, then all actions are +5 to TN"
«OOC» Torrent says, "so what if it fails the roll?"
«OOC» Dalton says, "It cant attack"
«OOC» Dalton says, "It wanders around"
«Auto-Judge[]» Torrent (#5176) rolls 3 vs TN 5 for "Martichoras's Confusion check":
1 1 5 = 1 Success
The Martichoras comes from around the corner trying to find the goat. It clomps its mawl at it, the teeth trying to find something it can't yet taste. It shakes its head a couple of times, like it's trying to clear its eyes.
«Auto-Judge[]» Torrent (#5176) rolls Initiative with a result of 25.
«Auto-Judge[]» Dalton (#8435) rolls Initiative with a result of 17.
«Auto-Judge[]» Haley (#4416) rolls Initiative with a result of 23.
«Auto-Judge[]» Torrent (#5176) rolls 1 for "Martichora's INIT + 6":
4
«Plot» Torrent says, "Inits: Torrent (25), Haley (23), Dalton (17), Martichora (10)"
Torrent pulls his guns up and releases bullets into the Martichora
«Auto-Judge[]» Torrent (#5176) rolls Pistols + Combat Pool: 6 vs TN 3 for "base TN4 +1 lowlight -2 SmartLink II":
1 1 1 2 2 2 3 3 3 4 4 4 5 5 10 11 13 17 = 12 Successes
«Auto-Judge[]» Torrent (#5176) rolls 8 vs TN 9 for "soaking 9D from bullet with 12 successed (9M base)":
1 2 2 2 3 3 4 4 = 0 Successes
«Auto-Judge[]» Torrent (#5176) rolls 8 vs TN 9 for "everything gets at least one KP, right? soaking 9D from bullet":
1 2 3 4 4 4 5 5 = 0 Successes
Torrent in a hurry pulls his gun. He barely takes time to account for vital spots. His bullet does find the mark with lethal efficancy. If drives itself into the beast's skull and while the hollowed hole in the head still smokes, it falls over with a loud thump. However, the noise from the gun did not go unnoticed. Deeper in the cave the sound of angry roars echos throughout.
Dalton shakes his head "Nice work, but we gotta get you some silencers."
The roars are soon followed by the sound of claws scrapping on the ground. It sounds like a party is about to begin and the guests are looking for some appetizers.
Torrent stares at the kill, "I normally have them set and ready to go, but I wasn't thinking when I suited up for this today."
As the critter drops Haley says, "One down, a whole mess of 'em ta go." She checks over her machine pistol and she pats Torrent on the shoulder saying, "Pretty quick shootin' there hon."
Dalton looks around "We need to find a good spot to hold them off. Any ideas?"
Torrent looks around, "This place is nothing but blind corners. They can come from in front or even behind us." Torrent holds his guns at a downward angle but in opposing directions as he backs towards a wall, trying to eye possible movements.
Dalton nods "Then lets find a good spot and work with it, preferabbly within the existing lighting." He moves over to a wall himself, readying to fight off anything that jumps out at them soon.
Nodding her head to Torrent, Haley says, "Oi'm keepin' watch behind us. If they come up that way Oi'll give 'em a nose full of bullets." She pauses and asks Dalton, "You're a mojo man, do those things have anythin' good we can sell?"
Dalton chuckles and nods "I'm sure the venom is worth something, the quills, the fangs, things like that are valuable."
«OOC» Torrent isn't making decisions … you two are the brains. There are crates scattered about, we're in probably the best lighting we can find. There isn't much in the way of rocks to hide behind, they cleared most of the of the debris.
Dalton moves over to a box, crouching behind it and keeping his astral perceptions on to see better in the dim lighting, he readys himself, waiting for the creatures to attack.
Taking her cue from Dalton's actions, Haley moves into position she arranges the boxes to keep her a little cover as she switches her pistol to full auto. She laughs softly and she says, "Whoda thunk it, Oi'm gonna be a big game hunta."
Torrent follows the example of his comrades and finds himself a crate to hide behind. He sits and waits for the wave of oncoming beasts, "Yeah … Next time, definitely bringing the silencers."
The goat's eyes widen and looks at Dalton. The goat tromps down the path a bit and starts its silent 'bah'. Afterwards, however 3 of the beasts appear from the corner, one of them running straight into the wall.
«Auto-Judge[]» Torrent (#5176) rolls 3 vs TN 5 for "Martichoras 1 vs. Confusion":
1 1 3 = 0 Successes
«Auto-Judge[]» Haley (#4416) rolls Initiative with a result of 20.
«Auto-Judge[]» Torrent (#5176) rolls Initiative with a result of 21.
«Auto-Judge[]» Torrent (#5176) rolls 1 for "Martichoras Trio init +6":
5
«Auto-Judge[]» Dalton (#8435) rolls Initiative with a result of 15.
«Plot» Torrent says, "Init: Torrent(21), Haley(20), Dalton(15), Martichoras Trio(11)"
«OOC» Torrent says, "to be more of a GM than PC, I'm holding action til after Dalton's turn. So, Haley you're up"
«OOC» Haley says, "I am going to shoot one of the non-confused manticores with a full auto shot from my machine pistol. I have 7 points of recoil compensation and I am using 6 shots."
«Auto-Judge[]» Haley (#4416) rolls Pistols + Combat Pool: 5 vs TN 4 for "Using electronic vision mag 3":
1 1 2 2 2 2 2 3 3 4 5 = 2 Successes
«Auto-Judge[]» Haley (#4416) rolls Pistols + Combat Pool: 5 - 2 vs TN 4 for "Using electronic vision mag 3 KP 1/7":
2 2 2 4 4 5 5 5 7 = 6 Successes
«OOC» Haley says, "That moves it up to 12S."
«OOC» Haley says, "Before staging."
«Auto-Judge[]» Torrent (#5176) rolls 8 vs TN 12 for "Marti 2 (non-confused) soaking":
2 2 2 3 4 5 5 8 = 0 Successes
«Auto-Judge[]» Torrent (#5176) rolls 8 vs TN 12 for "1/1 KP Marti 2 (non-confused) soaking":
1 3 3 3 4 4 4 5 = 0 Successes
«Plot» Torrent says, "Martichoras #2 dies from severe bullet poisioning"
Popping up from cover, Haley steadies her machine pistol with both hands. She says, "Ha! Gotcha," and squeezes the trigger. The machine pistol rumbles in her hand, the full auto fire traces up along the floor making a spunk, spunk, spunk sound. It then impacts with the flesh of the monster and opens up a nasty stitch of damage along its side.
«OOC» Torrent says, "Dalton's turn then :) One dead, one confused and one completely okay"
«OOC» Dalton says, "Whats thier will and the bgcount here?"
«OOC» Torrent says, "will = 3, bgcount = 1"
«OOC» Dalton says, "Ranges?"
«OOC» Torrent says, "10 meters away"
«OOC» Dalton says, "Both of them?"
«OOC» Dalton says, "How far apart are they?"
«OOC» Torrent says, "not more than two meters apart"
«OOC» Dalton says, "Ok, centering a S stunball on the confused one so it hits both of them and not us"
«Auto-Judge[]» Dalton (#8435) rolls Sorcery + Sorcery Pool: 7 vs TN 4 for "Will 3 +1 BG count. F5 Stunball at Serious.":
1 1 1 2 2 2 3 4 5 5 5 5 7 17 = 7 Successes
«Auto-Judge[]» Dalton (#8435) rolls Willpower vs TN 2 for "REsisting D drain.":
1 1 2 3 4 5 5 9 = 6 Successes
«Auto-Judge[]» Dalton (#8435) rolls Willpower - 6 vs TN 2 for "REsisting D drain. KP:1":
2 4 = 2 Successes
Dalton watches the creatures, and begins his spell, even as Haley guns down one of them, Dalton is coverd in a solid black cloak and hood, it blows as if in the wind, then vanishes as mana energy hurls forth and explodes in a wave of magical energy, hitting both manticors.
«OOC» Dalton says, "Do they have any magical resistance?"
«OOC» Torrent says, "nope."
«OOC» Dalton says, "Then they both take D stun"
«OOC» Dalton says, "Thier 3 willpower even if all succeede, leaves me 4 successes, staging S to D"
The last two Martichoras twitch like they're having their brains scrambled. They let loose a scream and fall over like they've been poisioned. Their legs twitch while they're on the ground, but basically they're in a very painful slumber.
Dalton winces as the effects of the spell fade from him, and he stands up "Someone put a bullet in thier heads, lets not have them wake up."
Walking over to one of the critters, Haley places her pistol up to the side of its head. She squeezes the trigger and the beast's head splatters across the floor. She looks down at its tail and flexes the fingers on her right hand. She says, "Oi think Oi'll take some of the poison home with me. There any kinda jars around here?"
Dalton shakes his head "I didn't bring anything, but I'm sure those quills will be worth something."
Torrent brushes himself off as he stands up from his hiding spot. Feeling proud in a job well done, he holsters his weapons. He lifts his mechanical shades up to the top of his head and rubs his eyes. "Well, this went a lot smoother than I thought." He walks around the crate and begins to back track in the general direction of the exit. The goat's eyes widen again, but it's too late on it's silent 'bah'. A Martichora leaps from a shadowy tunnel and lunges it's body ontop of Torrent's. It growls at the trespassers to his home and threatens to consume their comrade with its body language. The 'bah' finally goes off though and the Martichoras gets angry as it starts to shake it's head in confusion.
«Auto-Judge[]» Torrent (#5176) rolls 3 vs TN 5 for "Surprise Martichoras's resistance to confusion":
2 7 10 = 2 Successes
«Auto-Judge[]» Haley (#4416) rolls Initiative with a result of 21.
«Auto-Judge[]» Dalton (#8435) rolls Initiative with a result of 15.
«Auto-Judge[]» Torrent (#5176) rolls 1 for "Marti's init +6":
3
«OOC» Torrent says, "go for action Haley"
«OOC» Haley says, "Too much Torrent in the way of my shot. So I am going to free action pop my hand razors, then run up. I'll be using Close Combat to negate the reach of the beastie. Going to slice into it."
«OOC» Torrent nods, "I appreciate the not killing Torrent part a lot. Roll away :)"
«Auto-Judge[]» Haley (#4416) rolls Cyber-Implant Combat + Combat Pool: 5 vs TN 4 for "12M base damage, using Close Combat to negate my enemy's reach advantage":
1 2 2 2 2 3 3 3 3 3 5 10 = 2 Successes
«Auto-Judge[]» Haley (#4416) rolls Cyber-Implant Combat + Combat Pool: 5 - 2 vs TN 4 for "12M base damage, using Close Combat to negate my enemy's reach advantage KP 2/7":
2 3 4 4 4 4 4 5 9 10 = 8 Successes
«OOC» Haley says, "Stand on 10."
«Auto-Judge[]» Torrent (#5176) rolls 5 vs TN 4 for "Counterattack to Haley's assualt":
1 2 3 4 11 = 2 Successes
«Auto-Judge[]» Torrent (#5176) rolls 5 - 2 vs TN 4 for "Counterattack to Haley's assualt 1/1 KP":
2 3 5 = 1 Success
«Auto-Judge[]» Torrent (#5176) rolls 8 vs TN 12 for "Marti soaking the 7 successes":
1 1 2 4 4 4 9 10 = 0 Successes
«Plot» Dalton says, "Ok, that stages haily to 12D damage"
Seeing the manticore rushing up to Torrent, Haley charges across the ground. The fingers on her left and right hand curl into claws as blades extends out past the fingertips. She slashes the left hand across the creature's chest, the right hand forms a wedge and she stabs the hand forward sinking the blades in up to her elbow. She draws back the gore coated arm as she says, "Gotcher spare."
Dalton turns, ready to react and cast a spell, but before he can even draw the mana energy, Haley has her arm elbow deep in creature guts. He shakes his head and relaxes "Nice work."
Torrent covered in blood now looks up at his heroine, "Thanks a lot for that … I gotta remember that the job isn't done until we get paid." Torrent slides off as much blood as he can from himself and returns to his feet. He finds his shades and this time happily places them back on his face. "Can the goat check the rest of this place if there are anymore of them lurking?"
Dalton shakes his head "I'll send some watchers." he closes his eyes and summons three or four of the small little guys, sending them out to search the rest of the caves
The spirits return to Dalton after a short while, telling him of bugs and worms and things like that, but no large creatures left alive in the cave. Dalton turns and nods "Alright, we are good to go."
Torrent finally finds the fresh air of the outside. Once there, he calls the dwarves to let them know that the cave is all clear. With great appreciation they exclaim that they will be up promptly to clean up the mess left behind. Torrent and Dalton both expressed an interest in the business of the mining and wondered if they could take a small paycut to visit with the dwarves later in life. They happily agree to save money, although, in the background Grumpy can be heard complaining about mixing with Runners. Doc scoffs at him and says that the team was good, efficent, and fast at the job. The team showed they're good character and he feels that there is no reason to not accept the cut in the fee. Everyone gets paid and they all left for their happily ever afters.
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