| From: | Bull <chaos@*****.COM> |
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| Subject: | Bull's Kids, our latest run, |
| Date: | Mon, 14 Jul 1997 01:40:41 -0400 |
>|Any suggestions for combining this with blood magic for a truly hideous
>|ritual?
>
>Oooooohohohooo.... You are being an evil GM....
>Not one of Bulls kids though.... Pretty please?
>:)
>
Thanks Spike... Glad to see someone who DOESN'T want to see me get fragged
over yet again (Or at least my kids...:)). :]
Anyways, we got to play our once a monbth Shadowrun Campign again this
weekend. It was a continuation of the Space Run we did against the Horror
Artificer last month or so.
I get a call from Mr. Ares himself, Damion Knight, again. I really dread
getting those type of calls, because how do you tell him no, especially
when he pays so well??
Anyways, one of Tinner's possible "Chicago Solutions" was the Neutron Bomb
thta Ares had developed. No property damage, but would frag everything
living. the only problem with that is it would only get the Fleshforms,
not the spirits, so the idea was scrapped, and apparenty the bomb was
stored on Ares' Space Station. Well, unfortunately, while we were playing
Tag with Artificer and Mr. Darke, we managed to crash the space station.
Well, most of it came down around Australia, but not all of it. A large
chunk came down in the caribean area... the Bermuda Triangle to be
precise. Lovely. And that where we came in. Apparently the portion that
fell there had the bomb in it...
So we have to go underwater now...
This run really went into some semi-real Voodoo mythos, since one of our
players, Sangre, is a Voodoun following Ghede (sp?). And Tinner lifted a
lot of his ideas for this from the Dream park Book "California Voodoo
Games" (Good book, btw:)).
Anyways, Sangre has been seeing all these visoins involving a giant squid
or octopus or something, and the destruction of the world, and somehow it's
linked to the Voodoo Loa's, and the Neutron Bomb that Ares built.
So we get hired for this mission, and get shipped down to the caribbean
aboard a small Aircraft Carrier, where we're sipposed to be going aboard a
Sub...
We head out and start searching fr the wreckage in the sub with just our
team and the sub capation (I cant even remember his name now...:)). We
find nothing except for a crapload of scared Merrow, who are leaving the
area because of something called the Namo. We get back to the aircraft
carrier, and that's when the drek hits the fan...
The entire crew of the carrier (except for the Sub pilot... Boomer! that's
his name!:)) ends up being Namo (They're apparently these fish-men that can
imitate other people) and a bunch of them turn into duplicates of us,
including stats and skills! Ack!. Frtunately we didn;t take on our own
duplicates...;]
Anyways, between Johnny using magic fingers to pitch a stack of depth
charges across the deck, and Boomer ripping into things with a Firelance
Laser, we manage to escape (and blow up an Ares Big Boat!:)), so we run to
a hidden harbor in Jamaica run by a gun-runner named Reilly (And Eddie
Torres... But I'll let you ask Tinner about him. He was silly...:))
We re-equip, and get a better fix on the location of the wreckage from
Reilly, and head back out. Mr. White goes down in a Deep Sea suit, and we
find the wreckage. Unfortuantely, he gets attacked by yet another Namo
(Who we nicknamed Sea-Stacks, after the recent LotL thread...:)) and almost
gets his Suit ruptured...:] He manages to harppon the thing, and we find
an address scratched into the wall of the wreckage, and the Bomb is gone.
The Address is recognized by Sangre, who is from the area, as an Address in
Kingston, jamaica.
So we head back, and get a boat from Reilly, as well as a contact who'll
get us into Jamaica. As soon as we hit Jamaica, Sangre freaks out.
Apparently, he's got a s[plit personality, and this is the first time it's
come out around Bull and Johnny, so we were clueless. Sangre's other
personality is a completely mundane norm who was really freaked. We had to
knock him out to keep him from running off.
While Mr. White takes care of Sangre's other personality, I go shopping for
some supplies, and to pick up a vehice to get around jamaica in. I go to
the rental place,and they demand sixteen forms of ID (The best ID I had on
me was the one giving to me by Reilly's contact, which read "Neil t.O.B."
(figure that one out, kids,....:)) plus a Credit Card #, just ion case
"something" happens to the car. So I say fuck it, and tell them I want to
*BUY* something. they say what, and I say I need a van of some kind. Next
thing i know, I'm shelling out 100K for a Hover Van painted up like the
Mystery Mahine! :] Well worth 100K, if you ask me... In fact, I paid to
have the thing shipped back to cleveland after the run...;]
Anyways, I get back, and Ghede has possesed Sangre and is DETERMINED to go
to the church. In fact, he demands it, so we go.
We get there, and there is a note on the alter of the church (which was
Sangre's Alter Ego's home church) for Sangre, which says Kneel and pray.
Sangre goes up to read it, and the floor drops out from under him. he
falls, and we, of course, jump in after him...:]
Anyways, we land in a room that is sealed off by a Ward, and Bullet Proof
glass. On the other side, we see someone who is SUPPOSED to be dead, a guy
named Ramirez. Sangre had killed him earlier, and had turned him into a
worker Loa (Or whatever the Voodoo dudes do. Those rules are more than a
little fuzzy for me...:)). When we went into space, Sangre lost his link
to Ramirez, and now he was just turning up. He is also holding someone who
turns out to be Sangre's Son. At some point earlier in his life, Sangre
had been married. A nd while married, had slept with his Wife's Best friend
(Or was it his best friend's wife? Either way...) and gotten her pregnant,
though he never new about that. Ramirez was working up some Blood Magic to
burn one big ass spell into Sangre, and was using his Son to do it (Thus
Tinner's original thread).
Ramirez then proceeds to, in typical villain fashion, reveal his plans to
us. He was planning to summon one of the "Elder Gods" (A Horror) back to
the world, namely Cthulhu! (Thus the Squid/tentacles in Sangre's Visions)
To do this, he was preparing one big ass Blood Magic Ritual, involving
killing every living being in Kingston with the Neutron bomb!!!! Ack!
So he takes his leave, and statrts venting Clorine gas into this glass
chamber that we're stuck in, so Johnny and Sangre get to work on the
Ward?Barrier and me and Mr. White abuse the Bullet Proof glass (THICK
bullet proof glass).
We manage to get out and defeat a dozen or so more of these Namo, and then
beat Ramirez, who turns out to be working with/for Mr. Darke now. His eyes
(Which Sangre had cut out at some point) popped out and became a couple
dozen Watcher Spirits designed to pop every Spell Lock, Focus, and
Quickening in the room. So several of our quickenings need fixed...:(
Anyways, the Bomb ends up being buried a few feet below us, so Johnny
soummons up a big Earth Spirit to dig it up for us, and Me and Whitey go to
work trying to disarm it. the first thing to deal with is when we pop the
access hatch on it, there is a jury rigged (But not an Adam Jury Rigged:))
BIG RED BUTTON hooked up to let someone anually detonate the bomb just by
pushing the button. Also, there is a Watcher that was told to push the
button if the hatch was opened waiting inside the hatch.
So Johnny BARELY manages to pop the spirit before it pushes the button, and
we barel;y manage to disarm the thing before it goes off... And once
again, we save the world...:]
Ya know, I really HATE saving the world...
However, we were offered an Island for this run, plus w each got 100K
Nuyen, so all in all it wasnp;t too bad. However, we did get the living
Drek kicked out of us... I used up all 24 of my karma pool, as well as 8 of
our team pool keeping my ass alive, and I know everyone else was in similar
shape. hell, at one point, I got hit with 10D stun stuff, staged up 12
FRAGGING TIMES!!! (Tinner would have to pick a time like that to role all
successes... <grin>)
Fun run, but I'm REALLY ready to retire now...:] Argh...:]
I just need Cyberpirates, Rigger 2.0, an Eyepatch, and a Parrot, and I'm
set... Argh matey!!! :]
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