Are you about ready, Shayuri? Now would be a great time to introduce your PC.
Device; Ithuriel's brainstorming is pretty good though stay away from location based stuff (like that pass idea). The story moves around a lot.
PCs at the clinic; It's time to either pack it up, make a few calls and follow another lead meanwhile (Cantor Station comes to mind) or to immediately try something clandestine at the clinic. Your call.
Your status in the Aesculopian order, while not translating automatically into formal power within the rest of the medical community, still amounts to a lot of prestige.
Few normal hospital would deny a vitakinetic anything. At most they'll likely ask for a swap of favor.
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It looks like the crew at Beaulac will simply leave so you can make a post describing how you intercept them as they leave the hospital.
In particular, you have gotten your hands on a copy of your autopsy with an incriminating handwritten addition. You can improvise how you got ahold of it.
Obviously, your PC has to be very worried or even outraged by the implications.
I'm hip to Pat leaving the clinic with his team. There is so much he wants to say without being spied on (as much as such a thing is possible in an awakened world). If no one else has written our team's graceful exit from the clinic by tomorrow night, I will offer up something.
A question, how much of Luna is artificial gravity (set, I assume, to Earth's 1G) and how much of the moon is the natural (roughly) 1/6G?
I'm hip to Pat leaving the clinic with his team. There is so much he wants to say without being spied on (as much as such a thing is possible in an awakened world). If no one else has written our team's graceful exit from the clinic by tomorrow night, I will offer up something.
A question, how much of Luna is artificial gravity (set, I assume, to Earth's 1G) and how much of the moon is the natural (roughly) 1/6G?
Artificial gravity has been implemented in most 'civilized' areas.
Which reminds me that it likely should have been Luna Gravity in Freak alley. I dropped the ball on that one. Let's assume the thug was no more used to LG than Ghost and so it evened out the difficulty of the pursuit.
Cantor Station is also LG.
BTW ; Awakened world? So you also like Shadowrun, eh?
Of course, I was always the 'personality' which meant in the cheerfully unbalanced rules of the earlier editions. I would always die when the trolls, mages, and cybered street samurai started fighting.
And that's if I was lucky, every one was usually chipped so high, I didn't even know a fight had happened. Those were the days.
Who could be that Mangels who signed the comment at the bottom of the autopsy?
The organigram of the clinic shows that his full name is Dr Heinrich Mangels and that he works at the lab (blood analysis and such). Rochelle hasn't seen him around much so he apparently keeps to himself. She knows that he is a recent arrival, though. He's been around for a bit less than a year.
Kerry recognize the name. Dr Heinrich Mangels has written a few paper on the taint and its medical implications. He has never met him, though.
You've rejoined Suria and then the whole group as they are discussing what to do next in a cafe near the clinic.
To exploit the the contact you made with the thug, you basically need time. If you wait several hours, he'll call. So if the group decide to go to Cantor station (It takes at least 12 hours to go back and forth), some PCs could stay behind and I'll again run two fronts.
If the team decide to do something more radical like doing something clandestine at the clinic right now, this will of course override that concern.
Cantor occured on February the 8th.
Freak Alley on January the 29th.
The dates are on the briefing documents.
I never said what date it was in game time, let's say it is february the 12th. The mission briefing states february the 17th but it is a very slow reaction time, IMO. The body wouldn't still be in the morgue, Cantor would be closed etc.
Ok, so tentatively, we have some people going to Cantor while Ghost + maybe some others will wait for his contact to call with news that his crew has tracked down someone and see where that leads them?
State your colours and I'll set up two scene just like Clinic/Freak Alley.
Ok, so tentatively, we have some people going to Cantor while Ghost + maybe some others will wait for his contact to call with news that his crew has tracked down someone and see where that leads them?
State your colours and I'll set up two scene just like Clinic/Freak Alley.
I was also hoping we could go down to near the location of where the "accident" occurred and hope our seers could pick someting up there. Is that even feasible?
__________________ stonegod -- LEB judge and spawn of Khyber since 2005 (Blog)
We could try an attunement roll for taint detection at least. Maybe our clear could turn back the clock and take a look around. Attunement is about the best I could manage as far as I can think of right now.
btw- I just started a new job and have been a bit drained, but I'm checking in. I'll post up again tonight.
I could go either way on the split. If everyone wants to go to Cantor I'll hang with Ghost while he waits.
Rochelle thinks the place where the 'doctor' first emerged into the slum area is the best place to look...but she's the junior member on this so she'll go wherever someone tells her to go.
The site of the collapse is too old to pick up anything psionically.
Olympus obviously didn't spend a penny to remove the debris from an abandoned warren so there isn't much to do in the way of traditional investigation either.
Tomorrow night I'll just start two scenes and you'll join the one you want.
The thug will (assuming the deal is accepted) give you the location of the meet which is an apartent in a cheap housing complex. Normally, their contact comes in, verify the identity of the snatched victim and then pay the thugs with controlled drugs. Once the deal is complete, the victim is drugged and abandoned nearby. 911 is called and what do you know, an ambulance brings the victim to the nearest clinic which happens to be Beaulac.
You can start planning your course of action.
Needless to say that the kidnap victim himself is of no relevance to the plot. One more shell shocked survivor won't give you any info that you couldn't get from the interview that Suria's colleague wrote. What you want is hard evidence of a conspiracy so plan accordingly.
By elimination, Pat and Suria are with Stonegod for this bit.
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Ghost had to plug in to a public port to receive the call right? I'm under the impression we can't call each other with our minicomps because cell lines are insanely expensive and regulated unless you are houseruling that. Just want to clarify in case it comes into to play later.
The OpNet is entirely hardwired due to fear of aberrants. And communication through satellite is tightly regulated and very expensive.
Local calls are mostly wireless though. It's dirt cheap, it avoids overloading the OpNet (Or the hassle of having a parallel network) and if another Aberrant powerhouse cuts lose with EMPs, it'll just scrap the minicomp that were online at the time. Considering that no aberrant pulled a similar stunt as 'Backlash' in the past sixty years, it'd be an economical non-sense to close all wireless transmission to the public.
So you can use your minicomp to call each other much as if it was a cellphone with the the understanding that the signal can't be boucned by a satellite or use it to connect to the Opnet.
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