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<blockquote data-quote="HellHound" data-source="post: 3643794" data-attributes="member: 3397"><p><strong>Game 07 - Donovan Endgame</strong></p><p></p><p>We start off in the hospital as Catholic is getting checked out by his friends after the reconstructive surgery on his head from the bullet Donovan lodged there. As they walk towards the nurse’s station to sign him out, he sees two classic goons in black armor-trenches step out of the elevator behind them. In the ensuing fight, one goon is killed and the other badly injured. When pressed for information (as the sirens ring throughout the hospital) he explains that they were sent by Orbital Air to safeguard the team on the Donovan mission, and were only ‘geared up’ because they were afraid that Donovan had already found Catholic and removed him. One of the OA goons (the dead one) is a character from the prior campaign where Donovan was involved, who worked for a competing edgerunner team.</p><p></p><p>The team then heads to the Petrochem embassy in Jakarta (post 4th Corporate war, Petrochem is one of several companies that have become “orbitals”, companies who claim extraterritoriality worldwide because they are based in orbit, not in any one nation) and see two Orbital Air vans in the driveway. Up until now in the campaign, the target of a majority of the team’s actions have been in the name of Petrochem and targeted against Orbital Air and its associates. The team learns inside that today is the first day of the OA/Petrochem merger, now under the name of the Orbital Energy Consortium.</p><p></p><p>The next evening, the team (now plus one, the OA agent) heads out to a bar where they are to find someone who knows where Donovan is staying in Jakarta. At the all-stainless steel bar full of American and Soviet ex-pats, they meet one of Herman Alfie’s very old friends and family members (Janet) – a rocker techie second cousin that he met on the road at 16. She has been working for TransTechnic, an American entertainment company here in Jakarta for the past year, but her contract expired last month.</p><p></p><p>At this point, an American businessman joins the group at the bar, orders Gin & Synths for everyone, grabs his and spills one each on Herman and Janet at the same moment. As Janet reaches down to wipe it off her lap, he pulls his smartgun and goes to shoot her in the back of the head. The whole team leaps to her defense, but are pretty ineffective until the OA goon who is now on the team hurts the guy enough that he loses his perfect point-blank shot on her. Instead, he shoots her in the shoulder and drops her to the floor, then his two companions at the back of the bar join into the fight with their subguns. Once the violence is over, the team and Janet (now minus the OA goon, who died in the fight) head for their hotel.</p><p></p><p>The next morning they get the rest of Janet’s story. While working in TransTechnic’s virtual reality systems developing full immersion music videos, she discovered a massive super-realistic VR hidden there. Inside, she met someone named Donovan who pretended that he was part of the VR, but she felt that he was something more, something real and human, and she fell in love. Since the contract ended, she’s tried doing netruns against the TT datafortress to get into the VR to meet Donovan again. Once it worked, but since then she’s been caught, her access revoked, and obviously she pissed off security based on last night’s attempted hit. Now she wants her old friend and the party to help her get in again, and they agree (not telling her that they want to kill Donovan).</p><p></p><p>After casing the TT building, the party arranges to mug an employee as he leaves at the end of the workday. They successfully grab his security card and get into the building after bypassing a few security systems (so as to leave no video recordings of their break in). Upstairs in the VR editing room, they hook into ‘hotsuits’ that allow them to interface with the VR directly, and Janet hooks them into the VR environment and they go meet Donovan. As Janet tries to convince Donovan to meet her in reality (to which he keeps claiming he is not a human being, but part of the software in the VR), the party tracks the Donovan code and finds net connection links to three locations in the US, and one in the Nova Clarke hotel (a massive 5-star hotel) in downtown Jakarta. Logging out of the VR, they drag Janet along to the Nova Clarke to find him.</p><p></p><p>The Nova Clarke is a huge hotel, with the 2nd through 10th floors being a massive waterpark with a huge glass floor looking down over the first floor lobby. As the team is booking a room (so they can access the outbound net system from the inside, and then trace back where the Donovan connection came from), they have a moment of recognition as Donovan looks down on them from the floor of the waterpark above (although 40 feet to one side of the group). As everyone grabs iron, Donovan gets off the first shots, firing a pair of HEP grenades into the pool directly over the party’s heads. The first grenade sends a massive shockwave and crack through the floor above them, and the second one actually blows through, sending a massive torrent of glass, water and waterpark attendees smashing down into the lobby, and Donovan starts running for the causeway that leads to the mall next door.</p><p></p><p>In the mall, a massive gun battle ensues, with what was the most grenades yet seen in close quarters in one of my games – frags, AP frags, HEPs, Defensive Frags, Stuns, Flashbangs and more. In the end, the battle left Donovan and one of the PCs dead on the ground. Further, most of the fighting occurred directly in front of the passport office in the mall, so government soldiers got into the action and many innocents were caught in the crossfire. A call back to the ‘benefactors’ and the five and one of the government AVs coming in to quell the “terrorist attack” on the passport office is bought off, and picks up the team to move them out of country ASAP, and to bring the dead character to the appropriate trauma centre in a cryotank. </p><p></p><p><em>Between Game Notes:</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>As many of the big megacorporations have headed orbital in The End of Corp War IV, the landscape that they operate in is changing rapidly as nations begin reasserting their powers over their territory. With blows dealt to Orbital Air in Indonesia and several other countries in the process of setting up the new Orbital Launch Facility, they have found themselves in the position of merging with Petrochem as a new company, the "Orbital Energy Consortium".</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>This makes them the single largest orbital carrier in the world, just ahead of the ESA, and well ahead of the USAF. The only unknown in the space race at this time is the Chinese Launch Authority, which has remained out of the global politics involving the gathering of angels in orbit and the establishment of the new super orbital corporations. </em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>With the creation of the Orbital Energy Consortium, OA finds itself with the last choice for the orbital launch facility left - Colombia. As of 2025, construction of the world's biggest mass driver has begun in Colombia, with the Consortium conducting itself in an unprecedented open manner. It is expected that the launch facility should be fully operational in three years.</em></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="HellHound, post: 3643794, member: 3397"] [b]Game 07 - Donovan Endgame[/b] We start off in the hospital as Catholic is getting checked out by his friends after the reconstructive surgery on his head from the bullet Donovan lodged there. As they walk towards the nurse’s station to sign him out, he sees two classic goons in black armor-trenches step out of the elevator behind them. In the ensuing fight, one goon is killed and the other badly injured. When pressed for information (as the sirens ring throughout the hospital) he explains that they were sent by Orbital Air to safeguard the team on the Donovan mission, and were only ‘geared up’ because they were afraid that Donovan had already found Catholic and removed him. One of the OA goons (the dead one) is a character from the prior campaign where Donovan was involved, who worked for a competing edgerunner team. The team then heads to the Petrochem embassy in Jakarta (post 4th Corporate war, Petrochem is one of several companies that have become “orbitals”, companies who claim extraterritoriality worldwide because they are based in orbit, not in any one nation) and see two Orbital Air vans in the driveway. Up until now in the campaign, the target of a majority of the team’s actions have been in the name of Petrochem and targeted against Orbital Air and its associates. The team learns inside that today is the first day of the OA/Petrochem merger, now under the name of the Orbital Energy Consortium. The next evening, the team (now plus one, the OA agent) heads out to a bar where they are to find someone who knows where Donovan is staying in Jakarta. At the all-stainless steel bar full of American and Soviet ex-pats, they meet one of Herman Alfie’s very old friends and family members (Janet) – a rocker techie second cousin that he met on the road at 16. She has been working for TransTechnic, an American entertainment company here in Jakarta for the past year, but her contract expired last month. At this point, an American businessman joins the group at the bar, orders Gin & Synths for everyone, grabs his and spills one each on Herman and Janet at the same moment. As Janet reaches down to wipe it off her lap, he pulls his smartgun and goes to shoot her in the back of the head. The whole team leaps to her defense, but are pretty ineffective until the OA goon who is now on the team hurts the guy enough that he loses his perfect point-blank shot on her. Instead, he shoots her in the shoulder and drops her to the floor, then his two companions at the back of the bar join into the fight with their subguns. Once the violence is over, the team and Janet (now minus the OA goon, who died in the fight) head for their hotel. The next morning they get the rest of Janet’s story. While working in TransTechnic’s virtual reality systems developing full immersion music videos, she discovered a massive super-realistic VR hidden there. Inside, she met someone named Donovan who pretended that he was part of the VR, but she felt that he was something more, something real and human, and she fell in love. Since the contract ended, she’s tried doing netruns against the TT datafortress to get into the VR to meet Donovan again. Once it worked, but since then she’s been caught, her access revoked, and obviously she pissed off security based on last night’s attempted hit. Now she wants her old friend and the party to help her get in again, and they agree (not telling her that they want to kill Donovan). After casing the TT building, the party arranges to mug an employee as he leaves at the end of the workday. They successfully grab his security card and get into the building after bypassing a few security systems (so as to leave no video recordings of their break in). Upstairs in the VR editing room, they hook into ‘hotsuits’ that allow them to interface with the VR directly, and Janet hooks them into the VR environment and they go meet Donovan. As Janet tries to convince Donovan to meet her in reality (to which he keeps claiming he is not a human being, but part of the software in the VR), the party tracks the Donovan code and finds net connection links to three locations in the US, and one in the Nova Clarke hotel (a massive 5-star hotel) in downtown Jakarta. Logging out of the VR, they drag Janet along to the Nova Clarke to find him. The Nova Clarke is a huge hotel, with the 2nd through 10th floors being a massive waterpark with a huge glass floor looking down over the first floor lobby. As the team is booking a room (so they can access the outbound net system from the inside, and then trace back where the Donovan connection came from), they have a moment of recognition as Donovan looks down on them from the floor of the waterpark above (although 40 feet to one side of the group). As everyone grabs iron, Donovan gets off the first shots, firing a pair of HEP grenades into the pool directly over the party’s heads. The first grenade sends a massive shockwave and crack through the floor above them, and the second one actually blows through, sending a massive torrent of glass, water and waterpark attendees smashing down into the lobby, and Donovan starts running for the causeway that leads to the mall next door. In the mall, a massive gun battle ensues, with what was the most grenades yet seen in close quarters in one of my games – frags, AP frags, HEPs, Defensive Frags, Stuns, Flashbangs and more. In the end, the battle left Donovan and one of the PCs dead on the ground. Further, most of the fighting occurred directly in front of the passport office in the mall, so government soldiers got into the action and many innocents were caught in the crossfire. A call back to the ‘benefactors’ and the five and one of the government AVs coming in to quell the “terrorist attack” on the passport office is bought off, and picks up the team to move them out of country ASAP, and to bring the dead character to the appropriate trauma centre in a cryotank. [i]Between Game Notes: As many of the big megacorporations have headed orbital in The End of Corp War IV, the landscape that they operate in is changing rapidly as nations begin reasserting their powers over their territory. With blows dealt to Orbital Air in Indonesia and several other countries in the process of setting up the new Orbital Launch Facility, they have found themselves in the position of merging with Petrochem as a new company, the "Orbital Energy Consortium". This makes them the single largest orbital carrier in the world, just ahead of the ESA, and well ahead of the USAF. The only unknown in the space race at this time is the Chinese Launch Authority, which has remained out of the global politics involving the gathering of angels in orbit and the establishment of the new super orbital corporations. With the creation of the Orbital Energy Consortium, OA finds itself with the last choice for the orbital launch facility left - Colombia. As of 2025, construction of the world's biggest mass driver has begun in Colombia, with the Consortium conducting itself in an unprecedented open manner. It is expected that the launch facility should be fully operational in three years.[/i] [/QUOTE]
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