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Message: <blockquote data-quote="HellHound" data-source="post: 3643792" data-attributes="member: 3397">Game 06 - Five in the NetThe party contacted by a group of five cyberspace entities to get information, and these same entities required fast transportation from a section of Jakarta that is undergoing urban renewal (read: is being torn down by the government to be replaced with shiny new buildings, so get the <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> out now).The five are old-school Chinese biotech experiments calling themselves 同人 (Tong Ren - the Concording People) who live in massive life-support units hooked up to huge old-school cyberdecks. They live in the sealed and secret basement of a warehouse that is now the home of a consortium of ghouls (ripperdocs and organleggers). The ghouls aren’t really a team, they just live together because the only people who don’t hate ghouls are other ghouls and really desperate ripperdocs.As the party first arrives at the building, they see the police and demolition crews working their way down the block, so they know they only have an hour or so to get the job done unless they can distract the crews.The party managed to sneak in the back (after coming under fire at the front of the building), beat some respect into the ghoul populace through the use of remote-operated explosive carriers, and send a remote-operated Scarabee around the front to help load the five guys into the waiting truck. However, as they finally get into the building, they get word from the five that “Donovan has been activated and sent out here”. A quick brief from a police honcho buddy of Basaraki's and they get the Donovan dossier. Donovan was an NPC from a prior campaign who defeated a team of four PCs who had set an ambush up for him – to make things worse he did it non-lethally. Seems Donovan is now a retired USGov operative living in Jakarta. And for some reason, he’s heading here, now. To make matters worse, the construction crews demolishing the area are getting closer with paramilitary looking types in tow.So, the party double-times the job, and starts loading the Tong Ren into the truck using the Scarabee and come up with a quick distraction plan to keep the construction workers from getting near their building (and hopefully any paramilitary types) until they've left the the area. This involves Herman remote operating one of his spiders under a construction crane, detonating it, and when it falls over (splatting a random worker under a falling wrecking ball) everyone's attention is turned towards the carnage. This is in concert with some long range rifle fire from Basaraki and Catholic heading out to chase someone into a former bank building around the corner, a brief exchange of gunfire and the "someone" ends up nearly blowing catholic's head off. Basaraki meanwhile had gone to backup Catholic, finds his corpse in the bank lobby and rather than investigate/engage a source of movement and noise at the back of the bank, decides to instead drag Catholic's body back to the building where the ghouls and Tong Ren are along with Akai, and hopefully enough combined medical equipment/knowledge to save Catholic. Luckily a deal is worked out where they stick his body in a ghoul’s portable cryobed and rolled into the truck along with the Tong Ren. But just as they're done loading, the long-range sniper fire begins from across the street from the loading dock they're using, shooting out the windows of the cab of the truck, and taking out Basaraki's assault rifle as well and thus eliminating the only weapon the party had easy access to (Basaraki's gun bag being in the cab of the truck with his other assault weapons) that could fire far enough to engage the sniper. A quick series of moves are made to try and get Basaraki's guns to him but in the end the party decides to make a quick escape while they can, with herman driving the truck while crouched on the floor, Akai riding in back, and Basaraki in an amazing gymnastic move getting himself and his gun bag secured under the truck's frame, above the drive shaft as it drives over the collapsed fence outside the building, the curb, and down the street without a scratch to him.Once they’ve relocated the five, the Tong Ren indicate that some major benefactors will pay large sums to see Donovan eliminated (and that is who had just put a large bullet into Catholic's skull) – benefactors who have been on the wrong side of Donovan’s operations years ago in the US. But first they have to get Catholic to the hospital...</blockquote>

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