RB 2-8: Gelganag

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Mission Report


Friday, Dec 1, 2017 ((Dec 30, 2018))
Team: Lyndi Fletcher (Aslene), Jane Irwin (Cael), Edward Chase (Aunne), Ryu (ShadowRyuu), Cyrus Riggs (Aslene), Zoraida Gurrande (quorgi)

Finishing the Conversation with Myriad

  • Exchange of prophecy? Yes, and verses 5 & 11 are new to the Raptors
  • Myriad: Need to return to our hive, share all that we have learned; we request that one of you accompany us, to help ensure a safe and surreptitious trip; Chuck and Bron escort Myriad to Lazarus Society safehouse
  • We have transmitted our contact information to Maxine Witkey
  • Unresolved: Myriad helping Draco build a body

Searching for the Reaver Cloaker

  • Max, Draco, Bron, & Jane
  • Search strategies
    • Lyndi works the gang angle
    • Jane (Ryu as shadow) works the bug angle, by allying with arachnids and rats in the city
    • Riggs works with Night Market allies

During the Search

  • Day(s) of downtime
  • Max calls a meeting
    • Moving towards joint operations, such as with the Night Market and/or Farwatch
    • Need handles or call signs; could use Vanguard titles
    • Possibilities: Lyndi = Lieut; Cyrus = Knight; Jane = Earthkeeper; Ryu = Fire-Wielder; Ed = ???; Zora = ???
  • Max: Poison solution
    • Talarin has provided a possible counter to the reaver's poison: WIVERN
    • WIVERN: Wearable IntraVenous Evaluate & Respond Node
    • Hardwire networked with a R3M P3
    • Strapped on to right or left thigh; automatically inserts two shunts into a major artery: intake and outflow
    • Indirectly monitors vital signs
    • Directly samples blood
    • By default, can store and infuses the following
      • A broad-spectrum antivenom
      • A Potion of Greater Healing (4d4+4)
    • Has also been loaded with anti-toxin tailored to samples of the reaver's toxin, including samples from Ed and Alpine Autumn Sky
    • OOC: Can't negate damage, but can clear Poisoned condition
    • OOC: Remember, a healing potion causes Exhaustion
  • Joslin: R3M training as an assistant quartermaster: Review of trooper standard kit
    • OOC: This is what you're assumed to have on an op (ignoring weapons and armor)
    • You can put the webbing and pack in the Ethereal plane as 1 of your 3 slots; you can also leave the pack in Bron
  • Who is wearing what?
    • WIVERN wearing: Lyndi and Jane
    • Lyndi takes pen: 1 tailored
    • Ed takes pens: 1 broad spectrum and 2 tailored
  • Lyndi gets poison from Rixa
    • Green Fever. This is a contact poison with a paralytic effect lasting around 10 minutes. DC 16 Constitution saving throw or be poisoned for about 10 minutes; while poisoned, also paralyzed; can repeat the save once per minute to overcome the poison.

Planning the Hit on the Reaver

  • Saturday, Dec 2, 4 pm
  • Max reports on their strategies
  • First, focused on the undercity
  • Jane's vermin search: no joy
  • Lyndi's triangulation via gangs
  • Bron: focused on the undercity, but with the Vilmora Building, chose an apartment on the top floor, 10 stories up
  • Started scanning the heights of the city
  • Draco: also chose a nest near the el
  • Illinois Cattle Insurance Building
    • 206 W Van Buren St, 16th floor
    • Only about 10 blocks from the Night Market
    • Whole floor is penthouse apartment
    • Owned by a shell company, can't trace the true ownership but some hints of connections to organized crime
    • Floor closed for renovations since mid-September
    • Many heat signatures; Bron reports they're armed, likely long arms (shotguns, assault rifles, SMGs)
    • Building sub-basement does have access to the undercity
  • Planning
    • Bron & Draco can jam communications
    • Lyndi ensures Raptors have poison and delivery systems (e.g., dart guns, thrown darts, coated knives)
  • Do you contact the Barons? Yes
  • Do you contact Farwatch? No
  • Max: Review of Threat Levels
    • 1. A mundane threat
    • 2. A paranormal threat, but weak in power and/or used without proper understanding or intent (e.g., accidentally)
    • 3. A paranormal threat, strong in power and/or used with proper understanding and intent
    • 4. As Level 3, with one or more marauder elements (i.e., extraterrestrial and/or extradimensional entities), but without strategic malice
    • 5. As Level 4, with strategic malice
  • Max: Tactical highlights
    • Objective: kill or capture the marauder
    • Tight space, many angles
    • Target can fly, so balconies are a critical egress
    • Target is familiar with the undercity, so stairs are a critical egress
    • R3M SOP applies, with one exception: RaPT3R Blue has authorization to shoot first
  • Op at 6 pm
  • Team approaches by air in Bron, Jane casts Pass with Trace, Raptors descend to balconies in two teams

Op

  • Miasma and trash
  • High heat and humidity
  • Mundane insect hives and eggs
  • Jane detects a hypnotic/charm effect among the insects
  • Zora's familiar as raccoon draws cultists out to balcony, Ryu and Zora subdue them
  • DM: > Ed and Lyndi stealth in from the east, sneak pass 1 sentry, find propaganda op, subdue cultist
  • Study includes desktop publishing, printing, and mailing operation (cultist propaganda)
  • DM: > Draco and Bron are jamming phones as cultists are subdued
  • Max: > Multiple cultists have blue threads under their skin
  • Raptors had subdued 4 of 6 cultists before battle commenced
  • 5th cultist killed
  • Jane summons a Bear Spirit
  • Theater room covered with black webbing, cocoon in the center, bodies of victims
  • Reaver and his senior minion sparred with the Raptors
  • Jane casts Heat Metal on reaver's sword
  • Ryu casts Burning Hands on reaver and minion, incidentally igniting the nest
  • Vince shoots and cuts through the back wall
  • Vince and Phobos get out
  • Zora casts Fireball, senior minion destroyed
  • Reaver cuts his way through wall, caught in Jane's Snare
  • Riggs and Zora finish reaver off
  • DM: > Jane uses Sleet Storm to put out fire
  • DM: > Vince will wait to explain things to Farwatch response
  • DM: > Ed takes laptop from study
  • DM: > Lyndi takes propaganda
  • DM: > Jane loots cloaker, tries to take blood samples from reaver and cultist
  • DM: > Good sample from reaver, contaminated sample from cultist
  • DM: > Ed also takes propaganda author's smartphone
  • Summary
    • Farwatch takes 4 live prisoners (poisoned, paralyzed, and zip-tied)
    • 1 cultist woman killed
    • 1 senior minion burned beyond recognition
    • Marauder beheaded
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