RB 1-14: Capparelli Elementary

Mission Report

Monday, November 13, 2017 ((Sep 30, 2018))
Team: Lyndi Fletcher (Aslene), Jane Irwin (Cael), Chuck Nielson (Aunne), Edward Chase (Aunne), Ryu (Dargren), Quill Draper (quorgi), Cyrus Riggs (Sielic)

Briefing

• Monday, late afternoon
• Nails looks tired
• The Edge, Sep-22-2018
• Ambush was a crucible moment for this team
  • Glad you're trying to learn and grow
  • The problems are only going to get harder
• The situation continues escalate; got approval to invest in and upgrade this team
• Also planning some uptraining
• Don't like my team being caught at less than full strength
  • Some Unbound are able to move objects and creatures in and out of the Prime (e.g., familiars, mounts, weapons)
  • Asking around for solution
• For now, as a start, we have an upgrade for Chuck
  • Gauntlets of the Vanguard
  • Can only be worn by an orc, otherwise come with a curse

The Bella Santiana Teens

• Can't use the bullets until know the full ritual (6x handgun, 6x rifle)
• Teens summoned Taguzoth, now Bolinoth is also in the mix
• 5 teens, 5 sacrifices
  • Frankie Regan: silver butter knife (stolen from mother, one of her points of pride, so sacrificed her trust); it's been sharpened
  • Jave Denoto: a wooden toy train (sacrificed his brother's innocence, since his brother was killed by gang violence)
  • Lisette Carrell: a mirror that is now broken; during the summoning, it magically broke and sliced her cheek (so sacrificed her perfect beauty); she tried to pretend to sacrifice her learning (book)
  • Colby Diseth: lacrosse stick (so sacrificed his future)
  • Raph Decosta: unfinished book (so sacrificed his freedom); was bullied and wanted to push back, leading his circle of friends to try the summoning
• Twin fiends
  • Taguzoth Maiden's Blood
    • Demon (chaotic): Dybbuk: translucent flying jellyfish, possess and violate corpses
    • Seems to have become Raph's patron as a warlock
    • Colby is in a diabolic contract to kill Taguzoth
  • Bolinoth the Thrive Twisted
    • Devil (lawful/order): Dream Eater: impersonates humanoids, exploits sins like greed and lust, causes confusion and waking dreams, uses an airborne narcotic
    • Gave Colby a Helm of Liquid Imagination, to slay Taguzoth
  • Bolinoth sets up complicated debauchery, Taguzoth ruins it
• Discussion of how to kill Taguzoth
• Planning and arming up
  • Joslin shatters Lisette's mirror and adheres it to Quill's bat
  • Ed makes a punch dagger out of the toy train
  • Ryu has the lacrosse stick
  • Joslin melts down silver knife and coats the head of a tactical axe for Chuck
  • Lyndi and Jane help Colby get ready (AR-15 carbine with laser sight)
  • Colby explains that he and Lisette are being screened by R3M for special training

Raph Found

• Jane, Ed, Draco, and Max search for demonic sign
• Triangulated weirdness to a Mambas holding, near the last drughouse where the Raptors met Joslin: a whorehouse with a basement casino
• Draco: "There are several bodies of Mambas found murdered in the area. Police dismissed them as gang violence, but there are signs of ritual killing."
• Draco checks with the team before trying to hack into the house's technology; Lyndi says no
• Draco finds geo-tagged Mambas data in the cloud; Lyndi allows the hack
  • Smartphone footage from the Blackhouse
  • Teenage boy leading a pack of demons, meets Raph's description, attacked the Blackhouse
  • Shouting something in fiendish
  • Translation: "Bolinoth, brother mine! There is nothing you can create that I cannot destroy! Face me, you craven weakling!"
  • Blackhouse had a Mambas enforcer team waiting for something like this
  • Raph took gunfire, fled
• Raptors depart via van to find Raph
  • Take Colby; Colby given bluetooth headset and R3M smart phone
  • Draco finds footage of Raph getting off at an el station in his neighborhood, moving like he's wounded
  • Draco traces him to an elementary school
• Capparelli Elementary
  • Recent expansion, floor plan should be up to date
  • Light commercial district
  • East: Street
  • South: Office building
  • West: Apartment building
  • North: Commercial electronics distributor

School

• Lyndi and Phobos detect fiends inside
• Team observes that front door was forced open, though Raph went in a different door
• Max: I'm... I'm getting hints of a military encrypted frequency. We have some profiles on this... I can't be sure, but there may be Primex paramilitary troopers on site.
• Chuck spots a laser tripwire, Ed disarms, is Primex model
• Primex troopers in wary truce with with quasits
• Raptors can sense corruption below library
• Team circles back
• Jane as spider sneaks into library
• Erik Holloway and Raph in library, negotiating/arguing
• Raph accompanied by Mr. Simkins, risen as a zombie
• Erik wants to team up, Raph disdains Erik
• Erik: "Lord Bolinoth has guided me; the metabiotic crystals are exactly what we need… We can team up to get the spirit from them… Lord Bolinoth told me that this spirit is the Herald of the Wyrm Princes of the Celestial Circle. They are coming! They are coming for all of us! Don't you know what that means?"
• Raph insults Erik's master
• Jane starts having hallucinations (waking dream: big game hunter loose in the zoo, killing animals for pleasure)
• Lyndi leads Raptors in trying to reach Jane through the Chain
• Raph uses Burning Hands against Erik and troopers
• Raptors join fight
• Troopers and quasits fight each other
• Corp trooper goes down, Bolinoth emerges from the body
• Erik and Bolinoth each easily kills a quasit
• Ryu strikes Mr. Simkins with lacrosse stick, leaves burn marks
• Mr. Simkins goes down, Taguzoth emerges from the body
• Jane breaks free of waking dream