A Road to Nowhere

Johnson	Lionel ‘Haematoma’ Cartwright
Summary
Meet	15/01/2076 (Wednesday)
Legwork and Run	15/01/2076 (Wednesday) – 16/01/2076 (Thursday)
Pay	Vlad PAID £30,000, Vlad owes Jack and Smith £10,000 each
Game Time	05/07/2018 – 26/07/2018 (4 Sessions)

Details

15/01/2076 (Wednesday)

• Justin is called in to see Haematoma, his creditor and is ‘offered’ a job
• Job is to steal a new product, a piloting AI, from automotive company Hellhound Racers (a subsidiary of Saeder-Krupp)
• Haematoma wants a copy or one of the items
• Items sound be mounted in test cars at the Hellhound Racers test centre near Heathrow
• Offered pay is £30k, needs completing in 2 weeks

• To ensure the job is done Haematoma is sending one of his men along
• ‘Daniel’ Cybered male orc Street Sam

Justin called up the rest of the team to inform them that he had a job for them and they met up at a pub near the test track

• From here they walked out to the compound to investigate
• Chainlink and barbed wire fence surrounding a track, 3 hangers and an office building
• Cameras on the fences
• Guards at the gate and at corners of the compound

Decided to wait till night and headed back to the pub

• Jack spoke to a company driver ‘Emmet Bryon’
• Stole his ID and a spare jacket which was Fashioned into a uniform

After dark

• Headed back out, cut through the fence and dashed across the open ground to one of the hangers
• Jack used invisibility to get to the main office building and reappeared to talk with the guard at the entrance, distracting him whilst the others shot out the light at the front of the hanger
• Pretending to be cleaning staff, Jack headed upstairs, found cleaning supplies and proceeded to astrally project
• Found a mana barrier on the first floor
• Headed there and found an airlock style set of security doors requiring an electronic lock and a physical key

• Rest of group got into a hanger and identified the latest series of vehicles – code named Epsilon 11, Gamma 17 and Delta 8

• Jack met janitor and conned him into opening an upstairs lab where he might be able to find spare keys into the ‘key room’
• Found them, took 10 keys down and tried them all
• After the third key he was asked for a voice recognition
• Failed, all doors locked and gas started to fill the room
• Able to alert the others before he was knocked out

• Smith took off running, jumped desk and knocked out door guard before running up the stairs. Blew lock off door with shotgun and started dragging Jack out of the room
• Joined by Daniel to help drag jack to safety
• Vlad changed his face to look like the door guard and investigated the computers at the desk, realising that HTR had been called and were inbound in 10min
• Smith shoots his way into keyroom and grabs the 3 keycards needed
• Jack is stim patched – 50min

• Vlad and Daniel engage 2 guards in a gunfight outside the main building whilst Smith opens hanger doors
• Daniel knocked out by fire
• Vlad kills both guards
• Daniel woken by stim patch rating 2 (20min)

• Keycards are used to activate 3 of the cars in the hanger and the group makes a run for it, smashing out of the front gate
• Universe – Daniel and Jack
• Trailblazer – Smith
• Phoenix – Justin
• Speeding away towards the barrens in an attempt to lose pursuit
• Daniel contacts Haematoma and requested Decker support
• Spectre – disabling the GPS trackers for £2,000, will take some time
• Jack contacted Helen to request a chop-shop job on the cars to remove tags etc. – cost is one of the vehicles
• Heading to meet the Screaming Barons

• Stopped at a stuffer shack to buy stim patches
• At this point the Phoenix, Epsilon 11 started to talk to Justin. Referred to him by a similar codename
• Car thinks it is a car, but if forced to think about it seems confused. Had a bit of an episode

• Police approaching from behind
• 4 blitzkreig motorbikes and 2 Chargers
• Inspector Owen Johnston demands they pull over

• Car chase
• Justin speeding off in the sports car
• Smith quickly turns down a side road attempting to split off some of the pursuit
• Daniel braked hard in an attempt to hit a charger
• Jack’s Spirit of air used Fear
• Police vehicles opened fire with mounted automatic weapons
• Spirit engulfed a driver

• Daniel
• Took out one bike with a burst of AR fire
• Exchanging fire with dodge charger
• Stopped it, got out and shot driver alongside Jack

• Smith
• Took out one bike with a shot to the engine
• Second bike shot up the Jeep Trailblazer and hit the windscreen with a paint grenade
• Pulled up and got out taking cover. Biker pulled over and disengaged, moving into cover
• Smith ran up, outflanked, knocked him out with flechette fire

• Justin
• Burnt edge to jump his car up a slope to an overpass – escaped
• Car is complaining about the ‘pain’ of being shot, Trailblazer (Delta 8) is screaming

• Smith met back up with Jack/Daniel
• Jack persuaded pilot system to follow smith’s car when both of these two collapse

• Justin explained his theory that the cars are people to a worried Smith
• Persuaded him to humour him
• Plan is to extract the black box from the car that we’ll give to the screaming barons

• Arrived at screaming barons
• They are having a party
• Helen is worried about the heat on these vehicles but Jack was able to persuade her to stick to the original deal
• Vlad attempts to find out what he can from the SB mechanics about the black boxes – Nina Hayes (Mechanic)

16/01/2076 (Thursday)

• Cars getting GPS stripped/plates changed by Nina [2hrs work]
• Jack’s partying with Barons and soy beer
• Daniel gets Nina’s number (invites her to Haematoma’s club some night for VIP treatment)
• Then gets stunned further by Vlad whilst trying to sleep off stun
• Vlad attempts to show/reason with Nina/Jack about the sentience of the vehicles
• Calls up Haematoma who explains why he wants it (to disassemble for tech and potential exploitation)
• Haematoma offers to sell the Epsilon 17 Universe for £60k (but Smith and Jack want their pay)
• Daniel comes back round an hour later (and reckons he is in with Nina)

• Vlad talks to Nina to clarify whether the pilot programmes will be portable to other devices (drones) with/without pilot functionality – as Nina was planning on ripping them out anyway
• Vlad now deciding whether to remove them or persuade Nina to keep them installed
• Vlad puts in a call to Haematoma to negotiate buying out the vehicle instead of passing it on, and negotiates to reduce the cost to 15k + costs for Smith/Jack, Haematoma drops it to £25k and notices Vlad’s unhealthy attachment to all 3 vehicles. Deal agreed and resolved
• Daniel parts words with Vlad and heads outside to talk to some Barons, where shades obscuring his forehead stun/burn damage will be less obvious in case it spoils his chances with Nina. Slinks off before dawn to pay his own way back to Haematoma
• Vlad drives his new cars x2 home plus a black box removed from the van