S02E04

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Season 2, Episode 4
Instinct

Staring	Rook, Shiranui, Tak, Zosimos
With
And
Introducing	MAJ Adrianne Toller
Previous Episode	S02E03 – Status Verification Pending
Next Episode	S02E05 – Quarterly Report Metrics

Session 1 - 2024/10/31

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Scene 1
Animal Magnetism

Who	Rook, Shiranui, Tak, Zosimos
When	Sunday, December 7, 2059 (Day -11)
Where	Woodland Park Zoo, Downtown, Seattle Metroplex, UCAS

Rook is called on his personal commlink by his major, asks if he'd be willing to do some work with his non-orthogonal assets. Gist of the message for the contract is to meet at Downtown zoo. Zoo is outdoors, so walking around with an assault rifle or something is a problem but a legally registered weapon is fine overall. Geotag is specifically is not densely populated area, least popular area in the zoo, the insect house.

Johnson is casually dressed, no obvious cyberware,

Johnson is standard Johnson vibe, arrogance, he is better than us, bunch of headware and bit of bodyware, all cyber. Based off essence, he is probably 2 wired reflexes. Tak, when the Johnson mentions he represents the family of the victim of paranormal animal attacks. There has been a rash of paranormal critter attacks across town. The family wants to find the person responsible and see that they are punished. Information librated from Lonestar, not from public, some leads Star is not willing to or able to follow up on. They want us to turn these stones and look into leads. Prevent best hope of who is behind the attacks, solid piece of info is. Understanding we start with first task, and when info for second is available we will start second. 50k Nuyen, 20% up front. Discover perp, we can get incentives, blemishes on records, provided with new documentation, or enhancements to our chrome.

Lonestar has a Shadowrunner budget, if something can not be handled in house they can use budget. The department itself may not care overall, though some officers may. The Johnson can offer, 20k in goods.

Solid lead is that on first night of attacks, several people were killed by walking into traffic. All at same intersection. Last night, same intersection a car caused a 6 car pile up when ran into light pole. From Witnesses and survivors Lonestar thinks that there is an Incubus responsible. There is also close to ork underground and they did not want to deal with that. He wants to Incubus, convinced that something is using them and wants to know what. Incubus was used at least twice, once for people and once for car crash. He would prefer alive, but can take dead as long as not in bad shape. Johnson's data tablet has false work orders, maps of the sewers and behavioral information on Incubi along with number to reach him and a Shiawase Environtech team. Any other critters acting oddly also try to capture.

Brief bit of information on second task, doctor's reports from Hollywood Hospital Redmond, related to paranormal dog packs. Might be connected.

At the Sewers We show up at the scene, two of the techs are talking some various terms. We are given two boxes, squirt guns with tranqs and when it is napping drag it back here. We also get jump suits, antidote patches.

Session 2 - 2024/11/07

Continuing down sewer group runs into a group of "humanoid" creatures, (Troglodytes). They scream and charge at us. Troglodytes are basically awakened Chimpanzees, see in dark, magical concealment, much like chimps there is standing question if they are sapient.

We run into the Incubus, it used its abilities and Tak ended up shooting Zos with the squirtgun. Rook ends up taking it down with Stick and shock. We then get attacked by a giant sewer crocodiles. We take the alive Afanc (Croc), and the Incubus, Shiranui notices it is an awakened gator and has cyberware, which is weird. It is tagged, it has a plastic band around one of its arms. Two barcodes are on it. City will give 3000 for the gator.

Johnson when we contact him sends us Geotag, it will send us to Redmond for next part of our mission. We also call in Dr. Durand and she is even in downtown to help. Shiranui also does matrix search for code that was on Croc, took 30 minutes about, a shipping code used by Parashield, a critter specialized company. There is tracking information that is part of the code. From Parashield to Parashield, Dock facility in Tacoma that in theory were it was supposed to go. The Johnson gives us more info on the Dog situation, not maybe useful info. Hellhound, maybe a Barghest, a dog that bursts into flames that does not burn and a black dog with Antlers. Dog sized dragons, snakes with Dog heads, dogs with snake heads, other weird stuff.

Session 3 - 2024/11/14

Matrix Perception Roll:

Yes Silent and many.

Some Mitsuhama but nothing weird

No Clusters of Corporate Sins

There is an Aztalan Sin is the area

No drones that strand out in the area

4 Hits to make Zos look like a Hobo.

Ork squatter watching Zos, he seems friendly though and points out that Zos' jacket is a bit nice.

Assensing Hellhound:

Healthy, Non Emotions, No Cyberware, magical effect on it not on it, No ware, there is a magic signature from a Spirit.

Dogs attack the Hobo, one jumps infront of Rook's bullet for the Hellhound. The Ork, when Zos assenses the Hellhound, drops its disguise and turns out to be a Gabriel Hound and rushes at Zos.

Grabedb Zos in the Comet,

We noticed something off about the Manticore and there seemed to be other weird things going on with it.

Total Count is 13 dead, so 13000 Nuyen. Rouhgly half the critters are tattooed or branded. Parashield, Fort Lewis Zoo and Blackstone Zoo.

Blackstone Zoo reported missing animals, though was a couple weeks ago. The animals in question were on loan to Fort Lewis Zoo but they never got there.

Session 4 - 2024/11/21

Group arrives at Zoo, going in under various fake IDs. Inside Zos sees a magic bird, there is a few of them, Merlin Hawks, he knows a good bit about them. In Monkey area Zos notices something, Shiranui notices something noticing Zos. It is a goggled older man. He is ranting about how the attacks are not normal, animals are more afraid of us then them. He then says he is sick of it and Tak notices all the monkeys looking at Zos. I knew people would come, I was going to destroy this filthy city and give you a chance but now is the time.

Tak with 4 shots, a single shot and a 3 round burst drops the Wyvern.

Session 5 - 2024/12/05

Rook gets downed by a Griffon and the doctor runs off. Various other animals have been freed and are killing SINners. Tak convinced a Hippogriff to leave with a good shot. Rook after the fight is brought up by Shiranui.

We catch up to the Doctor, "Beautiful and noble creatures will take over Earth, blah blah animal focused rant replacing humanity." Fighting him a Juvenile Juggernaut comes from further out, crushes the doctor and keeps moving towards us.

After subduing the Juggernaut, Rook is grabbed and they run towards the exit but are met by large amount of police and even military personnel. Our Johnson makes his way through the crowd, tells officers we are not the perps and that we are not the perps.

Rook will be in hospital for a few days, Dr.Disbal has a journal that showed he was becoming a toxic shaman, our group is put as the heroes who saved the Zoo. Zos knows it is bullshit,

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