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post Sep 13 2005, 01:08 PM
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It is yet another dreary day in the streets of Seattle. Dark clouds obscure the night sky and drench all who dare to step outside, sprawl ganger and high society socialite alike, with a downpour of ice cold rain.

It's been a little while since the team's last run and you have been out working the local shadow haunts trying to drum up a little business. You were able to find a couple of leads on jobs, but nothing definite and now you've got the munchies.

And we all know that when the pangs hit, there's only one place to go (especially when the sun rises in about an hour) to find yourself some chow. It's the place everyone loves to hate, Stuffer Shack.

As you arrive you are welcomed by the bright fluorescent glow that emanates from within. Looks like it is rather busy for this time of night with at least half a dozen cars and vans, a pair of bikes and an electro-scoot all sitting in the parking lot.

Just as everyone is about to head inside, one of them stops and seems to start talking to himself. It doesn't take much to realize that he just got an incoming call on his commlink, and from the look on his face it's apparent that it's not one he is particularly enjoying. Seeing the rest of group waiting for him, he waves them on inside. While he continues the conversation in private outside.
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post Sep 13 2005, 03:02 PM
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post Sep 13 2005, 07:43 PM
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post Sep 13 2005, 08:23 PM
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While everybody is fanning out to do their late-night/early-morning shopping. A thin japanese man with a bright red topknot and wearing a japanese-cut jacket walks through the door shouldering his way gruffly through the group and heading towards the automotive supplies at the front of the store. Oddly incongruous with his faux-samurai clothing, he has a long sack thrown over one shoulder.
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post Sep 13 2005, 08:32 PM
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post Sep 14 2005, 12:04 AM
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post Sep 14 2005, 05:10 AM
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post Sep 14 2005, 07:55 AM
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post Sep 14 2005, 08:59 AM
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As everybody is going about their business, the faux-samurai grabs something off the closest shelf and moves over to the cash register.
Putting the item on the counter, he begans to chat with her, flirtatiously. Then it happens.
Everyone can hear Wanda's (the cashier) blood curdling scream, and those of you within sight can see that SlicerDicer (the faux-samurai) has pulled a katana out of his sack and has it at her throat.
In the blink of an eye, the front door crashes open and three people rush in, all screaming at the top of their lungs. One of them, a human who looks like he'd weigh 46kg if 40kg of cement were attached to him, stops screaming and unloads his shotgun at the display behind the counter that contains the camera monitors. An electric buzz filters through the shocked silence in the store(even the obese woman, Mrs. Needles, stops yelling at her kid for a second-at least until she starts screaming). Catcher (the shotgun wielding ganger) shouts out "I am the King of the Sprawl and its time to collect taxes! Gimme everything you got, you drek-eating slime! And maybe I'll leave you with your pathetic lives."
All around the Stuffer Shack, other activity catches the attention of different runners in the team.
Tempty and Zelda see the woman (Zany) hop off the counter and pull out an HK 227 from behind her. In an instant, she changes from looking like a sex kitten to looking like a homicidal maniac.
Taku, who had just been passing the appliance aisle, sees the crazy guy pull a shotgun from under his coat and point it at him.
Surprising to all, the two real customers quickest to react are also the biggest. Rydell sees Mrs. Needles, screaming her head off and dragging her chubby kid along, push her cart down the aisle with speed and ferocity normally only seen in professional Urban Brawl players.
The other real customer to react first is the big Troll in the back. Tempty, Zelda, and even the ganger chic Zany, are shocked by the troll's squeal as he drops all the groceries he had so laboriously gathered up and rushes through the swinging doors into the stock area. Not the least oddity of this being that he seemed to be pulling down his pants as he went.
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post Sep 15 2005, 11:05 PM
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Seeing the shocking sight of the would-be Troll superhero threatening his Zany, Wiley shouts out "You're not going to touch a hair on Zany's lovely head." With great ceremony he closes his eyes and it is quite evident that he is putting forth great effort into something....
And suddenly, all who could see him notice the bulging leather pouch hanging from his belt. His disreputable, twig infested hair, could have just been poor grooming, but that bag with intricately carved wooden objects jutting out from beneath the flap, could mean only one thing.
This was one of the Awakened.
Looks like DarHar was in for some trouble. Just how much trouble is uncertain for now, but it becomes apparent very shortly. As Wiley opens his eyes with an evil grin on his face, a misty form fades into existence before him.
Wiley points to DarHar and says in a commanding voice "Kill the pink freak!"
With a distinctly wolfen edge to it, the mist begins to solidify into a ghastly beast.

When DarHar first stepped out of the stock area, SlicerDicer seemed well pleased, but as he could see Wiley concentrating, his smile slacken. "Dammit, I wanted that one. Now where am i to find a challenge."
Turning away from the terrified Wanda, SlicerDicer steps forward deftly wielding his katana about him in a show of his prowess. As he spots Rydell down the aisle to his right, he shouts "Kaia!!!"
Approaching Rydell he issues a challenge. "You there. Be you a coward or champion?"

The youngest of the confirmed gang members, Spike doesn't seem all that interested in the troll, Wiley's beast, or SlicerDicer's antics. Instead he turns his attention to the arcade area. With a smirk, he calls out to the girl "So who's got the high scores?" And he strolls over there out of anybody's sight.
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post Sep 16 2005, 04:14 AM
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post Sep 16 2005, 04:37 PM
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As SlicerDicer approaches Rydell, she is already formulating a clever plan to deal with the situation. To dissuade SlicerDicer from slicing into her with his katana, she begins to offer him the pack of cigarrettes she had so recently picked up.
Be it from her stance, the look on her face, or something else, she didn't even finish saying "Actually, I'm ambi...." before SlicerDicer decided she was coward and not up to a challenge.
In frustration, he slices through the offered pack of Lucky Strikes and on into a display filled with Zap-Corn and other snacks to go with the vids on this same asile.
Both SlicerDicer and Rydell are struck by flying kernels of uncooked popcorn. A minor irritant, but the abundance of kernels spell upon the floor may prove more troublesome.

Meanwhile, Tempty had remembered the old addage 'Geek the mage before any other.' Consequently, she was moving to a better position to shoot at Wiley.
As she steps down an aisle to get a bit of cover, she smoothly draws her weapon and fires at Wiley in a single fluid motion.
In a spray of brilliantly red blood, the bullet passes through his kneck. If it had just been a little bit to the right, she might just have dealt Wiley a deadly blow. Even as it was, Wiley was in a great deal of pain and losing much blood.
Tempty quickly followed with a second shot in Wiley's direction, but this time luck was on his side, as he was already in motion reacting to the first shot and it just so happened that the second bullet was aimed almost identically to the that one.
This time the bullet only nicked his earlobe, taking a small piece of it along the way.
Slightly dazed from the the wounds, Wiley was already looking around for a place to hide.

Too bad for Tempty, Zany actually does feel something for infatuated ganger friend. She had been moving to blow away the foolish looking troll that was oh so close to her, but, seeing Tempty wounding Wiley so grievously, she turned her smg towards Tempty's back.
A smile gleamed in her eyes as she saw the dwarf crouching in the same aisle as Tempty. With thoughts of something like Killing two birds with a shot she opens fire on both Tempty and Mr. Nick, the stores manager.

Catcher, the gang's leader, decides that he needs some protection from all the gunplay going on. Stepping forward a few feet, he places one hand on the countertop and vaults over it with at least some indication of skill.
He then grabs the terrified elf girl putting the muzzle of his shotgun to the base of her chin.
He shouts out "All of you mother-f@#$ers, drop your s$%# now. Or the B$#%& gets it in the head."
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post Sep 16 2005, 06:44 PM
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Zany's bullets fly towards Tempty and Mr. Nick.
Tempty's training and experience in the shadows served her well this day. Sensing the impending doom, Tempty silently prayed to Lady Luck to grace her with aid this eventful morning and the capricious Lady saw fit to give her that aid (though,with a bit of fun on the side).
Tempty dodged deeper into the aisle to use the shelves and their contents for a little bit of extra protection. And that is where the Lady Luck had her fun. The bullets tore through the flimsy shelves and the even less dense baked goods. The pastries Tempty was now standing next to exploded in a sugary spray of confections. The syrupy liquid filling an assortment of these previously delectable treats flew out covering Tempty's face and torse with a multicolored mess.

Mr. Nick was not so lucky. He was caught completely unawares by the bullets to his back. He was now bleeding profusely from greivous wounds and was having trouble breathing. In his limited experience, he absolutely knew he was dieing. His thoughts now turned away from protecting his store to simply taking out as many of these fraggers as he could. Now, if only I could get to my office before they finish me off. he thinks to himself.
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Zany's gunfire demonstrated to Rydell that is was time to put her plan into action, in hopes of limiting the collateral damage.
Rydell drew her pistol and level it at SlicerDicer while shouting, "Freeze! Lone Star P.D. I've already commed for backup, so let the girl go and put down your weapons or you're all a bunch a dead motherfraggers. Do it, now!"
The force of her words was so great that SlicerDicer couldn't help but take half a step back. Then he remembered something that gave him confidence enough to remain there, something that there was no way for this woman to know.
The steely-eyed stare Rydell made him doubt even thought, however. SlicerDicer glanced to his leader Catcher for guidance. Although Catcher didn't even say a word, SlicerDicer could see strong confidence on Catcher's face, along with a look that said he better not back down from Rydell or he would be in trouble.
SlicerDicer knew he would now have to kill this Lone Star officer to avoid retribution from Catcher. Too bad, she is kind of cute. he thought as he prepared to slice into her.

The gunfire had also knocked DarHar out of his shock of seeing the spirit beast manifest itself before him. He didn't know much about such creatures, but if even half of the stories were true, he didn't have much of a chance to harm it.
Unwilling to simply withdraw in the face of such a horror, Darhar snapped to action. He quickly drew his favored Slivergun and fired of two shots.
The first shot simply bounced off the creatures shoulder without any effect whatsoever.
Seeing the strength of this creature, Darhar didn't have much hope of the second shot being effective, but it was all he could do now. Somehow, he pulled from deep within himself the power to succeed with against such an adversary. The second volley of slivers to issue forth from his pistol crossed the empty space between the muzzle and the spirit in an instant. Tearing into the spirit's newly materialzied form. With a bit of luck and a well aimed shot, the slivers had found its vulnerable eyes.
As the spirit's face and eyes were being assualted by the attacking, it let loose a ferocious roar of pain and anger. A bloody red haze of rage filled its eyes, tunnelling its vision to the point where it could only see the rediculous troll who had caused it such pain.
Suspecting that he could not stand against the enraged beast toe-to-toe, DarHar took cover in the food kiosk, using the excuse of out flanking the gun toating Zany to justify it to himself.

Meanwhile, the terrified Mrs. Needles was reacting to Crosshairs. In her current state, she couldn't understand a word he said. All she could tell was that he was a stranger and then he pulled out two pistols in front of her.
Thinking that he was yet another ganger wanting to kill her, she shoved her cart with all her strength, letting go of her son's hand to better channel her weight and energy into sending the shopping cart like a massive missile in Crosshairs' direction.
Fortunately for Crosshairs, he had already moved on and dived to behind another aisle's endcap. The shopping cart violently crashed into the glass doors of the refrigerated section had been standing in from of.
Shards of glass flew out in all directions narrowly missing bot Crosshairs and Mrs. Needles. Aluminum cans and bottles of the various cold beverages contained within spilled from a broken shelf on to the floor. Not a few of them bursting open and spinning crazily across the floor as they sprayed their sticky contents everywhere.
Seeing the devastation she had just caused and fearing the unknown man with two guns, Mrs. Needles couldn't bring herself to continue in that direction. As the turned around to once again grap her son, the spirits roared issued forth and she could no longer cope with the situation. Her legs gave out from under her and she crumpled to the floor sobbing.

For Louis Needles, the whole situation had the exact opposite effect on him. As so many young kids are in the '70s, he was fascinated by the shadows and those who ran within them. He had watched many of the trids and sims dealing with shadowrunners and now it was like he was living in one. He couldn't contain his excitement.
Suspecting that Crosshairs was a shadowrunner that would foil the gangs nefarious goals, he ignored his mother's terrified form as he followed Crosshairs around the corner.
As soon as he stepped around the corner and saw Crosshairs he turned into the Spanish Inquisition in child form. "Hey, are you a Shadowrunner?...You're a shadowrunner right?....Come on, you've gotta be?...You ever kill anybody before?....You ever met a dragon?....How about a ghoul?...Ewww, how about a vampire?...You ever met one of those?........." The questions were nonstop and just kept coming, even while Louis was slipping and sliding on the floor with all of the busted cans.

Johnny can't believe what is going on. There is no fragging way minimum wage is worth this drek. I really really need to go back to school. I just can't handle this. After he had used his very limited mental capacity analyzing the situation, he decided that the best corse of action would be to play dead and he promptly dropped to the floor and stayed as still as possible.

Badly bleeding, Mr. Nick gets up from the floor after he had been knocked there by Zany's hail of bullets to his back. Thinking only of getting revenge, he makes a mad dash for his office and the shotgun he keeps there, using his diminutive size to keep to cover. Narrowly avoiding the pool of piss forming around the prone elf, he just barely makes it into his office thinking These fraggers are going to pay before I die.

Despite seeing the girl of his dreams grabbed up by the gang's leader, Timmy just couldn't find the courage to do anything. As he fell to the floor with hopes of going unnoticed or at least avoiding the bullets flying everywhichway, he was thinking I am such a coward, such a fragging coward. This could be it, my chance to do something for her. I could be her knight in shining armor like in all of those old flat-vids. But oh no, all I can do is just cower here in my own....oh no not that! How....how could I be this scared. Now there is no way I can get up or everybody would see. She would see just what kind of elf I am......
As he is thinking these things, a small pool of yellow liquid was spreading out from his midsection.

Wanda feebly tried to escape Catchers grip on her, but even she realized that he could kill her at any moment, with only the slightest effort. So she didn't tried to hard and failed to do anything more than piss him off some more.

That was when a scream could be heard throughout the store. "NOOOOOOOO!!! My friends, my precious friends! Who could do this? It was you wasn't it you bitch?"
The crazed, object loving, Static had just stepped around the corner of an aisle to discover the devastation surrounding Tempty following Zany's crazed barrage of submachinegun fire.
He levels his shotgun at her and pumps a new round into the chamber, forgetting that there was already one in there.
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Seeing his comrade in danger, Taku takes a beed on Statics right arm in hopes of damaging it to the point of being unuseable.
Taking his time to aim the shot, he fires a single shot from his Predator IV pistols. While, the shot did only minimal damage to Static's forearm, it did alot more damage to the surrounding area. The bullet ricocheted off the metal of the Mossberg shotgun, obliterating several boxes of MaxiBlast Sugar Bombs cereal before it bounced off the shelving unit and into the light fixture above. As the fixture fell to the floor sparks and shards from the flourescent tubes caressed Static face painfully, partially blinding him.
With screams of outrage (more from the distruction of the cereal boxes than anything else) Static turned and fired on Taku.

With nobody paying any attention to his demand for them to give up, Catcher pushes Wanda down to the floor and tosses a credstick down to her. "Put some nuyen on this credstick. Max it out. You hear?"
He then begins to scan the area for anybody stupid enough to poke their head out. Not even looking at Wanda he says "I'm watching you. So don't try anything stupid."
Where are these fraggers that are messing with my drekking plan? For some reason he fails to see Tempty among all of the destroyed baked goods.
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Taku defty avoided Static's shot, but he was able to avoid the acillary damage. Missing Taku the bullet obliterated two shelves behind him, getting egg on his face,well AlmostEgg, along with BacoSoy and assundry other breakfast products.
The breakfast foods now covered most of his face and torso. Trying to wipe it from his eyes, he realized that he was just making it worse. His thoughts turned to finding something to wipe it. Well....the towels are all the way up front. Hey, wait. Are those clothes I see behind the crazy guy? Yeah, those should do the trick.

Meanwhile, Louis Needles barely paused in his litany of questions as Crosshairs pulled him to some cover. He was already beginning to get up. His questions were already taking on new urgency as he took Crosshairs words and actions as confirmation that yes this man was a Shadowrunner.
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