Conner: Human Tank
Vic the Cabbie: SINer Human Gunman with Mob Connections and wicked looking pistols
Craig the Pixie Mage: Flying magical support in a bad pinstripe suit.
Keyune: The Bio-Ninja Wanna-Be
So, the group has gotten fairly well into the overriding storyline for finding the source of "$Diety", along with numerous other NPC teams and Mr. Johnson himself. But, it was time to let the heat die down a bit, so out of town everyone goes, on working vacations. (Well, Mr. Johnson gets a vacation-vacation, as he goes hunting buffalo. "Will this be like your fishing trip recently? With Depth Charges? Or are you going to use something that isn't a WMD!" "Nah, just my Elephant Rifle."). The wonderous Mr. Johnson providing a Hacker for the job.
Conner, Vic the Cabbie, and Craig are given "Burner SINs", temporary SINs that will get them through Customs with no issues. Vic decides to use his own SIN, and promptly gets grabbed for a "Random Questioning" when he walks in with his kick-ass pistols, and no luggage. After questioning (And bad Con rolls on his part, and worse rolls on mine!), drug tests, blood tests, urine tests, stool tests, and a full-body cavity search by Bertha the Troll, he's cleared for the flight. Conner and Craig use the Burner SINs, and find out they have diplomatic immunity and are just waved through with little hassle. (Conner also brough luggage and no weapons. Craig is still looking for a gun in his size.).
They got to LA, where they had more customs issues (Conner gets nailed by a truth drug when he "Waves the right to have the CAS Investigation team interogate him", and Craig gets a tracking anklet on him, and Vic the Cabbie got his fancy guns have tracking chips placed on them, set to call 911 if they're ever fired.), and meet up with another Mr. Johnson (An Ork, who is a contact of Doctor McCoy, whose player could not make it to the game and made me lose out on lots of RPGing things, and who I will mercilessly torture in a Solo Game later!). Where he proudly proclaims, "You're going to DISNEYLAND! And I want you to extract Goofy."
It's about this time that Keyune shows up. With the people responcible for $Diety particularily looking for him, he got smuggled in a T-Bird run, where he enjoyed being in a box while evasive manouvers were performed and shots were fired without any explaination. Needless to say, he failed his rolls to prevent getting motion sick and worried.
So, details are given. "Goofy" is actually a world-renowned Roboticist that likes kids, and had put into his contract that he gets to dress up in costume and entertain them.
They're given carte-blache for gear aquirement from the "Prop Department". Vic has the Prop Department remove the tracking chips. And Craig the Pixie is ignored heavily, as he is small and annoying (And everyone else spoke over his player.). They have two weeks in the Magic Kingdom to find and extract the right Goofy. What isn't explained to them is that their pay is going to be based on the footage they get. Welcome to the "Shadows" of LA!
After a few negotiations about gear (And getting the Land Rover version of the Tata Hotspur, loaded with Jammers and RFID Tag Erasers), they took a quick cab trip to Disneyland. Got to their hotel rooms, and met the Hacker who was there virtually, Speeder! The planning session goes down, with Speeder getting distracted by various portions of Virtual Disneyland, and having her feelings hurt by Vic the Cabbie. And speaking slowly only once when Keyune insults her very, very badly.
She demands apologies before she'll continue working, but Conner fixes things nicely.
So, Speeder finds the right Goofy, and the plan is put into action at the end of the week.
Watching for when the garbage is collected (Under the guise of sitting on park benches), they get the "Props Department" to send a bunch of Flash-Bang Grenades with timer detonators (Which are disguised as Q-Cola cans. "Q-Cola, the Feathered Dragon's Choice!") to create a distraction. They also aquire a pair of the "Rapid Responce Team" armour and weapons (with helmets that have Mickey Mouse Ears. The RRT is nicknamed the "Mouseketeers".). Finally, Craig the Pixie gets a High-Def Trid Camera, a bad Hawai'ian shirt, and flipflops in his size.
The Vic, Conner, and Keyune put the cans into the garbage cans after collection, then split off, Vic the Cabbie going to the Off-Roader and starts handling all the camera feeds, with Conner and Keyune dressing up as Mouseketeers. Craig distracts "Goofy" by asking him to pose for the camera.
"OK guys, let's kidnap a cartoon!" - Vic the Cabbie.
*BANG* Panic everywhere, and the "Mouseketeers" come to "Secure" the good Doctor "Goofy" and start directing him towards the exit. One of the "Officer Friendly" security officers notice them taking him AWAY from the security shelters, and demands they stop. Craig Stunbolts him nicely down. Fortunetly, the Watcher Spirits in the area don't notice the spell in all the confusion of emotions going on.
Getting to the entrance, Doctor Goofy starts realizing that things aren't going right, and just begins to panic when Keyune "deals" with the situation as only a bio-ninja can. With a right-hook.
Speeder sent an order to the gate guards to support the evacuation, and all but two went. They spotted the cartoon character and two "Mouseketeers" running against the stream, and hunkered down behind the concrete gates to meet the group with Gel Rounds. Craig magiced one into the other with a spell (Again, watchers heavily distracted. Stupid watchers!), Conner ran ahead of Keyune as they started getting up, and sandwiched them into the wall with his full weight, dropping them nicely.
Run into the Off-Road Vehicle and off they go!
Unfortunetly, there was a scanner on the gates that detected the doctor, and sent a direct message to a Garage. The troopers there ran out like a bunch of fighter pilots on a magnum launch, and they jumped into the Disney Interceptors, Armoured Jaguar Sports Cars with Concealed Ares MP-LMGs.
First came the persuit through the huge parking lot with cars zipping everywhere and panicing people causing a obstacle course for the persuit. Vic the Cabbie drives as he was taught by the Aladdin's Cab Company back in Seattle, weaving in and out of traffic and people, and over one small child (Good thing they got an off-road vehicle with clearance!). The persuing Jaguars do mostly OK, save for the last driver who hits three kids, and two subcompacts. And takes itself out of the chase.
Finally, on the freeway, the persuit goes into high-speed! Keyune putting together his new Anti-Material Sniper Rifle (NOT easy breakdown!). Craig getting his magical powers ready, Conner grabs one of Vic's guns (Which aren't loaded with Gel Rounds), and Vic the Cabbie driving... Well, like a Cab Driver.
The first car, driving like a professional, gets into shooting position, and reveals the LMG. Vic's keen eyes and keener camera sees the weapon, and calls out for someone to do something. Craig replies as only a Pixie Mage can. FIREBALL!
With some amazing rolling, he creates a massive fireball centred on the gun, setting off the Explosive rounds in the belt, and splintering the radiator outwards, dropping the engine to the ground. The car comes to a grinding halt.
Car two comes up, deploys it's gun as well, but can get the shot off before anyone can do anything. Tracers lance out slamming into the back of the Off-Roader, shredding the rear of the vehicle, blasting out the armoured safety glass, and ripping the hell out of the body. Conner takes careful aim, and shoots once, spidering the windshield of the car. Keyune finally gets his Rifle ready, and puts around round into the windshield, making a fair-sized hole. Large enough that Craig can see inside and get a Fireball inside the car. A huge jet of flame comes out of the half-inch hole, and the passenger side door flies open, and a flaming body drops out of the car. The driver, having figured that it's worth getting what's left of the car back to the garage to save what he can pulls a bootlegger turn to get away.
Keyune takes one more shot at the rear of the Jaguar, hitting the rear differential, locking it up and flipping the car onto it's roof. Craig launched one more fireball at the Mickey Mouse Police and causes the gas tank to brew-up nicely, the incendiary effect exploding upwards as it usually does in the movies.
Vic contacts Mr. Johnson to find out where to go, as the shredded vehicle is certainly noticeable on a highway like this, and they are directed towards a subburb where I get to do my Pulp Fiction impersonation. (Guess which scene.).
The group relaxes for a bit in the place, drinks the guys coffee (*NOT* SoyCaff!), when he finally realizes, "HEY! Goofy is still transmitting!"
My group has a tendency of forgetting things like the Wireless Matrix for tracking chips.
They start to make plans for a get-away when they hear sirens out front, and see three more Jaguars out front, with real Mouseketeers pointing Ares Alpha's at the house, and launching Tear Gas into the building.
"The Mouseketeers are going ot SWAT Team the House?" - Vic the Cabbie.
Craig tosses the canisters back magically.
Keyune does the Bio-Ninja thing (FINALLY!) and sneaks out to get the RFID Tag Eraser, and sees a fourth car waiting out back.
By the time he gets back, the group finds out what the Mouseketeers were waiting for. The lawn lifts itself up and starts moving towards the house. Earth Elemental. Craig calls in a service from his Spirit of Man, to delay the Elemental, and the group assaults the two Mouseketeers at the back.
Keyune running ahead, jumping the fence, taking three shots to the chest without flinching, leaps up on top of the car, and slashes with his twin Katanas, then reverses them and impales both Mouseketeers, causing them to start slowly bleed out. They get in the Jaguar (Tight with all those people, even if one is a Pixie), find out that it's not transmitting, and get it started by using the thumb of one of the Mouseketeers before he died. (After finding out that a severed hand won't work.).
After some time with the Tag Eraser, they finally clean up Goofy so he's no longer a danger, and drive off into the sunset.
Mr. Johnson gives them another safehouse, this time a stereotypically seedy warehouse (on a movie lot, no less!), and wait out the heat while eating with the extras on the set.
Goofy is picked up, and the group gets a lot of Karma and Cash for some kick-ass footage!