Alright, where was I? Oh yeah, contact stuff....
Paladin's contacts - The stuff on the syringe we found at the rave site with our possible body that was hung from the rafters is a neuro-toxin, guaranteed to knock out even the most stubborn of elephants. Our body was found floating face down in the Tacoma river, with a puncture wound over his heart and stuffed full of this toxin. Samples on the syringe verify that one Brian Metuzack was killed with it.
Poor Brian had some bad friends he participated in a weekly "study group" with, one of them being a man of average height with blonde hair. Parents are fairly solid corps with Transys Neuronet. A matchbook in the boys room pointed us towards the Body Bag, a local club popular with the S&M scene, run by Madam Yin, an ex-S&M sim-sense starlett.
Bakatare's stuff - I'm including the information we're assuming when we translated the divining stuff Sosufu gave us:
I am the vessel. That which holds the poison.
The syringeI am the blade poised over the throats of the innocent.
The nomad spirt Others wield me to revenge themselves.
"Adam" and his cronies.Tooth and claw battle. The servants of those long asleep move across the board.
There be dragons here! The Hungry has a name now and can be shaped.
True name of the nomad?I was the lense. I was used to bind the others that followed.
Nomad used to focus the spell. The servants of stone serpent have mastered the tide that follows in my wake.
Custom spell designed to drive everyone crazy "The once former Prince has reached out, his hands stained with blood of years past.
Lofwyr, we believe, having just lost his position on the Council, possibly due to Hestaby's interference. The weight of the years, the war is eternal. The sleepers have risen again!
Again, referring to the dragons, we believe[b]Moira -
Moira's contact identified the remains we found at the site as Advesary shaman-type ritualistic materials, and that if there was a group of them, they're being reigned in by a very strong willed individual.
After compiling all our info from the various contacts, we retired to
Iblis's for a break and some food. Next stop, the S&M Club!
At the Body Bag we did some initial recon and settled in to watch those of the "alternative lifestyle" march in. One figure in particular caught our eye coming out of a limo, turned out to be our "Adam"
Our friend Brian's mysterious friend with an high-grade phys-ad melee specialist as his sub "accessory". We also caught sight of Madam Yin, proprietess of this location. We ran recon all night, and when the party let out, caught a snippet of information about a party they were planning, probably here at the bar, for Adam. We also learned that Madam Yin doesn't like Adam any more then we do.
We trailed Adam back to his house, surveying both highly secure magical and mundane defenses, and we managed to convince
Paladin and
Immortal to give us a little time to follow up on our leads before we tried to jump someone and Mind probe them
Upon arriving at the house, we realized something was not right. The door had been rigged open, and we deployed around the house at that moment. There was a brief scuffle with some very well and very uniformly outfitted people. I think the exact quote from the GM was, "These men scream professional" and "most runners wouldn't have identical gear." We put them down, found a nasty surprise left in the house, and found out that these guys really took losing hard. Some sort of implant, killed them all when we took them.
Headed for our new luxurious accomadations in a boiler room in the Orc Underground, we met up with a new team member,
Blaze.
Again, more with the more later...