I’ve been thinking a bit about the Mechanicals Street Cred issue in seeing off this attack…it occurs to me that Fre∑dom are likely to want the whole thing kept quiet as they’ve had enough of red flags being raised around them! They’ve already fled persecution twice! Yes, they will shortly get to hide amongst the Mechs but until then… The Balefire runner team may be requested to ‘clean up’ the mess. Their interaction with the PCs might be interesting…although I don’t want to end on too much of an anti-climax…and I especially don’t want to take away from PC actions. This may be something that gets addressed OoC…

Command has lost half his troops! Including 2 very valuable mages! He’s not going to be able to explain that! Equally though he has got a responsibility to the wounded to get them out (and can’t rely on their normal response for reasons I’ve hinted at…), so, expect to see DocWagon HTR teams en-route to pull their arses out of the fire. You’ll have some warning that they are coming, where else would they be going around here??? Ok, the storm will reduce the time to detect them and get clear… it is likely that they will abandon their position and climb on board the HTR vehicles…well, reasonably likely…

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A little disjointed, but this covers most of my thoughts on follow up events and Street Cred for the tribe(s).

There are non-tribe people at the soup kitchen/clinic that have been seeing some of the results.  Including Spindle being carried in unconscious.  Oyl could ask her street contacts to not publicize things, but they are still going to talk among themselves, and information is going to leak.  The street grapevine is quite efficient and fast.  It has to be for them to survive.  Oyl already asked a contact to find out where the Spined Drakes were working out of, so that connection to events is already on the street.  Oyl will not be the only one with contacts on the street.  So far, no one outside of Mechancials/Fre∑dom C&C and the Spined Drakes, should have any real knowledge of Command and the resource he brought in.  The street people do have a vested interest in not letting information out about the damage, if that would affect the availability of the soup kitchen.  They will want Oyl and the Mechanicals to be/look strong, so that the kitchen will continue to operate.

This has not been a quiet run from the perspective of Command and his squad.  Too many people are going to know that something went down, and the general result.  Including street people that are not part of either tribe.  The surviving Spined Drakes are going to know too.  The final? part of the action is also just over the hill from Underworld 93, where there were already bystanders from the previous bombing.  Sprogget and the team were there when they heard the explosion that opened the breach in the mall wall, before moving to investigate that.  Someone is going to know that Command lost some significant resources in the barrens, and about when.  The bombings and fire fights were noisy enough to also be known fairly widely.  Even if it were not true, the conspiracy theorists and speculators would connect those 2 events.

Balefire might be able to clean up much of the physical evidence, and a chunk in the matrix, but there are a lot of eyes on witnesses to various parts.  The street is going to know something happened, if not the details.  Suppressing the information, supported by the tribes, is likely to fuel rumours even more.  Jackpoint (and other) information is known to contain truth mixed with fiction of varying qualities.  Keep this out of the street/shadow news is all but impossible.  Putting spins on it is possible.

In general, there may be no hard proof, but the Shadow’s are going to know/suspect that a strong attack got kicked in the teeth.  The damage to the mall and bombings of the sensor infrastructure is not going to be invisible (at least not before morning).  Fre∑dom may be trying to hide, and not want to be associated with the events, but Mechanicals have lived here for a long time, and are known to be there.  This was in their back yard, and (included) hitting some of their resources.  With the physical damage and witnesses it is not practical/believable to deny it happened.  For their own protection they have to say as a minimum that 'someone' tried to get aggressive, and got smacked for their efforts.  To many predators ready to feast on anyone that looks weak.  They would generally be expected to strut some about kicking the aggressors out.  A bland 'nothing interesting happened', simply dismissing it as unimportant could be effective too, but trying to totally hide it is not going to fly.

The best option I can see to reduce external interest, is to turn the Spined Drakes into scape goats, and put it all on them.  They somewhere got additional (gang) soldiers and equipment, and tried to take back their old turf, but in the process stepped on the toes of the Mechanicals, and got trashed.  That is still going to impact the street cred for the tribe.  Those that know that Fre∑dom exists, at the mall, are going to at least suspect they were involved too.  The Spined Drakes know they were not alone.  They are going to need a reason to cooperate in that.  Possibly convince them they would look even weaker, if it becomes known that they AND Command got trashed, while they were being treated as cannon fodder and a distraction by Winter and Command.  If that is Ares equipment, Ares might add some pressure that direction, not wanting it generally known that one of their teams was working on the side.

Street Cred is about perception, not always what actually happened.  It is a lot about face.  Mechanicals are not going to want to downplay their success here.  They will only want to downplay how much it cost them.  They will not be advertising that it was an Ares team that they smacked, but they will want it known that those that attack them can expect similar.  My feel, is that they general prefer 'trade agreements', to maintain their position, being useful so that other groups do not want to 'kill the golden goose'.  They are not going to totally rely on that though.  Spindle / rat shaman, might prefer to run away from conflict, but the tribe is quite well established, and it is not practical to put all of that shop equipment in a pocket to move somewhere else.  For some, the equipment is the most important, much more than the housing and other possession.  Being known to be pushed out would only make somewhere else even less safe.

Oyl has the skills to understand strength and perception.  She is not going to let someone make the the tribe look weaker than it has to be.

To add on to what MG said, by the time the storm blows over there will be the more artistically inclined amongst the Mechs tagging their dominance on the surrounding area, street-corner performers producing impromptu raps/songs about it (and probably lying about their participation in it, natch), and the more tech-savvy amongst them blasting their slant on the dust-up all over the pirate nets. They may be a tribe, but there's going to be "gang-like" attributes to it as well. You simply cannot avoid that at this side of the income scale, it's a pure survival mechanism: "Yeah, you tried to come fuck with the low-lifes with your fancy shit, and we stomped you." translating to "We're tough, don't try and eat us again!"

At least, that's my take on it all.

Heal Spindle using Medical station
14d6.hits(5) → [6,4,1,6,4,6,4,4,6,6,2,4,4,4] = (5) 3 boxes healed
Spindle physical damage reduced from 5 to 2

Magical healing for Spindle
9d6.hits(5) → [2,5,6,6,1,3,1,5,4] = (4)
Spindle fully healed from physical damage.  2 Combat turns base - 2 from the extra hits.

Heal Sprogget using Medical station
14d6.hits(5) → [5,3,5,2,4,2,2,2,1,2,5,1,2,1] = (3) → 1 box healed
Sprogget physical damage reduced from 6 to 5

Magical healing for Sprogget; resist drain(3)
9d6.hits(5) → [1,5,1,1,4,3,4,2,6] = (2) → 2 boxes healed
11d6.hits(5) → [5,5,6,1,5,3,2,4,4,3,6] = (5) → resist versus 3 drain
Sprogget physical damage reduced from 5 to 3, drain easily handled

Stim wears off, Sprogget physical damage increases from 3 to 5, stun track full
Heal Sprogget using Medical station, after stim gone
14d6.hits(5) → [3,5,1,1,3,1,5,3,6,1,1,5,2,3] = (4) heal 2 boxes
Sprogget physical damage reduced from 5 to 3

General first aid rolls for treatments earlier this afternoon
16d6.hits(5) → [1,2,4,4,1,4,5,6,4,3,1,5,6,5,1,4] = (5) → 3 boxes healed (physical)
16d6.hits(5) → [4,1,3,5,2,5,3,6,6,6,6,1,6,2,4,5] = (8) → 6 boxes
16d6.hits(5) → [5,2,4,5,1,6,1,4,5,5,4,1,2,5,4,1] = (6) → 4 boxes
16d6.hits(5) → [6,2,6,1,6,4,3,5,6,5,1,6,1,4,4,4] = (7) → 5 boxes
16d6.hits(5) → [3,1,5,2,5,6,3,4,4,4,4,5,3,3,4,6] = (5) → 3 boxes
16d6.hits(5) → [4,6,5,2,5,1,3,3,5,2,4,6,5,2,1,6] = (7) → 5 boxes
16d6.hits(5) → [5,4,1,1,4,2,4,5,5,1,4,3,5,2,6,1] = (5) → 3 boxes
16d6.hits(5) → [5,3,3,5,4,1,5,4,5,4,6,1,1,3,3,5] = (6) → 4 boxes
16d6.hits(5) → [4,5,5,2,6,2,3,2,4,1,4,6,3,1,1,4] = (4) → 2 boxes
16d6.hits(5) → [4,3,6,3,2,3,5,5,6,5,4,2,1,6,3,4] = (6) → 4 boxes
Oyl has been doing pretty good patching up wounds, even without any teamwork assistants.

General Magical healing for patients at the clinic, with up to 4 boxes of physical damage
9d6.hits(5) → [6,1,2,4,5,5,1,2,1] = (3) physical boxes healed
9d6.hits(5) → [3,2,4,1,1,3,2,1,2] = (0) just going to have to rest to heal
9d6.hits(5) → [6,1,6,2,2,4,1,1,6] = (3)
9d6.hits(5) → [3,4,3,1,4,4,5,2,2] = (1)
9d6.hits(5) → [3,4,6,4,5,2,6,2,6] = (4)
9d6.hits(5) → [1,1,5,2,6,6,5,4,3] = (4)
9d6.hits(5) → [4,6,5,4,4,2,5,5,1] = (4)
9d6.hits(5) → [1,5,5,5,6,2,2,2,6] = (5)
9d6.hits(5) → [6,5,4,2,1,5,5,2,2] = (4)
9d6.hits(5) → [6,3,2,6,3,4,1,2,4] = (2)
Other than a couple, the Mana has been doing good healing too.  Cam could be stretched thin right now, but should not be too short staffed in the morning.

Once the simpler healing is done, Oyl moves on to those that (like Sprogget) have more physical damage that needs healing, where buying the hits for drain is not enough.  Here are some drain resist rolls to get a feel for how long she lasts, until she is risking physical damage, and being down longer than just over night.  Actual stun will vary, since the order of these healings will be prioritized by who needs it the most, who is needed the soonest, and when the wounds occurred.  These will all be against at least 5 physical damage, so at least 3 drain to resist.
Drain Resist:WIL(4)+INT(5)+Limited(2) vs (Starting damage boxes - 2)
11d6.hits(5) → [1,1,6,1,2,3,3,6,3,3,2] = (2) at least one stun
11d6.hits(5) → [1,1,2,2,5,1,5,4,5,2,3] = (3)
11d6.hits(5) → [5,2,4,2,1,6,3,1,6,4,1] = (3)
11d6.hits(5) → [6,5,5,4,5,4,6,1,4,6,4] = (6) drain? what drain? that is good enough to ignore healing someone with 8 boxes of physical, even after the med station and first aid.
11d6.hits(5) → [5,4,6,3,2,1,2,1,1,4,4] = (2) at least one stun
11d6.hits(5) → [3,3,1,5,4,4,6,3,5,4,3] = (3)
11d6.hits(5) → [4,4,1,5,6,2,2,6,3,4,6] = (4)
11d6.hits(5) → [4,4,3,3,1,6,4,3,3,1,2] = (1) at least two stun
11d6.hits(5) → [5,3,4,1,3,2,3,5,6,2,6] = (4)
11d6.hits(5) → [5,5,2,1,6,2,6,1,3,5,5] = (6)
Once she is tired enough that, despite the stim(6), the wound modifiers are decreasing her ability to heal effectively, she will quit for the night.  She can do more again in the morning, since she has 12 hours from the initial wounds to do the healing.  She is starting at 4 actual boxes from summoning the spirits, and can go as high as 8 without the stim wearing off knocking her out.  That is also about the limit for effective healing before modifiers cut in again.

Healing with Assensing AU123
Shiatsu(5)+Assensing(2)+Perceptive(2)+Enhanced Perception(2)
General Healing with Assensing
11d6.hits(5) → [6,2,2,2,4,3,4,6,4,6,4] = (3) extra dice for body tests for healing through rest
11d6.hits(5) → [2,5,3,5,2,2,2,5,3,3,5] = (4)
11d6.hits(5) → [2,2,3,1,4,5,2,6,4,6,5] = (4)
11d6.hits(5) → [4,6,1,1,2,5,4,3,5,1,4] = (3)
11d6.hits(5) → [6,6,5,5,5,5,5,6,6,4,1] = (9) (capped at 5 for skill rating)
11d6.hits(5) → [2,4,6,3,6,6,2,3,5,4,4] = (4)
11d6.hits(5) → [2,1,3,2,1,5,5,2,3,2,5] = (3)
11d6.hits(5) → [6,1,2,4,3,5,4,6,4,1,4] = (3)
11d6.hits(5) → [2,1,1,2,2,6,2,1,6,3,3] = (2)
11d6.hits(5) → [3,1,5,1,3,2,6,5,6,2,4] = (4)
Doing very good at getting extra dice for 'heal after rest' tests