Campaign Chapter 2- Prospero's Dream: Session 2 Into the Veins, Events Recap & XP Awards
Spoke with RAM man. Learned that Proxima “Foxima” Langerveldt is a BNW Corporation representative active on She tracked you using Deep Blue- BNW's Corp AI system. Ran your names, pulled up your files- took a good long look at all of your qualifications.
Ran a search; O’ Hara not much on you before you received your quals (some of them in suspiciously fast time) & started showing up on Union cards, just some old o2 debts;
Frank took a good long look at research on Io + all his degree specialisations.;
Elon performance evaluations, service records, a BNW Marine Core inquiry into an incident on the Azzuri & subsequent disciplinary action… she followed up another name too, a Lieutenant Edson Bridges, formerly Cadet Bridges.
No messages back to HQ on Deep Blue’s channels. No record of Proxima using any other off Dream signalling service. There’s no flags on your files. No credit freezes. RAM man is leaving a passive sleeper in their system to monitor any sudden changes.
Loose ends with RAM man: he tells Zake that half of hacking is having the right tools- and he can get you them, for a price. Offered to source Ripper II (brute force password cruncher), Icebreaker ++ (a meta-sploit security bypass) or the Snatcher (drive that rapidly copies a database + deletes the original if desired). Did you buy any? I forget. Purchased a Farraday bag to cloak your credsticks. Android head.
He’s offered to look deeper into Proxima for you- but she’s an EA & therefore at the same level of security as Execs- more risky more money.
Watched some news of the station feeds-
"Eight people dead in an alleged illegal sleeving lab incident."
"Hung-Lungs demand cancellation of all o2 debt or will commence bombing attacks on the station", this one caused a bit of an uproar.
Also tuned into devices with a bunch of cyber goth of teenagers engrossed in a streamers (a certain Bedi Ibedi) doco piece on "ACMD",
“No-one else is reporting this but we all know someone by now who has the chrome-cough or just can’t get out of bed anymore. So I give tu da sasa tenyleges, you audi no ji ral from me- are you know who really tainting the water to make us easier to control? Is the Choke really riddled with it? Was it engineered to clean it out, killemall? Black magic from the Unseen Suns? Did haulers bring it back? It’s a story I went all the way to the Choke to break and what I saw will rock you”.
Visited various pawn shops to purchase weapons + ammo. The final one being some sort of fence operating under the counter of a Dockside convenience store (an 8-12 ™) by a chick named Maude. Provided with some additional hazmats & scanners (bio + cybernetic diagnostic) by seemingly deep pockets of Hung Lungs.
Ventured into the Veins- haphazard pathways using the vents, sewers & maintenance tunnels/life support apparatus of the Dream. It seems labyrinthine in there- mix of squeezes, levels & industrial spaces.
- Passed a living radiation filter cistern (moss). Frank waded right in and took a sellable sized sample.
- Found a pulsating giant nutsack looking organic growth- chose not to mess with it.
- Came across Android Graveyard- vast junkyard type waste-chamber (except much of the “junk” is human looking limbs &, well their junk) with automatons doing strange things with neural drives & vehicle AIs. Used drone to figure a way through & avoid the automatons within (spotted dejectedly trying on a 4th arm for size).
Arrived in The Choke, Doptown to be exact- The Choke being the whole area this side of the airlock, Doptown being the main population centre down there. Rundown ghetto estates & empty retail ruined city vibes.
O’Hara knows those empty looking buildings often house multitudes, all lying as still as possible trying to eke out their oxygen until they get another transfer/ lottery number comes up/need to search for food/work or just slowly expire when they give up hope...
The Jockey began guiding you toward The Auction to make the transfer (you’ll look a bit less out of place there- other airsiders do business there) & from there to The Lottery, where he hopes there’ll be people in a good mood & some leads on Dr Bakali for you.
Ran into a firefight in the blocks there- two Hung Lung snipers firing on the survivors of a Tempest Corp marine squad. Crew decided to get involved, coming in around behind the marines – ended up killing two and capturing one (? correct). End scene.
O2 used= half a tank.
Survive: 5xp each for surviving session.
Solve: nothing major
Save:argument can made saved 2 Hung Lung snipers at Jockey’s urging. 2xp each.
Suit:
The Jockey began guiding you toward The Auction to make the transfer (you’ll look a bit less out of place there- other airsiders do business there) & from there to The Lottery, where he hopes there’ll be people in a good mood & some leads on Dr Bakali for you.
Ran into a firefight in the blocks there- two Hung Lung snipers firing on the survivors of a Tempest Corp marine squad. Crew decided to get involved, coming in around behind the marines – ended up killing two and capturing one (? correct). End scene.
O2 used= half a tank.
XP Awards
Survive: 5xp each for surviving session.
Solve: nothing major
Save:argument can made saved 2 Hung Lung snipers at Jockey’s urging. 2xp each.
Suit:
- Zake- did some in the field sciencing, gathering samples of valuable specimens, slowed fans down by accessing system, 2 XP Zake.
- Takeshi set up ambush of Tempest Co squad, 1 XP Elon.
- O’Hara got to demonstrate his rimwise knowledge of The Choke, 1 XP Kaufusi.
