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Old 10-22-2015, 07:59 PM   #38
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Default Re: Campaign: Facets

Session 11 of Facets took place last Sunday. It was another short-ish session, but one packed with events. G&AInc had a busy night at work, so he came in late, and Rebecca had an important social obligation and couldn't make it, this time.

Characters Present:


Trooper Frank Moses -- A former Marine currently working as a trooper with the Utah Highway Patrol (UHP), based out of the Section 13 office in Moab, under Lt. Lee Exeter. Moses works with 4CSAR as needed, and has an interest in Doc Bascher. This character wholly replaces Deputy Diego Torres, by retcon. -- Played by Mike H.

Dr. Henrietta "Indiana" Johnson -- A personable, age 29-and-holding Anthropologist who specializes in the pre-Columbian indigenous people of the American Desert Southwest. A Native of Apache Junction, AZ, "Indiana" is good with people and has been fascinated by American Indian religion and folklore since she was a child. Henrietta speaks Apache fluently, and not-so-secretly wishes archaeology could be more like Raiders of the Lost Ark and less like digging in a trench with a trowel and a toothbrush -- Played by Debbie S.

Randy "Random" Shoop -- a twenty-something, semi-pro mountain-bike competitor who has trouble staying focused, but is basically a good and reliable member of the team -- Played by Gold & Appel, Inc.

Dr. Belody "Doc" Bascher -- a local veterinarian for both large and small animals, who frequently fixates on her job and uses 4CSAR as her primary social outlet. -- Normally played by Samantha H.

Dr. Arthur "A.J." Jamison -- a retired NASA scientist with a home in one of Moab's nicer canyon sub-developments, who volunteers for 4CSAR because he needs to do something to get out of the house. Considers himself responsible for Sunmi Jones, who is enough of a science-geek that the two of them can actually hold a conversation. -- Played by Anten S.

Sunmi Jones -- A Korean-American prodigy and student of chemistry at Utah Valley University, who spent most of her childhood with her deceased mother's family in Korea, but has come to Utah to attend college and work with her father's petroleum exploration firm. Somewhat moe, awkward-but-cute, glasses-wearing nerd girl, who only volunteers with 4CSAR because volunteer work is required for her degree. -- Played by Rebecca W., who missed this session, so her character didn't do much.

Beatrice "B" Lawrence -- U.S. Army veteran who works for a local air charter service as a helicopter mechanic. A cynic about men, and accompanied by "Grunt," the biggest, best-trained pit-bull anybody has ever seen (purchased as an ally, and a totally badass dog, even before it was possessed by what appears to be a benign spirit) -- played by Bernetta W.

Aurelia R. Lockrin -- A young woman with a shady past who teaches History at Grand County High School (Home of the Red Devils!), and volunteers for 4CSAR because she's a bit of an adrenalin junkie, and likes the companionship. -- played by Bennie Rae P.

NPCs Present

Grunt: Beatrice's ally, a large pit-bull possessed by a protective "foo" spirit.

Hops About: A nunnupi (one of the "Little People" from Comanche folklore) who frequently takes the form of a quadruple-sized magpie. The party has determined that she is a faerie, and as such is mischievous, rather random, inhuman and appallingly dangerous. Likes ants, ham sandwiches and Looney Tunes.

Twirls Thrice: Another nunnupi, and the sister of Hops About. More laconic and observant than her rather hyperactive sister, but at least as dangerous in her own way. Likes ants, ham sandwiches, and particularly Bugs Bunny.

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Following last session's firefight and subsequent interrogation of the biker lieutenant in charge, as well as the hook baited with the falsely-reported capture of the putative "Olivia McShane," the members of the group figured they had until dawn to complete preparations for the arrival of the leader of the Angels of Purity. It's about a six-to-eight-hour drive from Albuquerque to Denver, for those in enough of a hurry, especially if they bent the speed laws, a bit.

Fortunately, the night was still fairly young and Denver a large enough metropolitan area that some important resources remained available. Doc Bascher did yeoman's work to stabilize the critically wounded, and then Sunmi loaded them in one of their trucks and headed toward St. Anthony Hospital up in Lakewood. Her job was to drop the truck in a lot close to the hospital, walk away, call in the location and then wait in an all-night restaurant for someone to come and get her.

Meanwhile, Frank and Henrietta headed to big-box home-improvement places and stopped at the sporting goods section of a Wal-Mart, and came back with plenty of 12-guage shotgun shells, plastic tubing, nails, gasoline, styrofoam coolers, anodized aluminum cookie sheets, batteries, kitchen timers and miscellenous small electric parts.

While away, Arthur laptap pinged him, and he noted that the bug planted on their vehicle indicated the approach of the two supremacist bikers who had apparently been watching Melissa Brown. The truck came all the way up to the house, where the party jumped the two Angels of Purity bikers. Doc Bascher shot one in the buttocks with a tranquilizer dart gun ("WTF?!"), the other surrendered, even though Arthur dropped his crossbow (crit fail).

The surprise had been total, and the guy had gotten out of the truck with a milk shake in one hand and a bit MacDonald's bag in the other. The group zip-tied them both, and then took them down to the basement, where Doc Bascher tranquilized the ambulatory guy, too. Randy, who was napping on the second floor, wasn't needed (also, G&AInc hadn't shown up yet, anyway...).

Once they returned, Arthur, Beatrice, Aurelia and Frank got busy in the garage of the skinhead's house, which had all the tools needed to build and maintain a functioning meth lab. By the time the sky had started to pale in the east, they'd completed some "toe-popper" shotgun shell traps, three large napalm canisters and pipe-bombs -- the last two with fairly functional radio detonators.

Arthur put up a web of surveillance cameras not only along the long driveway leading in from the public highway, but also around the entire perimeter. Nobody would be able to creep up by surprise and flank the group.

(Arthur and Beatrice have engineering and mechanical skills, including electronics and explosives, while Aurelia revealed yet more of her shady background by helping to rig lethal traps. Frank's military background also proved quite useful. It helped that nobody really wanted to try anything fancy -- they just wanted simple devices that provided a reliable video feed, or went *boom*...).

Just before dawn, Beatrice peeled back some of the shingles and cut a hole in the roof of the house, on the slope opposite the front of the house so it couldn't be seen. She wanted a quick escape route, as she planned to put herself below the crest with the .30-06. They decided they'd pick up Sunmi when the shooting was over, and then everyone took short naps in shifts.


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