Game summary for October 29, 2019, Into The Shadows campaign, Shadowrun 5th Edition, for Phoenix Gaming Club. Session included: Ballyhoo (Human Augmenter played by Andrew Renfrow), Clutch (Human Transport Rigger played by Peyton Harmon), Hollywood (Human Combat Medic played by Chris Harmon), and Octane (Elf Razor played by Casey Scruggs). Game Master for this session was Charles Plemons.
The team watched their van for a short time and no one showed up looking for them. They climbed into Clutch’s other vehicle and found a place to lie low and sleep a bit. When they got up, they decided to meet with Agent Dietrich and hear him. They went to the Fort Lewis zoo and realized it had good security staffed by the UCAS military. Hollywood and Ballyhoo donned civilian clothes, and Ballyhoo used a Mask spell on himself. The two went in unarmed and locked the commlink up in a locker at the zoo and took the key with them.
The group met up with Seth Dietrich near the basilisk exhibit, but something was wrong. He seemed scared and was acting strange. Talking with him, he claimed to be someone named Jake Armitage, even though they had seen photos of Agent Dietrich. He asked them what year it was and acted as if he thought it was 2050. Seth/Jake continued to act strangely when suddenly a bullet tore through his throat, killing him! The bullet also shattered the glass of the basilisk exhibit, and the creatures broke free!
Ballyhoo began searching the man’s body while Hollywood tried to make it look like he was performing first aid and then signaling that the patient didn’t make it. Meanwhile, the basilisks tore into a zoo patron and began eating him. Ballyhoo and Hollywood took another commlink and numerous credsticks off the body before trying to get back to the lockers; however, an MP told them to evacuate the zoo. They filed out with the mob and met up with Clutch and Octane.
The group checked the credsticks and discovered 100,000 nuyen! The commlink was locked, and they decided not to mess with it without someone better skilled in the Matrix present. They decided to call Tauren from one of the commlinks they had previously used to call him. When they turned it on, they found a vidmail from a woman named Karen King from Ares Macrotechnology, Seattle office. She offered 225,000 nuyen for the commlink! The group then called Tauren and ended up speaking with Eliza Bloom, a representative of Project Freedom. She offered 80,000 nuyen for the commlink. While talking to her, the commlink rang again, and an Asian man offered 200,000 nuyen for the commlink. Minutes later, the commlink rang again, and chrome-eyed shadowrunner calling himself Zane offered 400,000 nuyen on behalf of his undisclosed employer.
Unsure what to do, the group turned off the commlink and began to discuss their options and future.
