Game summary for January 21, 2020, 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), Dell (Human Technomancer played by Shane Bradley), Hollywood (Human Combat Medic played by Chris Harmon), and Octane (Elf Razor played by Casey Scruggs). Game Master for this session was Charles Plemons.
Dell and Hollywood worked hard to provide triage and first aid to members of Kaur’s Farm. Meanwhile, Clutch rallied some of the tech-savvy of the people and began tearing into the generator with aplomb, discovering it would take several hours of work. The group got more information from Singh and Donnie and decided to go south to investigate a squatter settlement that no one had heard from in a week. The team drove a rust bucket pick-up truck down there and found a scene of horror. Dead animals were everywhere, and the camp was filled with dead people.
The group used a forensics kit provided by Donnie Hua to investigate and spent about three hours gathering information. They learned the people died from a combination of animal and human/metahuman injuries. Oddly, only the bodies of males and women over 50 were found among the dead. Several bodies were obviously missing as well. Around the camp, they discovered bait stations that would draw in predatory animals close to the settlement. They also found mountain bike tracks all around. Hollywood made the horrific discovery that the bodies had been partially eaten by human-like bites, but pains had been taken to cover up this fact by mutilating the bodies.
They returned to Kaur’s Farm to report their findings. In the meantime, Clutch had fixed the generator. Dell was able to discover some bait stations around the farm as well, and they matched those at the settlement.
The group went north to the microbrewery to investigate the scene where the first body that had drawn Hua out here had been found. There they discovered several more bodies and pieced together more clues. Several key pieces of evidence pointed to a Gabriel hound as being the culprit, but some of the facts did not add up. Ballyhoo was able to sense that some sort of spirit had been involved, and its residual aura did not match the magic he had sensed on the corpses of the dead animals back at the farm. The group also found that one of the sprawl gangers had unloaded a magazine into “something” that flattened the rounds. Perplexed, the team got back into their truck to return to the farm.
