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Game summary for February 25, 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), 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 moved further into the greenhouse and were attacked by a ravenous wendigo and two more neo-tribals!  The scout hit Octane with an incredibly accurate shot and hurt him pretty badly.  The warrior blasted away with his AK-97 to little effect while the wendigo hurled a stunball amongst the team, nearly knocking Hollywood unconscious!  Clutch put his drone to good use spraying hails of bullets into the fray.  Ballyhoo hurled acid spells with good effect while Octane fell back and drew his machine pistol. 

The team gunned down the neo-tribals, and Hollywood ran up to one of the bushes closer to the frontlines.  With a target in range, the wendigo charged!  It tried to bite him and rendered him unconscious in its arms.  The group began focuses fire upon it, and the lead rounds began reacting with its natural allergy to ferrous metals.  It screamed and struggled and was unable to escape before the group was able to slay it. 

The party explored the greenhouse and found the survivors of the squatter camp caged in pens.  Much to their horror, they realized the survivors were being used as a food source for the wendigo and perhaps the neo-tribals as well!  They quickly released the prisoners and escorted them back Kaur’s Farm.

Returned to the farm, the group revealed what they found and hung out for a few days to make sure they had solved the mystery of the attacking animals.  Once certain things were back to normal, they collected their payment and headed back into the city.

Game summary for February 18, 2020, Into The Shadows campaign, Shadowrun 5th Edition, for Phoenix Gaming Club. Session included: 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.

The team nursed their wounds as best they could while Dell scouted the area with drones.  He noticed a Neo-Tribal fleeing into the trees.  An owl landed beside him and shapeshifted into a human.  Both got on mountain bikes and took off away from Kaur’s Farm.  Dell tracked them with the drone to a large greenhouse.  The team took this information and talked to Singh, and they determined this was the remnants of the cult of the Children of the Naked Dawn from the Plastic Jungle.

Hollywood wanted to consult Donnie Hua as well, but they learned he was still unconscious despite some of the healing the team had provided him.  This made them curious, so Hollywood went in and examined him and looked through a few of his things.  He found their employee is likely addicted to a drug called long haul, which keeps you awake long periods followed by huge crashes. 

The group debated a while and decided to take the fight to the Plastic Jungle.  They sallied forth and came in guns blazing.  They took down the two guards at the back entrance, and then engaged a trio of warriors and a shaman!  The spellcaster hurled acid at them, but he was no match to the hail of lead coming at him from the team.  In a few moments, the group was victorious, if not a little beat up. 

Game summary for February 11, 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), 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 licked their wounds and reloaded, waiting for any further attacks.  Dell’s drones alerted the team to activity across the camp, and the team went to investigate.  A bear-like piasma was charging forward followed by half a dozen neo-tribalists armed with spears, firearms, and Molotov cocktails!  Octane charged into the fray with an amazing leap over several barrels, but the piasma dodged his chainsaw attack.  It then mauled him.  Octane swapped to his knife and engaged a neo-tribalist. 

Hollywood advanced and opened fire on the piasma while dodging hurled Molotov cocktails.  Clutch started mowing down enemies with his roto-drone’s assault rifle.  Ballyhoo began hurling acid at the piasma but found himself dodging bottles of flaming liquid as well.  Octane stabbed one of the men, but he stepped back and flattened a full-auto burst of assault rifle ammunition into Octane’s armor.  The damage was not lethal, but it did knock the elf out.  The piasma spun around and mauled Hollywood nearly to death before being gunned down by Clutch. 

One of the men picked up Octane and started heading for the woods.  Quick-thinking Ballyhoo cast levitate and snatched him to safety!  He fell back and levitated Hollywood as well.  Clutch continued shooting down opponents, covering Ballyhoo’s retreat.  Meanwhile, Bhagat Singh made it into the fray and cut down one of the assailants with his great curved sword.  Suddenly, some of the barrels caught on fire by the Molotov cocktails exploded!  The shrapnel ripped into the last attacker, and Clutch finished him off with his drone. 

Game summary for February 4, 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.

The team returned to Kaur’s Farm, and Hollywood used some magic to further heal Donnie Hua.  They reported their findings and were unable to draw a connection between the two sites.  Ballyhoo continued assensing around the area and recognized the spirit pattern from one of the sites in Chaaya.  After some discussion with Hua, examining her aura, and considering his knowledge of magical theory, he conjectured she is some kind of spirit/human hybrid.  How that happened, though, he is unsure. 

He could not sense any hostility in her, and they were unable to determine how she might be involved in the current situation.

The group prepared for the suspected nighttime attack, and late in the evening Dell spotted canines coming in from the north.  Five dogs, two hell hounds, and a barghest came charging in!  A hell hound breathed fire at Ballyhoo but missed.  Hollywood found himself face-to-face with the other hell hound and unable to hit it with his machine pistol in all the excitement.  Octane charged in with his monofilament chainsaw and missed, but Dell landed a solid shot with some APDS ammunition.  Moments later, the hell hound tripped and fell on the chainsaw, decapitating itself. 

Clutch put his drone to good use, firing full-auto bursts from an assault rifle into the fray.  Octane engaged the barghest just in time for it to get gunned down by Clutch.  Ballyhoo continued to sustain his enhancing spells and hurled acid at the foes.  Hollywood finally got a line on his target and landed some shots.  Octane advanced on the last hell hound and cut it down with the chainsaw.  With the last paranormal slain, the other dogs fled back into the woods.