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New Character is joining the group here is the intro adventure for him.. Garis is his name and he is a CSPY.
[Sub level 4, AsaPharm warehouse in Chicago]
The woman in front of him was creeping him out, BloodSucker was sure of it. Sure she looked nice. Her tight body was round in all the right places, but when she spoke it was like she rarely used her voice, very creepy. "Mr BloodSucker your gang the Golden Skulls is being hired to make sure the CSPY gets to the warehouse." She paused as if looking for the words "Once the CSPY is dead and we have his Glove Suit armor you are free to take the money, and the girl. You may consider both of them your payment." "That's fine Ms. Swain we can get the job done, what if your man in the Warehouse blows it? Then who pays us, bitch?" BloodSucker thought he had done a fine job intimidating this freaky bitch, he was quite proud of himself. The woman leaned in, using a whisper that sounded of grating _meta_l against bone she said "If he fails you fail and I know some friends who would love to make use of your body in some very unpleasant ways." Her eyes were glowing, she was enjoying the threat. Shit BloodSucker screamed in his head and almost fell flat on his ass as he moved from the table. He was running away as fast as he could. When she started laughing, Blood sucker almost shit his pants. We need to get this done as fast as we can, these fuckers are way out of our league thought BloodSucker as he ran into the depths of the Sublevel 4.
[Campus of the Military Advancement Command (MAC) training Academy, Graduation Day] Garis was ready. 23 and a graduated CSPY he was ready to see what success was in store for him. "You coming to McFinigans Folly, Garis?" a voice from behind him asked. Garis turned to reply, "He..." when he was interrupted by an Urgent communication Instant Message in his helmet. The Full video feed message was from a mission officer at the campus. "CSPY Garis report for a mission, unless you have better things to do!" A mission 2 hours after graduation, yes! Garis thought already his luck was getting better then ever "On my way sir!"
[Office of Adjudent Officer Captain Fasil Duroth, MAC mission services]
"Garis I received a mission request from a CEO in Chicago. His daughter has been kidnapped. the Kidnappers said they want a CSPY of second lieutenant or less rank to bring them the ransom in gold." "I saw your disciplinary report on my desk and called you." So much for my star being on the rise thought Garis. " I am on it sir, what are the terms" Garis had tried very hard to sound not too interested in case there was room to bargain on the fee. little shit thinks he can bargain with me, I am giving him a gift and he is gonna try to bargin, he has potential " The fee is 50,000 plus medical, no negotiations!" " Take it or I call another wet behind the ears to replace you!" "In or Out, Garis?" Duroth was taking no shit from a graddie, hell, he thought, the kid will be dead or broke in 6 months anyway. "I am in sir, all the way" Garis was floored, 50,000 for a drop off! I could sure use the money. "Get to the Landing field then. The helo Mazi's Meteor will get you to Chicago. Report to the DynaDrug HQ on level 5 and they will tell you what you need to do!" Garis ran out of the office, stopping quickly to do a clumsy salute, slamming into the door _frame_ as he did. He heard Captain Duroth laughing at him the whole way down the hall.
[Vehicle Bays Level 12 Chicago, Western Ameracan Union City]
The flight up was fast, a helo that can do mach 2 is not all that special to an STO but it was damned impressive to a wet behind the ears CSPY. The STO, Captain BlackStar Mazi, said "Strap in and stay quiet I have work to do" and that was it. The whole rest of the trip she was doing work in her helmet or taking to Thin Air. Thin Air was her AI and they were working in something, so the whole 2 hours from the Academy to Chicago was spent reading notes from my combat tactics classes. The vehicle bay was impressive hundreds of vehicles coming and going and all STO combat vehicles, Chicago is a pretty busy city, compared to the smaller cities in the Monarchy of Finland. I quickly moved out and caught a maglev Elevator to level 5 and the HQ of DynaDrug. Not the cleanest City Level 5 I have every seen, but nice. I was met in the lobby by 2 CorpSec guys who could have gone to the academy I am sure, and up to the offices on City Level 8, specifically the CEO's Offices.
[City Level 8, CEO DynaDrug offices]
DynaDrug is what the larger corps call a short run fill Corp. They have production facilities all around the world. They use this to help larger corps make up short falls in production. DynaDrug does well, but has nothing in the way of intellectual assets, unlike an Encom Vanders or Peregrine Tech who are all about the ideas. yeah DynaDrug had nothing to offer the corporate espionage specialists. But for someone looking to make a quick buck DynaDrug was a cash cow.
The CEO looked worried when Garis walked in. Garis could tell the CEO had better GloveSuit armor than he did, defensively at least. Not from scans or anything, Garis's optics could not even tell the CEO was wearing armor, but from the withering look he gave me and the CorpSecurity guys that brought me in. "Listen closely CSPY. I don't care about anything but getting my daughter back." He was obviously upset and hence was wasting no time with little things like Garis's name. "Take this case with the gold, and here is a ROM chip with all the information you need. Get that gold to my daughters captors." "Nothing fancy, just go there and get me my daughter back." "Yes sir, I can do that" Garis accesses the ROM chip and sees the drop off point is a warehouse in Sub Level 4. Garis has 2 hours before the drop. He moves to the street and checks the UNIWeb. The warehouse is owned by AsaPharm, but is not being used at this time. Down to the sublevel Garris goes.
[SubLevel 4 Chicago]
Garris entered the SubLevel seeing it is a tad worse than some of the Sublevel 4 areas he had trained in over the last 2 years. There was even some sort of pattern to the graffiti, but damn if Garis could figure it out. There in the Distance were 2 large towers. He could see Guards and some very big guns, wonder what those are? Too bad the drop is in the other direction I'd like to see that place. . Using the City Support Columns that make up the shops, apartments, Businesses of the Sublevel, Garis moves stealthily through the sub level avoiding gangs and civilians alike. As he gets closer to the Warehouse the crowds of pedestrians and gangs begin to thin and within a block of the warehouse, the crowds stop all together. Garis does a quick scan of the area, seeing three gang members who are blocking all traffic from entering the streets that lead to the warehouse.
he said go fast and dirty, no hero stuff thought Garis. Lets just move past them, and get to the warehouse. Garis stalks past the gang members without being seen. lets move around the back and see if there are more guards. Moving slowly up a cross street he sees 3 more gang members watching the street. While he is checking out the 3 gang members ahead he feels a tug on his arm and a small voice whispers. "hey mister who are you sneaking around from?" Looking down he sees a small girl looking up at him. "Nobody you need to worry about, little one." He smiles at the girl as she raises her voice several levels and says "I said who you hiding from mister and whats it worth to you to stay hidden?" Garis, realizing he is being shaken down by a 6 year old, says quietly"Tell me how much you want to go way." One of the gang members is looking down the street intently, to intently for Garis's comfort. "1,000,000 credits" the girl blurts out very excited that her shakedown is working. 'I don't have 1,000,000 credits but I do have 100" Garis squats down, hushes his voice and says "Where should I send it?" The girl gives him her UNIWeb Id and he sends her 100 credits. She skips away, helpfully distracting the gang member, as Garis stealths and moves up and around the corner.
One of the gang members sees Garis out o the corner of his eye, spinning he yells "Freeze Dude!" Garis reacts fast, but not as fast as the guy who saw him. Whipping out a Type1 ChemProject the gang member sends a blast of 10nm rounds at Garis, who actively dodges around the corner. The shot misses, the other 2 have no shot either because of the dodge. Garis moves deeper in to a niche in a ramp, makes a stealth roll and disappears into the shadows. The gang members run around the corner and search for him, but cannot see him. They give up after a few minutes and Garis stealths to the warehouse. Using his optics, Garis checks out the area outside the Warehouse and sees an open door. Then using his optics he views the inside of the warehouse and sees the little girl sitting in a chair, being guarded by a large mass of flesh, no legs but 2 stumps for arms and an ill defined head. His Optics tell him it is made of Glove suit DNA with no Human DNA present.
Garis sneaks into the warehouse and as he gets to the girl the Blob sees him and attacks. Garis blasts the Blob with his Colt Plasma Smash, It his the arm of the creature and does a minimal critical. The Blob loses form for 10 seconds. Garis grabs the girl and tries to throw her over his shoulder as best he can, but he gets unbalanced and slips, losing precious time. The blob begins to rise up, Garis shoots again putting a hole in the Blob of DNA skin, but doing little else to slow it down. Garis starts to run and the Blob is right on his heels. He takes two more shots, forcing the blob to lose shape again on the second hit. Garis gets some breathing room as he runs out the door of the warehouse and jumps off the loading platform. Garis misses the jump, losing his footing as he shields the girl from the landing. The blob comes roaring out of the Warehouse after him. Garis goes to take a 5th shot at the blob and hears "CLICK". Out of ammo. The Blobs arm changes to a privative mace head and he attacks Garis. The Blob has no interest in the girl, only in attacking Garis. Garis takes a big hit to the arm, but no crit. He draws his Quarter staff and paries off 2 other attacks. Garis then throws the box with the gold bars at the Blob, leaps up and grabs the girl. The Blob ignores the gold and moves after Garis, but just cannot keep up. The Gang members at the end of the street see Garis go running by and start to chase him, but then stop and run towards the gold lying on the street. Garis and the Girl get to the elevators and get out of the SubLevels on their way to the HQ of DynaDrug.
[CEO offices DunaDrug]
Ushered quickly into the offices of the CEO, he takes a moment to hug his child. "did you leave the gold with them, do the kidnappers have it?" The CEO is impatient and almost anxious to know. "Yes, I was attacked by some sort of Plasma Monster, but I did give it the gold, in a manner of speaking" Garis is just happy that he got out alive. The CEO spins to his chief of security, "Blow it, now!" the Chief says something into a mic and replies "Package has detonated Sir." The CEO smiles and says to Garis "Job well done sir, thank you for your time." The CEO turns back to his daughter and Garis leaves.
[Sublevel 4 Golden Skulls hideout]
The bodies are everywhere, all broken and dead. What little was left of BloodSucker is under the table, mostly the stumps of his legs. Ms. Swain looks at the devistation and smiles. These humans are so predictable, I think we can up our behavior programs to over 80% with this success Do Not get to smug Valin, My cousins did that and look where they are today Yes Vincent, I understand. Did we get the data we need for the Higher level algorithms chip programs? Yes, though I am quite surprised the Human got away, I will have to improve the control of all levels of AC control. Now return to your leader and let him know we must get more Glove Suit DNA as soon as possible yes Vincent it shall be done. As she leaves, forcing her way through the crowds, she sees a small girl looking at her. Soon child you shall reap your rewards, and that reward will be pain, Ms. Swain begins to laugh at the thought, several people fall out of her way at the sound.
Something in the way the woman glared at her as she left the wrecked room made the little girl run away and hide. The glowing eyes and the angry look were bad, but the laugh was gruesome! The little girl held her ears and tried very hard to forget that laugh.
thats all for now see ya next session....
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