GM: Dennis Jordan
Players: Karen Twelves, Regina Jordan, Adrienne Mueller, Eric Fattig, Sean Nittner
System: Shadowrun 5E
Knight Errant Patrol (KEP): The massive attack on Seattle that started our careers will, years later, also be the end of it!
- Dragons have gotten more militant and causing upheaval.
- Trouble in Denver – Major showdown with epic (immortal) elves
- Instability spreads to Seattle
- Good Dragon vs. Evil Dragons war in Africa (Lothier, CEO)
- South America War Between Amazonia vs. Azatlan (More dragons, possibly one killed?)
- Seattle problems: Proposition 23 (grants the Ork Underground full district status and acknowledge it as part of the city), Finally made it on the ballot, it’s been a major political fight in the city to get this far. Knights Errant has been sending patrols in.
- Seattle problems: Ghouls fighting for metahuman rights, sabotaged by the Mealtime Killer (a serial killer with lots of copy cats)
- Seattle problems: The Mayan killer is back (a copy cat). Decorated army ranger turned shadowrunner, turned killer.
- Seattle problems: Brakenhaven (still governor) campaign against prop 23.
Characters Stance on Prop 23
- Bryon doesn’t think it will make a difference.
- Ashly is pro freedom.
- Tuesday just agrees with anyone in the room.
- Toshiro is adamant about not expressing our views
- Lyssa sees through an apocraphal lens – this was prophesized!
Other events
- Ancient Orcish language found and suppressed, points towards orcs being an original race.
- Senator Jason Grey went to a humanists rally and there was an assassination attempt. Horrible PR for him and ammunition for the freedom side.
- Lonestar prison – rumored to be cracking heads and targeting pro-freedom activists.
The only way out is through.
Assignment
We were sent out and told to de-escalate the situation and make sure we don’t take sides. We loaded into the GMC-MPUV (tough, ugly, slow).
Folks in Orc Underground fighting against Project Freedom “You don’t represent us!”
Knight Errant just found a mafia organization in the orc underground. There was a good tourist industry that’s been interrupted.
Patrolling the Border
The situation
- 100 protesters at the border shouting “Orc haters unite!”
- 50 counter protesters from different orc groups (filled with agitators). 10 of them well behaved but heavily armed.
- We were trying to keep the groups apart.
Our approach
- Lyssa attempts to dialog with the economic
- Toshiro talks to one of the leaders of the anti-metahumans
- Ashly looks for people show knows among the protesters and finds Siss, a low level scorcher she knows (peace keeper) and some members of project freedom. She was getting a lot of flak from protestors for selling out to the Man.
- Byron considers just staying in his car, but decides to get out and look imposing near potential agitators.
- Tuesday whispering in his ear insessantly.
- This was just the beginning and we were already way understaffed even if the reserves came in!
How the tensions grew
- 500 orks showed up. Organizers wearing Project Freedom signs.
- Counter protestors became more agitated and within an hour, they called in reinforcements.
- The groups were getting more and more angry.
- We tried to keep them apart, but we could only keep the peace for so long. Eventually, a fight broke out.
- Ashley tried to calm down some of the protestors by talking to them.
- Lyssa cast a spell to make Toshiro look like Ork Haters Unite leader Eric Nelson and he got some of the OHU to step back.
- Tuesday detected an agitator coordinating the disruptions and hacked into his comlink, patched into a bigger channel, and rewrote all of his quick commands to be “Turn your self over to the police.” She hacked further into the agitator’s feed and finds his network. Past a firewall she discovered that this was single cell coordinated by someone else who is directing them to cause a riot. She severed the connection.
