Prelude

This is the session log for Chapter 1 of the story Hands in the Sky.

Session 1 (10/2/2009)

GM: Kurtis Players: Ian, James, Josh, Don, Emile Starting Game Date: 3/7/2061

The meet in a tavern begins in Fort Colins, a small city in Sioux Territory just north of the Denver Metroplex. It is at a small, closed, Gas 'n Grill just off of I25. Ironhide arrives with Gojira via Airwolf. Wight (Ike) arrives on foot roughly the same time looking worn and traveled. Ronkar, Hermes, Puck, and Lorne are already there. Everyone meets and shortly thereafter Briggz arrives and sets the rules. They have a series of four high profile, moderate pay, low immediate threat jobs that appear completely unrelated to complete. Following successful completion of the four there is a fifth, highly technical run that will tie it all together. Every job has to be made to specifically NOT look professional and as little police notice as possible must be aroused. Also part of their pay would be all of the assets they need for the operation (much of which they should dispose if used). He can only tell them of the first three.

1. Hijack truck en route from Cheyenne to Denver, in morning traffic. Three security guards, no talent. They have to make the truck disappear without incident and they get to keep whatever is in the truck. $90k, has to happen in 3 days (3/10/2061)

2. Sack a small sports equipment store ("Dan's First Down") in the Cherry Creek mall in Glendale (UCAS sector of Denver). The operation must not look like a robbery (no one would rob a mall store for profit), but the entire contents of the store's accounting system must be offloaded when the computer is connected to the mainframe (only during business hours). Any traces of this download must be covered. $110k, has to happen precisely 2 weeks after the truck is hijacked. (3/24/2061)

3. Take out "Ricky's Chop n' Go", a fairly big time 24/7 chop shop in the CAS sector of Denver. Apparently they have an in with the local PD as impound cars tend to make it to the shop now and then. Lots of gang ties as well. The team is instructed to make the job taste Italian. Also Ricky has a secured safe that must be cracked and emptied, the non-money contents to be delivered to Briggz. Everyone there should be killed, mafia style. This operation has to happen the night of the 27th, or 3 days after the Mall job. $130k

The team takes up the truck job and quickly decided to use two ground vehicles (cop car and mini van) as well as Air Wolf. Air Wolf/Ironhide will stay at maximum range and jam all signals coming from the truck. The Cop car will be ahead in traffic and driven by autopilot with Lorne riding in it and Wight deploying from it. The minivan will be driven by Ronkar and will contain Puck, Hermes, and Gojira. Invisible Gojira and Wight will leap onto the truck and prepare to insert. Puck will attempt to take over the autopilot externally. Once Wight and Gojira are on the truck Wight will deploy Neurostun gas through the roof while Hermes will shoot out the driver side lock so Gojira can breach and take over driving. Wight will disable anyone unaffected by the gas and Lorne will provide random magical support.

It works almost perfectly. Ironhide jams all signals, Wight and Gojira deploy fine. The gas is deployed, the lock destroyed, Gojira dumpshocks the driver and takes over control of the vehicle while Wight disables the other two. Puck nearly took over autopilot but at the last moment the probe IC backdoored him and crashed the node. Otherwise no hitches.

The team has a truck full of industrial materials including some toxic wastes. They mull over selling the toxics (decent street value). The industrial supplies are also worth a decent amount but are less morally confusing. they immediately begin working on their next task, taking over the mall. The plan is to immediately have Ronkar hired as mall security. Hermes, Wight, Puck, Lorne, and Ironhide will go into the mall as Humanis Policlub members (some inflammatory statements will be posted in the matrix ahead of this). Under the cover of various minor firebombs in the mall they will invade Dan's First Down and simply subdue everyone in there. Ronkar will show up and mistake any "heavies" as the real perpetrators and subdue them by accident while the team downloads the data, destroys the computers, and eventually escapes with the mob fleeing the fires by donning disguises. Ronkar will chase the wrong people to distract mall security. Gojira will be waiting in the parking lot in a tinted van with low tech firearms to assist in any escape. A second, rigged vehicle will be waiting several blocks away so that the team can ditch the van and escape any serious pursuit. Hopefully Ronkar will get fired for negligence.

Session 2 (?/?/?)

GM: Kurtis Players: Ian, James, Josh, Don, Emile Starting Game Date: 3/10/2061