Session 4

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• News
  • WEATHER: Irradiated rainfall expected over the Omega districts tonight. Citizens are advised to keep skin exposure below twelve minutes and avoid collecting runoff for consumption.
  • CONSUMER WARNING: Counterfeit anti-scar inhibitors flood local markets. Experts remind citizens that there is no known cure and to not buy from vendors claiming otherwise.
  • PUBLIC SAFETY: Quanverium University has been completely shut off from the city due to the unexplained death of all rioters. Military forces of successfully controlled the access tunnels and have established air surveillance.
  • EDUCATION: Board of Education is working now to establish ethical murder courses for children.
  • BREAKING: The dark side settlements report organized chanting audible through public utility grids. Engineers maintain there is “nothing biologically concerning” about the phenomenon.
  • MEDICINE: Black-market organ exchanges now outpace legal donations for the first time in recorded history.
  • PUBLIC NOTICE: Citizens caught impersonating corpse collectors will face prosecution following multiple reports of “premature harvesting.”
  • ENTERTAINMENT: New holo-series SCARRED to begin filming in the Arsan District. |
• Combat Suimin, Denpakant
  • Stringfinder is a witchwarper w rank 3 spells
  • Unspooled vestiges????
    • They’re like digital kangaroos that unspool us from reality
    • They are eating sacrament alive
    • They disappeared upon death
  • FUCK ENEMIES CAN LEVEL UP MID COMBAT TOO??
• Server room
  • Data is stored by floor
  • Konbini is deleting all of our data. Nothing remains of floor 37
  • Kaspar has feelings about killing a man
    • Haven and Sacrament congratulate him
  • Ithax tries to hack inside, but konbini implanted porn ads
  • Konbini looking at butcher’s usb drive
    • By the time she’s near done, there’s a power outage, then it comes back on
    • Data has been partially corrupted, the only thing that seems to remain: a single location
      • Gps pin points toward place in the library of Quanverium University
      • High class university, the butcher’s son went there. Wouldve been getting his master’s degree when he died
  • Access the butcher’s data
    • Heavy chunk missing
    • Onmangakar and his son Favrik
    • Killer of son is unknown, butcher’s known kill happened outside the megabuilding, saw someone getting robbed
    • Weird browser history: odd runes, notably those of native progenitor species of senaria
    • Confirmed videos of him and his son at the end of scarring being together. His son did make it back home
    • No confirmation on son’s kill, believed to be in quanverium university, would be recorded there
    • Incoming messages: one from son stating needing to talk, also several he sent to himself keeping in contact as if via airphone with his partners. Seems to be a recluse
      • Needing to talk was 2 weeks into the scarring. Abt a week before he came back home
  • Stringmaster data
    • Left behind various tenants of aeryn-vox in his code
    • He is a scion, judging by his ability to do this at the mere age of 20, he’s surely to become an ascendant. He truly seemed deluded into believing he’d become an ascendant of Voquari Ascendancy
    • Signal Saints are a local gang from voquari, notably they have a belief in what they consider a random efficiency (like machine learning) trying to recreate evolution that would start having creatures spawn that will eventually glitch into big ones that may listen to them
      • Likely put a small trojan that would detect that someone would be looking them up
  • Check to see if any activity for floor 10 and below since they were killed
    • Has been a few odd ones here and there
    • Biggest is Mother Cinder, SRO in charge of the daycare at the bottom. In order to keep babies alive, she’s been slowly turning the area into a deathtrap. AI with objective to protect the children
    • Idle constant data, like servers checking in for connect disconnect
  • Vossk Irontether
    • Confirmed kill fellow security guard, footage too
    • Appears they were both injured 1-10, companion dying asked for vossk to be the killer. He killed her.
  • No one seemed to enter the rooms with the spiral lightbulbs (teleporting lights)
  • Scrubbing thru footage for 2 hours
  • Konbini changing passwords
  • Konbini checks stringmaster’s phone
    • Few calls inward and outward
    • Inward are from blocked numbers
    • Outward goes to public phones
    • Bad news: almost certainly going to public phone. Also those are tapped
    • Good: if theyre calling from a certain number, person intercepting can tap in as if they were there
  • Nearby crematorium does seem to be harvest organs
    • Few are wearing gang uniforms
    • Some are Dead Yield recruits
      • Group run by Aetherion Corporation exec, has a ton of money likes to see ppl killed for entertainment
      • If u put on a vr headset around town, they’ll give u orders and if u complete them you’ll get money
    • Different than underground fighting ring
    • This was a day ago
    • Organ harvesting started 3 weeks into the scarring, when there were too many bodies
      • Majority are dead yield
      • The other gang bodies are from the Wakehands, normal Hollow Stars gang, trying to get territory. They have territory in the next district, they can start trying to get control here bc they have a spaceport and we dont
• Go back to rest
• Vossk returns to the megablock as we head back to our floor
  • Gives us a small salute with a “you have news of the killer?”
  • I: we found him and he tried to kill me and it was the butcher. We turned around for like 10 minutes and someone stole the body. It also seemed like a cult-affiliated thing since we found runes that are affiliated with the ones cults use
  • “Understood. I’m sorry
  • H: I assume the matters you were working on outside have been taken care of?
  • “Somewhat. Wake hands still seek to take the building. I try not to kill them.
  • I: I’m glad you’re trying to stop them. Lots of things to investigate inside the building as well
  • H: definitely a lot
  • “Never been good at it myself
  • I: I LOVE investigating
  • H: he’s pretty good at it
  • P: yeah he is
  • I: also we think an unrelated killer turned sacrament’s neighbor into bone sludge. And there were wizards in here or some shit
  • “She was killed?
  • I: you knew who it was?
  • “No. but i wish she was alive. Very creepy. I would draw a picture but my hands are really bad
  • I: that would still be good. Also here hands over a bone sample
  • Vossk gives us doodles, humanoid, notably not kasatha
  • S: ancestry?
  • “Nicest way, the mammalian ancestries look the same to me.
  • I: someone took over the database also but we went down and got it back
  • “And the state of this person?
  • Dead
  • “Im terribly sorry you had to kill again on my behalf.”
  • I: uhjhhhhh thanks. Sacrament as lawyers now so its ok. Hellknight stuff. Rituals and occult
  • S: under the purview of the order of the compliance engine.
  • “Still i’ll be rescinding the lockdown for only one entrance.”
  • He’ll unlock the 17th floor entrance
  • Ty for protecting us
  • P: any gang members we should be aware of?
  • “As in the individuals?”
  • P: yes! Or groups in general
  • “I’d be careful of the wake hands out there?
  • S: while you were out there, have u learned abt quanverium university’s state?
  • “My understanding is they are locked down from one fo the military forces.
  • “I know one person, an android named Salix. She’s part of the imperium if that’s an issue for anyone.”
    • Biggest issue would be anyone immortal or hiding something. Very inquisitor like, also anyone associated with ashfall, immortal oath, or broken standard. Could prove an issue moving forward, does depend.
  • “Do you not work with immortals as a Hellknight?”
  • Sacrament indirectly works with devils, oops
  • Oh she may not like us. But yknow
  • “She’s part of the Veskarium. Fight first, ideaology second.
  • “Do you know the first rule of being in the veskarium?”
    • When you fight, all else is 2nd
• While no one holds the university rn
  • No one is stupid to go against veskarium directly. But likely smuggled in stuff. May know shit
  • Blind Halloways
• Patch texts Doc Erzi
  • “Are you looking to become an employee?”
  • Patch: i can work as a contractor for now. I need an in to the university
  • “Finally going to college?”
  • Sends address to meet at
• We rest
• Go meet up with the man in a shady alleyway, with 3 APVs that seem to be requisitioned by the Blind Halloways. Small amount, but there are impromptu APVs with men in the back with machine guns mounted on the back of machine guns
  • Doc walks forward happily
  • Konbini can see thru the hologram he has on, this is someone meant to take his place and is being fed lines to act as intermediary
  • P: doctor erzi
  • “Its a pleasure to meet you patch!”
  • P: pleasure
  • “So what have you been up to since the endtimes?”
  • P: healing. Ive gotten a lot of patients
  • “And you’ve only been healing, no killing?”
  • P: y. Yes
  • “Pretty miraculous given the times. You need contacts, and i need a doctor. I was hoping to get a killer, but you’ll have to do. You need a contact with them ASAP?”
  • P: yes, and it needs to be inside the university
  • “Ok, work for me for a straight month, then we have a deal”
  • P: i have a lot on my plate. Any alternatives?
  • “I dont suppose…. [looks, sees the kid shaking under the hologram. Not full initiate, if we say anything wrong, ppl in the back of the alley are supposed to light it up, him included.] with the aetherion girl behind you, why don’t we take back a business we lost? We need you to recapture sexico-6 for us. Most profitable endeavor.”
  • S: given what i know of it, i believe it may be within my purview to look into that
  • H: who are we taking it from?
  • “A worker who doesnt know her place. Soma.”
  • (her gf was a worker there, and when one of the owners tried to kill her gf to fulfil scarring, she killed them. If we are to work with workers of sexico-6, not wise to voice that now.)
  • s: i’d be willing to go in and take a look.
  • “Dont worry, you dont need diplomacy. Scary groups such as you come with weapons, soma will come greet you.”
  • H: just like that?
  • “It’s either that or the girls. Someone has to engage you.”
  • S: that’s fair. Just reclaim sexico-6, and you’ll get us into the university?
  • “Yes. exactly. You give us our biggest foothold here, we get you in contact.”
  • (there are 3 APVs here and they cant handle a single woman? She carries a machete and chopped up the last group they sent in.)
  • I: you want the building? Its not we need to kill someone? Whatever methods we use to get the building?
  • “The building and the girls. All the workers should return to their rightful place.”
  • (a lot of ppl in poor colonies will do an immigration situation, they signed a contract)
  • I: anything we should know to avoid being cut up by a machete?
  • “Do you talk like this all the time????”
  • I: moreso, we know about some of the abilities of the people there, do you know anything that might allow us to get an advantage?
  • “No, but i can tell you how to avoid disadvantages. She has no cyberware, uses a machete, and doesn’t know how to log onto the computer half the time.”
• On the way back, kaspar is so quiet
  • I: hey u seem kinda bothered, did u know there are things u can always tell me?
  • K: Yeah man. Sorry im nervous for this one. Yknow? I also just fuckin killed someone for the first time. The first time well- felt like smth different.”
  • I: is the… women? At the store? Or like? The union busting? That you feel totally down about bro?
  • K: idk much abt unions tbh. This is the only job i ever worked. Im nervous that this is gonna,,, im afraid abt some people ik that might be in danger if we go
  • I: what. Please tell us more????
  • K: uhm. Ig liiiiike soma is a friend of a friend is the best way to put it? And i dont want…
  • I: ur friend would be sad if we totally axe murdered her in the name of union busting?
  • K: id be sad too!
  • I: gooood to know. That makes senses.
  • K: idk soma personally, but ik shes trustworthy. I dont want to get u caught up in that business and i dont want to get my friend caught up in this
  • I: it makes sense, but should we talk to ur friend abt this??
  • K: I dont have her number
  • I: oh!
  • K: yknow when ppl go off the grid
  • I: yes and i was very upset and now i track his whereabouts
  • K: i doooooont?
  • Kaspar looks at vintovka to see if shes paying attention (yes, but if u turn a corner u have abt 10 secs to sign)
  • K: soma was… affiliated with a group and then my friend became dramatically unaffiliated with the group, but theyre still friends to my knowledge?
  • I: one is in a gang and one isnt?
  • K: yes
  • (kaspar doesnt want this info to go to vintovka, nervous abt if vintovka knows specifically, but if ppl know her friend is in danger)
  • I: tough situation. We might need to talk this one out as a team? Do u want anything set up if i get killed then the info i have abt vintovka is released?
  • K: HUH. i dont want u to kill urself over this, its NOT that serious
  • I: okokok. There was a lot of shooting Idk if how seriously you guys keep ur secrets lol. Ha. hahah.
  • Sacrament agrees to disarm ppl before going into kaspar’s apartment
• Ok interventions
  • I: ok welcome to our friendly team meeting that’s non violent in nature. We killed a man for distributing info abt patch
  • I: konbini why did u delete that data. Ik ur also busy making pancakes. So i can let this slide. Due to the pancakes
  • I: i have learned that there are certain people with affiliations to certain gangs that are related to what’s happening at sexico 6. This is unrelated to Haven’s gang.
  • H: what gang is it?
  • K: started off The Broken Standard
    • Vintovka raises an eyebrow at that
  • H: wdym started off broken standard? They’re not anymore?
  • K: it’s like a splinter now. The sexico 6
  • H: be more specific
  • K: soma was in the broken standard but disobeyed them to kill the blind hollaways and save her gf.
    • Means she got kicked out of the gang to avoid a gang war
    • Technically burned by both groups
  • H: this does complicate things
  • I: now is ex-allegiance to any particular group going to be a problem for anyone? It could be anyone really
  • V: i don’t care. Why would I care?
  • I: oh because… no reason.
  • V: continue pls
  • I: because you’re a member!
  • Kaspar is a bit freaked at this, seems nervous
  • V: no there’s probably worse data on there. Even if someone is part of a gang it doesn’t mean they want all of their actions part of it. Why do u think im so far removed?
  • H: i was wondering that too
  • V: you may notice my apartment is not frequented often. I normally live in broken standard territory. If i don’t want to be seen this is where i am
  • H: what so you shoot people for fun?
  • V: no ofc i don’t. I always have a reason for it. I watch too many people die for fun. I just want to lessen their influence.
  • S: who’s influence?
  • V: broken standard. Or any sort of gang really
  • H: i was a bit worried about you, but i think we’re on the same page here
  • I: u are??
  • H: lessening the broken standard’s influence
  • V: maybe different motivations though
  • K: just to clarify vintovka. You aren’t actively with them for their causes?
  • V: not for their causes. I have more personal reasons
  • I: if we fuck with them will we be fucking with you?
  • V: depends. They know im separate. They don’t have my exact safehouse location
  • Most of the party hates the broken standard or doesn’t care
  • Basically vintovka is on gang sabbatical
  • I: why do we hate them haven
  • H: broken standard is an offshoot of the old imperium. Yk when the wars were happening? They ended up here. Very military.
  • I: erm actually haven. Part of a military branch that tried to take over but failed. Leader is named Mafilus (the one permitted immortal). Incredibly militaristic. Recruit children or victims of their conquest who are added to the rolling tally of their recruits. Vintovka did they conquer ur home?
    • The imperium did conquer vilar within vintovka’s life
  • I: were you alive and a child on the planet when they conquered it?
  • V: might have. I’ve only been here for about 3 years? I don’t remember too well
  • I: and then your super cool gang is not into this other one haven?
  • H: well that’s a personal opinion. I wouldn’t put it like that. When I was a teen i got up into some bad business. It wasn’t broken standard directly but basically the same group. I was with them for a good couple years. And then i had enough. It wasn’t for me. Im not part of them anymore. If there’s anything about taking down broken standard… at the very least i know my gang is still around. They’re still getting power
  • I: so ur in a second gang or?
  • H: im no longer in a gang
  • I: ok so immortals. Sacrament works with immortals. Anyone else?
  • K: i’ll clarify since it wont get me shot. My friend, or mentor is more accurate, was in the broken standard and was removed forcefully by circumstances out of her control and they don’t like her rn. Since murder’s super legal im worried about her.
  • H: assuming she’s in hiding
  • K: yeah i don’t have her number and can’t ask her to reach out to soma
  • H: at the very least you’re our in
  • K: shit ig man. Im so bad at talking
  • I: haven may also be an in. also patch have you dealt with unions?
  • P: nah
  • H: hey patch who did you kill?
  • P: i didn’t kill anyone
  • All of us: dude u had to have killed anyone
  • P: the surgery just went wrong. I didn’t kill him
  • K: hey man it sucks but im not in denial
• We’re in aetherion space, we can engage in union business as long as its not aetherion unions. Cant support unions directly, but u can do the services and talk to the union members so long as u dont bring it back to aetherion
• Sacrament partner bonds with konbini. Its gay
• We go thru the irradiated rain to sexico-6
  • Beautiful orc lady at the counter who motions us forward
  • Contemplative working the bar behind (Velvet-Above-All)
  • Giantess dwarfs sacrament, standing at 25ft tall
  • Giantess cups sacraments chin “well arent you a cute little thing”
  • Orc woman walks away, woman with machete
  • K: are you soma?
  • “I could be, depending on who’s asking.”