Blood of the Earth - Session 2 Synopsis

Nov 2072

The cast –

Silver and Steel (played by Brian)

Rain and Mustang (played by Dennis)

Shadow (played by Brooks)

The headed home to Seattle . This also coincided with the direction the dagger was pointing them. Upon arrival, Steel got a call from one of his contacts asking him to do a simple recovery job for 5000 nuyen apiece for the group. The details were extremely vague, almost annoyingly so, but it was from a trusted contact and Steel was assured that more details would be forthcoming upon completion. Meanwhile, Shadow, a tiger shifter physical adept with amnesia who had been trying to find out about his past (all while avoiding people who have been trying to kill him) got a call from a trusted contact of HIS asking him to do exactly the same job. They all headed downtown.

While they were on their way, Rain saw that Shadow was connected to the dagger, but because of Mary Sue, wasn’t sure if it was a good connection or a bad connection. Both groups headed towards the drop off, but Shadow saw that they were both headed there first. Using his superior knowledge of the terrain, Shadow beat them and picked up the package. When he called his contact, his contact did not answer. Meanwhile, Rain saw him driving off and followed in Astral Form.

Confusion reigned as Shadow went first to his house and then to the location of his contact, only to find a smoking crater in the ground. Steel’s contact did not answer his phone as well. Rain and a team of watchers kept track of Shadow as he moved from place to place, but eventually the two groups met up. Rain explained how they were united by the dagger, whereas Steel was more concerned with the package. Shadow feigned ignorance of the package, and didn’t know what to make of the dagger. He agreed to call them tomorrow and then went home.

While the main group rallied, Shadow tried to figure out what to do. Silver did some research into Shadow and found out a bit about his past. Shadow called the group the next day, but while they were on their way to meet each other, they all got phone calls from their highest and most trusted contact telling them that there was a 210,000 NY bounty on Shadow’s head and to let them know if they had any information. Huge amounts of lone star, elementals and other groups began gathering together, both looking for Shadow and to find the package.

The group united near the Spindle and once Rain told Shadow about the dagger, the massive manhunt vanished almost as soon as it had appeared. They had strong reason to believe that the same group that Mary Sue had belonged to was somehow using the dagger against Shadow, but once he was made ‘part of the group’ he was protected by the nastier effects. Not knowing what else to do, they broke the seal of the package and found three items. A transmitter which (had they not prepared) would have notified someone that it had been breached, a data chip with images of a scanned ancient mayan book and a key.

The book spoke about an ancient cycle of doom and rebirth. The first part was a prophesy. The second part was a chronicle of the last segment of the great cycle. The third part spoke about the doom to come and the lessening of magic. The fourth part spoke about tactical advice for the Shards. It spoke of Shards and Threads, all linked to the Dagger of Fate which had been crafted by the ancients as a weapon against the doom that continually threatened metahumanity. They also noticed that there was a section of the book that was missing.

They decided to go to New Orleans to investigate. The first place they checked was the bank that belonged to the key. After several elaborate preparations for disguises, they found that the bank’s security had been more elaborate and saw them on the astral plane. Rain simply went in as herself to open an account and learned that by presenting the key they could potentially gain access to the box that was linked to it. Just as they were about to return to the bank a second time and do so, however, there was a titanic explosion. They found a group of Shedim and accompanying mercs breaking into the bank to try and steal the actual physical book. There was a massive fight, but all of them were killed. But not before the SUV was mangled quite a bit and before Aztechnology showed up to cause problems. At one point the Shedim summoned a nasty of spirit of some unknown origin, perhaps a toxic spirit, but Shadow made short work of it. Rain channeled massive spell power risking physical damage each time she did so. Steel and Silver unleashed massive amounts of gun fire, while Mustang ran over the Shedim with the SUV, trying to stop them from getting out of the hole that they had made. He also took a few shots from the window while it was moving. Towards the end, Rain was also casting enhanced reflexes on the rest of the group until they just simply moved faster than anyone else.

After defeating the bad guys, the group took the book and got the hell out of dodge. It looked like the book had a missing fifth section, which they now had thanks to having it in their possession. It seemed to work as a predictor, doing the same thing as the dagger but up to a month in advance, allowing the group to predict where they were going next. Though learning to use it would require a bit of research. There was also a lot of discussion about whether or not to sell the images of the book to someone, since the group had expenses and hadn’t gotten paid by anyone for all of this saving the world crap thus far.

Karma Earned: 21

New Starting BP Total: 410

NY Earned: Bumpkiss