Blood of the Earth - News December 2072

For a brief moment on December 1, 2072, all of the water on earth had a brief oily texture to it. The effect only lasted for 1.4 seconds, but many researchers are concerned because it seemed to affect even otherwise secure locations. Some are saying it is a symptom of a larger problem, others are saying that it is a symptom but not directly related to anything. Most of the world doesn't pay attention to it one way or other other.

Damage has largely been repaired from the storms that hit South America and South Africa. A massive effort of good will on the part of multiple nations has managed to get things to improve. The cause of the freak weather is not known but people are glad it is gone.

The Great Mandarin has died. Massive combat has begun to erupt all across Asia with the largest amount of gang violence seen in the last 20 years. Various warlords roam the countryside ravaging resources and various corps are feeling the hit the most. A rare exception to this are the Kilasu enclaves, whose automated weaponry are proving highly successful against the rabble.

Details of the Naraxin Conference have finally leaked out, and there are reports that a new discovery has been made, potentially explaining magic within the field of physics. It is not known for sure if the theory is correct, but if it is, it may prove possible to allow FTL travel at some distant point in the future.

All hell has broken lose in Tir Taingaire. What started as minor factional fighting has erupted into total chaos. It is not known for sure who started it, but the news feeds report at least seven different proxy battles between various factions and fronts. Right now a four nation war is going on in the borders between Tir Taingaire, Salish Sidhe, the California Free State and the Ute.

A viral plague has been unleashed in Caracas. Sources are still unclear but it is believed to potentially be VITAS IV. It has scientists all over the globe scrambling to determine what is causing it and what they can do to counter act it. Some mages also believe it may be magically active.

While the power loss might have been fixed in South Africa, the damage has been done. Several special agricultural chemicals were spoiled due to lack of refrigeration so a swarm of locusts has begun to eat much of the food crop. The government is attempting to buy food abroad for now.

A new volcano has appeared near the Three Gorges. Geologists think it is probably fine, but it is not known at this time if it represents a larger problem. They are studying and requesting more funds in their research.

Rumors

Someone has stolen journal of one of the original journals in the Great Ghost Dance. He was last seen wandering around in the border lands between Salish Sidhe and Tir Taingaire.

The shadows are still burning hot in Seatle. Lone Star is taking advantage of the fact to begin setting up a lot more deep cover agents to nose in on everyone's business.

Deus has been seen in Atlanta, “alive” and well.

Lone Star is instituting a new program in Seattle with drones that are not wired into the maxtrix, but instead record all they see, and plug into a location to upload images every few hours.

The Aztechnies have something new. Something powerful that lets them avoid being traced as easily with magic.

Aztechnoligy has perfected weather control through blood magic and they are causing the electrical storms to extort concessions from Amazonia.

The Yakuza have moved into the chaos of China to take territory from the Triads.  The Triads have resorted to hiring shadowrunners to attack interests of the Yakuza outside of China in addition to normal responses.

UCAS is planning to invade Tir; squadrons of black helicopters were seen landing in the Redmond district.

Saeder Krupp is helping the elves by proxy and is directly behind the chaos that is going on in North West America.

The Fae are growing increasingly active in Europe. More and more abductions are taking place ona regular basis.

A member of Mitsuhama upper management was kidnapped off the streets in downtown Seattle and Lone Star was unable to prevent it. The businessman turned up dead later, and even though there were witnesses, Lone Star denies this happened.

Dark shapes have been seen in the skies of Australia by the awakened community. Many think that this is an omen of some kind, but no one knows for sure.

The police corp in New Orleans has greatly enhanced their magical enforcement assets which was revealed for the first time by how they stopped a well planned bank robbery  The organization has declined to provide the officers names who valiantly fought because confidential the best protection for them

Dennis: 0 Stored DP
Anarch: 0 Stored DP
Brooks: 4 Stored DP
James: 6 Stored DP


Group Edge: 0. Cost to Increase: 5 DP

Accelerated Karma: 1 Per Session. Cost to Increase: 10 DP

Darkness Index: 1.6/2 (Effect/Countdown)

Magic Index: 1

Tech Index: 1

Group Assets: $10,000 Vehicle Harbor in Seattle
GMC Bulldog step van with $15000 in improvements including Chameleon Coating, Shielded Components and A Hard Point.
Base outside of Atlanta. This is a major facility, stealthed and quite nice.  It has repair gear and a moderate medical bay.

A E D G T F S

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The group gets 300,000 from selling the documents of the images to the Atlantean Foundation. For each of the PC's that is technically 60,000 apiece.

The book informs the group that the next 'location of significance' on December 12th, 2072 will be in Poland.

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