Campaign:Locking Up the Sun

Information[edit]

Setting[edit]

HackFuture: http://i.imgur.com/uW4jqvm.gif

The Ring[edit]

Contagonist - Hunter/Killer
Daeren - Mr. Rook
Mactavish - Tzaphkiemetel
- Mao: Surveilled.
Obligatum - Ms. Muse
Lithdoran - Mephistophilia
Spindly - Shiva
~~Yue - Sathariel - Demon form~~
- ~~Oller~~

Time and Place[edit]

Current Day: Thursday, September 28th 2045. Current Location: Los Angeles, USA.

Support[edit]

Workshop Wards: 21°C, 00/20.
Available Funds: $1,950,000
Liquid Assets

$200,000 to $18,700,000 in stolen artifacts.

Scholars of the Black Flame Shrines

Old City, Shanghai.
Kaidan, Tokyo.
Queens, New York City.
Little Tokyo, Los Angeles.
New International Quarter, Irkutsk.
International District, Seattle.

Sho Himura - Black Market Cyber-Surgeon/Hacker Extraordinaire

Bio: Heavily augmented stigmatic male. Late 40s. Japanese-American.
Location: Los Angeles, South California, USA
Tasks (0/2)
1. None.
- Analyzed data recovered from the Roppongi Club. (Completed!)
- Analyzing data recovered from the PCI Facility (Completed!)

Aoi Mizushima - Ex-Magical Girl of the God-Machine

Bio: Athletic offspring female. 17. Japanese.
- Embeds: Shatter, Turn Blade, Light Step, Delayed Reaction, Gadget - Quick Change.
Location: with Ring
Tasks (0/2)
1. None.
- Training Natsumi.

Natsumi Kita - Ex-Magical Girl of the God-Machine

Bio: Athletic offspring female. 17. Japanese.
- Embeds: On The Mend, Follow Through, Momentum, Gadget - Quick Change.
Location: with Ring
Tasks (0/2)
1. None.

Shigeyuki Miyashita - Rekindled Hardboilded Detective

Bio: Alcoholic tough as nails stigmatic male. 41. Japanese.
Location: with Ring
Tasks (1/2)
1. Leading the Experts of Truth remotely. (Tzaph's cult)
- Following the money on the hit on Faust. (Completed!)

Mr. Dusk - Fallen Angel Ereviel

Bio: Psychopomp Inquistitor, Current Cover: Masaru Chen
Location: Wan Chai, GHKM.
Tasks (2/2)
1. Independent Operations.
- Training with Omoikani.

Momo - German Shepherd Cyberdog

Bio: Exploited 1st Order Lambda (Duck Typing & Terrible Avatar), Pseudo-cryptid
- Aether: 5/10
Location: with Ring
Tasks (1/1)
1. Accompanying Shiva.

Hiroto Moto - HunterKiller's Protegee

Bio: Teenage psionic killer, currently using the name "Kou"
Location: with Ring
Tasks (0/2)
1. None.

Pathogen Status[edit]

Langston-Wade Syndrome
Point of Origin: New York City @ May 28th, 2045.
Date: July 8th (0/2)
United Stats of America (GIA)

New York City: Public Outbreak on June 2nd, 2045.
- Progress: 271(17)
- Spread: 55
  - Major Epidemic in North Eastern USA.
    - Fatalities +10% on Exceptional Success.
- Virulence: 10.
- Fatalities: 363.
Los Angeles: Public Outbreak on June 15th, 2045.
- Progress: 50(3)
- Spread: 2
- Virulence: 4.
- Fatalities: 1.
Chicago: Public Outbreak on June 20th, 2045.
- Progress: -11(-2)
- Spread: CONTAINED
- Virulence: Chance Die.
- Fatalities: 0.
Houston: Public Outbreak on June 20th, 2045.
- Progress: 22(1)
- Spread: 3
- Virulence: 3.
- Fatalities: 3.
Detroit: Public Outbreak on July 30th, 2045
Miami: Public Outbreak on July 17th, 2045

Japan (IRF)

Tokyo: Public Outbreak on June 27th, 2045.
- Progress: 101(18)
- Virulence: 15, 9-again.
- Spread: 28
  - Epidemic in Kanto.
    - Fatalities +10% on Exceptional Success.
- Fatalities: 194.

United Kingdom (IRF)

London: Public Outbreak on June 27th, 2045.
- Progress: 76(14)
- Spread: 18
  - Minor Epidemic in the Greater London Region.
    - Fatalities +5% on Exceptional Success.
- Virulence: 14, 9-again.
- Fatalities: 115.

France (IRF)

Paris: Public Outbreak on June 30th, 2045.
- Progress: 70(19)
- Spread: 20
  - Epidemic in Île-de-France.
    - Fatalities +10% on Exceptional Success.
- Virulence: 15, 9-again.
- Fatalities: 161.

G.H.K.M. (HDL)

Hong Kong: Public Outbreak on June 30th, 2045.
- Progress: 53(14)
- Spread: 20
  - Epidemic in G.H.K.M.
    - Fatalities +10% on Exceptional Success.
- Virulence: 12, 9-again.
- Fatalities: 90.

India (HDL)

New Delhi: Public Outbreak on June 30th, 2045.
- Progress: 91(19)
- Spread: 49
  - Major Epidemic in Delhi.
    - Fatalities +20% on Exceptional Success.
- Virulence: 15, 8-again.
- Fatalities: 306.
Chennai: Public Outbreak on July 3rd, 2045.
- Progress: 89(17)
- Spread: 20
  - Epidemic in Tamil Nadu.
    - Fatalities +10% on Exceptional Success.
- Virulence: 15, 8-again.
- Fatalities: 143.
Hyderabad: Public Outbreak on July 30th, 2045

Brazil (HDL)

Rio de Janeiro: Public Outbreak on June 30th, 2045.
- Progress: 73(17)
- Spread: 17
  - Minor Epidemic in the state of Rio de Janeiro.
    - Fatalities +5% on Exceptional Success.
- Virulence: 15, 8-again.
- Fatalities: 147.

Germany (SPC)

Berlin: Public Outbreak on July 3rd, 2045.
- Progress: 14(5)
- Spread: 1
- Virulence: 5.
- Fatalities: 5.

Spain (IRF)

Barcelona: Public Outbreak on July 3rd, 2045.
- Progress: 59(16)
- Spread: 10
  - Minor Epidemic in the Catalonia.
    - Fatalities +5% on Exceptional Success.
- Virulence: 15.
- Fatalities: 58.

Columbia (SPC)

Bogota: Public Outbreak on July 3rd, 2045.
- Progress: 20(5)
- Spread: 1
- Virulence: 5.
- Fatalities: 5.

Kenya (IRF)

Nairobi: Public Outbreak on July 5th, 2045.
- Progress: 31(5)
- Spread: 6
- Virulence: 10.
- Fatalities: 10.

Republic of China (IRF)

Nanjing: Public Outbreak on July 8th, 2045.
Xi'an: Public Outbreak on July 8th, 2045.

Nigeria

Lagos: Public Outbreak on July 12th, 2045.

Indonesia (GIA)

Kuala Lumpar: Public Outbreak on July 17th, 2045

People's Republic of China

Tianjian: Public Outbreak on July 23rd, 2045
Dalian: Public Outbreak on July 30th, 2045

Mexico (GIA)

Guadalajara: Public Outbreak on July 30th, 2045

Egypt (SPC)

Cairo: Public Outbreak on August 7th, 2045

Turkey (HDL)

Istanbul: Public Outbreak on August 7th, 2045

COUNTER MEASURES

Vitae-based Suppresent: Publicly announced on June 16th, 2045 by Medica Mechanica.
- Virulence is not increased on exceptional successes and increases from Progress are reduced(1 per 50 in the GIA, 1 per 25 in the SPC).
- Virulence is limited to 10 in the GIA and 12 in the SPC.
- Spread is only increased on second order exploding dice.
- Fatalities bonuses are reduced by 50% in the GIA and 25% in the SPC.
- Bio-attacks are less effective.
Daeva Corp Suppressant: Available since July 8th, 2045.
- Properties unknown.
- Currently being deployed in New Delhi, India only.

XP and Rewards[edit]

New York Experience: 20
Los Angeles, Part I: 10
Los Angeles, Part II: 10
Tokyo, Part I: 9 XP

Suborned the Aqua-Line C+C Infrastructure.
Safehouse. Will be completed the 8th.

Tokyo, Part II: 11 XP

Allies: Agency, Water Trade
Allies: Agency, Black Ships
Allies: Agency, Omoigani
Allies: Yakuza, Toa-Kai
Allies: Shinmetsu

Tokyo, Part III: 10 XP

Dirt on literally everyone important in the country.

Tokyo, Part IV: 20 XP
Shanghai, Part I: 5 XP
Shanghai, Part II: 5 XP
Shanghai, Part III: 10 XP

Looted Anomaly Artifact (+5 Speed & Init, +1 to all Dexterity pools. +0.05 Gy/hour of use).

Into The Wall: 3 XP
Into The Zone: 3 XP
Revelations: 6 XP
Escape: 3 XP
Shangai Naval Works: 5 XP
Hong Kong, Part 1: 10 XP
Hong Kong, Part 2: 5 XP
Raiding the Goddess Facility: 15 XP
The Beginning of the End: 15 XP
Total Experience: 175

From the Tattletale column[edit]

May 29th, 2045[edit]

Out of smokes. Out of scotch. Out of Jumpstarts. Holy hell I hate this place. Between the excruciating banality of the incompetent desk jockey to the deep corruption in our police force, this city stinks like a dead animal that's been whored out to a clan of psychopaths. Just today, another grisly death happened.

Naturally, New York's Fattest are ruling it a suicide because they can't be arsed to do anything else. It's like a mediocre school play where everyone is phoning it in and nobody has a good copy of the script. But I know the truth is deeper. Beneath the grime and the bullshit and the red tape, there's something else pulling these particular strings.

Somebody out there knows. Somebody down there. The truth is out there, right there.

Whoever it is, I'm coming for you. Sleep tight.

-TT

May 30th, 2045[edit]

THE SHIT FLIES STRAIGHT INTO THE FAN, by Tamara T. Holloway.

"Time and time again you morons are warned and you don't listen. You never learn. For those of you not paying attention (that is, all of you, and I hate each and every one of you) there is a fucking reason why there's so many unnceserary controls at airports, and why you don't blindly sign to unions or political parties, nor you get into nice-sounding associations with vaguely-defined goals and peppy meaningless slogans."

"Alright, I'm going to be patient and spell it out to you dumb lemmings at home. Again. Promise you'll pay attention and do something smart for once. Chance are slim but what the fuck do I know, I'm high enough to hold hope for the human race. Just a tiny sliver of it"

"1) They're running sketchy shit behind the scenes plus they want to root out 'dangerous' people read UNDESIRABLES. 2) They're a sham and a scam, and chances are they cover for 3) A FUCKING CULT YOU SLOW-MINDED GIT."

"The retards yapping off about security and terrorism and biohazards and blah blah blah can go read that one quote by Benjamin Franklin, shove an entire cactus up their asses, and shut up. In that order. You just know there's sketchy shit going on in there" (distant shot of the hanger).

"Tell me about this shit. (picture of a flier for the Friendship Group). What the fuck is this? Why do we seem to know so little about them? Why do they have this big, huge, visible-from-effing-space boner for community and cooperation and unity and bla bla bla? Why do they seem to have a finger in the Trade Union pie? And why, good god, why do these overgrown Teletubbies have a fucking political party for themselves?"

"I'm going to repeat the question. Why do we know so little about them? Records are sketchy, no criminal files of any kind, no friction with other groups, no word on their structure, ideals, methodologies, practices or leadership, not even an abstract. I'll tell you why. They are a CULT. No, don't give me that face, look at it. (link to an article about detecting red flags of a cult-like movement)."

"Look at this shit, they check off every red flag. EVERY SINGLE ONE. Plus in my experience, if someone has no records of any kind, they are up to some shady fucking shit. If it sounds too good to be true, it is. Sorry to burst your bubble. Only not really. Bursting people's bubbles is my job and my vocation.It's what gives me a hard-on."

"We know what cults are, we know what they do, we KNOW the harm they do to people. So what will we need for you stupid shits to actually pay attention and act before it's too late? Do you need another Jim Jones to get off your asses? I think it might already have happened."

"You DPA chucklefucks are as responsible as they are. Director Norris was too busy sucking on the governor's cock and painting her fingernails to do her job. You were too lazy and inattentive, you ignored the warning signs, and you did not act on time. You suck, you blew it, and now people died. Their blood is on your hands as well. Fucking own up to it and start acting, or pay the price."

"Those events are connected, people. Don't ignore this, don't change the channel. Act. You, the citizen, must act. The time is now. Don't let them sway you with empty promises. Don't drink the Kool-Aid."

"Shady, ugly shit was going on behind the scenes inside that hanger. The Friendship Group must be stopped. WAKE UP AMERICA."