The water rises below the wall where the group stands inside or near the NG Mobile hunter gun!
4ft deep now.
E0b TOWJAM worm checks (TOW/jumbles who is plugged into TOW/cam)
worm hacks gun and disables it temporarily
E0c Mecha checks (Caldor/nerbat) worm is trying to tip over mecha, pilot robot/ pp check to close hatch in time before water comes in/comp op check to detect worm hack attempts/comp op attempt check to detect JUMBLES defense network connection attempts/comp op check to detect booster boys txt msgs for nerbat/comp op check to detect reactions to TOW bounty on Targtun by merctown community (nerbat thinks post tow made in 123 on merc.social needs more multimedia)
E0d Jumbles checks (Cam) computer operations strengthen defense net with to suppress worm, buy ai computer operations software for 400k with towjams money
Jumbles ai horse wants skillsoft to supress towjam worm while hardwired to TOWJAM's kittani virus infected manhunter borg chassis. no earth cure exists for this virus.
E0e Blarblar influence checks
Atop the wall the YABLAR bubble maker, BLARBLAR watches the group battling the forces of evil with rising sympathy. Caldor's display of Osiris prayers caused the yablars demeanor to noticeably change and he is starting to look worried and guilty about leaving the group outside the walls.
Streetwise0 -see kid on bike Streetwise1 -detect gang support for nerbat Streetwise2 -command gang support Streetwise3 -claim territory (caldor/TOW/Nerbat) NERBAT gets 2 green booster boy minions allys https://3rdageofdragonwright.blogspot.com/2018/07/merctown-boosterboys.html
TV/video1 - enhance tow jams bounty on targtun with multimedia (tow doesnt have this skill and posted bounty txt only description which makes bounty less attractive to bounty hunters. (nerbat/caldor) nerbat posts something multimedia about targtun on socials...
Radiobasic1 - detect targtun c2 signal to pinprick rift / block/ hack RB2 - jumbles defense net
Computer Operation1 - merctown social messages - nerbat posts go viral as proof the invaders can be defeated CO2 - mech status operational but infected CO3 - jumbles defense net operational and under attack
Intelligence1 - estimate range to Targtun (caldor) I2 confirm kittanni support for targtun
cam sixthsense goes off - zamok has become compelled
E2 Zamok hands over the 2 osiris bones to targtun while under compulsion magic "GIVE ME THE BONES". Remaining Magic duration 23hrs
e5 targtun activates kittani virus c2 control and hands over control to his kittani handler "AMOK-4"
AMOK-4 tries to walk towjam to him once he gets the bones but cameron is able to break the hack by plugging towjam into jumbles and having the jumbles AI defend against the virus . after failing to drive his body like a puppet they try to kill tow with life support shutdown which is on going...
Targtun is forced to retreat after the mech starts shooting at him. He uses time slip to get to his jet and fly away before the group can react.
Blarblar allows the group in once TOW jam buys a blackmarket magic zone pass off the two boosterboys Nerbat now leads. Zamok uses it to claim he is an illusionist gnome and gains entrance for the group to the college arcane of the magic zone! The gates open, the mech drives in. https://3rdageofdragonwright.blogspot.com/2012/05/lifestyles-for-rifts-and-famous.html rules are in effect for where the group chooses to pay to stay.
XP 5/18/2023
Caldor Bountyhunter 10 104201 Priest 5 16851 +300 show up +100 fight targtun +175 skills +100 rp resisting the call of osiris +100 shoots bones out of zamoks hands +50 realize nerbat is alive in mech under randy's body +100 fight roy 100 rp alignment change +100 remebers he has a wife and children awaiting him at a nexus 105325 bounty hunter 10 Priest does not go up this session because he resisted the call of osiris successfully with a save vs insanity due to close proximity to the bones of Osiris for such a long time
- Frames can help with searches https://shadowrun.fandom.com/pl/wiki/Matrix_Searches
Require at least NG grade AI to design and run a frame effectively.
Rifts AIs here can run the following agents and frames. https://3rdageofdragonwright.blogspot.com/2020/06/99-100-merctown-crusade.html
10000000 AI NG
NG Utility Deck matrix cyberdeck programming. 2 Agent 4 Frames, 2 parallel drone/vehicle piloting slots
(Detroit accent, english)
20000000 AI NGR
NGR Jager 11 matrix cyberdeck programming 4 Agents 8 Frames, 4 parallel drone/vehicle piloting slots
40000000 AI Archi7
Blackmarket Prerifts Clone matrix cyberdeck programming 1-100 agents 1-100 Frames (requires significant nuclear power to use that many at once.) 1-100 complex drones or 1-1000 simpler drones
Cam 49215 +500 show up +100 fight targtun +200 skills +100 yell +100+100 fight vapire +100 cyber defends jumbles +100 plugs into towjam with jumbles to supress TOW worm from spreading further. +100 realize TOW worm is trying to kill tows life support systems and that he has liver damage and will likely die soon unless removed from infected borg chassis as no known earth cure exists for the KITTANI 97 COMPUTER VIRUS (years ago tow rolled a d100 to see how lethal the virus attacking him was and he rolled a 97, most lethal) +100 learns smart frame rules by watching towjam plugged into jumbles with new ai software upgrade 50715 Cam levels to 8!
Zamok 27825 +600 show up +10000 compulsion side effectsvvgkinddgcdrkh +100 has hands shot off by caldors mech to avoid giving up bones while under compulsion +100 "fights" targtun +125 skills +100 flys +100 fight royvamp 38950 Zamok levels to 6!
Nerbat 13250 +1000 show up +300 skills +100 close hatch to mech +100 social media merctown postings +100 fight roy vamp +50 realizes randy is dead +50 inherits roys cybernetics +100 claims magic zone for boosterboys as caporegime until he can contact his underboss... gains two associates (level1) who arnt made enough to be soldiers. Nerbat was a soldier before the fall of merctown to the invaders. Previously the bboyz did not have any presence in the magic zone at all, the other merctown zones did have capos since they were more technology focused, nerbat has some of the other capos contact numbers (streetwise roll)... +1000 indirectly saves group by getting boosterboy followers who have pass +100 meet 2-6 +100 meet 2-7 bboy level1 +650 rp survival bonus 16900 nerbat levels to 5
Befriends 2 merctown boosterboy gangers 2-6 and his brother who follow nerbat's merch into the college on their bikes...
