124 Targtun Standoff

E0 Environmental Conditions, cave continues to flood

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.

E0f  Environment skill quests

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

E-1 Tense Targtun standoff , assume 1 hour of tense negotiations has passed, the serpent is within melee of the bot being ridden by ROY-vampire who clings to it to stay out of the rising waters.  Targtun is 100meters south of bot outside the defensive minefield the serpent only partialy cleared to the west.  Zamok is 50meters away from targtun to the south.  The rest of the group clusters around the mecha, in front of the wall to the Collegiate arcane which glimmers with a crimson wall of ichtlon enchantment.

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

TOW 78900 +400 show up +100 fight targtun +275 skills +100 watches tow worm attack jumbles cybernight defensive personal area network +100 gets liver damage borg alarm+100 fight roy +100 buy jumbles defense net software earns ALLY rifts contact 80075

Jumbles now neighs approvingly at the site of towjam and realizes if the link between them is broken TOW jams liver will break.

Level 1 loyalty  /Level 1 connections (cyberknights/tech) provides +5% to computer skills when plugged into  jumbles as a "smart frame" can also follow the following shadowrun framerules (For now just a plus 5 but think automation as a hint) 

 https://3rdageofdragonwright.blogspot.com/2015/02/rifts-contacts.html 

https://shadowrun.fandom.com/wiki/Source:Matrix/Table_of_contents

Rifts AI Frames (used by people to enhance skill roll) and Agents (run at time or condition)

Requires at least NorthernGun grade AI.

Frame Core (jumbles AI has computer operation only and can automate skill with frames)

Designing Frames and Agents (created with computer programming skill roll)

Loading Utilities (once designed loading a utility takes computer operation)

Running a Frame or Agent (computer operation/hacking depending on frame design)

Dumb Frame Rules (computer operation, computer repair automation)

Smart Frame and Agent Rules (computer programming, computer haking)

• 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

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/Mafia_family_structure_tree.en.svg/1200px-Mafia_family_structure_tree.en.svg.png

Befriends 2 merctown boosterboy gangers 2-6 and his brother who follow nerbat's merch into the college on their bikes...

123 Mate of Suay Part 3

💀

e0 Zamok has vampire vision via clairvoyance, randy in danger

Roy dies of Sepsis and vampire bites and rises from the dead as a vampire inside the mech.

Roy kills randy before anyone notices in 122

When targtuns serpent is about to attack, Roy steals the chest plate and tries to leave mech to give plate to the serpent.

Caldor stops Roy and clings to the chest plate!

Roy magic nets Caldor

Roy forcebonds caldor's arms together

TOW cuts off the magic net.

Roy escapes onto sea serpents head without the chest plate after Caldor PRAYS TO OSIRIS on the plate, making it glow with globe of daylight effect which repels roy.

caldor reverts to RIFTS PRIEST OCC again due to successful prayer to osiris being heard by ISIS and responded to (xp now go to priest class not bounty hunter class until he casts out osiris again from his heart, being unprotected so close to so many bones of Osiris has a alignments shift towards good and become priest effect over time unless save vs insanity)

Caldor alignment shifts from ANARCHIST

to ABERRANT leaning towards UNPRINCIPLED if gaining another level (6)in priest (bones curse)

Nerbat passes out from sepsis under Randy's body.

Caldor gets back into mech with chest plate and is at the controls at the start of 124

Cameron tries to call for help from cybernights with jumbles.   Jumbles defense network characters used is tested by tow worm.

TOW tries to call for help from merctown defense forces over rdio.

TOW looks up trying to hire mercenaries in merctown.social wifi network and places a 1 mil bounty on merctown bounty.net for Targtun.

jumbles reports TOW hacking Cam, cam charges tow with antivirus and manages to disable TOW worm temporarily again.

ZAMOK sees Targtun land jet and approach.

Targtun tries to dessicate supernatural Zamok and fails since zamok is a creature of magic and immune.

Zamoke charges.

ZAmoke ALMOST gets to targtun to attack him with the two leg bones of OSiris, when targtun casts COMPULSION " you want to give me all the bones of osiris"

Zamok kneels before targun and is offering up the 2 leg bones at the end of 123 after failing his save. 

retcons(sorry)

GM Decided TOW does NOT Fit in the mech as a manhunter borg in full combat armor (the rear missile tubes are too long armor too fat)

GM decided Roy was NOT killed by a nat 20 hit from Cameron psi sword, instead his armor of ithan was blown off and he successful ran and hid inside the sea serpents spine mane behind its mouth.

sources:

NPC Villian stats

https://3rdageofdragonwright.blogspot.com/2022/11/william-targturn-shifter.html

mate of suay stats

https://3rdageofdragonwright.blogspot.com/2022/12/120-sea-serpent-attacks.html

XP 3/10/2023

Caldor 104201 +300 show up +100 skills +100 rp +100 pray for aid +100 turns undead vs Roy +100 drives roy from mech +100 pilots mech 

+100 attempts to resist Osiris's curse and maintain bounty hunter OCC +100 reverts to priest occ to turn undead roy and gains level 5 

+100 gains 5th level in priest and 5th level mystic powers as "prayers" to Osiris (responded to by Isis) 

+100 realizes serpent has encircled mecha cal pilots

TOW 77700 +400 show up +100 bounty targtun +200 skills +100 contact merctown defense +100 rp to resist targtun +100 software cured by cam +100 realize hardware firmware still infected   +100 realizes nerbat is comatose 

Cameron 47365 +500 show up +1000 definfect of kitani virus TOW +50 skills +100 resist targtun +100 rp cure +100 jumbles rp

Zamok 26725 +600 show up +100 fail save vs compulsion, compulsed to give targtun the 2 leg bones he posesess, starts running towards targtun at end of 123 +100 rp +100 skills +100 make golem +100 rp

NPC XP update

Jumbles was at 2500XP in 108 so he hasn't gotten xp for 15 sessions, 15*1000=+15000 xp, 17250

Jumbles sends TOW encrypted msg through the link that puts the TOW worm in towjams software to sleep.  

"TOW can still be reinfected if the cable connecting us is severed.  Cyberknight command has authorized JUMBLES to install a Northern Gun AI app store technical skill pack for COMPUTER OPERATIONS.  This will alow me to continue to suppress the TOW worm in your hardware so long as we remain tethered.  JUMBLES will be needing 400,000 cr black market "  Shows link to app store on merctown social"   CYBERKNIGHT COMMAND mention MAGIC CURSE ON BONES.  JUMBLES IMMUNE TO CURSE IS NOT ALIVE.  BEEP BOOOP

https://3rdageofdragonwright.blogspot.com/2020/06/99-100-merctown-crusade.html

 in 124 computer hacking/streetwise/intelligence to learn more about app store pricing and operations.

Northern Gun AI apps for sale

200000 black market comms program +5 communications skills
100000 domestic program +5 domestic skills
500000 mechanical 4 mechanical at 94%
400000 5 Science skills 94%
400000 per technical skill (Jumbles wants Computer Operations skill to suppress TOWs firmware virus)
300000 5 wilderness skills

JUMBLES current apps:

Programming:

Blackmarket General Military Skill Program - 300,000cr sb1 p97 +1s/p/d/ini/attacks
Radio basic 98, math basic 98, pilot auto 70, pilot hover, land nav 45, understands american euro technocan, dragonese 98 speaks technocan dialect non cyberknights have difficulty understanding 98

Blackmarket Pilot Related Skill Program - 50,000cr sb1 p97
Read Sensors, Weapons Systems, Navigation 94

Caldor levels to 5 as Priest and gains Level5 Mystic powers as "prayers to osiris" which he can now "read" as glowing egyption symbols written into the chestplate.

6 level1-2 spells ([globe of daylight] [] [] [] [] [] 

4 1-3 spells [] [] [] []  3 1-4 spells [] [] [] 2 5 spells [] []

122 Blarblar the Yablar

e-2 read decription p68

Blarblar looks disapprovingly upon the party from his place atop the walls of the Collegiate Arcane.

in 121 The group tried in vain to get Blarblar to let them into the Collegiate Arcane. Denied, the group has no magic zone permit.  The rest was supposed to bexff in the mage's party and not to be left alone or risk arrest by magic zone police.  At lease this was the law BEFORE the vampire invasion, now there are no magic zone police other than in the safe zones, like here at the collegiate arcane.

e-1 psigoblin opera story by chatgpt and your GM

"Die Walküre with Goblins" is a retelling of the unknown Rifts opera set in a multiverse filled with goblins. The story revolves around Dunscon the Wizard's minion a goblin king named Natow who has fathered twin children, dnumgeiS and ednilgeiS.

Dnumgeis is a coward theif who finds himself given responsibilities and takes refuge in a birthing pit where he meets Ednilgeis, who is under an good enchantment. The two fall in hate and are about to be separated by Natow's minions, when a group of Merctown goblins intervene, revealing themselves as the true protectors of the haters.

The goblins, led by the  Edlihnurb, use their might and psionics to help dnumgeiS and ednilgeiS escape from Natow's grasp. However, their meddling attracts the wrath of Natow, who orders Edlihnurb to capture the haters and bring them to him.

Edlihnurb, who has grown to hate and respect the couple, defies Natow's orders and instead places the haters in a magical rage, protected by a ring of ice that only the cowardlyest goblin can cross. Natow, in a fit of love, strips Edlihnurb of her powers and leaves her to be discovered by the first mortal to cross the ice.

As the story unfolds, the goblins, dnumgeiS, ednilgeiS, and Edlihnurb are caught in a power struggle, with Natow's desire for Law and joyful conquest clashing against the goblins' hate of order and fun. In the end, it is hate, cowardry, and the bonds of goblin family anarchy that triumph over the forces of orderly conquest.

psi goblin opera lyrics

Natow - enscorelled goblin minion of Dunscon the Wizard, leader of Federation of Magic aligned tribe

Dnumgeis  -daugher of natow, goblin rebel against dunscons rule and leader of rebel tribe 

edlihnnurB - son of natow, rebel against duscons rule , half demonspawn, protecting the corwardly rebel goblin tribes from ducons tribes

(the worm possessess tickles and begins to sing using its very high MA score of 24)

https://3rdageofdragonwright.blogspot.com/2010/12/zee.html

Verse 1:

In the low and waning day,

With goblins hunting those to slay,

On their monkies, slow and gloomy,

They bring the souls to their doomy.

Chorus:

Goblins, goblins, in the dirt,

Carrying souls to Brasscity lurk,

With their cackles, oh so harsh,

They drag the soul's to Dunscon's marsh.

Verse 2:

Goblin tribes, they do slay,

With iceblades, they clash in the end of day,

And Dnumgeis, she's fallen fast,

But the goblins come to take her last.

Chorus:

Goblins, goblins, in the dirt,

Carrying souls to Brasscity lurk,

With their cackles, oh so harsh,

They drag the soul's to Dunscon's marsh.

Bridge:

But the demon, Natow's son,

He comes to curse the coward,

With psionics and his power,

He'll make the goblins hollar.

Chorus:

Goblins, goblins, in the dirt,

Doing the bidding of Edlihnnurb squirt,

With his power and his will,

He'll protect the cowardly from the goblins still.

Outro:

So let the goblins take to their dirt,

With the souls of the corward in sight,

And let edlihnnurB rule the dirt,

With his magic, dark and hurt.

https://palladiumbooks.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=105042

https://chat.openai.com/chat

Turn Die Walküre into Operatic style lyrics with goblins instead of Valkyries

Skillroll encounters

e1 Law cam /Streetwise - Magic Zone permit costs 1mil normally - find connect to buy on blackmarket

e3 radio basic RX - targtun c2 with pinpric rift - defense force muster call - jumbles setup defensenet - merctown radio nerbat report

e4 radio basic TX - defense force muster enlist as private - 

e4 radio scrambler - jam targtun c2 - jumbles radio defensenet

e6 computer operation merctown social - robot sensors detect mate of suay - brute force alert starts up - join jumbles defensenet - 

 e7 computer hacking - detect TOW Worm activating in TOW- detect TOW worm activating in combat computer of ng bot - nerbat merctown social network hack attempt from unknown threat actor - detect NG bot starts trying to hack jumbles

serpent charges

hits minefield

gets shot alot for a few melee rounds... at end of e122 worm has closed into melee with the party and is searching for victims.

zamok is shadow melded and hiding

everyone else is in the robot except cam who rides jumbles

XP

Caldor 103426 +175 skills +100 first game table login +200 show up +100 rp +100 fight mate of suay +100 pilots bot 104201

TOW 76850 +200 skills +50 warn +100 rp +300 show up +100 fight mate of suay +100 gets in bot

77700

Cam  46590 +275 skills +50 burst fire +100 jumbles rp +300 show up +50 rous  +100 fight mate of suay 47465

Zamok 25925  +100 skill +100 shadowmeld when seeing second serpent +100 randy rp +500 show up

 +100 fight mate of suay 26825

Tickles 20365  +100 fight mate of suay+150 skill +100  emties clip +100 rp +1000 song Denali contacts tickles about a promotion if he frees merctown.. +500 show up 22315

Tickles Levels to 6! sings his song and leaves to rally the goblin army to invade merctown in the name of the federation of magic 

Nerbat 12000 +350 skills +100 continues to break gun +100 breaks gun more +100 posts on social media +600 show up  +100 rp  +100 fight mate of suay 13350 

Nerbat learns Radio Scrambler from Zamok's Apprentice RANDY, who is an NPC also inside thew BOT https://3rdageofdragonwright.blogspot.com/2022/03/randy-randal-super-spy-mage.html 

Session ends with Shifter aproaching after casting WORLD BAZAAR

121 Mate Of Suay

e0 Rumbling, mate of suay slowly approaches

e1 skill quests

radio scrambler - 4 TOW jam worm comms deteted tracing to pinpoint rift north of collegiate arcane

read sensors in bot 11 semsmic alerts detected in bot

lore magic 19 to determine shifter gets 1d4 serpents and likely has more (zamok)

computer operation - use bot to access social media Nerbat continues to get Merctown famous for posting video footage of the fights, Merctown defense force leadership has started to follow Nerbat's actions, towjam psionic dampner alert vs hyp suggestion

computer hacking - Cameron uses cure to worm given to her by cyberknights to cure tow jams software, his hardware remains infected

e2 vampire attack

desperate to escape the rising waters, the vamps try to convince tow to save them.  

Zamok smashes through the car the vamps are in kills shane, and nearly kills DEstiny before TOW protects her.  After some negotiations the group almost takes Destiny in before she is tossed into the minefield and used to clear it.  Afterwards the rising water dissolves destiny.

e3 meeting BLARBLAR the YABLAR

The group finds a lone sentry at the gates of the Collegiate Arcane "GREETINGS, I AM BLARBLAR"  negotiations to enter commence.  Off in the distance a TSUNAMI roars, brought on by the arrival of the MATE OF SUAY, the HUGE second serpent Targtun the Shifter controls.

XP

Caldor 102626 +200 show up +150 skills +50 vamp fight +100 climbing +100 fight TOW -93 SDC to borg armor +100 rp vs tow +50 meet BLARBLAR +50 kick tow 103426

TOW 75800 +300 show up +50 skills +50 vamp fight +100 destiny rp +100 fight Caldor -64SDC +100 rp vs caldor +50 meet BLARBLAR +50 punch cal +250 showing up in RL ☺76850

CAM 45740 +400 show up +50 skills +100 responds to jumbles alerts about TOW trying to hack jumbles her AI horse +50 vamp fight +100 install patch in TOW +100 rp vs tickles attacked by virus +50 meet BLARBLAR 46590

Zamok 24975 +500 show up +100 skills works on disguise +100 vamp fight +100 destiny rp +100 rp vs vamps +50 meet BLARBLAR 25925

Nerbat 10675 +600 show up +175 skills +200 vamp fight +100 social +100 rp social +50 meet BLARBLAR +100 shoots destiny 12000

	Name	OCC	RCC	XP	Level	XPProgress	Next Level
	Caldor	Osiris Priest 4 Bounty Hunter 10	Kreeghor	103426	10		11
	TowJam	Smuggler	Human Borg	76850	9		10
	Cameron		Psi-warrior	46590	7		8
	Zamok		Crystal Dragon Hatchling	25925	5		6
	Roy	Techno-Wizard	Human	10225	4		5
	Nerbat	Professional Theif	Quick-Flex	12000	4		5

NPCs in region:

Temporal Raider Merchant (in front of party)

Jumbles the Horse (next to cam)

Randy (in bot)

122 Starts outside 126 wall on map https://3rdageofdragonwright.blogspot.com/2019/06/merctown-mystic-quarter.html