The Night City Stalker
Dramatis Personae (in order of appearance)
Charis: An intelligent, good looking, self-medicated medtech. She is usually delusional.
Dred Scott: A mean, freaky looking techie with wolvers and a bad attitude.
Maria: An ex-Russian Commander who now spends most of her time drowning her sorrows.
Jesse: A young female fixer. Usually giddy, not much is known about her past.
Jay: aka Jagger Meister. A solo that has survived more things than should be possible.
Neo: ex-poser ganger. Netrunner that gets frustrated with ditsy girls.
Connelly: A solo with two itchy trigger fingers and a lot of expensive weaponry.
Night City Stalker: Real name Brightman. Recently released convict turned cyberpsycho. He lives to kill.
The party wakes up in an empty full size van
Each one of them remembers being jumped on in the street
After a short argument Charis ventures to the front seat and discovers the van is being piloted by a thrown together droid that is simply following a robocab around town
There is a sign in the robot's lap that says "Happy Hunting"
Dred Scott decides to throw the robot in back and plop down in the driver's seat
Unfortunately Dred doesn't know how to drive
after ten seconds of successful driving the robocab begins to slow down
Dred misses his 50-50 chance and slams on the accelerator
The van crashes into the back of the cab an argument ensues
After a lot of honking and a couple shots from the outside Dred makes a whole in the van and the party exits
Maria follows her natural instincts and heads to the closest bar, the group follows
Dred starts a fight and the party is kicked out of the bar
Maria heads to the bar next door, the party waits outside
The bar owner says "you should leave, I aint lookin fer any trouble here"
The bar tender suggests that someone was looking for them
The party regroups in the street and a discussion ensues
Jesse reveals that she was working on a story that would implicate a certain serial killer called the Night City Stalker in a number of murders
The party decides that it is possible that they are being hunted
They decide to go back to Jesse's to get the evidence so they can sell it
Two robocabs are hailed a fight ensues between Jesse and Charis about who gets to sit in Neo's lap
Jesse lives in a coffinhouse by the sea, she warns the group to head straight for the door as soon as they get out of the cab
When the cabs arrive a woman runs by being chased by two gangers
Maria recognizes the gangers as Hyperpanzies and decides to leave them alone, Jesse and Charis head straight for the door
Jay takes the oppurtunity and promptly criples one of the gangers with a shotgun
Neo jumps from the cab with grace, whips out a Sternmeyer and promptly throws it over his head when he loses his grip on the gun, it lands on the other side of the cab
The ganger takes a couple shots at Jay but doesn't do much damage
Maria decides to sprint for the door
Connelly opens up with an assault rifle and levels the ganger
Jay finishes off the ganger lying on the floor and the rest head inside
The party heads upstairs to find Jesse's coffin filled with all her junk
She takes out a box filled with horribly gruesome pictures with the Night City Stalker standing over dead bodies etc.
Neo takes a particularly good picture and scans it into his cyberdeck, leaving a copy on the net just in case
Jesse informs them that she is meeting a couple of newscorps in the warehouse district to sell the pictures to the highest bidder
The party begins going down the stairs, Neo hails a couple cabs to meet them
Charis and Jesse begin fighting over the cab with Neo again and they start racing down the stairs
The two girls race into the street to find a bluehaired scrawny person running almost directly at them
The next second they realize that there is a giant boosterganger standing right beside the door and that he and the Techie are duking it out
The techie named Twitchy throws two baseball sized objects directly at the boosteganger chest
Jesse, not even breaking stride heads straight for the cab, throwing a frag grenade over her shoulder as she runs past
By this time the rest of the party is coming out of the entrance
Most of the party spots the walking-tank through the carboglass door
The two balls that Twitchy threw attach themselves to the ganger then explode, shooting out a mass of cable wire with grapling hooks
Most of these attach to the wall behind the ganger and begin pulling the boostergangers back towards the wall
Dred and Connelly walk around to the wall behind the ganger and Dred blows a hole through the wall, exposing the tanks backside
The owner of the establishment nearly kills Dred for blowing a hole in his wall for no particular reason
Jay pumps fire into the boosterganger but they only do a moderate amount of damage
Twitchy launches two mini-missiles at the tank's head
Everyone takes cover, Jay runs around the corner of the building and keeps going, Jesse's grenade goes off right at the ganger's feet
The party flees to the cabs leaving the boostergangers valuable corpse and twitchy to mourn the loss of two of his custom-made spider mines
The cab arrives at the warehouse district
No one wants to go inside the creepy looking warehouses so they stand in the street arguing
Charis takes another hit from her Pixie dust, in her delusional state she thinks she sees a cyberpsycho jumping from rooftop to rooftop, it fires a shot over her head
Jesse gives a shot of transwarp to Maria and Charis, they both sober up immediately, Neo buys a small cache from her
The party decides to head into the warehouse, Neo attaches his artificial eye to a light post outside
Maria heads in first, the warehouse is deserted, the corps are supposed to be here already
Everyone begins checking out the warehouse, Dred decides he wants a door in the side of the warehouse and makes one, he then wanders into an adjacent warehouse and gets shot at by homeless people living there
Dred and Connelly retreat to the warehouse and wait for the corps.
Soon a tapping is heard outside, coming towards the door
Thermograph reveals it's the two corps. They come inside and begin talking
They were "held up" and they look really spooked
Jesse begins negotiations for the cash amount, she explains that the other group has already been there and that they would need to beat their high bid of $15,000
The corp. gets nervous and decides to call his superior, Neo has been hiding under the table the whole time because he's scared of the Stalker
He hacks the phone call and "his superior" informs him that he is authorized to give them $20,000 for the photos
The transfer takes place and Neo jumps up from under the table obviously scared out of his wits, babbles something about coming death
The party takes off through the back door, Maria chucks a gas grenade into the room which forces everyone to evacuate.
Everyone starts running for their lives with the Stalker jumping on the rooftops and taking potshot at them
They reach a major highway and hide behind a dataterm
Steady fire begins coming from the rooftop, it pings of the terminal
One cabs arrives on the scene and a grenade is launched over their heads and throws the cab into the air
The party scatters on foot
Jesse and the gang head for a bar called the Slammer
They catch a cab halfway there and the party regroups
Jesse passes out the money and does some finishing touches on her 'last will and testament'.
The group heads indoors to find a bar packed with Solos and boostergangers.
Some of the party takes cover, Dred Scott begins bartering with almost everyone in the bar to sell off a couple of antique AK47's.
Neo and Jesse hire out four boostergangers to take out the next scary looking thing to head through the doorway, then they take cover.
The Night City Stalker bursts into the doorway immediately locking onto his prey.
Dred Scott finishes off bartering and turns around with his nice shiny new gun, he is standing closest to the door.
The Stalker mows him down with two full automatics, leaving little left of his body to resuccitate.
Charis and Connelly both make valiant attempts at shooting the Stalker's eye out, they do some damage but not enough.
Three of the hired boostergangers all open up at the same time.
They successfully destroy most of the living matter the Stalker has left, he collapses to the floor.
The fourth boosterganger becomes outraged at Connelly, he jumps up on the counter and screams "You have slain the chosen One!!! You will pay in blood!"
He opens up with every gun he owns, thankfully Connelly dodges behind a dataterm and is saved.
By this time Neo has succesfully hacked the first boosterganger and sends it charging at the rabid Zealot standing on the counter.
The two lock together with wolvers and rippers and kill eachother, one laying on top of the other.
The bar returns to normal.