Session 9 – Mule Kick

Eve pulls into a dark alley and starts questioning the hacker. He is disoriented and wants to know why he is there and who we are. Eve says that we want to know all the information he has about Overclock, and to ask about us is not in his best interest. Raptor intimidates him as well. The hacker says that she lives down on the Carmine District, but he doesn’t know what she is doing or why. He relates some other info about who she hangs out with and what she’s been doing, but it is not much info.

Raptor says that he is lying, and Eve is skeptical as well. He says that he is telling the truth. Eve throws him out of the van and tells him to get lost, and not to look back. Cam drives off towards the ship.

Back on the ship, we decide that we need to storm Overclock’s residence, an apartment in the downtown area. We park nearby and come towards the front entrance. Stitch is off to the side with his sniper rifle. As the rest of the party approaches the door, a car comes out of the alley straight at us. Stitch aims at the driver but sees that there is no one in the car — a rigger must be driving it from a distance. The group scatters, all except for Raptor, who takes the impact of the car full-on. He is not damaged, however. The door comes off its hinges.

Stitch takes out the camera on the fifth floor with his rifle and the rest of the group files into the building. Graves checks the elevator and it doesn’t seem to be working. Everyone runs up the stairs to the fifth floor and Overclock’s apartment. Graves mule-kicks the door and he and Raptor run in. They see two turrets in the main room and rush past; luckily they are too fast and the turrets don’t go off. They continue to the back of the apartment to see two rooms with closed doors and an overturned desk at the end of the hall.

Eve and Cam stay in the hallway. Suddenly the turrets start going off, firing at the guys inside the room. Two more turrets pop up in the hallway and start firing as well. Graves knocks over one of the turrets and Raptor blows one up with a grenade.

Eve hears footsteps coming from the stairwell. She walks over and takes aim at anyone who might be coming up but doesn’t see anyone. Cam asks why Eve is covering the stairwell, and she says that she still hears footsteps but he does not. Stitch says that he does not see anyone coming up the stairs but that the alarm has been sounded.

Eve goes into the room in the middle of the hallway and sees that it is a laundry room. There is no one in there. Cam peeks into the apartment and shoots one of the remaining turrets. Raptor checks the closet in one of the rooms and finds a bunch of computer parts. He is attempting to set a C-4 charge to blow them all up and suddenly his cybereyes have been hacked and he is seeing a cartoony vision of a forest. He calls for Graves to come in and help him. He sets a bead charge and blows up the computers.

Eve comes in and takes any electronics from the destroyed turrets, and says that everyone should get out. Stitch goes to the van and brings it to the front of the building so we can escape. We peel out and drive back towards the ship. A few minutes after we leave, Raptor gets his vision back.