We resume our duties on our next shift, but we are all kind of tense about all of the things that have gone on. Fortunately it is a quiet shift, until a call comes in around 9 pm. It is on the other side of our patrol area so we have a ways to go. Mari says hold on and starts speeding there. The patient is Ben Adkins, 31, human, and is basically healthy, but he has a hazardous occupation although it doesn’t say what. Blood pressure is low and dropping. It takes us 20 min to get there. We arrive at Zee’s Club.
Thumper leads the way as we move to the door. The bouncer confirms our ID and lets us in. Inside it is loud, crowded, and hard to see. Isaac cant find the guy so we talk to the bartender. He says there is another business in the basement that is not part of the bar. He goes around to the back of the bar and opens a hidden door. We head down the secret steps into the basement. We hear different music, much more grinding. Two guards in security armor approach us and try to stop us. The trolls keep going and we follow them in. As we look into the club there are 2 trolls just beating on each other in the center of the floor. There are a bunch of orc gangers and others around the floor, watching the fight. They are Sewer Rats. We also see a guy in a very expensive suit and a woman with blue eyes. She is very powerful in magic and a little bored but intrigued. We see the signal is coming from the back of the club. The bouncer says that the ambulance crew already arrived.
We get to the patient and see the other crew from Crash Cart., 2 guards and 2 medics. They try to stop us and say that they were here first. They pull up their guns and point them at us. Espadas rolls in and slices the barrels off of the guards guns. Thumper thumps one of the medics in the face, and he lands on his back like a sack of ham. Ryoshi and Isaac move past the stunned Crash Cart guys and move towards the patient. The rest of the crew follows. Ryoshi kicks in the door (everyone else is very impressed).
We see the patient on the ground in a pool of blood with a woman bending over him. He has been beaten to a pulp and is close to bleeding out. He is not even recognizable. We slap on a Trauma patch and start moving him and his girlfriend out of here. Two trolls start to block our way and say that Ben has to fight and they own him. Ben comes around a little and says he wants to fight. We keep talking to the troll bouncers, and to Ben to try and keep the fight from happening, but he really wants to fight and is willing to waive his Doc Wagon contract. Isaac slaps a Tranq patch on him to try and keep him down. He passes out.
We tell the troll manager that he can’t fight but he will be able to find him once he is healed. We keep moving out. On the way out we notice a person in the crowd with a Universal Brotherhood symbol. Espadas assenses her and she is a magic user, very strong but the aura is strange. She also has some cyberware. We carry the guy out of the club and to the ambulance. We start treating him in the ambulance and start driving to the hospital. We get him there and get him secured.
On the way out we run into Dr. Hyun. She tells us that her man we talked to after the explosion has since passed away. We are not surprised. Our shift concludes and tomorrow we are on duty in the station.
We head to the Triple Tap for a drink after a weird night. We run into Bright there along with his new crew. He is really happy to be back doing medical work. We eat and decide to go and look at another of the Sewer Rat sites that was flagged on our map, the one by the old Gold Coast. We know that this mostly run down and inhabited by homeless people. We do see one cluster of people hanging around some of the remaining buildings. These people seem to have better clothing and are more on watch. We settle in and watch them. After a while a van backs up to a side door. Looking through his scope, Ryoshi sees crates similar to the ones we saw in the warehouse. There are 4 orcs helping with the crates.
After the van pulls away we decide to hit the gangers and take the weapons off the street. Espadas sneaks up to the gangers and hits two of them with his swords. They both die instantly. One of the remaining guys notice the sound but Ryoshi drops him.
Isaac uses his Maglock key on the warehouse door. He opens it and we look inside. There are 4 more gangers opening the crates. Combat ensues. Ryoshi hits one of the gangers, but doesn’t get through his armor. Thumper kills one with his shotgun. They shoot back and Icebox is hit, but he shakes it off. Icebox hits the guy who hit him. Espadas charges in and takes out two guys. Ryoshi drops the last one.
We start looking at the crates but hear more voices from behind the other door in the room. They say go around and several others try coming through the door. Several of the crates had grenades and Espadas throws two of them at the door they are coming through. A bunch of them drop, but one of the grenades bounces back and Espadas catches the edge of the blast, but he is OK. Thumper also takes out several with another grenade.
Icebox shoots and he shoots Espadas in the back, in spite of the Joker.
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We dispatch the remaining gangers.
We hear other noises from in the building. We grab what we can carry and Thumper shoots a rocket into what is left to blow the rest up.
Thumper gets caught in the explosion but manages to not die. Mari comes an picks us up and gets us all back to the Triple Tap. We stash the weapons we took. Isaac gets a message from an anonymous person. An older man’s face appears on the screen. Isaac recognizes him as the guy who was with the blue eyed girl in the basement bar. His name is Vincent Dupree and he is an executive at Saeder Krupp. He asks to meet when it is convenient.
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