{"id":3508,"date":"2021-03-08T23:56:31","date_gmt":"2021-03-08T23:56:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/odishoo.com\/logs\/?p=3508"},"modified":"2021-03-09T04:39:40","modified_gmt":"2021-03-09T04:39:40","slug":"session-1-the-crew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/odishoo.com\/logs\/2021\/03\/session-1-the-crew\/","title":{"rendered":"Session 1 &#8211; A baseball bat and two grapefruit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s September 2054 in Chicago, more than a year after the Spiritbane incident. We are a team of medics and security personnel for a DocWagon High Threat Response (HTR) unit that patrols the streets and rescues clients.<\/p>\n<p>John &#8211; Ryoshi, elf physical adept and sniper<br \/>\nBill &#8211; Thumper, troll street samurai<br \/>\nMatt &#8211; Icebox, human medic<br \/>\nPaul &#8211; Espadas, troll physical adept and sword fighter<br \/>\nJon (NPC) &#8211; Bright, human street samurai and former medic<br \/>\n(NPC) &#8211; Mari &#8220;Gearz&#8221;, dwarf rigger<br \/>\n(NPC) &#8211; Dr. Hyun, human doctor and team leader<\/p>\n<p>We spend the end of our shift at DocWagon sitting around the station and talking.\u00a0 Thumper shares that his family has a restaurant nearby and invites us all for dinner and drinks, including Mari.<\/p>\n<p>We go to the restaurant and meet his wife and daughter.\u00a0 Some sewer rat gangers come in and start pushing around his daughter and other customers.\u00a0 Thumper goes and and speaks gently to them, at which time they decide to leave.<\/p>\n<p>The next day we spend most of a boring shift just riding around in the ambulance.\u00a0 However towards the end of the shift we get a call about a car accident with gunfire.\u00a0 We pull up and a green car with gangers has crashed into a silver coupe that has our patient and four others.\u00a0 We pile out of the car and the gangers seem like they are threatening the car.\u00a0 Ryoshi quickly shoots off the side mirror of their car and the gangers all hit the dirt.\u00a0 There are also two shadowrunners there, Scales and Edge, who say the green car rammed into the silver one and they are there to help.<\/p>\n<p>The runners stay out of our way as we move in to stabilize the patient.\u00a0 Just then the window of the building next to the scene explodes as a desk come flying out of it&#8230;followed by two grenades.\u00a0 Everyone dives for cover.\u00a0 Thumper and Espadas dive on top of the victim and his friend.\u00a0 Dr, Hyun and Icebox are stunned and knocked flat.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/odishoo.com\/logs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Screenshot-2021-03-08-211430.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3533\" src=\"https:\/\/odishoo.com\/logs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Screenshot-2021-03-08-211430.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"642\" height=\"739\" srcset=\"https:\/\/odishoo.com\/logs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Screenshot-2021-03-08-211430.png 642w, https:\/\/odishoo.com\/logs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Screenshot-2021-03-08-211430-261x300.png 261w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 642px) 100vw, 642px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Espadas runs and vaults off the desk up into the open window.\u00a0 He hits and kills one of the 3 guys there with his vibrosword, effectively cutting him in half.\u00a0 The rest of the team starts to move the patient to the ambulance.\u00a0 Ryoshi drops another ganger in the window, and Espadas slices the last one.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/odishoo.com\/logs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Screenshot-2021-03-08-222313.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3531\" src=\"https:\/\/odishoo.com\/logs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Screenshot-2021-03-08-222313.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"289\" height=\"118\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Just then another truck crashed into the intersection.\u00a0 The team is able to get the victim in the ambulance, along with Dr. Hyun who is still stunned from the grenade.\u00a0 One of the gangers shoots at Bright as he is moving back, but Ryoshi shoots the ganger.\u00a0 Thumper drops a ganger and Scales drops another ganger.\u00a0 Dr. Hyun finally gets up and is able to get in the ambulance.\u00a0 Scales waves at us to indicate danger and shoots at the truck.\u00a0 We start getting the other people into the ambulance, but the panel of the truck pops open and a ganger pops out.\u00a0 He shoots a missile launcher that catches our med tech, two of the victims, and Icebox.\u00a0 The medtech is down.<\/p>\n<p>Bright pulls out his SMG and drops the guy with the missile launcher.\u00a0 Another jumps out but Thumper drops him.\u00a0 Two more gangers pop out from the van and shoot at Thumper, but miss.\u00a0 Ryoshi kills one of them.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/odishoo.com\/logs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Screenshot-2021-03-08-220253.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3530\" src=\"https:\/\/odishoo.com\/logs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Screenshot-2021-03-08-220253-1024x724.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"474\" height=\"335\" srcset=\"https:\/\/odishoo.com\/logs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Screenshot-2021-03-08-220253-1024x724.png 1024w, https:\/\/odishoo.com\/logs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Screenshot-2021-03-08-220253-300x212.png 300w, https:\/\/odishoo.com\/logs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Screenshot-2021-03-08-220253-768x543.png 768w, https:\/\/odishoo.com\/logs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Screenshot-2021-03-08-220253.png 1098w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Eagle Security shows up and the last ganger cowers against his car.\u00a0 We get the rest of the people in the ambulance.\u00a0 The last ganger shoots at Thumper but Ryoshi drops him.<\/p>\n<p>The gangers all had Sewer Rat paraphernalia. However they usually do not attack in large groups in public, and they usually do not have this kind of hardware. The med tech expires.<\/p>\n<p>The original victim who called us in is Locus Pendleton.\u00a0 Icebox recognizes him as the son of a Corp from Shiawase.\u00a0 Locus is a well known celeb partier, and we recognize his girlfriend as well.<\/p>\n<p>Eagle Security contacts DocWagon and lets them know that the danger has passed, and they are investigating what happened.<\/p>\n<p>The next day, Dr. Hyun is reassigned to a post at the hospital across the street as the director of the ER department. As a result, Isaac &#8220;Icebox&#8221; is now the team lead on the ambulance and will have two med-techs under him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s September 2054 in Chicago, more than a year after the Spiritbane incident. We are a team of medics and security personnel for a DocWagon High Threat Response (HTR) unit that patrols the streets and rescues clients. John &#8211; Ryoshi, elf physical adept and sniper Bill &#8211; Thumper, troll street samurai Matt &#8211; Icebox, human &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/odishoo.com\/logs\/2021\/03\/session-1-the-crew\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Session 1 &#8211; A baseball bat and two grapefruit<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chicago-runners"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/odishoo.com\/logs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/odishoo.com\/logs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/odishoo.com\/logs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/odishoo.com\/logs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/odishoo.com\/logs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3508"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/odishoo.com\/logs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3534,"href":"https:\/\/odishoo.com\/logs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3508\/revisions\/3534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/odishoo.com\/logs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/odishoo.com\/logs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/odishoo.com\/logs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}