While I am sorry to say I have not yet completed the adventure related to the screamsheet from December, the reason for it is rather fortunate. I wanted to do a test game with the resources I want to provide at a local game club on a oneshot evening. The evening went rather well and my four players decided to start a campaign in 2025 (last friday). The happenings of the initial oneshot are not really relevant to the campaign, which is why I want to start the campaign diary here. (if you would rather listen to this then reading it, a post with an mp3 version will follow shortly).
Latest Action News
Old Japan Town proves yet again that it deserves the classification of a combat zone. Yesterday at noon, according to witnesses from the Highcourt Plaza Hotel Security Team, two groups met up close to the edge of the crater and a fire fight erupted shortly thereafter. The firefight left two people dead, all belonging to the Maelstrom gang, and at least one person lost an arm, as the remains of one was found next to a large pool of blood. The lone survivor, also a member of Maelstrom, was unwilling to talk to us but was apparently blinded and left to die. The remains had been robbed of any valuables that could be easily removed. While this looks to us like the Maelstrom were attacked and robbed the Highcourt security team did not comment on this. They did however release a statement that there was no danger to the customers and personnel of the Highcourt Hotel and that any attempt to break the security fence would be qualmed in an instant.
If indeed the Maelstrom were attacked it stands to reason that retaliation will follow soon, so keep reading future updates on this story and stay clear of the combat zones.
Gerard Trevlaine Junior, Latest Action News
Campaign Diary Session #1 – A Deal Gone Right
During the first session we played the introduction of the player characters to one another, which happened as follows.
While dealing with a search of his home by the NCPD, Farsov (player character, Fixer, 20ish, of russian descent) got a call by his boss Dushman (known to be running a scavenging enterprise operating in the crater). Dushman wanted Farsov to lead a business deal with a freelance scavenger named Quadro for a bit of pre-war tech, supposedly a key to some lost treasure. He was supposed to wait for two bodyguards, Pietr and Piotr, to collect him and then to get a netrunner that Dushman would provide.
Said Netrunner is a man named Boris (player character, slightly Asian looking man clothed in filthy rags), who lives currently under an overpass in a small colony of the homeless. When we meet Boris he is logged in to Elvelines Online™ and tries to meet with an associate in Elfehold to discuss how to funnel money to Boris but are stopped by the approach of Pietr. Pietr commands Boris to enter their car and discuss their job with Farsov.
We then switch to Nitaya (player character, a woman of Thai descent, maybe 40, in conservative but simple clothing with blue and green hair buns) in a relatively clean doctor’s examination room where she is cleaning the surfaces as the door opens. In come two asian teenagers in blue and green sports clothing, Yook and Snatcher. Yook is bleeding from a wound in his stomach and is held up by Snatcher who is smiling. Apparently Yook has slapped one of the Maelstrom who tried to enter their territory and got a stab in return. Snatcher says that Yook has earned himself the nickname Slapper in her eyes. Nitaya stoicly treats the wound of Yook and orders him to stay in the workshops and sit still until the wound heals. She then gets a call from Mr. Smooth (Fixer, works from Heywood) who introduces himself and bids a 500eb job to her. She is to let herself be transported to the client, Quadro, who is apparently injured and to accompany him to a business deal. After she accepts, Mr. Smooth tells her that he will send a car to collect her.
We then see Pyon (player character, Japanese descent, 20ish, unassuming clothes) who sits between cargo containers with the sign of the Asphalt Wolves nomad pack and in the background we see cars being worked on inside of the containers. She is currently painting a pistol with pink artwork. Then a man also in his twenties with old jeans and a jeans vest approaches her and tells her about a car he wants to give her. Apparently it belonged to a WorldSat Exec who is currently out of the city. They laugh about the car having a flamethrower next to the driver’s seat and he hopes she can perform some cool stunt with it. Just as he has given her the key card she gets a call from Mr. Smooth who also hires her to get Nitaya to Quadro and both to the meeting. Before Pyon drives away she changes into Japanese Idol style clothing and records a small braindance segment, introducing herself and the car to her audience before driving off.
After Pyon and Nitaya meet up they drive to the edge of the Night City crater where they enter a basement garage where they find a badly hurt Quadro (an elderly man in orange attire with a baseball cap) who currently seems to have trouble breathing and a burned out Netrunner (4oh4) with a car and inside a strange technical device that seems to be turned off at the moment. After helping Quadro as best as they can they learn that Quadro wants to sell the device to someone and if they keep him alive to collect he will double their payout.
During this the other car with Farsov, Boris, Pietr and Piotr arrives at the meeting spot outside the Precipice (a container settlement on the edge of the crater).
Farsov and Quadro walk towards one another and talk about how they will verify the device is worth buying. Farsov wants them to bring the device to them, but Quadro counters he wants to be close to his car if anybody tries something and wants them to be as far from their car as possible. Farsov accepts with a smirk and calls Piotr and Boris to him and they walk over. While they speak, multiple players notice nervous behaviour from Piotr, fidgeting with his watch and looking around, while Pietr seems calm and collected.
As they walk close to Pyon’s car, Quadro tells them about the fate of 4oh4 and that the device released some gas after he misstepped in the net-architecture. After they switch the device on, Boris logs into its net-architecture and finds himself in front of a password. He takes his time to scout out the layout of the device’s net and finds a control node behind multiple layers of black ICE. The node controls some nanite based defence mechanism, a bomb and can spin up further parts of the net. After he fails to worm through the password a 30 second countdown starts in front of his virtuality goggles.
While this happens Pyon notices a small transporter driving towards the meeting place, and shortly after the side door slides open to reveal a ganger with a rifle. While Pyon manages to fire a few shots at the closing attackers the sniper shoots Quadros right arm right off. Meanwhile Piotr has started running towards the car of Farsov’s group followed by gunshots from Farsov. While Pyon manages to shoot out one of the tires of the incoming car Boris eyes spark and sizzle as he is stomped out of the net by a Giant. Nitaya drags the profusely bleeding Quadro behind cover and ties off his stump while he loses consciousness. Farsov meanwhile shoots after Piotr who is driving off with the car, leaving behind his brother who is shooting at the crashing van. The sniper is almost thrown out of the car but grips its door and starts shooting at Pietr while two other Maelstrom jump out the back of the van opening fire on the rest. While Boris fights against the countdown, almost burning himself like 4oh4 the others have a firefight with Maelstrom. At one point Nitaya manages to double tap one of the gangers and he lies down for a final time. After both Pietr and Farsov had their guns blow up in their faces the sniper takes Pietr hostage and Pyon screams at him to start talking. Meanwhile one of the gangers crawled in the wreck of the van with multiple gunshot wounds. After a short exchange the sniper (Comet) takes off promising to let Pietr go a few streets away, after Farsov agrees with Pyon. During this Boris managed almost at the last couple of seconds to loop the countdown in on itself forever and logging off before he could be burned by the last ICE following him.
After the fight Nitaya starts to diagnose wounds and treat Boris and Farsov. Boris, as if on autopilot, starts to collect all the guns and clothing of the dead while Farsov is calling Dushman to let him know what happend. Dushman promises that Piotr will pay for what happened and that he will give the shares of Pietr and Piotr to Farsov, he however says that Boris should get the share of Piotr as he was the only one who did their job. Meanwhile Nitaya and Pyon find the last living Maelstrom in the van, Hound, who surrenders, and a dead red haired woman in the front passenger seat, killed by a headshot. Hound tells them that he did not know much about what happened here, only that Quadro and another stole the key-device from Maelstrom when they ripped it out of the basement of the Ashcroft Hotel in the crater. After calling Comet from his Agent they find out that Piotr’s output had been kidnapped by Maelstrom and is a hostage. They negotiate that they leave Hound alive if Pietr will stay alive as well and Piotr’s girlfriend is let go. Comet agrees to only breaking one of Pietr’s legs, to avoid him following him. Nitaya and Pyon then give Hound some anesthesia to knock him out while Nitaya deactivates his cyber eyes.
Meanwhile Farsov and Boris talk about what Boris has found and the payment that Farsov secured for Boris. Farsov and a reawakened Quadro close the deal, Farsov refusing Quadros hand. Pyon negotiates with Quadro a bonus for the job that she and Nitaya have provided and Quadro pays up, asking to be brought to a clinic. First however they drive to the overpass where Boris started the day. He hands over all the bits of gear he scavenged to Darnell (an elderly afro american, homeless) who hugs him, packs up and leaves the scene. After everyone is in the car they drive to the clinic of Phoenix Redwyne and Quadro is left in her care. They all drive to an abandoned meat factory where Farsov has some people unload the key device and gives Boris access to a container to wash and sleep in. Farsov proposes that he might turn to Nitaya and Pyon with further work and they agree to stay in touch.
And here we leave the smog of Night City for now.
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