July 11, 1999- Digging into the tunnels beneath the hotel, the group eventually finds themselves in some sort of ancient temple. Further investigation leads to confict with a band of dangerous mutants. Luckily, the muties prove no match for frag grenades and the group returns to continue their investigation of the ruins.
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Occam: I stride forward into my destiny!
Steve: I got .005 essence left, I'm practically still human!
Joe1: I go jogging near the wastelands. This raises my athletics and body from having to run so fast.
GM: The warning on the wall seems to say something like: "Beware, evil lurks beyond this.
Occam: Here's some news; there's evil on this side too. (Occam launches a frag grenade at some attacking ghouls)Occam: Well, if nothing else it should clear out the smell.
June 20, 1999
Our first real run!
The group was hired by a Johnson to pull extract some kind of mob informant/messenger from his safehouse in Blood Vamps turf. Luckily, the Vamps didn't know he was there, so things went pretty smooth. The biggest surprise was probably the speed with which his guards shot at police officers before they were tasered into unconsciousness. A few extra bucks were made when they sold the pocket secretaries of the guards, one of whom survived.
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Occam: I get a purple fedora and a matching scarf.
Haz: But the word Wizards was gay, right? I just want to be clear on this.
GM: It's pretty much a standard snatch and grab.
Joe1: Mmm.. snatch...
June 6, 1999- While (LOU) healed up, Occam and Haz launched two separate plans. Haz purchased and installed new lenses on every traffic light in the gangs turf, so that all the red lights are now purple. It served no real purpose, but it goes with the yellow/green/purple theme of Emerald City.
Occam did some research to figure out how to expand turf. He hit on a plan to make it look like the Wizards were protecting a neighboring area from the Bloody Hatchets. The plan was to have the Hatchets attempt a robbery and get their butts kicked by some Wizards. It went awry when the shopkeeper shot one of the fake Hatchets; Haz lost his temper and blew the shopkeepers head off. The store security tape was adjusted to make it look like the Hatchets had done it all.
Investigating some rumors of increased activity in the Wasteland, including a flood of refugees, the group discovered there was a monster preying on the wasters. The creature was some sort of bipedal 15' tall thing with a tail. It could also breath fire and burn people with its eyes.
Guessing it was some sort of new combat drone, Haz sent some of his drones out for recon. He eventually spotted and followed the drone, but it escaped into some tunnels beneath an abandoned warehouse.
Three nights later, he spotted it again, but so did some Saeder-Krupp corp mercs. It became apparent that the drone was something of theirs and they were just out to retrieve it. Haz tried to follow their choppers but was distracted by a more powerful drone. He eventually traced that one back to a Happy Dairy Truck, but couldn't establish a stronger tie to Saeder-Krupp.
Attempts to sell the tape have not yet seen fruition, although there are a couple of offers on the table
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Occam (to one of the Hatchets): What sort of Indian are you? You don't even have a dot on your forehead
Joe: I got a winnebago on the second floor.
Steve: Cool, he built a big ramp then started waaay back on the freeway (makes engine noise, with shifting gears for about 15 seconds)
Lou: Twenty-five. I know we can do thirty
Steve: If there's cannibals in the Wastelands, we definitely want to drop some off in the market.
Joe: Cool, we'll just toss Worcestershire Sauce on anyone we don't like.
Some Other Time in May, 1999- We set up an ambush for the Ares shipment. An overturned bus forced them to exit the freeway, onto an overpass. The overpass was mined. One of the two escorts was destroyed by the mines. The second escort was destroyed with a rocket launcher which had been concealed on the bridge.
The truck opened fire with a turreted machine gun, leaving (LOU) in bad shape. Occam destroyed the turret and used a concussion grenade on the guard who tried to exit the vehicle.
The contents were too heavy to move quickly, so Haz had the bus moved and backed onto the freeway. There were a few tense moments as two Ares choppers initiated pursuit, but Occam disabled the tracer and Haz was able to hide the truck long enough for it to be emptied of weapons.
The haul was pretty good; about half of it got sold and the rest was split up among gang members and their allies.
Sometime in May, 1999- We continued our expansion and basically solidified our hold on the Puppets old turf. We also got hired to use our warehouse as a meet location.
The meet went pretty smooth and it turned out that one of the operatives was Phantom 309. There was a little difficulty when three missiles were launched at the warehouse, but they were destroyed by incoming drone fire. Phantom was so grateful, he gave us a tip on an Ares shipment.
April 24, 1999- The basic adventure for the night was us watching some Death Knights wipe out the last of the Satan's Puppets, who were apparently blamed for the death of whoever Black Rose had killed.
Once they were dead, we moved in and took over the turf. Occam recruited a few new gang members from our new turf, including a few puppets.
April 10, 1999- One of our glendas, a tinman by the name of Black Rose, asked us to help her out a little. She offered us 10K just to create a little muss for our pals, Satan's Puppets. All she needed us to do was to make sure as many of them as possible would be in a certain section of their turf. It seemed like easy money, so we took the job.
The brain was a little weird. The obvious choice, big guns and a few explosives were made, but then we hit a horse of a differnet color. For some reason, Haz got it into his head that we needed to let loose a bunch of hounds in the area. No one figured out why exactly, but they decided to humor him and the dogs were obtained from somewhere in Kansas.
On the appointed night, Haz and (LOU) set about laying down some explosives in the area. Ocham took a sniping position across the street from the local bar and Efram went to get some gas in the slippers. His plan was to set the station on fire and see what happened. By far, (TOM) had the strangest role; he was supposed to let the doped up hounds into the bar with the puppets.
Things did go pretty close to plan. The biggest difficulty came when (TOM) failed to get in the basket and got pretty much melted for trouble. Luckily for him, Ocham was up top, tossing water on everyone who showed their face. After about ten minutes of hard work, the group jumped into their slippers and made a break for it.
As they drove away from the area, they headed up the block, made a u-turn and came back, firing out the windows of the van all they way. Black Rose later paid them for their efforts.
The tally for the monkeys wasn't pretty. They lost at least eight dorothys for their trouble. Looks like the time might be right for the Oz expansion project.
QuotebagOcham: It's cold in here, look, my nipples are hard.
Ocham: I'm up.
Haz: You're alway up
Ocham: Yeah, and it only cost me 500.Joe (to Dave): I'm anticipating your desires... why else do you think I'm wearing scuba?
Haz: No matter what, the plan must include dogs
Tom: I call the fixer; we need thirty great danes and 30 midgets
Joe: He needs to know if you want duct tape or staplesJoe: We have four vehicles, that's all we need for a quartering
Haz: Caseless ammo is better
Ocham: I like it when the shells go tink,,,tink,,,tink...tinkEfram: I hope I have an air bag
Haz: You do, but you didn't bring her
March 27, 1999 (Rewritten because the original is somewhere in the ether)- With Efram still slightly melted, the rest of the gang was pretty quiet. Ocham was dropping houses all over the neighborhood practicing with his new grenade launcher and Haz was fooling around with his ticktocks, trying to get more than one of them to work at the same time.
All was pretty quiet until Haz's ticktock picked up another one coming into Oz. Not too happy about some man behind the curtain flying in his yellow brick road, Haz sent his ticktock after the intruder. He followed it, capturing one of it's transmissions and finally getting a good look at it. It was small and made to look like a manta ray; obviously a custom job.
From where he was, he could see that it was checking out some Dorothies in a limo that obviously didn't belong in Oz. Not interested in having any munchkins melted by an outsider, Haz opened fire on the intruder. The fight was brief and Haz' was the loser. The other tock unloaded two big guns on him, obviously, it was some sort of sniper. His ticktock was melted, so he gathered up Efram and Ocham and took a ride.
By the time they got there, the dorothys were back in their basket. Haz picked up the ticktock while Efram tried to track down the dorothys. He spotted them about the same time he spotted their ticktock. They were in Kansas by the time he caught 'em, so he let them go.
Meanwhile, another group of dorothys showed up in Oz. Their slippers were definitely of a different color, and Haz decided to check them out. He rolled up alongside and knocked on their passenger window to offer them directions back home.
A brief negotiation took place and they ended up giving him 2000 nuyen for his recording of the transmission and the rest of the story of the other dorothys. The guy he talked too was definitely a tinman.
Back in Emerald city, he managed to decode the transmission. Turned out the ticktock was after his pals in the van. Thinking he hadn't soaked 'em for enough, he put the word out that he was looking for them.
Mercury Dragon, the tinman, showed up in Emerald City late one night and the two of them talked. Turned out Merc was a high-powered tinman and that the other guys were too. They were looking to swap some merchandise and the other guys were trying to drop a house on them so they wouldn't have to pay.
Thinking quickly, Haz offered to set up a yellow brick road for them. He also agreed to have a few cowardly lions on hand to take care of the lions and tigers and bears. Merc checked out their spot, set a few requirements and then agreed to pay them 20,000 nuyen for their trouble.
Efram, Ocham, and Haz put some security on the place and then, on the night of the meet, they had a herd of scarecrows and cowardly lions in position. The meet went down without a hitch and Merc agreed to do a little Glenda for them with some of his pals.
March 13, 1999- Well, not much happened; the players made characters, set up a bunch of background information (most of which is on this page) and then proceeded to kill a few of Satan's Puppets who were trying to muscle in on their turf. In the process, Efram took some serious fire and our driver, Kenny, was killed. On the good side, four of the flying muppets died and we managed to get some good weapons off their stinking corpses
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