• Party proceeds to warehouse to steal gun, splitting up and canvassing the docks.
• Swiffer astrally scouts, gets detected by adept guards, thinks very little of it. Uses spirit to identify target shipping container.
• The trio of adepts turn out to be Thomas Brauns, and right as the party shows up, many more Brauns pour out of the woodwork
• Abstergo shows up in black vans and Helicopters
• Swiffer crashes helicopter with F10 Spirit “accident”
• Shades does lots of sniping, takes out riggers so Waffles can down other copters
• D-Dog holds of Abstergo, buys time to force them into conflict with Brauns
• Val, Vik, hide in shipping container. Start stealing guns from security crates, planting explosives.
• D-Dog tracks down whoever was in the downed helicopter with Waffles’s overwatch. It turns out to be Terval, but her tail makes her appear less than human.
• Terval paralyzes D-Dog with a Control Actions spell just after he unloads a shotgun slug into her. Angry, she taunts him, stabs his neck with her tail, and has her lone surviving guard blow his brains out.
  • “If you are who I think you might be, you’ll survive this” – unfortunately, after the bullet to the brain D-Dog doesn’t remember any of it
• Shades jumps into warehouse via skylight to support Val in fight with Brauns/Abstergo. Snipes multiple fools, but takes a hail of bullets.
• This enrages Val, who kills the last Abstergo member in his fury
• The stealing of this kill enrages Shades. Benny Hill theme plays. Vik is not amused.
• Swiffer and Waffles wake from Astral/VR to find out that the Brauns are in love with Swiffer, and really, really want to take him home with them back to Partytown.
• Waffles helps Swiffer not get abducted in the least helpful way possible that could still be considered helpful, per tradition.
• Vik finds D-Dog, bleeding to death. Saves his life just in the nick of time with an amazing First Aid check. D-Dog remembers nothing of what happened, and his comm has been wiped. Terval is gone.
• Abstergo abandons the site, as the artifacts have been destroyed in a C4 induced fireball.

• Shades, Val infiltrate R&D facility. Scout it cleanly with one small invisibility mishap
• Party returns at night to steal goods from lab.
• Vik, Shades physically deal with matrix security.
• Val, Vik, and Waffles learn that, sometimes, when Swiffer says “don’t go into the garden,” he’s right.
• Security sealed into security office with nanopaste, Swiffer unleashes force 10 spirit on them.
• Party steals lots of research data thanks to Waffles bravery(?)
• Chain lightning taser found in weapons lab, along with a Thomas Braun very eager to help them steal it… and the other 99 of them at a warehouse somewhere.
• Party escapes just as HTR shows up. Shades has an internal GPS, so is able to navigate forest and lose the trailing patrols.
• Braun locates the warehouse for the party using his EVO login and ID codes on the gun. He’s then turned over to The Duchess.

• Data search reveals enough project info to be able to pull off an efficient data steal at arcology
• D-Dog, Vik, Waffles sneak their way into a small EVO arcology
  • KFC Food Truck con
• Data Centers are too secure, so they go looking for a person involved in the project
  • Project Lead: Theresa Valentine
• Party hack’s their way up to her room and enters under the premise of a corporate meeting. She’s there to meet them. Also, she’s Terval, and recognizes them as runners (and recognizes Waffles).
• Vik puts her in contact with The Duchess to do some negotiations. Terval agrees to get them past security if they’ll steal information or prototypes from the R&D facility they find – bonus pay if they go above and beyond.
• Hacking goes smoothly enough. Waffles gets a bit distracted.
• Jumping out of windows is an okayish escape plan.

Now off to the R&D facility to steal and/or destroy this crowd control weapon…

• Anti-bug weapon research facility, secret entrance from English channel
• Party explores thoroughly. Abandoned, wasted. Lots of wild animals about, corpses.
• Damaged commlinks contain stories of a massacre. Corpses punctured with serrated weapons on dining area
• Nascent Wasp hive in the center. The facility got co-opted by bugs, and the anti-bug weapon became a bug-summoning device.
• D-Dog blows up Shaman with Panther XXL, gets swarmed
• Fuse finds Jake in closet in a stasis suit. Yay! Jake!
• During no other mission has the party ever been more thankful to have Vik and his Medkit there – 20+ DV healed over the course of the session.

• Party needs to cause major disruptions and distractions at Ares to draw heat off of Vagranet infiltration specialists.
• Swiffer, Val, Waffles go to hack and disrupt financial subsidiary.
  • Subsidiary believes Swiffer is trying to commit insurance fraud, uses Gamma Scopalamine to try and get him to admit it.
  • Head’s death is faked as if he tripped and landed on his own pen after Val dispatches him and rescues Swiffer.
  • All this buys time for Waffles to hack all the things and steal all the paydata
• D-Dog, Fuse, and Vik raid an R&D facility
  • Steal parts for heavy weapons, enough to build a panther out of.
  • Smoke-filled escape loaded with jumps from daring heights, and a few grenades to detonate a chem lab.

• To get Vagranet a base of operations, and keep their safehouse from being torn down, the party had to stop or alter a vote to Gentrify a major section of lower london.
• Party assembled a cultural festival, guest starring Shorai. Swiffer filibustered Parliament to save time
• Filibuster + Cultural Festival bought time and access to a few members of Parliament, as well as reassured them they could flip their votes without angering their constituents. So Vik bought them off.

• Jim is not a Hobo
• Waffles and Swiffer attempt to get a job. It goes exactly as expected.
• The party executes a beautifully clean B&E on Waffles’ potentially-never employer
• The rest of the party abducts a corporate spy. An Uber and an illusory bus full of orphans collide.

We kidnap and deliver 3 Thomas Braun to the Duchess so he can have an orgy do important research.

We make it onto cat island, we run into another Thomas Braun. Pixies help us past the drones. T-Rex / Waffle / Fuse the magical drone disabling dog our way through an ex-Zero-Zone’s defenses, accidentally free a dude who casts us all into some magical technological BS that D-Dog doesn’t quite understand.

D-Dog wakes up, Val shows up on the island, and together they absolutely and utterly destroy Abstergo’s search party and dance on their corpses hide their friends and the loot that they can find, recruit Thomas Braun and his consortium of cats and hell hounds / bhargests to harry the Abstergo party, and recruit the pixies to “do what you can to delay them.” Which, as it turns out, includes casting invisibility on microwire. Ain’t that a hoot.

Then, invisible themselves, D-Dog and Val hide in a corner to make sure their friends are ok and wait for Abstergo to leave. Which they do, sans a couple of limbs, with one corpse in tow. Duchess sends a helicopter to get them off the island.

Party leaves and gets money and some loot!

OOC: D-Dog warned everyone to get off the island and run / hide, including Thomas Braun and the Pixies. He refuses to tell anyone other than Val [who was there and helped, and probably Waffles who has hacked his cameras and microphone and knows what happened anyways] that he did this, or that he gave the villagers nuyen. He sticks to his story that he never saw Braun or the Pixies again after he asked them for their help and they parted ways. He has feelings now, and is learning to deal with them!

Clusterfuck central happens when Val and D-Dog attempt to infiltrate a meth lab without Vik. Then all 3 of them together engage in a slow speed car chase, involving shooting the crap out of people and stealing some sort of weird plant that lets Vik make more drugs.

We go back to the meth lab, set off a grenade while Val and D-Dog are inside it. D-Dog passes his damage resistance to not instantly die. Val, uh. Doesn’t. Vik is the hero and saves both of them because he wasn’t inside the meth lab.

Val needs a new arm. D-Dog needs a new kidney. Vik gets paid, gets some drugs, and is alive, so he’s happy!

Also D-Dog bought off antipathy so now he has feelings.

We meet Sam. Sam hires us to off a mayor. We decide to instead off the entire Yakuza department of a tiny town, AND THEN off the mayor because we’re cold-hearted killers.

Vik nearly dies but Val and D-Dog save him and we learn that, yes indeed, the GM does have edge, and occasionally that results in Joe Schmo nearly 1-shotting a character.