Game Log Sept 12-13

Image via WikipediaJaime's and Johnny's dad, Thane, used his cellphone at the end of the last adventure to record the confrontation with the armed men as a transcript using the multi-voice recognition technology in the Screamsheet story. He'd since contacted Genentech, the company who owned the boar, threatening a lawsuit. Their response was less than complimentary and Thane felt he was in danger for his life. He asked the PCs to come to his home and help him out. Thane also contacted the Night City police and a detective, Tarina Carin, was present.

Once they arrived at the scene, Thane gave them the run of the house and the junk in it. Maxwell jury-rigged up a turret from assorted parts to fire at anyone coming in the front door while GW rigged up tripwires outside attached to empty cans with stones. Johnny spent the time tuning his guitar and scoring grub from the kitchen. GW then sacked out in a chair while Johnny searched out his dad's drug stash then went downstairs and helped Maxwell find sounds from old Rambo movies to play when the turret fired.

They heard noise from outside but it just turned out to be a deer hitting one of the tripwires. Thane and Tarina were both disgusted with their incompetence as they didn't even manage to shoot the deer for dinner. Yet later, they again heard noise from outside and this time it turned out to be an unknown goon leaving the property. While the guys slept and watched Rambo, Genentech had infiltrated the house and stolen the phone. Thane yells for them to follow the guy and get the phone but he escapes into a car and takes off before they can do more than wing him.

The guys and Tarina all pile into GW's car and begin chasing the guy, shooting out one of the tires as they do. The PCs shoot out a second tire, seriously slowing the target before the goon tosses a grenade out the passenger's side window which explodes under GW's car, disabling it about 1/4 mile from a nearby whistle-stop.

Maxwell jury-rigs the car well enough to make it the intersection where there is an old fueling station, a run-down diner and a small hardware store. Four guys are in the process of breaking into the gas station when the PC's pull up. The target's car is parked here, abandoned with the two flat tires along with a horse trailer. Johnny persuades them to disclose which direction the target went and gives them some of Thane's stash while Maxwell switches good tires from GW's car over to the target's car and hotwires it. The four guys finish breaking into the store for beer while the PC's drive off in the new car.

About half a block down the road, Maxwell and GW are shot from nearby rooftops. GW parks near another vehicle to give them all cover and they exit the car and begin shooting back. After several rounds of fire, the PC's take the goons out and the bodies fall from the roofs.

The Pc's and Tarina search the bodies and while they find some decent loot and a walkie-talkie, there's no sign of Thane's phone. They go back to the store and fix up GW's car well enough to get back to Thane's cabin and begin driving slowly down the road, calling Thane's phone as they go, hoping the goons jut tossed it into the woods on the way to keep it out of court and hoping they can hear the ringtone.

The walkie-talkie squawks part way back and GW impersonates a generic corporate goon to find out that a fourth person drove off in yet a different vehicle with the phone. They drive back to Thane, who gives them each 500eb for helping out anyhow.