Corporate Issue
| Title | Corporate Issue |
|---|---|
| Number | Unknown Length Forum Saga (Original archive was lost.) |
| Date | 9 October 2009 to 18 October 2009 (With recap summary 12 November 2009, and wrap-up 20 March 2011) |
| Players | Greg (GM), Nick, Kevin2, Isabel, Bishop, Aaron, Alicia |
| Characters | Carden, Nathan Cobalt, Sora, Marianne, Lucia, Mike, Cassia, Vampire (NPC) |
| Setting | Yusifiah, United Provinces, Disparatus |
Plot Summary
The Investigation Begins
In the United Provinces, six heroes were given information by an Investigator Carden Winters. After meeting in Barney's Glass, a local bar in Yusifiah, they cobbled together what little information they possessed on the murderer known as Scar. He leaves his victims, usually a female, totally mutilated. He always works at night. Several police officers have been murdered as well in an attempt to apprehend Scar. So far it hadn't been a matter of finding the killer, who frequently brazenly committed his atrocities in the middle of the street. It was a matter of catching him once found.
As a result of the interrogation of a vampire, raving like a lunatic, Carden believed Scar and other individuals to be linked to the mega corporation S.A.H.B.E.R. (Scientific Association of Human Biological Evolution and Robotics). He did not expect the freelance adventurers to apprehend Scar, but he needed someone to get the dirt of SAHBER. No police officer could be trusted with the job because of red tape, obviousness, and corruption.
Information Gathering
Implementing a series of brilliant investigative maneuvers, the group manages to win some small advance forward in Carden's investigation. Mike intercepted a SAHBER executives car with his body, winning a trip to the hospital in the white collars' back seat. On the way, he held a gun to the back of the man's head and got him talking. In this manner, Mike learned that Scar used to work for SAHBER, as the first member of a team of elite "modified" vampires. These vampires performed black op missions for SAHBER, but of what sort the man couldn't say. At some point, whatever means by which SAHBER employed to control Scar wore off. The murderer no longer works for SAHBER and in fact hates the corporation. Mike was informed that the boys at SAHBER Lab would know a good deal more, but it's essentially impossible to breach security there.
Meanwhile, Cassia made a trip to the library where she dug up recent newspaper articles regarding Scar's murders. She found out that the vampire murders had been occurring more frequently, but Scar himself had been active during the Two Year Gap. Women were slain and likely simply gone from people's lives after the gap. Judging the various incidents against one another, Cassia managed to figure out that they almost always happened between 1 and 2am, when all the bars and clubs close for the night, and while all the victims were tortured and killed at knife point, all the police officers killed were shot.
Before she left the library, Cassia was ambushed by a vampire who, for all she knew, could have been Scar himself. The creature forced her to lead him to her friends back at Barney's Glass, where Nick, Sora, Lucia, and Marianne were waiting for news. When the vampire and Cassia arrived, there was a stand off in the street.
The Aftermath
Throughout the battle, the vampire managed to give up some information through conversation. He was not, in fact, the killer Scar, but another monster cut from the same cloth. Unlike Scar, this individual was still working for SAHBER, and had been ordered to kidnap one of them. His mannerisms were strange, unlike those of a typical new blood vampire.
The vampire used dual knives, and was rather fast and powerful, and it became apparent through his focused efforts to get her away from the group that the vampire was after Lucia, but he was defeated handily by a combined effort.
Police arrived shortly afterward with the creature laid out in the street, but while they are busy arresting everyone for smashing up some cars in the battle and possibly kidnapping a SAHBER executive, the vampire vanishes from where he was on the ground. Despite protests, they are all shoved into different police cruisers.
At the police station, Carden managed to get everyone released. They were gathered into a briefing room where Carden listened to what little information they'd gathered. He tells them that they did well, but had drawn the wrong kind of attention and needed to keep clean for a while. Other investigators would continue to pursue Scar.
Around that time, Cassia brought up the question of whether they were missing someone. Collectively they looked around and that's when they noticed: Lucia was missing. Carden remarks that there was never a Lucia picked up by the police. Everyone was pretty sure they saw Lucia being arrested, same as they were. But for the moment, there was nothing they could do about it, and placed the problem directly into Carden's care.
Next Chapter: One Year Later, Corporate Issue II
Particpants
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Notes
- Corporate Issue was the first GMed event held in New Epic.
- This is the only New Epic Saga which is no longer available in some form, as the forum it had been hosted on was deleted shortly after its completion.
- This saga takes place from 12 to 21 October 2321.
