Corporate Issue II

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Title Corporate Issue II
Number 15 Page Forum Saga
Date 21 March 2011 to 15 August 2011
Players Greg (GM), Aaron, Alicia, Kevin2, Isabel, Kristen
Characters Carden, Mike, Lucinda, Gin, Enos, Shyalee, Scar (NPC), Plaguebearers (NPCs), Director Silva (NPC), Lucia (NPC), Dr. Lex (Unnamed Cameo), Adrien (Unnamed Cameo), Alexander
Setting Yusifiah, United Provinces, Disparatus


Previous Chapter: One Year Earlier, Corporate Issue


Plot Summary

(Note that this summary is lifted from the Timeline, so it's probably not the most comprehensible summary possible.)

In March of 2323, Detective Carden Winters contacts a number of people listed along with him on a directory he found, made during the Two Year Gap. They meet that night at the Yusifiah Police Department, where he reveals SAHBER's Vampires had resurfaced, now out of control. He believes Scar, who has been showing up again lately, may still be able to be interrogated about this if they can find him.

Meanwhile, a young woman named Wendy is attacked and killed by Scar in the corporate district of Yusifiah. An officer witnesses this and calls for backup. As more officers arrive, Scar retreats into the elevator of an apartment building. (This segment is from "The Prowler" Board Quest and occurs at the same time as the early parts of Corporate Issue II.)

Carden's group is contacted about Scar being sighted and head after him, catching up to him down an elevator shaft. Carden shoots him, and Scar plays along, allowing himself to be arrested.

Time paases back at the station, and Enos manages to bluff his way into briefly talking to Scar alone, where we get character development. While Luci and Mike experience awkward sexual tension, the others interrogate Scar, learning details of SAHBER's testing facilities, and get a plan to infiltrate them for evidence. Being with the police, Carden can't go in without a warrant, but the others can. He gets them supplies and tells them to head out in the morning.

After spending the night planning, they take a helicopter to the building. Shyalee and Enos cause a distraction which they blame on SAHBER while the others interrogate an employee, learning about a secret area in the building. Heading to a closed area, security drones attack, which Mike is surprised to learn were supplied by TTT. They find more supplies contracted by TTT, along with biological supplies labelled "Vectors".

Gin reprograms some droids, and the two groups meet back up in the parking garage. They determine they now need to go into some tunnels under the building to reach the main hidden labs. Upon reaching them, Enos breaks off from the group to investigate SAHBER's subject containment, where he's attacked by some humanoid figures, which completely overpower him. He is captured and possibly operated on.

Meanwhile, the others run through a shootout and eventually made it to Vector Research. Shyalee volunteered to stop the approaching security in their tracks while the other three looked for evidence. They corner a scientist, who reveals that TTT had found DNA from one of the earliest generations of Vampire lineages on Earth, which SAHBER had used to create their Vampires as potential hosts for a brain parasite, the Vector project, but that it didn't work. He tells them where to find the host of the main parasite.

Heading there, they find the project director, who tells Luci a bit about her past, and about the discovery of the parasite, known as a Eurocid, on the planet Eurydice. Luci kills him, and they approach the Vector, with Enos listening in, discovering it to be possessing the missing Lucia Warren. It gives some backstory on Keystones, and Eurocids' need for the power they bring.

The three fought the Eurocid, with Mike being to one to finally kill the parasite and free Lucia from its control. Though she knew her body was too changed and mangled to live long without it, she had Mike tear it off of her so she could live a few last moments truly on her own. Before the Eurocid could regenerate or she could die a slow and painful death, Mike shot her in the head, ending her life.

Regrouping and getting Enos, the four make a plan to escape, with Mike running off to distract the guards that were undoubtedly on their way. With the other three unwillingly leaving him, they run into Shyalee and head out. Gin gets separated from the others as he buys them time to go further, and Luci is shot and falls behind. Shyalee and Enos are rescued by Alexander, who had been sent after then by Carden before he had disappeared.

As they make it out, he hands them a way for him to contact them if needed, and tells them their friends may still be alive, and Luci was the first later confirmed as safe when Enos encountered her two months later.

It was later learned that during the events in the labs, a Eurocid sub-branch known as Euromortis were set free. One takes the body of Adrien Lex, one of the scientists killed in the lab.


Particpants

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Notes

  • This saga takes place on 21 and 22 March 2323.
  • First appearances of Luci and the Eurocids. First chronological appearance of Alexander. First unnamed appearances of the Euromortis, Adrien Lex (SAHBER), and Adrien Lex (Euromortis). Only appearance of Director Silva.
  • Final appearance of Lucia Warren. Final real-time appearance of Mike West. (His final chronological appearance was in a Free RP done before this saga ended.)