No, I dont mean a goatee competition.
Grim has just reminded me of and idea that was mentioned way back in the before-time, of me doing a reasonably short run at grimbash for whoever is there and fancies a go. So who would be up for that?
I know Grim is, and pete and roman are there from the regular beardists. Anyone else want to join in the fun? If the idea of creating a character scares you, there is always the pre-generated doods in the books, or I could help you knock one up on the day if you like.
Dont have much in the way of details at the moment. I have a rough outline of a fighty run that seems appropriate, but I would like more of an idea of who would be interested first.
So, who is up for it?
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Pete edit!
So, Grim beards was a success!
Joose ran two campaigns.
One was a starter campaign for those new to the P&P beardings, a drunken trip to the stuffer shack got very messy indeed. Lots of killing, attacks with tins of beans and stickiness ensued.
The other was a summons from Pappa Pastukhov that had the available team members thrown into a gunfight and racing across the city. Frank is in love and Chopper has a brand new face.
Both runs will be posted shortly for the reading pleasure of all!
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Pete is going to document the Food Fight hilarity, so I shall stick with the Pappa P run. let me know if I have things missed/wrong, and I'll edit.
It all started off with a call from Pappa P asking Nik to meet him at the diner, urgently. "Bring large friends", he said. So Nik did.
Rocking up to the diner with Nik was team regulars Frank and Chopper, as well as new guys Ramirez Hernandez (Pnut), Vodka and Mr J. (Bung me character names, and I'll stick em in here.) The van was parked up out front, and the team entered the diner, finding Pappa in his usual spot, but not his usual jolly self. He barely has time to welcome the group when they are interrupted by a loud BANG.
In front of the shocked team, Pappa P keels over backwards, stiff as a board, with a neat hole in his forehead. Noticing a matching hole in the window, the team quickly put two and two together, and figure there is a sniper somewhere in front of the building. Leaping into action, Frank Vodka, Ramirez and Mr J rush out of the front, but even with cyber enhanced eyeballs cycling through vision modes like something out of Predator, they cant make out exactly where the shots are coming from. However, whilst bullet-dodging, Frank figures the shooter must be on the roof of the building opposite, and makes for the fire escape to climb up. Vodka and Ramirez move to cover the exits.
Meanwhile, back in the diner, Nik is having a lie down. He's not being lazy though! Going into full VR, he orders his trusty drones to launch, and covers the roof from the air. He too is unable to spy the shooters. Sneaky buggers.
You are probably wondering what the lovable rogue Chopper is up to at this point. He is checking the surprisingly stiff corpse of the recently passed on Pappa P. Is he trying some first aid? no. Rifling through his pockets for clues? Only briefly. No, Choppers immediate thought on the teams ex-employer chilling on the floor is "hmm, I wonder if I can get his face off?" Yes Chopper. Yes you can. You fucking freak.
Much to Choppers surprise and alarm, Pappas bodyguard, known only to the team as Hot Ork Chick smashes through the back-door and literally blurs across the room, darting through the front door. In less time than it took the heavily augmented Frank to clear two floors of fire escapes, she had cleared the diner, the road, and has started sprinting clean up the side of the building. She vaults to the roof seconds before Frank. Nik, through the eyes of the drone, sees what is happening and realises that the guns (which have appeared in her hands as if by magic) are pointed at the obviously invisible snipers. She can see them! Aiming carefully to catch the corner of the building they are presumably in, Nik lets fly with a flash grenade from his drone. Frank sees, through his sonar eyes, two men in cloaks flinch from the blast, as does the Hot Ork Chick. Neither seem badly affected however, and it certainly doesn't slow the Hot Ork Chick down, as she plugs both men (using an insane amount of dice).
Having dealt with the men, she turns on the drones. Oh noes! She doesn't realise they are on her side! Thankfully Frank gets a shout out before she fires. Daintily jumping off the side of the building and landing gently on the road 3 floors down, she makes her way back in to the diner, and out the back room. The team have a moment to collect themselves and WTF for a moment.
Not a long moment though. The now faceless Pappa P stands up suddenly (to the mild dismay of Chopper) and addresses the team. Apparently he requires a very important box to be delivered to an address on the other side of Seattle, in the docks district. Dealing well with the fact that he doesn't have a face, the team take the job willingly. Hot Ork Chick comes back with the box in question, lays it on the table, and once more clears off out the back.
A cunning plan is devised. The box has a matrix ID, which whoever is after it could use to track it down. Using this to their advantage, the team collect a number of matrix connected devices from the diner, and using some basic haxing trickery, forges them to all have the same ID. They are loaded on to taxis, which are then sent on their merry way around the city (after a brief, but confusing argument about what directions they should be sent in).
The team then split up. Half go in Niks van, with the box. Half go in Ramirez' van. Frank goes on ahead to scout. After a short drive, a suspicious looking unmarked black van is spotted, approaching Niks van from the rear. Not wanting to tip their hand early, the team let it pass. It could, after all, be completely unrelated to them.
It isn't.
With no warning, Nik looses all control of his van. OMG! HAX! He identifies the hacker as being in the black van, and goes after them in virtual space. However, not being a hacker, he gets a bit of a spanking. Thinking laterally, he pulls back again, and jumps into a drone to take care of things the old fashioned way. Unleashing a fully automatic hail of lead death on the van almost cuts it clean in half, and it starts to wobble out of control. A further round is put into it from the other direction (who fired that shot?) and it slides off the road, smashing into a building. Nik quickly regains control of the van, and picks up Frank (or rather, Frank sticks his hand out and grabs the van as it tears past at full steam. Good thing he is augmented.) Ramirez and Mr J stop to finish the job, Mr J pulling the back door open, and Ramirez using his Ex-ex round to employ the notorious Shadowrun meme of Chunky Salsa on the poor survivor of the crash.
The team meet once more at the shipping warehouse. Its quiet. Too quiet. They split up again to scout the place out, Frank and Chopper taking to the roofs, Nik in the van piloting the drones, the others keeping watch over the box. The target warehouse is also quiet. They don't like it. Chopper moves up to use his fibre optic doohiky to look under the door, just catching a door inside closing. He moves in, Frank behind him now clad in one of the snipers ruthenium ghillie suits. Chopper opens the internal door, and BAM, guys shoot him up. Oh Noes! Shaking off the mere inconvenience of the sucking chest-wound, Chopper leaps at the gun wielding baddies, Frank following stealthily. All of a sudden, a voice is heard, stage left.
"STOP!"
Everyone stops.
Frank looks around, and at the other end of the room is an older looking man, with a military air to him, wearing the same uniform as the others. Although there is no identifying marks to say so, he is clearly the dood in charge. He is also holding up what appears to be a radio detonator.
"I know you can hear this, Mr Fedorski. And I think you know what this is for. Now how about we all calm down and talk sensibly about this."
The team all, metaphorically, look at Nik. At about this point, Grimmie has an "ooooooh, shitums" face on.
Nik lets the team know that the trigger is likely linked to a bomb. A cranial bomb. Implanted in Niks brain, by people and for reasons unknown. Also unknown is how big the bomb is. Cranial bombs usually come in sizes varying from small enough that there is no external damage to the head, to large grenades, but its not unheard of for them to be potent enough to take out city blocks in extreme cases.
"All I want is the box. I have no argument with you. Give me the box, and I give you the codes to the bomb. A simple deal, lets not get it messy"
After a string of questions and bartering (nearly all of which are met with a "no") the team figure they have little choice but to comply, and hand over the box.
"You will understand if I don't give you the code until we are clear of course..."
The men in black take the box and the detonator, and climb on to a boat, quickly making their way out into the harbour.
Hot Ork Lady reappears, dropping from her vantage point where she was watching the whole thing play out. As the boat clears the harbour, she presses a radio detonator of her own, and the boat ASPLOADS. Mercifully, Nik does not. She gets a much smaller but similar looking box, and a hologram of Pappa P's face emerges.
I've no doubt missed some stuff, so let me know if there is anything you remember, or anything you want to ask about.
Also, all involved get 10 Karma each. New people, if you want to (or already have) made new characters rather than keep the rather hastily assembled characters used at the bash, you can have the 10 Karma for them instead if you prefer.
Pete is going to document the Food Fight hilarity, so I shall stick with the Pappa P run. let me know if I have things missed/wrong, and I'll edit.
It all started off with a call from Pappa P asking Nik to meet him at the diner, urgently. "Bring large friends", he said. So Nik did.
Rocking up to the diner with Nik was team regulars Frank and Chopper, as well as new guys Ramirez Hernandez (Pnut), Vodka and Mr J. (Bung me character names, and I'll stick em in here.) The van was parked up out front, and the team entered the diner, finding Pappa in his usual spot, but not his usual jolly self. He barely has time to welcome the group when they are interrupted by a loud BANG.
In front of the shocked team, Pappa P keels over backwards, stiff as a board, with a neat hole in his forehead. Noticing a matching hole in the window, the team quickly put two and two together, and figure there is a sniper somewhere in front of the building. Leaping into action, Frank Vodka, Ramirez and Mr J rush out of the front, but even with cyber enhanced eyeballs cycling through vision modes like something out of Predator, they cant make out exactly where the shots are coming from. However, whilst bullet-dodging, Frank figures the shooter must be on the roof of the building opposite, and makes for the fire escape to climb up. Vodka and Ramirez move to cover the exits.
Meanwhile, back in the diner, Nik is having a lie down. He's not being lazy though! Going into full VR, he orders his trusty drones to launch, and covers the roof from the air. He too is unable to spy the shooters. Sneaky buggers.
You are probably wondering what the lovable rogue Chopper is up to at this point. He is checking the surprisingly stiff corpse of the recently passed on Pappa P. Is he trying some first aid? no. Rifling through his pockets for clues? Only briefly. No, Choppers immediate thought on the teams ex-employer chilling on the floor is "hmm, I wonder if I can get his face off?" Yes Chopper. Yes you can. You fucking freak.
Much to Choppers surprise and alarm, Pappas bodyguard, known only to the team as Hot Ork Chick smashes through the back-door and literally blurs across the room, darting through the front door. In less time than it took the heavily augmented Frank to clear two floors of fire escapes, she had cleared the diner, the road, and has started sprinting clean up the side of the building. She vaults to the roof seconds before Frank. Nik, through the eyes of the drone, sees what is happening and realises that the guns (which have appeared in her hands as if by magic) are pointed at the obviously invisible snipers. She can see them! Aiming carefully to catch the corner of the building they are presumably in, Nik lets fly with a flash grenade from his drone. Frank sees, through his sonar eyes, two men in cloaks flinch from the blast, as does the Hot Ork Chick. Neither seem badly affected however, and it certainly doesn't slow the Hot Ork Chick down, as she plugs both men (using an insane amount of dice).
Having dealt with the men, she turns on the drones. Oh noes! She doesn't realise they are on her side! Thankfully Frank gets a shout out before she fires. Daintily jumping off the side of the building and landing gently on the road 3 floors down, she makes her way back in to the diner, and out the back room. The team have a moment to collect themselves and WTF for a moment.
Not a long moment though. The now faceless Pappa P stands up suddenly (to the mild dismay of Chopper) and addresses the team. Apparently he requires a very important box to be delivered to an address on the other side of Seattle, in the docks district. Dealing well with the fact that he doesn't have a face, the team take the job willingly. Hot Ork Chick comes back with the box in question, lays it on the table, and once more clears off out the back.
A cunning plan is devised. The box has a matrix ID, which whoever is after it could use to track it down. Using this to their advantage, the team collect a number of matrix connected devices from the diner, and using some basic haxing trickery, forges them to all have the same ID. They are loaded on to taxis, which are then sent on their merry way around the city (after a brief, but confusing argument about what directions they should be sent in).
The team then split up. Half go in Niks van, with the box. Half go in Ramirez' van. Frank goes on ahead to scout. After a short drive, a suspicious looking unmarked black van is spotted, approaching Niks van from the rear. Not wanting to tip their hand early, the team let it pass. It could, after all, be completely unrelated to them.
It isn't.
With no warning, Nik looses all control of his van. OMG! HAX! He identifies the hacker as being in the black van, and goes after them in virtual space. However, not being a hacker, he gets a bit of a spanking. Thinking laterally, he pulls back again, and jumps into a drone to take care of things the old fashioned way. Unleashing a fully automatic hail of lead death on the van almost cuts it clean in half, and it starts to wobble out of control. A further round is put into it from the other direction (who fired that shot?) and it slides off the road, smashing into a building. Nik quickly regains control of the van, and picks up Frank (or rather, Frank sticks his hand out and grabs the van as it tears past at full steam. Good thing he is augmented.) Ramirez and Mr J stop to finish the job, Mr J pulling the back door open, and Ramirez using his Ex-ex round to employ the notorious Shadowrun meme of Chunky Salsa on the poor survivor of the crash.
The team meet once more at the shipping warehouse. Its quiet. Too quiet. They split up again to scout the place out, Frank and Chopper taking to the roofs, Nik in the van piloting the drones, the others keeping watch over the box. The target warehouse is also quiet. They don't like it. Chopper moves up to use his fibre optic doohiky to look under the door, just catching a door inside closing. He moves in, Frank behind him now clad in one of the snipers ruthenium ghillie suits. Chopper opens the internal door, and BAM, guys shoot him up. Oh Noes! Shaking off the mere inconvenience of the sucking chest-wound, Chopper leaps at the gun wielding baddies, Frank following stealthily. All of a sudden, a voice is heard, stage left.
"STOP!"
Everyone stops.
Frank looks around, and at the other end of the room is an older looking man, with a military air to him, wearing the same uniform as the others. Although there is no identifying marks to say so, he is clearly the dood in charge. He is also holding up what appears to be a radio detonator.
"I know you can hear this, Mr Fedorski. And I think you know what this is for. Now how about we all calm down and talk sensibly about this."
The team all, metaphorically, look at Nik. At about this point, Grimmie has an "ooooooh, shitums" face on.
Nik lets the team know that the trigger is likely linked to a bomb. A cranial bomb. Implanted in Niks brain, by people and for reasons unknown. Also unknown is how big the bomb is. Cranial bombs usually come in sizes varying from small enough that there is no external damage to the head, to large grenades, but its not unheard of for them to be potent enough to take out city blocks in extreme cases.
"All I want is the box. I have no argument with you. Give me the box, and I give you the codes to the bomb. A simple deal, lets not get it messy"
After a string of questions and bartering (nearly all of which are met with a "no") the team figure they have little choice but to comply, and hand over the box.
"You will understand if I don't give you the code until we are clear of course..."
The men in black take the box and the detonator, and climb on to a boat, quickly making their way out into the harbour.
Hot Ork Lady reappears, dropping from her vantage point where she was watching the whole thing play out. As the boat clears the harbour, she presses a radio detonator of her own, and the boat ASPLOADS. Mercifully, Nik does not. She gets a much smaller but similar looking box, and a hologram of Pappa P's face emerges.
The Hot Ork Lady gives you a certified credstick holding 7k each, plus a 30k bonus.Pappa P wrote:Dobryj vyechyer my friends! I apologise for the much strangeness this night. I will try to explain what I can. Is only fair.
First, Nikolai, my good friend. Do not fear. The khuyesos did not have code for head bomb. He knew there was code, and knew you would not risk it. Clever for him, but not clever enough, Da? I am sorry, though, I do not know more. Will do what I can to help you with this.
You must be wondering what in fuck is happening, no? Well, you may have guessed that I am not metahuman. I am, how you say, metasapient. AI. Is big secret, but you cannot do what I do and sleep! Or go to bathroom! Work needs dedication. Important work. But I am all russian!
We will talk more later. For now, is best we leave, and fast. Violetta, give them their pay. And extra.
I've no doubt missed some stuff, so let me know if there is anything you remember, or anything you want to ask about.
Also, all involved get 10 Karma each. New people, if you want to (or already have) made new characters rather than keep the rather hastily assembled characters used at the bash, you can have the 10 Karma for them instead if you prefer.
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Mr J's name was "Mum" I think.
It was Mr J who took the shot at the hacker vehicle from his vantage point on Pnut's van, busting the back up.
I went to take the box in myself, but got told to stay put at an intersection of warehouses. I had a bit of a tantrum and sat down till Mr J and Pnut came to take the box off me. This also gave me a good idea of the range of the bomb
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There was a grenade bounced off the front by the drone before the shooty.
Frank also had a pop before grim chopped the van up, but at the few thousand metres of distance it did bugger all. I may need to buy some rocket launchers.
Frank also failed to get hot ork ladies phone number, but he will not give in!
Frank also had a pop before grim chopped the van up, but at the few thousand metres of distance it did bugger all. I may need to buy some rocket launchers.
Frank also failed to get hot ork ladies phone number, but he will not give in!
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Okay, finally got around to finishing this.
Please chip in with anything I missed/misremembered due to drunkenness and utter lack of notes.
The stuffer Shack Escapade!
Starring
Dr. kitteny berk as Heinz the troll
Shada as samurai guy the street sam
HereComesPete as Frank the gun bunny
And introducing mrbobbins as Geoffrey the quadriplegic mage!
After striking up friendly conversation over a few drinks in a downtown bar the new acquaintances decide that food is in order. Against all sensible judgement they decide that the stuffer shack over the road is an excellent place to stave off their drink induced munchies.
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To quote the sixth world wiki - "Stuffer Shacks are corner convenience stores found across the Seattle metroplex and the UCAS. They operate 24-7, and sell food, clothing, and entertainment - all disposable.
The best way of thinking of Stuffer Shack is as an enormous vending machine crossed with a Wal-Mart. Nearly anything civilian legal can be bought at a Stuffer Shack."
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The guys head into the stuffer shack, peering blearily at the signs that advertise various industrial sized food products and make their decisions. Inside the store already are a couple of gangers up near the back, loading their pockets, a guy who's loitering in the ice cream section, opening various tubs and tasting the product and a couple of disinterested dwarfs sat in the employee booth.
Shortly after splitting up to get their intended food products the door opens and a frightened young woman comes running in, she's carrying a baby. A split second later front of the store is ripped open in a massive explosion, rubble pours in and giant packets of food rain down around the store as the woman is buried underneath a deluge of storefront advertising and masonry.
The two gangers duck and cover, the ice cream licker climbs into the freezer with his product of choice and the employees disappear inside their little room.
It's up to our gambrinous drunks to sort out this disaster. Well, some of them.
Heinz is in the tinned food isle searching for beans. Barely registering the explosion the drunk, angry troll continues to shuffle through the mess in search of a giant tin of his favourite product.
Geoffrey comes to a halt in his wheel chair amongst the bags of potato chips. He was going to levitate his favourite flavour onto his lap but now he can't see them in the mess.
Samurai guy pulls pistols in a blur of well practised movement and hunkers down behind the food product stack nearest to him, a wary eye on the rubble at the front of the store.
Frank sets off for where the girl and baby where before they got buried by the rubble and starts clawing at the chunks of storefront.
Moments later a ganger comes climbing over the rubble screaming and shouting for everyone to get down - he doesn't get the response he wants. Heinz continues to search for beans, Frank continues to dig and Samurai Guy just points his pistols at him. Geoffrey however starts talking back in his computer voice, a computer voice which has reset itself to the standard female tones.After being insulted in an archaic off kilter female voice emanating from a wizened man in a wheelchair, shouty ganger is understandably even more shouty. He sets off toward Geoffrey waving an AK97.
Back at the front of the store two other men have appeared, another ganger wielding an AK and the other wielding a bemused and somewhat embarrassed expression, he's dressed differently and surrounded by a yellow glow.
Deciding he's been a bit silly Geoffrey decides to mind control shouty ganger, he botches the attempt and merely attracts more anger from the shouty ganger. In an attempt to throw shouty ganger off his current path Geoffrey casts arouse on him, in his haste however he manages to stun himself a bit more and give shouty ganger nothing more a slight twitch in the loins.
It's all looking a bit bad for the cripple right now, but help is at hand!
Heinz emerges with a triumphant roar from amongst the tinned products clutching a huge tin of beans, it quickly (for a troll) dawns on him that the man pointing a gun at his new tiny friend in the chair isn't up to anything good, he sets off into a lumbering run which ends with him battering the tin of beans into shouty ganger's head. Shouty ganger staggers, part of his scalp clinging to the bottom of Heinz' tin.
Seeing this from the front of the store the other AK wielding ganger decides to put down the angry troll wrecking ball, some rounds bounce harmlessly off Heinz' hide, others shoot past him and burst through some large containers of green goo, this green goo showers over Heinz. He's green and angry, uhoh!
Samurai Guy responds with far better marksmanship, plugging holes into less vital parts of the ganger at the front of the store, he goes down in a heap. He's not dead, not yet.
The mage rapidly loses his bemused expression as he realises he'd better earn his money, he casts a similar yellow glow over shouty man. As a result of the shooting Frank stops digging and brings up his combat shotgun, the result after a couple of large calibre slugs being a mage who's very, very dead.
Meanwhile! At the back of the store, Heinz has been shot at by shouty ganger and suffered nothing except another shower of sticky food product. This time it's a sickly yellow and it's thick enough to slow down the troll despite his prodigious strength. But not enough that he can't grab shouty ganger in a vice like grip and lift him from the ground. At the same time Samurai Guy drops his guns and draws steel. He sprints across the room and with a deft leap he's sliced the gun arm off the guy heinz is holding in mid-air. Shouty ganger passes out and gets slung over the shoulder of Heinz.
Franks gone back to digging for the woman and baby, after a few seconds of headway he's interrupted again by another ganger climbing over the rubble, he's got an AK so he gets shot at by Frank. Being rather squiffy Frank misses, something he really doesn't like. So he switches to automatic and empties most of the drum on the shotgun into the ganger. He's chunky salsa. And such is Frank's mood, he then stalks over to the bleeding ganger that Samurai Guy put down and gives him a point blank shot to the head, more chunky salsa.
In the back of the store Heinz has staggered off to find something to clean away all the industrial strength food product he's coated with. He grabs at a fire extinguisher and sprays it at himself, unfortunately it's one for electrical fires and contains a dense sticky powder. Heinz is now green, yellow and white over pretty much his entire 4 metre frame, still clutching a dented tin of beans with bloody scalp hanging off and with a passed out bleeding ganger over his shoulder.
Frank gets back to business of digging out the woman, at the back of the store a sobbing dwarf emerges from the employee booth with a pump action shotgun shakily weaving between the team. Geoffrey levitates the shotgun out of her hands and diffuses the hysterical young dwarf who's friend/partner looks to have caught a stray bullet in the fight.
Frank's finally managed to dig out the woman and baby who seem miraculously unharmed, she tells a tale of being chased by the gangers and mage because her baby is some minor corp managers kid and he wants it back. The team are un-trusting and pressure her for the truth, Heinz helps by picking up the baby. Unsurprisingly she caves quickly in the face of a fourteen foot monster, covered in goo, with a now dead ganger draped over one shoulder. She was trying to blackmail the corp manager with the kid as leverage, they were sent to stop her.
Before the team can push much further the siren sounds of lone star are heard. Samurai Guy makes like a ninja and buggers off sharpish. A still drunk Frank decides it a great idea to smash the cctv setup and destroy the recordings of him executing everyone, he gets as far as mashing the tapes and leaving them on the floor before his brain gives up on him. Heinz in a moment of clarity gives the baby back to the woman and chucks the body away. Geoffrey rolls back over to the potato chip isle looking innocent.
As lonestar arrive and cordon off the scene, they start to question the mess and the bodies. They find that Samurai Guy has left his pistols in his hurry to scarper and that the cctv footage is smashed up on the floor.
Geoffrey and the woman are let go without too much fuss, a lone star officer even gives Geoffrey the potato chips he was after. Heinz is dragged to the station with Frank. Heinz is let out with a small fine after establishing that he's a run of the mill petty criminal. Frank escapes with the use of a fake sin.
~FIN~
Please chip in with anything I missed/misremembered due to drunkenness and utter lack of notes.
The stuffer Shack Escapade!
Starring
Dr. kitteny berk as Heinz the troll
Shada as samurai guy the street sam
HereComesPete as Frank the gun bunny
And introducing mrbobbins as Geoffrey the quadriplegic mage!
After striking up friendly conversation over a few drinks in a downtown bar the new acquaintances decide that food is in order. Against all sensible judgement they decide that the stuffer shack over the road is an excellent place to stave off their drink induced munchies.
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To quote the sixth world wiki - "Stuffer Shacks are corner convenience stores found across the Seattle metroplex and the UCAS. They operate 24-7, and sell food, clothing, and entertainment - all disposable.
The best way of thinking of Stuffer Shack is as an enormous vending machine crossed with a Wal-Mart. Nearly anything civilian legal can be bought at a Stuffer Shack."
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The guys head into the stuffer shack, peering blearily at the signs that advertise various industrial sized food products and make their decisions. Inside the store already are a couple of gangers up near the back, loading their pockets, a guy who's loitering in the ice cream section, opening various tubs and tasting the product and a couple of disinterested dwarfs sat in the employee booth.
Shortly after splitting up to get their intended food products the door opens and a frightened young woman comes running in, she's carrying a baby. A split second later front of the store is ripped open in a massive explosion, rubble pours in and giant packets of food rain down around the store as the woman is buried underneath a deluge of storefront advertising and masonry.
The two gangers duck and cover, the ice cream licker climbs into the freezer with his product of choice and the employees disappear inside their little room.
It's up to our gambrinous drunks to sort out this disaster. Well, some of them.
Heinz is in the tinned food isle searching for beans. Barely registering the explosion the drunk, angry troll continues to shuffle through the mess in search of a giant tin of his favourite product.
Geoffrey comes to a halt in his wheel chair amongst the bags of potato chips. He was going to levitate his favourite flavour onto his lap but now he can't see them in the mess.
Samurai guy pulls pistols in a blur of well practised movement and hunkers down behind the food product stack nearest to him, a wary eye on the rubble at the front of the store.
Frank sets off for where the girl and baby where before they got buried by the rubble and starts clawing at the chunks of storefront.
Moments later a ganger comes climbing over the rubble screaming and shouting for everyone to get down - he doesn't get the response he wants. Heinz continues to search for beans, Frank continues to dig and Samurai Guy just points his pistols at him. Geoffrey however starts talking back in his computer voice, a computer voice which has reset itself to the standard female tones.After being insulted in an archaic off kilter female voice emanating from a wizened man in a wheelchair, shouty ganger is understandably even more shouty. He sets off toward Geoffrey waving an AK97.
Back at the front of the store two other men have appeared, another ganger wielding an AK and the other wielding a bemused and somewhat embarrassed expression, he's dressed differently and surrounded by a yellow glow.
Deciding he's been a bit silly Geoffrey decides to mind control shouty ganger, he botches the attempt and merely attracts more anger from the shouty ganger. In an attempt to throw shouty ganger off his current path Geoffrey casts arouse on him, in his haste however he manages to stun himself a bit more and give shouty ganger nothing more a slight twitch in the loins.
It's all looking a bit bad for the cripple right now, but help is at hand!
Heinz emerges with a triumphant roar from amongst the tinned products clutching a huge tin of beans, it quickly (for a troll) dawns on him that the man pointing a gun at his new tiny friend in the chair isn't up to anything good, he sets off into a lumbering run which ends with him battering the tin of beans into shouty ganger's head. Shouty ganger staggers, part of his scalp clinging to the bottom of Heinz' tin.
Seeing this from the front of the store the other AK wielding ganger decides to put down the angry troll wrecking ball, some rounds bounce harmlessly off Heinz' hide, others shoot past him and burst through some large containers of green goo, this green goo showers over Heinz. He's green and angry, uhoh!
Samurai Guy responds with far better marksmanship, plugging holes into less vital parts of the ganger at the front of the store, he goes down in a heap. He's not dead, not yet.
The mage rapidly loses his bemused expression as he realises he'd better earn his money, he casts a similar yellow glow over shouty man. As a result of the shooting Frank stops digging and brings up his combat shotgun, the result after a couple of large calibre slugs being a mage who's very, very dead.
Meanwhile! At the back of the store, Heinz has been shot at by shouty ganger and suffered nothing except another shower of sticky food product. This time it's a sickly yellow and it's thick enough to slow down the troll despite his prodigious strength. But not enough that he can't grab shouty ganger in a vice like grip and lift him from the ground. At the same time Samurai Guy drops his guns and draws steel. He sprints across the room and with a deft leap he's sliced the gun arm off the guy heinz is holding in mid-air. Shouty ganger passes out and gets slung over the shoulder of Heinz.
Franks gone back to digging for the woman and baby, after a few seconds of headway he's interrupted again by another ganger climbing over the rubble, he's got an AK so he gets shot at by Frank. Being rather squiffy Frank misses, something he really doesn't like. So he switches to automatic and empties most of the drum on the shotgun into the ganger. He's chunky salsa. And such is Frank's mood, he then stalks over to the bleeding ganger that Samurai Guy put down and gives him a point blank shot to the head, more chunky salsa.
In the back of the store Heinz has staggered off to find something to clean away all the industrial strength food product he's coated with. He grabs at a fire extinguisher and sprays it at himself, unfortunately it's one for electrical fires and contains a dense sticky powder. Heinz is now green, yellow and white over pretty much his entire 4 metre frame, still clutching a dented tin of beans with bloody scalp hanging off and with a passed out bleeding ganger over his shoulder.
Frank gets back to business of digging out the woman, at the back of the store a sobbing dwarf emerges from the employee booth with a pump action shotgun shakily weaving between the team. Geoffrey levitates the shotgun out of her hands and diffuses the hysterical young dwarf who's friend/partner looks to have caught a stray bullet in the fight.
Frank's finally managed to dig out the woman and baby who seem miraculously unharmed, she tells a tale of being chased by the gangers and mage because her baby is some minor corp managers kid and he wants it back. The team are un-trusting and pressure her for the truth, Heinz helps by picking up the baby. Unsurprisingly she caves quickly in the face of a fourteen foot monster, covered in goo, with a now dead ganger draped over one shoulder. She was trying to blackmail the corp manager with the kid as leverage, they were sent to stop her.
Before the team can push much further the siren sounds of lone star are heard. Samurai Guy makes like a ninja and buggers off sharpish. A still drunk Frank decides it a great idea to smash the cctv setup and destroy the recordings of him executing everyone, he gets as far as mashing the tapes and leaving them on the floor before his brain gives up on him. Heinz in a moment of clarity gives the baby back to the woman and chucks the body away. Geoffrey rolls back over to the potato chip isle looking innocent.
As lonestar arrive and cordon off the scene, they start to question the mess and the bodies. They find that Samurai Guy has left his pistols in his hurry to scarper and that the cctv footage is smashed up on the floor.
Geoffrey and the woman are let go without too much fuss, a lone star officer even gives Geoffrey the potato chips he was after. Heinz is dragged to the station with Frank. Heinz is let out with a small fine after establishing that he's a run of the mill petty criminal. Frank escapes with the use of a fake sin.
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