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Tales From The Pit
The dangerous and chaotic world of SLA Industries can make for some good tales. Here are a selection:
The Infamous Cloak Division Incident
This tale of over-enthusiasm gone wrong is set in the cannibal sectors (I forget which one). While trekking through the ruined buildings, the Strawberry Switchblades come under sniper fire. Fk'Kh drives the sniper off with a hail of 10mm and the scouts search the area. The culprit is never found, but a little later someone spots a sniper with SLA kit pointing a GAK 19 at the squad. Fk'Kh spots him and drills him full of holes, while Ruler climbs up the building to check for more. When Ruler, the squad's Stormer, gets to the body, someone suggests taking an eye or hand back for identification. So he cuts the corpse's head off. Sparse minutes later a LAD Kilcopter turns up to retrieve the unfortunate Cloak Division agent who had been obseving the squad, only to find Ruler standing there holding his head. Needless to say, Cloak were (and still are) extremely pissed off at him.
Bomb Disposal For Frothers
During the Mad Bomber BPN posted on someone's website, the squad had slowly picked their way through the booby trapped building. Just as the BPN was almost over and most of the squad were in the process of deciding how to capture the bomb-rigged psychopath, Long Rob - the squad's own resident psychopath - decided he needed to be in on the action. His UV twisted logic told him that the best way to get to where this bomber was was up the elevator shaft, so off he went. When he reached the elevator doors he found what was clearly a bomb, but Rob wouldn't let little things like that stand in his way. So he pulled it off. It was lucky that he was a Frother, and that he was wearing Dogeybone. He survived - pissing blood, with no arm, nearly dead and dangling over a lift shaft from his climbing gear. It is at this point he spots the bomber and manages to swing into the room to charge at the explosives-rigged lunatic. In the time it would have taken him to get to the bomber Rob would have bled to death, but some of the more competent members of the squad managed to grab and Kick-Start Rob before he died while another made the decision and shot the bomber. So it all turned out peachy, despite Rob's best attempts at suicide. Long Rob, rather than learn his lesson from this, was extremely pleased with his new Karma hands.
A Frother's Worst Enemy...
Some Ops just never learn. Nearing the end of a Black BPN offworld to destroy a Thresher training camp, the Squad are making camp in a forest while moving towards their rendezvous. During the night one of the remaining Thresher patrols found the squad and a small firefight broke out between the Ops who were on watch and some Thresher recruits. During this firefight Long Rob decided he would rather continue trying to sleep in his Dogeybone. Apparently, one of the Thresher patrol decided it would be better to snipe at the sleeping Frother than join the battle, and so he took careful aim and shot Rob in the head. The shot didn't penetrate and only did a little damage, so Rob decided to roll over and go back to sleep. This pissed the sniper off enough for him to switch to full-auto and start emptying his clip at the lazy Frother, almost killing him before the combat ended. Rob had some serious head injuries, but was stabilised. Later on, as the Kilcopter evacuation was on it's way, the squad came under attack again. This time Rob, who was Kick Murder trained, stood in the middle of the fight hurling abuse at the enemy. When some diverted their attention (and ammunition) towards him he just stood there with his arms out, waggling his hands (ie, injecting Kick Start from wrist injectors) shouting 'COME ON!' This left Rob with severe chest wounds and a low supply of KS. To top it all, and to his credit through no fault of his, the squad had to cross a minefield to reach the Kilcopter. Rob was the only one to hit any mines, and got to the Kilcopter with his left leg badly mangled. It is testament to the combat skill of the rest of the squad (again) that Rob only had to spend three weeks in hospital and not in a coffin.
Quickest BPN cock-up yet?
It really is amazing how quickly a BPN can go tits up. This is possibly a record, which takes place during Pythagoras' ESP when the squad are issued the second BPN. The Strawberry Switchblades associate with a rather unstable Shaktar Contract Killer called Ky'teck. Ky'teck is an ex-member and has never been quite the same since he was retrieved from Cannibal Sector 3 by a LAD Kilcopter. When the Squad was issued the BPN Ky'teck took the initiative and phoned the contact (a reasonably high-ranking Shiver) who, unknown to him, had a phobia of Shaktar. As soon as he addressed her, she hung up. Ky'teck redialed and once again she hung up. He decided that at this point that going round to where she lives was a good idea (this was late at night). He approaches her flat and knocks on the door, to be greeted by the contact peering through the gap between the door and the frame. She sees the Shaktar, screams and slams the door. Ky'teck knocks again, this time with no reply. Deciding something is wrong, the Contract Killer subtly kicks the door down. This sends the contact into a hysterical, terrified frenzy and she flees into the kitchen. Ky'teck chases her. When she finds herself cornered by the Shaktar, the terrified contact draws her 603 and brings it to bear on him. Ky'teck, being a Contract Killer, easily knocks the gun out of her hand and into the sink. The contact withdraws into a foetal position and whimpers, so Ky'teck trys to speak to her again. This provokes her into hysteria again and she starts screaming. So Ky'teck Hotlines her. Just as a reminder, this is his contact and a Shiver officer. Now that she has been subdued he contacts the rest of the Squad (the players, by the way, have been in hysterics during all of this) to explain the situation. They explain the situation and eventually the contact is taken to hospital and cared back to a point where she can actually function as the contact. All before the BPN has even started. To top it all, Ky'teck now has a dangerously vocal resentment of Internal Affairs for docking him his SCL and taking most of his payment to recompense the contact for damages and trauma.
Obituaries
Being an Operative is a dangerous job, and sometimes people die. The Ops in this section have died, although that doesn't neccesarily mean they're still dead now. Either way, here we can remember the dead. And laugh at them.
Brass
Name: Brass
Squad: Daisy Chainsaws
Package: Death Squad
Classification: Brain Waster
SCL: 7A.4
Obituary:
Whilst following a cable being tapped from one of the power cores in Lower Downtown, the squad found an elevator. The squad stand around at the top discussing how they will continue. Brass, who hasn't been taking any notice of the rest of the squad walks into the elevator and presses the 'down' button. He then notices the rest of the squad haven't followed him, and then notices that the doors have opened revealing a room full of Tex-Trex Vitos. About 20 Vitos open fire and Brass manages to keep himself alive just long enough to press the 'up' button, whereupon he collapses, weighed down by the sheer amount of 5mm he had collected. The elevator goes back up to the squad, who look on in shocked amusement as the doors open to reveal a very dead Brain Waster. Everyone laughs (he was a 'Waster and had, naturally, pissed everyone off) and then watches the camera footage taken from his corpse before sending the guys in Dogeybone down to bounce the 5mm and complete the encounter with little effort.
Ky'Teck
Name: Ky'Teck
Squad: Daisy Chainsaws
Package: Death Squad
Classification: Shaktar
SCL: 9.6
Obituary:
Decided the best way of dealing with an insane, sneaky and well-armed Shaktar Ex-War Criminal would be to accuse her of cowardice. Very loudly, in order to draw her out. The effect was to enrage her into blowing her covering sniper position - by emptying her Power Reaper into him. LAD was on the scene quickly, but he's never been quite the same since.
Update:
Since his last death Ky'Teck left the Daisy Chainsaws and took up the career of a Contract Killer. When he heard that the Daisy Chainsaws were taking on the standing Black BPN to venture into the depths of Lower Downtown, he requested that he could team up with them for one last BPN. The Daisy Chainsaws never returned, but their last reports before disappearing were of Ky'Teck taking a full burst from a Vaph III assault rifle. A LAD evacuation was requested, but so deep underground it would have been impossible to save him. The Daisy Chainsaws' last broadcast was that they were taking his body further into the depths of the city so that it could be sent back to Kn'Nth upon their return.
Leo
Name: Leo
Squad: Solo Op
Package: Medical
Classification: Wraith Raider
SCL: 10
Obituary:
On his very first BPN, Leo and some of the Strawberry Switchblades are pinned at the end of a corrider by two DarkNight snipers. Two of the Switchblades make a break for a room nearby, down the corridor where another member of the squad is taking cover and healing himself. They get shot full of holes and both (Shaktar & Stormer) nearly die. After this Leo decides to run the gauntlet, in Blocker, by himself. He promptly gets severely drilled and is dead before he hits the ground.
Squads
Daisy Chainsaws
| Current Members: | Alice, Frother, Death Squad, SCL:7.8 |
| Danny Southwell, Human, Death Squad, SCL:7B |
Squad History:
Formed by then finance Operative Jacob Haynes from promising media solo Ops. The Daisy Chainsaws averaged a BPN every three days, pushed by Alice's addictions and expensive ammo costs. As well as the ubiquotous media BPNs, the Daisy Chainsaws undertook several dangerous cult related BPNs, which they kept quiet enough to impress Internal Affairs. As well as having a reputation for providing good TV footage, they also (inadvertantly) formed a reputation with IA for getting the job done, keeping their mouths shut and asking no questions. With the death of one of the squad and the suspension of another, Alice and Southwell were recruited by Cloak Division, while Leef and later Ky'Teck formed the Strawberry Switchblades.
Strawberry Switchblades
| Current Members: | Tracy Leef, Human, Scout, SCL:5E, Squad Leader, Ex Daisy Chainsaws |
| Dannt Snowflake, Ebon, Scout, SCL:4.5 | |
| Ruler, Stormer, Death Squad, SCL:4A.5 | |
| Fk'Kh J'Hu, Shaktar, Death Squad, SCL:4.2 | |
| Long Rob, Frother, Kick Murder, SCL:5A.4 |
Squad History:
Formed from the remains of the Daisy Chainsaws in early 901SD as a new 'pet' Squad for notorious financier Jacob Haynes. Has an assortment of associated independent Ops, including Ky'Teck - Contract Killer, Ex Daisy Chainsaws and co-founder of Strawberry Switchblades. As with many of Haynes' squads, the Switchblades have suffered their fair share of casualties, but the solid core of the squad remains intact. The Strawberry Switchblades have hurtled up the SCL ladder under the close scrutiny of Internal Affairs and Stigmartyr, in fact Ruler is one of the youngest Stormers ever to reach SCL 4 at the tender age of three. Moments of glory include fending off the Beast of Clearwater Lake (or at least some of it's tentacles) and rescuing the Hijoule board of directors from a DarkNight hostage situation. The squad, through a mixture of skill and outragous luck, has survived four Black BPNs without casualties. Currently the Strawberry Switchblades are MIA deep in Lower Downtown on their fifth Black BPN.
Five Punk
| Current Members: | Dirk Gently, Ebon, I&I, SCL:10A.2, Squad Leader |
| Grim Grimbola, Human, Death Squad, SCL:10A.2 | |
| Deject, Wraith Raider, Scout, SCL:10A.2 | |
| Spindle Winston, Human, Point, SCL10A.4 | |
| K'Trr, Shaktar, Strike, SCL10.7 | |
| Eraser, Stormer, Kick Murder, SCL10.7 | |
| Gekijou Sumaniski, Human, Kick Murder, SCL:10A.1 | |
| Emile Jaegerknack, Human, Sabotage, SCL10.2 | |
| Phoebe Charles, Human, Kick Murder, SCL10 |
Squad History:
Five Punk is a fledgeling squad at the moment, fresh onto the books of the financier Jacob Haynes. Results so far have been good.
Quotes
"Um, you want to know how to pick up women? Just walk over to them, whip it out and say 'MEEEAAAAT!!!!' That usually works the best." -Cutter, Brain Waster Male, informing a Squadmate how to Seduce a woman.
