Shadowrun Adventure July 13, 1997
FATGOP Finale
As we last left you, FATGOP was in a somewhat disconcerting firefight... In this "Smoke House" underground, things kept happening. Panther was still controlled by something, and was shooting his own people (Otto). Bullok had run away, scared-by-something. Rabid and Christian heard something coming from up the hall. Three Gargoyles and a woman rushed past. One Gargoyle paused as if to magically strike Christian, but the woman seems to say no, and they rush on. In the room, Two Gargoyles take on Orks, while one Gargoyle and the woman spell and shoot at the tattered-leather man and buzz-cut man. After some giving some good hits, the one Gargoyle and the woman are forced to run scared. Rabid heads up the hall and up into the Smoke House and finds Bullok and calms him down. Panther fires at Grunt, who then tackles him. The two remaining Gargoyles do some magic at the tattered-leather man, and then with a flashed mental message of malice to all, tattered-leather disappears. Panther regains himself, and apoligizes for shooting us. Otto isn't very pleased. The woman (Elka) turns out to be none-other-than Otto's contact from Germany, the taco-bell gal. Her and the Gargoyles are german agents. They help in the healing-fest, as does Taylor. The tattered-leather man was apparently a bad-ass Wraith (bad spirit). It is summoned by lots of violence. It had probably been around for a year, and had summoned another Wraith at the mass-killing at Mernon's River. And had planned another summoning tonight. "Boyd", the college-boy we were seeking is safe, right there in the room. Elka & pals leave. Two tunnels remain. The right tunnel has some laptops, and behind a magic-wall, a large cache of AK-97's, ammo and pistols. Those are hauled out to the main room. The left hall, at the end thru a magic wall, reveals ... a file cabinet. Christian, then Otto nose into it and are very happy with the contents. The Cascade Orks arrive, to whom we give most of the weapons. Back in Seattle, at Grunt's Pad, the full treasure of the File Cabinet is revealed. 24-million in certified New-Yen cred-sticks. So 4-million for each runner. Also, deeds for three estates, in the Swiss Alps, Morocco and the Caribbean League. Major caches of weapons in the Balkans, Hong Kong? and Thailand. Large-tracts of lands in the Dakota area. Two east-coast cable operations. A place in Louisiana. All this is split-up or designated a mutual-FATGOP-hangout thing. Thus, the FATGOP shadowrunners are then destined to disappear into the mists, with some to become, now, troublemakers on a much larger-scale. And some, to attempt to persue a peaceful path. FATGOP'ers are welcome to send a posting, from the perspective of a few months later, as to where they went, what they are doing, and what their plans are...to be posted in the secretive FATGOP web-archive...