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Sunday Cyberpunk Pathfinder: Port Wayne Revisted -- The Restart

We restarted the Pathfinder Cyberpunk campaign on Sunday and the group was well underway in getting themselves into trouble.

The current party consists of four interesting characters:

  • Amzi -- Gunslinger (Overkill Gunner) Zed (instectoid)
  • Kip -- Kitsune Techniker
  • Pisha -- Half-elf Bard (Face) / Investigator
  • Thelx -- human hacker
The game started out with their pilot being eject out an airlock (player left the group).  Still, there is a skeletal young dragon to tend with, a security gun in the room with it.  There is a pounding at the door adjacent to the party of 3.  Inside the party finds Pisha, locked in for some 40 hours now.

The party dispatches the dragon with a couple of well-placed fragmentation grenades.

Thelx then lead the party back up to the main deck so he could signal WHY Corp on the station status.  Within 2 seconds of the status report, a 15 minute self-destruct was activated on the station.

The local AI started interacting bizarrely with the crew, displaying knock knock jokes that didn't make quite sense.  It requested to have itself loaded onto the scif so it might escape.  The crew split up.  Pisha and Amzi loaded the AI, named R-AI-L-OR, onto their mods.  It quickly spread throughout all the operating mods.  Thelx and Kip recovered the backup drives from the lower level, barely dodging a shadowy ghost.

Pisha and Amzi loaded the AI on the scif.  R-AI-L-OR took off soon thereafter, initially headed for disneyland, but later accomodating commands to head to the Port Wayne Hyperterminal.  Kip and Thelx followed in the ship.  As they left, the station blew behind them.

Upon landing, without papers, with an extra ship, the party started relaying information of the AI, which triggered a security code.  Things started to get ugly fast, so the party escaped in the aftermath of R-AI-L-OR arming weapons and taking off in the scif.

The party lost pursuers in the clouds and flew back to the junkyard.  From there they lined up Zizzy to wipe their records for the last 48.  Thelx lined up a potential buyer for the AI bits stuck on their mods (which had the batteries removed).  Ministrad, the AI at Nervane, bought the mods for a hefty sum.  Pisha called in WHY CORP who came and picked up the backup drive.  Zizzy executed the wipe.

Back at the junkyard, the scif showed up again with the mad AI.  He wanted help and they agreed to help him, hiding their plans to take $1M dollars that he had stolen and blowing him up.  Unfortunately, a check of the hull showed a tracking explosive.  The AI transferred $1M in stolen funds to the team just before the explosive went up.  All internal systems were destroyed.  Incoming VTOLs chasing the AI turned away after the explosion.
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