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Port Wayne Revisited: The Creature Hunt

So Sunday afternoons I have a new crew gaming my cyberpunk path homebrew for Pathfinder.  Here's the new party:


  • Bob the Pilot, Sylph
  • Kip, Kitsune Techniker
  • Thelx, Human Hacker/Pilot 
  • Amzi, Zed Gunslinger (Overkill Gunner)
  • Indi, Human Rogue
The party starts out doing whatever and gets a message to meet spinner in the Cold Tube.  It is a creepy retro hacker bar that attracts only hipster retro hackers and old timers.  The security equipment looks like Uvoid junk yard with animatronic camera eyes watching for trouble.

Once inside, the crew meets with Spinner.  Amzi folds her legs and listens, getting stairs from the regulars.  As a Zed, that is the way it goes.  Most Zeds, an insectoid-like race from a crashed spaceship, stay in their compound for good reason.  They can just barely speak a humanoid language.  They also tend to be hunted by researchers and insect haters alike.

Spinner gives them the lowdown... a creature loose in the ground floor needs taken out for the coucil.  The pay is $10k a piece.  He'll text the details.  The party is in, hands are shaken, and Spinner is gone.

The party gets the text.  16th floor. The party checks out the info and info online and they track down indications that it is a manticore.  Unfortunately, the only info they can find on a Manticore is a bit myopic, involving a voodoo ritual of unsettling proportion.  The party decides shooting first and asking questions later is the way to go.

They get down to the location.  Bob is driving a 3 wheeled car with Kip on the passenger's side and Indi in the back.  Behind them, Thelx is driving an old pickup truck and Amzi is riding in the back.  Amzi's legs don't work too well with regular seating.

They scan the area.  Thelx is driving and stopping to check security cameras.  Finally the creatures finds them, jumping onto the hood of the car and biting into it.

The party is firing from position except Thelx who runs across trying to get closer with a clear line of sight.  The creature takes some damage, but Thelz gets hit with spikes from its tail.  Everyone has a gun going except Amzi, who has three in action.

The creature flies back up and takes position on the second story roof of a building, gaining some cover from the building.  The party kills it.

Then it becomes apparent that the party was just shooting at an occupied building.  They go in through the door and scare the crap out of those waiting inside. Eventually the party techniker rigs up a puller system to lower the creature into the pickup truck and they vamoose.

Spinner meets the party back at the bar, takes a pic, pays thems electronically, and is on his way.  Unfortunately Indi is blabbing about the new kill to a couple of car gangers from the bar and mentions that he thinks it is worth quite a chunk of change.

The group arranges to take the carcass to a fence to sell it off.  Unfortunately on the way there, the car gang makes its move, surrounding the group with 3 large trucks (cement truck, garbage truck, and a box truck).  5 armed men are making the move on them.

Thelx gets an old man in a nearby pickup to start backing up.  Bob gets into the cement truck's systems and sends it hurling into the garbage truck, both clearing the way and taking out two bad guys.  Bob accelerates out of the situation, striking one more bad guy down, and barely dodging the old man backing up just enough to only get scratched.  Amzi looks over the top of the truck, takes aim with two guns, and blows another bad guy away.  The one remaining foe hops in his truck and gets out of there.

The party heads the remaining few blocks to the fence.  He waives his normal finder's fee for the info on the salvageable trucks.  He is so pleased, in fact, that he takes the manticore body and pays the team on the spot.

The team made $20k each on their first outing and didn't die.  Next time they will be level 4 and we'll see how it goes.
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