Written by Peter Weilnböck
Published on: 2026-02-11
Session 8: They clean out the Komun'go workshop. With fire.
Discord jumpes into the room and puts his rage into hitting the butcher. Seems like the Silencer really does more than just act as a club, because the top third of this omaes body fragging disintegrates into a red mist coating the wall behind.
Jace and Thalmak take up defensive positions inside the room and around the corner respectevely, guarding down the hallway in the direction of the door where we heared the laughter before.
Not too late, since a the door opens and a elf chick as well as a tusk dude jump out and open fire. The elf chick targets Jace, who dodges easily and the tusk shoots at Thalmak. He hits, but the bullets flatten against Thalmaks armor and it does not seem to slow him down at all. He answers by spinning his grenade launchers cylinder to black and lobbing one towards the entrance. The grenade explodes exactly in the door. The orc is turned to mincemeat by the blast, the elf survives barely, since she had managed to jump some distance away further down the hallway.
In the meantime Romeo has opened the entrance on our side and I focus on getting the Steel Lynx up the steps. A wonderful machine on the street, the wheeled configuration does not really work well with steps. I will be able to get it up, but it will take me a second or two…
Jace takes out the elf and runs down the hallway to check the room where the pair had come out. I can’t see from the flyspys perspective what he shoots at, but he fires another burst into the room and then turns around.
We are getting in trouble over here as well. Inside the room a norm and a trog come down a staircase and open fire on Romeo. He takes a full blast of the trogs Remington Roomsweeper in the chest and staggers back. It does not help, that the gun seems more like a toy in those meaty hands.
Discord rushes to help and manages to open the door that separates the hallway from the room Romeo and me are trying to secure.
From the flyspy I see Thalmak spinning the cylinder of his grenade launcher again, this time to green and lobbing another grenade towards us. This explosion is far less violent than the last, but instead coating everything with fire and filling the room with a thick smoke. Discord and Romeo get coated as well and start burning as well. While Romeo falls back out the stairs and lies on the ground, I hear Jace’s angry yell over the com. I guess he is not happy with Thalmak. Neither am I, to be honest. Turning the room your team mates are in into a fragging inferno is not the most considered choice.
Discord now gets in and takes out the human who came down the stairs first. While the human was screaming in pain, Discord simply ignores the fire on the ground and that he himself is burning as well. Jace sprints down the complete hallway, through the burning room to help Romeo. He starts to tear away the burning clothes, so that our wheezing face does not turn into a piece of charcoal.
Discord smashes the troll through the staircase, ending his pain. He looks down through the hole and does not seem happy with what he sees.
I finally finish getting up the fragging stairs, leveling the barrel of my HK SMG towards the stairs and rolling into the burning room. Jace finishes undressing Romeo. Drek he is fast.
Two more ladies come done the stairs, a norm ahead of another trog, opening fire towards Jace and Discord. From the fly spys view I see that Thalmak also got company, a pair of tusks surprise him, while he was checking on the downed elf lady. They seem to hit him quite bad this time, and he ducks into the room where he before turned someone to chunky salsa.
No time to take a closer look. On our end now some people run up from the cellars as well. They turn out to be ghouls, and one of them immediatly charges Jace and tries to claw at him, although he dodges easily. And another norm lady with a katana charges Discord from the corridor, so that he is boxed in between ghouls, the two from the upper floor and her. Still burning brightly as well. He seemed surprisingly gleeful, especially that the others with him were standing in the fire as well? Note: Never piss off Discord. That chummer is fragging crazy.
He also quickly dispatches the trog gal with a single blow.
Romeo fires at the Ghoul attacking Jace and manages to take it out with two bursts. Jace fires at the norm who had shot at him before and takes her out.
I notice that the two attacking Thalmak had run up to the room and fired inside, not taking out our pyromaniak. He skittles out of the room again, past the two and around the corner into the room katana gal had come out before. Discord tries to take her out, but that fragging breeder manages to block his strike and let it glance of ineffectually from her blade. Romeo and Discord take out another ghoul. I hit some as well, not doing enough damage to take one out though.
Jace hits the katana gal with two bursts, but she still keeps fighting. The room was cleared other than her, but there is deeper growling from below. Two more ghouls come out, a former trog and former tusk. The tusk goes for Discord, and the trog for Jace and Romeo. Discord manages to finally land a solid hit on the katana girl, smashing her into the ceiling and ending her quite effectively. I concentrate my fire on the trog ghoul, with Jace being busy dodging it. Romeo manages to take it out with two slugs from his underbarrel shotgun. Discord ends the other ghoul.
Drek. What a fragging mess. The room is still fragging burning, Discord has hurried out to check on Bob in more Detail. The two syndicate men who had attacked Thalmak had decided to flee instead of risking their life further. Jace, not wanting to go through the burning room with strewn around sizzling meat, the copiouce amounts of blood not being able to quench the flames of whatever substance Thalmak has unleashed, decided to walk around the building instead. On his way he also found the spiders nest, but that omae has already skidaddled. Wise choice, I would say.
It seems like Thalmak has sealed himself into the room that he ran in, because of instead of simply coming out of it that crazy halfer blew a hole in one of the other walls of that room and came back to us through the bathroom. Drenched, since he blew up some of the piping in the wall…
He casually asks if everyone is alright, but Jace is NOT happy with him. He picks up the banter about the battle scars and asks the halfer if he managed to aquire any. Thalmak prefers to applogize about the white phosphor instead of answering him. So he is not completely demented. Although I think it will take more for Jace to forgive him. At least he promisses to kill him if he ever hurts one of his teammates again. Does this include me as well? I would hope so at least.
In any case, since we have found the “rats nest”, even though they were not real rats the cooperation probably is at an end anyways.
Romeo just casually mentions that he got a job offer while he was on the ground taking out ghouls. What the frag? Apparently DeSantis was happy with our work and would like to hire us again, if one of us know our way around the Sierra Nevada. Non of us do. Except Thalmak. So maybe we will not get rid of him this quickly after all?
The search of the building has not turned up too much. The cellar is connected to the sewers, with the dirt being most disturbed towards the east. Towards glow city. So I guess we know where the ghouls lived. Well “lived”.
The Room Thalmak so thoughtlessly trashed contained the most interesting stuff: Documents and data storage from the Komun’go lieutenant - you remember: the tough breeder chick with the katana. Copies were sent to various connections: Jace’s chummer Miri got one, so the mafia gets to know more about the competition, and so did Discord’s chummer Cheeks gets another copy. And apparently Romeo has a Chummer with Knight Errant? So they get a copy too. I assume they all will have some use of the data and hopefully remember that we were the ones providing it to them.
They got 7 Karma and loot worth of 5k Nuyen as well as 1 street cred each. This brings the total to:
I noticed this time how big a Steel Lynx is supposed to be, and that it probably would not fit into the back of a van. Even a GMC Bulldog would probably be too small. However, I will gloss over that for now, since there is another toy on Hunt0rKill0r69s wish list anyways, that would replace the Steel Lynx as a drone to bring.
You can read a different perspective in my spouses brillian write up.