In da club - session 2

 The second session starts with the party discussing their options with Dakota, while the Steel Vacheros (the nomads she is working for) start going through the ambulance and sorting the supplies available in it.

After a few minutes one of the nomads points out that the ambulance still has a tracker pinging in a fixed spot, it looks like the yellow jacket is still, randomly, emitting a signal.

The party decides to follow this lead, even if the day is getting old and everyone is tired after fights and car chases.

The signal brings them to a diner in front of which the edgerunners find an active crime scene with NCPD agents taking notes and asking questions.

The party starts asking questions themselves in and outside the diner with Thronen approaching a cop that almost shoots her, luckily for the rocker the cop's partner knows her music and happens to be a fan, so she can get some precious information regarding a hit happening shortly before at the diner.

In the meantime Maven manages to access the memory of a nearby camera and sees that a biker with red and blue hair on its way to the diner was shot, his bike was hit and crushed close by on the sidewalk. He stumbled to a car parked nearby and broke into it before driving away, while the assailant, showing the "V" tattoo of the Valentinos gang on his neck, kept shooting, killing the two nomads whose car had just been stolen, coincidentally members of the Steel Vacheros.

Checking the tracker device the party sees that the location of the jacket is now in the Glen, an area south of Corpo Plaza, so under the directions of Bluescreen, who is actually just pretending to be able to check the image of the stolen car in the highway camera circuit, with a rental car they go to El Coyote Cojo, a bar known for being neutral territory and therefore safe from shootouts and gang war.

There the party leaves Maven with her sniper rifle to cover the door (just in case) and gets into the bar, Thornen starts talking to Jackie Wells, the son of the owner (Mama Wells) and Bluescreen with Pepe, the barman.

Between them they discover the name of the biker who is in possession of the jacket, Dalton and that he has a girlfriend who busks at a trains station not far from the bar.

While waiting for the others, Maven is approached by a woman who looks very much like a solo, she introduces herself as Maria Torres, she apparently has some beef with Dalton and asks to have him delivered alive to her if the party wants to make some good Eddies. 

The party decides to go to the trains station to look for Dalton's mainline, since this is the only clue they have, they'll hopefully find from her some directions to find the biker.

Here ends the second session.

The adventure begins - session 1

 Welcome to the beginning of this adventure, I would like you all to bear in mind that English is not my native language and that I'm no pro writer, so be forgiving and enjoy the ride.

It is 2076 and we are in the outskirts of Night City.

A fixer by the name Dakota is hiring a group of edgerunners to find and retrieve a specific item that one of her customers is looking for.

A group of young misfits has gathered and is ready to go on this job to make some Eddies, the only thing that matters, besides rep, in Night City.

Wrench's van is humming idle while the group gets the last details on the job, they are to visit a man called Falco in a storage container lot and retrieve from him a yellow jacket.

The job should be easy enough, but is it ever?

The chumbas pile into the black van, a quite unassuming vehicle, if you don't consider the red band running diagonally on its sides.

Upon arriving on the site of the exchange, the group hears gunshot and, getting closer, see a R.E.O Meatwagon ambulance parked between some of the containers.

A cowboy looking man is busy shooting four figures dressed in yellow jackets that are trying to encircle him.

Bluescreen and Thronen jump off the van and start circling around the containers to reach the ambulance, while Wrench comes to a skidding halt and backs the van into a container squishing one of the yellow clad shooters.

when the van comes to a halt, Maven start targeting people with her sniper rifle, while Insurance engages in close with another attacker.

The firefight is short and brutal, between the party and Falco, three of the assailant are put out of action, while the one stuck between the van and a container passes out.

At the rear, the Netrunner and the Rocker are going through the ambulance trying to get some clues and intending to steal the vehicle for themselves move it further to the back.

Since the other members of the group seem not to have any trouble in the gunfight, they take their time and Bluescreen finds a shard in a case on the passenger seat, jacking it in he finds out that this hit squad is was supposed to recover the same yellow jacket they are after and it seems like all these jackets are equipped with a tracking device. 

When the situation calms down, the group enquires with Falco about this attack, and learns that the jacket in his possession was actually stolen by some biker with red and blue hair that actually run away just minutes before the party showed up.

After inspecting the ambulance and finding a tracking device in it, the party decides to split, Bluescreen and Thornen will head back with the ambulance to the meeting point with Dakota, while the others will try to find something interesting in the remaining containers, while Falco gathers his stuff and gets out of this place.

While driving back Bluescreen and Thornen receive a call from the R.E.O. headquarters and the netrunner has to put up a little acting show to pretend he is one of the ambulance crew. Doing so he learns that two more squads are directed to the storage container lot, so he cuts the communication and calls his friends to tell them to get out of there as fast as they can before the new ambulances arrive.

In the meantime the other half of the group has been scavenging the storage lot, they found a sealed door that seems to be leading into a bunker protected by Militech mines which Maven has removed and plans on selling for big bucks.

Suddenly the edgerunners hear the roar of engines and get on the van and leave towards the desert to the outside of the city and two new R.E.O. start chasing them and shooting at the van.

Maven and Insurance try to shot from the back door of the van with little success and Wrench is busy driving while being shot from the second ambulance.

Thornen and Bluescreen, being aware of the situation, ask Dakota if she has any help to send the others' way and she calls a merc solo by the name of Hardpoint which appears moments later charging with her motorbike in one of the ambulances, jumping off the bike at the last moment and slashing the ambulance crew with her mantis blade.

Shortly after, while the second ambulance gets dangerously close to the van, Wrench receives an armed mine from Maven and chucks it in the ambulance that, after a moment of swerving uncontrollably does up in a giant ball of flames.

After this very intense chase, Wrench drives back into Night City and the party is reunited at Dakota's base, which happens to be the temporary camp of a nomad family she is working for. 

The party decides to "donate" the ambulance and its supplies to the nomads, to possibly get some favor later if needed.

While the nomads check the ambulance, one of them notices that the tracker device on board is pinging with a signal indicating the position of a jacket, very likely the one the party is looking for.

It is then decided to follow that signal quickly to avoid loosing the trace. Everyone gets ready to go, except for Wrench who needs to take Delila (the van) to his garage and get it fixed after the numerous gunshots it received.

This is where we decided to interrupt the first session, with the party renting a car and driving off to the location indicated by the tracking device in the jacket.

Delila

Resurrection

 Here we are again, after six years of silence, I'm giving this blog another try.

In the past years, I've kept running RPGs with a group of friend I managed to get together here in Canada (See previous posts), but with work and life happening, I barely had time to prepare games and run them, let alone blog about them.

In recent weeks there's been a crucial change, I am now playing in the games and not running them (at least for the time being).

This gives me the opportunity to start trying to chronicle our games, let's hope this time I manage to keep up with the sessions and take decent notes to be able to write these little reports.

We recently started playing Cyberpunk, we had a few one shots in the past using the 2.0.2.0. version of the game, which everybody loved, but we never played enough to really get familiar with the rules and play smoothly, until recently when Ronan (the current GM) decided to purchase the new Cyberpunk Edgerunners Mission Kit, which is based on the anime that came out a while back.

Ronan is a big fan of Cyberpunk 2077 (the videogame) and volunteered to run us through the introductory adventure included with this set titled : The Jacket.

We are using the pre generated character included in the set (which seems to be really powerful), and the party is composed as follows:

- Bluescreen: Netrunner, played by me,

- Thornen: Rocker, played by Matti

- Maven: Tech, played by Doyle

- Insurance: Medtech, played by Max

- Wrench: Nomad, played by Diego

- Hardpoint: Solo, played by Jameica

We are three session into the adventure and I decided to start blogging about it, so I'll have to make a recap post about the first two sessions and a following one for the third session.

I have sparse gaming notes for the first two, so the post about them will probably be relatively short, but I'll try to include all the important events, I'll follow with a more detailed one for the third session and will try to keep posting right after the game so that I don't forget any interesting event.

Wish me luck.