Werewolves: The Net
One of Connor’s pack mates comes down with the virus first spotted in the Gower Chantry. THe Cabel can do little to help him and to make matters worse, the MIBs seem to want Leon too. A desperate attempt to find Leon with the help of a powerful VA, Delta leads to a dangerous journey on the Net that leads to incarsuration, rescue and mental derangment.
Session 20 Summary: The Net
Title: The Net
Time: 7pm, Monday 21st August 2000
Players: Tim, Peter, Grainne
Summary:
Delta comes back from her trip on the net and says she won’t go after the information alone. The cabel agree to go. Guy agrees but Bitch doesn’t. Jack’s van is ripped apart and used as a battery for the laptop and some well kept medical drips are found so that they can be used to keep the cabel physical alive.
The group go in. Starting in a “halo-suite” grid like room the gang find themselves in a desert. Delta explains some of the rules of the Net. Magic works like the umbra, no such thing as vulgar. Whats in the net is a mental projection of yourself but if you die in the net you die in real life except a lot worse (i.e. your body is turned into a vegetable). Paradox is still here. You appearance is nothing more then just a configurable Icon. Delta appears like she did in the gower chantry, a womenly victorian dress with a virtual reality glove on her hand.
There is a door and Delta argues with someone over the intercom and the cabal find themselves inside. It’s a huge place with every type of cafe, nightclub, meeting place imaginable. The patrons are also of the same varity. Aliens, werewolves, demons, floating heads, characters etc. Before Delta runs off, she tells them to wait and not to talk to anyone or leave the place.
Unfortantly June spots the knight out of the corner of her eye and turns down a corridor into a games room.
Connor follows but he ends up in a open glen with tables, chairs and a bar formed from the growth of the trees.
A little girl approachs Martin and asks for a lollypop. Martin discovers he has a big red lollypop in his pocket. The little girl grabs his hand pulls him into another area.
June spots the knight playing at what looks like a card table except they have gold discs with shapes in them rather then cards. A large group of people are gathered around the table and June can’t get close to him. The knight seems to win the game as the crowd dispears, June tries to get to him but somebody shakes her and then runs off. A man, very white, completely hairless and wearing a toga, run down a corridor. The knight is gone so June runs after the completely bald man only to find herself on a stage with no way off. The microphone edges its way across to her and the audience looks up rather expectantly at her. She signs, not badly and she finds herself in a dingy looking bar (except for the bizarre inhabitants).
Connor surveys his surrounds and Guy turns up. A image of June singing is showing to the whole glen. People laugh and clap and then they all return to their drinks. Guy goes get drink. Connor is afraid he doesn’t have the right currency but Guy does and has bought two pints. Connor tries to fiddle with his icon and suddenly finds it’s changing on him. Hes completely naked and a white, hairless man in a toga has replaced Guy. He runs. A volumptous (boy entering puberty’s fantasy) woman approachs Connor and restores his icon. She explains about Kibology and Kibble who likes to play pranks on anyone talking about him. She points Connor in the right direction to find Delta.
Martin finds himself on a ciricular platform overlooking the entire place. It’s mind-boggling as there is too much to look at below. Above, the sky is actually a beautiful rendition of a digital network, shoting stars are data, stars are nodes, light clouds are collective areas. It’s breath-taking. The little girl is no longer a little girl but a teenage girl in a school uniform who is rather flippant about the older generation. She contines to eat her lollypop and brings Martin over to one area. He notices a white hairless man watching them (i.e. Kibble). The woman is not a very stunning 19/20 year old and before he notices she is an old woman saying her time is apon her and she wanders off a stumbling slow pace. The hairless man tips Martin on the sholder and puts a lemon pie in his face. People around titter a bit and clap. A r2d2 robot points Martin how to find Delta
June sees Delta talking to three smallish balls of hair. She runs towards Delta only to be stopped by a rather large Toad in a black suit. June throws some of the desert sand she picked up before and runs by him. Delta quiets the hair balls and tells them she is with her.
Connor arrives and quickly after Martin and Guy. Guy is pretty pissed off, his claws are out and two large looking robots and threatening to throw him out but he controls himself enough to prevent that. Delta gives off that she can’t find Kibble. At that moment, Kibble appears beside her. Guy jumps at him only to find that Kibble is on the other side of Delta. Delta traps Kibble and demands his help for a favour she once did for him. He agrees.
Kibble brings them to his appartment and agrees to help them. He gives them cartoon looking zap guns (all bright coloured bubble type affairs, you know what I’m talking about!). Delta gives them a disk to hid them from light scans from the Technocracy. June doesn’t agree to go but asks Kibble to help her find the knight.
Delta, Martin and Connor find themselves in a space port. Ships, like the one that was used in the capture of Leon, are around in many varied shapes and sizes. Groups of people wearing clothes that would have been futuristic in the seventies are in queues for ships or are working on ships. A few terminator-style robots wander around. Delta and Martin change their icons to look like female NWO agents (MIBs – black suit and tie, white shirt and mirror shades) and Connor to a female MIB. The plan is to get to the NWO database and find out what happened to Leon. One of the robots asks them where they are going and directs them to platform 7. Which leads them through a market place full of people in futuristic clothes. People get out of there way, obviously a little afraid of the MIB uniforms.
They see a queue of MIBS boarding a ship. They get the last three to come to an alley way by telling them they are performing a “survey” (Kibble also gave them clipboards- if they look like they know what their doing and have clipboards, noone will ask them anything). They zap them and the three mibs turn into cute animals (bunny, dog etc.) They board the ship. They pass through the first “firewall” (pink transparent wall) and seem to get pass the second “firewall” (blue transparent wall). But the ship suddenly turns right and two smaller ships appear on either side.
June finds herself in empty space except for a marble checkered floor. She waits for a while and creates a bell which she rings. A mad chemistry lab appears. Her mud is gone but this machine makes more mud. She creats a book with her picture in it and leaves it as a calling card. She makes a chair but then notices that there is a chessboard there. There is pieces on one side that all look like people she knows, including the cabel. Her piece is off the board and Delta, Martin’s and Connor’s piece are lying on their side. She puts them the right way up. The knight appears asks what she is doing? After a bit of nonsense (tea that tastes like coffee, coffee that tastes horrible, talking about wisdom that seems to be nonsense etc. i.e. The GM can’t rememeber the details!), June tries to make coffee and backlashs. She finds herself in a white room. The air is being sucked out by a pump. She stops the pump by magic and finds there is not enough air in the room. She creats air and pump starts again. She stops the pump by magic etc. until she destorys the pump by breaking the glass. She finds herself in the desert at the door. They wont let her in unless she sings the english national athem while gurgling.
Martin, Delta and Connor find themselves on the ground. Up above the ship is destoryed. Delta pinpoints the center. AT the same time a tank races towards them but is empty when it arrives. They hop on and it brings them to the center (a huge spike that reachs up to the sky). The tank powers down. Delta finds a digital key and door opens and they head in. AFter following corridor after corridor they discover that the doors are activate by prime-type switchs. Agents wander the corridors from corridor to corridor. They find one agent who seems to be trying to wake himself up. Connor sees that he has no memory, it has been whipped. Robots come to destroy the agent but the group save him. They ask him to find Leon and he goes off again, leading down corridors. Delta suggests that they are IN the database and that the agents are actual pieces of information or algorithms. The agent leads them to a room. There is a window and looking out, the ground is perhaps two hundred miles away and likewise is the top of the tower. Light extends towards the agent and data starts spewing around. Delta starts trying to download it all and as soon as she gets the co-ordinates she stops the download… suddenly the group find themselves in a white room. All their equipment gone.
Inside the place she wanders around trying to find the Knight and failing. One of the Servetors (the bar man in this case) suggests talking to the Hen. A sam spade look alike (rather down to only being in black white) tells her that her friends are caught. She says she knew already and he gets rather upset about this, his character’s coolness broken. She goes to the Hen. A big chicken on a throne who says the Knight invented Jelly and died in the 17th Century and that he was an Alchemist (did I forget anything?). The Hen gives directions to find him (exact compass directions) and June heads off in that direction.
A voices tells Delta, Martin and Connor to prepare for re-education. Martin dissappers. Martin finds himself on a strecher-type bed, bound down. A small pad is floating above him and a man looking like a doctor is talking out loud about Martin. The doctor goes off and comes back with another and they start to discuss Martin. Martin seperates his Ka (his egyptian spirit) and causes havoc amoung the huge amount of beds. Robots try to blast him as the Ka trys to free as many as possible but he’s too late on lot as they’ve started to “operate” on their heads. The ka draws the robots to the opposite side from his body and he passes through the wall into one of those white rooms that the he was in previously. He returns to his body and gets up off the bed and jumps through the nearest door with leads to a metal corridor.
Experience Points awarded for this sessions
Peter (Martin)
1 + ?
Fiachra (Nicholas)
-
Tim (Connor)
1 + ?
Grainne (June)
1 + ?
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