Tuesday, December 17, 2013

Rescue Mission

Doc Gray went to a local medical facility to have them analyze the IV fluid (from last session), but they were not very competent and couldn't find anything unusual in the fluid. (Cost $500)

 He went for a second Opinion to another local street dock (Dr. Sheen) who was able to identify a virus in the fluid, but it was a dead virus. (Cost $500)  The Doc wanted to get a closer look at the virus itself to see if there were any indications of man-made elements to it but Dr. Sheen didn’t have the equipment to do this.

 Dr. Sheen gave Doc Gray instructions for how to analyze the fluid better if he was able to acquire the right high end equipment - Medicinal Grade Optical Image Resonator

 Doc (ie Sam) was able to locate a device at the University of Chicago.

 Doc heads to the the local Black Mall and spends another $600 on 3 stun patches.

 Doc called the University and got in a tour for aspiring med students masquerading as Sam’s Father.  The tour goes through the campus’ high tech medical facility where Doc and Sam were able to ‘case’ the lab.

 Doc and Sam go home and get Bishop to make them some fake IDs.  Bishop does this very well (31) and creates them ID’s a visiting professors.  The two are able to

 Synthetic organism.  Dormant - not dead.  Same DNA markers as organisms found on debris on Mars as well as on the Rings of Saturn.  

 The virus did react to blood - with at least some of the sample activating from the dormant state, but the virus quickly died..  

 The IV fluid was just normal saline solution.  Doc began to wonder if the virus only activated in un-altered human blood.  Doc sent Sam out to pick a fight and ‘collect’ a sample.  Sam went to a local bar where she managed to start a fight with some frat boys (human) and collect some blood.  

 Using this sample, the Doc saw a very different reaction.  The virus attacked red blood cells and assimilates the functions of the cell it attacks, then it creates a copy of the new version of itself.  Because the virus mimics the red blood cells, the white blood cells ignore it.  The white blood cells attacked (and destroyed) a small number of the virus cells until they mimicked the red blood cells.

 Doc made a copy of the data and did a surface delete of all the work they did.

 Doc and Sam went back to Grath Labs to see if it was still running - it was with full security.
Doc checked in with the shelter he dropped Skippy of at a week ago and found out Skippy died a few days after he dropped him off.  Doc made sure the Skippy was cremated and destroyed the virus.

 While trying to figure out what to do next, Doc was contacted by Keiki (KEY-kay) Azaruke (oz-uh-RUE-kay).  He wanted to hire Doc and Sam on behalf of Ark Nova (Brazilian Environmental charity) to rescue some rare monitor lizards from the ujelang atoll before a hurricane sweeps through the area.  

 They accepted the job and flew to Japan to speak with ‘Professor Flor’.  She recommended using a lasso pole to collect the creatures.  She recommended another method was to have one person distract them while a second person grabs them by the tail.  

 Professor Flor explained the storm is due to hit the Atol in 12 hours (it was 5am at the time). 

 After doing the math, it became obvious that the first plan left them in the middle of the ocean on a hovercraft with a hurricane.  So they changed the plan and flew straight to the island without registering a flight plan (to avoid customs) and then parachuted off at the Atoll.

 Once they arrived, they were surprised to learn there were 30 villagers living on the island.  Mabelang was their leader.  Doc got a hold of Arkanova reps and they agreed to send two extra hovercraft (3 total - seats 12 each).  They would arrive in 7 hours (two hours before the hurricane arrived).

 Sam gathered up the villagers and had them assemble at the shore where the boats were to land.  Doc and the professor went lizard hunting.  Doc came back with a female.  The Professor couldn't catch one.

 The next hunt had three groups hunt - Doc, Sam and Mabelang, and Professor Flor.  Sam came back with one male.

 The third hunt produced one more male and one more female.

 The boats arrived with three hours to spare, but there were only two, due to problems at the dock.  After dividing up the weight limit across both the boats and tranqing three of the lizards (with the stun patches he got earlier for the college guards that he didn’t need) so only one of the cages were needed.  They rescued a total of 2 males and 2 females and all the villagers.

 Payment for the job was $5000 each plus $2000 for each female and $1000 for each female.  The job earned them a total of $8000 each.

 Each character received 2 XP

HeroXPRankCreditsLifestyleLiving Expense
Bishop Archibald25Seasoned26350Wealthy
Doc Grey26Seasoned13600Poor1200
Mr. Joseph Takagi18Novice32000Moderate
Job 316 Samael9Novice1000Poor2000
Sam12Novice16600Poor1000

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