CR Arcadum S2E5: A Hell of a Deal

===Episode 5: A Hell of a Deal===
====Corporations in the Shadows====
Rook met two strangers at the bar asking about assistance to clean up some hazardous material which fit the description of the infection left over from the necromancer. Some raising suspicion in specific was the older mans eyepiece who looked more advanced than any slummer tech. In truth the two were from WOTO, named Leonard Kiani and Simon Kuzumo, both dressed down and under cover but this is not known to Rook. After consulting Rook decided to hook them up with the magically inclined in the undercity and tasked Warren and Loch to fetch Ciara and Kythus to meet with them.
An important looking woman wearing a Quixote badge visits Rook at his bar and asked him for assistance to recover some stolen data from Sonitii. Not promising anything except hypotheticals she strangely asks Rook to look after Duncyn for her. Rook tells her that he knows of her and that he has already been doing so, ever since the death of Jack. She seems satisfied with this and departs but the audience does not learn anything more.
The Greasepalms family consisting of William and Angelina ask Rook for help to make them both disappear and get new identities as they believe themselves to be wanted by Sonitii. True enough not just one but two hired assassins (portrayed by Arcadum) try to hunt them down one after another. Their attempts fail however and with the help of Mika, Duncyn and A2, both Angelina and William survive. Killing one of the assassins, his remains show him to be well equipped and an expensive Astral Company merc using Mars weaponry, but issued by Quixote.
====DM: Praised be the light====
A priestess wearing an unfamiliar triangular symbol covering her eyes and face walks through the streets of The Row, asking around if there have been any gatherings that she may attend. Many walk by her feel a strange urge to follow her, and some do. She enters The Dirty Diamond brothel and as she does, those magically inclined feel a sudden alarm start akin to a bomb that is about to go off in the room - specifically for the proprietor Kee'ra and the CEO of Talaris, Damien Masaru who is present in the brothel. Damien calls out for an evacuation that is supported by Kee'ra and moments later the brothel is emptied out quickly and she stands face to face alone against this new priestess. Staring at each-other Kee'ra can feel the priestess challenging the magic inside her akin to a beast that starts to awaken. The two women start to argue about their difference in magic, one primal - the other faith-based.
As the priestess leaves the brothel Kee'ra can feel her self control slipping and dismisses her dear friends to leave her alone. Feeling an urge to drain the very life out of those she call her dear family scared her immensely, especially that it took all of her willpower to resist those urges. Who is this strange priestess and what were those alien beastly instincts surfacing within her? 
Kee'ra having planned a night together with Rook, cancels it grudgingly and decides to help her friend Gloop instead.
====DM: WOTO plays the game well====
Kee'ra assisting the lost Gloop who is searching for his origin helps him get in contact with the Upper City people. Together with her and A.L.Ex. who used to be a respected scientist in her former life they get an audience with Rikky Raclette of the WOTO Corporation. Rikky using his cybernetic eyes inspect him closely, learns of his "goo" having healing properties and the potential to increase the production of WOTO manufacturing by whole 7.8% - huge profits to be made! He also reveals the true origin of poor Gloop, he is the result of a failed experiment of discarded jelly woto cubes, having been reanimated thanks to an implanted WOTO-cube - the property of WOTO - that was discarded in the corporations garbage dump. Rikky recognizes A.L.Ex. too, and strikes an unlikely deal to research Gloop with the "good intentions" of feeding the poor and famined of course. WOTO is after all the most good corporation... or so Rikky claims. 
Unknown to Gloop, Keera and A.L.Ex, meanwhile the WOTO officials are plotting behind their backs.
In another room Leonard Kiani gives a very detailed debriefing of his undercover mission together with Simon Kuzumo. They tell all they gathered from their expedition to the undercity and a potential deal they agreed to with Kythus Tolem - a man with a devils tail, horns and glowing skin - as living proof of his magical affinity. WOTO knows of the contaminated spaceships having crashed in the wastes and the source of their infection The Necromancer, and in exchange for putting in money towards their magic project they would agree to recover things for them under the radar. Sending any major expedition team down themselves would only alert the other corporations to sniff opportunity. Seeing a potential deal WOTO's only current enemies appear to be the rivaling corps Talaris and Sonitii, who they suspect are responsible for placing that bug in their offices. To gain a foothold they would have to eliminate the competitions presence in the undercity and the row - namely Norman Flint of Talaris. Capturing him would serve 3 purposes - shut him up - interrogate him for information - and earn the trust of the people living in the slums.
Ellek Myth dabbling in the magics of rune-crafting using recovered crystals scavenged from the wasteland makes his own discovery. Unlocking the divination magic in the stones - WOTO's plot is revealed to him and Sonitii in turn.
Having recovered a WOTO-cube injected with black nanites Rikky and Goldman inspect it closely and somehow triggers the nanites self destruct sequence - but before they do so - they reveal that they were manufactured by someone named "Thaddeus", and similar to Gloop, also had achieved some form of sentience.Callous Row Season 2 Ep. 5: A Hell of a Deal
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==Gallery==
Arcad Jan 8th 2021 1 Marceline Rey Key.png
Arcad Jan 8th 2021 2 Big Conk.png
Arcad Jan 8th 2021 3 Leonard Kiani and Simon Kuzumo under cover.png
Arcad Jan 8th 2021 4 Leonard Kiani.png
Arcad Jan 8th 2021 5 Leonard Kiani.png
Arcad Jan 8th 2021 6 LSimon Kuzumo.png
Arcad Jan 8th 2021 7 Warren combat armor.png
Arcad Jan 8th 2021 8 Dagu Greasepalms and William Vossler.png
Arcad Jan 8th 2021 10 Jimmy Wisp Bo.png
Arcad Jan 8th 2021 11 Bo.png
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Arcad Jan 8th 2021 13 Shinhara.png
Arcad Jan 8th 2021 14 Ikaruga.png
Arcad Jan 8th 2021 15 Ikaruga.png
Arcad Jan 8th 2021 16 Priestess (Folkona).png
Arcad Jan 8th 2021 17 Leonard Kiani meeting with Kythus.png
Arcad Jan 8th 2021 18 Priestess (Folkona) and Maia Seren.png
Arcad Jan 8th 2021 19 Priestess (Folkona) and Maia Seren.png
Arcad Jan 8th 2021 20 Priestess (Folkona) .png
Arcad Jan 8th 2021 21 Priestess (Folkona) and Keera clash magically.png
Arcad Jan 8th 2021 22 Damien and Fred sense something magic going down.png
Arcad Jan 8th 2021 23 Priestess (Folkona) and Keera clash magically.png
Arcad Jan 8th 2021 24 Priestess (Folkona) and Keera clash magically.png
Arcad Jan 8th 2021 25 Warren Armor.png
Arcad Jan 8th 2021 26 Warren armor.png
Arcad Jan 8th 2021 27 Kee'ra Goldman Ricky and Korgak Mars.png
Arcad Jan 8th 2021 28 Asassin fires at William Vossler.png
Arcad Jan 8th 2021 29 Mika tries to intervene.png
Arcad Jan 8th 2021 30 Kee'ra Korgak Mars Ricky and Goldman.png
Arcad Jan 8th 2021 31 Astral legion assassin takes a shot at Dyncun and William Greasepalms.png
Arcad Jan 8th 2021 32 Leonard Kiani debreafs WOTO about his undercover operation spying on the undercity and Kythus.png
Arcad Jan 8th 2021 33 Ellek Myth studying runes and crystals to research better fuel.png
Arcad Jan 8th 2021 34 Manyu All and soldier.png
Arcad Jan 8th 2021 35 Rikky takes a look at Gloop visiting with Keera.png
Arcad Jan 8th 2021 36 Rikky tells Gloop that he is the biproduct of his previously trashed jelly WOTO cube experiment.png
Arcad Jan 8th 2021 36 Rikky tells Gloop that the WOTO core keeping him alive is company property.png
Arcad Jan 8th 2021 37 Rikky glare.png
Arcad Jan 8th 2021 38 Gloop holding the WOTO core keeping him corporeal and alive.png
Arcad Jan 8th 2021 39 Alex introduces herself to Rikky.png
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