Boxing Day

## Background

Late night Christmas Day, a mysterious message is sent out to a bunch of runners, reading: "Merry Yule, I hope you had a happier Holiday than I... Perhaps you'd like to come keep me company on boxing day. I have a little fun house for you to make your way through... anyone who makes it will get a lovely present! Fair warning, because this isn't trick or treat time... expect some... Explosive surprises."

This is the story of the idiots who replied...

## The Meet

Due to inclement weather, arriving at the location was an adventure all in its own.

Val, thinking driving fast was the way to go, crashed her car. Piyu piyuing to Ophis, she acquired a ride. Chaos' dirt bike was not built for the ice and ate shit on the highway. Pops to the rescue... Squint however... walked there... From Tacoma....

Upon arriving they found a note:

"Come around back for a Christmas surprise."

They came in the back....

## Legwork

There was no plan, no strategy, no thinking. Only dumb luck.

## Run

The team wandered around the back of the house to find a Christmas gift. Unwrapping it, they found a door and decided to open it... A giant boxing glove tried to punch Squint in the one eye. He managed to get away.

Descending down, they found their way to a room of mirrors, navigating through with Ophis's spatial sense, and into an arena... and were met with a strange voice from above, wanting show them the joys of Christmas

One the first day of Christmas he assaulted them with a giant teddy bear with a machine gun in its mouth.. Val ripped off it's head...

On the second day of Christmas, turrets came out of the ceiling... They didn't last very long either...

On the third day of Christmas... Wait? Am I counting right? 6 drugged up crazy Christmas elves? More murder ensued Ophis tried to be nice and non-lethal...

By this point the voice was annoyed and began to sing!

On the Xth day of christmas my true love gave to me

A giant motherfucking teddy

Two turrets in the ceiling

Addicted elves on their favourite candy

Santa clause on a killing spree...

And sent a spirit after them that was ***very clearly not Santa!*** So Chaos murdered it...

Finally, they were allowed to "leave" the room, finding another gift... A bomb... And a riddle. Dumb luck solved the riddle, and wires where cut. The day was saved.

(The riddle: Leaves in autumn, death to winter, in summer I can catch a sprinter. The Wires: RED+ GOLD, GREEN AND WHITE, PURE GREEN, PURE WHITE, PURE GOLD, PURE SILVER, SILVER AND GREEN, SILVER AND WHITE. The Answer: Red + Gold

## Aftermath

The voice revealing itself to be Jester, a market fixer and talismonger, just having a bit of fun and giving his new runner, Squint, something to do. He shared a nice Christmas fest with the misfits and was on his way, leaving them with some credsticks.

Emotional damage had in the form of Ophis watching Chaos murder Santa.

## Rewards

* 20,000 Nuyen
* 5 karma
* 2 CDP

## Player After-Action Reports

*In Character* accounts of events, general impressions, or memorable moments

Chaos: That wasn't the real fuckin' Santa! Don't no one go tellin' Ophis it was either!

**Squint:** So there I am minding my own fraggin' business when some fragging idiot spams my commlink with a message about a trapped house, and winning a fragging prize if you don't blown the drek up. Sounds like fun. I get to the fraggin' address and there's a bunch of other fraggin' losers there too, all standing around a big fragging door in the ground. I step up, open the fragging thing, and almost take a fragging giant glove to the face. Weird-ass joke past, I lead these other fraggers down inside, bunch of cameras and a weird giggly voice telling us to keep going. Big fragging arena is next, where we fight a bunch of fragging monsters – giant robot bear, some druggie dwarves in colorful hats, big water spirit that looks like a fragging snowman. I dunno, Christian holidays are dumb and boring and there aren't enough of them. Next room, of course, is a big fragging bomb that'll blow us all to little chunks unless we disarm it. Weird voice says a riddle about autumn and dead winter and sunlight, these other fragging two-eyed morons start arguing about different answers and completely miss the obvious right in front of their fragging faces. The wires are different colors. Autumn leaves are red, fire is red, sunlight is gold. Red and gold. Dumb luck my fragging ass. Bomb stops, and of course its that fragging weird-ass clown Jester behind the whole thing. Creepy bastard pays us though, and we get a proper feast.

**V4L\_**: Aiya, imagine my surprise when I'm trying to enjoy a nice, quiet evening before getting called up for this bullshit. No way, because, first, I crash my car (not my fucking fault, Seattle roads suck shit) and then it cost, like a grand to fix it. Either way, I do some boss ass shit by ripping off a bear's head, fuck up some guys. Ora, ora, it was kind of really funny because I both got dinner, and paid. Jester is cool. Squint is, too. I bet they're fucking or something because why go through all that bullshit just to promote a guy? I remember fuck all from that whole thing, way too tired for it.