Deck the rails to protect those songs

## Opposing Force

### OpFor 1

Halloweener, go-gangers, Drunken Hillbillies, Stray fire elementals, A Pandamander family, Humanis bomb

### OpFor 2

Halloweener, go-gangers, Drunken Hillbillies, Stray fire elementals, A Pandamander family, Humanis bomb

### OpFor 3

Halloweener, go-gangers, Drunken Hillbillies, Stray fire elementals, A Pandamander family, Humanis bomb

### OpFor 4

Halloweener, go-gangers, Drunken Hillbillies, Stray fire elementals, A Pandamander family, Humanis bomb

## Background

A holiday season is here and a non public organization is arranging the schedules and routes of a few different routes for choirs. Based off of casualty list from last year the NPO release some funds for protection for the two dangerous routes, allow with the concession Humanis had some control over certain location of the route.

## The Meet

The meet was done on the matrix and was one of 3 general information session to all people that were attending the Christmas Train Choir Festival. Protection fee for the D route protection that included travel thru Redmond barrens and Puyallup z zone during their route that was also scheduled for 22 hours. The team found the escalation clauses and opted to enact Danger Pay and overtime clauses allow 4 net hit to improve the payment.

## Legwork

With the route released with the contract packages the team did a drive by the route (Took less than 2 hours) The difference was that the train would be traveling at a walking speed for the 'safe' areas of the route but would pick up speed for the dangerous areas. They identified some potential threat to their Christmas train including Go-gangers near Redmond, and Human aligned people in auburn, Paracriters and lava flow in Puyallup. Reviewing the timetable the team also noted that long haul may be required.

## Run

The team meet up before their run at a staging area in Everett. Linking up with their train the choir route started. The First trouble appeared when a Go-Ganger scout spotted the train crossing a highway between Everett and Snohomish. After entering Redmond barrens a group of Halloweener Go-Ganger followed the train to ambush them.

A firefight ensued the 6 go-gangers dealt with with but Zephyrs van received several boxes of damage. After entering Touristville the initial danger had passed and the choir start moving slowly and singing again. Zephyr has some time for emergency repairs and did a pit stop at a garage before the route left Renton.

In Auburn the slow walk train passed a high that has some hicks snipper drinking on lawn chairs looking to take pot shot at the train. By noticing the team was able to remove the threat making it harder to hit the train.

Entering Puyallup the team ran into a lava flow that had blocked the route. Three Fire elemental materialized and started to ambush the train but the runner distracted the elemental long enough that the train was able to escape. The reception in Tarislar for the Train was very encouraging and lifted everyone spirit for the return sprint.

The team noticed a family of Pandamanders and were able to avoid them but they didn't identify what they were.

Enter Fort Lewis saw UCAS solder assembled to see the Train Choir, The was followed more than 7 stops for show in Tacoma through the early hours of the morning.

The third last stop was starting to affect the runner that didn't take long-haul. The last stop that was in downtown the team notice something be left on the train that a man walking away was no longer carrying. Reacting finding the bomb the team used area jamming to halt the threat of detonation while the remove the bomb and zephyr had a drone fly the bomb to central lake then drop it.

## Aftermath

The final stop saw all other choir group show up for a final performance in downtown. As the last concert concluded payment was sent to the runners, Due to the runners protection the Route D was able to complete their circuit on time, This meant that the choir could participate the summary effect that was not possible in the last two years. This also ment larger crowd of people as the train kept on schedule spreading cheer to some less touch areas of Seattle.
The spirit of Christmas increase with cheer as result of this run but be ever watchful for grinches as the vice will not be tempered

## Rewards

9 Karma
18K Nuyen
4 CDP
1 Street Cred

## Player After-Action Reports

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

#### Gecko

Honestly the most memorable part of this run was our little party beforehand! We all got together at Dusk's workshop to work on our disguises; I brought hot chocolate and we had a fun time working on our festive elf costumes!

Also, why the heck did they schedule this route to go through Puyallup's active lava zone anyways.... What were they thinking? When those fire elementals showed up I was panicking. Luckily, some quick thinking by Dusk to throw some flammable objects away from the train (which I followed suit, grabbing a welding tank from my bag and chucking it as far as I could) distracted them long enough for us to high-tail it out of there. Note to self: bring a mage next time we go through that area.

It was heartwarming to spread Christmas cheer.  I hope we can work with the carolers again next year!