C6xS9 "Burrow the Belt Tactics"

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### Starring

Caramel Bus, Gimmeny Cricket, ItzFuzzii, Madge, Parklee, and Auraliyaen Executive as the GM

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"Burrow the Belt Tactics" (6x09) is the ninth session of the sixth campaign of Auraliyaen. After getting information from a street racer turned thug, they use him to access the Varora Burrow - buying new equipment, and having a some-what productive meeting with a Green Rabbit Burrow Associate. To start to build a reputation in the community they take on a mercenary contract to eliminate a newly started cult.

## Synopsis

### Announcements

* GM Auraliyaen Executive announced the new patch that touched on changes to some Aura techniques. Armament's AC bonus being a reaction until end of that turn. Transmutation Soul Releases Passive 'Transmutation' Technique was also touched on - dealing 2d6 'Transmutation Points' and if the amount equals or exceeds the objects defence points it is transmuted.

### Part I

With the car having crashed and now starting to alight the party quickly grabbed the unconscious body of the goon, Juinn grabbing a dead body too. They sprint away, soon taking refuge in a side ally off a nearby street. Using his ability to fly, Juinn kicks down a fire escape ladder for the others to climb to the rooftop of a building, Juinn using his magnetic boots to carry one of the bodies as both was too much for him to handle. The unconscious goon wakes, and is quickly greeted by intimidation and threats from the party as they interrogate him (which includes Rolym grabbing him and flying him 18-meters above the seven-story rooftop, holding him aloft.) Sobbing, as he explains that things weren't meant to go this way and he should've just stuck to underground racing, the goon, Xille Hisi tells the party of a landmark in the city to find the Varora Burrow (X Tree) as well as a code-phrase to get into one of the entrances (Ask the butcher for the "1000-day aged leg-cuts"). Having failed his mission and fearing the repercussions Xille attempts to throw himself off the building, but is caught by a flying Rolym and brought back to the rooftop. Juinn offers Xille K300 to come with them, as they can help him out.

After having a relaxing night in a hotel the party along with Xille head to the X Tree, in the X District. Entering a building attached to the tree, a butcher's called 'Chop-Chop' they use the code-phrase and enter into the Varora Burrow. Quickly on their entry they notice that a deal goes south - with one member being shot dead. Sade and Lavi enter into a small shop filled with weapons and odd tools, speaking with an elderly lady smoking a large cigar. She shows them three high-tech gloves: A glove that shoots freezing energy, a glove that shoots radiating heat energy, and a glove that greatly enhances the user's strength. Not being able to afford any, Sade haphazardly mocks the shop-owner, causing her to threaten him with a gun. Rolym and Vex head to a store that had goods and low-end modifications for vehicles, Rolym being interested as he heard about Nitros tanks - his beloved bike in mind. After speaking with the owner, Rolym advised that he would be back to buy a tank (roughly K9,000 for a refillable). Juinn went by himself and found a wares shop called 'Trinity Focus' - in which he spoke to Sui Lomai an elderly old man who was busy at work with an invention. Juinn sold off the collection of pistols he had collected for K450 and shared a shot of whiskey with the shop owner as they spoke about the new invention he was working on called a 'Brain Bolt'. After all meeting back up together the group realised that Xille had snuck away.

They then spent 4-hours searching, investigating and socialising throughout the Burrow, trying to find any information or leads on Admin Kason. They noticed that they had limited access throughout the underground community - being flat out rejected from entering into certain districts. The general information picked up is that meeting with one of the Admins is a very hard task - often a privilege held by those with high-standing reputations within the society. Kason is the most notorious of the Admins for this - as he barely interacts with people personally. Juinn picked up that the main way to meet with one is via their Associate - with Kason's being called Lazzi Finna and that she is the only person who could organise a meeting with him. The group decides that they will return to the Trinity Focus, as Juinn struck up a good rapport with the owner to try and get information on Lazzi. The old man Sui told them that he is looking for someone to buy his newly finish "Mark #72" Brain-Bolt, with him possibly being able to remember something about her if that happened. Sade stepped up - and with the assistance of Vex bought and had the Brain Bolt installed by Sui. Sade then started to rabble and make statements about being able to understand the universe after the installation which made Sui pleased with his work. Rolym also purchased an Alerting Bracelet to help him react quicker in moments of danger. Sui informed them that there is a café to the eastern wing of the Burrow that she has been occasionally spotted at.

### Part II

The party agreed that the café was the best place to start looking for Lazzi. They walked through the underground and found it, the Bean & Gone café. Upon entering the café it was all but empty except for one man tending to the coffee machine. Rolym asked the Barista if he knew where they could find Lazzi, he took one look at Rolym's new alerting bracelet and queried "What are you, a gay?". Rolym was shocked by the man and before he could respond the party jumped in asking where Lazzi was. The Barista shrugged and told them they could wait and she would come in if they were lucky. By sheer luck Lazzi entered the store a few hours later and sat down pulling out her laptop. Sade stepped up to greet her, he walked over and asked if he could sit beside Lazzi to which Lazzi didn't grace him with a response. Its only when Sade mentioned Kason that Lazzi became interested in the conversation but after she told Sade there is no chance that he could meet Kason Lazzi got up to leave. To interrupt her Vex got out of her chair and told Lazzi that they wanted to take Kason down. Lazzi was frustrated now and unleashed a powerful presence that echoed in the heads of the whole party, Lazzi had unleashed her Presence technique attempting to bring the party to their knees/knock them unconscious.

Rolym and Vex managed to keep their reactions internal as this wasn't the first time they had experience someone using presence. However for those untrained in Aura and even Sade began feeling overwhelmed by an invisible pressure, Lavi, Sade and Juinn were taken back by this and felt the full wrath of Lazzi's intimidation. The next move was to the parties confusion as Lazzi whipped out her pistol with tremendous speed and shot the Barista, his body ruptured as a mess of metal parts, wires and oil covered the floor. Lazzi stated that the party is unfit to fight Kason and that they would need to prove they were capable of handling themselves in combat. Vex spoke out stating that they were ready to take on Kason and Lazzi responded with a bullet right to Vex's leg. Vex didnt let out a scream or cry and instead gritted her teeth while staring at Lazzi asking what needed to be done to prove their strength. Lazzi looked at each of the party members and sighed "You can complete a contract for me, if you can help this girl out of the Paragon of Echoes in 3 days then maybe ill help you". Lazzi left the cafe and the party collected their gear before heading out. The party had their next mission, save a girl from a cult called the Paragon of Echoes, surely it wouldn't be too hard. The party regrouped at their trusty RV (the Highthpeed) and began brainstorming how to infiltrate the cult.

Vex, Juinn, Sade and Lavi found that the cult had an online contact page that stated if anyone needed guidance they can contact them. Rolym volunteered to attempt to join the cult that way the party could take them down from the inside. Rolym would be the bait, afterall who would suspect a simple blind man to infiltrate a cult that worshipped something called Echoes. Rolym contacted the number online and spoke to someone to arrange a meeting with someone called an "Angel", Rolym would meet them at Mecasyd Garden Park. Juinn decided that the party might need some backup and called up Xille to help him for some cash, the offer of cash entices Xille to come help and told Juinn he would be at the Garden park at the agreed time (8pm). Time moves to 7:30pm and loud revving echoes in the distance, Xille had arrived in his not so subtle modded car. Juinn explains to Xille the situation and the party sets up, It was Rolym on the park bench with his cane to look as innocent as possible and the party hiding in the bushes nearby in case things got messy. It wasnt until 9pm that a man approached Rolym in the park. The man revealed himself as Rayil and spoke to Rolym about powerful echoes that allow people to connect to the world and find purpose. Rayil offered Rolym guidance and an opportunity to join the Paragon of Echoes, Rolym was convincing in playing a lost soul and Rayil told Rolym to meet him at a certain address 2 days from now for some kind of initiation ceremony. To gain more information Juinn told Xille to follow Rayil in his car as an RV would be a bit conspicuous, Juinn set up a tracker with Xille's phone just in case something happened.

Juinn watched Xille's tracker moved down the streets for a few blocks then stopped dead in its tracks, Juinn stared at his GPS for a few more moments then decided to investigate. Juinn's upgrades made it simple to catch up to Xille while on foot and Juinn discovered why Xille's tracker had stopped moving. Xille's car was on the side of the street undamaged and there was a light trail of blood that led into a nearby alleyway, Xille was severely injured and sitting against the wall barely breathing. Juinn then did the unimaginable and when Xille looked up thinking he was saved...Juinn delivered the final blow, killing Xille with only his fists. Juinn took back the money he paid Xille, the keys and his wallet. Juinn returned in Xille's car and the party was distracted with planning how to infiltrate the ceremony. Sade turned to Juinn as he returned and looked at him confused "Where's Xille?" but Juinn ignored him and went back to join the party. The rest of the party was too distracted to notice Xille's disappearance and they returned back to the Varora Burrow hideout and Juinn went separately from the party to sell Xille's car to Elera Vissimhe. Juinn managed to transfer the cars name illegally to Elera with his help and received a hefty pay for his service. The party then banded together to decide if it was best to wait for the ceremony and infiltrate then or find a way to deal with the cult before the ceremony.

Next Day

Together the party decided to deal with the cult before the ceremony, The address Rayil gave Rolym was to an extremely high end apartment complex the Graceland Towers. Rolym went in alone to the front reception on the bottom floor and Vex gave him her phone to use for communication while he was in there. Rolym was stopped at front reception by a well dressed man in a suit "Who are you and why are you hear" the guard said. Rolym explained that he was hear to see Rayil and when the guard asked who he was Rolym panicked and said "My name is John". The guard turned away to call someone then looked back at Rolym with a confused look "We arent expecting any John". By this point sighs were heard through the phone but only by Rolym "*Ah - my apologies. It is Rolym, John Rolym, he might recognise that name"* Rolym said quickly. The guard went back to his phone and nodded to Rolym "someone will be here to see you shortly". Moments later Rayil arrived in the elevator and spoke with Rolym. Rolym explained that he was feeling very lost and couldnt wait for the ceremony before being thought the ways of the echoes. Rayil sympathised with Rolym and generously took him up to the penthouse suite on the top floor of the building. In this moment Rolym also revealed his power over aura and manipulated the wind to create a small sword in the palm of his hand. Rayil looked shocked for a moment and offered Rolym a place to stay at the Penthouse until the ceremony, Rayil told Rolym that he can rest here for the night and that tomorrow he would teach him about the Paragon of Echoes.

Once Rolym was alone in his room he pulled Vex's phone up to his ear and relayed a plan to the party, Rolym signalled the party from the highest balcony and told them he would fly down to pick them up and they deal with this cult at 3am and find Rayil. The party went to gather some supplies and Lavi received a phone call from her engineering friend Nix. Nix shared a contact with Lavi and told her if she needed some new upgrades that she should contact them and get in touch. Together Vex, Juinn, Sade and Lavi went to visit this contact to prepare for the oncoming battle. The contact turned out to be a strange one and was working with plants of a highly experimental nature, from a quick demonstration a plant seed grew to human size in an instant and looked ready to inflict some damage. His would prove a useful tool for the battles to come and Lavi purchased some from the contact and took a quick look around at the large book collection that was there. Lavi noticed some familiar signatures in some of the books it was a person called Avery who Lavi and the contact knew as someone who was a master inventor. The party was supplied and waiting below the Graceland Tower right on schedule. There was nothing do do now but wait for 3am to come by and the plan could commence.

## Featured Characters

### Party

* Juinn Qake
* Lavi Yelu
* Sade Zayassi
* Rolym Lamus
* Vex Rydiah

### Non-Player Characters

* Xille Hisi
* Gror Tryd
* Sui Lomai
* Homophobic Zeoneous Barista
* Nixishi
* Riren Sorveal

### New

* Xille Hisi
* Gror Tryd
* Sui Lomai
* Homophobic Zeoneous Barista
* Riren Sorveal

## Quotes

* **Sade:** *"Where's Xille?"* (After Juinn returns to the RV)
* **Rolym:** *"Ah - my apologies. It is Rolym, John Rolym, he might recognise that name"* (When Rolym freaked and gave an accidental fake name)

## Trivia

* This session marks the longest ongoing campaign run by Auraliyaen Executive.
* This session had no combat encounters.
* This was the first session a 'Graded Item' had been obtained by the party.