(AL) Session 3-4 - Test of Resolve

## Plot

Bagel Squad are in the cafeteria when Rebecka calls the three of them into her office. She informs them that she's finally decided to send them on their 'final' mission, which will determine whether they die or live and earn back some freedom. Their mission is to infiltrate Horizon Initiative's HQ and kill off one of the three leaders in order to create some sort of instability that would likely lead to the downfall of the organisation. She gives them a brief overview of each leader, importantly how many guards each have around them at all times. From this it's decided that Father Matthews or Leon would likely be the easiest targets since Abed tends to have at least 6 guards with him at all times which would make the objective much harder. She makes it clear that she isn't really expecting them to come back from this mission and gives them an hour to prepare.

During this hour, Evie goes down into the armoury to stock up on ammunition for her handgun, being able to secure 2 magazines consisting of 12 bullets each on top of the 12 bullets already loaded. Separately, Freya and Leslie pay a visit to Val in the infirmary; Freya goes to pick up some med-kits that she thinks could come in handy while on the mission, Leslie gives her a note addressed to Sergey with information about what's happening and she asks that she deliver it to him if the group aren't back in around a week. Val manages to tell Freya and Leslie that Sergey actually wants to speak with them whenever they're able to go to him. Evie remains uninformed of this. The three of them return to the time machine room where Rebecka is waiting for them. Oddly, neither Arthur nor Samuel are present, instead Rebecka herself expertly operates the machine and she sends Bagel Squad off on their mission.

They land in a time and place unknown to them, appearing to be in a relatively empty part of a city. From their cover around a building, they watch groups of 4 or 5 people walking back and forth and deduce that the people are very likely Horizon Agents. They decide to follow one of the groups to see what they're doing or where they're going, keeping to the shadows and behind buildings to maintain a good distance from the group. Eventually, the group comes across another group, they exchange some words (that Bagel Squad are too far away to hear) and some members swap groups before continuing their movement. When standing to follow them, Evie accidentally kicks a can which luckily lands on a trash bag rather than the ground and the group remain hidden.

Bagel Squad decide to follow a group of 4, 3 older looking agents, a woman and two men, and 1 that looks somewhat younger. They turn round a corner and Bagel Squad goes to follow; realising at the last second that the group had stopped, Leslie (who's in front) quickly moves her arm backwards to stop the other two and accidentally elbows Evie in the stomach. They watch as the group stops to talk as the younger member shows off what looks like an artefact received from the nearby dumpster. One of the members, who seems to be the biggest and oldest of the group simply tells the member with the artefact to leave and meet at the meeting point and use his GPS to find his way, being quite dismissive of him. Once the member with the artefact is gone, Bagel Squad prepares to attack - planning to take the clothing and equipment from the 3 remaining members in order to sneak into Horizon.

Freya moves first, grabbing a smashed glass bottle from the floor and using it to stab one of the members in the side who quickly starts bleeding out. Leslie moves next, picking up an old wooden board and hitting the woman over the head and to the ground. Evie quickly moves in as well, pocketing the gun and beginning to fight with the remaining member, the larger of the two men, hand-to-hand. While Freya finishes off the first man and Leslie seems to have the upper-hand on the woman, Evie is in a bit of a stalemate with her opponent; with the two of them rolling around on the ground trying to get an advantage over the other.
Eventually, Evie is pinned under the Horizon Agent. Freya comes to assist by grabbing onto his back and hair, he easily throws her off but the distraction gives Evie enough room to move to kick him in the groin *hard*. He falls to the ground and Evie kicks him hard in the head and he falls still. Meanwhile, Leslie has been continuing her fight with the woman, and Freya grabs Evie's gun which fell from her pocket at some point during her fight and fires it at the woman. Her shot misses and the recoil of the gun causes her to fall backwards, but the sound of the gunshot startles the woman and Leslie is able to gain a massive advantage, pinning the agent to the wall with her arm, strangling her until she too dies.

With the Horizon members dead, Bagel Squad proceed to take off the jackets of the three to use as disguises, within the pockets are the same GPS device they saw the younger member use earlier as well as ID-type things with a number and letter combo. G143 for Evie, G355 for Freya, and G137 for Leslie. Evie takes the gun back from Freya, joking about her inability to fire straight, and disposes of the three bodies into the same dumpster the artefact was found in. With a way to properly infiltrate Horizon's HQ secured, the three of them begin following the GPS device.

## Featured Characters

* Evie Vinell
* Leslie Bradley
* Freya Von Franc
* Rebecka Rose
* Arthur Grimes
* Val Namerso
* Frank
* Horizon Initiative Agents
* Sergey Tysrulnikov (Mentioned)
* Father Alastair Matthews (Mentioned)
* Leon Mirshara (Mentioned)
* Abed Moghadam (Mentioned)

## Major Events

* Rebecka sends Bagel Squad on their "Suicide Mission"

## Trivia

* Evie violently kicking the Horizon agent in the groin was the result of a Nat20 being rolled during the combat encounter