M-Com Campaign
With
the Mexico City ritual in good hands, Carracci and Kasper moved on
towards the combined task of leaving a false trail to draw attention
from what remains of Suidobashi Heavy Industries. In the course of her
tracking activity and laying false trails, Carracci tripped some
security protocols while in-flight and drew some attention from some of
the local government where they landed. While they had the governmental
authority to deal with the situation, they didn't want to waste time
dealing with red tape and instead tried to slip the net of federal
agents attempting to wrap up the hacker they had detected. In the course
of their attempts to get out unnoticed, Carracci unfortunately
triggered a power outage in the airport. However, Kasper took advantage
of this and his as always aggressively offensive attitude to play the
part of the offended businessman threatening to stir up a stink. In the
confusion, Carracci was able to slip out.
At
Mexico City, Katkemat and the other mystics took it upon themselves to
set the site for the ritual to take place a little bit outside of the
city upon a lesser but connected ley line nexus. This would minimize the
number of civilians in danger and make it less obvious as to where they
might be performing the ritual from. As per his now normal routine,
Thomas used the magic that allowed the Spooky Girl to take his place in
the ritual leaving him free to act as a security along its edges.
Upon
acquiring a new laptop to replace the one that had been fried, Carracci
received several bits of warning from her watches on Suidobashi Heavy
Industries alerting her that they were moving several sets of
mercenaries to attack the Cinco de Mayo festivities themselves rather
than wasting time trying to track down the M-Com ritual. Upon
discovering that, she passed on the information to the rest of the team
and tracked down several such mercenary teams with a set of information
to be delivered toward the appropriate authorities in each city and
country where Suidobashi was targeting Cinco de Mayo festivals. She
managed to get the information out to everyone on the night before.
Angered
by this deliberate targeting of civilians, Thomas darted out to the
nearest field that he could and released a display of magical ability to
serve as a challenge to Hikozaemon and his minions. This resulted in
Hikozaemon's human mercenaries losing their direction and focus as he
turned attention away from them and leaving them easy prey to the
authorities that Carracci was anonymously maneuvering from her location
in the States. Thomas, however, received a bit more attention than he
originally expected.
Hikozaemon
opened numerous rifts onto prehistoric Earth spilling a horde of
monsters that may have been Neanderthals or other homonids corrupted by
the same energy that was used in Kazakstan to create the emotion beasts.
He managed to avoid their attacks at the start, slashing several of
them deeply, but the rifts were still pouring out more monsters.
Fortunately, Kasper had planned for the idea that Thomas might do
something a bit reckless and Valerio made an appearance taking advantage
of her crystalline body to wield a mini-gun and unleash automatic death
upon the mutated Neanderthal beasts that pressed Thomas.
Intimidating
the other mystics around her with both her prowess and attitude,
Katkemat provided some cover for this event by summoning a storm
designed to keep all the locals inside and out of trouble. Then, while
Valerio and Thomas held each others' flanks against the swarm of
monsters, she worked to seal the rifts closed. In doing so her magic
entwined with that of Hikozaemon's and they had a brief face to face
conversation which confirmed that he had a patron he was working for and
that he had been part of making most of the normal conduits for time
travel unsafe. At that point he boasted about how he would defeat
Katkemat shortly before she unceremoniously ended his spell and shut
down the rifts.
Valerio
and Thomas cleaned up the remaining monsters and called a team to
dispose of the bodies. Further teams pushed the idea that the sound of
gunfire and flashes of bright lights that came out of the battle and
rifts was due to some people celebrating the night before Cinco de Mayo
despite the presence of the heavy rain.
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