Category: The Sprawl: Actual Play

Just finished our first mission (we’re playing a few missions as a break from our long The One Ring game).

Mission was The 🐶# Insertion. The team was hired to infiltrate a BioSanto research lab and run a piece of software on a particular ultra secure air-gapped system, while executing a snatch of a researcher on another team as a diversion.

Legwork went okay despite them being away from their home turf, and they managed to get a good sense of the lab’s layout and security (and also found a good noodle place).

The infiltration side of the mission went fine, and they executed the code on the secure system fine. Snatching the researcher was messier, and by this time the action clock had the facility in lockdown. Security was alert, but they hadn’t identified the threat, allowing the snatch team to get the researcher into their stolen ambulance before that went south and they blew away the gate security guard. As that happened, the hacker and infiltrator used the classic “run like hell” technique to exfiltrate ahead of the security droids around the other side of the complex.

The aftermath continued to be messy, with the fixer abandoning the rest of them (leaving the city with her crew, and fulfilling a selfish directive), and the tech calling in another favour from a contact to get the rest of them out quickly (rather than their earlier plan of travelling home via people-smuggling container).

Unhappily reunited back in their home future SF sprawl, they got paid and handed their kidnap victim over to the employer.

Definitely some tensions in the team, what with the unnecessary, messy murder of an innocent bystander, the wasting time looking for paydata on the clock, and the leaving everyone in Taipei to fend for themselves.

Overall, great success. I’ve handed the MC duties on to Daniel Steadman for the next game (where I get to play my soldier, MacGregor, woo!).