Cyberpunk Session 21

Tremen hears a muffled voice from behind him¹: With this demon, I take your life, and with this word I command you to walk. Arise!. Almost immediately Spooky yells We've got zombies and she and Shadow start to deal with a body that has lurched back to unlife with some kind of green grunge dripping from it as it moves towards them. While the most of the rest of the team takes potshots at the remaining cultists² Tharbin moves round a corner, spots a Deep One³ and quickly dodges back around the corner.

Another one of the Deep One lookalikes then comes into view of Wakiya and Nameraka walking towards them and they both take shots at the Deep One with Wakiya hitting in an appendage. Tharbin's Deep One follows him round the corner and swipes him with a claw. Shadow and Spooky takes shots at the zombie that is lurching towards them and Spooky. Shadow's gun jams while Spooky's shot hits to apparently no effect. Spooky offers to try to fix Shadow's gun but Shadow is adamant that no one touches his gun except him. Ricky makes a call for backup while Tremen retreats northwards up his alleyway while trying to unjam his gun.

Ricky makes a second call for backup while the remaining gang members act. The zombie takes a swipe at Shadow while Spooky shots the zombie (again for little effect) and Shadow clubs the zombie with his rifle. Tharbin checks himself for damage - his armour is shredded but he is uninjured. Wakiya again shoots the Deep One threatening her and Namerake causing some damage and they hear: Mr. Nameraka get down (which he does) as a Tachikoma (from behind them) delivers a burst of automatic fire into the Deep One removing it from the action.

Nameraka moves out of the way of the Tachikoma and he and Wakiya start to move further into the warehouse complex. Tharbin retreats further down his alleyway away from the remaining Deep One causing it to comment: Prey run away and sees it retreat. Tremen finally realises that the voice he heard must have been from some kind of necromancer and starts to search for that necromancer (who must have been nearby). Shadow and Spooky continue to deal with the zombie (Shadow realising that hitting the zombie with his improvised club is much like hitting a sack of wet mud). The zombie responds by attempting to throw up at Shadow, fortunately only causing an acidic smell.

Artist's impression of the upper room

The tachikoma starts to work on dealing with the remaining gang members while Shadow decides that discretion is, in this case, the better part of valour and retreats away from the zombie - sadly tripping over as he does so. Tremen spots an ajar door and moves through the door into a room whose decor is is that old style japanese temple or practice room. At the far end of the room is a large green cylinder inside of which a tentacled creature of some form can be seen. Also in the room is a robed gentleman. Tremen shouts Eyes on Necromancer. Spooky says that Shadow is in trouble and asks for backup. Ricky spots a gang member sneaking up on Tremen and shoots (but misses). The zombie attempts to reach Shadow but collapses into a puddle of goo.

Artist's impression of the underground entryway

Spooky sees a pile of bits where once there was a zombie - there are some cybertech parts in the goo. Ricky moves to detain the gang member sneaking up on Tremen but overestimated the skill of the gang member and so his Aikido moves end up taking the gang member out of action. Tremen sees the necromancer jump down a trap door and Tremen moves to follow.

Below is a chamber with steel barred cells in a european style. Inside each cell is a tomb. Each cell is lit with sconces burning with incense. There are labels on each cells with two labels per cell. One label has Kanji character while the other has european style lettering (but not in english). With Tachikoma having secured the rest of the scene above the rest of team join Tremen in the underground part of the complex with Tharbin thinking to let the Tachikoma know where we are going.