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kv:
  We started a run where we were dropped into the Congo (dark heart of africa, anyone?) to rescue a scientist. Time was of the essence, so we were given three days to prepare and $100,000 to buy supplies. Now, not wanting to go in blind, we spent most of the $100,000 on information and some linguasofts so we would be able to communicate if we came across any non-hostiles we needed to talk to. We ended up stealing a truck to steal most of our supplies (ammo, camping gear and the like) and we planned to steal a brand new jeep rubicon from the dealership in downtown seattle.
   This is where things got funny, because we walked into the dealership, showed them our fake ID credstick, and they let us take one for a test drive on the 'range.' My character (a skillman- most like a face in our group) convinced the salesman that I mostly wanted it for show, and wanted to see how it handled on the city streets, so he let us take it out on a drive. The physad knocked him out, and we figured out that the GPS on the dash was set up to notify lonestar where and when we left a certain perimeter, or if we stopped for too long, so we kept driving around.
   Eventually, one of us got the bright idea to short out the GPS circuit, so we drove around until we found a laundromat (with the necessary amperage to short out the shielding on the case protecting the computer), pulled up to the front of it, and started tearing the dryer out to get to the power cable. No one in the laundromat was brave enough to stop us, so we rocked the dryer back and forth, tearing at its security bolts to get it away from the wall (for the first time in a long time, no one had ended up playing a troll, so us bunch of humans had to rip it out.) By the time we finally got the dryer loose and had gotten the power cord free to fry the chip, we could hear lonestar, sirens blazing, on thier way. We fried the chip, gave the car a push-start (we accidently fried all the other electrcal additions too, like the mapquest screen, the decker plug, the seat warmers and everything like that, but the car still ran- barely) We drove the car a couple of blocks, and it died, so we dug into our contacts to have someone tow it and fix it up. (Needed a new alternator and battery after our little episode)
   Once that was done, we were pretty much ready to go- we told the J we had everything together, and he put us on a cargo aircraft headed africa-way. We changed planes once (I'm not sure where) and then when we were over the congo, going on 28 hours later, they pushed us out the back with parachutes strapped to us (not a one of us knew how to use a parachute, so they rigged up a drop system so we wouldn't splat.) In addition to US getting dropped by parachute, they stuck all of our supplies and jeep in a box and put a parachute on that too, and dropped us into the jungle for a nighttime skydive.
   Now, because we had no training with parachutes, (and this was my first drop), we spread out all over the place, with no way to control where we landed. I was luck enough to land near the crate, so I worked on getting it on the ground and upright while I waited for the other runners to find me. They actually did a pretty good job of tracking each other down and finding me, so after the better part of a day (and around ten miles of jungle later) it was getting dark again, and we pried open the box and slept inside of it. We even remembered to close the lid, because I had been attacked by a monkey while I was using a lever to upright the box so we could get into it. So I was in no mood for more wildlife encounters.
  In the morning, we used some of our water, got the jeep out of the cargo crate, and (we wisely had included a complete vehicle shop, so we could repair it in the event that it was damaged in the fall- and I had the skills to fix it, so in a few hours, we were on our way. We spent most of that day working our way through the jungle to the road, and stopped about a hundred feet shy of the road when the sun went down. We all set up our little tents, and were sleeping peacefully when a dire gorilla stumbled on the camp and attacked the guy whose turn it was to act as sentry.
   He woke the rest of us up, and we had a brief (but painful fight) taking this thing out. Our mage healed everyone he could, and then we let him sleep off the drain and we watched the road. We knew where we had to go to get to the military camp, and we knew how to get there, so once the mage woke up, we got into our jeep and scouted our exit route- the way was pretty much clear to the Exit Zone, where we would have to wait to be picked up by a returning cargo ship in four days time, with or without the scientist. Of course, if the target zone was hot (or if we had been followed) we would have been left to rot.
  So we scouted out our exit route, and then traded some gasoline to a small place where a doctor had some supplies- he didn't know where the army base was (we did) but he did know it was in the region. We got some supplies from him, and then headed out to scout out the enemy camp. (Oh, as an aside, we had been offered half a million each to take out the general in charge of this place, who had shot down the plane of the scientist we were trying to rescue, and generally an instability in the region)
  The army had set up a roadblock on the offshoot of the main road toward thier base, with two jeeps. We weren't really sure what to do, because they spotted us as we came over the hill, so our driver (a fully trained UCAS sniper who is currently listed in thier records as MIA/Presumed Dead), drove our jeep directly into thier roadblock, and our mage (gecko shaman with a pechant for fire) and physad (based off of Dante from the Devil May Cry video games), hopped out and took out all eight of the soldiers in the roadblock. Problem was, our jeep was wrecked, and so was one of thiers, fixed the other one up enough to drive, and loaded as much of our supplies as possible into the new transports. We set off down the road toward the army base, and got there around dark. We camped out in the dark, and watched the base. The next morning, bright and early, the general put his troops out on a parade inspection, and spent the better part of four hours looking over thier weapons and vehicles (and tanks).
   It was too good of an opportunity to pass up, so the sniper took him out with a single shot while Dante and I snuck closer to the gate. Once the chaos inside the camp was in full swing, and they started sending out troops to find the mystery sniper, Dante and I walked into the base- and directly into a group of ten soldiers who were patrolling, headed toward the gate to find the sniper on foot. After a brief gunfight, (in which I took one box less than serious damage, and Dante took moderate damage) we escaped, and that was where the run left off.
   The sniper and mage continued for a little bit, and they managed to get away from the jeeps and tanks looking for them by torching the jeep that Dante and I had ridden in. They hid the jeep in some bushes, and finished there as well.
   So after almost six months of waiting, that was where we took back up the run.

Ruski:
That's pretty much how I remember it.

there were a couple of smaller encounters you left out, but for the most part... yea.

-RuskiFace the Pirate

kv:
Which encounters did I leave out? I even included that the monkey attacked me while I was waiting for the other runners to find me and the crate.

  -kv

Ruski:
I was thinking of where you got into a shootout stealing the first truck, the time you jacked the freto-lea van and then decided you didn't need it, the scorpions, a couple of other little encounters with jungle critters, the shootout with loan-star as you were leaving the sport shop with your truck half loaded with stolen goods... and... hmm... i guess thoes were the main ones i was thinking about from that part of the adventure.

-RuskiFace the GM

kv:
The scorpions one never happened- remember, we closed the box after we decided to sleep in there?

As for the frito-lay truck, that was mostly a reference to another adventure of ours (one that hadn't been posted on here), and it wasn't really all that pertient to the adventure.

Oh, I did forget about the lonestar shootout after we stole all our supplies from SportsMart. That one I forgot.

  -kv

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