When last we left the agents, they were fleeing agents of "the Bride" and the Serbian Mob. They arrived in Italy having almost eluded their pursuers.
Post Mortem
The agents began the session with Hot Lead 9.John splits off from the others to hunt down a lead of his own while the rest of the team takes a train across Italy to catch a ferry to Corsica.
The train ride is uneventful but as they board the ferry, they notice a suspicious delivery van boarding at the last moment. As the boat pulls out into the harbor, Scarlet scrambles to use her cell phone to identify the drivers: “Lefty” Rico and Bronco, Italian hit men associated with the Serbian mob.
Scarlet spends Criminology to quickly access some databases before they are out of cell range.
Robin lurks in the vehicle bay and watches the men (plus a third) talk. Lefty seems worried about something in the van. After Lefty and Bronco head upstairs, she sneaks up to the vehicle. Carefully she pops the lock and looks inside.
An easy Surveillance roll and a not so easy Infiltration roll. She beats the third man's Alertness modifier but not...
Inside a hairy beast lurks, chained to the interior of the van. It smells her and begins to burst its chains. She shuts the door and finds cover.
And I begin spending Aberrance on Super Strength for my werewolf.
Up above, Scarlet attempts to impersonate a German tourist but fails to blend in. As a rain storm moves in, she is spotted by the hit men. Lefty grabs her as she tries to slip through the crowd. She slips his grasp and escapes into the vehicle bay.
Scarlet fails a Disguise roll but makes the Hand-To-Hand rolls to escape the goon.
Scarlet hits the fire alarm on the way down and runs to join Robin. As the werewolf begins ripping its way free of the van, Robin targets the gas tank a nearby car. The blast burns it badly and wounds Lefty as he hurries after Scarlet.
Another explosion! Robin makes the tough Shooting roll to blow the car and then uses the cover to avoid any damage. The werewolf is not so lucky. Bronco manages to avoid damage by spending his Athletics pool but Lefty is badly hurt.
Lefty warns Bronco to remember the command word as he heads toward the burning van. Lefty then turns his gun on the female agents. Scarlet shoots back and kills him. Bronco finds the werewolf but is too slow with the command word. The beast rips him apart. The sprinklers turn on.
The werewolf charges the ex-spies as a pair of sailors descend to deal with the fire. The monster eats their hail of bullets but smashes Robin into a wall and eviscerates a sailor before realizing it is dead. Robin sends the survivor back up with stories about a tiger on the loose.
From then on Robin liked to refer to the werewolves as "tigers". Also guns at close range do a lot of damage (+2 damage in fact).
The remains seem less bestial in the light of the blaze: a man surgically altered with a body that suggests steroid abuse if not for the copious amounts of hair covering it. Scarlet grabs the dog tags hanging from its neck and takes a sample of its blood.
Robin races to the wrecked van. She blasts it with a fire extinguisher and grabs some notes from the blaze. Then the pair head upstairs before anyone notices them.
Robin retroactively produced the fire extinguisher via an easy Preparedness roll.
Avoiding the authorities actually turned into a fiasco as the pair began failing fairly easy Disguise and Infiltration rolls. Eventually a Reassurance spend by Scarlet created enough rumors swirling about the incident to convince everyone that the true culprits had escaped via speed boat.
After reaching Corsica, they travel quietly to the meet site, an isolated cabin in the Alps. The dog tags identify the monster as Sgt. Patrick McDermott, a former navy SEAL. He was connected to Madison Smith’s unit.
Some chemistry work also allowed them to concoct drug regime to counter act the artificial adrenaline in the creature’s system.
A Chemistry spend here.
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