>>5170625

Since we finished the last thread with a vote, today’s session is going to open with quite a bit of rolling.

Go ahead and roll me some 1d100s + 25 to search for operative data without being noticed.

DC: 40 / 60 / 80

Rolled 39 + 25 (1d100 + 25)

>>5170626
Big numbers

Rolled 54 + 25 (1d100 + 25)

>>5170626
highighigh

Rolled 10 + 25 (1d100 + 25)

>>5170626

>>5170630
>>5170634
>>5170635

That's a regular success. Go ahead and give me some more 1d100s+25 for to steal some actionable information.

DC: 50 / 70 / 90

Rolled 12 + 25 (1d100 + 25)

>>5170636
Highighigh

Rolled 36 + 25 (1d100 + 25)

>>5170636

>>5170636
"1d100+25"

>>5170636

Rolled 95 (1d100)

>>5170636

Rolled 60 + 25 (1d100 + 25)

>>5170636

>>5170649

Thanks for the save.

Rolled 18 + 25 (1d100 + 25)

>>5170636
my bad

>>5170638
>>5170639
>>5170649

That's an excellent success. Now I just need one more set of 1d100s+25 to swipe unlucky soul's secure credentials.

DC: 60 / 80 / 100

Rolled 91 + 25 (1d100 + 25)

>>5170660

Rolled 67 + 25 (1d100 + 25)

>>5170660
1

Rolled 47 + 25 (1d100 + 25)

>>5170660

Rolled 11 + 25 (1d100 + 25)

>>5170660

>>5170662
>>5170667
>>5170670

Another excellent success, writing.

Glad to see you all here, anons.

>>5170673
What about the spider distractions?

>>5170675

I factored that into the DC difficulty and plan to reference it in the upcoming update.

>>5170677
thank you qm!

Apologies for the delay, anons. Still working on the update, it's gonna be a pretty long one.

>>5170673

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgpqywEL-rI

Alright.

Getting into the building and past the first couple layers of security wasn’t too bad, but that doesn’t mean you can afford to slack off. If you attract any attention or get caught with your hand in a top-secret cookie jar, you’re in for some extrajudicial fun time.

As you survey the nearby office space, you try to identify weak spots and the most suitable infiltration method. As you watch a burned-out office worker staring at a computer screen with a respectable thousand yard stare, you have an idea.

The trick to situations like this is to adopt the correct body language and blend into the surroundings. After all, nobody wants to interrupt the visibly stressed guy who’s busy performing a bunch of menial tasks.

Given the gravity of the situation, it’s not to hard to channel your tenseness into a convincing facade. Plus, you’ve dodged enough shit work details in your time to know the golden rule; always look busy.

After snagging an unattended clipboard, you concern yourself with an unobtrusive sweep of the area, looking for a weakness you can exploit.

And you find it. There’s a lone guard protecting the entrance to a secure tactical center of some kind. That’s bound to have something you can work with.

To draw him away, you summon a handful of spiders that’ve nested underneath a particularly slovenly worker’s desk. A quick mental command has them crawl onto the guard and give his neck a little love bite. As he’s busy slapping at them, you slip past, mixing with a small group of incoming agents.

The interior of the tactical center is a lot more like what you expected. Lots of fancy looking maps, tech systems, and a load of spy shit you’re not remotely qualified to touch. Time to get to work.

Your first objective is to silence the niggling doubts in your head about the possibility of a mole in your ranks. Traitors, of any stripe, aren’t exactly your favorite demographic. And from a tactical standpoint, being able to conduct operations without having any worries about internal threats is a godsend.

After a comprehensive yet careful search, you come to some interesting conclusions. The first is that the Rats, and the members of your own group are clean for the most part. Aside from a couple intercepts due to a momentary slip-up, they don’t have much to work with.

In contrast, the Escabedo Cartel is leaking like a sieve. Looks like some of their high-level lieutenants have been supplying Pedraza with intel for quite some time, in exchange for nominal immunity and reprisal attacks on their personal. You jot down their names and positions, and move on. That intel is going to open quite a few doors depending on how you play it.

Couldn’t find a thing about the PLA though, which is a shame. Information is power, and the more of it you have, the better you can prepare for the inevitable clusterfuck that occurs when somebody gets one over on you.

>>5170730

Next up on your agenda is to gather as much as you can about the regime’s current objectives and any ongoing operations that may pose a threat.

A hefty chunk of what you manage to uncover is a dead end. Most of the unsecured stuff is either excruciatingly mundane, heavily redacted, or just incredibly old and irrelevant.

But there are some juicy scraps burrowed under the surface, likely misplaced by a distracted or lazy agent.

It looks like the military has a special task force of some kind assigned to each of the major factions, codenamed accordingly as RATCATCHER, REDMENACE, and GREATWHITE.

Doesn’t take a whole lot of imagination to guess who the targets of each division is. You mentally note the names and the myriad of operations they’ve been assigned to. You’re too busy right now to give it the once-over it deserves, that’s what debriefings are for.

Worryingly, there’s something playing on loop on a bank of televisions. It takes a moment for you to figure it out, but protracted viewing makes it clear.

It’s POV footage of your fight with those mercenaries back at the prison. Guess the rifleman that escaped had a helmet camera or something. A quick glance at a nearby analyst’s desk reveals that you’ve been designated as a priority kill/capture HVT. They haven’t decided on a codename for you yet, but it’s confirmed that they are aware of your existence and your deal with the Rats.

Well, at least it’s always nice to be appreciated. Normally, you’d make a token effort to swipe the tape, but it’s surrounded by a wall of analysts and they’d be nuts if they didn’t keep a backup of some kind.

That discovery isn’t even the worst part. While sifting through some old memos, you find a more recent one, direct from Pedraza’s desk. Most of it is just chest-pounding and saber-rattling, but there is one section in particular that draws your eye. Pedraza mentions something about “foreign allies” keeping an eye on the situation and preparing to intervene should the situation go fully off the rails.

Fuck. That explains where Pedraza’s fancy new tech comes from. Looks like you’ve managed to stick your foot into a good old fashioned proxy war. Only question is, who’s pulling the strings and what’s their agenda?

You’ll figure it out later, you’re starting to draw some odd looks and you need to keep moving before anyone works out that you aren’t actually supposed to be here.

On your way out, you pass by a secure workstation, where somebody has made a critical error in leaving their secure keycard behind.

You deftly swipe it as you pass and slip it into your pocket. Jackpot.

It’s not just any schmuck’s access card, this one belongs to a security chief. How embarrassing for him but opportune for you. With this, you can probably open most of the secure doors in the building. That ought to make snooping quite a bit easier.

>>5170731

Even better, you managed to avoid attracting any undue attention. Here’s hoping that Darius and Isaac are having the same luck.

It’s not like you’re armed for a protracted fight, given that all you’ve got is some light body armor, your pistol, and your knife.

When you head back to the elevator, your partner is waiting for you, also doing a decent job blending in. He gives you a silent thumbs-up as you approach. Looks like
his part went off without a hitch.

Now you just need to figure out your next destination.

You’ll have to make it quick though, now that the charges have been armed.

Now that you’ve got Operations wired to blow, where’s your next stop?

> Floor 8: Logistics

> Floor 2: Archives

> Floor 3: Human Resources

>>5170732
> Floor 8: Logistics

>>5170732
> Floor 2: Archives
The juicy stuff is always in the archives.

>>5170732
>> Floor 8: Logistics

>>5170734
>>5170744

Looks like heading to Logistics wins. Go ahead and roll me some 2d100s this time.

First roll is Darius', second roll is Isaac's.

First DC: 50 / 70 / 90 (Darius gets a +15 to his roll)

Second DC: 60 / 80 / 100 (No modifier)

Rolled 37, 96 = 133 (2d100)

>>5170759
Hope they don't disappoint.

Rolled 96, 89 = 185 (2d100)

>>5170759

Rolled 17, 36 = 53 (2d100)

>>5170759

Rolled 70, 76 = 146 (2d100)

>>5170759
Fuck yeah brothers

>>5170763
they don't and neither do I apparently

>>5170763
>>5170764
>>5170766

That's an excellent success for Darius, and a regular success for Isaac. Writing.

>>5170771

At first glance, Logistics is very similar to Operations, but there are some key differences. For starters, this level is staffed entirely by military personnel.

Out-of-shape egghead soldiers are still soldiers, and should be treated with caution. You’ll also be at a higher risk of drawing attention, given that they probably don’t get many non-military types in here.

As your partner gets to work on the planned demolition, you decide to…

(Choose any number of these. The difficulty for each will progressively increase depending on the number you pick. Do me a solid and put them in the order you’d like to do them in, in case of failure / unexpected circumstances.)

> Steal details about convoy transport routes. Even if you don’t hit them yourself, somebody’d be willing to pay for the intel.

> Go through old cargo manifests to gather clues about the party covertly backing Pedraza. Now that you have a place to start, you need to figure out their game.

> Gather information about businesses that support Pedraza. Could come in handy if you ever plan on striking his base directly.

> Forge a fake munitions order and slip it with the legitimate ones. Might just be able to get away with skimming off the top.

> Sabotage their digital shipping system. Hopefully you can drive a nice little wedge in their supply line.

> Other?

>>5170785
> Go through old cargo manifests to gather clues about the party covertly backing Pedraza. Now that you have a place to start, you need to figure out their game.
> Sabotage their digital shipping system. Hopefully you can drive a nice little wedge in their supply line.

>>5170785
> Go through old cargo manifests to gather clues about the party covertly backing Pedraza. Now that you have a place to start, you need to figure out their game.
> Sabotage their digital shipping system. Hopefully you can drive a nice little wedge in their supply line.
>SPIDERS

>>5170788
Did my vote not go through?

>>5170789
Oh there it is, I had when it doesn't show if someone posts too close to each other.

>>5170785
> Steal details about convoy transport routes. Even if you don’t hit them yourself, somebody’d be willing to pay for the intel.
> Go through old cargo manifests to gather clues about the party covertly backing Pedraza. Now that you have a place to start, you need to figure out their game.
> Sabotage their digital shipping system. Hopefully you can drive a nice little wedge in their supply line.
>SPIDERS

>>5170789
>Support

>>5170788
>>5170789
>>5170806


Looks like doing some snooping / putting a wrench in the works wins. (Also spiders)

Roll me some 1d100s+25 to get your hands on the cargo manifests.

DC: 55 / 75 / 95

Rolled 87 + 25 (1d100 + 25)

>>5170810

Rolled 48 + 25 (1d100 + 25)

>>5170810
$50 it's intergang again

Rolled 33 + 25 (1d100 + 25)

>>5170810
May Tyche bless us.

>>5170818
If it is I want an interlude of them seeing the rats fighting with their stolen gear and getting really fucking mad

Rolled 11 + 25 (1d100 + 25)

>>5170810
Whoops, fucked up my dice

>>5170818
Alright, $100 on it being a fed agency

>>5170813
>>5170818
>>5170823

That's an excellent success. Go ahead and give me another round of 1d100s+25 for some good old fashioned sabotage.

DC: 65 / 85 / 105

Rolled 85 + 25 (1d100 + 25)

>>5170827

Rolled 100 + 25 (1d100 + 25)

>>5170827
Praise Tyche!

>>5170830

Every.

Single.

Time.

>>5170830
BEST GIRL

>>5170831
Goodbye plans, hello whiskey my old friend.

It's superfluous at this point, but I need one more roll in case you double crit or something.

Rolled 84 (1d100)

>>5170827
Tyche guide us

>>5170837
are you sure you can handle introducing crit stacking into this quest because we will do it at some point

>>5170830
>>5170827

Well I know what we are jamming too.And that crit should net us some serious damage.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a64cJiGKr7c

>>5170841
>>5170837
Dang, maybe next time best girl will let us know if she's playing the quest with us.

>>5170852
That will happen when we get the fabled triple crit

>>5170829
>>5170830
>>5170841

That's a critical success. Excuse me for a moment while I cast my notes into the uncaring void and begin anew. Writing.

>>5170842
>>5170853

I'm going to stroke out when this happens, just warning you in advance.

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>>5170830
>>5170831
>>5170832
>>5170835
>>5170845
>>5170856
We just cannot stop winning Axis.

>>5170856
If it happens, I hope you make Tyche canon and give us bonus to luck magic.
We can't let memes be dreams.

>>5170856
calling it now, when the justice league inevitably comes for our ass we are gonna triple crit and just fodderify the whole lot, and axis will probably burn his computer out of sheer fuckery for it.

>>5170870
>tfw one day we're just sitting around flipping a coin for fun and calling it
>over and over and over we're getting it right
>ten times, twenty times
>decide to flip it ONE more time
>toss it up and when we catch it it's transformed into an old silver coin emblazoned with the face of Tyche on one side and the wheel of fortune on the other
How hard do you think she needs to flirt with Sean before he realizes he's got a friend in fate?

>>5170856

After scanning the department for a suitably secluded target, you spot the perfect candidate in a solitary cubicle, tucked next to a dark corner.

With a carefully coordinated spider command, you mange to plop it directly in the pencil-neck’s cup of joe. In his surprise, he manages to fumble it and pour the majority of it on himself. As he swears to himself and storms off in search of something to clean up the mess, you notice something.

Something so beautiful that it almost brings a solitary tear to your eye.

In his haste to clean himself off, he left his terminal unlocked.

Thanks to your security chief access card, you’re granted high-level access to their internal systems without any major fuss. Coupled with the fact that the terminal was left as easy pickings, you infiltrate their digital perimeter without raising any red flags.

As you quickly skim through data about various import and export shipments, you start noticing a pattern of discrepancies.

The first thing you noice is that each and every munitions delivery is deliberately obfuscated in an attempt to camouflage it with otherwise legitimate cargo. The responsible party was smart enough to avoid using a fixed point of origin, with the ships originating from all across the globe.

The second thing you notice is that the shipments are a fairly recent development. The earliest delivery you can find is only from maybe a year or so ago. As you rack your memory for a connection, you recall that the first cracks in Pedraza’s regime started to show around that time. Looks like somebody made him an offer he couldn’t afford to turn down.

Lastly, you discover how Pedraza is paying for all this aid; resources. In return for signing over the exploitation rights to swathes of territory containing economically important reserves like oil and rare earth materials, Pedraza gets the equipment and men necessary to win his little war.

Ten to one, that’s where the hardcore mercenaries get their marching orders. Regrettably, the trail goes cold via a long list of shell companies and fronts, but you mark their names down nonetheless.

Never thought you’d be doing this Elliot Ness horseshit, but who ever said life was predictable? This entire business is rotten to the core, but you’re in far too deep now. All you can do is keep pushing through as best you can and keep your eyes on the prize.

Speaking of which, it’s time to see if you can live up to Gremlin’s namesake and give Pedraza a little special something to remember you by. The bombs would’ve been enough, but you’re in the mood to rub a little extra salt in the soon-to-be gaping wound.

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>>5170920

When you load in the portable suite of malware that you keep handy, something just clicks. Maybe Gremlin gave you a bit of his mojo, or maybe you’re just totally in the zone.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBgUXQt7pJU

You make a mockery of any boundary and every safeguard that tries to get in your way. But instead of bulldozing through them and setting off a truckload of alarms, you pursue a more insidious path.

You weave a tangled web of malware, carefully infecting key nodes with intricately tripwired logic bombs and other nasty tricks that Gremlin taught you.

Just to be on the safe side, you program in a timer so that it won’t trigger while you’re still on the premises. Don’t want to accidentally blow your cover.

When some unlucky bastard triggers any, it’s liable to fry his entire computer as well as anything said computer is connected to.

And you’ve practically layered them into the fabric of the system. If any of this equipment survives the blast, they’ll still have to scrap it and start anew.

That alone would’ve been bad, but then you discover a backdoor into the outgoing inventory files. Your access is limited, but you make the most of it, sending important resupply deliveries to the wrong locations, scrubbing random orders, creating fake ones, anything and everything you can to ruin their recordkeeping.

If you had stopped there, the breach would’ve been a major blow, but something that could eventually be recovered from.

But then, you discover the Holy Grail. An outgoing connection that links the system to their entire military supply chain network.

Every branch. Every outpost. Every unit.

All relying upon this single piece of software that you’ve stuffed to the gills with the nastiest viruses you know of.

When this spreads, it’s going to be international news. There’s a non-zero chance that you might cripple the entire military logistics chain. Possibly even permanently depending on how quickly they respond. It doesn’t matter how sophisticated Pedraza’s propaganda pipeline is, this is the kind of thing that makes people stand up and notice.

If you go through with this, you will be the architect behind one of the most damaging cyberattacks in human history.

When you enter the confirmation command, you feel like you’re on top of the world. Holy shit, is this what Gremlin does all day!? Because you’re starting to get it.

After realizing that the tech will probably be returning soon, you quickly scrub all trace of your involvement and leave his terminal just as you found it.

Before you make your escape, is there anything else you’d like to do while you’re still in the building?

> No, this mission was an unmitigated success. Time to head home.

> Other?

(Need to take a break for some grub, vote is open until my return. Feel free to let me know how I'm doing so far.)

>>5170922
>> No, this mission was an unmitigated success. Time to head home.
I am satisfied with this.

>>5170922
> No, this mission was an unmitigated success. Time to head home.
we did what we came to do and got one hell of a bonus now let's blow this pop stand

>>5170922
> No, this mission was an unmitigated success. Time to head home.
Can we tag messages about bringing down Pedraza on nearby buildings, before blowing this place up?

>>5170922

We need to leave a message taking credit to block whatever fucker comes along to try and take credit for our work. I suggest a laughing skull with a KABAR through its skull. This could be our calling card.

>>5170922
> No, this mission was an unmitigated success. Time to head home.
Get while the gettings good.

>>5170922
Do we get a hacking perm bonus?

>>5170950

Good catch, anon. Forgot to add it, but I'll go ahead and do it here.

> Skill Improved! - Grey Hat: +20 to rolls when breaking into computers or performing similar technological intrusions.

>>5170937
Calling card / name stuff will be handled soon, so keep that in mind. Trust me, you won't have to worry about credit when it comes to this one.

>>5170936
In this case, I'll say that there isn't enough time to get the nearby assets out if they were to do that, so no.

Anyhow, last post of the night coming up.

>>5170956

You’ve accomplished all your primary objectives and much, much more. Sticking around any longer would be both stupid and greedy, you’ve already pushed your luck as it is.

As you and your buddy ride the elevator down, you spot Darius, Isaac, and the junior guerrillas waiting for you.

They both look like they have something to say, but you quietly order them to focus on getting to safety first, unless it absolutely can’t wait.

All of you exit the building, desperately trying to avoid looking suspicious, and walk a few blocks away to the rendezvous point. As you pass a pre-arranged alley, you wave at a filthy vagrant that you recognize as a former PLA spy. He gives you a nod and gives you the all-clear that you’re not being followed. In return, you give him an order to pass along to the others; the mission was a success and that they should vacate the city immediately.

Pedraza’s going to call out the big guns for this dragnet. He’s definitely going to be hampered by the lack of secret police lackeys willing to do his dirty work though. Not to mention the fact that you’ll have torched most of the paper records in the building. Coupled with the damage your virus is sure to cause, you’ve stonewalled their intelligence collection activities for the future.

>>5170974

A gray van pulls up alongside, and the side panel slides open. Delrio’s grinning face greets you as he helps everyone inside.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxUSEyEmo1Q

“What did I fucking say, eh!? I told you that shit would work!”

The van peels out, and you barely make it to the outskirts of the city before the payload detonates.

Off in the distance, you hear a massive explosion. Looks like Almonte really does know how to make a good bomb.

The others, especially Delrio, hoot and holler at their grand victory. While the others are distracted, you take the opportunity to speak to Darius and Isaac about whatever they wanted to discuss.

Turns out, Darius figured out how to jury-rig some old propane canisters left in the Maintenance section and magnified the blast of his explosives quite a bit. Building’s definitely not going to be much more than rubble now.

And Isaac managed to find something quite valuable while he was looting the executive offices. Looks like account information for some kind of hidden slush fund that contains $200,000.

After congratulating them both for their stellar work and promising them a hefty cut of the stolen money, you settle in for a long drive and some introspection.

As pumped as you are, your happiness is tempered by the knowledge that there will inevitably be a bloody reprisal for the events of this day. Pedraza can’t afford any to be seen as weak, and he will respond accordingly.

And that’s not even factoring in those special divisions organized as insurgent hunter-killers. You were already on their radar as a target of interest. There’s no telling how they’ll react now.

Only a couple things are certain though.

Firstly, Pedraza’s days are numbered. And at this rate, you’ll end up being a hero of the resistance or some shit.

Secondly, the debriefing for this op is going to take fucking forever. In addition to the potential target data you managed to extract, you also managed to get copies of those suspicious deliveries and the fronts that organized them. If you can crack those, you might just have some potentially embarrassing information.

And lastly, if there’s a man behind the man guiding things from the shadows, they’re not going to take this development well.

>>5170975

That's all for tonight folks, I'll be hanging around for a while to handle comments, questions, concerns, etc.

Not to pull the curtain back too much, but next session you'll be picking out an official name / sigil for your group, so feel free to hash out some ideas before then.

Next session is Wednesday at 5:00 PM EST. As always, thanks for playing!

>>5170980
Can we hit those convoys for our own gain?

>>5171009
Which convoys, anon?

If you're referring to the general supply ones, they are totally out of whack for the foreseeable future. Honestly, it'd almost be more efficient to just buy stuff, due to the upcoming glut in the market. Every single honest quartermaster is about to have a bad time, and the other 90% are about to skim like they've never skimmed before.

If you mean the smuggled weapons / oil stuff, you don't quite have a lock on where they're coming or going. All you've got is the historic data. Need a few more clues before you can put that puzzle together.

>TFW We just blew so much cyber security people around the world will talk about this
>TFW Gremlin finds out this is our fault
>TFW We inspire stupid shit like Seer or Oracle or even Brother Eye
>TFW Since we are basically hard carrying this revolution we will probably end up with diplomatic immunity or some shit for when we finally fuck up and get caught by Batman or some shit.

>>5170980
Hey Qm, what about the epilogues? Or did you post them in the last thread?

>>5171112

Still working on em, I'm afraid. I'll let you all know when I'm close to a breakthrough, but I'm making steady progress.

If we have the time, I think we should do a little training to improve Sean's overall skillset, and to hopefully inspire his men to train harder. I'm worried that El Prezidente will hire a dozen so competent mercenaries that are on par with Deathstroke. I think Sean fully kitted out stands a chance against old one eye, but two of em? No way jose.

>>5171123
Is it possible to upgrade our lucky beretta with little nick nacks? Reword the barrel so we can screw on a supressor. Attach a little toy laser to make shooting accurate, or blind someone for shits and giggles. Mod it for for +p rated bullets so it doesnt explode in Sean's hand.

How tall is Sean?

how tall is babs

>>5171625
Id say 6'5 since he used to be a jarhead

>>5171625
It won't be a hasmter and banana scene. Stop it. I think she's like 5'7" off the top of my head.

>>5171780
So we could carry her in our Jacket.

>>5171785
holdout barbara

>>5171792
>POCKET BABS!

>>5171079
At this point Sean deserves the tittle of Big Boss, hell he looks a like Solid Snake with short hair and whiteout the bandana

>>5172379
>Sean is literally alt universe big boss but with more magical bullshit then there already was
Whelp when Sean eventually says fuck it and build Outer Heaven i expect a damn clone arc.

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>>5172559
>Sean uses his first underlings as Ocelot and Miller
>The government create clones of Sean that age faster
>Sean buys some island and create his own nation

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>>5172586
>tfw we end up meeting a psychic
>he likes to play castlevania

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>>5171123
Jobs: what are we picking next lads?
> That fancy party you learned about when you wrecked the warden’s office. Turns out that many of the socialites on the guest list have deep ties to Pedraza’s regime as financiers and political supporters. Time for some gatecrashing.
> The national strategic gold reserve in Lecheria. It’d be insanely risky, but ridiculously profitable if you manage to successfully knock it over.
> The key broadcasting station for the state media corporation. If you can infiltrate the building and hijack the broadcast, you could whip the populace into a frenzy.
> A diplomatic summit where Pedraza plans to speak about the crisis enveloping the country. It’d be a hell of a black eye for his prestige if you could ruin it.

Upgrades: things we didn't pick yet
> Outfit your men with specialized anti-armor equipment. Expensive, but you can’t put a price on the smoldering wreckage of a multi-million dollar weapons system. ($150,000)
> Outfit your men with specialized hacking equipment. Gremlin knows a guy who knows a guy that can make an emergency delivery of some quality blackhat gear. ($200,000)
> Outfit your men with helicopter support. Very expensive and a pain-in-the-ass to maintain, but offers unrivaled mobility. ($350,000)
> Other?

Assets and Things:
>Javier Bonilla, one of the Jungle Rats’ sergeants (second in command)
>Pablo Delrío, a cocky and impulsive sicario hitman.
>Fernando Almonte. Mechanical engineer and devoted family man
>Luis Mondragón. Formerly a civilian poacher, he’s got an astonishing talent for bushcraft and concealment.
>Darius and Isaac
> Outfit your men with a fleet of technical trucks. Offers mobility and firepower for a reasonable sum. ($50,000)
> Outfit your men with your stolen Intergang cache (Contains high-quality small arms and other pieces of infantry kit. Will require you to owe Set a favor.)
> Trade the codebook to the Rats in exchange for formal sponsorship of your group. It’ll be important if you intend on having any degree of legitimacy.
>Stolen papers and credentials (used in last mission, may not be useable again)
undercover operatives data (No Rats traitors, found most Escabedo Carte ["That intel is going to open quite a few doors depending on how you play it."], Couldn’t find a thing about the PLA)
>military special task force assigned to take out major faction targets codenamed accordingly as RATCATCHER, REDMENACE, and GREATWHITE. (can be used as bargaining chips for other factions)
>we know foreign nations are helping Pedraza
>security chief keycard (could it be used for other locations?)
>cargo manifests (work in progress, its a fucking mess, we got the names of Shell oil companies)
>lmfao crippled their military
>slush fund that contains $200,000.

WHAT DO BROS

>>5172954
> The national strategic gold reserve in Lecheria. It’d be insanely risky, but ridiculously profitable if you manage to successfully knock it over.
Hard to keep goons happy without a paycheck.

>>5172954
>>5173310
if we had to go for the gold, what we should do is keep it and return it later when we win and put the rats in power so that the Venezuelan economy does not die again

>>5173378
+1

>>5173378
>not just wasting all the money and adopting a debt-based economy like the good old u s of a
The Venezuelans will own nothing. And they will be happy.

We'll probably need to skim a little to afford a war effort, just saying.

>>5173408
kys filthy jew

>>5173426
My nose isn't big you low test trog how dare you

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>>5173310
Sean need his paycheck the entire Venezuelan reserve will have to do it

>>5171326

I've been trying to keep away from in-depth gear customization, (apart from your alien gear) mostly because it'd be hard to properly implement / I have little practical experience with it.

I was actually thinking about having you pick up a hobby, just as something fun after this expedition. Gun modification stuff could work, if the anons are up for it.

>>5173595
Why not runecarving? Or learning hiw to bind spirits or make contracts with them?

Or even better! Some fishing in the Nile River with Uncle Set surely can help to scale down all this action-packed adventure before getting back to work with Jack in Gotham.

Also QM, how high are the possibilities that we are fighting Interlag mercenaries? Or maybe having Pedraza to hire Deathstroke or some other amazing mercenary to get our ass and stop our revolution? After a clip from a movie of his I'm a little worried about this. Shit, even I think maybe Amanda Waller is behind the founding and could send the SS for our ass

>>5173606
If Deathstroke shows up here he is going to be an accidental stalker on the level that we are to Barbs.

>>5173606

I'd prefer to keep it as something mostly recreational, something that's just fun. Fishing in the Nile is a great example.

I won't speculate as to the nature of future conflicts, but I've got something cooking. Rest assured of that.

I hope the whole "revolution" thing doesn't start to drag on, but there's still quite a ways to go with out.

>>5173595
Off topic but if Sean goes forward with his PMC you can do a lot a interesting arcs involving Sean and his PMC just fucking shit up in some shitty country, hell toss some villains and heroes there too, but I would understand if anons want to return to Gotham

>>5173606
>she sends the suicide squad
>none of them die because Sean overhears "This is bullshit man I wish they'd put me back in prison that bitch didn't even ask if I wanted into her shitty special clubby" and chooses not to kill them
I wonder how disappointed she is when people don't die in her stupid squad.

>>5173627

If I'm being perfectly honest, figuring out the aftermath of helping Jack shuffle off the mortal coil is a daunting prospect.

But when it comes, whatever happens next is up to you.

Just remember, you're starting to stir the pot a lot more. That's going to have consequences, good and bad.

>>5173629
>Knockout all the SS members of the mission
>Tie them up
>Find some integrated camera and comms that goes all back to Waller
>Sean goes like https://youtu.be/C3CzTRDmv-I just to spite that "fat bitch"
>When the SS woke up they're in the middle of the Médanos dessert while Sean keep fucking things up in the other side of the country

>>5173629
>>5173689
lmfao just zap them all with lightning to disable their bombs.

WE NEED POCKET BARBARA PEOPLE

>>5173783
We need to get cloning tech and a shrinking ray first

>>5173788
She could totally scrunch up and cling to his back to be unseen by people in front of him.

>>5173842
Come to think of it would that make her a shoulder loli by legal right? Or would she need to be under five feet tall to meet the requirements? Help me out here guys.

>>5173879
I think a shoulder loli needs to be a loli, otherwise it would be shoulder shortstack or shoulder midget, right?

>>5173879
Sure bud, lemme show you the way >>>/out/

>>5173885
>>5173879
Shit guys is she legal?!?

>>5173885
>>5173893
I don't know where we are in the timeline. Probably over 18 now though so I guess the window has passed.

>>5173890
>he doesn't realize that my lizard brain has enough function to open doors

>>5173902
Here, don't forget
https://youtu.be/Wof0xPUmW38

>>5173909
fucking Finland kek

That smooth step through the threshold though. Truly talented.

>>5173595
The gun modification stuff might be fun for fluff but at this point one thing is roughly equal to another as far as firearms go or should be as long as they are roughly similar in function. A $10,000 Gucci gun with all the bells and whistles you can think of should work just as well as PSA build-a-rifle with a Mexican auto sear at the level Sean is on, based on his bonuses.

>>5173595
>>5173606
I'd back runecarving, but also maybe grilling, hunting, or something really obscure like wishing to underwater basket weave in every body of water on or in the planet.

>>5174214
Grilling, fishing, runecrafting, fucking around in a forge since Sean cant burn his hands.

>>5173639
Can Sean stick his hand in molten metal and play with it like play-doo?

>>5172954
> The national strategic gold reserve in Lecheria. It’d be insanely risky, but ridiculously profitable if you manage to successfully knock it over.

Lets get this before they lock it up harder than it already is.

>>5173378
Fuck them we're keeping a hefty chunk of that. We need to start making major capital and this is a good place to start.

>>5173595
Just chalk up a customized gun to being a small equipment bonus vs uncustomized guns. No need to make an overly complex system for it. Besides, if we're going to pick up a crafting hobby then by god i want enchanting and runes far more than i want guncrafting. Magic bullets hurt a lot fucking harder than anti personnel rounds when half of the supers tend to ignore bullets.

>>5174254
I think we should let them have it, a vast majority of it as an "investment" from us to them as a show of good will and favor saying "I will not bankrupt your nation but I want some favors". At most I think we could get away with keeping a gold bar or two. In exchange we could ask for a bunch of train: Spanish proficiency improvements, martial arts and firearms proficiency. i.e. exchanging a ton of psychical currency with a ton of favors and services.

>>5174263
A full gold bar is worth almost a million bucks. I think. I guess it depends on the bar.

If they aren't shitting themselves through mismanagement they'll probably have a couple hundred bars in the reserve.

Did you know a gold bar weighs almost thirty fucking pounds?

>>5174271
>Did you know a gold bar weighs almost thirty fucking pounds?

And this is why we need a loot dimension to shove them all into.

>>5174271
New Vegas taught me that all you need to do is slowly walk to carry as many as you want.

>>5174309
>when you're carrying several metric tons but also have a stealth boy

>>5174309
Fallout taught me to loot any and everything not nailed to the ground, and steal really valuable permanent stat boosting items when no one is looking. It also taught me if you do enough nice things to people, they'll give you free shit every once in a while.

It also taught me how to give my companions crippling back pain by loading them each with hundreds of pounds of useless loot that I'll break down into glue and scrap metal later on.

>>5174200
I half agree with this anon. There is some, but ultimately a negligible difference between a $500 PSA with a giggle switch and a $2-3k KAC/H&K gas operated supergun. The only difference I can see is reliability, but that might require introducing a jam mechanic, and I dunno if Axis wants to start making a system that represents gun reliability.

Above though is talking about basic bitch pull trigger go bang stuff. Interesting items and equipment that would more easily fit into our system already are suppressors (flat stealth modifier to gun shooting, doesn't make us automatically go loud assuming the projectile it fires isn't supersonic), NVG/Thermal scopes (bonus to perception/shooting in low light or obstructed enviroments), Various quality night vision devices (Heavy fucking bonus in the dark vs hostiles who do not have this tech, negated otherwise, heavy malus if we get flashbanged while we're wearing them. Light amplification works both ways.), encrypted radio equipment, better tier body armor, etc.

tldr fuck trying to mechanize modding the gun itself, that's hell, mechanize the equipment you put ON the gun, on yourself, and on your squad.

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Have a pocket barbara anons

>>5177561
I wonder if someone in universe is selling hero themed novelty stuff or if the League has their legal team telling people not to.

It'd be hilarious to get a Batgirl keychain for Gunsmoke.

>>5177565
I'm pretty sure that they do tours of the Hall of Justice in a couple comics, so it's not out of the question that they have a gift shop or something.

Which is a really funny mental image.

Anyhow, session resumes in like 15 minutes.

>>5177565
We need to sell merch of all our identities bia shell company imagine the passive income

>>5177574
Them we blow up some of our offices like "a Gunsmoke threat" to make the JL don't suspect of the company, and then we sell some of the merchandising with a high price than before

>>5177572
We could probably do that in this country, question is what we should do about the sweatshop labor force that will make toys.

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>>5177572
New session while Russia begins to invade Ukraine, truly this is the Sean experience

>>5170980

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFtfBqnVAIY

The night after the headquarters strike, you make the executive decision to let the men have a bit of fun.

After weeks of survival rations and similar fare, the opportunity to relax with hot food and something alcoholic is too tempting to wave away. Besides, the men deserve the R&R.

They’ve been putting in the work, and now they get to reap the rewards. Besides, if bombing a critical government building isn’t a cause for celebration, what is?

Some of the locals that smuggle in food and other miscellaneous bits and bobs are present for the announcement, and ask for permission to attend.

After extracting a promise that all parties involved will avoid doing anything too ridiculous, you give everyone the night off.

Not long after, the party is in full swing. It’s a great night for it too; the stars are shining in the sky and the heat has mellowed down to a more comfortable level. If you closed your eyes, you could probably pretend that you’re at a homestyle barbecue.

Some enterprising soul managed to hook up a bootleg sound system that blasts old-school salsa music and the cooks start a big bonfire, getting to work on a veritable feast.

While your men busy themselves with the traditionally family-friendly activities commonplace to professional soldiery; you’re preoccupied with a heaping plate of “carne mechada” and a cold one. Never had it before, but goddamn does it have some kick.

You have Mondragon and his unofficial poaching corps to thank for tonight’s bounty, bless his pilfering soul.

As you watch your men cut loose, you feel nothing but pride. Some people would take one look at your dirty and scraggly troops and turn up their noses, but you know the score. Dirty clothes but a clean rifle is the surest sign of a trooper that’s done time in-country.

To be fair, you’re starting to go a bit native yourself. Might even get a tan at this rate. And your Spanish, while still obviously accented, is downright passable these days.

Maybe you ought to get involved with the party. It’s your success, just as much as it is theirs. Besides, you’re not some Victorian stuffed-shirt officer incapable of spending quality time bonding with the troops under your command.

As you continue wolfing down your food, you keep an eye out for your companions.

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>>5177597

Delrio and Set are busy playing a bastardized game of HORSE, but with throwing knives, attracting a crowd of spectators.

Almonte and Darius are trying to jury-rig an old TV set or something, presumably to watch soccer or something.

Mondragon and some of his poachers have a little shooting gallery / improvised skeet shooting range set up, where they’re holding an informal competition.

Bonilla and some of the more grizzled soldiers have organized a drinking contest, and look to be getting absolutely wasted.

Lastly, Isaac’s busy cutting a rug with one of the local girls that showed up to the party.

Honestly, it feels pretty satisfying to see the barriers start to come down. As the days pass, it gets harder and harder to recognize ex-PLA from ex-sicario from ex-Rat.

Doesn’t matter what they were before, now they’re just your men.

After polishing off your plate and finishing your beer, you decide to…

(Choose 2)


> Join Delrio and Set’s knife-throwing game. You’re decent enough with a blade, and it looks pretty fun.

> Join Almonte and Darius’ repair job. There’s a certain simple joy to be found by working with your own two hands and fixing something.

> Join Bonilla’s drinking game. You’re not stranger to this arena, and you’re eager to prove your unrivaled might.

> Join Mondragon’s shooting contest. Nothing goes better with an ice-cold beer and hot grub than the opportunity to shoot at something.

> Join Isaac on the dance floor. You’re not normally one for this kind of thing, but tonight’s a night to loosen up a little.

>>5177600
> Join Almonte and Darius’ repair job. There’s a certain simple joy to be found by working with your own two hands and fixing something.
> Join Isaac on the dance floor. You’re not normally one for this kind of thing, but tonight’s a night to loosen up a little.
We gotta ask for some recipes. This kind of food is to live for.

>>5177600
> Join Delrio and Set’s knife-throwing game. You’re decent enough with a blade, and it looks pretty fun.
> Join Isaac on the dance floor. You’re not normally one for this kind of thing, but tonight’s a night to loosen up a little.

>>5177600
> Join Almonte and Darius’ repair job. There’s a certain simple joy to be found by working with your own two hands and fixing something.
> Join Delrio and Set’s knife-throwing game. You’re decent enough with a blade, and it looks pretty fun

>>5177600
> Join Almonte and Darius’ repair job. There’s a certain simple joy to be found by working with your own two hands and fixing something.
> Join Delrio and Set’s knife-throwing game. You’re decent enough with a blade, and it looks pretty fun.

>>5177600
>> Join Almonte and Darius’ repair job. There’s a certain simple joy to be found by working with your own two hands and fixing something.
> Join Mondragon’s shooting contest. Nothing goes better with an ice-cold beer and hot grub than the opportunity to shoot at something.

Alright, it looks like the Delrio and Set / Almonte and Darius options win.

We'll start with the knife-throwing.

Roll me some d100s+25

DC: 75 / 90 / 105

Rolled 35 + 25 (1d100 + 25)

>>5177630

Rolled 30 + 25 (1d100 + 25)

>>5177630

Rolled 97 (1d100)

>>5177630

Rolled 54 + 25 (1d100 + 25)

>>5177630
g

>>5177635
holy shit

>>5177635
Based Tyche, blessed the roll even though I forgot to praise her.

>>5177632
>>5177634
>>5177635

An excellent success. Go ahead and give me some 1d100s for the repair job.

DC: 55 / 75 / 95

Rolled 36 (1d100)

>>5177639

Rolled 26 (1d100)

>>5177639
Tyche is best.

Rolled 83 (1d100)

>>5177639
G~@!

>>5177642
>>5177643
>>5177644

A regular success. Writing.

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>>5177635
Coming with the clutch

>>5177645

As you approach Set and Delrio, you watch as Set misses and violently curses in a language you don’t understand.

Delrio just laughs at him.

> “Room for one more?”

“Of course, boss! Just don’t expect me to go easy on you. My mother always said humility was good for the soul.”

“What he said, kid.”

> “You’ve got a big mouth, Delrio. And don’t egg him on, Set. Just watch and learn.”

You grab a knife from the pile they’ve got stacked nearby, get a feel for the weight, and manage to throw it solidly in the inner rings.

“Good, but not good enough. That all you got?” Delrio prods, obviously trying to get a rise.

> “Just a warmup. Don’t let it go to your head.”

In the background, there’s a smattering of whispering and the sound of money changing hands, which you resolutely ignore.

Set’s the first one knocked out. He probably could’ve made a better showing, but he’s more concerned with forcing both you and Delrio to make incredibly dumb looking throws. As far as he’s concerned, watching the pair of you look like idiots is victory enough.

Delrio proves to be hardier, but his cockiness proves to be his downfall after he starts to showboat and bungles a difficult throw.

As match point falls to you, you can’t help but smirk at Delrio’s frustration.

When your knife thunks directly in the bullseye, there’s an equal mix of cheering and groans as the bets are exchanged.

Delrio’s sulking a little, while Set’s already moved on to torment somebody else.

You are gracious and resolute in your victory, and only slightly rub Delrio’s face in it before moving on.

Almonte and Darius are still busy trying to get an old CRT television working, and you’re happy to pitch in. Fixing stuff is a lot less stressful than killing people, and you could use a project to distract you every now and then.

You roll up your sleeves and get deep in the guts of the analog beast. Never been much of a geared, but you held the flashlight for your old man enough times to pick things up by osmosis.

Granted, those things were mostly just swear words, but the experience is still valuable. You mostly just keep out of the way, make simple adjustments, and follow their instructions carefully. These old models still have a lot of juice, and you’d rather avoid electrocuting yourself in front of your men.

Finally, the great hunk of junk picks up a signal and starts playing footage of a national football game. It’s actually soccer, but you’ve spent enough time here to know that’s a fight you have no chance of winning.

As the men crowd around with food and drink, you slip away to your tent. As fun as tonight has been, your duties call.

And chief among them is managing the aftermath of the strike.

>>5177690

The first major item of business on the agenda concerns the information you recovered about the informants embedded in the Escabedo Cartel. While your own forces are thankfully clean as a whistle, the cartel obviously has some spring cleaning to do.

You decide to…

> Sell the information to the cartel. They’ll be willing to pay through the nose for intel this hot.

> Hand over the information to the cartel, as a gift. Building bridges requires a show of trust.

> Get in contact with the traitors in question and blackmail them into reporting to you. A Cold War classic for a reason.

> Other?


Your next piece of business concerns something simple but important. The leadership of the Jungle Rats has officially endorsed your army as an affiliate group of theirs, lending you the air of legitimacy you desperately need to really shake things up. Now, you just need to pick out a name for your little band of heartbreakers and lifetakers, something that’ll set them apart from the rank-and-file. Nobody else has tried to take credit for the bombing, so this’ll be your grand debut. After thinking up some rather creative ones, you eventually decide on the…

> Grand Liberators

> Prison Rats

> Steel Wolves

> Roughnecks

> Other?


Lastly, you come to the matter of plunder. More specifically, the $200,000 slush fund that Isaac managed to discover on the mission. It’s a lot of money to throw around, especially down here.

In the end, you decide that…

> Since Isaac brought it in, he gets half. The rest gets doled out equally to the men.

> Since Isaac brought it in, he gets half. The rest goes into the war chest.

> Put it all into the war chest. It’s not ideal, but he’ll be compensated with interest when the war is won.

> Other?

>>5177691
> Sell the information to the cartel. They’ll be willing to pay through the nose for intel this hot.

> Prison Rats

> Since Isaac brought it in, he gets half. The rest goes into the war chest.

>>5177691
>> Get in contact with the traitors in question and blackmail them into reporting to you. A Cold War classic for a reason.
> Steel Wolves
> Since Isaac brought it in, he gets half. The rest goes into the war chest.

>>5177691
> Get in contact with the traitors in question and blackmail them into reporting to you. A Cold War classic for a reason.
The cartel will be our problem once we deal with the dictator. Might as well kill two birds with one stone on this one.

> Other?
Warring Jackals, unless someone has a better name. Something that sounds very mercenary like.

> Since Isaac brought it in, he gets half. The rest goes into the war chest.
When the war is over the men can have what's left of the war chest funds.

>>5177691
> Hand the intel over for free, on the condition that we get acess to the traitors' interrogation and share info.
Giving it for free might make them think we are some dumb bleeding heart, but asking for money will see us as couging them. So the price will be formal cooperation
> Grand Liberators
We are already leaning on unity, so might as well add nationalism to it
> Since Isaac brought it in, he gets half. The rest goes into the war chest.
Looting/pirate law, it's a classic for a reason

>>5177691
> Get in contact with the traitors in question and blackmail them into reporting to you. A Cold War classic for a reason.

> Grand Liberators

> Since Isaac brought it in, he gets half. The rest goes into the war chest.

This is a moderately important decision, so I'll give it another ten minutes or so.

>>5177691
> Hand over the information to the cartel, as a gift. Building bridges requires a show of trust.
> Steel Wolves
> Since Isaac brought it in, he gets half. The rest gets doled out equally to the men.

>>5177707
>>5177700
Why bother building bridges when we'll need to get rid of then later?

Alright, looks like blackmail has been decided upon, as has giving Isaac a half-share and putting the rest into the war fund.

Looks like we're divided between Steel Wolves and Grand Liberators, so I'll just put those options on ice for now.

Wouldn't feel right to roll a d2 to decide.

Anyhow, writing.

>>5177700
+1

>>5177716
I'll change my name vote from Prison Rats to Grand Liberators to break the tie

>>5177715
Because good luck getting rid of organized crime in latin america, the cartels just assimilates the police force tasked with taking them down and transforms into narco-militias.

>>5177716
I'm going for Steel Wolves because I think it sounds better. It's close enough to Wolf Brigade.

>>5177730
It shouldnt be a problem for Sean. Give it a few weeks with the backing of our organization, the commies, and the Jungle Rats and the cartel dudes will be out of here in no time.

>>5177700
+1

>>5177733
That's what every single politian and dictator for the last century, you squash down the cartel, and you just opened the position for three new ones to fight for dominance, with one of them made of military forces.
Unless Sean manages to fix the economy, educate the population, stop corruption, get jobs for everyone, ensures there are no armed dissent groups and no foreign influence, the cartel is going nowhere.
>>5177730
Grand Liberators is a reference to venezuela's natinal hero. The people aren't going ro know some old anime, but they are going to know Bolivar.

>>5177730
Eh, the post revolutionary government can deal with the cartels I the want to stomp them out, however it will be quite the bloodshed, why some chaos god would love that wouldn't?

>>5177738
But I'm ok with turning the traitors into triple-agents by the way.

>>5177730
>worried about the police force being infiltrated by the cartels
>instead of having the cartels be infiltrated by the police force so that you can infiltrate your cartel occupied police force with your police
Think about it.

>>5177738
>>5177731
Fuck, I linked the response to the wrong post.
Wait, you meant the ji-roh because of the intergang armor didn't you? I feel like a dumbass now

>>5177747
Lmao +1

>>5177748
Ye. Our boys got the cool armor, so they might as well have a cool name to match it.

>>5177716
>Grand Liberators
maybe a bit sappy but I think it lays out what we aim to do.

>>5177716

Vital intelligence isn’t something to be handled recklessly, like a child with a loaded machine-gun. In the right hands, it can shake empires off the world stage.

And yours are assuredly not those hands, but you’ll make good use of it nonetheless. You’ve got the golden ticket of blackmail to work with, something indisputable. If their treason ever came to light, the cartel would chop them into fish food, and that’s on a good day.

Luckily for them, there’s a fair chance that all the original records of their malfeasance were lost in either the bombing or the cyberattack, leaving them free of ties of Pedraza. Shouldn’t be too hard to co-opt them into your service and milk them for everything they’ve got.

The cartel presents an existential threat, one that’d already be on your chopping block if the government wasn’t such a concern. Might as well prepare yourself for the inevitable showdown and start drawing up contingency plans, just in case.

And while they fumble in the dark, you’ll hopefully have their network charted out and vulnerable to a coordinated decapitation strike. But you’re getting well ahead of yourself.

You scrawl down the order for Bonilla to keep this compartmentalized, just in case. Only a handful know about this, and you’d prefer to keep it that way.

With that out of the way, you start trying to pick out a name that’d make your boys proud.

You’re torn between Steel Wolves and Grand Liberators. Both have their own unique strengths.

Grand Liberators has a real Bolivarian feel to it, something that resonates strongly with the Rats’ main goal of toppling Pedraza and gutting foreign influence over the country. It’s a solid political angle, that’s for sure.

On the other hand, Steel Wolves definitely sounds more intimidating. It’s the kind of name that men learn to fear when they see its sigil scrawled into the burning hulk of something important to them.

You’ll just give the matter a rest for a while, hopefully something will come to you.

Moving on to more important business, you decide to let Isaac keep the $100,000 he earned by sniffing out that slush fund. Not only does he deserve the reward, but hopefully it’ll set a positive example to the others that keeping things honest and clean is a virtue that’ll be rewarded. The other half will go into your own accounts, to further outfit your warband.

Speaking of which, you had Bonilla put some feelers out for more equipment before heading out on the strike. In the aftermath, you’ve gotten an outpour of offers clamoring to offload gear.

>>5177757

It’s like a fucking Cold War garage sale. With their supply chain in shambles, the already corrupt parasites that skim from military cargo have embraced the opportunity to abandon all pretenses of decency and swipe as much as their greasy mitts can move. While the system’s down, it’s not like anyone will be able to prove anything in all the chaos.

Ironically, this has had the inadvertent effect of flooding the market, driving prices down for the discerning shopper. It’s a buyers market, and you’re poised to take full advantage of the slash in prices.

With your current funds, you decide to fork over some green and…

(As a reminder, you’ve got $400,000 of your own money to play with, as well as the $100,000 from the slush fund.)

> Outfit your men with specialized anti-armor equipment. Expensive, but you can’t put a price on the smoldering wreckage of a multi-million dollar weapons system. ($75,000)

> Outfit your men with specialized hacking equipment. Gremlin knows a guy who knows a guy that can make an emergency delivery of some quality blackhat gear. ($100,000)

> Outfit your men with helicopter support. Very expensive and a pain-in-the-ass to maintain, but offers unrivaled mobility. ($175,000)

> Outfit your men with high-quality signal jammers and communications equipment. You’ll be able to harden your own transmissions and keep the enemy blind. ($250,000)

> Other?

>>5177758
> Outfit your men with specialized hacking equipment. Gremlin knows a guy who knows a guy that can make an emergency delivery of some quality blackhat gear. ($100,000)
> Outfit your men with high-quality signal jammers and communications equipment. You’ll be able to harden your own transmissions and keep the enemy blind. ($250,000)
Both of these are a must, we can loot anti armor and helicopters, but communications and cracking equipment are critical and hard to get in high quality.

>>5177758
> Outfit your men with specialized anti-armor equipment. Expensive, but you can’t put a price on the smoldering wreckage of a multi-million dollar weapons system. ($75,000)
Can we get some anti-air together, as package deal?

>>5177764

I'll say yes, at the added cost of another $50,000, making the total $125,000.

>>5177758
> Outfit your men with high-quality signal jammers and communications equipment. You’ll be able to harden your own transmissions and keep the enemy blind. ($250,000)

>>5177758
>> Outfit your men with high-quality signal jammers and communications equipment. You’ll be able to harden your own transmissions and keep the enemy blind. ($250,000)
> Outfit your men with specialized anti-armor equipment. Expensive, but you can’t put a price on the smoldering wreckage of a multi-million dollar weapons system. ($75,000)

>>5177765
That would be fine with me.

>>5177765
>>5177764
I'll back this

>>5177758
> Outfit your men with high-quality signal jammers and communications equipment. You’ll be able to harden your own transmissions and keep the enemy blind. ($250,000)
> Outfit your men with specialized anti-armor equipment. Expensive, but you can’t put a price on the smoldering wreckage of a multi-million dollar weapons system. ($75,000)

>>5177758
> Outfit your men with specialized anti-armor equipment. Expensive, but you can’t put a price on the smoldering wreckage of a multi-million dollar weapons system. ($75,000)
> Outfit your men with helicopter support. Very expensive and a pain-in-the-ass to maintain, but offers unrivaled mobility. ($175,000)
> Outfit your men with high-quality signal jammers and communications equipment. You’ll be able to harden your own transmissions and keep the enemy blind. ($250,000)
I propose we might as well take advantage of the market we have created. Removed the hacking stuff since we can't afford it and we hacked a lot as is.

Those gold reserves are going to have to be a priority target (since we're broke lol). I'm thinking of hitting the broadcasting center next, then the gold reserves, since we just wiped the secret police off the map the broadcasting center would be the natural second option. Gold should then be next.

>>5177758
>> Outfit your men with high-quality signal jammers and communications equipment. You’ll be able to harden your own transmissions and keep the enemy blind. ($250,000)
> Outfit your men with specialized anti-armor equipment. Expensive, but you can’t put a price on the smoldering wreckage of a multi-million dollar weapons system. ($75,000)

>>5177762
anon makes a good point about helicopters
>>5177764
AA would be awesome I'll back both of these over my own >>5177771

>>5177778
To be clear, you want...

> Outfit your men with specialized hacking equipment. Gremlin knows a guy who knows a guy that can make an emergency delivery of some quality blackhat gear. ($100,000)
> Outfit your men with high-quality signal jammers and communications equipment. You’ll be able to harden your own transmissions and keep the enemy blind. ($250,000)
> Outfit your men with specialized anti-armor / anti-air equipment. Expensive, but you can’t put a price on the smoldering wreckage of a multi-million dollar weapons system. ($125,000)

>>5177780
Yep.

Finished my tally, and it looks like the signal jammers and anti-armor option wins. While I write up the next update, just let me know if you want to tack on some AA for another $50,000.

>>5177785
I still want that AA.

>>5177785
Adding AA to my vote
>>5177772

>>5177785
+1 pay the extra 50k

>>5177785
I also want the AA

>>5177785
GIVE ME YOUR DOUBLE A DADDY

If the Grand Libertadors wins, I say that our sigil should be a Turpial flaying with a with circle in the background.

Having the national bird of the country flying surely gives a freedom and hope message to the people. It might not be intimidating, but surely it will help to bring some sense of victory and nationalism to it. Maybe it will help once we finish in throwing Pedraza so they can keep on their feets by themselves, maybe with some help of Sean to the next Presidente to educate the people

>>5177794
>With a white circle
Sorry

>>5177794
>>5177795
Grand Liberators is iffy for me. it reminds me of china.

>people don't want to go with Grand Liberators
>when you could easily segue it into the Grand Liberation Army
>[sad shoeless worker noises]

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>>5177800
The Liberator is straight up the title of this dude, he is called that because he was responsible for the independence of pretty much half of south america.

>>5177811
Fuck me then. I still want the Steel Wolves to be our name, but I can now fully appreciate the origins for the Grand Liberators.

>>5177811
He was a Bolshevik plant, same scum ruining the world today.

>>5177814
Grand Wolves
Steel Liberators

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>>5177785

After poring through requisition offers with Bonilla’s help, you pick out a reprobate that has a reputation for quality gear and honoring business arrangements.

You place a significant order, purchasing anti-armor and anti-air munitions, as well as some high-tech jamming and communications tech.

When the gear arrives, you’re pleasantly surprised by their quality. The anti-armor turns out be a consignment of Carl-Gustaf recoilless rifles. These should be more than enough to punch through anything Pedraza can field.

The anti-air systems are of a similar quality. Turns out, you bought a load of SA-24 Grinch MANPADS. Ought to ruin any flyboy’s day if he strays too far into the danger zone.

You were a bit iffy at first about buying the AA, but after he offered to slash the price a bit in exchange for a bulk purchase, you were happy to agree.

What can you say, you’re a sucker for a good deal.

Bonilla has a wide grin on his normally taciturn face as he inspects the new hardware.

“An excellent choice, captain. We’ll put those momma’s boys flat on their ass with this. They’ll never knew what hit em.”

It still weirds you out that Bonilla insists on referring to you as a captain, especially when the title started to spread amongst the men. Since Bonilla used to be a sergeant, it’s probably just force of habit.

With your fancy new commo gear, you take the liberty of establishing a hardline channel with the Rats, in case they have any urgent news.

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>>5177818

In the meantime, you drill the men until you’re sure that they’re comfortable with the new equipment. Plenty of tinpot dictators have found out the hard way that having the fanciest gun in the room doesn’t automatically make you the best fighter.

The good idea fairy has already ruined enough things in this world, and you refuse to let it take hold of you.

A week or so later, the hardline already proves its worth when you get an urgent message from high-up in the Rats.

Thanks to those codebooks you stole and the loss of their intel pipeline, the Rats have been able to burrow deeply into previously secure channels and siphon off critical intelligence, some of which they’re happy to redirect your way.

According to the intel, the Pedraza regime is desperately trying to recover and pretend that nothing out of the ordinary is going on.

To that end, the Rats managed to intercept a top-secret cable indicating that Pedraza intends to give a televised speech at the Venezuelan National Assembly in an attempt to rally the flagging population back to his banner.

Guess he’s out of stick, and is willing to give the carrot a try.

The Assembly itself has no real powers anymore, mostly serving as a cushy posting for Pedraza’s cronies that just rubber-stamp whatever he puts in front of them.

The place is sure to be crawling with security, but this is your chance to chop off the head of the serpent.

If you can assassinate Pedraza, you’ll be able to overturn the entire house of cards that his administration is precariously balancing on.

In the end, you decide to…

> Start drawing up plans immediately. If you can pull this off, you’ll be in a prime position to overthrow the regime and install something new.

> Disregard this news and focus on an alternative target. Pedraza’s time will come soon enough.

> Other?


(Going to take a break for dinner, vote is open until I return.)

>>5177821
> Start drawing up plans immediately. If you can pull this off, you’ll be in a prime position to overthrow the regime and install something new.

>>5177821
> Start drawing up plans immediately. If you can pull this off, you’ll be in a prime position to overthrow the regime and install something new.
This might be a trap with Pedraza's benefactor using him as bait, but if it goes well then it doesn't matter.

>>5177814
Steel Wolves is cool, maybe once we get that organization in the future we can name our elite units that.
Also I just realized that the american eauivalent to Grand Liberators would be if a militia called themselves Washington's Patriots
>>5177815
He died 15 years before communism became a thing.
>>5177821
> Disregard this news and focus on an alternative target. Pedraza’s time will come soon enough.

>>5177826
He died before it became an open concept. He was with the group that started that cancer.

>>5177826
Steel Wolves makes me think of Mech Warrior and I wish we had mechs.

>>5177821
> Other?
Hijack the broadcast using our new comms gear or the equipment at the state news facility to make him look like a fool and encourage revolution.

>>5177827
That sounds like comunist revisionism where they say that every revolution in the history of mankind was proto-socialist to steal legitimacy.

>>5177821
>> Start drawing up plans immediately. If you can pull this off, you’ll be in a prime position to overthrow the regime and install something new.

>>5177829
One day anon, one day. If we have millions or billions of dollars to throw around, or steal some, we'll have our mechs one day. Maybe we'll get "lucky" and another alien invasion will pass through earth.

>>5177834
+1 but we make sure the feed continues to play after we assassinate or kidnap him. Infact, I think we we can kidnap Pedraza we could drill him for so much info.

>>5177821
Can we make plans to kidnap Pedraza?

>>5177837
Look at his portrait and you'll see him using their symbolism.

>>5177814
Create a steel wolf division or brigade under the grand liberatord army or something. We can have a unit name ontop of a faction name.

>>5177839
you know what would be really fucking funny

we deepfake Pedraza

>>5177839

You can try to kidnap him, but that'll make things even harder.

>>5177821
> Disregard this news and focus on an alternative target. Pedraza’s time will come soon enough.

> Other?
Hit the money and gold supply. It will help keep our faction together when the dust settles if we can ensure our men dont go hungry and come out with enough to live a decent life.

>>5177847
I'll give the vote another 15 minutes since this is important and I finished eating faster than anticipated.

>>5177834
I can support this, let's hijack the signal and deppfake him singing dead memes.

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>>5177844
lol

>>5177847
Hell yeah, the harder the better. I'm willing to knuckle down and spend some extra days dedicated to planning this kidnapping, maybe even collaborating with the rats since their lines are secured.

>>5177856
+1

>>5177834
+1

In light of the popularity of the "Hijack the broadcast" option, I'm willing to offer it with the caveat that you'll have to raid the broadcasting station in order to mess with the transmission.

Therefore, I offer an updated vote.

> Just attempt to kill / kidnap Pedraza.

> Divide your forces and attempt to both kill / kidnap Pedraza and hijack the broadcast.

> Just hijack the broadcast.

>>5177885
> Divide your forces and attempt to both kill / kidnap Pedraza and hijack the broadcast.
>Work with the Rats to make up for our divided forces.

>>5177885
> Just hijack the broadcast.
Let's not over extend.

>>5177885
> Just hijack the broadcast.

>>5177885
>> Just hijack the broadcast.

>>5177890
>>5177891
>>5177897
Why the broudcast instead of outright killing or kidnapping him?

>>5177885
Changing vote.
> Just attempt to kill / kidnap Pedraza.
Now that I think about it, kidnapping him is worth more than humiliating him, because at least them we can use him for his information.

>>5177885
>> Just attempt to kill / kidnap Pedraza.

>>5177885
> Just attempt to kill / kidnap Pedraza.
Kidnap him

>>5177885
> Just attempt to kidnap Pedraza.
Gotta find out who his big backer was.

>>5177905
>>5177906
>>5177907
>>5177911

Alright, looks like directly targeting Pedraza wins. Going to go ahead and close the session here, feel free to spitball plans and decide on either Grand Liberators / Steel Wolves.

As always, thanks for playing! Next session is Friday at 5:00 PM.

>>5177926
I'm keeping the Grand Liberators, but an elite unit named Steel Wolves would be cool.
Now wheter we keep that name for the future organization or use it now, I'm not sure

>>5177821
If we take the broadcast, we can direct his forces to locations of our choosing.

He cannot take the broadcast hijack lying down, as it would show him to be weak enough for those providing his forces to replace him. Additionally, if we have good enough footage, we can get more of the populace to rise up against him, further stressing his forces simultaneously.

As is, he probably has almost everyone he has at the broadcast tower AND even more at the VNA.

Hitting him at a weak spot and broadcasting that instead should really force him into making the biggest mistakes. Say for instance, if his group is using slave labor to grow cocaine, broadcasting the rats freeing the slaves as the guard must be super stretched thin. Very low chance of 'valuable units' at those high value targets when he's more focused on staying alive.

>>5177937
Or we nip this in the bud and take the VIP and all his cronnies.

Hey guys... What about hitting the gold mines?...

>>5177968
Possible, but at the loss of more troops and more difficulty getting our people into leadership.

Then again, all we want is the gun; not rule a country. Forcing him to look weak by hitting multiple hi value targets while he's busy getting bodyguarded by the whole army is more of a 'rule the country' plan.

>>5177981
I thought we were seriously considering what diplomatic immunity would do to us

>>5177994
Get CIA investigators on our ass as well as Batman having a solid place to canvas for information.

Then again, we can make Outer Heaven.

>>5177996
We have a favor from people HIGH up, we can get the CIA off of us, and Batman has no reason to care about Adjudant Tango, as hes just a forgien mercenary.

>>5178005
Wouldn't JUST be a foreign mercenary if we're sponsored by a country. Especially as we have pretty great gear, pulled off a bunch of individual actions that are significant, and Batman does not have an entry on us at all. There is no way he wouldn't set documentation on highly skilled bounty hunters and mercenaries.

He practically has to in case they decide to take a contract on him.

>>5178008
Yes, but this is our first job with living witnesses. a file on mercenaries isnt a file he cares about whatsoever. He has FAR bigger priorites than freedom fighters

>>5178013
Again, if we are JUST a mercenary that's one thing.

If we are country sponsored after taking it over/helping take it over, that may be an issue.

>>5178015
thats all were kmown for. for all he cares, were a local

>>5177816
Steel liberators sounds like a much better name, good mix of that cultural thing and intimidation factor. Kinds sounds like the name of an American bomber actually.

>>5177981
The loss of troops is an inevitability, but we purchased a litter over half a million in assets so their deaths will come much later.
As for putting our people in power, we cant do that if the president and his cronies still rule.

>>5177994
We can still get that diplomatic immunity once we overthrow the government.

As a reminder, you're more than welcome to brainstorm plans and / or general tactics for the mission.

I'll keep them in mind when for when I set things up for next session.

If not, don't worry about it. I'll just do my own, like regular.

>>5177815
>He was a Bolshevik plant, same scum ruining the world today.
You europeans assume anyone who is unwilling to get fucked in the ass by a monarchy is some sorta commie. I recommend reading a book on what yall call the "New World", Your timelines a bit off.

>>5178736
>plans and / or general tactics for the mission
>find sniper positions, to utilize and take out their own snipers
>confirm that this is the real Pedraza and not a body double
>figure out the codes, channels, and frequencies the security team is utilizing so we can use them to our own benefit, relay false information, and ensure no one presses the alarm button until it's too late
>determine if the Pedraza gets bullet proof glass walls to use during his speech
>see if any of our Wolves can clean up and infiltrate anyone allowed to watch the speech up close
>replace some if not most of the security detail with our own men
>sort out our best drivers for when we need to exfiltrate
>mark down routes for infiltration and exfiltration for both personnel and vehicles
>utilize Set's "special skills" to cause chaos / act as a distraction

I don't remember how many days we have before he makes his speech, but if we can afford the time I think we should send in some men to scope everything out. Have them disguised and discretely walk around to get some eyes every where, where sniping positions might be, guard patrols, etc.. In the mean time while they're doing that we can plan routes on where we can safely drive, in addition to innocuous locations where our men can loiter/park in case they need to reach us.
I don't know how to best use Set's skillset beyond telling him to loiter near the area where they keep all their helicopters and APC's. At a specified time (around the time we're supposed to capture the VIP) one of our dude's will hand off a dufflebag full of explosives to set. Preferably an M32 grenade launcher with different types of ammo for funzies.