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subplotkudzu) wrote2006-09-10 08:39 am
subplotkudzu) wrote2006-09-10 08:39 am
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State of the Game: 1001NYN
Given previous discussions, I thought it wise to engage in a sort of 'state of the game' entry for each of the ongoing CT games. This is for the oldest of them, 1001 New York Nights.
Here's what's going on this season in the 'real world': severely damaged by the results of last season, the Chinatown Tongs have spent the last 6 months in internecine warfare. The power structure is in disarray, and the cops have been trying to both take advantage of that and keep the peace. In this mix we add the White Tigers, a newly formed 'guardian angel' style group of Chinese kung fu students who are both helping and hindering the cops, and some sort of new weapon or fighter working for one of the Tongs who likes blowing things up. This set of problems is the PCs most immediate Chinatown concern.
In the departmental structure Deborah Spicehandler, the mayor's liaison, is taking a more active role in the PCs lives, as they go from being a bit of a special detective group to more of a Flying Squad with Hoa at the vanguard. The higher ups have marked this team as being worthy of additional scrutiny, and that means that they're now being given additional assignments (and be closely monitored). Unless these are directly tactical assignments, the mouthpiece for these isn't Special Agent Kosowitz, but a 'government agent' by the name of Danny Wong - who by curious coincidence is one of Anna's cousins from a part of the family that her father despises.
Marge has spent the last 6 months working with Master Cho in developing her new fu path (immutable clay). So far she's developed a basic skill at unarmed combat and has learned to focus her passion (ok, hate) of the BURO into what she hopes will be a worthwhile effect. She is also continuing to monitor the Cassandra Corporation, with no direct effect on her work in NYC. Specifically she has learned more about the BURO's plans for using Chi flows as an information network and their trunk line running through the Netherworld, with a start date of about 2 years from now. She has been transferring information on BURO actions to Captain Black, however, and the Black Company's overall plans to deny the BURO access to any of the third world sites on their 1990s' target lists are continuing.
Night Raven is all but absent of late, having been working with Rick Delaney to recruit and train another Black Company branch operating both in the 1850's and now, thanks to the netherworld portal connected to Rick's Place. This new group includes some familiar faces - the Enigma from season 1, Shen the ninja from season 2 - and their focus has been protecting the Company's NYC assets in the 1850s and returning to the 1990s to fly off to foreign lands to prevent the BURO from gaining ground.
Anna had also been training with Master Cho, but her father's paranoid fear of anyone outside the Wong family learning the family martial limits this. She has also spent a lot of time in 'mandatory volunteer' training with members of the upstate NY SWAT team, and has the distinct feeling she's under closer surveillance than before. Anna is facing a profusion of opportunities: her father is pushing her to get married but otherwise stay where she is, close to home, showing off the family martial art through her police work; Her old superiors in Delta are obviously tying to bring her in to another part of the fold despite her state desires to get away, and certainly seem to be grooming her to take over as a strike team leader, possibly under Hoa's direction; Master Cho is trying to get her to focus on her martial arts potential and open up about her family style and history. Right now she's stretched thin trying to accommodate all of them, except perhaps the 'getting married' part.
Hoa is also being groomed, and is finding himself in more meetings with the lieutenant, Ms. Spicehandler and the Captain, and being given de facto command of the flying squad. He also gained a new 'outside the chain' supervisor in the form of the slick young Danny Wong, who has the authority to pull Hoa and the squad off their duties to engage in action for unnamed 'higher ups'. At this time he's been assigned to peacekeeping duties in the current Tong war, with directions to protect the public and monitor for strange occurrences. He is to do nothing other than gather information from the outside, as he is assured that the Feds have agents inside the Tongs who are building up a case -- his job is to see who pokes their head up. He has also been having nightmares about his time in the Vietnam war.
Then there's Emmy Lou. Her life, in comparison, has been simple. Her fiancee was a cop who was one of the first to fall in the current spate of Tong violence. That was in September, and now she's been assigned at her request to the newly formed flying squad as their forensic pathologist and medical examiner. Like Hoa, she is a respected Wheel member. Hoa has been given instructions to rein her in, advise her some, but not clue her in totally as to the nature of their organization.
After dealing with some mundane issues around the precinct (Hoa and Anna deal with some Tong violence and slap down some overly exuberant members of the White Tigers, Marge installs some new surveillance equipment on the helicopter), they are introduced to Emmy Lou and sent to a murder scene where the cause of death is almost certainly supernatural, frustrating poor Emmy Lou no end. Before they can investigate further they are yanked off the case by Danny Wong, who send them to deal with the kidnapping/runaway of Amber Matthews, daughter of a high ranking Wheel member and owner of a multinational pharmaceutical company. The orders are for Amber to bee returned unharmed at all costs (Hoa is informed that if she dies, everybody dies). Emmy Lou knows the Matthews family, and knows that Amber is the classic modern heiress - beautiful and short sighted, with a drug problem.
The trail leads them to Amber's last "let's irritate dad" beau, a motorcycle gang member, Kevin Hoyt - last seen as one of the lesser luminaries in the Seven Tigers fight clubs. Anna smoothly infiltrates the gang, isolated Hoyt and gets the relevant information from him: Hoyt lost Amber to the leader of the new street fighting clubs, a man named Kel Mukando. Doubly irritated with the added complication, the team tracks down the next fight night and location, does some cursory surveillance as the warehouse is being set up, and prepares a plan that involves sneaking in to the fights, cutting the power and snatching Amber out via the rafters in the confusion.
As the fight night starts, things begin to go awry: Anna has some problem getting into position, and finds herself trapped in the rafters by a curious security guard, unable to move lest she reveal herself. Outside, Marge's scanners reveal that at least one of the fighters is likely bearing Arcanowave technology, as he has an AI/O port and an odd hunchback. Still, Marge kills the power, Hoa and Emmy Lou bolt cut their way in through a side door and find the warehouse still lit -- Kel's men had brought in diesel generators for the lights to keep up the temperature and not ruin this space for future fights with an inexplicable power draw.
Anna's position might be compromised, the lights are still on, their rescue target is on the main platform next to the biggest, baddest guy there and there's an agent from at least one other faction present, plus hundreds of drunk gang members, dozens of whom are armed. Now what?
Here's what's going on this season in the 'real world': severely damaged by the results of last season, the Chinatown Tongs have spent the last 6 months in internecine warfare. The power structure is in disarray, and the cops have been trying to both take advantage of that and keep the peace. In this mix we add the White Tigers, a newly formed 'guardian angel' style group of Chinese kung fu students who are both helping and hindering the cops, and some sort of new weapon or fighter working for one of the Tongs who likes blowing things up. This set of problems is the PCs most immediate Chinatown concern.
In the departmental structure Deborah Spicehandler, the mayor's liaison, is taking a more active role in the PCs lives, as they go from being a bit of a special detective group to more of a Flying Squad with Hoa at the vanguard. The higher ups have marked this team as being worthy of additional scrutiny, and that means that they're now being given additional assignments (and be closely monitored). Unless these are directly tactical assignments, the mouthpiece for these isn't Special Agent Kosowitz, but a 'government agent' by the name of Danny Wong - who by curious coincidence is one of Anna's cousins from a part of the family that her father despises.
Marge has spent the last 6 months working with Master Cho in developing her new fu path (immutable clay). So far she's developed a basic skill at unarmed combat and has learned to focus her passion (ok, hate) of the BURO into what she hopes will be a worthwhile effect. She is also continuing to monitor the Cassandra Corporation, with no direct effect on her work in NYC. Specifically she has learned more about the BURO's plans for using Chi flows as an information network and their trunk line running through the Netherworld, with a start date of about 2 years from now. She has been transferring information on BURO actions to Captain Black, however, and the Black Company's overall plans to deny the BURO access to any of the third world sites on their 1990s' target lists are continuing.
Night Raven is all but absent of late, having been working with Rick Delaney to recruit and train another Black Company branch operating both in the 1850's and now, thanks to the netherworld portal connected to Rick's Place. This new group includes some familiar faces - the Enigma from season 1, Shen the ninja from season 2 - and their focus has been protecting the Company's NYC assets in the 1850s and returning to the 1990s to fly off to foreign lands to prevent the BURO from gaining ground.
Anna had also been training with Master Cho, but her father's paranoid fear of anyone outside the Wong family learning the family martial limits this. She has also spent a lot of time in 'mandatory volunteer' training with members of the upstate NY SWAT team, and has the distinct feeling she's under closer surveillance than before. Anna is facing a profusion of opportunities: her father is pushing her to get married but otherwise stay where she is, close to home, showing off the family martial art through her police work; Her old superiors in Delta are obviously tying to bring her in to another part of the fold despite her state desires to get away, and certainly seem to be grooming her to take over as a strike team leader, possibly under Hoa's direction; Master Cho is trying to get her to focus on her martial arts potential and open up about her family style and history. Right now she's stretched thin trying to accommodate all of them, except perhaps the 'getting married' part.
Hoa is also being groomed, and is finding himself in more meetings with the lieutenant, Ms. Spicehandler and the Captain, and being given de facto command of the flying squad. He also gained a new 'outside the chain' supervisor in the form of the slick young Danny Wong, who has the authority to pull Hoa and the squad off their duties to engage in action for unnamed 'higher ups'. At this time he's been assigned to peacekeeping duties in the current Tong war, with directions to protect the public and monitor for strange occurrences. He is to do nothing other than gather information from the outside, as he is assured that the Feds have agents inside the Tongs who are building up a case -- his job is to see who pokes their head up. He has also been having nightmares about his time in the Vietnam war.
Then there's Emmy Lou. Her life, in comparison, has been simple. Her fiancee was a cop who was one of the first to fall in the current spate of Tong violence. That was in September, and now she's been assigned at her request to the newly formed flying squad as their forensic pathologist and medical examiner. Like Hoa, she is a respected Wheel member. Hoa has been given instructions to rein her in, advise her some, but not clue her in totally as to the nature of their organization.
After dealing with some mundane issues around the precinct (Hoa and Anna deal with some Tong violence and slap down some overly exuberant members of the White Tigers, Marge installs some new surveillance equipment on the helicopter), they are introduced to Emmy Lou and sent to a murder scene where the cause of death is almost certainly supernatural, frustrating poor Emmy Lou no end. Before they can investigate further they are yanked off the case by Danny Wong, who send them to deal with the kidnapping/runaway of Amber Matthews, daughter of a high ranking Wheel member and owner of a multinational pharmaceutical company. The orders are for Amber to bee returned unharmed at all costs (Hoa is informed that if she dies, everybody dies). Emmy Lou knows the Matthews family, and knows that Amber is the classic modern heiress - beautiful and short sighted, with a drug problem.
The trail leads them to Amber's last "let's irritate dad" beau, a motorcycle gang member, Kevin Hoyt - last seen as one of the lesser luminaries in the Seven Tigers fight clubs. Anna smoothly infiltrates the gang, isolated Hoyt and gets the relevant information from him: Hoyt lost Amber to the leader of the new street fighting clubs, a man named Kel Mukando. Doubly irritated with the added complication, the team tracks down the next fight night and location, does some cursory surveillance as the warehouse is being set up, and prepares a plan that involves sneaking in to the fights, cutting the power and snatching Amber out via the rafters in the confusion.
As the fight night starts, things begin to go awry: Anna has some problem getting into position, and finds herself trapped in the rafters by a curious security guard, unable to move lest she reveal herself. Outside, Marge's scanners reveal that at least one of the fighters is likely bearing Arcanowave technology, as he has an AI/O port and an odd hunchback. Still, Marge kills the power, Hoa and Emmy Lou bolt cut their way in through a side door and find the warehouse still lit -- Kel's men had brought in diesel generators for the lights to keep up the temperature and not ruin this space for future fights with an inexplicable power draw.
Anna's position might be compromised, the lights are still on, their rescue target is on the main platform next to the biggest, baddest guy there and there's an agent from at least one other faction present, plus hundreds of drunk gang members, dozens of whom are armed. Now what?
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Sorry you're not feeling well, Bri! I hope it doesn't last long.