Scene 1: Fear and Loathing in Shinjuku!
The TAC and Kusanagi are all gone. The politicians are still on stage, but taking cover as gunfire erupts. The news crew concentrates on the stage while the van guys go for the audience. They try to kill as many people as they can and then get away in the van. The green gas is actually coming from the white-suited figures. The news crew are terrorists affiliated with the Sylvan Veil, an eco-terrorist organization. The figures in white baggies are actually plant-men genetically engineered by Umo Daizan, an insane genetic engineer.
Four Eco-Terrorists, Warriors of the Sylvan Veil
Besides their news-crew equipment, these wackos have Uzis and sickles (symbols of the Sylvan Veil movement) concealed in their equipment. They intended to kill the TAC, but now that they are gone major politicians will do. If they are out of politicians, player characters will also do.
Unnamed Eco-Terrorists
Sample Dialogue: "Earth First! For a new tomorrow!"
Attributes: Bod 6, Chi 1, Mind 4, Ref 6
Skills: Guns 8, MA 8
Weapons: Uzi (10/4/40), Sickle (9)
Six Plant-Men, Genetically Engineered Threats
These plant-men are pretty dense, and only know how run around spraying green gas everywhere. They are pretty dangerous, however. They look like people in bio-suits and gas masks until the masks are removed or the suits take damage, in which case they look like a huge mass of vines and creepers with eyes. They have what at first glance seem to be mitamas (blue seeds) set in their foreheads but are really bio-microprocessors allowing them to be controlled by Daizan. Anyone taking 25 Wound Points of damage (or dying, for mooks and bystanders) from gas or plant-man hand-to-hand attacks starts transforming into a plant-man per the Corruption creature power (the twins are immune since they're already part plant). Dead bystanders turn immediately, of course.
Unnamed Plant-Men
Sample Dialogue: "Scraaaawww!"
Attributes: Bod 10, Chi 3, Mind 2, Ref 5
Skills: Guns 5, MA 7, Creature Powers 10
Schticks: Poison Gas (Damage 10 - CON), Corruption, Abysmal
Spines
Weapons: Thorns (12)
Neat Things That Could Happen
The Plant-Men can convert GMC mooks (like local
police) into more plant-men.
News crews have lots of cameras and cords and boom microphones,
and cute anchormen/women to be chipper yet menaced.
One of the news crew has a grenade he will use as a last-ditch
kamikaze attack if all goes poorly.
It's in a public square, with bleachers and fire hydrants and
light poles and fried squid on a stick vendors.
The van has a lot of dynamite in it. The kind really vulnerable
to shooting.
One of the news crew can grab the mayor and use him as a hostage.
The mayor will scream like a little girl if this occurs.
To Grandmother's House We Go
The authorities reconvene. They can't figure out where the TAC/parents went, but they know the blue light is a sure sign of Aragami involvement. The tape in the camera reveals the posing of the head Sylvan Veil terrorist, who claims "this blow, struck in the name of the holy Aragami, will return the Earth to the vegetables where it belongs! Death to humanity!" The "seeds" in the plant-men are not normal, upon inspection by anyone scientific they appear to be a very high-tech kind of biological electrical circuit. Only one company is known to be working on that technology, the wealthy and eccentric Daizan Corporation.
The authorities say that they have no way of knowing what is going to happen next. They say that Yaegashi had a computer program that can predict the movement of Aragami, could the PCs go get it for them? Umeo, Yaegashi's son, thinks that it may be in his grandmother's house - Yaegashi lived there with his mother until he married Kome.
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