The Meta Game Scenes

16 August, 2018. Thursday.

Weather: London's storms have faded into a drizzle, but that's the only real change.

Events: At 6 AM, Lia, Conor, Yasmine, and T. are notified via their phones that they have a mission, and are sent mission briefings shortly thereafter.

MISSION BRIEFING
We have received intelligence that a group of black market traders and poachers will be conducting an invitation-only auction on their mega yacht in three days, about two hundred nautical miles east of the coast of Japan. Potential buyers are arriving tomorrow by boat or helicopter. The man in charge, Aito Kobayashi, is a wealthy gangster who has his hand in a lot of pockets, and frequently hunts paranormal creatures. Several days ago, a ship in his employ captured at least half a dozen merfolk, and he intends to auction them off to the highest bidder.

One of the mermaids captured is of exceptionally high value; she is a pearlescent albino, and in her culture, she is believed to be an avatar of one of her clan's goddesses. Her grandmother, the clan's high chieftan, is threatening that her people will wake Cthulhu if her granddaughter is not returned to her 'soon.' The passing of human time is of little meaning to the merfolk, but after negocations, she has agreed to give us five days.

Your mission: rendezvous at the port of Yokohama, where a ship, crew, and supplies are waiting for you, along with coordinates of Kobayashi's yacht. Infiltrate the ship, rescue any prisoners on board, obtain any records or intel there may be about recent sales and clients, and make your escape. Let us be perfectly clear: the only innocents that will be on board that yacht are the prisoners. The rest are the bottom of the barrel of humanity. You are given free license to kill. It is not only acceptable but encouraged that you eliminate all else on board and blow up the ship, in whichever order feels most natural to you. But above all, the pearlescent albino must be recovered and returned to the sea. All our intel points to her being the main event of the auction, and we believe Kobayashi will be keeping her close by.

Conor and Yasmine, your tickets to Japan await you at the airport. Lia and T., advance to Yokohama and brief the crew. They believe they have been contracted to sabotage a whaling ship, so T., it would be advisable to leave them with that impression when all is done.

Mod note: More missions to come in the days ahead!