Biodynamics Play Report - Part 3

This is the third and final part of my play report of Biodynamics, my 2022 shotgun scenario. You can find the first part here and the second part here.

The Walking Tumor

Four players were present for this final session. These are the Agents:

• Isabella Wilson, a young lawyer
• Gabriel Vega, member of the FBI Hostage Rescue Team
• Lucas Brady, a special operator and SIGINT specialist, working for the ISA
• Debbie Morgan, a US Army physician

A large portion of the session took place in a hotel room, where the Agents discussed their leads and investigated the evidence. Lucas Brady used his hacking skills on the computer that his comrades had retrieved from the esoterica shop during our previous session. He found a bunch of Excel files on the hard drive, which apparently contained financial data. Isabella Wilson was able to make sense of them thanks to her accounting skills and found out that Terrence Harding, the owner of the shop, sold horn silica to Sebastian Köhler, someone she already met. Harding produced the horn silica himself, by grinding down a large quartz crystal which he acquired from a certain Kyle Scott. The Agents tried to track down Scott and contact him, but they were unsuccessful.

In the meantime, Debbie Morgan received a call from her CDC contact Solomon Nelson, who had investigated the suspiciously large vegetables from the community garden. Solomon told her that the mutations in the vegetables are consistent with those triggered by ionizing radiation. Worried by these news, Debbie Morgan and Gabriel Vega head out to buy a Geiger counter at a nearby Walmart (yes, apparently Walmart sells Geiger counters, at least in their online shop). However, the Agents cannot find any evidence that they were exposed to radioactivity.

Lucas Brady investigates Sebastian Köhler's online presence and finds Köhler's Linkedin profile. Köhler works as a mechanical engineer at the Coca-Cola Atlanta Syrup Plant. He seems to love posting motivational messages on Linkedin, but he has stopped doing so in the last several days.

When night falls, the Agents decide to surveil the Köhler's suburban home. They observe Sebastian leaving in the middle of the night and follow him to a sketchy part of town. Here he picks up a prostitute and takes her to an old, abandoned Coca-Cola warehouse. The Agents put on their body armor and load their guns before following him inside.

Inside the warehouse they see Köhler preparing a ritual in front of five hostages he is keeping there. He is about to cut the throat of one of the hostages and have them bleed onto a quartz crystal, when Gabriel Vega decides to intervene. Vega throws a flashbang right before Köhler's feet and starts running toward him, after it exploded. At the same time Debbie Morgan fires her gun and hits Köhler in the leg. The other two Agents seek cover.

Köhler has fallen to the ground, but when Vega approaches he sees that the body is shifting and that large tumors start to quickly grow out of it. Moments later Köhler gets up again, now more tumor than man, and attacks Vega. Luckily, Vega is able to dodge the attack of the monster. The other Agents start blasting their guns and multiple bullets wound the creature that was once Sebastian Köhler. The Walking Tumor picks up one of the hostages with inhuman strength and throws them at the Agents, but misses. Another hail of bullets from the Agents is more accurate and brings down the monster.

We ended the session there, because it was late. Any clean-up and further investigation into what caused all this will be part of a "Stay on the case" home pursuit, should one of the Agents decide to take it.

Overall, this scenario was fun, but it suffered a little from the fact that we were only able to play short sessions. The fight against the Walking Tumor was also a bit anticlimactic, because the Agents rolled really well, whereas the monster missed on both it's attacks. Maybe I should have given it more HP or added some armor.