Orchard: Session fifteen.
I hope I can remember everything. I've been too busy with first preparing for Knutepunkt and then later with either praising or offending people with comments about things that took place there. Anyway,Tomi was ill, which, given the previous game's events, was a pity. So the others, especially Cady, were mean to just Amelie. She woke up as Jere was just being sent into a hospital, under an alias ("Jim Bur"), as the concussion from the crash seemed more severe than expected. Cady then punched Amelie in the face. (Keep in mind that the two were found half-naked and passed out in the big bed.)

Amelie then explained what had happened. Some of it was believed, some wasn't. The others threw more and more questions at her, during which Runner noticed that Amelie's bra and Jere's socks were on the sofa. More insults and accusations follow. Cady takes a taxi and gets the car back from the party house atbone point.

As the camera gets finally mentioned, they search the house. There's a microphone in the lamp, a second mini-camera, and an inactive backdoor program installed in Cady's computer. Tinkering follows, and Runner notes the gear is really hi-tech and expensive. Encrypted burst transmission stuff. In the mean time, Cady offers her publisher a coffee-table book with Amelie's pictures, based on her two best-selling novellas, "The Mutants of France" and "The Un-humans of Russia".

There are some preparations. The cameras, their transmitters modified, are set to show the road, and soon show a jeep pass by. Cady drinks some of Nyx's zone rock soup, and miraculously regains her missing hair and nails. The PCs pretend not to be home, drive the car behind the house, and then lay in wait. Amelie contemplates taking the assault rifle, but settles on just a camera and a good watch over Runner, who looks like bolting.

A humvee drives into the yard. Six men in ski masks and snow camos, with SMGs and tech gear, step out and quickly move into the house, really professionally. They then leave. Cady and Naomi enter the house, and find out they've been tricked: there are still men inside. They arrest Cady for trespassing onto the zone, while Naomi (Runner) manages to get away. The PC group then runs as far as they can, and start hiding. The soldiers - working for the Institute - do not find any artefacts in the house, but they do find illegal weaponry. Such as the assault rifle...

Soundtrack for the session: Anabasis & Gargrim the Liar - Two Worlds.