Mission 00 - JellyFish

First thing that happened was a new player turned up - and got very very quickly shoehorned through the recruitment process.  Meanwhile the other players were reading the mission brief ( http://parliament.vitenka.com/c3slip/documents/Mission-00/ )

They remembered to ask Kuri for a map of the Island.  Mouse asked for the Intel brief.  Which was a good move.

They actually go out and get tranq weaponry!

Then they start talking plans.  They at first decide to knock out the islands power supply - and Fire wonders about getting an E.M.P.  Which is unusual but reasonable.  An E.M.P. that would cover the whole island.  Juuuusssst a little less reasonable there.  Kev freaks out when he realises they want to take his top of the line laptop and an E.M.P. and he just knows they're gonna break it.
They go with the vampire taps instead, and somehow con Mikey out of a pair of active camo suits.
Their main plan was infiltration.  They went and got a cover ID for the new guy to apply for a job at the labs.  The cover is that he used to work at Island Genetics, and went travelling for personal reasons.  He breezed the interview.

They each got to spend some time chatting to various members of staff - Mikey ("Youwanttofight?  ExcellentIneedsometrainingcomeonthenallatonce?")  Tony (Shy but not so slow points them in the direction of Brad and Kev and suggests avoiding Brad.) and Biff ("You don't want one of those, you want something big.  With huge wheels.  Or a tank!  Yeah - you want a tank!") and of course their Sgt. Mjr. Fluffy (see quote at end of page).

They run through most of the mission fairly easily - though with multiple teams each confused as to each others roles.  They happily spend time (the deadline is two months away, after all) rather than rushing in.

The vampire taps are planted.  The hacker does his thing.  The infiltration team are on standby outside (in case they are needed) while the infiltrated cleaner nicks the paperwork.

They've (wisely) chosen a night on which there are few staff present.  Unfortunately, one of the lab techs has also chosen that night - and hops over the wall to have a bit of a chat with a shadowy figure.

The infiltration team close in.  They find out it's Tony, organising some kind of a delivery and impressing the kid by sounding like a big powerful mobster.
Then the super sneaky ninja trips over his own feet.  Panicked at Tony waving a gun, Swish mews like a cat.

Oddly effective at calming Tony's nerves (I don't like to think about how many style points Swish earnt that evening) they evade detection.  The meeting is nonetheless over.

So Swish decides to sneak up behind the student as he attempts to re-climb the wall to go back inside - and threaten him with a tranq gun.  The student is entirely unimpressed, and despite Swishes style, starts to slap him silly.
Shrimpy Kung-fu scientist of doom does well against the 6 foot 4 mass of Swedish army muscle.
So Mouse shoots him.  Or rather shoots Swish.  In the buttocks.  Swish manfully stays upright and together they take down the student of doom.

Catastrophe averted, the cleaner exfiltrates.

And then everyone realises that they've left the vampire taps in place - so it's time for the un-tranquillised portion of the sneaky team to go to work.  While Swish hobbles back to the plane for a quick "I'm just a civilian and all these papers are mine honest" trip home, just in case everything is about to go pear shaped.

Which, with a bit of drama and thrown glass they do.  Tranqing the returning security officer and then collecting up all the bugs, the situation is recovered.

Meanwhile Fire was seducing Tony back at the hotel bar.  We drew a curtain over the proceedings, but we do know that she gave him her cellphone number.

Back home in time for tea and crumpets - or at least a debriefing with a minimum of yelling.  Actually, the team did very well - and didn't blow anything up at all!  Kuri especially praised them for having a 'plan B' and only resorting to it once they needed to.

The one minor fly in the ointment is that there's a vampire tap missing.  They recovered them all - so the only explanation is that it went missing before they got a chance to plant them.  Which means someone raided their hotel room...  But who?  And why?  And what are they going to do with a computer bug?

== Quotes =

Fluffy: "I wouldn't trust you with a lemon launcher!"
General outcry: "E.M.P. Lemons!"

Unattributed: A Camo suit with 'Artha' on the front in big yellow letters.  Like a SWAT jacket, but for an invisible guy.

== GM Notes =
Don't.  Split.  The.  Party.     ARGH!  So much hassle.  So many players with nothing to do for far too long at a time.
The organisation of the raid was ill thought out - they didn't really settle on a plan.  Or rather they settled on three different plans at once.  This was largely due to lack of communication between the team members.  

Timing was, however, almost perfect - things lasted just the right amount of time and the players did seem to enjoy it.  They were, I think, a bit overwhelmed by the amount of paper available to them.  But then, most of it was strictly optional anyway.