Captain Baker has interviewed each of you, earlier in the morning. Upon completing the intake of each of you, she removed a set of mirrored glasses and smooths a small wrinkle on her CS Officers uniform sleeve. Satisfied its gone she looks up into your eyes.
"Normally I would have a meeting as a whole team, get to know each other and such. Introduce my Special Forces support personnel to you. However my boss has informed me that a priority mission has landed in my lap, and time is of the essence. When we finish here, go directly here."
She slides a folded up piece of paper across the table to you. On it is an address in the burbs.
"From here go directly to this location. Wait for the whole team to arrive. One of my SF support guys will be there. His name is Archer. Wait with him until I get there. Then we are off. I'll provide more details in route to our mission. Once I secure a SF escort APC and such, we leave for the mission. If you survive I'll formally welcome you to the Wayfarer Program. You understand, you are as of now disavowed. You will lead a false life and a real one. If anyone asks, you are assigned to a SAD...Special Activities Division paper-pushing assignment. Its terribly boring but safe. In reality you will be performing missions the Special Forces would struggle with.
Standing up the Captain states: "Dismissed."
Making your way to the address provided you arrive at Danny's Donuts and Baked Goods. Upon entering the shop you notice that it might be a front for you team but is is also a real bakery. A few staff are serving and cooking all sorts of goods. One staff member is much older than the others, he looks at you and nods. Silently he points at the rear door. His name tag says: Grimes, Assistant Chef. Grimes waves you on, to the rear door that leads into the back of the shop and where a set of stairs lead down.
Headed down the steps you are almost surprised to see a CS Skelebot standing at the bottom of the stairwell. It looks you over then pushes a button on the wall. The wall slides away and leads to another set of stairs leading down. "Proceed please."
Arriving at the bottom of this set of stairs and a short tunnel you arrive in a larger room. MDC alloys and steel cover the floors, ceiling, walls and two large metal doors are here. One states: Exit, the other: Armory. Located in this main large room are computers, supplies, chairs, a large monitor covering almost the entire right wall, and a man wearing basic black fatigues, no markings, no rank who calls you by name and introduces you to the others who arrive. As you six all arrive one at a time please feel free to "mingle" and talk. The man who is in fatigues goes by the name Archer and has little to say, he looks like a middle age grizzled wilderness scout and just tells you, "Your answers will be answered by Baker. While we wait, get to know each as best you can. You are about to head out on a mission once Baker briefs you. In the mean time, I will get you all bio-coded to use the doors here. So I will call you over one at a time and key your bio-metrics to the security doors. "
While you all chat for a while, Archer sets you up to have access to the security system. Eventually Captain Baker enters and nods at you all. She is no longer wearing a crisp clean CS uniform. Her long black hair is down, messy and mousey, and she has changed into white bakers outfit minus the hat which she tosses on a desk. Pulling a CD disk out of her pocket she inserts it into the PC connected to the massive screen on the wall.
A moment later the screen background changes from a beautiful outdoor wilderness scene to the sharp, ugly features of a CS officer. Larger than life his face fills the screen and is on pause, static waves across his sinister face, and Baker looks at you all to make sure you are watching. She then hits play.
Filling the screen across the whole wall the video of CS Intelligence, some say Black Ops Intel, is Colonel Thaddeus Lyboc. Some of you are more familiar with him than others, but every CS soldier has heard rumors of the man. He is always cautioned to fellow soldiers as dangerous, do not cross him and get out of his way.
The prerecorded recording of the Intel Officer nods crisply at the room then launches into a speech:
“Desperate times require desperate measures. War has nothing to do with morality or justice. It’s all about winning or dying. We cannot bind our hands with high ideals, even our own, or worry about the laws of renegade nations or the rights of alien people. We must fight fire with fire. And you are the match. My operatives have tracked a group of dimensional raiders back to their hideout. You will, with the assistance of Special Forces and a mage go after them. The mage will be on your team, but when in the escort he shall be handcuffed and appear as a prisoner. Specialist Richards...if you fail the CS I will no longer except Vanguard help. I do not trust you. Sweetie, I'll be watching. Juno - fail the CS and I will give you to my Interrogations Unit and they will wipe your mind and set up a new personality your parents would be ashamed of. The rest of you, if you are captured, or killed the CS will not recognize you as members, you are part of the Wayfarer Program and disavowed. Success will be rewarded. Baker you know what happens if you fail. Don't fail, don't let anyone know you are Coalition. Now go kick those raiders in the ass and stop their attacks on the burbs!”
Afterwards Captain Baker grumps, "Poppas ass. Okay Baker's Cell listen up! Archer and an ally of his tracked these dimensional raiders through their portal and located their base of operations. Hope you like snow, it'll be cold there. We are being escorted in a APC out into Iowa where a group of mages will open a portal and we go through. Richards is our return option. When we get through the portal you will follow a map Archer has drawn for you. Locate the base. Put an end to them, they are a group called the Delvers. If possible retrieve stolen CS gear or destroy it - don't leave it behind. Then return here. Only one thing. It sounds like you might have some competition. Intel suggests these Delvers contacted a group of Tomorrow Legion members and offered to sell the stolen CS gear to them. I do not know if you can take out this SET also, but you must prevent the sale from happening. You six will be the full team, and... listen I know this sounds like a lot. No offense Richards... dealing with magic, tracking raiders down, ending them, and doing it before some rogue legion scum can buy our property, and get back here alive, well... its why you each were picked. I believe you can do this. The CS is not, yet, capable of sending an army after the raiders using our advanced tech...it's just too far...and we are not ready. The portal you go through will take you directly to the south pole here on Earth. Antarctica. I am serious. If you survive this, there are several other far a way places I imagine you will find yourself at... Get ready, after I take care of some paperwork and the escort arrives in the APC we head out, probably ten minutes or so."
Assemble, introduce yourselves to each other. Once everyone has a post here, and it can be short if you like, I will post up next GM post, which will be you going through the portal and into the action.