Guardia, corp. (session 1)

Guardia History:

1980- Guardia Corporation was founded, and placed their headquarters in the middle of rural upstate New York, the original company was made to research human chemistry and hormones

Slowly buildings started popping up around the HQ and the town kept growing and growing

Now, in 2063, the land surrounding Guardia HQ, has become Guardia City. Hundreds of different divisions of the corporation are located in the city, as well as most of Guardia’s employees. The different divisions range from Entertainment television to medical research, to weapons manufacturing, and everything in between.

For the ordinary citizen, life is much the same as is was in 2009. Personal computers and cell phones have not changed, and cars still run on gasoline.

The advancements have mostly been in the field of medicine. Where it is just starting to be common for people to be given micromachines that circulate the blood stream and are capable of detecting and often destroying illnesses such as cancers.

Guardia corp. prides itself with being humane, 5 years ago, the Athena division created the Action-Supression-Ray (aka ASR, commonly referred to as the Aser-proncounced Ace-er) Which is a device that looks very much like a normal handgun, but instead of bullets, it emits particles that enter the target’s body and painlessly makes their body and mind not want to act for a short period of time. People who have been shot with and ASR describe the feeling as being suddenly calm, and the idea of doing anything at all other than standing still does not occur to them.
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(Session start)

The Guardia holiday party is surely a sight to behold. All Guardia's employees are invited (practically the entire city), outside services and security are brought in just for this night of revelry.

Dr. Ding, Derek, and Dan are assigned to a small table together. None of them have anything in common. Dan is new to the division, but is well on his way to being a coffee transportation expert. Derek is preoccupied with all the potential security risks involved with the holiday party, and Dr. Ding asks Steve, 10 years her junior for a dance, he declines.

The party is a good one, as always. Derek ducks out to check on the Athena building and finds nothing, the only note worthy things are that of petty gossip (we never did find out if Cindy went home with that guy from accounting).

A few days after the party, everyone has settled back into their work routine. Dr. Ding works with the lab chimps in one of the larger laboratories. Derek patrols the hallways, pistol on one side of his belt, Aser (model 244) on the other. Dan carries oversized stacks of paper from point A to point B for no known reason.

All of the electronic locks on the chimp cages unlock, and the doors swing open. Several of the chimps look crazed, Dr. Ding runs out the door and calls for security. Derek, unhappy about the prospect of filling out an incident report breaks the window in the door and shoots the Aser at the chimps. After a chaotic few minutes, the chimps are subdued. Dr. Ding is very upset that Derek had to kill Bobo, her favorite chimp.

Help arrives 40 seconds later, and begins to clean up the mess. Apparently these mischievous monkeys knocked down and broke containers full of chemicals some of which have not yet been tested on humans. A Hazmat team comes, scrubs everyone down, and stuffs the trio into quarantine.