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SYNAPSE RUN — GROUPS, GROUP BOSSES AND HEISTS
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Some of the city's worst things are built for a party.
The room listing says so: (group boss — bring a party of
N), and you're warned as you walk in. CONSIDER says it
too. Alone, a group boss overwhelms you: it hits much
harder the fewer runners it's fighting.
MAKING A PARTY
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GROUP INVITE <runner>, GROUP JOIN, GROUP LEAVE. A party's
kills are shared: XP is split, contract kills count for
everyone in the room.
WHAT A GROUP BOSS PAYS
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Nothing is split. Every runner who fights a group boss
gets their own full XP, their own credits, and their own
roll on its loot table, straight into their pack.
Each boss carries its own gear, a step above anything
else at its level: a weapon for every discipline, tank
armor, and one rare piece that almost never comes out.
The table is the same for everyone. CONSIDER a group boss
to see what it carries. It comes back, so do you.
Brask and the Leviathan carry the best gear in the city:
Vantara's Lantern Bay line, never delivered.
HOW A GROUP BOSS FIGHTS
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Threat it goes after whoever has hurt it most.
TAUNT pulls it onto you for a few rounds (energy and
a short cooldown). Your toughest runner is the
tank: TAUNT, keep it busy, and TAUNT again when
it wanders. If the tank is hurt, someone else
TAUNTs and takes a turn.
Sweep its big, telegraphed attack hits everyone
fighting it. When you see it winding up, DUCK.
Everyone else hits hard, and watches for the sweep.
WHERE TO FIND THEM
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The Gutter Titan party of 2 the Underpass Depths
The Yard Juggernaut party of 3 the Strikeworks Yard
The Harvester Hydra party of 3 Sublevel Ten
Overseer Brask party of 3 Port Meridian
The Harbor Leviathan party of 4 Port Meridian
City events sometimes bring one out into the streets for
everyone to fight: EVENT shows what's happening.
HEISTS
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Quill, in Port Meridian's customs hall, has a weekly job
for a crew of three: the Counting House. Get past Brask,
then two crewmates TURN the vault's keys together (HELP
CREWS for registering a crew).
THE RING
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In the Stacks, the Ring is for friendly bouts: SPAR
<runner>. It's scored, not bled: nobody's real health
changes, win or lose.
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