Game Summary:
The PCs were summoned to do some deniable work for the CIA: Find rogue agent Sarah Smith and to seal off loose ends.
Our intrepid heroes arrived in Caracas, Venezuela to start their efforts in tracking down the agent. They met with their handler, one "John Smith". The team was not kind, and pressed their handler quite hard, only to discover that he was curiously uninformed (and it would turn out later, under-prepared). The team left, but not without bugging J. Smith.
They separated to pursue several leads. One team went to the morgue to examine the body of the man S. Smith was accused of murdering, and another went to investigate S. Smith's apartment.
The morgue visit lead to some interesting information, as well as a couple of possible leads: The archaeologist S. Smith was accused of murdering was not, in fact, the body in the morgue. The people who forced this through were a couple of "government" thugs. Given that we were posing as the same, it seems likely that was yet another front.
The trip to S. Smith's apartment yielded more clues, namely a map to her hiding place. Someone labeled it "hiding place", so it had to be true.
When the team returned to the safehouse, they discovered that their handler had been executed and they retrieved functionally nothing from the scene of his murder. This job smelled fishy from the start, and it wasn't getting any better.
With nothing left to do in Caracas, the team went into the jungle to find S. Smith. What they found was a heavily fortified shack with a satellite uplink. Though they attempted negotiation, they failed, and S. Smith died in an explosion that destroyed whatever was with her.
At that time, the team was burned by a stunningly powerful something (group, person, agency) who was able to add them to all sorts of watch-lists and reveal most of their identities to the world. While clearly associated with the CIA, it seems likely that their scope is beyond American intelligence, as the burning went beyond the normal channels.
When we left our team, they were recouping with a conspiracy theorist in the jungle, pondering next steps.
