Blighters: Two sample jobs
Here are two sample jobs for the Blighters RPG by Chris McDowall. I only tested one of those so far, so maybe you'll have to adjust some of the pieces here and there. But you are smart, you will manage. Has anyone told you that you're smart today? No? Don't listen to those fucks. I know that you are smart. Trust me on that.
Alright, back to business
De Munich's last Party
Corporate Tycoon Ceeage de Munich is throwing a big party in his gigantic Villa, while a strange Union sect, called Mandala, is preparing to assasinate him. Unbeknownst to all the weather-shields of the complex are slowly dying off, and a big storm is approaching, ...
Contracts
- Hack Data: The server bank within the Villa holds detailed finance plans and the traveling routes of many corporate freighters.
- Steal Jewellry: Lady Zess van Eick is attending the party and will be wearing a priceless necklace. Go get it!
- Assasinate Ganimed: Many Corporate bosses have put a huge bounty on the head of Rodent Ganimed, the leader of Mandala.
Locations
Party area
- Big dance hall (chocked with guests and hectic servants)
- Smoking lounge (full of assholes boasting about their money)
- Dining hall (A feast that could feed thousands, Entrance to the servant area) Elements:
- Weapon-Scanner Field at the official entrance
- Lady Zess making a scene in the Dining hall
- Surveillance cameras and security personnel
Servant area
- Maze-like corridors
- Security Office (Surveillance monitors)
- Server-Room (Stored Corporate Data, heavily encrypted) Elements:
- Sounds of steps in the corridors
- Auto Turrets in front of the Server-Room
- Sea 3-27 observing everything from the Security Office
Private area
- De Munichs private quarters (fancy furniture)
- Fortified panic-room (will turn into a death-trap once the weather shields break)
- Secret lift back to the smoking lounge Elements:
- De Munich will be escorted here, once Mandala starts their attack
- Sea 3-27 has manipulated the panic room and it can't be opened from inside anymore
- Rodent Ganimed will most likely appear here, once de Munich is trapped
Characters
Ceeage de Munich
Corporate Tycoon
- Boasts a lot, but is quickly scared
- Knows the codes to decrypt the Data
- Will offer you anything for help if in Danger, but will betray you on the next opportunity
Sea 3-27
Android leader of the servant staff
- Bound by protocoll to serve de Munich, but secretly hates him
- Since she can't kill him herself, she enabled Mandala to access the villa and manipulated the weather shields
- Will tell the players anything that convinces them to kill de Munich or leave him to his demise
Rodent Ganimed (Gauge)
Leader of Mandala, a radical Union sect
- Assasin sword (2E, cuts of a limb on Injury); Smokebombs
- He and the rest of the sect us strange Bat-Masks with integrated echolocation to orient themselfes in the dark
- Willing to kill other guests of the party or whatever stands in his way, but will quickly retreat once de Munich is dead.
Heat
Situations that advance based on the current Heat.
The Attack:
- 1-3: Members of Mandala can be spotted here and there. Only for a second, then they're gone again
- 4-5: Mandala cuts the light in the facility and starts quick hit and run attacks on the security.
- 6: The assasins kick in their battle drugs and start slaughtering everyone in the villa until de Munich is dead
The Storm:
- 1-3: The sounds of the storm are louder then they should be.
- 4-5: The weather shield flickers and rain water starts to pour in.
- 6: The shield breaks down and the storm starts to take the villa apart.
Fresh fish in the block
A council associated hacker has been killed and the Apartment-block with the crime scene has been put into lockdown. Someone has to get in and find out what has happened, before the situation between the residents and the authorities escalates.
Contracts:
- Who's dunnit?: Find clues as to who killed the hacker
- Sensitive Data: Extract the hardware device with delicate Info about a council member
- Drug cache: A local gang has stored a big amount of a certain drug in this area, definitely worth something to the right buyer
Locations
Apartment-Module
- Rundown living quarters
- Creepy stairwell and broken lift
- Receptionist Office Elements:
- Police guarding the crime scene
- Hints that the victims mind was hacked by someone in the facility
- Nosy neighbors complaining about the noises in the pipes
Market-Module
- Fish-market (stalls and tanks of exotic fish)
- Gang hideout (backroom of a bar)
- Grant Plaza Elements:
- Residents demonstrating against lockdown
- Gang-members patrolling the street
- Drug cache hidden behind a poster in the hideout
Sewer-Module
- Maze of tunnels and canals (scittering and slithering noises)
- Cistern (Big pool of murky water)
- Nest of the Siren Elements:
- Strange Signals on your communication channels
- critters, modified by the siren, lurking in the water
- Strange makeshift transmitter assembled out of scanvenged hardware (contains the hackers hardware device)
Characters
Lion FLenser
Council Investigator
- Low on sleep and quickly stressed
- tasked to find the sensitive data
- Slowly falls under the Sirens influence
Breaker Sharpear
Ex-Navi and Gang-leader
- Calm but used to acts of violence
- Incites the residents against the lockdown
- Wants to get out of the module with her wares and take up shop somewhere else
The Siren (Gauge)
Cunning Alien Lifeform
- Squid-Monkey thing with tech-scraps embedded in head
- Hacks and scrambels local data and signals to communicate with something
- Bio-Arrows (1E) or Siren-Song (2E to Stress, on Panic this causes mindcontrol over the target for the duration of one action)
Heat
Lockdown-Riots:
- 1-3: Residents protesting on the streets
- 4-5: Security marches in to shove people back into their quarters
- 6: All out riots. Residents and security fighting each other, while the module slowly descends into chaos.
Rise of the choir:
- 1-3: Strange sounds from the pipes. People getting distracted while talking.
- 4-5: Scrambled signals on tech devices. Water leaking out of the walls. The PCs make little pointless actions without intention
- 6: Bio-modified sea-live bursts out of the pipes and attack everyone in sight. Every technical device sings a mesmerizing Alien message.