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Old 02-07-2017, 03:31 AM   #19
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Default Re: [Modern Firepower] Technothriller gear for secret DHS team in 2017

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From what you're saying they seem to be hunting down escaped critters/animals from some bio-tech lab, in that case I'd have them pretend to be Parks Service, people aren't going to be questioning them to much about hunting down some animal, and if they say their hunting down a bear showing signs of rabies, well who would question them packing?
The critters in question are human.

There is an unknown (to the PCs, at least) number of test subjects from precursor programs, mostly inmates of a mental institution, the Manhanock Asylum for the Criminally Insane, and some military personnel convinced at court martial who agreed to take part in drug trials in exchange for reduced sentences or transfer to a more comfortable facility. Most of these people are probably already accounted for and, in many cases, never left the mental institution where the tests were carried out in the 1980s to 1990s.

Then there are some 40 people from Project Jade Serenity, a black DOD research project supposedly investigating the effects of nootropic drugs on healthy, motivated young soldiers in a training environment.*

The government (and/or secret conspiracy within the government) is not ruling out that the condition can spread across species, as well as being inheritable. Our characters are not privy to secrets behind the scenes, but there is reason to believe that the descendants of escaped animal test subjects, found on an island where initial testing was conducted, might exhibit strange traits.

One PC is a former test subject of Project Jade Serenity. He has been convinced to approach his fellow subjects and try to secure their peaceful cooperation with Operation Onyx Rain, which appears to be a joint task force under the Department of Homeland Security, tasked with responding to the emerging crisis of multiple former test subjects manifesting weird behaviour, psychological issues and physiological changes.

Another PC is a psychiatrist who worked in Project Jade Serenity, as well as some of the preceding programs. He dosed himself with several of the experimental substances developed for the DOD and while the initial effects were barely statistically significant, the passage of time appears to cause more dramatic alterations in the subjects. Dr. Michael Anderson has accepted a temporary position as consultant with the Department of Homeland Security, although it is clear to him that his handlers in Onyx Rain consider him more of a security risk to be managed than an asset that they expect to provide any valuable assistance.

The third PC is not a test subject nor staffer of Project Jade Serenity, but is instead part of the 'MIBs' with Onyx Rain who are meant to keep an eye on us test subjects and ensure that we are not working against the interest of the mission. He is a CBP agent with an intelligence background, assigned to the DHS Office of Intelligence & Analysis. Unknown** to his superiors, Special Agent Daniel O'Toole deliberately chased after wild rumours within federal law enforcement to get assigned to Onyx Rain, as he believes that his never-seen father was a test subject of Project Jade Serenity and that this accounts for his powerful psychokinetic gifts (carefully kept a secret from the government).

*But actually involving many more drugs than the specific nootropic substances specified in the grant application. It is not clear (at least to the PCs) whether all test subjects in fact received the same drugs, but my character, at least, was subjected to ergogenic aids, neurostimulants, concentration-enhancing substances, psychadelic drugs and nootropic compounds that improved cognition, memory and sensory processing.
**And worth a -30 point Secret.


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As for which gun, it likely doesn't matter.
The point of a technothriller style is that it matters.
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