[Infinity] Your Mission, Should You Choose to Accept It

[David Johnston2]

Something that sometimes bothers me about new reality threads is a failure to ask what the actual game application of the idea is. So I thought I'd try to go at it from the other end with an adventure seed thread.

1. Thule-1 is currently in it's year of 1949. It is a world where Germany was heavily invested in an attempt to use weird science to gain an advantage in the war, resulting in the allies facing zombies, mad superhumans, and weird qlippothic entities. The last thing is what is of greatest concern to the agency. Not only can the weird science portal creation technology pose the threat of exposing Thule to extradimensional invasion, there is a small risk that experimenting with them will lead to a portal being opened to an actual parallel universe. We could see Stalinist Russians or incomprehensible inimical entities conquering across the timelines.

Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to locate the research facility where one of the allies is working on captured German weird tech, determine whether it has any of the dimensional weird science, destroy any such technology and extract any researcher associated with it, and get evidence of the atrocities being carried out by the researchers on the human experimentation end of things.
*Note: The setting is roughly that depicted in the "Cold City" RPG.

2. Soylent is currently in it's year of 2007. Diverging back during the time of the Black Death when a Church scholar discovered an antibiotic that was effective against yersinia pestis, Soylent is a vastly more populous world where the Reformation never happened and birth control is still illegal. Homeline traders have found Soylent to be an eager market for birth control pills as well as beef and chicken, which are considered to be luxury goods out of the reach of the working man.

However, a recent outbreak of prion disease has put the homeline traders under scrutiny. While their product can not be the cause of the problem since the incubation period for prion disease means the tainted food had to be consumed years before the arrival of the traders, local medical science has not yet identified prions. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to steer the government investigators away from our traders and toward the corporate recycling facilities that have been putting reprocessed human flesh into the food supply...while keeping them from being killed by a corporate CEO desperate to cover up his culpability. (Note. It's no secret that humans are being recycled. The CEO is just covering up the secret of the resulting risk.)

3. In a 1917 echo of Homeline, Mata Hari is about to be executed. However the agency believes she may know something about the operations of a Centrum agent who is trying to interfere with the outcome of the Great War. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to extract Mata Hari while faking her death and then recruit her.

[ericthered]

I had one of these back, about collecting a Shakespeare right as he died (and saving his life in the process), with other outtime competition.

[Astromancer]

4) The Wraith of God."

There is some evidence that Ines de Atienza, the daughter of Blas de Atienza the famous conquistador from Guadalajara in Castile, may have been a psion, and might have ALIEN GENES! Probably through her Inca mother ( but why didn't they manifest in the mother?) Ines de Atienza must be extracted from as many echoes as possible without damaging any timelines. Luckily, her death is mysterious. She was part of Pedro de Ursula's expedition to discover El Dorado, the same one that Lope de Aguirre took over, after killing de Ursula and many others.

So all the PCs need to do, if they accept the mission, is track down a large group of armed conquistadors wandering around the 16th century Amazon jungle. Then kidnap the famously strong-willed and highly capable young woman and, with the lady in tow, escape Lope de Aguirre, a famously brutal and highly competent evil madman on his turf.