11-20-2019, 09:37 PM | #1 |
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[adventure brainstorm] Jailbreak on Fureidis
Setting: Flat Black, Fureidis
In a TL 10-ish very-limited superscience interstellar setting, there is a coolish planet with Earthlike gravity and a rich volatiles budget. Its barometric pressure is 1.5 bars and it is 97% covered by oceans. The average temperature is 10 C, which is about 7°C (13°F) cooler than Earth, but the thick air and deep water transport heat effectively, so that the polar regions are frozen only in winter and the tropics are even milder than you might expect. The population is human, has been on planet for seven hundred years, and has an idiosyncratic culture. The planetary government is an hierarchy of representative republics (like, but not historically, a federation). The development level is pretty typical for the setting (TL 10 Struggling), and local industry etc. produces TL9 (mature) output, importing anything more sophisticated than that (up to TL10 (advanced)) at premium prices. Weapons cannot be imported. Social features include a nudity taboo from the nipples to the knees, fanatical cleanliness, and a puritanical streak that has given rise to a bunch of laws against drugs (such as alcohol), pornography, prostitution, and gambling. This has given rise to an underground counter-culture, organised crime, and a degree of police & government corruption. The place is rather overpopulated, with crowded high-rise cities, floating suburbs on moored boats and huge pontoons, and people everywhere except at sea. Situation You are a field manager for an extremely secretive clandestine operations outfit. Doctrine for your organisation is that ideally, after one of your operations, no-one ought to realise that anything has happened. Or if they do realise that something has happened, they ought to believe that it was ordinary happenstance, not the result of a clandestine operation. Or if they do realise that spooks have be sneaking around doing stuff, they ought to conclude that it was some other clandestine agency. Not even other clandestine-ops organisations ought to discover that your outfit exists. You have come to Fureidis with two effectives: one field operator and one asset. The asset believes that she is working for the Planned Progress League. The operator has good interpersonal skills and was trained as a military officer, so he has stealth & slaughter capabilities and is a useful analyst. He is accustomed to serve as a face man for dealing with contacts, handler for local assets, cuckoo, muscle, and occasionally a wet worker. The asset has good technical skills, but no combat training and almost no experience. Doctrine is for you never to go into the sovereign territory of the colonies that you team are operating in, but to stay in the extraterritorial environs of a spaceport. You have come to Fureidis to kill two birds with one stone. The first objective is to have your technical asset surgically transformed from a coyote-woman back into a normal-looking 23-year-old woman. This will (a) make her inconspicuous enough to employ in clandestine operations, (b) deal with the crippling body dysmorphic reaction she had to being turned into a coyote-woman in the first place, and (c) make her feel grateful to the outfit for her rescue. The second objective is to neutralise Jeysunu Naboo, a poet/prophet/political reformer/ex-con/reformed brothelkeeper who is starting to build up a violently puritanical populist movement. But shortly after you arrived, with your asset in hospital awaiting surgery, and with your operator not yet in contact against Naboo, you were asked to undertake a rush job.
So, given that you are the NPC boss of the field operator, who is a PC, what mission are you going to give him?
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11-21-2019, 01:58 AM | #2 |
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Re: [adventure brainstorm] Jailbreak on Fureidis
Jail/Jail? Is he safer in the police cells, or Therampulau Jail?
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11-21-2019, 02:21 AM | #3 |
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Re: [adventure brainstorm] Jailbreak on Fureidis
Fixed. Thanks.
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11-21-2019, 09:42 AM | #4 |
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Re: [adventure brainstorm] Jailbreak on Fureidis
Does Kantorr have any Allies who could be subtly strengthened or possibly mildly framed? His escape becomes a lot less mysterious if he's got allies who want him out.
How difficult is it to masquerade as a different clandestine organization? I suppose you'd have to masquerade as two different clandestine organizations, so they think each framed the other. And would such clandestine organizations want the reporter free? Or possibly want the crime-lord gone? For that matter, could you tip off a rival crime lord about what's going on? Is there someone else in Jail whose escape can be used as a cover for Kantorr's? You break them out, and they obviously have the resources and allies, but Kantorr just "happens" to make it out as well. Can you arrange for Kantorr to be jailed somewhere else, or possibly be placed in solitary confinement? Publishing from prison is a long and venerated tradition. What does he actually need to be effective?
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11-21-2019, 02:19 PM | #5 |
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Re: [adventure brainstorm] Jailbreak on Fureidis
Kantorr's best bet for rescue would have been the Reporter's Guild, but they have just publicly expelled him for an ethics breach that we tricked him into. They are likely now to find him useful mostly as an example to encourage others to toe the line and keep their dues up to date.
His next best chance for a white knight would be some anti-corruption agency or anti-booze agency of the world government, but the would most likely start with a legal process equivalent to habeas corpus. That's what puts Vanoom under time pressure. The is an interstellar outfit call Amnesty that occasionaly executes jailbreaks, but they tend more to be interested in political prisoners. Democracy Unlimited is pretty quiet about Fureidis, which is well above average for democracy score. You framed the Planned Progress League for framing the Alliance for Independent Development on the last job, but they both had operatives on the scene; this issue doesn't push their buttons. One really alarming thing (from Kantorr's point of view) is that the charges he is arrested on are really flimsy. Possessing alcohol, debauchery, consorting with a burlesque dancer, indecent exposure (to police officers, while being arrested at home), offensive language (to arresting officers), and resisting arrest aren't serious crimes, and convictions on some of them couldn't survive appeal. They won't get him a long term for publishing from jail. The bright side of that is that you could just bodyguard him in jail for a few weeks. The dark side is that Vanoom is exposing his control of Julilla and Corasek to Kantorr, so he can't be planning on Kantorr surviving.
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11-21-2019, 03:17 PM | #6 |
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Still, the danger that the local judge might not want to be so blatant as to commit Kantorre for trial and remand him in custody is a reason to fear that Vanoom will act before the committal hearing. Quote:
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(1) that some opposition else might get the incriminating documentation first, having the advantage of knowing what it is; (2) that Kantorre's compromat might consist not of material evidence but of data files, audio, or video. That would not be useful evidence without the testimony of a witness to their recording. If Kantorre is dead there might be no way to testify that his records are not fakes.
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11-22-2019, 09:43 PM | #8 |
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Submarines! The adventure has to feature shenanigans in or with TL9 submersibles!
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11-23-2019, 02:03 PM | #9 |
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Re: [adventure brainstorm] Jailbreak on Fureidis
Thanks you John, Eric, Martin. I started the adventure last night.
I couldn't get the scenario above to work out right, so I have changed the situation so that the journalist has been abducted by Vanoom's human-trafficking division and taken to his macabre Isle of the Dead for a gruesomely lingering demonstration of frightfulness. The (NPC) field manager looked up some other person who has recently been made to disappear by the Vanoom Machine, choosing a young offworld crusader who had links to Amnesty and the Sons of Patrick Henry but was not an effective of either. He sent a message to her grandfather on Tau Ceti that is phrased as an offer to rescue her for a large fee, but which comes across as a veiled ransom demand. The operative is going in hot and heavy under cover as a privately-contracted hostage rescue expert. He'll go all John Wick on Vanoom's organisation, but loudly searching for Horeisha Hahn. On Fureidis he will be assumed to be hired by Hahn's grandfather, Horeis. On Tau Ceti he'll be assumed to have been a free-lance HRT working on speculation. The timing doesn't actually work, but with a bit of luck no-one will compare notes about when the message was received. If he creates enough chaos (and, let's face it, this is a PC we're talking about) then the journalist can easily be included in a mass escape/rescue. The story will be a remarkable one containing bizarre anomalies, but even anyone who guesses that the rescue of Horeisha Hahn was cover for the rescue of someone else is unlikely to pick the journalist out as the real objective.
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11-25-2019, 02:55 PM | #10 |
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Re: [adventure brainstorm] Jailbreak on Fureidis
Sounds like glorious chaos.
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