Adventure Module

Version 0.4.2 Date 2021-03-31

Green Machine / Green Scare

Mary Bateson and her brother Francis inherited great wealth and were briefly living the life of rich heirs. Francis had bad asthma, since he was little. He grew up protected by his wealth, with access to some of the most beautiful wonders of nature. He found solace in natural world. Mary was wild and loved speed and enjoyed racing.

One day while watching his sister at a NASCAR race, the smoke from a burning car triggering his asthma; he lies in a coma to this day. Testing a new technology Mary downloaded his personality creating Chris the worlds first true AI. Chris has the warped personality of Francis and wants to protect the nature he adores. He think if companies have to pay the true cost of their raw resources they would adjust their ways. Thus Green Scares eco terrorism is his attempt to make companies pay a hefty costs for their actions. Little did he know the sleeping beast his action would awake.

Since the day of her brothers asthma attach, Mary has dedicated her great wealth to replacing NASCAR with an alternative racing circuit that uses safe alternative fuels, or zero emission e-vehicles. She named her new company Green Machine. She dreams of the whole world using Green Machines alternative bio-fuels or electric vehicles. She has bought many battery and technology companies and uses their technology to sway the world to use renewable green energy. She also use the proceeds from Green machine to fund Chris’s Green Scare initiatives, which she doesn’t always agree with but loves the racing and extreme actions.

Sugar Research Fund (SRF)

Their purpose is to promote sugar use around the world. They have branched out into all kinds of food industries. They operate like a cartel fixing prices, controlling supply, and creating demand. The SRF has bought politicians and scientist to promote their cause. They will stop at nothing to make sugar the most sold and consumed product on the planet.

Larry Baldman is the current CEO of the Sugar Research Fund, has dreams beyond sugar. He has invested in Insulin manufacture, and dentistry chains. His most recent invest has been a for profit hospitals that research diabetes. Once he realized he could promote sugar and make untold profits, his lobbyist created the Sweet Water Act which will require sugar being added to the manciple drinking waters.

If possible swap out Larry Baldman for an NPC connected to a characters backstory. Making the final chapters more personal. You can also have Larry show up occasionally to taught the characters.

What’s an Adventure Spine

An Adventure spine is the suggested beats or core scenes for the adventure. Depending on the outcome of Moves, and the characters choice there can be numerous other scenes which you as RM will have to create on the fly; provided are some Location and NPC suggestions to ease the work.

Some scenes in the spine have suggested countdown clocks. These are only suggestions. As the RM you will need to determine how much focus and time to bring to those scenes. Increase the size of the clock to make it take more time and focus within the session, reduce the segments to speed up play. They may also contain suggested stages and obstacles, change them to best challenge your players, and the cars and modifications which they have.

Remember the spine is one possible minimal set of suggested scenes or beats, the game is yours skip and add scenes as needed to tell the story of player’s characters and their recruitment by Green Scare, the impossible deeds they accomplish, and don’t forgot to give them moments of downtime to facilitate those all important Heavy Talk scenes.

Module Summary

The module is made up of introduction and 5 heist. The player will join Green Scare a eco terrorist organization, backed by Green Machine an alternative vehicle and fuel company. The player will travel the americas helping out where they can and disrupting the Sugar Research Funds operations.

  1. Green Scare is the introduction to the adventure. The players should already know each other, through their histories. This a good time for the player to get use to the racing mechanics and the feel of the game.
  2. Green Gold takes the characters down to Mexico to deal with corrupt Avocado Cartel, the La Familia Michoacána. They will help Manuel recuse his brother and stick it the cartel.
  3. Mountain Spring takes place in Michigan, with the Detroit Auto Show in the background. The characters will do some good by hijacking some fresh water and delivering it to Flint.
  4. Sweet White and Deadly takes place in Florida. This is the first time the player will directly face the Sugar Research Fund. They will steal a substantial amount of money from them and their operations.
  5. Guatemala Junta returns to South America, Guatemala, where the players will stop a Junta funded my Majestic Cola and the SRF.
  6. Sweet Water Act Takes place in Washington DC, Its time to prevent SRF from manipulating congress into doing it’s dirty work. This will be the finally show down with SRF.