Mountain Springs (Second Heist)

The Michigan water table has been dropping, and local farms and conservationist are worried. What’s the cause, Majestic Waters a branch of Majestic Cola has been extracting spring water for years. They pay the government a fraction of its worth, but the government needs the money. The local government is desperate and will use their powers to support Majestic Waters.

A group of local conservationist are fed up, and worried that an environmental catastrophe is neigh. They have exhaust all legal means, and their protests have gone unheard. In a last ditch effort they have reached out to the Green Scare to cause Majestic Waters to rethink the costs of their actions.

Green Scare needing some good publicity sees this as a chance to deliver water to Flint Michigan. They hope to revive in the press the trouble of a contaminated water supply, and how corporation exploit it for profit. Because this will be a public operation, but the characters should keep their identities secret.

Pitch

Majestic Waters has been loading up tankers of Michigan water onto trains to transport them to other facilities to be bottled as spring water. Steal the spring water and deliver it to families in need in Flint Michigan.

Majestic Waters corporation has the local police and government in its pocket, and feels safe to operate with impunity. They also have a private security force that protects their springs and filtering facilities.

The local population has few local protestors that monitor the local water table and keep trying raise the alarm. One of these protestors, George Fields, has gotten Green Scare to pay attention. He works for the local university and can cause a disturbance by getting some students out to protest.

Chris says “Hijack the train, commandeer the tanker cars, and deliver them to your contacts in Flint, Douglass and Sarah.” Also keep your identities secret.

Challenge

• How will you keep your identities secret so they can not be tracked.
• How will you get the tankers or water off of the trains or the train cars to Flint.
• How will you deliver the water to families in Flint and maintain secrecy.

Twist

• Majestic Waters has infiltrated the local protestors with an informant, they know your coming.
• Some of the Local politician in Flint will try to have the crew captured.
• An Amtrak train is waiting for the right away, while they are doing their job.
• The Feds have places Sara and Douglass under surveillance as Ecco terrorist. The Feds will try to capture the players in relation to Ecco crimes, if they can.

Resolution

Green Scare will reward the characters with 5 resources each, and the satisfaction of knowing that the many small towns with contaminated water supplies and how Majestic Waters exploits those towns are back in the press. George has illegally come in possession of documents showing that Majestic Waters is in debt to the Sugar Research Fund, for the lobbing efforts it has been doing to protect Majestic Cola from being regulated and labeled.

NPCs

Barry Burnout Sanders Young senator elect from Indian, he’s wondering around Detroit auto show looking for a new vehicle to take with him to Washington. He’s interested in something climate friendly, but he knows he still has to beat the other senators in races.

George Fields He has spent years of his life tracking the water table levels of Michigan, for the university. He’s at home in his hip waiters, with his fly rod near by. He spends much of his free time measuring the water levels at all the lakes, and streams of Michigan. He is desperate as he can see the ecological collapse in his favorite fishing holes, and wants to bring awareness to the problem.

Micheal Greaves George’s partner in crime, but he’s more of spinning rod and wheel guy. They can be found together more often than not, either out checking the water, or in the local Irish pub.

Douglass and Sarah Member of the Sierra Club who are living in Flint, and run U-haul facility that will be used to hide the Tankers. They are transplants from the Colorado mountains, and have the weathered outdoors look. Like to wear flannels and skateboard in their free time.

Mayor Eric Camper Local mayor who will do anything to protect Majestic Waters. He’s a bit short and doesn’t like to be reminded of that. He’s almost always found in an ill-fitting suit and tie.

Police Chef Anthony DeTroyer Local police chief who is completely in the pocket of Majestic Waters. He has received a tip that the players are coming and is looking for any suspicious strangers in town. He enjoys harassing visitors to town.

U-Line - Roberto Clemente A worker at U-Line that handles the cleaning of Majestic Waters uniforms. If a character might know him, and he can provide some assistance.

Rex Mully, and Doris Solider A pair of FBI Special Agents, They’ve just spent a month watching Douglass and Sarah, and are bored. They are excited that something is finally happening, and will do their best to chase down the characters. Once they realize that the delivery is fresh water they will be torn between looking the other way and getting the team with the balls to do such a thing. Doris Solider has a thing for conspiracy theories and subscribes to several zines, her current favorite is “Bigfoot Drives an Amigo”. Rex Mully is much more if I haven’t seen it with my own eyes it didn’t happen person, Rex also enjoy older hot rods. Think about make them recurring NPCs, because the characters have spiked their interest and it something better to do than surveil low level terrorist. Rex wants to indulge his hobby of restoring classic hot rods, and he thinks infiltrating and capturing a group of underground racing ecco-terrorist is the a great way to advance his carrier while having fun.

Locations

Detroit Auto Show Play up all the cool experimental cars, and some rival alternative fuels providers. Make it large and overwhelming in it’s vastness.

Ann Arbor The town closest to the water wells and the train route for the water. It is also home to Michigian University where George Fields works.

O’Doul’s Irish pub - Only serves non-alcoholic drinks. It the place where many Majestic Waters workers go for happy our, since the company frowns on drinking and encourages a healthy life style, drinking diet Majestic Cola.

University of Michigan The place where George Fields works, and that grudgingly support his environmental research. There are students on campus that can be worked up to protest Majestic Waters if needed.

Water well A lightly guarded water well, and purification plant, with workers that work in shift loading tanker train cars with water to be taken to one of the numerous bottling plants.

U-Haul Sarah and Douglass run a large u-haul facility right next to a set of train tracks in flint. It’s a large parking lot, with dozens of different sized u-haul trucks and trailers. The place has a large garage for doing maintenance, they figure they can hide a couple of tankers here if need be, while they find ways to distribute the water.

Adventure Spine

Intro Back home reasserting your place among your old colleagues, bring into play some threats and rivals. Make them race them for reputations. Short race two stage of 2 segments each, device approbate challenge for each stage.

The Call Green Machine needs their presence at the Detroit car show, but won’t tell them what the real mission is yet.

Arriving at the Detroit Car Show The players are put to work marketing Green Machine’s alternate fuel, based on algae, or their elector car technologies. Kane and Swift are there and keep pushing the team into more front line roles. Ask each player to give a little spiel.

The Mission Impossible That night after being exhausted form the public performance, a self destructing tablet with all the information about the theft of water from the people. Says go to Ann Abhor, meet George and Micheal, steal two train car tankers of water and deliver them to Douglass and Sarah in Flint. Do it in secret and be back here in two days to make another public appearance at the auto show to seal your alibi. Do not get caught, do not leak you identifies.

Meet George and/or Micheal They can provide information on the workers of Majestic Waters, the location of the well, and when the trains come and go. They also have lots of information on the declining water table and the effect that will have on farms and wildlife, and fishing oh god the fishing. OMG I you can’t hardly fly fish the local streams the water is so low, there are no fish, help us, oh yeah help those poor people in flint.

Prepare The Great Train Robbery Let the players plan how they will get on the train, how they will take to train cars from the train, how they will then transport those tankers across numerous miles to be dropped off in flint. Create a countdown track for their plan, This should be one of the big dramatic moments so go for at least 12 segments, likely 3-4 cinematic moments per player.

• If it’s easier you can have tractor trailers tankers on a flat bed train cars that they can hook up and drive. But only do that as a last resort let them come up with some impossible why to take two train cars where there are no tracks.
• Another option is to skip the train all together an infiltrate the well, and fill up their own trailers with water to be transported. Cause the infiltration could fun, how do they get uniforms and steal ID cards, whole lot of other tasks to do it right.

The Chase (Optional) Police Chef Anthony DeTroyer has been waiting for something to happen. He get helicopters and police cars to chase the characters all the way to Flint. This likely a 2 stage 6 segment challenge.

• Stage one avoid the police cars (3 segments)
• Stage two hide from the helicopters (3 segments)
• 4 segment opposition track if filled arrest one of the characters.

The Delivery Sarah and Douglass are happy to tank the tankers, but they are under surveillance. How do they drop them off, and not get Identified by the Fed? How do they get away and return to the Auto Show? Have Chris give them a last minute warning that he has detected surveillance devices in the vicinity, to give the characters to chance respond.

Return to The auto show Make it back to the auto show and convince the Feds that you were there the whole time. How fast can they make it back, beating the feds in their Black SUVs. This is a long distance to race, so think of the main obstacles and create a stage of 3 segments for each, depending on time go for 2 to 4 stages. Then montage the long distances in-between each stage.

The Interview Have the Fed interview the players, depending on how well the heist went they may or may not have any evidence. Play Feds as suspicious and looking for the characters to slip up and admit something. If they fail the interview give them heat.