CYBER-PULP FANTASY CORE-Sample Adventure-Arcade

CYBER-PULP FANTASY CORE

© Jerry Harris 2013

Published here as Open Game Content.

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Lynn’s Arcade (Subordinate A.I. of Supreme)

Hooks to Site
This encounter has quite a few conditionals and can be complex.
 Supreme (or really in this case, a subordinate AI of Supreme) sent some thugs to Lila’s apartment to raid it.  If the group catches and interrogates any of them, they’ll say they were hired by an Orc named “Smack” at Lynn’s Arcade.  The Com unit on Smack’s dead body at the apartment also points at the Arcade.  Virtual Lila could be captured and bring the characters here.  Other encounters could also simply point here.

Location Description 

Reconnaissance
Here, at last, is a location that the characters have all been to already.  They know the basic layout of the ground floor and that there is a lounge above, along with a business office.  They’ve heard rumors of the computer service tunnels  below.  (Players often claim to have made out with whoever the hottest employee is at the moment down there.)
 
Entry
The front door is the obvious entry.  There is an employee door in the rear that doubles as a fire exit.  It has a keycard lock that is DC 18 to hack.  Failing to open it (with a hack or forcing it), sets off a silent alarm that will immediately bring an employee to investigate, who will be holding a Com ready to call the police (2 turns, about 20 minutes).  Trying to enter through the second story fire escape door will automatically set off an alarm.

Indirectly, if the characters decide to follow up on Lila’s e-mails with the Web Gypsies with their contact, Mazzy of the Hopeless Romantics tribe, they discover that she is missing, along with whatever she was working on.  Talia of the tribe tells them that someone else (unknown) was inquiring about their contact with Lila.  Mazzy was abducted shortly afterward.  The gypsies received an ultimatum to deliver a Drow Soul Crystal to a drop site in the next 48 hours in exchange for her.  The tribe does not have the Soul Crystal and has no idea who did this.  “Obviously someone who does not fear a gypsy curse.”  (Like maybe an AI?)  The tribe will be indebted to anyone who can help resolve this situation.  This bit pays off later, when the group gets a clue directing them to the Arcade.

It is a two-story building situated on a corner.  It’s a reasonably nice neighborhood.  Everything’s pretty normal looking and nondescript.  There’s no parking in front, only across the street in a parking garage.