QUOTE (hermit @ Jul 7 2015, 06:49 PM)
The place is, however, pretty much owned by the Wind River corporation, which belongs to the Horizon Group canonically.
Well, the thing is: their handler (Eduardo) is not very competent, but is always eager to help; especially if it brings him upwards in Horizon (aka makes his network stronger). So if somebody more better connected ask to lend his team for a small mission - a week tops - he'll be happy to help.
And their fixer Tryka is a coldheartet bitch, who would sell them out for a penny & a penthouse.
I can imagine quite a lot of things that Horizon can do with the headcases - imagine being able to control CFD - who gets infected and with what. It could be fun to experience the players infiltrating the facility, gettting to the paydata; just to find out the it is Horizon data and that they've been doing a run against their other mother-corporation.
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Oh, nice. Personally, I'd give it some more history and make it one of the sites where the old (SR) United States tried to pull off their final solution to the Indian problems in SR's version of the War on Terror.
Great idea
Concentration camp style wholesale slaughter combined with a great ghost dance would spike the background count to the high heavens and make it pratically for spellslingers to work in there.
And there might even be the spirit of an deceased old indian shaman there, who have been awakened from his slumber by the influx of headcases and who are now ready to pounce on the white cyberwareladen runners, who are infiltrating his domain. I'm thinking tons of illusions featuring magical trials to make the player test their own moral fiber.
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Hm. Why not the other PCs though? And will the PC also become infected?
The problem is that a active CFD-infection (CFD-positive?) is a death sentence for the character. He might survive as a playable person, but his personality changes. And my players put a lot of effort into their characters. It would be a bit harsh.
OTOH there is a cure for some forms of CFD now: the Coriolis Form (Chrome Flesh page 25). The players would have to find out that it existed, find a technomancer that could do it, a Reverser and pray the AI is xenosapient (aka can't relate to the human form).
The advantage of infecting Eduardo first is that he is very welldefined character in the campaign. The players knows what to expect from him and will be able to perceive his change of personality (from a kind pushover to a raving commanding maniac).
And once he is gone 100% headcase (and will either be dead, running away or quarantined), the next of them starts to show the symptoms after a while. And the rest of them finds out that they have a carrier among them, but who is it?
So they have to find the cure for two people. It could work.
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