Torg - The Destiny Map

TORG BENCHMARK CHART
Value
0
2
3
9
10
11
12
15
16
17
18
20
22
Time
Distance
Weight
Second 1 kilo
CHARISMA
Charm
Persuasion
Taunt
PERCEPTION
Air vehicles
Alteration
magic
Divination
DEXTERITY
magic
Evidence
Acrobatics
analysis
Beast riding
Find
Dodge
First aid
Energy
Land
vehicles
weapons
Language
Fire combat
Scholar
Flight
Space
Heavy
vehicles
weapons
Tracking
Lock picking
Long jumping Trick
Water
Maneuver
vehicles
Melee
weapons
MIND
Missile
weapons
Apportation
Prestidigitation
magic
Running
Artist
Stealth
Conjuration
Swimming
magic
Unarmed
Medicine
combat
Science
Survival
SPIRIT
Test of Will
Faith
Willpower
Focus
Intimidation STRENGTH
Reality
Climbing
Lifting
1 meter
Tallest human
Human
baby
Minute Human
female
Human
male
Lion
Brown Bear
Small Car
Large Car
Elepnant
Hour
Empty Truck
APC
Football Field
City block:
Kilometer
Mile
Marathon race
23
Loaded
Truck
Blue Whale
Boeing 747
CSAGalaxy
Tramp
Freighter
Destroyer
24
25
27
28
29
SKILL LIST
Day
Week
30
Length of
Great Britain
ix- at
Paris to Moscow
building
Fully loaded
train
33
34
35
38
Year
Battleship
Aircraft
Carrier
39
41
Skills listed in boldface

cannot be used unskilled.
r:oa:aea Oil
4S
nker
DIFFICULTY NUMBER
SCALE
Description
Modifier
3
5
8
10
12
~;,;,;;..
1~3
15
18
22
THE AXIOMS OF THE COSMS
Core Earth
Living Land
Aysle
Nippon Tech
Cytierpapacy
Orrorsh
Nile Empire
Magic
Social
Spirit.
7
0
18
2
10
15
12
21
7
18
22
9
24
16
8
T8
14
20
20
17
17
Tech.
7
15
24
20
19
21
SKILL CHARTS
ANALYSIS CHART
Physical Evidence
ACTION SUMMARY
Familiar objects,
expected use
Familiar objects,
uncommon use
or unfamiliar
objects, common use
Uncommon objects,
commo elf
Criminal tried to
conceal evidence
Master criminal
concealed evidence
Attribute
Spirit
Charisma
Mind
Perception
10
12
+2
+5
Situation
Different di.il"07
. . .-,.,o""'fown-ect
language
Language is derived from
common language (e.g.
Spanish and French)
Completely
.gn
language (e.g. Chinese)
Alien language, language
from another Cosm
RANGE MOD
PointBlank
Short
Medium
Lon
FIRE OPTIONS
Burst fire as single
Full Auto
Single fire as multi
A ACKOPTIONS
Aim
Vital Blow
All-out Attack
Sweep Attack
Opportunity Attack
Location Attack
DEFENSE OPTIONS
Active Defense
Aggressive Defense
CONCEJUMENT
Partial
Medium
High
SITUATION
Blindside Attack
Complete Surprise
Normal Surprise
0
-3
-5
0
0
-3
-5
SURVI VAL CHART

Difficulty /I
Difficulty
+3
0
12
22
+3
o(a)
-8
+4
+1 (b)
-5
-3 (c)
+3
+5
-3
0
Ml
o(d)
na
-3
-5
-10
o(e)
....
....
....
+3
+3
-4
(one week)
Spectacular
Masterpiece (one month)

FALLING CHART
Difficulty /I
1 tory (15 feet)

2 stories (16-30 feet)
OVer stories
3
8
12
15
Polar RegkJns
15
Climb
Difficulty
Ladder
Thee
-3
5
Wall w Ihandholds,
natural rock
Smooth - - . meta1
15
Darkness
Rain
+2
+5_ _--.
+5
k:e-<xi'eed
TRACKI GCHART
Situation
lew'"
(g)
KEY
Ml = Minimum bonus of one; ** = Use
Cover Value chart for damage modifiers; na =
not applicable; (a) = Takes one round; (b) =
Attacks against are +3/ +3; (c) = Holds action;
(d) = Holds for location; (e) = Defense total decreased by 2; (f) = Two rounds of cardplay; (g)
= One round of cardplay
-5
-5
Difficulty
8
12
15
Nofintaid
polIlIible
12
15
SCIENCE CHART
Difficulty
Complexity
Difficulty /I
8
12
15
..z
-3
-3
Dense amaiilmlmt
(jurIg1e. crowd
in costume)
Very close scrutiny
Open terrain
Broad daylight
+10
FIRST AID CHART
Rain. sleet. etc.

Dawn or duIk.
walls. crowd. etc.
Night
Dozing guards
+5
1'rIlddIIf dlnJuP
Clr
lDddDs- wbIde
3
8
Padlock
Wall Safe/Deadbolt
Blink Vault
fog. trees,
+8
Tracking during
inclement weather
Tracking over a hard
surface (e.g. cement)
STEALTH CHART
(f)
+2
+5
Difficulty
T~ Interior Door
Condition
Modifier
Modifier
TIlIiI ilia day okl

TIlIiI
old
Trail is.
old
Wound Level
LOCKPICKING CHART
Sample Locks
3
8
12
CLIMBING CHART
Work Quality
-3
+3
+3
Woods
High Mountains
Desert
GOOd tieginner's effort

(no minimum lime)
Journeyman effort
--ii(muum~
..~. urn one hour)
PiOteiiiliOiiil eEfOlt (one
day)
Expen craftsmanship
"'=,,-
15
destination
Wilderness Type
ARTIST CHART
Ml
Obstacle
Difficulty /I
Hopping a Fence
--- 3
Grabbing an overhang
and swinging over a
pit
8
Vaulting or swinging
over a tricky obstacle
12
Bouncing off an awning
during a free fall to
reach a specific
LANGUAGE CHART
Actio
Valu
VAULTING/SPRINGING
CHART
Difficulty
Prototype
From cosm with
lower tech axiom
18
-5
+10
-5
+1
+2
+3
Consists of many
integrated systems
+5
+10
INTERACTION RESULTS TABLE

Result
Points
Intimidate
Test
Taunt
Trick
Interrogate
Charm
Persuade
S
1
2
3
4
5
Unskilled
Unskilled
Unskilled
Unskilled
Unskilled
Stymied
Stymied
Stymied
Stymied
Stymied
Setl)ack
Setback
Setback
Setback
Setback
Break
Player's Call
Unskilled
Unskilled
Unskilled
Unskilled
Unskilled
Stymied
Stymied
Stymied
S!y'!!!!ed
Stymied
Setback
Setback
Setback
Setback
Setback
Up/ Setback
Player's Call
Enemy
Enemy
Enemy
Hostile
Hostile
Hostile
Hostile
Neutral
Neutral
Neutral
Neutral
Neutral
Friendly
Friendly
Friendly
Loyal
Loyal
Loyal
Friendly
Friendly'
Neutral
Neutral
Neutral
Neutral
Hostile
Hostile
Hostile
Hostile
Hostile
Enemy
Enemy
Enemy +1
Enemy +1
Enemy +1
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
+2
Maneuver
Unskilled
Unskilled
Unskilled
Unskilled
Unskilled
Fatigued
Fatigued
Fatigued
Fati~ed
Fatigued
Stymied/ Fatiguea
Stymied/ Fatigued
SITmiea! Fatiguea
Stymied/ Fatigued
S!ymied/ Fati8!!ed
Setback/ Fatigued
PlayersCalI
GENERAL AND PUSH RESULTS TABLE

Ords
S
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
+2
01
K1
02
03
K3
Knockdown K/O 4
Knockdown K/O 5
WndK 07
WndK/09
WndK/OI0
2WndK/Oll
2WndK012
3WndK013
3WndKO14
4Wnd KO 15
+IWnd
Character is in
Possibility-rated
NileEm~ire
Storm
0
+1(4)
+1(3)
+1(2)
+1(1)
+2(10)
+2(9)
+2(8)
+2(7)
+2(6)
+2(5)
+2(4)
+2(3)
+2(2)
+2(1)
+2(0)
1
01
Kl
2
02
Knockdown 0 2
Knockdown K 2
Knockdown K 2
WndK3
WndK4
Wnd04
WndK5
2Wnd04
2WndK05
3WndK05
+IWnd
Character is from
Core
Earth
Core Earth
Living Land
AIsle
Nippon Tech
Cy.berP.ap.ag
Orrorsh
Power
0
16
14
5
9
11
11
Living
Land
Aysle
11
10
0
11
12
8
10
Nippon
Tech
8
16
17
0
12
15
12
Cyber.
6
12
11
7
0
8
8
Orrorsh
8
9
6
8
9
0
5
Nile Empire
6
9
8
7
8
6
0
15 16 17 18 19 20
2 3 4
5 6 7
1 2
-12 -10
SKILL CHARTS
ANALYSIS CHART
Physical Evidence
ACTION SUMMARY
Tactic
Attribute
Intimidate
Taunt
Test
Trick
S irit
Charisma
Mind
Perception
VAULTING/SPRINGING
CHART
Difficulty
Obstacle
Familiar objects,
expected use
Familiar objects,
unCOmmon use
or unfamiliar
objects, common use
Uncommon objects,
unCOmmon effect
Criminal tried to
conceal evidence
Master criminal
concealed evidence
10
12
+2
Difficulty II
Hopping a Fence
Grabbing an overhang
and swinging over a
pit
Vaulting or swinging
over a tricky obstacle
Bouncing off an awning
during a free fall to
reach a specific
destination
3
8
12
15
+5
SURVIVAL CHART
LANGUAGE CHART
Situation
COMBAT OPTIONS CHART

Action Damage
Value Value
RANGE MOD
PointBlank
Short
Medium
Long
FIRE OPTIONS
Burst fire as single
Full Auto
Single fire as multi
AITACK OPTIONS
Aim
Vital Blow
All-out Attack
Sweep Attack
Opportunity Attack
Location Attack
DEFENSE OPTIONS
Active Defense
Aggressive Defense
CONCEALMENT
Partial
Medium
High
SITUATION
Blindside Attack
Complete Surprise
Normal Surprise
Difficulty
Different dialect of own

language
Language is derived from
common language (e.g.
Spanish and French)
Completely foreign
language (e.g. Chinese)
Alien language, language
from another Cosm
0
+3
0
+3
-8
+3
+5
-3
0
M1
-4
-3
-5
0
0
-3
-5
-3
+3
+3
o(a)
+4
+1 (b)
-5
-3 (c)
o(d)
na
o(e)
-10
**
**
**
+3
+3
Success
Good
12
22
Superior
Expen craftsmanship
(one week)
Spectacular
Masterpiece (one month)
FALLING CHART
Distance Fallen
Difficulty II
1 story (15 feet)

Over 5 stories
3
8
12
15
Sample Locks
Difficulty
Ladder
Tree
Wall w I hand holds,
natural rock
Smooth stone, metal
Darkness
Rain
Ice-covered
Difficulty
3
8
12
15
(f)
(g)
KEY
M1 = Minimum bonus of one; ** = Use
Cover Value chart for damage modifiers; na =
not applicable; (a) = Takes one round; (b) =
Attacks against are +3/+3; (c) = Holds action;
(d) =Holds for location; (e) =Defense total decreased by 2; (f) = Two rounds of cardplay; (g)
= One round of cardplay
Rain, sleet, etc.

Dawn or dusk,
fog, trees,
walls, crowd, etc.
Night
Dozing guards
Dense concealment
(jungle, crowd
in costume)
Very close scrutiny
Open terrain
Broad daylight
5
8
15
+2
+5
+5
TRACKING CHART
+5
+10
-5
-5
FIRST AID CHART

Wound, K,O,
andlor shock
Heavy Wound
Mortal
Dead
STEALTH CHART
Condition
Modifier
-3
Situation
Trail is a day old
Trail is a few days old
Trail is a week old
Tracking during
inclement weather
tracking over a hard
surface (e.g. cement)
Tracking through
mud or snow
Tracking a vehicle
Wound Level
LOCKPICKING CHART
Typical In terior Door
Padlock
Wall SafelDeadbolt
Bank Vault
8
12
15
CLIMBING CHART
Good beginner's effort

(no minimum time)
Journeyman effort
(minimum one hour)
Professional effort (one
day)
Average
Climb
Work Quality
Minimal
Difficulty II
Woods
High Mountains
Desert
Polar Regions
ARTIST CHART
M1
0
-3
-5
Wilderness Type
Difficulty
8
12
15
No first aid
possible
SCIENCE CHART
Difficulty
-1
-2
-3
-3
-5
+1
+2
+3
Complexity
Simple
Average
Complex
Prototype
rrom cosm with
lower tech axiom
From cosm with
higher tech axiom
Consists of many
integrated systems
Consists of hundreds of
integrated systems
Difficulty II
8
12
15
18
-5
+10
+5
+10
TORG VALUE CHART

Val.
Meas.
1
1.5
2.5
4
6
10
15
25
40
60
100
150
250
400
600
1,000
1,500
2,500
4,000
6,000
10,000
15,000
25,000
40,000
60,000
100,000
150,000
250,000
400,000
600,000
1 Million
1.5 E+6
2.5 E+6
4E+6
6E+6
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
41
42
43
44
45
46
47
48
49
50
51
52
53
54
55
56
57
58
59
60
61
62
63
64
65
66
67
68
69
Meas.
1 E+7
1.5 E+7
2.5 E+7
4E+7
6E+7
1 E+8
1.5 E+8
2.5 E+8
4E+8
6E+8
1 billion
1.5 E+9
2.5 E+9
4E+9
6E+9
1 E+10
1.5 E+10
2.5 E+lO
4 E+10
6 E+10
1 E+11
1.5 E+11
2.5 E+11
4 E+11
6E+11
1 trillion
1.5 E+12
2.5 E+12
4E+12
6E+12
1 E+13
1.5 E+13
2.5 E+13
4 E+13
6 E+13
TORG BENCHMARK CHART
Val. Meas.
70
71
72
73
74
75
76
77
78
79
80
81
82
83
84
85
86
87
88
89
90
91
92
93
94
95
96
97
98
99
100
1 E+14
1.5 E+14
2.5 E+14
4 E+14
6E+14
1~E+15
1.5 E+15
2.5 E+15
4E+15
6E+15
1 E+16
1.5 E+16
2.5 E+16
4E+16
6 E+16
1 E+17
1.5 E+17
2.5 E+17
4 E+17
6 E+17
1 E+18
1.5 E+18
2.5 E+18
4 E+18
6 E+18
1 E+19
1.5 E+19
2.5 E+19
4E+19
6E+19
1 E+20
Time
Weight
Distance
Second
1 kilo
1 meter
Tallest human
2
3
9
Minute
10
11
12
15
16
17
18
20
22
23
24
Human
baby
Human
female
Human
male
Lion
Brown Bear
Small Car
Large Car
Elephant
Football Field
City block
Kilometer
Mile
Hour
Empty Truck
APC
Marathon race
Day
25
27
28
29
Week
30
Month
32
33
Loaded
Truck
Blue Whale
Boeing 747
C5AGaaxy
Tramp
Freighter
Destroyer
Six-flat
building
Fully loaded
train
34
35
ear
Length of
Great Britain
Paris to Moscow
New York toL.A.
ewYork to
London
London to
Tokyo
Circumference
of Earth
Battleship
Aircraft
Carrier
Loaded Oil
Tanker
39
41
45
DIFFICULTY NUMBER
SCALE
Description
Very Easy
Easy
Average
2:1 Against
Difficult
{0:1
Heroic
100:1
3
5
8
10
12
13
15
18
1000:1
22
Never Tell
Me the
Odds
25
Modifier
Core Earth
Living Land
Aysle
Nippon Tech
Cyberpapacy
Orrorsh
Nile Empire
Magic
Social
Spirit.
Tech.
7
0
18
2
10
15
12
21
7
18
22
18
20
20
9
24
16
8
14
17
17
23
7
15
24
26
19
21
Tlit DtST1N)' MAP

By Christopher Kubasik
Part One of the Relics of Power Trilogy
Roleplaying the Possibility Wars TM
The Destiny Map

Christopher Kubasik
Design
Michael Stem
Development
Douglas Kaufman
Editing
Stephen Crane, Jacqueline M. Evans, Richard Hawran,
Cathleen Hunter, Sharon Wyckoff
Graphics
David Dorman
Cover illustration
Published by
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Thomas M. Baxa
Interior illustrations
Jonatha Caspian, Tony DeCosmo, Greg Gorden, Paul Murphy,
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Playtesting and Advice
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TORG: The Destiny Map
Prologue
1111 ,.
Mobius
sat uponconhis
throne
in portentous
templation. The throne
room was like a chamber
from a god-forsaken crypt
built by the pharaohs of ancient Earth.
The light from the torches undulated
wildly, throwing long shadows which
danced between a horrible red illumination and an even more terrible darkness.
The room's walls were lined with
the Pharaoh's servants. At his every
twitch and subtle movement, countless minions jerked like the ever-obedient puppets they were, waiting for
the moment the vile villain would
actually rise from intricate thoughts
and issue a command that they might
humbly serve - even if it meant their
very lives!
Wu-Han glided down the center of
this chamber, his movement as delicate as his thinking. The dragon on his
back seemed a living thing, writhing
and crawling to the gentle flapping of
his scarlet robes.
When he reached Dr. Mobius' feet
he bowed slightly, obviously uncomfortable with such displays of reverence.
"Ah," came the voice of Dr. Mobius, muffled through the uncanny
black hood he wore over the head that
housed his overwhelmingly intricate
brain.
''Yes,'' replied Wu-Han. He had
served the High Lord long enough to
know from a single grunt what
thoughts were resting within his
master's mind. "I have received a
promising report from an agent in the
United States. I come to you to humbly
request support troops for an expedi'on into the Living Land."
"What do you hope to find, my
se ant?" came the level voice that
had ordered countless executions.
Wu-Han smiled in his subtly manipulative way, feigning disinterest.
''It might simply be another worthless
bauble to add to your collection." Then
he added the tease. "Or perhaps the
very item you need to assure your
-:i
victory in the battle for this planet."

The High Lord weighed the proposal, pausing to search for any sign of
expectation in Han's face - a face that
showed only the continued facade of
apathy. Han was a master of subtle
persuasion, and Mobius knew it, yet
he decided to let the oriental villain
think he was successful with the ploy.
It was obvious that Han had some
stake in this matter, but Mobius didn't
know what. Perhaps nurturing a little
overconfidence could prove useful
should the scheming Han ever harbor
the absurd notion of matching wits
with him in the future. And besides,
such a performance deserved to be
rewarded.
"Verywell, Wu-Han.Itshallbeso."
The Pharaoh clapped his hands twice,
and was instantly attended by a handservant bearing a quill and papyrus.
As he wrote the orders authorizing
Han's expedition, Mobius added a
final afterthought. "1 trust I need not
caution you about failure ..."
Han lowered his gaze. "I bow, 0
Master, to your superior cruelty."
Both men smiled, one openly and
one from behind a black mask ...
The receipt started in Cairo - the
shipment of a large number of men
and weapons along with several tons
of tools and a few large trucks. The
clerk in Cairo, who was also secretly
on the Kanawa Enterprises payroll,
picked it up out of the pile only because of the destination - a secret
drop into the Living Land. The clerk
had orders to report any inter-realm
activity, no matter how trivial. He
forwarded a copy of the receipt to
Japan.
Yabu Tokanda now stared at the
handwritten copy of the receipt on his
desk. He was once again amazed that
Mobius was capable of constructing
time-travel devices and disintegration
rays but had yet to develop something
as simple as an office copier.
The ornately decorated rice paper
of the traditional door slid open before
him. Strangely, it didn't clash with the
stainless steel office interior. Osato
stepped inside. '1 may be of assistance

to you?"
''You honor me with your diligence." Yabu gestured to a chair.
"Please. Sit down." Osato crossed the
steel-blue carpet and took a chair. The
automated retinal scanner verified
Osato's pattern, silently flashing its
report on Yabu's desk monitor. It
saddened Yabu that such measures
were necessary, but security must be
maintained, even among such trusted
men as Osato.
"I recall a report from your department," Yabu said. "A representative
from the Nile arriving in Atlanta,
Georgia, United States?"
Osato thought for a moment, then
nodded. "Yes. One Mameluk AIMu'in. He has been there for some
time. Our operative there tells us AlMu'in appears to be making preparations for a departure."
Yabu was quiet for several minutes, contemplating his next move in
this chess match. The anatomical
monitors hidden in Osato's chair
sprang to life on Yabu's desk screen.
Quickening pulse, increased perspiration: the tell-tale signs of nervousness; yet Osato remained absolutely
motionless, revealing nothing. Yabu
smiled inwardly. He had trainedOsato
himself.
Finally Yabu said, "Al-Mu'in does
not leave until we know why he was
there. I have a feeling that Dr. Mobius,
or at least one of his servants, is pursuing the same trail that we are, concerning the matter of the map. Find out
which one of Mobius' lieutenants is
involved, and put him in contact with
me. Perhaps we can bargain for what
we seek."
"Should AI-Mu'in live?"
"If it becomes necessary, he and all
those he has associated with in the
United States should be closed without hesitation ..."
"Hai, Yabu-sama."
"And,Osato ... I want you to see to
this matter personally."
With that, Yabu rose, carefully
removing the ninja sword from the
Prologue
wall mount behind him. He handed

the sword to his subordinate, who
bowed low as he accepted the blade.
Dawn had just cracked the sky over
Paris, hanging blood red over the city.
The junkie could barely focus on his
surroundings. The world tormented
him. The grains of the pavement stood
out in astounding detail. The
morning's air cut him like needles of
cold silver.
He needed to get out of the world.
He wanted the saviour back. He
needed god's presence inside him once
again.
He stumbled up the first two steps
of the chapel and clawed for the iron
railing that ran up to the front door.
He crashed into the marble steps, dull
pain flooding his right.arm.
"Oh, Jesus, oh, Jesus, oh, Jesus ..."

he mumbled again and again, a simple
prayer for his arm. He cradled it like a
baby, rocking gently on the steps. He'd
already forgotten the assignment that
the priests had given him. All he could
think about was the overwhelming
sensation of life. There was too much
of it.
Someone called his name, but he
couldn't bring himself to look for its
source. There were footsteps and then
Father Verchon was beside him, kneeling down. The priest draped his arm
around the junkie's shoulders.
"Alex," the priest said with sadness.
The priest was young, no older than
Alex. His face, unlike Alex's, was
smooth and happy. He shone with
hope.
"Did you find out anything?"

Alex meant to mention something
about his arm, but all that he could
stammer out was, "What?"
"You said you were going to talk to
some of your friends. In the underground. About the map ... ?"
An image danced before Alex's
eyes, a picture of a man ... dark skin.
From the Empire of the Nile. "Yes. Oh,
yes, I remember now. I found what
you needed. But Father .. -"
''Yes my son ... ?"
'1 need Jesus. I don't think I can
remember it too clearly without ...
god's help."
"Of course, my son," Father Verchon said as he fingered the input plug
at the back of Alex's neck. "Let me
help you inside and I'll give you
communion ..."
I.
Introduction
1.1
he
Destiny
an adventure
for Mnp;s
Torg: Roleplaying the Possibility Wars.
Adventures for Torg take
place on Earth in the Near

Now. Earth has been invaded by six
powerful beings from other realities.
These invaders, called High Lords, have
the power to conquer the reality of our
universe and impose their own truth
in its place.
In North America, humanoid lizards pray to their god for miracles and receive them - while dinosaurs
roam free. In Northern Africa, the
world operates just like the fiction of
our 1930s pulps, and a new pharaoh
has risen to revive the glories of ancient Egypt. In England and Scandinavia, wizards cast fireballs and burly
dwarves walk the streets. In France, a
perversion ofChristianity, reminiscent
of the horrors of the Inquisition, has
been fused with cybertechnology to
produce a religious ruling class that
enforces its will with micro-circuitry.
In Indonesia, terrors of the night vampires, mindless oozes, mad scientists and other unspeakable horrorsrun rampant over th.e land and water.
And in Japan, a subtle corporate network is working its way quietly to
world domination through high-tech
espionage.
Our world was invaded because it
was discovered by the High Lords
that Earth is rich in possibility energy, a
spiritual force that courses throughout every human, every creature, and
even through the land itself. It is the
goal of each of the High Lords to steal
that spiritual energy from Earth - a
theft that will eventually destroy the
planet and the human race.
It is this same energy which is responsible for the existence of Storm
Knights, a select group of heroes who
are the only true opposition to the
power of the Possibility Raiders.
Although the High Lords worked
together to bring about the invasion of
Earth, the disappearance of their
leader, the Gaunt Man, has allowed
each of them to pursue his own goals

unchecked. Each High Lord is now
competing against the others to gain
enough power to claim the Gaunt
Man's self-proclaimed title of Torg.
One way for the High Lords to gain
this power is to collect the numerous
eternity shards scattered throughout the
world. These mysterious relics come
in an infinite variety of shapes and
sizes. Their power allows their owner
to shape the nature of reality itself.
Many of the pieces are tied directly to
Earth's ownancient history (the sword
Excalibur, for example) and the High
Lords have been very busy digging
into our world's past in an attempt to
find obscure clues that might lead them
to these objects - objects that will
enable them to rise above the others to
rule the world.
The Destiny Map follows one such
pursuit of an eternity shard. It is the
first third of a larger story called the
Relics of Power. Although this adventure can stand alone, it leads directly
into two other adventures that eventually take the Storm Knights on a
colossal quest for an ancient and hidden city whose inhabitants might be
able to aid the citizens of Earth in their
struggle against the oppressors.
Adventure Format
Aside from certain props, the contents of this adventure are for the
gamemaster only. Anyone reading
this book who is going to be a player in
the adventure is ruining the adventure for themselves and everyone else
in the group.
The gamemaster should read the
book completely before attempting to
run the adventure. By doing this, he
can familiarize himself with the various factions involved in the adventure
and the motives that drive them. This
way if the players have their characters do something unexpected during
the course of the adventure, the gamemaste' will be able to handlr-;n a
manner that will not conflict with later

details of the story.
Torg adventures follow a standard
format that makes running adventures
easy for the gamemaster. It is assumed that the players will often have
their characters do things that neither
the authors of the adventure nor the
gamemaster could possibly have anticipated. Because of this, theformatis
set up to allow the characters to leave
the established path for a while but
eventually, out of necessity, return to
the basic storyline of the adventure.
Following this section on the adventure format, you will find a section
called "Background," which gives
information on events leading up to
the start of the adventure.
After the Background is an "Adventure Synopsis." The Adventure
Synopsis gives an overview of The
Destiny Map, outlining what happens
from the start of the adventure to its
conclusion.
This Torg Adventure

Torg adventures are broken down
into large sections called "acts." The
Destiny Map has four acts. Each act
starts with its own synopsis, called
"The Major Beat," which outlines what
it is that the player characters (or Storm
Knights) must accomplish before they
can move on to the next act. Within an
act the Knights can move about rather
freely, perhaps even skipping over
some scenes or encounters - but until
they finish the "The Major Beat," they
cannot move forward in the adventure. In this way, the gamemaster can
be confident that if things seem to be
getting out of control, that lack of
control is kept to a discrete section of
the adventure.
Acts are broken into smaller segments called "scenes". Most scenes
are defined as either standard or
dramatic and this determines which
Conflict Line of the Drama Deck is
used for conflict resolution (see The
Torg Rule Book, page 59). The scene
type will appear at the beginning of
"The Situation". Each scene section
Introduction
begins with "The Situation" and isfollowed by "The Action". If applicable, a scene also may contain sections entitled "Events," "Flags,"
''Variables,'' and "Cut To ..."
"The Situation" section gives the
gamemaster the basic information for
the scene that the players have at hand.
Parts of this section can be read out
loud to the players or paraphrased by
the gamemaster.
''TheAction" section describes what
is going to happen in the scene and
gives details to be revealed to the players as the scene unfolds. This is the
part of the adventure that covers what
happens.
"The Action" outlines what happens in a scene in a linear sequence.
Sometimes, however, it is convenient
to have events occur in a more fluid
manner. In these cases, the "Event"
sections cover ne:w bits for the scene
that can happen at almost any time
within a scene, although "The Action"
usually gives guidelines as to when
within a scene the events should occur. Events are always optional, and it
is up to the gamemaster to decide
whether or not to use them.
"Flags" are like events, but they are
triggered by something specific. The
triggers can be in the same scene or be
carried over from a previous scene.
For example, if the Knights beat a man
up in one scene and then are captured
by the man's thugs in another scene,
they will be treated harshly; if they
had left him alone, they might have
been spared.
The beating is the trigger. The response of the man and his thugs would
be listed under as a flag of the scene in
which the Knights are captured. Flags
are often triggered by the playing of a
subplot card from the Drama Deck,
and these will be noted throughout
the adventure.
"Variables" give tips on how to keep
a scene running smoothly. As mentioned above, the players often come
up with ideas not covered directly in
the adventure. The role of the gamemaster is not to discourage the imaginations of his players, but to deal creatively with how they play their characters. ''Variables'' help the 'gamemaster keep the adventure on track
without frustrating the players.
At the end of some scenes there
may be several options for the players
to take. "Cut To ..." lists the different

actions the Storm Knights can take
and the name of the scene that lets
them follow through on that choice. It
is possible that some scenes will be
completely passed overby the Knights.
If there is only one scene to go to, only
one scene will be listed.
Between acts there are sometimes
"Interludes." These are usually points
in the adventure where the players
have some information to sort out or
their characters have a lot of traveling
to do. When a long passage of time
takes place in a movie (let's say while
traveling from the United States to
Nepal) that doesn't have much to do
with the story, a quick montage of
pictures is used to suggest that a lot of
time and distance goes by. An Interlude is like that. You can assume that
the time between acts goes by or, if
you wish, you can play it out.
For example, in the Interlude between Act Two and Act Three, the
Knights go from Atlanta to just outside Wu-Han's archaeological dig in
the middle of the Living Land. If you
wanted to, you could use The Living
Land Sourcebook to fill in the gaps, and
play out the journey through Baruk
Kaah's realm, but you don't have to
since that journey doesn't directly
affect the adventure.
On the last pag~ of the adventure is
a section entitled "Stacks." Stacks are
scenes that are not covered in the
adventure text, but may occur at any
time, regardless. Stacks are keyed by
the subplots in the Drama Deck (see
The Torg Rule Book, page 66). The stacks
section will outline some suggested
guidelines on how to use these subplots within the context of the adventure, should they arise.
Throughout the adventure, maps
will appear that apply to specific
scenes, as well as descriptions of the
key gamemastercharacters. There may
also be various props, to be seen by or
handed out to the players. The text
will tell you when to show the props to
the players. These props can be photocopied, cut out of the book, or the book
itself can simply be passed around
from player to player (make sure to
cover up everything else if you choose
this last option).
Besides listing their statistics the
first time they appear in the adventure, we have gathered the gamemas-
ter characters at the end in a Gamemaster Character Records section for

easy reference.
Finally, every act ends with a section describing its awards, and the
adventure itself ends with awards for
completing the entire story.
Adventure
Background
William Stevenson was an English
soldier who served with the British
Army during the 18th century. While
stationed in India with the East India
Company in 1766,Stevensonstumbled
across an ancient temple that was
guarded by faithful warriors. Driven
by curiosity, he was able to sneak his
way into the temple, avoiding the
guards. Eventually he came across an
ancient stone map, divided into nine
tiles and mounted on the wall. Four of
the tiles portrayed the map itself, while
the other five contained writing that
Stevenson couldn't decipher.
He decided to take the tiles as souvenirs. Working as quickly as he could,
Stevenson managed to pry five of the
tiles off before he was discovered by a
guard. He beat a hasty retreat out of
the temple, carrying the five tiles with
him and leaving four behind on the
temple wall.
A few days later, Stevenson showed
the tiles to his good friend Robert Clive,
who was currently serving as Great
Britain's administrator in India. Clive
was very impressed with the detail of
the maps and mentioned them in his
diary. However, less than a year later,
in 1767, the British rule in India was
threatened as the sub-continent was
plunged into chaos. Clive was called
back to England. Back home, his diaries were scrutinized over and over
again as Clive defended his administration in India before the House of
Commons. The reference to
Stevenson's tiles was one of many
pages set aside and lost during the
investigation.
A few years later, Stevenson was
recalled from India and sent to Boston
to deal with the Empire's upstart colonies in the New World. He arrived the
day after the Boston Tea Party. Two
years later, the American Revolution
was in full swing. Stevenson fought
I.
bravely for the British until 1780 when

he was among the British troops who
surrendered at the Battle of Cowpens.
Having seen the Americans' courage
and continued idealism in the face of
such overwhelming odds, Stevenson
underwent a change of heart. He decided to turn his back on Great Britain
and strike off on his own. When the
war ended, the colonials set him free;
he then traveled west in an attempt to
leave the conflict behind.
He eventually married and settled
in the lands that would one day become the state of Indiana. To his children he passed on the ancient tiles he
had stolen from a temple in a land on
the other side of the world. His descendants became prosperous farmers and the Stevens family (in the
American tradition their name had
shortened with time) became well
known throughout the state for their
generosity and wealth.
That all ended in the 19th century
when an earthquake shook the midwest. Although the quake was not
tremendously powerful, a fault that
ran under the Stevens farm cracked
open and swallowed the farm whole.
Everyone and everything on the farm,
including the tiles, was lost under a
thick layer of soil.
The Stevens farm and the family's
ancestors would most likely have been
completely forgotten if Earth had not
been invaded by the Possibility Raiders. However, the temple that Stevenson entered in 1766 was actually a
stepping stone, pointing the way to an
ancient artifact called The Possibility
Chalice. This fabled chalice is actually a
powerful eternity shard, imbued with
tremendous possibility energy.
The minions of several High Lords,
using research and mystical devices,
have traced pieces of the chalice's history and know that the only way to
find its resting place is to gather the
tiles together once again and bring
them back to Stevenson's temple. The
only problem, however, is that none of
the raiders knows where the temple is
or, up until recently, what happened
to Stevenson after he arrived in North
America in 1773.
Because every High Lord wants
desperately to acquire eternity shards,
they have their servants working
round the clock to accumulate clues
and artifacts that might lead to a
r
shard's acquisition. Of the High Lords,

Kanawa, Dr. Mobius, and Pope JeanMalraux I are the best able to coordinate the gathering of information.
When the adventure begins, all three
have representatives on the trail of
Stevenson's tiles.
One of Dr. Mobius' minions, WuHan, sent Mameluke Al-Mu'in to the
United States to secure the services of
Jonathan Barker, a well-known genealogist in Atlanta, Georgia, in an attempt to discover if Stevenson settled
in the United States. Barker was able
to track downStevenson's descendants
and their history in Indiana.
Meanwhile, Kanawa's people followed a different trail and dug up
Clive's journal entry that referred to
the tiles. Although the high-tech spies
were a step behind the pulp villain in
discovering the location of the tiles,
they knew more about the tiles than
Wu-Han did because of the journal
entry. Still, they need the tiles themselves if they are to harbor any hope of
acquiring The Possibility Chalice.
With this in mind, Kanawa'speople
have made a bargain with Wu-Han.
Seizing on the pulp villain's thirst for
power, they have gotten Han to agree
to exchange the tiles (once he finds
them) for the equipment and instructions necessary for the construction of
a circa 1930 atomic bomb. In truth,
neither party plans on going through
with the deal, as both are afraid of the
consequences, buttheywill play along
with it in the hope of eventually
double-crossing the other.
In the Cyberpapacy, a priest was
able to obtain information about WuHan's operation in the United States
from a junkie so desperate for a simulated beatific vision that he betrayed
some of his friends in the French
underground. The Cyberpapacy,
however, knows the least about the
chalice, and has sent a cyberknight to
Atlanta simply to find out what is
happening and make a report.
Just prior to the beginning of the
adventure, Kanawa's ninja mercs went
to Barker's home in Atlanta in an attempt to steal the information he uncovered for Wu-Han. Although
Kanawa's people have struck a deal
with Wu-Han, the deal would become
unnecessary should they discover the
location of the tiles on their own.
The ninjas found Al-Mu'in making
his last payment to Barker. The Nile

official put up a fight and the ninjas
ended up killing Al-Mu'in, Barker, and
Barker's family. They retrieved the.
information, however, and discovered
the whereabouts of the Stevens' farm.
Meanwhile, Wu-Han is already at
the site of the Stevens' farm, which is
now in an area conquered by Baruk
Kaah. Han is in the process of trying to
find the tiles lost in the quake.
In Atlanta, the cyberknight is attempting to find out who killed Barker
and Al Mu'in. This is where the Storm
Knights enter the picture.
Adventure Synopsis
The adventure begins the day after
the slaughter at Barker's home. The
papers are full of news about the incident and highlight not only the peculiar nature of the deaths (involving
high-tech weaponry) but the fact that
the papers in Al Mu'in's wallet identified him as a citizen of the Nile Empire
(a nation that only recently came into
existence). Mu'in's citizenship is
enough to make the national news and
also enough to garner any Storm
Knight's interest. Thus, the player
characters start the adventure looking
for the murderer and the motive.
When Act One opens, the Knights
have a clipping about the murder and
a tip that somebody who might well
be from the Cyberpapacy is currently
living in a tenementin Atlanta (the use
of high-tech weaponry in the killing
definitely makes someone from the
Cyberpapacya suspect). The Knights
begin their investigation, checking out
the tenement, the police, or the murder site, in whatever order they wish.
While investigating the murder, the
Storm Knights acquire several clues as
to what is going on. The Kanawa
people become leery of the Storm
Knights' involvement and have their
ninjas ambush them in a climactic
battle. After the fight, the Storm
Knights get a clue that leads them to
the next act.
Act Two takes place at a research
park recently acquired by Kanawa
Enterprises. There the Storm Knights
discover a copy of Clive's journal entry about the tiles, details about
Stevenson's life, and information about
Wu-Han's excavationin Indiana. They
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Introduction
also discover the diagrams for the

atomic bomb promised to Wu-Han.
Although the ninjas seem to be out of
the picture, Mobius' servant is currently very active and the next stop is
the Living Land!
In Act Three the Knights discover
that the Nile soldiers have been en-
slaving primitives of the Living Land

to help in the dig at the Stevens' farm.
The StormKnights learn more about
Wu-Han's plans and eventually discover the location of the tiles. At that
moment, some new mercenaries hired
by Kanawa Enterprises show up. It's
a mad rush for the possession of the
orne Basics
To get things rolling quickly,

The Destiny Map begins with the
player characters already curious about what Mameluke Al
Mu'in was doing in Atlanta,
Georgia, and why he was apparently murdered, along with US
citizens.
For this to make sense, keep
the following points in mind and
make sure your players are aware
of them as well:
First, the world of the Torg is a
war-time setting. Earth has been
invaded, and invaded by forces
that are still very mysterious. It
is assumed that all the player
characters are either concerned
about the fate of Earth (for example, someone from Earth) or
want to put the High Lords out
of business (for example, characters who have rebelled against
their cosms' High Lord).
As such, any news about mysterious murders involving one
or more agents from invading
realms should pique the curiosity of all Storm Knights. Characters concerned with only making
a buck or saving only a local area
will have a tough time keeping
up with what's going on.
Second, the Knights have already decided to work together
before the adventure starts. The
Knights might be working for an
organization (such as the Delphi
Council), or perhaps they were
hired by a wealthy backer to fight
the High Lords, or maybe they
were even working on their own.
All that matters is that when the
adventure begins, the Knights are
already hot on the trail of the
murder. See The Torg Rule Book
for details on how to set up

groups.
Last, it is imperative that the
players be curious. Not the characters (though that will help) but
the players. The mystery of The
Destiny Map starts with most of
the pieces missing from the
puzzle: What was AI-Mu'in
doing in Atlanta? Who killed
him? Why? When those pieces
are found, they are found alongside even more holes: What is
the Possibility Chalice? Where is
it? Why are three High Lords
after it?
The last question is the most
important and drives the entire
adventure. By the end of the first
act it is clear that Jean-Malraux I,
Dr. Mobius, and Kanawa all have
agents tracking the chalice down.
Even if the Knights don't always
know what's going on, the importance of the search should
keep them going.
It is not until the second half
of the adventure that The Destiny Map takes on the structure
of a straight quest. Before that,
the adventure is a bit of mystery.
All the Knights have to go on is
that they've stumbled across
something big.
If the group gets stuck during
the first half of the adventure,
remind them that they are one of
several factions that are presently attempting to gather facts.
Apparently the agents of the
High Lords only have pieces of
-the puzzle as well.
If they get stuck and aren't
sure as to what to do, remember
that's what Idea cards are there
for.
truck containing the tiles, with the

heroes, the shocktroops, and the hightech mercs from Japan all battling it
out during a climactic chase through
the jungle.
The act closes with the Storm
Knights now in possession of the tiles.
They sort the tiles out and discover a
clue that leads them to the location of
Stevenson's temple.
The fourth act begins at a cafe in the
town of Tezpur, India and leads to the
Temple of the Destiny Map. Wu-Han,
making use of his intricate spy network, is hot on the trail of the Storm
Knights and traps them in the temple.
While in the temple, the Knights
encounter a cyberknight, who has also
followed them this far. Following an
all-out battle with the knight, they
complete the map by adding
Stevenson's tiles to those still mounted
on the wall. By doing this, the Storm
Knights learn what the next step is to
acquire the chalice.
After somehow making sure that
the High Lords won't get a look at the
map (by destroying it, perhaps), the
Storm Knights must figure out how to
escape the Nile soldiers who surround
the temple. They could fight their way
out, or perhaps make a bargain with
the insidious Wu-Han. There's no
love lost between Wu-Han and the
shocktroop captain, and if the Knights
have the plans for the atomic bomb,
Wu-Han is willing to give them almost anything. The deal, if negotiated
successfully, lets the Knights escape
with nary a wound.
Once they have escaped the temple,
the Storm Knights can continue the
search for the chalice. That quest is
, covered in the second adventure of
the Relics of Power trilogy, The Possibility Chalice.
Starting
The Destiny Map
To start The Destiny Map, make sure
the players have their characters prepared and ready, show them the
newspaper clipping on page 11 and
give them the information in the sidebar on this page.
Because every group of Storm
Knights is going to begin in different
situations (obviously a team of vamI.
pires and werewolves is going to start

with a different perspective than a
group working for the United States'
Delphi Council) you, the gamemaster,
will have to give a bit of thought as to
how tr.e adventure should start. Is the
group in an office in Montgomery
getting instruction from a US senator?
Are they already in Atlanta?Were they
just passing through, or did one of the
player characters with a mystical nature receive a ptemonition that something of vast importance was going to
take place in Atlanta?
We suggest that you startthe group
in Atlanta. Come up with the rationale
as to how the Storm Knights got there
- whether they were sent by a government agency or heard about the
murder last night on the news and
bought tickets that morning to Atlanta
- and just tell your players quickly
how it came about. This way you don't
spend a lot of time sitting around talking, but jump right into the action.
10
You might even ask your players to

help you work out the details. They
often like having a chance to flesh out
the narrative.
The source of the informalion in the
sidebar can come from a government
agency, a tip from the underground,
or He overheard in a bar in Atlanta, or
at, let's say, the airport when the Storm
Knights arrive. It all depends on how
you decided your group got involved
in the adventure in the first place. In
any event, we suggest that you don't
otTip on
a Strange Guy
(Present this information to the
Storm Knights to start the adventure.)
You get a tip that someone
with souped-Up technology is
living in a tenement in Atlanta.
Two punks wandered into his
apartment after knocking on
the door several times and
getting no answer. They
thought the guy, who was a
pretty snazzy dresser, wasn't
home, and that they might just
look pretty cool in threads like
that.
But when they walked inside, they found some guy with
a wire leading from the base of
his skull into a keyboard. The
board was hitched up to some
sort of antennae system. He
seemed to be in some sort of
trance. One of the guys got
spooked and just took off.
As the second thief stood
there in surprise, the guy in the
trance slapped a button on the
board, reached for a really big
gun on his desk and whirled
toward the punk.
There was a huge bang and
the thiefwho'd run for the door
saw parts of his partner splatter down the hall. He managed
to get out of the apartment
without making a sound, so he
figured that's why he lived.
A bit of legwork gets the
address of the tenement: 1130
W. Spring St. The guy lived
somewhere on the third floor.
bother running the scene where the

info was passed on to the Storm
Knights, unless you feel it might be
interesting or fun.
The tip refers to an incident that
occurs the day after the murder. The
Storm Knights should arrive in Atlanta the same day and hear about the
incident at the tenement just a couple
of hours after it happens. This begins
Act One.
If they decide to go to the tenement,
tum to the "Scene One: Storming the
Cyberknight." If they want to check
out the murder site, turn to "Scene
Two: The Murder Site." If they want to
speak with the police, tum to "Scene
Three: Talking with the Police."
The cyberknight scene takes place
in a seedier section of Atlanta, about
five miles south of the police precinct
in scene three. The murder site is three
miles west of the police precinct (about
seven miles from the seedy section of
town).
Act Two takes place at the Magnolia research facility, 12 miles out on the
northwest outskirts of town.
Introduction
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U.S. AND NILE VICTIMS
OWNERS OF RESEARCH PARK REMAIN AMYSTEIW
Employees of the Magnolia Station facility see the change in ownership as nothing more than a "neW sign going up outATLANTA- speculation continues
ATLANT A_Earlier this evening,
side." This new sign is a giant chrome deas to the identity of the anonymoUS
neighbors reported hearing shots coming
piction of the greek letter KaPPIl (K), the
"mystery corporation" which recently
cryptic logo of this mysterY corporation.
from the townhouseof Mr. William Barker,
purchased the Magnolia Station Research
47, a noted and respected genealogist.
According to research physicist Carl
Skutch. who. along with most Magnolia
When police arrived they found the dead
park.
Rumors are rampant concerning the
bodies ofBarker, bis wife Helen, 45, their
Station employees, sees the change as "a
bighly-questiOnable purchase, and econo-see oWNERS page 6
daughter Cynthia, 19, and aman identified
mists fear that the rash of recent hostile
only as "a citizen of the New Empire of the
corporate takeovers is merely a glimpse of
Nile."
what is on the horU.on for snuggling U.S.
Accordingto police,there were no signs
WELLS' ASSASSIN
of forced entrY and nothing was removed
corporatiOns.
STILL AT LARGE
Dr. Barry W asserroan, head oftheEc0from the boUse. Detective Carlson of the
nomics
Department
at
EmOry
University.
DELPHI COUNCIL CALLED IN ns
Atlanta Police Department stated that at
sees the new trend as "potentially devasThe federal Bureau of In\lestigatio
least some of the deaths seemed premeditating. In their current state, U.S. corporatated. "The killers wanted some of those
announced earlier today that "no new
tions are virtUallY defenseless againSt such
people dead, and others were killed beprogreSS has beeO made" in the search for
attacks. I believe that these taCtics origithe assassin of President Jonathan Wells.
cause they just happened to be there."
nate from some overseas market, possibly
Apoliceman was quoted as saying "1' m
A nationwide manhunt was commenced,
not sure boW they were killed. It looked
following the murder of the President twO
Europe or Japan."
like some sort of burn - maybe someweeks ago, but has failed to turn up even
~
thing from one of those other realities."
the mostremoteleadsconcerning the idened
cynthia Barker had just retum from
carlson later denounced the accuracy of
tity of the killer.
Atlanta University the day before for a
that statement, and said that "the departActing President Dennis Quartermain.
short visit. Carlson speculated that she
ment will issue accurate information when
disappointed with the efforts of the FBI,
the autopsies bave been completed."
has removed the bureau from the case and
died in her sleep.
Au~orities would not divulge any inBarker was a well-liked member of the
delegated it to the Covert Activities and
formation about the citizen of the New
community who had handled many
lnvestigationsbranch of the Delphi CounNile. They only suggested that it "opens
wealthy clients for the past decade in his
cil. Council leader Ellen Conners pledged
up a whole new can of worms."
work as a genealogist. Heworked from an
that "I'fbe assassinl will be brought to
-see COVER STORY. Page 2
office in bis home. police will not yet
justice. 'The Delphi councU cannot and
speculate as to whetherBarker' s work had
will not allow the terrorist activities which
anything to do witb the murders.
have plagued this nation to continue unC6
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cheCked."
A19
-see ASSASSIN page 3
Bridge
B13 Le"ets
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Sports
OPENS UP "WHOLE NEW

CAN OF WORMS."
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Act One
Dead Man's
History
The Major Beat
The Storm Knights are presented
with the murder of three Americans
and one citizen of the Nile Empire.
They must find out why these people
were killed and who killed them.
They are given several leads to
investigate, and along the way discover that agents of the Cyberpapacy,
the Nile Empire and Kanawa Enterprises are all involved in the situation
- and are apparently competing with
each other for some common goal.
The act ends when the Knights find
a magnetic card key that leads them to
the Magnolia Station Research Park,
which iswhere the next act takes place.
SCENE ONE:
Storming a
Cyberknight
The Situation
Standard. Run this scene if the
Knights follow up on the "Hot Tip On
a Strange Guy." You can skip over the
travel to !he building on Spring Street,
and begin the scene by reading or
paraphrasing the following:
You're on Spring Street, looking

down toward the corner where apartment building 1130 is. The neighborhood is run down, with old, beat-up
cars lining the streets and children
with worn clothes playing in the
shower of an open fire hydrant.
12
1130 Spring Street is on the corner

ofSpring and Belmont. There's an alley
on the other side of the building, between Belmont and apartment building 1132. The back stairs run along the
face of the building into the alley.
The Action
The two maps on pages 14 & 15
show the layout of DeVris' apartment
and the area around the building. Let
the Knights make their plan for the approach to the building and then play it
out.
DeVris is in the apartment watching Spring Street from behind a thin
curtain (a Perception or find total with a
15 difficulty is needed to spot him
from below).
Approaching the
Building
As long as the Storm Knights are
cool and don't look too odd (no edeinos or wizards in tall, pointy hats,
please) they can walk right up to the
front door of the building without
tipping DeVris off. The Knights can
also come around the back alley from
the other side of the block and avoid
being seen.
If they do look odd, DeVris will
quickly pack up his bag and take off
through the back exit for the stairs into
the alley. He has a car parked and
waiting for him at the far end of the
alley. If the stairs or exit are blocked,
he'll go up the stairs to the roof and
lead the Knights on a rooftop chase
across the connected buildings to the
north. Keep in mind that DeVris has
Act One
cybernetically enhanced legs (see his

statistics below) which allow him to
spring and bound over long distances
and jump from high places (yes, even
from the rooftop of a four-story building) with a minimum of trouble.
DeVris' Apartment
Inside the room, DeVris has a bed, a
table and a chair. Above the bed is a
crucifix from the Cyberpapacy. The
cross is made up of circuit chips. A
figure of Jesus is on the cross. Instead
of nails there are wires, like input wires
used for cyberdecks, driven into the
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he Cameo Man
Try to allow DeVris to escape this encounter with the

Storm Knights if possible. This
will enable you to use him as a
continuing gamemaster character, making convenient
cameos from time-to-time
throughout the adventure,
wherever you see fit. Ofcourse,
should the Knights get lucky,
have an "associate" of DeVris
pick up where he left off (using
the same stats, just to keep
things simple).
DeVris has been using ammunition which has a slight
radioactive coating. If any of
the Storm Knights is hit by a
slug from his gun, DeVris can
track the group by using an
omni-directional finder built
into his car. The finder is keyed
to the slight radiation trace left
by the slugs. If none of the
Knights is hit, a more conventional tracking ensues, and you
should allow the StormKnights
an occasional find'or Perception
total to see if they notice DeVris,
who follows their every move
at a reasonable distance.
The cyberknight (or his associate) ultimately appears in
the last act, arriving at the
temple before the Storm
Knights in order to provide a
tense climactic battle.
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figure's wrists and ankles which then

coil around his body and lead into to
the chips of the cross.
If DeVris is in the apartment when
the Knights arrive, they also see an
Eden 2500 Cyberdeck and a small
antennae unit. The deck is linked to
DeVris' heartbeat-if DeVris dies, the
circuits of the board melt down (the
Cyberpapacy doesn't want its technology falling into hands outside of its
theocracy).
The antennae can bounce the cyber-signal from the board up to a satellite the Cyberpapacy has orbiting
the earth. They will be able to pick up
transmissions from deck after one hour
of game time from the start of the adventure.
Nextto the deck is a briefcase. There
is styrofoam molding in the case to
snugly hold the deck. There is also a
manila folder. If the Knights examine
the folder, give the players the dossier
on Al Mu'in and the info on Wu-Han
(see page 16).
If the Storm Knights trap DeVris in
his apartment before he has a chance
to escape via conventional means, he
first takes one of his "Painblocker"
pills (see below), and starts emptying
the magazine of his Herod IV pistol at
the Knights. If pinned down, DeVris
will not hesitate to leap from the window of his apartment and across to the
window of an adjacent building. His

cyberlegs allow him to do this with
relative ease.
One of the walls in the apartment is
splattered with blood. A corpse - its
left shoulder tom off from an explosive shell - is stretched out on the
bed. This is the thief who bought it
earlier in the day.
Since DeVris' slip-up of getting
caught off guard earlier, he's been on
edge. When the Storm Knights arrive
he's in a chair by the window, his gun
in his lap, looking out onto the street
from behind gauze curtains.
If the Knights chased DeVris out of
the flat, he'll be carrying his deck, the
antennae and the manila folder, all of
which fit into his briefcase.
Pierre DeVris (Cyberknight): DEX 12,
STR 13 (19 for kick damage), TOU 12
(16 w / armor), PER 12, MIN 10, CHA
9; SPI 10.
Skills: reality 12, fire combat 14,
melee 14, unarmed combat 13 (15 for
kick attacks), land vehicles 13, trick 13,
test 11, dodge 14, jumping 14, running
14.
Possibilities: 14.
Note: DeVris' unusually high attributes reflect not only gathered experience but heightened reflexes and
strength due to cybertechnology.
Equipment: DeVris is packing a
Herod IV. The gun is a large and bulky
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automatic pistol which would require
negative modifiers to fire if DeVris'
eyes weren~t cybernetically linked to
the pistol's aiming device. The damage value of this hand weapon is 19.
He wears a plexiflex chest and
abdomen casing which fits skin-tight
beneath his street clothes. The casing
adds four to the wearer's Toughness
total for purposes of determining
damage (for a total of 16 in DeVris'
case).
He also carries a small container of
Painblocker pills. When swallowed,
these gelatinous capsules eliminate all
"K" results taken by the user and
reduce all wound levels taken by one
(while the effect lasts). The effect lasts
for 20 minutes. Taking multiple pills
does not increase the time or potency
of the effect. DeVris has four pills.
DeVris also has cybernetically enhanced legs. They add +3 to his jumping and running limits, and +6 to his
Strength damage for a kicking attack.
Description: Pierre DeVris is a 24
year old Earth native who has sold out
to the Cyberpapacy for a fast lifestyle
and warm toys. He was born in the
States, but moved to France when he
was 16. His black hair is cut short to

the sides, and his gray eyes don't look
very human any more.
He was sent by Cyberpapacy officials to find out what Al Mu'in was
doing in Atlanta. DeVris arrived only
two days ago - just in time to hear
about his lead getting blown away on
the next night's evening news.
DeVris is waiting in his flat until
nightfall, so he can go check out the
murder site. He only saw one of the
thugs in his building (the one he killed),
so he doesn't know that word of his
cybertechnology got out onto the
streets.
He's a pious member of the Cyberchurch and is willing to die for the
cause of the Cyberpope. He is quite
arrogant in his faith and believes that
anyone who stands in the way of the
Cyberpapacy should be killed without hesitation.
Event: An Innocent
Bystander
they might well assume, after seeing

his files, that he was responsible for
the murders and decide that further
investigations are useless. Since this
line of thinking is not only wrong but
brings the adventure to a crashing halt,
a gamemaster character wanders into
DeVris' apartment to clear DeVris of
the murder charges.
Her name is Susie May, and she
was with DeVris at a bar the previous
night - at the very time that the
murders took place.
Susie May (DeVris' Alibi): All attributes are 8.
Skills: None important to this scene.
Description: Susie May is an attractive 22 year old woman who met
DeVris at a neighborhood bar. When
they parted last night, he gave her his
address and told her she should stop
by. She is a sweet but none-too-bright
lady who knew that DeVris was from
France, but knew nothing about his
cybertechnology.
If DeVris' apartment is the Storm

Knights' first stop in the adventure,
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AI-Mu'in, Mameluke
Act One
Flag
If the Storm Knights do not go to
DeVris' apartment within an hour of
their arrival in Atlanta, they run the
risk of missing him entirely. Once
DeVris is able to get word to France
that he is moving to a new location (he
already has a new flat pi<;ked out.on
the other side of town), he 11 be taking
off.
If either the Suspicion or Mistaken
Identity drama card is played prior to
or during this scene by a ~~ht fro~
Nippon Tech only, DeVns unmedIately assumes that this character is the
assassin who killed AI-Mu'in. Upon
making this assumption, DeVris does
not open fire on the Knights as stated.
Instead, he bargains with the Storm
Knights in an attempt to get his hands
on what they found in Barker's
Townhouse. In return DeVris offers
them some information that only he
has (the dossiers on Al-Mu'in and
Wu-Han that he has in his briefcase).
Variables
Because the Storm Knights don't
know which apartment is DeVris',
they'll have to spend some time knocking on doors unless they've g~t mechanical or magical help to gam the
information. The neighbors won't
want trouble and will tell the Knights
where DeVris lives if they describe
him. Keep the pace moving, though.
It should be like the opening of a
crime movie where the heroes are
tracking somebody down and then,
suddenly, shots are fired.
Cut To...
If the Storm Knights want to go talk
to the Atlanta police about the murder, go to scene two, If they want to go
straight to the town house where the
murders were committed, go to scene
three. If they have already done all of
these things, go to "Scene Four: The
Ambush."
SCENE TWO:
Talking with the
Police
The Situation
Standard. Use this scene if the characters follow up their murder investigation through official c~annels. ~e
police are giving out no information
over the phone; the Storm Knights
will have to go to the station.
Describe the scene:
You enter the station house and see
a desk sergeant consumed in paperwork. Fans on the ceiling are whirring
busily in an attempt to drive the heat
away. A man dressed in a jacket an~
tie steps up to you and puts out his
hand. He's wearing a frayed navy blue
sport coat and is holding a manila file
folder. "Detective Carlson," he says.
"Can I help you?"
Before you answer you notice that
the file he's holding is labeled ''Barker,
William T." A uniformed policeman
walks by and Carlson hands him the
file. The cop walks down a hall and
opens a door marked "file room."
Carlson looks at you expectantly.
The Action
First off, remember that if any of the
Knights look like anything from outside of Core Earth they will be greeted
with mistrust and caution. After all,
Earth has been invaded. In such cases
Carlson's question will be uttered in a
tone which suggests a brush off. If the
Knights all look like Core Earth humans, the gamemaster characters begin at neutral for the purposes of interaction. If the Knights don't look Core
Earthish, the gamemaster characters
start at hostile.
Second, even though less than a
day has passed since the murders at
Barker's town house, the Delphi Council (see The Living Land Sourcebook) has
already sent word to the city's police
that not a word about the case is to be
spoken to anyone. The slaughter.~as
the fingerprints of inter-realm politics
......
all over it and they want to have first

dibs on the info that comes from the
police.
.
Unless the Knights are working for
the Delphi Council (which they might
well be) Carlson and the rest of the
police are going to keep their mouths
shut - the Storm Knights are going to
have to work to get the information.
If the Knights ask about the murders, Carlson politely ignores them.
('We don't want to give away anything to the killers - when the papers
know, you'll know. Thanks for your
interest.")
Getting to the File

The Knights have several options
to pursue to get the file. They c.oul?
simply grab the file and run With It
while Carlson is handing it off to the
policeman. They could try to persuade
someone to let them see the file. They
could try to persuade the officer on
duty in the file room to let the~ see
another file and then cause a dIStraction while one member of the party
sneaks off to see the Barker file. If they
are a working for the Delphi Council,
they could call the central office in
Houston and get permission to see the
file.
The accompanying map shows the
layout of the precinct house's fu:st floor
and the positions of the policemen
when the Knights enter. Standard
policeman statistics follow. Carlson
has the same attributes and skills as a
standard policeman. Anyone caught
skulking about will of course be questioned by a policeman as to what he's
doing.
.
The file room is a large room With a
lot of metal filing cabinets. There is a
police officer who sits at a desk at the
door and must clear anyone going into
the room.
Standard Policeman: DEX 10, STR 11,
TOU 10, PER 11, MIN 8, CHA 8, SPI 8.
Skills: dodge 11, fire combat 12,
unarmed combat 11, evidence analysis 13, find 12, land vehicles 12, willpower 10.
Equipment: .38 revolver, damage
value 14. Nightsticks, damage value
STR+3.
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(W] Map 4
~ Station House
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Desk
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Cells
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Meeting
Room
Meeting
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Armory
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Asking For Help

Persuading anyone to voluntarily
go against the orders of the Delphi
Council is very tough to do - add five
to the base Mind or willpower value of
the target for purposes of Persuasion.
And if the Knights do convince somebody in the department that they
should be given a peek at the files, it
had better be done out of earshot of
anyone else in the station house, or
that gamemaster character will certainly step in and ask "What the heck
is going on?" Use the multi-action rules
for Persuasion in this case (Torg Rule
Book, page 45)
Persuasion results against the policemen are as follows:
Negotiated agreement: This only
works against Carlson - who is in
charge of the case and is the only cop
in a position to bargain (any bribe
attempts will get the Knights arrested).
Carlson will share information from
the Barker file in exchange for information about DeVris. He didn't know
somebody from the Cyberpapacy was
in the States, but that would make a
great tidbit for the Council.
Yes or vow: If this result is obtained,
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Front Steps
then Carlson or any other policemen

gets the file for the Knights and lets
them peruse it.
The Barker Case File

The file is in a manila folder and is
marked with a sun radiating daggers
(the symbol of the Delphi Council)
and "Priority Clearance Only." Within
the folder are all sorts of sheets of information about the victims of the
shooting, most of which was covered
in the articles about the murders in the
newspapers. The only bit of information new to the Knights is the identity
of the murdered Nile citizen. His name
is Mameluke AI-Mu'in, and his place
of residence is listed as Cairo, in the
Nile Empire. There is nothing more on
him in the file.
A piece of paper that catches the
attention of the Storm Knights is .the
coroner's report. The report states that
all four victims were apparently killed
by "what can only be described as
very precise welding torch burns,
which seem to penetrate in clean lines
like a bullet." What the coroner doesn't
know, but is attempting to descibe in
the only terms familiar to him, is that

the wounds were the result of the
impact of high energy against the
bodies - in other words, lasers which of course don't yet exist as
portable weapons under Core Earth
technology. The coroner wasn't able
to make sense of the wounds he found
and is simply guessing.
The report isn't laid out as a prop
for the players, so paraphrase the above
information for them.
This should indicate to the players
that the murderer(s) are apparently
from another cosm - but advanced
technology could mean the Nile, the
Cyberpapacy, or Nippon Tech. More
investigations will have to be performed to get more information.
The file also contains pictures of the
wounds. If any of the Knights are from:
The Nile: a Perception, evidence
analysis or weird science total that beats
a 12 difficulty lets him determine that
the weapon that did the damage is not
from the Nile. Wounds from weapons
of the Nile do not look so realistic.
The Cyberpapacy: a Perception,
science or evidence analysis total surpassing a 12 makes him fairly certain
that the wounds were not made by a
Act One
apartment's bed (DeVris is only there

for the first hour of the adventure). By
the way, should they ask, tell them
that the wounds on the punk who was
toasted by DeVris are quite different
from those in the coroner's report (as
they were not made by an energy
weapon).
If they want to go to the site of the
murder, go to the scene three.
If they've already been to the murder site and they've gotten the file, it's
time for scene four.
SCENE THREE:
The Murder Site

The Situation
known weapon of the Cyberpapacy.
Nippon Tech: a Perception, evidence analysis or science total exceeding 10 lets him declare that the technology now available in Japan would
be able to build a weapon that leaves
that kind of a wound.
Variables
The scene is a standard encounter
about sneaking around out in the open.
This is a tricky scene because the
Knights have lots of options - but
don't panic. The opening of the scene
gives them a specific goal; the Barker
file. After that, simply listen to the
plans that come out of the players'
mouths and let them act on them.
For example, they might try to distract Carlson while one of them goes
off for a drink of water and tries to slip
into the file room. That Knight then
encounters the clerk and has to get by
him. It can go on like this for a while.
In such situations, keep cutting back
and forth between the two (or more)
scenes. Have Carlson about to go for a
drink of water himself, for example,
and the Knights who are with him
having to stall him a bit longer.
The only weird thing that can happen is if the Knights attempt to grab
the file out of a cop's hand or simply
storm the file room. They stand a very
1_
good chance of taking out some policemen if they do that and will, of
course, be sought by the police for the
rest of the adventure.
To keep the pace of the adventure
going, let the Knights avoid getting
caught (this shouldn't be too difficult
considering the difference in skills and
attributes). However, if a policeman
takes any damage, award no Possibilities to the Knight at fault at the conclusion of this act.
Flag
If a Connection drama card is played
by any of the players during this scene,
that player'S character spots an old
friend sitting behind a desk in one of
the glass enclosed offices. That friend
is Craig Fernandez, now working as
an Investigator with the Atlanta PD.
How the Storm Knight knows him is
up to the gamemaster to decide, but
once contact is made, Fernandez is
more than happy to use his clout to get
the Storm Knights access to the Barker
file.
Standard. If the Knights want to

investigate the murder site, they will
have to do so "on the sly" - Carlson
will not allow them into the Barker
home, even if they work for the Delphi
Council. He wants time for his men to
finish going over the evidence. If the
Storm Knights go to the Barker home
on their own, this is what they find:
Barker's house is clearly marked by
the squad car that sits out in front of it,
and the bright yellow plastic strips
marked "POLICE LINE - 00 NOT
CROSS" that are stretched across the
brownstone's front stairs.
Two cops sit in the police car. One is
drinking coffee and the other is reading a paper. The one drinking coffee
seems alert, constantly scanning the
street for signs of trouble.
The Action
This scene consists of two parts getting into the townhouse and then
investigating it.
The Cops
Cut To...
If the Knights haven't yet gotten to
DeVris' apartment they can go now,
but most likely will have missed him
and only find a corpse on the
The cops have the same stats as

those in the scene two. In order for the
Storm Knights to make it past the cops
unseen they must each generate stealth
totals. To determine the difficulty,
generate a find total for the alert policeman and add three to it (for actively
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Act One
looking and having a partner with

him).
There is another cop around back
(the Knights won't know about him
until they go to the back of the town
house or make lots of noise inside it).
Use the same procedure for getting
around him, but only add one to his
find total (he is alert, but has no partner).
The Townhouse
The townhouse consists of three
floors, the rooms of which are marked
on the accompanying map. The lights
of the house are all out and if the
Knights turn the lights on they stand a
chance of alerting the cops outside
(see the flags below). The Storm
Knights will have to use whatever
means are at hand to get around (infra-red eyes - cyber or mystical, tight
beam flashlights, etc.). They have
plenty of time to conduct a leisurely
search, but see the events below if they
take too long.
The apartment's furniture is made
of expensive woods like cedar and
oak. It is well crafted and hints of
money. The only room that has been
touched is Barker's office on the third
floor. The other rooms are clean and
well kept.
The only anomalies outside of the

office are the taped outlines of bodies
at the bottom of the spiral stairway on
the second floor (where Mrs. Barker's
body was found) and in Cynthia
Barker's bedroom. In Cynthia's bedroom the tape is marked on the sheets.
If the blankets are examined, a laser
burn can be found. An evidenceanalysis
total of 12 or better shows that the shot
was fired through the sheets.
The office on the third floor is a
mess. Files have been thrown everywhere and a floppy disk box next to
Barker's computeris empty. There are
two taped body outlines on the floor
-one is Barker's and one is Al Mu'in's.
If the file cabinets are examined
carefully, a Perception or find total
exceeding 13 reveals that there is a
large gap of materials missing in the
''P'' files. (The file that the ninjas were
looking for was listed under "Possibility Chalice.")
There are three bullet holes in the
wall, fired from a conventional pistol,
and a splatter of blood. Mu'in was able
to hit one of the ninja assassins with
his gun and these were the shots that
alerted the neighbors. This particular
killer carne through the guest room
window and into the office, where he
was spotted by Mu'in. The Knights
may be able to figure this out for them-
selves but it is not crucial that they do

so.
Any Knight who gets a find total
that beats an 18 (or plays an Alertness
drama card) spots a glint of metal
behind one of the file cabinets. It is a
ninja throwing star stuck in the wall.
The cops missed it when they went
over the room the first time. Finding
the star might trigger a flag - see the
flags section below.
The star has a high-tech microchip
planted in it which delivers an electric
shock upon contact with a victim. The
shock triggers cardiac arrest in its victim. This is what Kanawa assassins
use instead of conventional poisontipped weapons. (Any Knight from
the Nippon Tech realm will know this
if they get a Perception or scholar (realm
lore) total exceeding 12.)
The star does a base STR+3 damage
when it hits, and it induces an automatic "K" effect. It also does double
the normal shock damage and an
additional wound level if a wound is
taken. The chip has only one charge in
it, and therefore the special effects of
the electric shock can only be used
once. Since this star never made contact with the victim, the chip is still
live.
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It may now seem obvious to the

players that Nippon Tech agents were
involved in the killings, but the star is
also a link to Wu-Han, one of the men
mentioned in DeVris' folder. The file,
which states that Wu-Han has a passion for Japanese technology, might
mislead the Knights into thinking that
perhaps the pulp villain was using
Japanese-made weapons. Or perhaps
they might realize they have found
something (the star) that might intrigue Wu-Han (which is the case, but
don't worry if they don't put that
together right now).
Flags
If the Knights never got to scene
one (DeVris' apartment), he shows up
right after they find the throwing star
behind the cabinet. If the Knights have
been quiet and careful, he'll be caught
off guard to find anyone in the house
and will begin plugging away with his
Herod IV. His objective is to escape
once he sees the Storm Knights, although he came to search for clues,
just like they did. See scene one for
stats and info on DeVris.
A gun fight in the house will get the
attention of the cops outside, who run
into the townhouse with guns drawn
(they'll call for back-up before doing
so, however). The Storm Knights then
have to get out of there as quickly as
possible. Four more squad cars arrive
in three minutes.
If the Knights turn on lights in the
house or make a lot of noise, the cops
outside will be alerted and come rushing in, same as above.
Event: Cops Will Be

Cops
Even if the Storm Knights are quiet
and careful, one of the cops comes in to
check out the townhouse. This is done
to make the situation a bit tense.
Since the Knights are being really
quiet, they clearly hear the door downstairs open and shut. Eventually they
hear footsteps coming up the stairs.
Let them deal with it. (They wouldn't
hear DeVris coming in because he is
trying to be quiet, whereas the cop
doesn't care if anyone hears him - he

doesn't expect there to be anyone in
the house). There is no guarantee that
the cop is going to spot the Storm
Knights - most of it depends on what
the Knights decide to do.
The cop checks each room in turn,
but only briefly. Have the Knights
make stealth totals, using the cop's
straight find total as a difficulty number.
Killing or harming cops here brings
about the same penalty as mentioned
in scene two.
Variables
This is a standard encounter that
requires the Knights to sneak around
and get surprised at one point or another by various visitors. The information they get here will confirm certain theories about which realm's
people were responsible for the murders and may induce several new
leads.
Cut To ...
If the Knights didn't go to DeVris'
apartment before, but decide to go
check out his apartment after encountering him at the townhouse, they find
only a blood splattered wall and a
corpse on the bed of his tenement flat
(he's packed up and moved out).
If they want to go to the cops, see
scene two.
If they've talked with the cops and
have checked out the murder site, or if
they aren't going to talk with the police and are done at the townhouse,
then its time for scene four.
SCENE FOUR:
The Ambush
The Situation
Dramatic. The location of this scene
has been left unspecific on purpose so
that you can place it in whatever location works best for the way your story
is progressing. For example, the

Knights might have wanted to get a
hotel room upon arriving in Atlanta.
Since this scene takes place after other
clues have been exhausted, the group
might be on its way back to the hotel
when it occurs. Or, if the Knights don't
have anywhere to go next, the scene
could take place a block or two from
the police station, townhouse, or
DeVris' apartment, depending on
which location they went to last.
For the sake of Act Two (which
takes place right after this scene), it's
best if this scene happens at night.
Since the three previous scenes should
take place during the same day, it
should be night by the time the Knights
finish hopping around town.
All that matters is that the scene
catches the Storm Knights off guard
and hits them before they have time to
think about it. Since this scene leads
directly to the next act, don't let the
players get stuck wondering what to
do before throwing this scene their
way.
Describe the scene:
You hear the soft padding of delicate footsteps, followed by the swishing sound of bodies knifing through
the air. Black shapes cartwheel into
view all around you. A sharp voice
speaks from out of the shadows:
"Pathetic stormers. I had hoped to
meet more worthy and honorable
opponents."
You hear the ringing of steel. You
see a flash of silver. The voice is closer
now:
"Bring me their eyes."
The Action
One of the ninjas who hit Barker's
place left his throwing star behind.
He's been "retired" by the others now
(getting shot by Mu'in also caused
him to lose face). The ninjas have returned to recover the star, to avoid
leaving any possible trace to Kanawa
Enterprises. When they got to the
townhouse, however, they found the
Storm Knights snooping around the
office (the ninjas were hiding in some
trees across the street, scoping the place
out with Kanawa manufactured NiteNoks).
The ninjas believe the Storm Knights
have the star (whether the Knights
found it or not) and want it back; they
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II
Act One
waited before attacking in order to let

the Storm Knights get away from police attention.
There is one ninja for each Knight
ambushed, plus their leader. Their
leader is Osato, a brilliantly-trained .
specialist who wears a red headband
(all the rest are dressed in black from
head to toe) to distinguish himself from
his hirelings.
Ninja Assassins (one per Knight):
DEX 12, STR II, TOU 10, PER II, MIN
8, CHA 7, SPI 7.
Skills: acrobatics 13, dodge 13, fire
combat 13, maneuver 14, melee weapons 14, unarmed combat 13, trick 12,
test of wills 10.
Equipment: Each ninja attacks with
an extremely sharp sword. The blades
have a damage value of STR+7. This
means that in the hands of the ninjas
they have a damage value of 18. Osato
has ordered his men not to use lasers
this time, as they left too obvious a
trace as to the origin of the wounds
inflicted.
Osato (ninja leader): DEX 12, STR II,
TOU 10, PER II, MIN 8, CHA 7, SPI 7.
Skills: reality 10, acrobatics IS,
dodge 14, fire combat 13, maneuver
14, melee \yeapons IS, unarmed combat 16, trick 12, test of wills II.
Possibilities: Two per Storm
Knight.
Equipment: Osato uses a special
sword which was given to him by his
boss, Yabu Tokanda, for use on this
assignment. The sword does STR+8
damage, but is also augmented by the
same electronic chip as the ninja throwing star found in the townhouse (automatic "K" result, double shock damage and an additional wound level if a
wound is inflicted). Remember, the
electric shock works only once during
combat, but Osato can decide who he
will use that power against.
Osato also carries three smoke pellets which, when thrown to the ground,
emit a gaseous cloud which envelops
a 20 yard area around the pellet. Finding anyone within the cloud requires a
find or Perception total of 20.
Note: Osato has special contact
lenses which allow him to see through
the smoke, but none of the other ninjas
do.
After The Battle
Awards
Osato beats a hasty retreat if he

sees that his side is losing the battle,
using his smoke screen pellets to cover
his escape. He'll reappear in the next
act.
~ When the Knights examine the
bodies of the ninjas, they find a security card key in a pocket of one of the
black ninja outfits. There's a magnetic
strip on one side of the card and a
chrome symbol of the greek letter
Kappa on the other.
If Osato was killed, the Storm
Knights find a small envelope on his
person, containing a single sheet of
paper with a series of hand-scrawled
numbers on it: "38-16-7-54-12-3-25".
(This is the combination to the vault in
the Anderson Building in the Magnolia Station Research Park, though the
Knights won't realize it at this time.)
Each Storm Knight should receive 3

Possibilities for completing this act
successfully. However, if any cops
were killed or wounded by a Knight,
the guilty party should receive no
Possibilities. See the award guidelines
in the Torg Adventure Book for more
information on giving awards.
Variables
Make sure that the ambush takes
place far enough from the various cops
in this adventure that they don't show
up right away (at least not until the
card key has been found).
The only thing that could go wrong
is if the Knights don't search the ninjas
for identification. If they don't, have
one of the Knights notice the key lying
on the pavement.
If the Knights went to Barker's
townhouse but never found the throwing star, have it appear on one of the
ninjas in the ambush. The Knights can
find the star as well as the card key.
End the act with the Storm Knights
running from the ambush scene (unless they work for the Delphi Council,
having a fight with realm invaders is
going to entangle them in red tape that
will last into the next decade - feel
free to point this out to the players).
Flag
If a hero setback appears on the conflict line of the Drama Deck at any time
during the ambush, a fresh ninja appears to join the battle.
Cut To...
The next stop is the following Interlude, and then on to Act Two.
Interlude
The Knights have the magnetic card
key now, and must learn where it is
from. This shouldn't be too hard,
however. They'll probably remember
the symbol on the card as being the
same one mentioned in one of the
newspaper articles they were given
earlier. If they don't immediately make
the connection, the police can be consulted. They have the resources to come
up with the Magnolia Research Park
as the source of the key card. The
police will, however, insist on sending
DetectiveCarlson along with the Storm
Knights if any investigation is to be
undertaken.
After checking a phone book and a
map they can discover that the Magnolia Station Research Park is located
atl Long Acre Drive, just off Northem
Drive at the outskirts of the northwest
section of the city. Because this is an
interlude, there are no specific areas
planned for the encounter. The players simply say, "We want to check a
phone book," and you tell them what
they find there.
In the next part of the Interlude, the
Knights decide how they want to get
to the park. Then you simply declare
they are on their way. When they arrive at the park, start the next act.
The Knights should be on their way
to Magnolia Station at night, right after
the ninja attack. If they don't want to
go to the research park right away,
remind them that when the ninjas don't
report back tonight, their bosses will
certainly be tipped off that something
has gone wrong.
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Act Two
Kanawa
Calling
The Major Beat
This act takes the Storm Knights to
Magnolia Station Research Park,
searching for more information about
the murders and their own ambush.
Once there, they find that the Park is
secretly owned and operated by Kanawa Enterprises, a division of the
new mega-powerful Japanese conglomerate Kanawa Corporation. They
obtain a computer readout of Robert
Clive's journal, detailing Stevenson's
find, and learn the origin of the Destiny Map. In addition, they learn of
Wu-Han's dig in Indiana, and find
something that may help them bargain for the map tiles.
And all of this leads to an explosive
climax ...
SCENE ONE:
A Stroll Through
the Park
The Situation
Standard. Assuming the Storm
Knights arrive at night, they have the
opportunity to perform a covert investigation of the research facility. If
they arrive during the day, or with
Carlson, you will have to alter de~
scriptions and events.
The research park is made up of
nine buildings - one of them is a
converted railroad station made of
steel and glass, the other eight are
identical two-story buildings. Glowing yellow streetlamps line the drives
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Magnolia Station
Research Park
At the end of the 19th century, Magnolia Station was one
of the best known railroad stations in the South. Although
not as busy as many of the
other stations inGeorgia, it was
one of the most attractive and
classy. The central depot was
worked of wrought iron that
formed a spiderweb of a shell,
and frosted glass filled the gaps
of the iron frame. The station
seemed more of a small palace
than a place for getting on and
off trains.
During the Depression, the
station fell on hard times, and
the elegance of Magnolia Station could no longer be supported.
Later, although the nation
recovered from the Depression,
the station did not. It sat rusting for decades until the area
was purchased by Kanawa Enterprises in order to build a research park. A research park is
an area that provides facilities
for different companies to come
in and do scientific research.
The park rents space, facilities
and some staff. The station
house was refurbished as the
park's central offices. There are
many otheroffices and research
buildings now situated
throughout the park.
Act Two
MapS
Magnolia Station Research Park
Map Key
A.
B.
C.
D.
Magnolia Station
Palter Building
Hawran Building
Slavicsek Building
E. Gorden Building
F. Kaufman Building
G. Anderson Building
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leading to the buildings. The park's

lawn is thick and black-green.
The Action
The action in this scene revolves
around finding the building in the
park where Kanawa's agents are holed
up.
Because the research park is filled
with people who have nothing to do
with Kanawa or the Possibility Wars,
it is important that the Knights don't
simply show up at the park with guns
(and wands and whatever else) blazing. In this scene, the Knights get a
chance to do some research. They don't
have to act upon that chance, butthey'll
be better off if they do.
Below is a key listing the buildings
found on the accompanying map. The
key describes what each building is
for, who is in it, and what information
can be found there. Once the Storm
Knights reach Building G (the Anderson Building), go to scene two immediately.

No one they encounter outside of
the Anderson Building knows anything about ninjas, Kanawa, Barker's
murder or anything at all to do with
the adventure. The Knights might end
up frightening a lot of innocent people
with threats and violence during the
trip through the park, but nobody
except the villains themselves (in
Building G) knows what's going on.
Building A: Main Offices

The park's main offices are located
in the old station itself. The station has
been renovated and now has all tl:i:
charm and splendor it had a century
ago. The only difference is that the
railroad tracks have been taken up.
On the inside, the building has been
divided into many offices, with the
central dome area housing a maze of
cubicles. The only person in the main
office building after 6:30 p.m. is a security guard. He has a desk by the front
entrance, though he tends to wander
around the building during his watch.
. There are two guards for the night
shift, but only one is on duty at a time.
Use the statistics for the standard
policemen (see Act One, Scene Two)
for the guards of the research park.
All of the building's outer doors are
locked, though there is a buzzer at the
front door that will call the guard. If
the Storm Knights call the guard, he'll
ask what they want. Since the park is
out in the middle of nowhere, few
common excuses will really work. But
let them cook up any story they want
and see if they can persuade him to
believe it.
If the Knights sneak in, have them
generate stealth totals, using the
guard's find total as their difficulty
(the guard's find value is 12). Do this
for every five minutes of game time. If
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the Knights are being very quiet or

exceptionally noisy, adjust the difficulty accordingly. Should the guard
hear them, he will try to track the
source of the noise down. He'll arrive
within three minutes of hearing the
noise. If the Knights hear him coming,
they can hide and try to avoid him.
Since this is the park's bureaucratic
nerve center, a lot of important information can be gathered here through
the building's computer system.
In order to glean any info from the
computers, a character must tum on
one of the small systems on any desk
in the building and actively search for
specific information. For example, he
can't just tum on a computer and get
information about who owns the research park. He must actively try to
call up information using science or an
equivalant skill.
These are the areas that the Knights
can look up through the computer
network. Depending on the quality of
the success gained about the question,
give the players the information for
that quality and all the information of
the lower quality.
Ownership of the research park: This
information tells the Knights who is
behind the park.
Minimal. Magnolia Station is owned
by the Fress-Hasser Corporation, a
technology research company based
in New York City.
Average. The park was only bought
by Fress-Hasser a month ago.
Good. Fress-Hasser Corporation is
owned by Habu Enterprises, a company whose main office is located in
Tokyo.
Superior. Habu is in tum owned by
Kanawa Enterprises, a division of
Kanawa Corporation.
Spectacular. Kanawa Enterprises
purchased Habu, which in turn purchased Fress-Hasser, which bought the
park all in a tfuee-day period one
month ago.
Background on research park and
employment records: This information lets the Knights find out that most
of the people at the park probably
have no idea that their checks are
coming from a corporation from another cosmo
Minimal. The value of the company's

stock recently tripled.
Average. The park has been in operation for five years and was built by
Astra-Tech. Astra-Tech sold the park
one month ago. The park was created
to do research for other companies
"whose facilities were stretched too far.
Good. Seventy-five percent of the
staff of Magnolia Station, from scientists to security guards, are the employees originally hired by Astra-Tech.
Superior. One month ago, FressHasser authorized and paid for some
new employees from Japan. Their
payroll does not come from the park's
coffers.
Spectacular. The new Japanese
employees are housed in the Anderson Building at the end of the park.
The Bill
While the Knights are snooping
around, have them generate find or
Perception totals. A total of 10 or better
lets a Knight find a curious shipping
bill, which was sitting in the "in" pile
on the desk next to the computer terminal he is working at. The bill is
printed in prop form on the next page,
and should be given to the players if
their characters find it.
The bill lists several items that were
ordered by the park, and to what building they were sent. A large supply of
new security devices was ordered at
the same time that Frass-Hasser bought
the park and sent to the Anderson
Building. This information is a clue
that the Anderson Building is the
Nippon Tech base at the park. This
may not occur to the players (and will
only be clear if they check out the
computer files also) but if they don't
get it, it's all right - they'll get to the
Anderson Building eventually.
The space for the date has been left
blank, because we don't know when
in your campaign time you'll be setting the adventure. Just mark it exactly one month before the adventure
takes place.
Buildings B - E:
These are basic research facilities.
Scientists and underpaid grad students
are working in Building B. The plans
for the other buildings are the same,
floor by floor, as those listed for Building B. These buildings have only their
hall lights on. The outside doors of all
the buildings are locked, and a security guard patrols the interior of each
building (see the event below for details on the guards).
All of the buildings' doors have a
slot to the right for plastic card keys
like the one the Storm Knights found
on the ninjas. It is keyed to open doors
only at the Anderson Building. If they
attempt to use it at any other door, a
red light flashes just above the slot and
the door stays locked. The Knights
may interpret the red light as an alarm,
but it is not - it simply denotes a
negative response to the card.
The room descriptions below apply to Buildings B through E. Any
reference to people within the building applies only to Building B.
The only information that the researchers in, Building B have that's
valuable to the Knights is that about a
Note on the Reality

of the Anderson Building
Important: Besides being
augmented with various hightech devices, the Anderson
Building is actually under the
axiom laws of Nippon Tech.
The central computer which is
housed in the Nerve Room is a
Nippon Tech hardpoint. The
field of Nippon reality is pure
only in the Nerve Room; the
dominant zone extends just
past the walls of the building,
and covers all floors. Within
that sphere, the axioms no
longer obey Core Earth reality
but instead follow the laws that
exist in New Japan. The
Knights may not realize this
until they enter the building
and encounter technology
which is beyond Earth's Tech
axioms.
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MARK "X" IN "HM" COLUMN FOR HAZARDOUS .....TERIALS
Act Two
month ago a lot of construction was

done on the Anderson Building and
that a new team from Japan moved
into that space. Remember, the gamemaster characters won't blurt this out
- the Storm Knights will have to ask
the right sorts of questions (ie: "Has
anyone new been hired on to the staff
lately?").
Room 1. Lounge area with soda
and candy machines. A grad student
named Randy is dozing with a halfeaten Snickers bar held loosely in his
right hand. The minute the Knights
look like they might be trouble (Is
there an edeinos in the group? Did
they bust the door down?) he'll take
off for Lab Center One (Room 3) for
help.
Room 2. Conference Room A.
Empty. This room has a long table and
eight chairs. There is an easel board, a
VCR and a television.
Room 3. Lab Center One. This room
is filled with scientists working on a
new circuit board. At the back of the
room three scientists stand around a
chalkboard, busily going over some
formulas. Two other computer designers are at the table in the center of the
room testing a circuit board. The group
of scientists will be quite taken aback if
the Knights stumble across them in
the middle of the night, and they will
try to hit the alarm button. They won't
try anything more heroic, however.
Room 4. Men's bathroom.
Room 5. Women's bathroom.
Room 6. Kitchen area. Ed Harton, a
janitor, is here cleaning the kitchen
area. He's a cranky and surly old man
who doesn't frighten easily. He won't
put up a fight, but since Earth was
invaded by the Possibility Raiders he
doesn't see much reason to cooperate
with anyone anymore.
Room 7. Lab Center Two. The lights
are all off, but a scientist is sleeping on
a stool, her head resting on the central
table.
Room 8. Work areas. These little
cubicles have computer terminals and
limited desk space. They are all currently empty.
Room 9. Supply closet. The closets
are filled with computer cables, extra
phones, legal pads, a couple of extra

monitors and anything else that might
reasonably appear in a building.
Flag
If anyone plays a Connection drama
card during this scene, make one of
the research scientists the connection.
The scientist can then help the Storm
Knights gain access to restricted areas
(but not the Anderson Building), and
give them a +3 to all totals relating to
accessing the computer system, as long
as he is with them.
Event: Security
Guards
There is a chance that the Knights
might be spotted by one of the park's
guards while wandering around.
Every 10 minutes of game time, get a
find total from the guard (with a find
value of 12). Adjust this total according to the behavior and tactics of the
Knights. Use this total as the difficulty
for each Knight's stealth total.
The totals are generated whether
the Storm Knights are inside or outside of a building.
If the Knights' stealth totals don't
beat the difficulty, a guard has spotted
the group (or a member of the group if
the Storm Knights have split up). You
should decide where the guard is in
relation to the Knights when he spots
them.
The tactics of the guard are as follows: call in for backup from the other
guards (stationed in each of the buildings), then approach the Knights to
ask them if he can "help them." He
will not assume they are enemies unless they have committed acts of violence or are spotted sneaking around
suspiciously.
If a guard who called for backup is
taken out by the Storm Knights and
not heard from again (they kill him,
knock him unconscious, imprison him)
the next guard who spots them will
treat them as dangerous (all the guards
in the park will know that something
bad is going on). Guards in this situ-
ation will wait for the backup to arrive

before approaching the Knights.
This event is in addition to the guard
who walks around in the main building, as mentioned earlier.
Variables
This is a scene about sneaking
around. There are two directions it can
take. One is that the Knights wander
around blindly hoping to stumble
across the building where the people
they are looking for are hiding out.
The second is that they will go to the
main office building and get clues that
lead them to the Anderson Building.
(Clues can also be gained from the
scientists working in Building B.)
The difference between the two
approaches is that if the Knights spend
too long wandering around the park,
the ninjas in the Anderson Building
become aware of their presence and
set traps for them. See the flags section
of scene two for details.
When the Knights arrive at the park,
give them the accompanying map of
the research park and let them pick
which direction they want to enter
from. Then let them show you the path
they want to take. Ask them how they
are moving across the park. (Are they
sticking to the shadows? Crawling on
theirbellies?) Although the only people
who mean them any harm are in the
Anderson Building, the Knights don't
know that and you should have a
knowing smile that suggests that they
are about to be jumped at any moment. Every once in a while tell them
that their characters hear noises, and
flip a card from the Drama Deck so
that they think something is up (it's
just a squirrel, for example, but they
won't know that).
Cut To...
When the Knights approach the
Anderson Building (that is, they declare they are going up to the building,
not just looking at it), go to "Scene
Two: The Assault."
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[Ii(] Map 6
~ Magnolia Park, Buildings B through E
Back
Door
1st Floor
, ,
Stairs Up
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Front
Door
2nd Floor
StairWell
9
7
Map Key
1. Lounge Area
2. Conference Room
3. Lab Center
4. Men's bathroom
5. Women's bathroom
6. Kitchen area
7. Lab Center #2
8. Work areas
9. Supply Closet
In Building G, the steel wall
runs from point A. to point B.
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Act Two
SCENE TWO:
The Assault
The Situation
Standard. If the Storm Knights
decide to raid the building by helicopter or some such, you'll have to modify the description, otherwise, this is
the scene when they get to the Anderson Building,
As you approach the building, you

notice that the lining around the edges
of the windows and the doors is different from that of the other buildings.
Each edge is sealed with a thin, black
plastic strip.
The Action
The Anderson Building has the
same basic layout as the other buildings, but has been rebuilt just enough
to catch the Storm Knights somewhat
off guard.
The interior is far more high tech
than the others, with stainless steel
walls, video monitors, and blinking
LEDs everywhere. There are also a
half-dozen ninja spread throughout
the building. They will use the secret
trapdoors and the deep shadows of

the building to spring surprise attacks
on the Storm Knights as they explore
the building. If Osato is still alive after
the ambush in the last act, he is here in
addition to the six ninjas. See the event
at the end of this scene for details on
t~e ninja attacks.
Windows and Doors

The plastic strips around the doors
and windows are not only triggers to
an alarm system but also to powerful
explosives (manufactured by Kanawa
Enterprises, of course).
Find or lock picking can be used to
spot the alarm systems - the target
difficulty number is 12. Find can also
be used to spot the explosives - a
target number of 14.
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Disconnecting the alarm reqUIres a
lock picking roll against a 15. Disarming the explosives requires the same
skill against a 16.
If the Knights fail their attempts to
disengage either the explosives or the
alarm, or force a door or a window
without removing the two devices on
the window, the device goes off. (Thus,
if the Knights had removed the alarm
but failed their roll to remove the
explosive, the bombs would go off but
not the alarm).
The alarm is a silent alarm that alerts
only those people in the Nerve Room
on the second floor.

The explosives have a damage value
of 16, and automatically hit anyone
within two meters of the window (the
explosives are set to blast in a hemisphere around the window). Obviously, even if the alarm is disconnected
an explosion will alert the ninjas inside.
If the Alarm or
Bombs Go Off
If the alarm goes off, a red light
flashes in the Nerve Room and a ninja
there hits a switch to power down all
the lights in the building. T?is gives
the ninjas an advantage agamst most
people since they have infrared
goggles. If the ninja in the Nerve Room
(see the flags at the end of this scene)
hears a bomb go off, the same procedure is followed.
There are six ninjas in the building.
One is in room number one and one is
in charge of the Nerve Room. Once the
alarm goes off, the other four mobilize
throughout the building.
The Front Door

If the Storm Knights have the card
key they can go right up to the front
door of the building, insert the key,
and walk right in without setting off a
single alarm.
Trap Doors
The ceiling of every room on the
first floor has a trap door leading to the
room directly above it on the second
floor. This allows the ninjas free access
throughout the whole building. They
are strong enough to leap up to the
ceiling, tap the door open on one jump,
and then disappear up through the
hole on a second jump. The Knights
can spot the trap doors with a find or
Perception total that beats a 14.
Building Key
This building key is based on the
map on page 30. The descriptions
change, but other than Room 8, the
dimensions of the rooms stay the same.
Room 1: What serves as a lounge
area in the other buildings is a sentry
point in the Anderson Buildin~. There
is still a soda and candy machine so as
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not to attract the attention of anyone

from the park who might wander in.
A ninja sits crouched in the shadows between the two machines and
will strike when he can get surprise.
He has a switch on his belt that he can
touch to set off a silent alarm, warning
the other ninjas (see the event below).
Room 2: Conference Room. The
door to this room is no longer functional (it has been secured from the
other side with steel bars) and is only
used as a trap. The room is actually
used by the ninjas as a sleeping quarters/ but they reach it by coming down
through the ceiling from the second
floor.
When the doorknob is touched it
sets off a row of lasers that fire randomly down the hall.
To spot the heat sensitive pad on
the doorknob requires a lock picking or
find total of 13 or better if the Knight is
merely reaching for the door knob. If a
Knight takes a good look at the knob
before touching it, he easily spots the
metal circle. A science total of 15 will
tell a Knight what the circle's purpose
is.
If the trap is triggered, one laser for
every Storm Knight in the hallway
pops out from behind the walls of the
corridor. Make one roll for each Knight
to see if they've been hit. The average
acting value of the lasers is 13 and the
damage value is 14.
Room 3: Lab Center One. The
Knights find a robot of some sort on
the table. Its chest has been opened
and wires hang out ofit. The robots are
described fully in the next scene.
Room 4: Men's bathroom.
Room 5: Women/s bathroom.
Room 6: Maximum Security Vault.
This room is marked "SECURITY
VAULT - AUTHORIZED ACCESS
ONLY." The entire room is steel reinforced/ with a meter-thick vault door
as its only access. Figuring out and
opening the lock without the combination requires a lock picking total of
20. Inside, the Knights find bond certificates totalling $300/000. They also
find a chrome briefcase with an envelope taped to it. Inside the case is a
paper marked "Delivery to Wu-Han
upon receipt of Destiny Map Tiles."
This case contains the plans for the
atomic bomb, which was part of the
deal between Han and the Nippons.
The Knights may not realize it, but this
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can become an excellent bargaining

chip when dealing with Wu-Han later
in the adventure.
The combination to the vault can be
accessed by using the Nerve Room
computer terminal (a science or scholar
difficulty of 14). The combination is
also carried on the person of Osato, or
if he was killed in Act One, the Storm
Knights (though they may not realize
they have it).
Room 7: Lab Center Two. Empty.
Room 8: Work area. The work area
in this building is obscured by a steel
wall. The wall stretches from floor-toceiling and the Knights cannot see what
is behind it. The area behind the wall is
actually the "Nerve Room/" the place
where all classified computer files are
kept. Details on the Nerve Room are
covered in the next scene. A door set in
the wall is partially open. If the Storm
Knights enter or look into the room,
they see a large room filled with all
sorts of computers and blinking lights.
A ninja is within the room, standing
beside a keyboard. He jabs his finger
at the keyboard and the doors to the
room slam shut.
(The ninja is setting the Knights up
for a trap but they won/t know that
until they get into the room.)
The wall and door have a Toughness
value of 25. Picking the electronic
combination lock requires a lock picking/ science, or scholar (electronics) roll
against a 15. If the Storm Knights get
through the door and enter the room,
cut to the next scene immediately.
Room 9: Supply closet. This has
been converted into an arsenal ofsorts.
There is a rack holding four kendo
sticks (one meter long poles), which
have electronic "stunners" fixed to
each end. These do STR+4 damage
and two extra shock points for each
blow.
There are two pairs of nunchucks
(also electrically charged) which do
STR+3 damage and an automatic "K"
result.
A box of six throwing stars (without the special "heart attack" microchips) sits on a shelf. These stars have~
superior aerodynamics which give a
+3 to the thrower's missileweapons total.
Their damage value is STR+3.
There is one pair ofinfrared goggles
which allow the user to see in the dark
as if it were daytime, and a complete
set of ninja clothes (jet black, of course).
Flags
If the Knights visited more than
three buildings in the previous episode before arriving at the Anderson
Building, they are spotted by the ninjas from the rooftop of their building.
In this event, the ninjas do not come
after the Knights directly (because
there are not enough of them) but
instead set some traps for them.
The first trap involves the front door.
If this flag has been tripped, the riinjas
activate bombs in the door that detonate when the card key is inserted into
the lock. The value of the bombs is the
same as listed above, as are the values
for noticing the trap and deactivating
it.
Second, the ninjas are completely
aware of where the Storm Knights are
planning on entering the building and
set up an ambush accordingly. Whatever point the Knights enter from, there
are two ninjas ready to jump them.
One more ninja is waiting by a nearby
trap door ready to ambush them from
above or behind.
Third, the building/s lights will
already have been turned off.
Event: Ninja Attacks

While wandering through thebuilding the Knights should be attacked,
stalled, and harassed by the ninjas.
Because the ninjas can appear almost
anywhere in the building due to the
trap doors, you should feel free to
have the ninjas come up behind the
Knights whenever you feel like it even having them appear from rooms
that the characters just checked out
and found were empty.
You should use these attacks to
really bug the Storm Knights. The
ninjas will fight to the death to protect
the Nerve Room, but they won/t simply toss their lives away in a single
combat. They will retreat after inflicting a blow or two/ and come back
when they can surprise the Knights
once more.
Act Two
Coordinate retreats between the

ninjas. For example, if the Knights are
bearing down on two ninjas, two or
three more might come up from behind to distract the Storm Knights,
giving the first two ninjas a chance to
escape and catch their breath.
Use the ninja stats from Act One for
the ninjas here.
Knights should feel as if they've lost

control of the situation. Then, when
they get through the door to the Nerve
Room at the end of the scene and feel
as if victory is at hand, they can feel
relaxed - and then horribly disappointed when they realized they were
set up for a trap!
Cut To...
Variables
The scene should begin slowly, as a
carry over from the previous scene,
with the Knights undoubtedly checking for traps. Once they get inside,
however, the pace should pick up
quickly. The ninjas should come out
from left and right, taking pot shots at
Knights and then ducking out of sight.
Don't worry about keeping track of
where every ninja is, except the one
ninja staying in the Nerve Room - he
never leaves.
There are six ninjas in the building
- just mark them off one by one as
they are defeated.
The effect you want to get is of
frantic and panicked violence - the
As soon as the Storm Knights either

get the door open to the Nerve Room,
or enter it from some other way, cut to
the next scene.
SCENE THREE:
The Nerve Room

The Situation
Dramatic. The Storm Knights will
most likely try to get into the Nerve
Room as soon as they see it. If they
wait, or if they get in without ever
seeing inside (by blowing a hole
through the floor for example) you'll

have to modify the situation.
Describe the scene:
Although you saw a man in the
room just a moment ago, there is no
sign of him now. All you see is a large
computer system that fills the entire
room.
Glancing at a monitor screen you
see the words "System Deletion Sequence Beginning Now" and a clock
in the upper right hand comer that
reads "03:30" and is counting down.
However, these words flash off the
screen and are replaced by the phrase
"1 % ofsystem deleted" which changes
quickly to "2%," then "3%."
The Action
First, just so you know, the ninja
(ninjas) that was in the room took off
down a hole in floor and is now sprinting across the lawn of the park with his
companions because they've set the
building to blow up very soon.
Now then, this scene has three
separate elements running simultaneously - one is obvious and two are
revealed as the scene progresses.
[II] Map 7
~ The Nerve Room
Sealed Door
Steel Wall
Closet
Closet
r-o-o-O_OI
Exercise-l.---.
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Computer
Terminal
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Gamemaster Prop
Kanawa Computer File
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Act Two
The Computer System

The first element of this scene is that
the Nerve Room's computer system
has been set to delete all of its information. The action of this scene has the
Knights retrieving the information
they need before it is lost. They will
have to go to the keyboard and use the
Dramatic Skill Resolution system (see
the Torg Rule Book, page 62) to get the
data that the ninjas took from Barker's
office and put into their computer.
To retrieve the information requires
four steps (A-D). Each of the steps
represents accomplishing thecorresponding task:
A. Beating the system's security
programs. Nothing can be done within
the computer until this is done.
B. Finding the System Deletion
Program.
C. Disengaging the System Deletion Program. (Not only does this insure that the data the Knights want
isn't deleted while they are mucking

about, but the deletion program is
acting as another kind of lock over all
the data - nothing can be accessed
until the program is stopped.)
D. Finding and retrieving the data
they need.
The Knight at the terminal can use
tne science skill or scholar (computers).
The difficulty number is 13.
If the Knights get to step 0, show
them the computer readout. This information appears on the screen before them. If they want to have it with
them when they leave the building,
they must spend one more round printing it off.
While the Storm Knights are working on steps A through C, make sure to
keep making up numbers for how
much information has been deleted
from the system. The counter begins
on one percent and is working its way
up to 100 percent. By the time a Knight
completes step A, it should be up to 15

percent. By the time he does step B, it
reads 30 percent, and step C finishes
up with 45 percent of the system's
information deleted.
That takes care of the obvious problem in the room. Now for the hidden
problems.
Two robots (of the kind the Knights
might have stumbled across disassembled downstairs) are waiting in
the two closets at either side of the
Nerve Room. They have been programmed to kill anyone in the room
once the security programs are disengaged (step A).
.
As soon as the Knight at the terminal has completed step A, the robots
come crashing out of the closets. Make
sure to point out to the character at the
terminal that the defense systems are
down and he can proceed with the rest
of the skill resolution sequence. The
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robots are there to give his companions something to do.

Kanawa Defense Robots (2): DEX 12,
STR 14, TOU20,PER 13, MIN 7,CHA
3, SPI 3.
Skills: fire combat 14, unarmed
combat 14, taunt (7), test (7), intimidation (7).
Note: These last three skills are
Parenthetical Skills (see Torg Rule Book,
page 80), and as such can only be used
defensively.
Equipment: The robots are armed
with two small lasers built into each
hand. They are able to fire both lasers
each turn without taking the multiaction penalty (computer processing
accounts for this). Damage value for
the lasers is 17.
Description: The robots stand three
meters tall and are thick and stocky.
The metal hull is silver. Gears and
hydraulic shafts are mounted all over
the surface of the robots and they whir
and grind as the robots engage in
combat. When they take damage,
describe how parts of the robots are
breaking down - a lost arm, one leg
not moving as well as the other, and so
on.
The Bomb
There's still one more problem that
the Knights must deal with, and that's
the fact that the Anderson Building is
a giant bomb and is set to go off very
soon now. Like the robots, this is a fact
that is revealed after the scene has
begun - just one more problem to
create tension for our stalwart Storm
Knights.
When the Knights enter the Nerve
Room, they might think that the clock
that's counting down in the upper right
hand corner of the screen is keeping
track of how long it will take before the
data in the computer system is erased.
This is not the case. The clock is actually working on an independent program and is counting down the detonation of the Anderson Building.
Since there are 10 seconds in every
round, there are 21 flips of the drama
card deck from the moment the
Knights get into the room until the
building explodes. In those three and
a half minutes, the Knights must retrieve the information from the com-
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puter and then get out of the building

and far enough away that they aren't
cooked in the blast.
Remember to count down the clock
from the moment they enter the room
(in addition to the percentage of data
deleted, which is also flashing on the
screen). Every round knocks 10 seconds off of the timer.
The players (and their characters)
will probably not realize what the clock
represents until it hits 02:30 (six turns
after they enter the room). At that time
the words "BUILDING DETONATION SEQUENCE LOCKED. TWO
AND ONE-HALF MINUTES UNTIL
FACILITY DESTRUCTION" appear
just below the timer.
Because task A will probably have
been accomplished within the first six
turns, and thus the robots will be attacking the Knights, this will come as
another piece of bad news for the
characters. Things just keep getting
worse. But the bomb, unlike the robots, applies a rather harsh time limit
on the Storm Knights - if they are not
done at the terminal in time, they die.
If the characters want to try to defuse the bomb, point out to them that
the chance of finding the control program is almost nil- they have no idea
what code words it would be under. If
they really want to try, it requires a
science or scholar (computer) total of 25.
The attempt also means losing all
progress made on retrieving the data
(inform the players of this).
If they want to try to find the bomb
in the building and defuse it, let them.
There's little chance of them succeeding at this task also, for there are actually many bombs in the building, built
into the building's beam supports. If
they check the beam supports they can
find a bomb or two (deactivation with
a science total of 14) but they'll never
get the majority of bombs in time.
The point ofall this is that the building is going to blow no matter what
the Knights do. They have to sweat
out getting the information and escape from the building before then. ~
The Escape
If the Storm Knights get the informationandarerunningfromthebuilding, don't worry about keeping track
of time. Let them escape, but make it

feel close. In other words, no matter
how far they are from the building,
when it explodes in a terrifying ball of
orange flame they either suffer no
damage or minimal damage, but the
sensation should be that they just made
it.
If they took an excessive amount of
time inside the building after the detonation sequence was activated, then
have each character take a wound,
"K," and 6 shock points as a result of
the blast.
Flags
If a hero setback occurs at any time
during this scene, there is a brief power
surge (due to the computer system's
massive drain) and the Storm Knights
lose the last step that they accomplished during the dramatic skill resolution.
And just as a reminder:
The robots are activated when
step A is completed.
The clock is revealed as a countdown to the building's destruction at
02:30.
Variables
This scene should be played out
using the dramatic resolution line of
the Drama Deck.
As has been mentioned above, the
action of this scene is actually getting
the information. The feel should be of
ever-impending doom. This mood
should begin when the Knights get in
the room and realize that all the bad
guys are gone. Where'd they go?
Why'd they go? Then the Knights have
to worry about getting the information before it's wiped out. Then the
robots show up. Then they realize that
the building's going to blow.
The scene is fairly focused on the
information, so the Knights shouldn't
spend too much time wandering
around. The only thing that might be a
problem is if one or more of the Storm
Knights wants to track down the
ninja(s) that left the Nerve Room. If
this is the case, start the ninja in the
room below the Nerve Room and let
Act Two
him run at full speed. If the Knights

can catch him, they get him.
If caught, the ninja (or ninjas) does
the old cyanide in the fake tooth routine and kills himself. He's of no help
to the Knights. If somehow captured,
he refuses to talk.
Awards
Award each player character three
Possibilities at the conclusion of this
act. If anyone seriously harmed one of
the scientists, guards or other innocents, give that character no Possibilities. See the awards section of the Torg
Adventure Book for additional guidelines.
Interlude
The Knights, after getting clear of
the research park, can piece together
the clues they found. The clues reveal
that Wu-Han already has a dig going
on in southern Indiana. This interlude
~sumes that the Knights have arranged transportation to Indiana and
have made most of the journey (with
perhaps a couple of mishaps, but nothing too damaging).
Let the Knights plot out their journey, what vehicle they wantto use and
so forth, and then cut to the next scene.
The situation of the first scene of Act
Three assumes that whatever vehicle
the Knights used to get into the Living
Land broke down just before they got

to the dig.
This can be easily explained, since
the Living Land's dreaded "Deep
Mist" (see the Torg World Book and The
Living Land Sourcebook) is so thickalong
the way that the lackofvisibilitycaused
the crash. Since the Knights are going
to be choosing on their own what
vehicle to take, it's up to you to determine what the effects are of the vehicle
breaking down. The only guidelines
are that the characters shouldn't get
hurt when it stops working and that
the crash has already happened by the
time the next -Scene starts. It is necessary for the sake of the adventure that
the vehicle be unusable as a means of
escape at the end of Act Three.
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Act Three
The Indiana
Dig Site
The Major Beat
In this act the Storm Knights, WuHan's Nile shocktroops, and Kanawa's
power-armored meres all gather in
the heart of the Living Land to get the
map tiles that Stevenson brought back
from India - tiles that will lead whoever possesses them to an ancient
temple in India, which will in tur~
point the way to the legendary POSSIbility Chalice.
SCENE ONE:
Establishing Shot
The Situation
Standard. Describe the scene:
After working your way through
the Living Land for hours, eluding the
creatures and hostile followers of
Baruk Kaah, you come across the archaeological dig mentioned in the
computer file from the research park.
It lies in a clearing just beyond the tree
line ahead and it looks, surprisingly,
free of the Living Land's Deep Mist.
Give the Knights a chance to decide

who is going to go out of the tree line
and up to the edge of the dig to see
what's going on. Then describe the
situation.
~
Machines are set off to one side and
were apparently used to dig out the
site. Natives of the Living Land someEdeinos, some humans who have
become Jakatts - work under the
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watchful guns of Nile shocktroops.

The slaves carefully sift through the
stone foundations of what apparently
were the buildings of the Stevens farm.
There seem to be about 150 Nile
shocktroops, two dozen Edeinos, and
just under 100 native ~UI!,-a~s.
.
One section of the dIg IS lined wIth
gray pup tents, where the shocktroops
are undoubtedly housed. What catches
your eye, however, is a large orange
and yellow tent, covered with scarlet
dragons and oriental symbols.
The Action
Important: The entire dig site is
clear of the Deep Mist, which stops six
meters from the edge of the dig. WuHan has layered the Nile Empire reality over the dig so that he might ~is
pense with the problems of the filSt.
He has rendered the entire dig site a
hardpoint.
. .
This is less of a scene than It IS a
chance for the Knights to get a view of
what's going on and to consider the
options before them.
The event below introduces a bit of
danger to the scene and gives the
Knights the option ofdisguising themselves as Nile shocktroops and wandering the dig freely if they wish.
Nile Shocktrooper: DEX 9, STR9, TOU
9, PER 7, MIN 7, CHA 7, SPI 9.
Skills: beast riding 10, fire combat
10, heavy weapons 10, unarmed combat 10, climbing 10.
Equipment: Each is armed with a
Schmeisser submachinegun (damage
value 17), and a ceremonial dagger
(damage STR+3).
Act Three
Event: Spotted
by Guards
Two guards patrolling the rim of
the dig site come across the Storm
Knights' location. The Knights could
not see them until they went out of the
tree line to the rim themselves. Those
who did not emerge from the jungle
still do not see them.
If the StormKnights are taking pains
not to expose themselves, then allow,
them to make stealth totals, using the
troopers' Perception totals as a difficulty. Any failure means the Knights
have been spotted. If theStorm Knights
simply sidle up to the edge of the dig
without trying to use stealth, then
automatically consider them spotted
by the two patrolling guards.
If spotted, the. troopers who saw
them silently signal two others who
are patrolling a few yards into the
jungle (and are as yet unseen by the
Knights). It is a pre-planned hand
signal which tells the two troopers
posted in the jungle to sneak up on the
intruders.
If any Storm Knights have Perception or find values of 12 or better, they
notice the jungle shocktroops sneaking up on them from behind. If some
of the Storm Knights hung back at the

tree line, it is possible tRey will spot
these troopers sneaking up on their
comrades (have them make find or
Perception totals of difficulty 9).
It's up to the Knights to handle the
situation any way they want. They
might be able to take the troopers out
without a sound or they might have to
fight. The two troopers who first spotted them will not attack until the two
other troopers emerge from the jungle
and make their attack first.
Flags
If the fight with the soldiers produces gun shots or excessive noise, a
squad of soldiers down in the dig is
alerted and rushes up to the site of the
fight. For this encounter, there are two
shocktroops in the squad for every
Storm Knight in the adventure. The
dig is then on alert and the Storm
Knights will have to be very careful.
Variables
Let the Knights creep around slowly
for a bit, looking things over and
coming up with plans. When you introduce the event, it should go very
fast. Simply give them the layout of

the dig as they move around, then the
opportunity to grab some shocktroop
uniforms if they want them.
Some plans they might come up
with are:
Disguising themselves as shocktroops and walking around out in the
open.
Acting as if they are slaves captured by the shocktroops. A human or
an Edeinos player character could roll
right down into the slave sleeping area.
The slaves will not alert the guards in
this event, but will eye the Storm
Knights suspiciously.
Simply skulking about, traveling
through shadows and behind barriers.
Cut To ...
If the Knights (or some of them)
want to check out the dig first hand
(whether disguised or not) go to "Scene
Two: Into The Dig." If none of the
characters decide to explore the dig,
go directly to "Scene Three: Unexpected Guests." Make sure you do this
before they decide to leave the area.
If you cut directly to scene three,
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you should make it clear to the Knights

where the tiles are (in the truck), by
having the Kanawa mercs head
straight for it. Of course, the Knights
are not in control of the truck when the
scene opens (as it is described in the
scene). They'll have to act fast to
somehow get control of it.
SCENE TWO:
Into the Dig
The Situation
Standard. The Storm Knights know
the tiles are somewhere in this area,
they just have to find them. Regardless of their exact strategy, if they enter
the dig site, this is the situation they
find:
As you work you way down the
slope, your eye is drawn once again to
the grandiose tackiness of the dragon
covered tent. And then you spot, at the
center of the dig, the man who must
surely be the owner of the tent - an
elaborately dressed oriental villain
who could only be Wu-Han. He is
havingan argument with a shocktroop
captain.
The Action
When the Knights go down into the
dig you should show the players the
accompanying map of the dig site.
This scene is open ended. In it, the
Knights are given a chance to wander
around a bit and learn about Wu-Han
and his operation. The questions that
need to be answered are: has Wu-Han
found the tiles and, if he has, how
many of them has he found?
In fact, the Jakatt slaves have found
three of the four tiles. The three tiles
that have been located are already
loaded onto the foremost truck at the
vehicle area. The last tile will be found
at the very end of this scene - its
discovery marks the beginning of the
next scene.
The following bits of action might
be considered scenes in themselves,
but for convenience they are all
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grouped here. Keep in mind that each

of these bits can be taking place at the
same time and can even lead one into
another. For example, the Knights
could go down into the dig in disguise, look around for a bit, get called
by Wu-Han, then go to the tent. Or
they could go to the tent, then be called
by Wu-Han. It's been left open ended
so the Knights have more choices.
When the Knights Wander

Around the Dig ...
Whether the Storm Knights are
disguised as shocktroops or not, as
they wander around the dig site they
will see the following:
Jakatt slaves, both human and
Edeinos, carefully digging through the
earth around the old stone outline of
farm buildings. Because Wu-Han has
imposed his reality over the dig site,
they are disconnected from the land
and from Lanala and are very weak.
(For more on Jakatt, Edeinos and
Lanala, see the Torg World Book and
The Living Land Sourcebook.)
Nile shocktroops wandering the
site, carefully watching the slaves and
scanning the edge of the site. All are
armed (see stats from scene one).
If it is evening, there are powerful
electric arc lamps that illuminate the
site with a blue glow. The generator is
not readily apparent, but if the Knights
look for it they'll find it behind the
trucks.
The remains of the farm buildings. There is a bam, a farmhouse, and
a building where hired hands lived.
These are marked on the map.
There are three trucks parked at
one end of a ramp leading out of the
dig. The trucks all have canvas canopies over them. The lead truck has
three of the map tiles stored in the
back for safekeeping. The tiles are
wrapped in canvas and sealed in boxes.
The trucks are also equipped with
special high-tech gizmos that look like
giant fans or propellors (see the Torg
World Book or The Nile Empire
Sourcebook for more info on gizmos).
These devices are used to dissipate the
Living Land's Deep Mist, allowing the
trucks to travel without visibility problems.
Ten shocktroops stand alert and on
guard around the truck. They have all
been instructed to shoot first and ask

questions later.
Wu-Han's tent contains several
important pieces of information. It is
filled with silks and pillows of bright
red and gold. At the center of the room
is a low table with two books on it.
One book is labeled "Progress
Report" and is a journal detailing the
progress of the dig. Most of it is very
boring - records of ammo supplies
used for keeping. the natives in line,
food supplies eaten, and so on. The
only really noteworthy item listed is
the last journal entry, dated yesterday,
which states: "We found the third tile
today. I expect that the fourth cannot
be far from discovery."
The second book has no title on it. It
is Wu-Han's personal notebook detailing his research into Kanawa's
weapons. Wu-Han happens to be
obsessed with Kanawa's technology
- he prefers its more "realistic" nature.
This notebook lets the Knights know
that the atomic bomb plans they have
(if they have them), as well as any
other ninja trinkets the Knights might
have taken from the armory at Magnolia Park, are things that Wu-Han
wants desperately. This will become
important in the next act.
Wu-Hanand
Captain Achmedi
Wu-Han is in charge of the operation. Captain Achmedi is technically
under Wu-Han's command, but in
charge of the shocktroops. Because
Wu-Han is a pulp villain in the truest
tradition of Fu Manchu, he has his
own private obsessions (like hunting
down Kanawa weaponry) that don't
mesh exactly with the wishes of Dr.
Mobius. Captain Achmedi, however,
is a two-dimensional soldier who does
everything by the book.
These differing viewpoints have led
Achmediand Wu-Han to have several
arguments during the course of the
operation, and when the Knights sneak
down to the dig they are in the middle
of another one.
If the Knights wish, they can sneak
up to Achmedi and Wu-Han and attempt to catch a snippet of the conversation. They hear:
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with Nippon Tech, in which he intends to get his hands on an atomic

bomb, may give him the power to
finally challenge the Pharaoh.
Wu-Han will listen to any ideas
anyone has to offer. He usually ignores the suggestions, since his subtle
mind almost always has a better idea,
but he has learned that to make unnecessary enemies is a waste of energy.
As he has said, "It is easy to make
allies, but an enemy can be made only
once."
Achmedi: I don't care what you

say! This operation was delayed far
too long already in order for you to
meet with that Osato character back in
Atlanta. Just what was that about, WuHan?
Wu-Han: That is none of your concern, captain. We have three of the
tiles. We are going to find the fourth
soon. I do hot think Dr. Mobius will be
displeased with our progress.
Achmedi: But we could have been
out of this filthy reality so much sooner
... !
Wu-Han: If alien axioms bother you,
Achmedi,l'm sure the Pharaoh would
be more than happy to strip away
some of your Possibilities so that you
might ... adjust more easily.
If the Knights are standing around
disguised as shocktroops, listening to
the conversation, Achmedi spots them
and calls them over. He looks them
over and then orders them to go to
Wu-Han's tent to retrieve the progress
report. (This makes sure that the
Knights have a chance to see Wu-Han's
notebooks).
When they return with the report,
Achmedi orders the disguised Storm
Knights to check the perimeter of the
dig.
Wu-Han: DEX 8, STR 7, TOU 7, PER

13, MIN 14, CHA 13, SPI 7.
Skills: unarmed combat 10, melee

combat 10, charm 14, persuasion 14,
reality 10, science IS, weird science 16,
trick IS, scholar (master criminal) IS,
test of wills 15.
Possibilities: 12.
Equipment: Wu-Han is of evil inclination. He carries no visible weapons,
but has a poison pin hidden in his robe
which he uses as a last resort. The pin
inflicts an automatic mortal wound
within a single combat round of hitting the target. (Note: Possibilities
cannot be spent to negate this effect.)
Han also has a personal force-field
generator built into his belt. The force
field increases Han's Toughness by
eight (for an armor value of 15) for defensive purposes.
Description: Wu-Han is a horribly
crafty villain from the Nile. He serves
Dr. Mobius, for he knows he does not
have the strength to topple the evil
genius (for the time being), but often
has his own goals that he works toward while serving his master.
One of his obsessions is to gather as
much information about Kanawa
weapons technology as possible. He
believes that the weapons are more
powerful than Nile technology, and
more realistic. But most importantly,
Han believes that with a bit of work,
Kanawa technology can be adjusted to
work well within the pulp reality of
his home cosmo
Han feels that the deal he has made
Captain Achmedi: DEX 10, STR 11,

Skills: reality 9, dodge 11, fire
combat 13, heavy weapons II, melee
12, unarmed combat 12, land vehicles
II, persuasion 9, taunt II, trick 11.
Possibilities: 7.
Equipment: Achmedi is of evil inclination. He carries a 9mm Luger
(damage value 15 range 3-10, 25, 40).
Description: Captain Achmedi is a
tall, strong man. His skin is the color of
bronze and his hair is a bright yellow.
Because most of the children he grew
up with were much darker, he was an
outcast and has never forgiven the
world. He is fiercely loyal to Dr.
Mobius, for it was that mad scientist
who gave him a place where he could
belong.
Achmedi has a terrible temper and
can become violent at a moment's
notice. He has never worked with WuHan before and finds the villain's calm
panache extremely distressing.
Flags
If the Knights are wandering
around dressed as Nile shocktroops,
they might be stopped by Captain
Achmedi and asked what they are
doing. The Knights better come up
with something fast. But before Achmedi can really pursue the matter, the
captain is called away on an important
matter. (This is just to put a bit of fear
into the Knights.)
If the Knights are sneaking around
without a disguise, have them almost
get spotted by shocktroops. For example, if they are sneaking around a
tent:
Gamemaster: You peek your head

around the comer - and find you're
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MapS
Indiana Dig Site
A.PupTents
B. Generators
C. Trucks
D. Slave Sleeping Area
E. Bam Foundation
F. Farmhand Foundation
G. Farmhouse Foundation
H. Grain Cellars
I. Wu Han's Tent
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staring into the back of a shocktroop

soldier. What are you going to do?
They could go back another way.
They could knock the soldier out. It
doesn't matter. This is to give them the
illusion of danger. Movies do this all
the time. We know that heroes in
adventure films are not usually going
to die - but enough problems are
presented along the way that we get
worried.
Event: Eureka!
When the Knights have had a chance
to check out the dig (ahd specifically
to come across the notebooks in WuHan's tent, clueing them in to the fact
that three tiles have already been
found), it's time for them to make their
own discovery:
While walking around (either in
disguise or not) the Knights see a lone
Edeinos, working away from the main
dig, pull a strange object out of the
dirt. This is, in fact, one of the legendary map tiles that everyone is seeking.
The lizard yelps with excitement at
the find, but his scratchy voice is
drowned out because at that very same
instant, a cry goes up from the other
side of the dig: another tile has been
discovered!
If the Knights are dressed as shocktroopers, the lone Edeinos is quick to
give up the tile he has found. If not,
some persuasion might be in order
(the Edeinos is neutral). Wu-Han obviously doesn't know that there is a fifth
tile. This one has none of the map
drawn on it, only some ancient writing (very important writing, as we
will see a bit later).
If the Storm Knights approach the
source of the commotion, they see WuHan pullout a sketch of the first three
map tiles. He placesthe newly-discovered tile on the page next to the drawing of the other tiles. "This completes
the map!" Han beams, "Put it on board
with the others. We will leave at once."
If the Knights found the truck with
the tiles, they already know where
Han's fourth tile is going and can set
up an ambush. If they never found the
truck, they can follow the tile as it is
carried to the truck and put on board.
Variables
Once the Knights get to the dig,
they have lots of options until the last
scene of the act. During that time they
may want to split the party up. In this
case, simply run several of the scenes
at the same time, but try to cut back
and forth between them for effect, just
like in a movie.
Thus, if some of the Knights have
disguised themselves as Nile shocktroops while others are trying to get a
view of the dig, simply play out the
scene with the disguised Storm
Knights for a while, then play out the
group circling the dig, and then cut
back to the first group.
A good technique is to cut when
something bad has just happened. Did
Wu-Han just call the disguised Storm
Knights over to him? When he calls
out, cut to the other group. When the
other group is ambushed by a monster
from the Living Land, cut back to the
first group and ask the players what
their characters are doing in response
to Wu-Han's request.
If the Knights have obtained the
atomic bomb plans from the Magnolia
Park vault, they may try to cut their
own deal with Wu-Han at this time.
The problem is getting to Han while
he is alone. If the Storm Knights try to
bargain with Han within earshot of
others, the nefarious villain will scoff
at the idea (he doesn't want Achmedi
to find out about his private deal). If
they do manage to get him alone, he
will appear interested, but he will tell
the Knights to "wait until he has finished here." He refuses to deal at this
time no matter what the Storm Knights
say.
Cut To
Scene three.
SCENE THREE:
Unexpected Guests
The Situation
Standard. The situation starts off a
new scene because the introduction of

the Kanawa mercenaries changes the
situation so much. Here are some
examples of how you can start this
new scene in a dramatic fashion:
The Knights tried to ambush the
truck but were caught. The Nile shocktroops are about to gun them down
when, "Suddenly ... "
The Knights never found out that
the other tiles are on the truck. They
are following the shocktroops carrying the tile to see where they are taking
it when, "Suddenly ..."
The Knights have secured the
truck, have thrown it into gear, and
are starting up the ramp when, "Suddenly ..."
Suddenly, zipping over the west
end of the dig, you see three hover
sleds top the crest of the low ridge and
come zooming into a group of shocktroops. The Kanawa corporate symbol
(a chrome "K" atop a red circle) is
emblazoned upon the sleds and they
are manned by men in striking samurai power armor.
Achmedi screams, "Guard the
truck!"
The Action
When Achmedi shouts for the truck
to be protected, the Knights can make
a good guess as to where the rest of the
tiles are.
The entire site is thrown into chaos
when the scene begins. These are little
bits of business that you can toss in
depending on where the Storm
Knights are and what they are doing.
The point of all this is that the odds are
so overwhelming a.t the dig site (against
the Storm Knights) that the introduction of the Kanawa mercs provides an
unexpected distraction to give the
Knights a chance to grab the truck and
and drive it up the ramp.
As they try to cut a path to the
trucks, the Kanawa mercs are blasting
away with flechet rifles - guns that
fire tiny shards of metal at incredibly
high speeds - at the Nile shocktroops.
(If the Knights didn't make it to the
truck before, they'll be in a mad rush
to get there now.)
During this time, one of the hover
sleds is stormed by a particularly
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aggressive group of shocktroops and

goes down. The Knights lose sight of
that particular battle.
TheJakattslaves/seeingthattheir
chance to escape has finally arrived,
begin a general uprising. There are
only 114 slaves (24 Edeinos and 90
humans)/but they are fired by a desire
to return to the Land, and charge their
oppressors. Many are cut down by the
machinegun fire of the shocktroops,
but others slay their erstwhile keepers.
The above details are useful for
giving the players a better sense of the
pandemonium that is going on around
their characters. Everything is up for
grabs now.
Variables
This scene is about getting out of
the dig site with the five tiles (the one
tile that the Storm Knights found in
the last scene, the three that were already on the truck, and the tile that
Wu-Han/s slaves unearthed only
moments before).
It is assumed that the Storm Knights
will try to take the tiles out on the truck
that was holding three of the five tiles.
After all, it's right there, ready to go/
holding three of the tiles and ready to
take on the fourth just as the scene
begins. Your players might want to do
something different, however.
If your players don' t see the simple
elegance of grabbing the truck (as
opposed to the other two options walking the tiles out of the site or
trying to get one of the spiffy Kanawa
hover sleds) try this:
If the Knights hesitate either in the
truck, near it, or at a distance from it,
they see shocktroops climbing in and
starting itup. Nothing bothers players
more than gamemaster characters
getting to play with toys when their
characters are standing around doing
nothing. In other words, the truck is
leaving and the Knights had better act
fast.
This whole scene, in fact, should
move fast. The planning portion of the
escape from the site (with the tiles)
should have taken place at the end of
the last scene. The Kanawa raid is a
wrench thrown in/ but one that should
actually help the Knights through its
confusion.
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If the Knights start thinking too

much, start shouting things out like:
"Metal flechets whiz by your heads,
inches away from turning your brain
into tomato soup!" or "A group of
slaves is rushing you - their eyes
express that they can/t tell anymore
who they hate. They just want everyone dead!" or (as mentioned above)
"You hear the rev of an engine. You
see the truck pull out and head toward
the ramp!"
If the truck was grabbed by soldiers/ there are only two or three of
them in the truck. It should be a quick
and easy fight for the Storm Knights to
grab the truck. The tough part comes
in the next scene.
Cut To
Scene four.
SCENE FOUR:
The Big Chase
The Situation
Dramatic. Once the Knights get up
the ramp, they follow the dirt road out
to the highway. Give them a moment
to breath and think things have calmed
down, and then describe the scene:
You roll out onto the highway,
gunning the engine and cranking
everything you can out of the truck.
The Deep Mist parts before you as the
fan gizmos attached to the front of the
truck do their work. Suddenly, you
hear something coming up from behind you. It sounds like the roar of
another truck and the hum of a hover
sled. There/s also the sound of machinegun fire. And then a scream.
The Action
Important: When the Knights drive
the truck out of the dig site, they cross
over into the Living Land. Remember
to adjust rolls for equipment failure
accordingly.
Also, describe the thick, twisted
underbrush of the jungle and the

penetrating mist that enshrouds it.
Give the players a sense of mood and
atmosphere.
The Chase
The hover sled in pursuit of the
Storm Knights' truck has two armored
mercs aboard it. It travels at a speed of
80 miles an hour (value 13) due to the
heavy armor of the mercs. It has a
Toughness of 18. The truck in pursuit
has Captain Achmedi plus six Nile
troops driving in it. Like the Knights'
truck, it has a speed of 60 miles an hour
(value of 12)/ and an overall Toughness
of 20.
Shooting out the tires of a truck
makes it more difficult for the driver,
subtracting two from the bonus generated on subsequent land vehicles totals. (So if three tires are shot out/ the
driver has a minus six penalty to his
generated bonus, and his speed pushes
will be lessened.) Shooting out a tire
requires a vital blow to hit (see the Torg
Rule Book, page 77).
At the start of the scene, the two
pursuing vehicles are SO meters from
the Knights' truck. Achmedi orders
his troops to shoot out the tires of the
Storm Knights' truck, as he tries to
pull up next to it so that his men can
board it. Achmedi himself will not
engage in direct combat unless it is
unavoidable, although he will contribute Possibilities to the fight. It is
important that Achmedi survive the
scene (as he returns for a crucial role
later in the adventure), so have him
escape somehow if the fight turns sour.
The hover sled will probably
outrace the truck, and the Kanawa
mercs start blazing away with their
flechet guns as soon as they are in
range. Use the chase rules in the Torg
Rule Book to determille how the
Knights' truck fares.
Armored Kanawa Meres (2): DEX 10/
STR 12/ TOU11 (l7duetoarmor)/PER
10/ MIN 8/ CHA 9/ SPI 7.
Skills: reality 8/ dodge 11/ fire
combat 14/ unarmed combat 12, land
vehicles 12/ acrobatics 11.
Possibilities: 3.
Equipment: The effects of the power
armor have been calculated into the
attributes. The mercs are armed with
flechet rifles (damage value of 21) and
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powered samurai swords (damage

STR+7).
Description: Their armor is striking; they resemble the ancient samurai of their cosm's past. They have
attacked the camp because they have
lost the atomic bomb plans (their bargaining chip with Wu-Han). If the
plans were not stolen by the Storm
Knights, then they were destroyed in
the building's explosion. In any event,
the time for bargaining is over as far as
they are concerned.
Flag
A hero setback appearing any time
during the chase means that the fan
gizmo attached to the front of the Storm
Knights' truck breaks down. When
this occurs, all subsequent land vehicles
totals generated by the driver have
seven subtracted from them, due to
the obscuring mist.
Variables
The objective of the Knights is to get
away from the bad guys ... not just the
villains right behind them, but the
forces back at the dig. This is why a
stand-up fight with their pursuers is a

bad idea - the Storm Knights have
got to get some distance between them
and their pursuers. This scene ends
when all of the pursuers are stopped,
or when the Storm Knights' truck gets
1,000 meters ahead, and thus become
lost in the Deep Mist.
This scene, then, is about escaping
from the agents of Kanawa and Mobius. Only after putting a lot of distance between themselves and the
minions can they relax.
During the scene, the mercs and
shocktroops will try to ride up alongside the Knights' truck and attempt to
board and commandeer the vehicle.
The Knights may in turn try to do the
same thing when the bad guys drive
up alongside of them. Crossing between moving vehicles is a 10:1 Shot
(difficulty of 13) using Dexterity or
acrobatics.
Remember, the tiles are on the truck
and the tiles are what it's all about, so
the mercs and Achmedi are going to
make sure that nothing happens to
them. Since the truck can't simply be
blown up, as long as the Knights stay
in the truck they are fairly safe. The
tiles actually act as protection for the
Storm Knights.
Have one of the Kanawa mercs nail

one of Achmedi's men during the
chase, but leave the rest of the distraction to the Storm Knights. This is the
end of the act and Knights should feel
like they got a big finish out of escaping from these villains.
Some events that could happen:
Depending on how the rolls go,
you can have the two vehicles come
up on either side of the Storm Knights.
When everybody from one vehicle is wiped out (or if no one is at its
controls), have the vehicle spin out of
control and smash into a group of
trees. Describe the loud explosion and
fireball that accompanies the crash.
This will help the players feel that they
are getting rid of the bad guys.
Remember that the bad guys can
enter through the back of the truck, up
the sides and through the top of the
truck, into the cab of the truck through
either door, or onto the hood of the
vehicle. Keeping your grip on a part of
a moving vehicle where no one was
ever supposed to be requires a total of
12 in Dexterity or acrobatics.
If Osato is still alive at this point,
he is one of the Kanawa mercs chasing
the Storm Knights in this scene. His
stats can be found in Act One.
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Awards
Give each Storm Knight two Possibilities for completing this act. See the
awards section of the Torg Adventure
Book for additional guidelines.
Interlude
Once they escape the bad guys, the
Knights will have a chance to look the
tiles over. (They should be rushed
enough not to have been able to study
the tiles in any detail before this.) Hand
the players the picture of the Destiny
Map tiles, located on page xx.
Once the tiles are put together (it is
rather obvious how they are supposed
to be arranged), the Knights can see
why Wu-Han thought that the fourth
tile was the last one. Those first four
tiles form an ancient map (which looks
complete), while the fifth, found by
the Storm Knights, has only ancient
writing on it. There are three lines of
writing on the tile, and thinking back
to the computer readout of Robert
Clive's journal which they got back at
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the research park, the players should

know the translation:
YOU HAVE FOUND THE TEMPLE

OF THE MAP.
HERE WHERE THE HUMANS
JOIN HANDS.
THE TIME OF POSSIBILITIES HAS
BEGUN.
Looking to the map, players should
notice that on each of the map tiles
there is a tiny figure of a man holding
out one outstretched hand in a certain
direction. All they need do is draw
lines that extend from each of the figures' outstretched hands and connect
to the other figures. The point where
the lines intersect is where the temple
is located, or "where the humans join
hands."
If your group of players simply can't
come up with the meaning of this clue,
allow their characters to generate Mind
or scholar totals. A total of 12 or higher
allows the character to come up with
the meaning. An Idea card from the
Drama Deck will also do it.
After checking an atlas (which

should be readily available) in an attempt to match the terrain features of
their map against a map of India, they
determine that the temple must be in
an area near the city of Tezpur. (A
modern map of the area with roughly
the same dimensions as the Destiny
Map is included on page xx. The map
tiles overlay perfectly onto the modern map.)
The Knights shoUld realize that WuHan must have had some idea of the
area depicted on the map, and will
attempt to pick up their trail somehow. Also, DeVris is still tracking the
StormKnights, though he did not make
an appearance at the dig site - he's
waiting until the temple itself is found
for that. Only the Nippon agents are
somewhat stymied at this point and
have no way to follow the Storm
Knights.
Cut To ...
It's time to go to Act Four.
Act Four
Act Four
Temple of the
Destiny Map
The Major Beat
In this act the Storm Knights must
beat Wu-Han (who is hot on their trail)
to the temple of the Destiny Map. Once
there, they must seal themselves up in
the temple while they wait for the
mystical energy of the map to re-form
so they can get the clue they need to
acquire the Possibility Chalice. Meanwhile, Wu-Han's shocktroops have
surrounded the temple and the
Knights must keep them from entering. Finally, after the mystery of the
map has been solved, the Knights must
escape from the temple, either through
stealth or by cutting a bargain with the
insidious Wu-Han ...
SCENE ONE:
Bargains and
Bounty Hunters
The Situation
Standard. The Storm Knights may
choose any number of ways to get to
the town of Tezpur in Northeast India,
but eventually they should arrive
there. When they do, describe the
scene:
The town of Tezpur is alive with
activity. The air is choked with the
innumerable spices that are cooked
into every morsel of food served here.
The streets are crowded and bustling;
people shouting to each other across
the crowded streets in all manner of
exotic dialects, children laughing jovially, a roar of sizzling food coming
from the cafe nearby.

A small boy approaches you. His
face is expressionless as he hands you
a note scrawled on aged parchment. It
reads: liThe time of Possibility has
begun. Follow this child, and begin
your journey."
The Action
Since the phrase liThe time of Possibilities has begun" is one of the translated lines from the fifth map tile (seen
by the Storm Knights, but not WuHan), they should be intrigued enough
to follow the boy. They may also realize that the translation was also once
on the Kanawa computer banks, and
thus become cautious.
If the Storm Knights absolutely
refuse to follow the boy, an old man
appears at the doorway of the nearby
cafe. He seems barely able to stand, yet
he waves at the Storm Knights, ushering them inside. If this still isn't enough,
you'll have to find some creative way
of getting them inside the cafe.
If they follow the boy, they are led
to the very same cafe. Sitting alone at
a corner booth is an old man (the same
one mentioned above), his face withered and dryas the Indian soil in
summer. He smiles wide when he sees
the Storm Knights, beckoning them to
come sit beside him.
The old man's name is Anjura, and
he is somewhat of a legend among the
people ofTezpur. His historic pilgramages to various holy lands actually
brought him to the temple of the Destiny Map when he was a youth, but he
never went inside. He was aware, even
then, that it was an important placenot only a place of importance from
the past, but a place of importance for
the future.
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Anjura received a VISiOn in his

dreams, which foretold the coming of
the Storm Knights, and upon seeing
them in the flesh, he rejoices openly,
speaking remarkably good English:
"For many unsleeping nights have
I seen your faces. Now I am not sure I
believe my own tired eyes. The temple
is not far, but there are others who
desire to find it as well. I have seen
them in my dreams. They follow close
behind. You must make haste."
Although it hurts him to admit it,
Anjura cannot accompany the Storm
Knights on their quest because of his
age. He does not hesitate to give them
detailed instructions on how to find
the temple, however.
Anjma: DEX 6, STR 6, TOU 5, PER 12,

MIN 12, CHA 12, SPI 13.
Skills: willpower 14, scholar (Indian mythos) 16.
Possibilities: 10
Description: Anjura is fluent in
English as well as the area's dialect of
Assamese. His gestures are very graceful, and his smile is warm.
Event: The Spy

Just as Anjura is finishing the instructions, have the Knights generate
Perception totals with a difficulty
number of 12. Whoever makes it notices an old Indian man staring intently at Anjura from a corner of the
cafe.
This man is actually a spy working
for Wu-Han. Unknown to the Storm
Knights, the pulp villain had made
plans to insure that he would never
lose the map tiles. Upon finding the
first three tiles, he soaked them in
liquid Phrenium, a rare element which
is easily traceable by use of a special
gizmo developed by Han himself. The
element is not detectable without the
use of this gizmo, however, so there is
no way that the Knights could know
that the tiles were "bugged."
Using this weird science tracking
device, he has followed hot on the
heels of the Storm Knights, and even
now waits close by to pick up the trail
once more, in the hope that it will lead
him to the temple of the Destiny Map.
He has also flown a new unit of shocktroops into the area; they are waiting
at a nearby airfield.
The spy is reading Anjura's lips. If a
Storm Knight looks the man over, he
sees that the man's hands are hidden
in the folds of his cloak and are doing
something. If the Knights go after the
spy he tries to escape through the back
of the cafe.
Should they catch him, they discover that the spy has a Morse code
sending device hidden in his cloak
and has been busy tapping away to
Wu-Han everything that Anjura said.
If questioned, the spy only knows that
Wu-Han is in the area and that he has
soldiers with him. (This requires a
languages total of no less than 12.) He
was told to follow the Storm Knights
and report anything that happened to
them.
Wu-Han's Spy: DEX 12,STR8, TOU9,
PER 12, MIN 8, CHA 8, SPI 9.
Skills: stealth 14, scholar (lip read)
13.
Description: The spy is a gnarled
and bent little man who looks as if he
were transmuted from a dead oak tree
into a human being. He speaks the
local Assamese and tends to spit
through his toothless gums when talking.
Staging Tips
To make sure that the Storm Knights
aren't tipped off too early that the
information Anjura is giving them
could fall into the wrong hands, make
sure to play up the noise and confusion of the cafe. At a cursory glance no
one is paying any attention to them
and, in fact, the rest of the patrons all
seem to be having a great time laughing and telling stories very loudly.
If the Knights want to sit away from
everyone, let them. The only requirements are that there is no separate
room to hold the conference in, and
that since Anjura was taken in 10 years
ago by the cafe's owner, the old man
has never left the shop. He's too weak
to travel, even outside of the door.
He's great for business, however,
because everyone loves to hear him
tell his stories.
If the Knights spot the spy, they
know they are in a rush. If they don't
know how close Wu-Han is, they might

slow down. That will be dealt with in
the next scene.
If the Knights think to move the
conversation to a more private place
(and thus, out of ear- and lip-shot of
the spy), then the airplane attack from
the nextscene does notoccur (see "Flags"
in scene two).
Cut To ...
With the old man's directions, the
Storm Knights should be able to find
the temple, but the trek is an arduous
one. They can take native guides, or
they might decide to strike out on their
own. In any event, they will have to do
most of the journey on foot, as they
will be traveling through dense jungle
underbrush at times. When the team
has prepared everything for their journey and starts out into the jungle, go to
scene two.
SCENE TWO:
Perilous Trek
The Situation
Standard. You can skip over the
travel portion of the scene; the tempo
at this point should be fast, beginning
to build toward a climax. Let them
know they're on their way, and describe the scene:
The dense green jungle stretches as
far as the eye can see, sloping gently
upward to the foothills of the awesome Himalayas. A cacophony of living, breathing sounds fills your ears as
you enter the moist underbrush, and it
seems as if your progress is being
monitored by a thousand watchful
eyes.
The trail described by the old man
is not a well-worn one, and the going
is slow in certain spots, as machetes
hack through seemingly endless obstructions. At long last, you come to
what the old man called "The Crying
Bridge." It is an old hemp and vine
rope bridge which stretches across a
canyon some 25 meters across and, by
your eye, at least 60 meters down.
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Act Four
By"crying," the old man must have

meant the many rivulets of water that
spout from the sheer face of the far
canyon wall and cascade down to the
rushing stream at the ravine's bottom.
It is an inspiring sight, but it's obvious that no one has seen it in some
time, judging by the age and condition
of the man-made bridge, and the overgrowth on either side.
The Action
The Knights' objective in this scene
is simply to cross the ravine. This may
prove more difficult than it seems,
however. There are a number of obstacles involved, some of them natural
and some distinctly man-made.
The Bridge
The "Crying Bridge," as the old
man referred to it, has been around for
some time, and this should be evident
to the Knights. In fact, old Stevenson
himself used the bridge when he first
found the temple back in the 18th
century.
The bridge is actually quite safe to
cross, its remarkable engineering keeping it sturdy (though not sturdy-looking) for countless years. Try to emphasize how rickety the bridge looks.
They'll most likely devise some scheme
of their own to cross the canyon, but
should they try the bridge, they'll find
it to be perfectly sound.
The problem with the bridge is
twofold. First, the structure is designed
around three main hemp shafts. One
shaft forms the actual ''bridge,'' or the
place where your feet walk across. The
other two hemp lines are positioned a
meter and a half higher than the walking shaft, providing hand holds on
either side of the person crossing the
bridge.
Unfortunately, the cord you walk
across is relatively thin, and requires
you to walk as if on a tightrope. The
hand hold ropes balance you as you
walk across, but you must grip them at
all times or risk slipping.
A basic Dexterity or climbing total of
8 is needed to cross each third of the
bridge while holding on to both hand
holds (it takes three rounds to cross). If
only one hand is used, the total needed
is 10, and if no hands are used, a 15.
Characters whose totals fall short

are allowed to generate a Strength total
(difficulty of 10) to try to grab the
bridge before plummeting to their
doom. Damage value for the fall is
equal to the character's weight value
plus the value of the distance fallen
which, in this case, is 9. Roll a bonus
for this value and generate a damage
total.
Crossing the bridge goes in thirds
(it takes three rounds to cross). Wait
until at least a few of the StormKnights
get a third ofthe way across the ravine,
and then hit them with the event below.
Event: Strafing Run

Coming in low, running across the
length of the canyon, is a World War
Two-style fighter plane. As it closes to
within range of the characters crossing the bridge, it opens fire with its
wing-mounted guns, strafing the
length of the bridge.
The plane is a Nile Empire "Paket"
fighter. Wu-Han'sspiestoldhimwhich
direction the Storm Knights headed
after they left Tezpur. Instead of tailing them on foot, the pulp villain
ordered air reconnaissance. The
plane's pilot has been given the "shoot
to kill" okay by Han, after radioing in
to Han that he found the temple from
the air by following the stormers'
projected path through the jungle.
The pilot attacks using his heavy
weapons skill at a base difficulty of 11
for hitting the stormers. Normal rules
for attacking multiple targets apply.
The Knights can return fire using the
plane's Dexterity plus speed (total of
20) as the difficulty to hit it.
The pilot continues his attack until
the Knights get off of the bridge and
into the jungle underbrush, or until he
is shot down.
Flags
Remember, if the Storm Knights
were extremely cautious when speaking with Anjura, there hasn't been
enough time for Wu-Han to scramble
the fighter, and the event does not take
place.
Variables
The players may come up with a
number of ingenious ways of crossing
the ravine without using the bridge,
and for dealing with the fighter attack.
This shouldn't hamper your plans too
much, unless one of the Knights is
from the Nile and has the flight power.
Use your best judgment in determining the feasiblity of whatever alternative bridging method the players
might devise. Emphasize the danger
involved in the crossing by having a
piece ofequipmentaccidentlyfall from
one of the characters and plummet to
the bottom of the ravine, where it is
dashed against the jagged rocks.
Cut To ...
Once the ravine is crossed, it is only
a short romp through the underbrush
to the temple. Keep in mind that, if it
hasn't been shot down, the fighter will
still be circling overhead, waiting to
strafe any exposed Storm Knights.
When they reach the temple, begin
scene three.
SCENE THREE:
The Temple of the

Destiny Map
The Situation
Nile Empire PMl "Paket" Fighter:

Tech 21, Speed 400 kph/250 mph
(value 15), Passengers 1, TOU 17.
Weapons: Wing machineguns,
damage value 23.
NilePilot:STR9, DEX 10, TOU9,PER
11, MIN 10, CHA 8, SPI 7.
Skills: air vehicles 13, heavy weapons 12.
Standard. Describe the scene:

You finally clear the brush of the
jungle, having faithfully followed
Anjura's instructions. Before you is a
large clearing which leads up the edge
of a rocky hill. Built into the front of the
hill is the menacing entrance to one of
India's most ancient temples.
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The entrance itself is a large, dark

opening adorned with mystic writing.
Up and to the right from the main
doorway are slits carved into the stone,
like those found in medieval castles.
Carved all about the face of the
temple are monkeys with six or more
arms. The monkeys are smiling and
seem to reach out toward you in an
eerily inviting fashion.
The Action
The temple entrance is 60 meters
from the jungle tree line. If you feel
like roughing the Knights up a bit,
have the Nile fighter make another
strafing run as they cross to the temple
door.
Within the front door of the temple
is a large, stone rectangular door that
can be slid out to block the temple's
entrance (hundreds of years ago the
temple served as a kind of fort, to
protect the Destiny Map within from
trespassers). The characters notice the
door and its gears as soon as they enter
the temple. There is a stairwell to the
right that leads up to a room that has
thin slits facing the clearing outside,

for use with missile weapons.
The stone door is very important
because moments after the Storm
Knights enter the temple, Wu-Han's
shocktroops will begin to parachute
into the clearing from a Nile transport
plane circling above the temple. The
door will be needed to keep the shocktroops from overwhelming the Storm
Knights (see the events below).
The door is put in place by turning
a handle made of oak. This handle in
turn spins a gear made of stone, which
turns another stone gear, and then a
third. This third gear is built into the
ground and turns against teeth built
into the bottom of the rectangular door.
The gear drives the door across the
doorway (in conjunction with stone
rollers that are built into the ground).
Unfortunately for the Storm
Knights, the door hasn't been used for
a long time and is in disrepair. Specifically, the wooden spindle of the second gear has partially rotted and the
gear has slipped out of place.
Now, it might be possible for the
Knights (depending on their various
abilities) to move the stone without
~ Diagram
~ Temple Door
StoneDoor~
Gear #1
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using the gears (pushing it across the

doorway using a magical wind, let's
say). The door has a weight value of
22, which is extremely heavy, but not
insurmountable to Storm Knights.
If the gears are used, reduce the
weight value to 14 since the gears
augment the force used (which is why
they were put there). To do this, the
Knights must fix the broken gear. This
involves simply readjusting the
wooden shaft so that the part that is
still solid holds the gear up. Fixing the
gear takes three rounds.
Whether the Knights use gears or
their shoulders, getting the door across
the opening of the temple is a three
step (A, Band C) Dramatic Skill Resolution. The skill check is against
Strength, using the values above as the
target difficulty number.
The three steps reflect:
A. The fact that the rollers are old
and stuck, requiring them to be unjammed from their stiffened positions.
B. That the door, over the centuries,
has settled at an angle that doesn't
match its original design, and it must
be lifted to an approach angle that
matches the groove set for it.
Act Four
They only got to the second room

and were hanging out when the shooting from out front drew their attention. This means that while the characters are paying attention to the hordes
in front of the temple and trying to get
the door shut, they're most likely going
to get caught off guard when they are
attacked from the rear and pinned in a
cross-fire. The soldiers inside the
temple will do pretty much like the
soldiers outside - take up a defensive
position (most likely the doorway
between the first chamber and the
second) and plug away at the Storm
Knights.
Staging Tips
C. That the door must be slid into

place using brute force. Of course, the
easier the task the faster it can go, so if
the Knights come up with some interesting ideas, lower their target number.
Event: The Arrival of

Wu-Han
Wu-Han and his shocktroopers
begin to parachute down into the
temple clearing some time during this
scene (and actually, although his arrival is an Event, it is what the scene is
about). This can happen just after the
characters enter the temple, while they
are looking over the gear apparatus,
or after they have explored the guard
room up the stairs. All that matters
here is that the characters get no farther than the first room of the temple.
The soldiers should start arriving before they can go further, and they must
try to close the temple door.
Wu-Han has Achmedi and 60
shocktroops with him. They land in
squads of four, one squad every four
rounds. It is a relatively dangerous
drop, and many of the troopers get
hung up in the jungle trees as they
come down, having missed the drop
zone. This gives the Storm Knights a
little bit of time to gather their wits and
close the t~mple door while the shock-
troops gather themselves and regroup.

If the characters use the temple for
cover (which seems probable), the pulp
villains take up positions in the jungle
brush and try to pick them off (those
who come down in the clearing fire at
the pes as they drop from the sky).
Wu-Han and Achmedi both land
safely.
While waiting for the rest of his
troopers to land or emerge from the
jungle, Wu-Han's forces are somewhat
outgunned, yet he still screams "Get
up there, you fools!" ordering the
squads he has at hand to attempt to
work their way up to the doorway
while the characters are probably laying down a withering cover fire and
trying feverishly to close the doors.
But for the most part, Wu-Han is content to know that as long as the characters are inside the temple, they are not
going anywhere. He can send word
backforfood. The Storm Knights can't.
Flags
If the characters did not notice the
spy at the cafe, and they didn't take off
for the temple within an hour of catching the spy, four shocktroops sent
ahead by Wu-Han entered the temple
before the Storm Knights. (The spy relayed the exact temple location to Han,
who sent out the few troops he had
stationed in Tezpur ahead of the Storm
Knights.)
This scene is about securing the

temple and leaving the bad guys outside. While the shocktroops should
sometimes make valiant efforts to take
out the Storm Knights, Achmedi definitely sees the matter as a standoff and
isn't going to waste his men one by
one. Like Wu-Han, he knows time is
on their side. Just keep the bullets
flying until the door gets shut.
The only problem that might come
up is if the characters don't think of
shutting the door. This might happen
if they get so panicked by the arrival of
Wu-Han and his goons that they just
want to escape into or away from the
temple. Simply remind them that if
they run they are sure to be pursued,
and probably overwhelmed by the
shocktroops.
SCENE FOUR:
Getting To The
Map Room
The Situation
Standard. This scene begins as the
door slams shut, as a continuation of
the previous scene. The tempo of this
scene, though, is much calmer than
that of the previous. When the door
closes, describe the scene.
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Act Four
Once the door closes, the chamber

is plunged into darkness. From outside you hear bullets slamming against
the giant stone slab, then muffled
shouts, obviously orders to begin
breaking the door down.
The Action
If the Storm Knights have a light
source or there is someone in the group
who can see in the dark (dwarves,
someone with cybernetically enhanced
eyes), simply describe to the players
what their characters see, as defined in
the description of the temple below.
If no light is available and no one
can see in the dark, they will have to
feel their way along the walls of the
temple. If this is the case, give the
players partial descriptions of the
rooms as they pass through them. For
example, room #2, because it is larger,
sounds larger- the echo of footsteps is
farther away than in a smaller room.
The temple's traps have long since
stopped working and the characters
have only to work their way to the
farthest room in the temple. Remember that they do not know this. Your
players will most likely travel carefully and cautiously. Let them fear a
trap. An actual danger does not have
to be borne out to have suspense present in a scene.
Meanwhile the shocktroops will be
trying to get to the door to crack it
open and trying to get up to the arrow
slits from the outside in order to destroy the stones between the slits and
thus gain entrance into the temple.
The players may want to leave
someone at the guard post (Room 3) to
take pot shots at the villains and drive
them back. This is a good idea. Just
keep in mind that all those shocktroops will be able to provide good
cover for each other by spraying the
slits with machinegun fire.
The door is impenetrable with the
tools that the shocktroops have, but
don'ttell the players that. They should
be hurried along by the threat of WuHan breaking through.
The Temple
Room 1: The entrance area. This
room has the large door and the stairs
leading up to the guard area.
Room 2: This is a large hemispherical room made of smooth pink marble.

There is a stone fountain at the center
of the room that has long since run
dry. The fountain is circular and the
center is made up of small stone flowers. A long time ago water flowed
from the center of each flower.
There is a large metal door that
leads into room four. The dooris closed
but not locked.
Room 3: This is the guard post located up the stairs from Room 1. It is
only three metersby three meters wide.
Room 4: The Map Room. When the
door to this room is opened, go immediately to the "Return of the Cyberknight" event, then return to this section for a description of the room:
The characters see steps leading
down into an octagonally shaped
room. Unlit lanterns hang on the walls.
On the floor are many old, nearly disintegrated pillows. Their colors were
once bright, but are now faded. They
crumble at the slightest touch.
At the opposite end of the room
from the door are the four other tiles of
the Destiny Map, still attached to the
wall after all these years. The remaining tiles contain only text, all in an
ancient language matching the words
on the tile that the characters found.
Show the players the second map
prop (page 63).
If the five tiles the characters have
(from Act Three) are put up against

these four tiles, in the obvious empty
area where they once rested, a bright
blue flash springs from the cracks in
the tiles. The light momentarily blinds
any characters looking at the tiles.
At this point, hold both map props
up in front of a light (making sure to
keep them properly lined up as you do
so. The outline of the Possibility Chalice, which is drawn on the back of the
second map prop, should show
through to indicate a precise location
on the map.
When their eyes readjust, the Storm
Knights can see that the tiles have
been "transformed" - or, at least that
is what each one of them thinks at first
- for they can now read the text on the
five tiles. But on careful examination,
they see that the words are written
exactly as they were - the characters
can simply understand them now.
Each person understands the words in
his own tongue.
Reading from left to right (starting
with the one tile with text on it that the
players already have), here is whatthe
tiles say:
YOU HAVE FOUND THE TEMPLE

OF THE MAP
HERE WHERE THE HUMANS
JOIN HANDS
THE TIME OF POSSIBILITIES HAS
BEGUN
SEE NOW THE RESTING PLACE
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OF THE CHALICE
FOR ALL THESE UNTOLD EONS
YOUR DESTINY CALLS YOU
THERE
TO ACCEPT THE DEFEAT OF THE
FOUR COLORS AND FIND THE
CHALICE
THEN CARRY THE CUP NORTH
FROM THE TEMPLE OF THE MAP
TO WHERE THE MEN OF THE
NORTH JOIN HANDS
AND LIGHT THE SIGNAL FIRE TO
CALL OUR DISTANT SAVIORS
Most of the words refer to elements

of the next adventure in the Relics of
Power trilogy. They explain that (in the
next Torg adventure) the Storm
Knights must travel to the spot on the
map where the chalice is, get it, and
then bring it to another spot hidden
deep in the Himalayas.
Although it may take some time for
the players to decipher the clues that
point out the Himalayan location, they
should get the idea after solving the
clues that led them to this temple. All
they need do is draw a line due north
from the temple of the Destiny Map
("north from the temple of the map"),
then draw another line that connects
the outstretched hands of the two
northern-most human figures ("where
the men of the North join hands"). The
point where the two lines intersect is
the ultimate destination of the chalice.
Naturally, idea cards and scholar or
Mind totals might be needed here to
help the players out a bit. Since finding the location is imperative to the
adventure trilogy, let them keep trying
until someone gets it.
What to Do with the Map

Once the characters have gotten the
information from the map, they must
come up with a plan to prevent the
bad guys from ever seeing it. The easiest solution is to destroy the tiles or at
least take the tiles down and keep
them. Since Stevenson took the map
apart years ago they know that this is
a possibility. Its also the right thing to
do. If the characters don't do something with the map, Wu-Han will be
right on their tail in the next adventure.
Another idea is to make a sketch of
the map, or simply to use the modern
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atlas map (provided in the back of the

book) to mark the necessary locations.
In any event, just make sure that before they leave the temple, the players
have some idea of where they must go
to find the chalice and where they
must take it.
Event: Return of the

Cyberknight
When the Storm Knights reach the
map room, they are in for a little surprise. Standing with his back to the
Storm Knights against the far wall of
the room is the Cyberknight. He appears to be reading the four remaining
tiles on the wall.
Using his radioactive tracers, among
other things, Pierre DeVris tracked the
Storm Knights to India. He was flying
reconnaisance in his ultralight (currently parked out of sight in the jungle,
about 1/8 of a mile from the temple)
when he picked up the radio transmission of the Nile pilot who reported
finding the temple from the air. It was
a simple matter for DeVris to find the
coordinates, land, and slip into the
temple before Han's men or the Storm
Knights.
If the characters open fire on DeVris
right away, they find that their shots
seem to pass rigt through the Cyberknight. This is because the target they
are shootingat is actually a holographic
image, projected by the real DeVris,
who is crouched in the shadows of a
corner of the room. This diversion
allows DeVris to get the jump on the
Storm Knights. His strategy is simply
to blow away all of the characters and
recover the map tiles from them.
DeVris' stats are located in Act One
(page 13).
In addition to the holo-image of
himself, DeVris has set another trap
for the PCs. He has rigged an electrified stunner field over the floor of the
entrance to the map room. Anyone
stepping on the two-meter square ~
front of the door is caught by the field
and given an automatic knockdown
effect before they can take any action.
Characters who make a Perception or
find total of 16 will notice the tiny field
generator on the floor next to the door.
You should only allow this roll if the
player asks for it.
Note: if DeVris was killed earlier in

the adventure, then this cyberknight
is an associate, sent by the Council of
Bishops to follow in DeVris' footsteps.
Cut To ...
The scene ends with the characters
wiser to the location of the chalice and
with the bad guys thwarted (if the
Storm Knights destroyed the map, and
managed to defeat DeVris). There is
still a problem, however. The temple
is surrounded by shocktroops. The
Storm Knights must still escape.
There are two options the characters can choose from at this point. One
is to fight their way out. Not a wise
option, but certainly one with precedent in adventure fiction. If the characters choose this option go to "Breakout!"
The other is to strike a deal with
Wu-Han. If the characters kept the
plans of the atomic bomb from the
research park, they know they have a
bargaining chip. He might be willing
to bargain at this point, even if he
didn't before. If the characters want to
try this tactic go to "The Bargain."
SCENE FIVE:
The, Bargain
The Situation
Dramatic. Depending on how the
characters approach it, you may need
to modify the read aloud below; essentially, this scene begins as the Storm
Knights make contact with Wu-Han:
You stand in the guard room, waving a piece of cloth to the soldiers
outside, indicating that you wish to
parlay. The shocktroops stop firing,
looking back at Achmedi for instructions.
''What are you doing?" Achmedi
bellows at his men. "We won't bother
talking to these fools."
Wu-Han interjects, his insidious
voice filling the clearing like a poison
through the bloodstream, "Aren't you
forgetting that I am in charge here,
Act Four
Captain Achmedi? If these stormers

wish to talk with me, I will hear them
out."
He looks up at you with a disturbing smile.
The Action
It' s up to the characters to startthinking about what kind of arrangements
they want to make - not only for the
deal but for the how the deal is going
to be negotiated. Will Wu-Han come
into the temple? Will they meet out
front?
Here are some things to keep in
mind:
Even if the characters have already destroyed the map, the villains
don't know that and the threat of
destroying the map can be used as a
means ofdemanding negotiations with
Wu-Han. Even Achmedi, who is shout-
ing at Wu-Han not to bargain with the

Storm Knights, will have to give in if
this is brought up.
If all the Storm Knights come out,
Achmedi will give the orders to shoot,
regardless of what Wu-Han has arranged.
~. Wu-Han will not go into the
temple, even under guard. If this is
proposed, he will suggest instead that
he and a single Storm Knight meet
about six meters from the front of the
temple's doorway. The shocktroops
will stay where they are.
Wu-Hanis willing to forget about
the map as long as he gets the atomic
bomb plans. This means that the characters can work out a deal with him
where he will lie to Achmedi and tell
the captain that the characters are to be
given safe passage from the temple in
exchange for leaving the map on the
wall of the temple. He will insist to
Achmedi that he trusts the Storm
Knights. If the characters in fact destroyed or took the map, Wu-Han will
merely shrug his shoulders and suggest he needs to "work on distrusting
people more."
Whoever makes the bargain with
Wu-Han will have to work out the
details of how to get the bomb plans to
the oriental villain. They might make
an agreement to hide them somewhere
in the temple. They could even put
them in a sack and claiin the sack
contains the tiles whenWu-Hanknows
it really has the plans (so it will once
again look like Wu-Han was tricked).
All that matters is that the plans cannot be exchanged in full view of the
shocktroops.
Wu-Han begins Hostile toward the
characters for interaction purposes.
Being a pulp mastermind villain, he is
always willing to hear out his opponents for the chance he might profit by
it, but he certainly isn't going to trust
the characters easily.

The StormKnights can achieve three
possible levels of success when negotiating with Han. If a single negotiated
agreement result is obtained (see the
Torg Rule Book, page 72)/Han will agree
to an exchange, but he will doublecross
the Storm Knights at the first possible
moment.
If the Storm Knights continue to
negotiate even after reaching this result/ and they get another negotiated
agreement, Han will agree to the deal,
and allow the characters to get a bit of
a head start, only ordering his troops
to attack once he realizes he's been
tricked, when they/ve reached the
jungle tree line.
A third negotiated agreement is the
ultimate positive result obtainable by
the characters. If this is achieved, Han
will see to it that the Storm Knights are
not attacked until they reach the rope
bridge.
After the first negotiated agreement,
the characters must start tossing in
some"extras" in order for Han to warm
to the deal (and thus obtain additional
negotiated agreements). Have Han hint
that better results are possible by saying things like: "Have you any other
trinkets to sweeten the pot?"
There are several types of "trinkets" that Han will find acceptable,
and which will allow the characters to
achieve a better result. These include
high tech weapons and equipment,
particularly Nippon (if the Storm
Knights found the ninja armory in Act
II, they'll probably have some ammunition here), one of the tiles, or even a
Storm Knight hostage.
Wu-Han also has a chance to achieve
negotiated agreements by using his own
character interaction skills against the
Storm Knights. For each negotiated
agreement Han achieves, one of the
negotiated agreements acheived by the
Storm Knights is effectively cancelled.
Flags
If the negotiations take too long,
Achmedi gets extremelyimpatientand
opens fire on the Storm Knights. The
rest of the shocktroops follow suit in
the next round. The characters are then
forced to make a run for the bridge. If
this happens go to "Breakout!"
This bit will only work if you make

sure the characters know Achmedi is
getting more and more impatient (and
furious) during the negotiations. The
point is not to surprise the players
with Achmedi's attack, but put a pressure on them, making the scene more
tense.
Staging Tips
This scene should be run as a dramatic encounter. In fact, it is the climactic scene in the adventure. If everything goes right, the heroes get the
information, the bad guys don/t, and
the characters escape. However,
there's limited violence (if everything
goes right for the characters). Because
most people expect a big fight to finish
an adventure, care must be taken to
make sure that the scene plays like a
climax.
To accomplish this, assume the
negotiation begins as soon as the characters get Achmedi/s and Wu-Han/s
attention. This means that the characters can start playing cards to build
their card pools because the situation
has already started.
Try to urge the characters to obtain
better results from the negotiations by
having Han milk them for additional
goodies. Make sure that the players
see how impatient Achmedi is getting
as the deal progresses. Have him order a few troopers to take up flanking
positions just to throw a scare into the
Storm Knights.
Cut To ...
No matter what result the charcters
obtained with their negotiations, go to
"Breakout."
SCENE SIX:
Breakout!
The Situation
StandardlDramatic. Depending on
what level of agreement was reached
during the negotiations with Han, start
the shocktroopers' attack either at the
entrance to the temple, the edge of the
jungle tree line or at the bridge (as
detailed in the previous scene). This

scene can also occur without prior
negotiations, if the Storm Knights
chose to make a break as soon as they
saw the map. When you start the attack/ describe the scene.
The roar of machine gun fire is
deafening. Lead flies around you as
thick as flies around a rotting corpse.
Your only chance against these odds is
to make a rush for the bridge and cut
it behind you.
The Action
If the characters chose not to bargain with Wu-Han, and skipped the
last scene, this scene is run as dramatic.
If they did try to bargain, regardless of
the outcome of the negotiations, this
scene is run as standard.
The action begins when the characters make a mad rush toward freedom. When Achmedi and Wu-Han
arrived, they had sixty men with them.
Even if the Storm Knights bumped off
a good number of them during The
Temple of the Destiny Map scene, there
should be several dozen left. Getting
out of this one alive will be very hard
(expect some Storm Knights to come
very close to buying it here), which is
why the bargaining scene is so important - it gives them a chance to avoid
the overwhelming odds.
Grouping
To keep yqu from having to make
dozens of rolls for each shocktrooper,
we suggest you use the Multi-Action
Chart (Torg Rule Book page 45). Put six
shocktroopers in each group. Assume
any left over soldiers are reloading
their guns. Divide the groups up and
fire away at the Storm Knights.
Running
The Nile fiends have no vehicles
with them (they were to have marched
back after securing the map), so the
pursuit of the Storm Knights is on foot.
Use the chase rules and running rules
to work the chase (Torg Rule Book page
81).
The ravine is 2/000 meters from the
temple.
Once the chase enters the jungle,
hitting people with gun shots becomes
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Act Four
a lot harder. There's lots of trees and

big green leaves in the way. Because of
this, add +4 to all difficulty numbers
when using firearms. (YOU might notice that +4 is the bonus received by
the shocktroops for grouping their fire
by six soldiers each. This means you
can effectively ignore the Multi-Action bonus and the jungle penalty, and
roll for six shocktroops at a time using
their base fire combat skill.)
Hiding is easy in a jungle, and the
characters might want to sneak their
way to the bridge. Stealth totals are at
a +4. Characters can move at a rate just
under a walk when sneaking about. If
a Storm Knight is sneaking around,
make sure to put in a couple of bits
where shocktroops walk right by but
don't notice him, just for the sake of
suspense.
The Bridge
VVhen the characters reach the
bridge, they have to get to the other
side and cut the ropes. Even if the
characters didn't specifically state they
were bringing machetes with them, it
can be assumed that they did bring
them when they went searching for a
temple in the jungle.
The cutting of the bridge should be
run as a dramatic skill resolution using
the Strength attribute against a difficulty of 11. It will take steps A, B, and
C to cut the ropes - one step for each
rope. If all three ropes are not cut, the
shocktroops will be able to get across.
There is one large boulder to one
side of the bridge that can provide
cover. Only one rope can be cut from
the safety of the boulder. The other
two must be cut from an exposed
position.
If any shocktroops are on the bridge
when a rope is cut, they scramble frantically to hang on to the rope but fall to
their deaths.
Adventure Awards
For successful completion of the
adventure, each player character recleves 10 Possibilities. For each successfully played Glory card, award
every character three Possibilities, and
for every Drama card retained in a
player's hand at the end of the adventure, give his or her character three
additional Possibilities.
For a better insight on how to hand

out these awards, see the Award
Guidelines in the Torg Adventure Book.
Cut To ...
After cutting down the bridge, the
characters can duck behind a group of
rocks and continue on without harassment. They can then travel into the
sunset, plotting their continuing quest
for the Possibility Chalice. The quest
continues in the next adventure of the
Relics of Power Trilogy, The Possibility
Chalice.
Stacks
This section outlines suggestions
for incorporating the subplots which
come from the Drama Deck into The
Destiny Map. Not all possible subplots
are listed here, so if you can't come up
with a reasonable use of the subplot,
simply disallow it (see page 66 of the
Torg Rule Book). Included in the adventure text are various flags, which give
details on how to work specific subplots into specific scenes, so keep an
eye out for them as well.
The Martyr Card

If this card is played during the climactic escape from the temple in Act
Four, it will allow the rope bridge
which spans the chasm to be cut in one
blow (naturally taking the cutter with
it). This allows the rest of the party to
escape the Nile shocktroops.
The Nemesis Card

If this card is played before or during the ninja attack at the end of Act
One, the player of the card gets Osato
as a nemesis. Have Osato escape the
fight, perhaps wounded. His pride is
now at stake, and when the Storm
Knights infiltrate the Kanawa building in Act Two, Osato will get his
revenge. Have him drop a security
wall betweenhis nemesis and the other
characters. Then have him face off
against the nemesis in a one-on-one
duel to the death.
The Romance Card

If a player with a male character
plays the card, it can be tricky, since
there are relatively few female gamemaster characters in this adventure.
Susie May, the girl who fell for the Cyberknight in Act One is a decent possibility. She might simply fall for a
Storm Knight and come up with an excuse to follow him.
For female Storm Knights there are
a number of intriguing romantic opportunities. Although they are enemies, the Cyberknight or Osato might
beattracted to a female Knight. (DeVris
might even aid the characters if this
were the case.) Having VVu-Han or
Achmedi fall for one of the Storm
Knights is a particularly cruel way to
have the card "backfire" on a player.
Either of them might try to kidnap the
Knight and take her back to the Nile
Empire for a forced wedding in the
grand pulp tradition.
The Mistaken Identity Card

If this card is played at any time
during Act One, the Atlanta police
immediately arrest the character with
the subplot. It seems that three witnesses claim that a person matching
the affected PC's description entered
the Barker house just prior to the
murder. The arrested characteris taken
to the police precinct, put in a police
line-upalong with five otherwitnesses,
and locked up overnight in a holding
cell. If the character is not from Core
Earth, there could be sticky legal entanglements. In that case, a couple of
agents from the Delphi Council show
up to haul the Storm Knight off to
Houston for questioning.
Personal Stake
If this card is played before Act
Two, the designated character arrives
at the dig sight only to find that a good
friend or family member is among
those enslaved by VVu-Han and working at the dig. If the character with the
subplot is not from Core Earth or The
Living Land, and has no reason to
have known anyone from these realms,
then discard the subplot and award
the player a Possibility.
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Gamemaster
Character Records
Use this page to record the damage
to and status of the Gamemaster characters in key encounters. Use the
"status" line to record wounds, stymied, unskilled and setback effects. The
characters' Toughness is repeated on
the "Stun Damage" line for ease of reference.
Act One
Pierre DeVris (cyberknight): DEX 12,
STR 13 (19 for kick damage), TOU 12
(16 w / armor), PER 12, MIN 10, CHA
9; SPI 10.
Skills: reality 12, fire combat 14,
melee 14, unarmed combat 13 (15 for
kick attacks), land vehicles 13, trick 13,
test 11, dodge 14, jumping 14, running
14.
Possibilities: 14.
Equipment: DeVris is packing a
Herod IV. It has a damage value of 19.
Stun Damage (12)
KO
Status
Standard Policeman: DEX 10, STR 11,
Skills: dodge 11, fire combat 12,
unarmed combat 11, evidence analysis 13, find 12, land vehicles 12, willpower 10.
Equipment: .38 revolver, damage
value 14. Nightsicks, damage value
STR+3.
Cops Outside Murder Site:
#1
Stun Damage (10)
KO
Status
#2
Stun Damage (10)
KO
Status
Ninja Assassins (one per Knight):
DEX 12, STR 11, TOU 10, PER 11, MIN
8, CHA 7, SPI 7.
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Skills: acrobatics 13, dodge 13, fire

combat 13, maneuver 14, melee weapons 14, unarmed combat 13, trick 12,
test of wills 10.
Equipment: Each ninja attacks with
an extremely sharp sword. The blades
have a damage value of STR+7. This
means that in the hands of the ninjas
they have a damage value of 18. Osato
has ordered his men not to use lasers
this time, as they left too obvious a
trace as to the origin of the wounds
inflicted.
Ambush Scene Ninjas:
#1
Stun Damage (10)
KO
Status
#2
Stun Damage (10)
KO
Status
#3
Stun Damage (10)
KO
Status
sword which was given to him by his

boss, Yabu Tokanda, for use on this
assignment. The sword does STR+8
damage, but is also augmented by the
same electronic chip as the ninja throwing star found in the townhouse (automatic "K" result, double shock damage and an additional wound level if a
wound is inflicted). Remember, the
electric shock works only once during
combat, but Osato can decide who he
will use that power against.
Osato also carries three smoke
screen pellets which, when thrown to
the ground, emit a gaseous cloud
which envelops a 20 yard area around
the pellet. Finding anyone within the
cloud requires a find or Perception total
of 20.
Note: Osato has special contact
lenses which allow him to see through
the smoke, but none of the other ninjas
do.
Stun Damage (10)
KO
Status
Act Two
Ninjas In Anderson Building (same
stats as above):
#4
Stun Damage (10)

KO
Status
#5
Stun Damage (10)
KO
Status
#6
Stun Damage (10)
KO
Status
Osato (ninja leader): DEX 12, STR 11,
TOU 10, PER 11, MIN 8, CHA 7, SP17.
Skills: reality 10, acrobatics 15,
dodge 14, fire combat 13, maneuver
14, melee weapons 15, unarmed combat 16, trick 12, test of wills 11.
Possibilities: Two per Storm
Knight.
Equipment: Osato uses a special
#1
Stun Damage (10)
KO
Status
#2
Stun Damage (10)
KO
Status
#3
Stun Damage (10)
KO
Status
#4
Stun Damage (10)

KO
Status
Act Four
I
#5
Stun Damage (10)
KO
Status
#6
Stun Damage (10)
KO
Status
Kanawa Defense Robots (2): DEX 12,
STR 14, TOU20,PER 13, MIN 7, CHA
3, SPI 3.
Skills: fire combat 14, unarmed
combat 14, taunt (17), test (17), intimidation (17).
Note: These last three skills are
Parenthetical Skills (see Torg Rule Book,
page 80), and as such can only be used
defensively.
Equipment: The robots are armed
with two small lasers built into each
hand. They are able to fire both lasers
each turn without taking the multiaction penalty (computer processing
accounts for this). Damage value for
the lasers is 17.
#1
Stun Damage (20)
KO
Status
#2
Stun Damage (10)

KO
Status
Act Three
Nile Shoektrooper: DEX 9, STR 9, TOU
9, PER 7, MIN 7, CHA 7, SPI 9.
Skills: beast riding la, fire combat
la, heavy weapons la, unarmed combat la, climbing 10.
Equipment: Each is armed with a
machinegun (damage value 18), and a
ceremonial dagger (damage STR+3).
Dig Perimeter Shocktroops:
#1
Stun Damage (20)
KO
Status
#2
Stun Damage (20)

KO
Status
The Insidious Wu-Han: DEX 8, STR 7,
TOU IS, PER 13, MIN 14, CHA 13, SPI
7. ~
Skills: unarmed combat la, melee
combat la, charm 14, persuasion 14,
reality la, science IS, weird science 16,
trick IS, scholar (master criminal) IS,
test of wills 15.
Possibilities: 12.
Equipment: Wu-Han is of evil inclination. He carries no visible weapons,
but has a poison pin hidden in his robe
which he uses as a last resort. The pin
inflicts an automatic mortal wound
within a single combat round of hitting the target. (Note: Possibilities
cannot be spent to negate this effect.)
Han also has a personal force-field
generator built into his belt. The force
field increases Han's Toughness by
eight (for a total value of 15) for defensive purposes.
Captain Aehmedi: DEX fb, STR II,
Skills: reality 9, dodge II, fire
combat 13, heavy weapons II, melee
12, unarmed combat 12, land vehicles
11, persuasion 9, taunt 11, trick 11.
Possibilities: 7.
Equipment: Achmedi is of evil inclination. He carries a 9mm Luger
(damage value 15).
Armored Kanawa Meres (2): DEX la,
STR 12, TOU 11 (17 due to armor), PER
la, MIN 8, CHA 9, SPI 7.
Skills: reality 8, dodge II, fire
combat 14, unarmed combat 12, land
vehicles 12, acrobatics 11.
Possibilities: 3.
Equipment: The effects of the power
armor have been calculated into the
attributes. The meres are armed with
flechet rifles (damage value of 21) and
powered samurai swords (damage
STR+7).
#2
Stun Damage (11)

KO
Status
Chase Scene Shocktroopers:
#1
Stun Damage (9)
KO
Status
#2
Stun Damage (9)
KO
Status
#3
Stun Damage (9)
KO
Status
#4
Stun Damage (9)
KO
Status
#5
Stun Damage (9)
KO
Status
#6
Stun Damage (9)
KO
Status
Act Four
S4J.n Damage (9)
KO
Status
Stun Damage (9)
KO
Status
#1
Stun Damage (11)
KO
Status
I.
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Tlit DtST1N)' MAP

by Christopher Kubasik
In the Near Now, Earth has been invaded by raiders from other dimensions. These armies of evil
bring with them their own realities, different from
our own, turning portions of the Earth into someplace else. In these days of war, only you - the
Storm Knights - can withstand the changing laws
of nature. Only you can experience the adventure ...
It starts in the Living Land, that portion of the United States now
claimed by the primitive reality of Baruk Kaah. Here, a group of

Storm Knights makes an important discovery. They find a piece of
an ancient map that hints of relics from another age. Relics of great
power.
From the Living Land to exotic Core Earth locales, the Storm
Knights go in search of the missing parts of the map. When the
pieces are all together, the map should reveal the location of the
relics of power. Power that could, quite possibly, alter the outcome
of the invasion.
But there are others on the trail as well, agents of evil who seek
the relics of power for themselves. Nile Imperials, Nippon Tech
Yakuza, Edeinos warriors, and others stand in the Storm Knights'
path, vying for the secrets of the Destiny Map!
An Adventure for
Includes
<?amemaster Screen
wIth charts and tables
from the game rules
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Roleplaying the Possibility Wars'"

ISBN 0-87431-309-0
18874 20551
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This Torg adventure can be played by itself
or as the first part of The Relics ofPower Trilogy.
It introduces players and gamemasters alike
to the Torg universe, where realities overlap
and anything is possible.
For up to six players and a gamemaster. You
need the Torg: Roleplaying the Possibility Wars
boxed game to run this adventure.
Fantasy/Games
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place on Earth in the Near

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manner that will not conflict with later

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