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    The players were on a rescue mission to save Bobby from the Matrix. However, when they gave Bobby the pill to exit the Matrix, he suddenly died. Outside, cars were crashing and people were dying. The players investigated and discovered a group of scavengers living underneath a nearby power plant who had stolen 40 bodies to eat, including Bobby's. When the players confronted the scavengers, their hostile leader Henry threatened to kill the players. The players either had to fight their way out or make a deal with Henry and the scavengers to escape. They returned to Zion and reported what they learned about the scavenger communities to the authorities.

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    Matrix Power Loss

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    Claudio Caceres
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    The players were on a rescue mission to save Bobby from the Matrix. However, when they gave Bobby the pill to exit the Matrix, he suddenly died. Outside, cars were crashing and people were dying. The players investigated and discovered a group of scavengers living underneath a nearby power plant who had stolen 40 bodies to eat, including Bobby's. When the players confronted the scavengers, their hostile leader Henry threatened to kill the players. The players either had to fight their way out or make a deal with Henry and the scavengers to escape. They returned to Zion and reported what they learned about the scavenger communities to the authorities.

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    The players were on a rescue mission to save Bobby from the Matrix. However, when they gave Bobby the pill to exit the Matrix, he suddenly died. Outside, cars were crashing and people were dying. The players investigated and discovered a group of scavengers living underneath a nearby power plant who had stolen 40 bodies to eat, including Bobby's. When the players confronted the scavengers, their hostile leader Henry threatened to kill the players. The players either had to fight their way out or make a deal with Henry and the scavengers to escape. They returned to Zion and reported what they learned about the scavenger communities to the authorities.

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    Matrix Power Loss

    Uploaded by

    Claudio Caceres
    The players were on a rescue mission to save Bobby from the Matrix. However, when they gave Bobby the pill to exit the Matrix, he suddenly died. Outside, cars were crashing and people were dying. The players investigated and discovered a group of scavengers living underneath a nearby power plant who had stolen 40 bodies to eat, including Bobby's. When the players confronted the scavengers, their hostile leader Henry threatened to kill the players. The players either had to fight their way out or make a deal with Henry and the scavengers to escape. They returned to Zion and reported what they learned about the scavenger communities to the authorities.

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    The Matrix Roleplay

    Power loss
    prologue
    This adventure starts with a small (and unimportant) submission.
    The players have to rescue Bobby and they arrived at the point
    where they give him the pill. Just tell them they are on a rescue
    mission, and they already got at this point. What went wrong?
    They told Bobby about the Matrix. They gave him the choice.
    He was convinced. But at the moment where he took the pill,
    Bobby dropped dead right in front of them. The players look at
    each other, not knowing what happened. Was the pill poisoned?
    More things are happening. Outside, cars are crashing, people
    are dying in the street. All at once. As usual, when there are
    strange things happening in the matrix, agents will soon appear.
    So what will the players do? Stick around and look for clues, or
    try to get out as soon as possible?

    What has to be done?


    There are humans that survived the war against the machines,
    yet dont live in Zion. These people are scavengers, postapocalypce people living together in small communities, living an inhuman life, hiding for the Sentinels. Many of them are sick, some
    are mutants, all of them are cannibals. The only food they have,
    are bodies they steal from the powerplants.
    The powerplants are protected by sentinels. So if the scavengers
    open a cocoon with their primitive knifes and steal the corpse,
    the sentinels come and they must flee. Many of them die in an
    attempt to capture bodies. However, there is a group scavengers
    that have a hiding place underneath a powerplant. This way, they
    have a little bit more time to steal corpses and so they did. They
    took 40 bodies (and caused 40 people to die in the matrix). Since
    these people are in the same powerplant, it is normal that their
    alteregos in the matrix live in the same neighbourhood. Bobby
    was one of them.
    The players, nor anyone in Zion, is aware of the existance of the
    scavengers. Most scavengers know about Zion because they
    see the hovercrafts, but they hide because they see humans
    from Zion as their enemies. After all, it is them who scorched the
    skies. The scavengers rely only on themselves.
    The players should investigate what happened to Bobby and the
    people who died at the same time. They meet the scavengers.
    But will the scavengers be pleased that they are discovered?

    Sticking around in the matrix


    After the death of Bobby and the carcrashes and the screams of
    the people who watch their relatives die, policecars can be
    heard, cops are examining the situation, asking questions, but
    nobody knows what happened. Most people died in a way that a
    hearth attack seems the most logical explination.
    If the players stay around, they might be asked by cops if they
    saw anything. Maybe they could get arrested because they carry
    weapons? (maybe they have to outrun the cops? maybe you can
    throw in a carchase?)
    The players should understand that the answer can not be found
    in the matrix. If they stay too long, have the operator call them
    and warn them that agents are coming. Or that there is an
    unusual movement of sentinels on the radar. Or simply say hey,
    I found something, check this out! We dont want to throw in
    another agent encounter this time.

    The power plant


    The operator shows the players that many sentinels are grouping at a specific point in a powerplant. Something has happened
    but what? This sudden drop of 40 bodies has caused a serious
    power loss in the matrix. If the players check the computer, they
    might find out that Bobby and the other people that died, are all
    bodies that are kept in this powerplant.
    The sentinels have gathered at this point in the powerplant, only
    to find the empty cocoons. The scavengers have fled and are
    inside their hideout, located underneath the powerplant in a ruine
    that used to be a sciencelab.
    Since the sentinels dont find any traces, they will go away after
    a while. Now the players can enter the powerplant
    On foot, not on hovercraft. If they would enter the powerplant on
    hovercraft, the sentinels would certainly feel its presence.
    Any operator can tell the players that.
    Walking through the powerplant should give everybody the
    shivers. Describe how they see the bodies of all those people
    through the transparant cocoons, how small nurserobots do their
    job, ignoring the players. If they examine the empty cocoons,
    they will see that it has been opened with knifes. The fluid that
    filled the cocoon now is all around. In this fluid, the players can
    see footprints. Only on a difficult search roll will they be able to
    follow the footprints to the secret hideout of the scavengers.

    A warm welcome...
    The scavengers are not stupid. They now have 40 bodies to eat,
    but they must hide for the sentinels. These people that walk on
    their hideout are a potential danger. If the players expose the
    hideout, the sentinels could very well attack them and destroy
    every one of them. So even thought the players are humans,
    they are considered enemies... eatable enemies.
    Either the players find the trail that leads to a hidden door, or the
    scavengers decide to attack them before they go back to their
    hovercraft. Twice as many people as there are players jump out
    of the hideout, threatening the players with knives. They are
    dressed in rags, look dirty and skinny, some have wounds that
    never heal. The scavengers want them to go inside the hideout.
    What do the players do?
    1. They drop their weapons and follow the scavengers inside.
    2. They refuse. In that case, the scavengers attack with knifes.
    2a The players respond with guns, energyweapons
    or make noise during the fight. Sentinels come
    and only a few scavengers get away inside the
    hideout. The door will be closed and anyone outside
    will be killed by the sentinels (including the players).
    2b The players fight the scavengers with their bare fists
    or with melee weapons (sticks, knives, swords).
    In the unlikely event that the players win from the
    scavengers, these will surrender and give the
    players information. But they will tell them that they
    should go inside before the sentinels return.
    2c If the players fight but want to stop, they can.
    The scavengers will stop their fight at once if the
    players drop their weapons.

    Come inside, have a snack.


    The scavengers have a leader : a fat guy called Henry Dabrias.
    Henry is the only scavenger who has a shotgun. He only has two
    bullets for it, so he never uses it, but he carries it with him as a
    token of his power. Of course, he also carries two long knifes and
    several small throwingknifes.
    The players enter the hideout of the scavengers. A long small
    corridor that is hardly lit by some lamps. So these scavengers
    have electricity, but not much. They only use it for light and
    warmth. The entire hideout has a terrible stench of rotten flesh,
    there are bloodstains on the floor.
    The scavengers are all freeborn, none of them have holes in
    their head or their back. This means that they distrust the
    players even more. If there is a freeborn amongst the players,
    it would make for a much easier conversation.
    Finally the players are brought before Henry. The first thing
    Henry does is point his shotgun at them. Why shouldnt I kill you
    all? After all, your presence here is a danger to us. The sentinels
    might have seen you. (If the players defeated the scavengers,
    Henry will not point his gun at them, but he still will accuse them
    of bringing them in danger).
    How the conversation turns out, is entirely up to the players and
    you. Dont forget the scavengers hate the people from Zion
    because they scorched the skies, and they have lived years in
    inhuman conditions, eating human flesh to survive and always
    on the run for sentinels. They worship Henry because he
    managed to get them into this hideout and steal these 40 bodies.
    1. If the players get an agreement with the scavengers, they can
    leave the hideout, but they must leave everything that the
    scavengers can use, like their weapons, food, warm clothing.
    2. Proposing the scavengers to join Zion could be interesting.
    First of all they hate Zion, so this will result in trouble. But even
    then, Zion doesnt really want to have these cannibals inside.
    They have lived like this too long to return to normal human conditions. It seems they dont really want to change either.
    3. If no proposition can be arranged, there is no other way out
    than to fight a way out. Maybe the players will try to escape as
    soon as they see there is no way to convince Henry. Maybe they
    will be locked up in a primitive cell, that used to be an office. They
    will be offered food - a dirty bowl of water and a hand from one
    of the bodies.
    What about the 40 bodies? There is a small chance that some of
    them are still alive. The players can see this big pile of bodies in
    the proviandroom, where other old corpses lie rotting, it stinks
    terrible. Some of those bodies still move a little bit, proving that
    they are still alive (but very weak). Maybe the players can rescue
    some of them? The chance that Bobby is one of the survivers is
    very small (12%, if you insist on rolling a percentage).

    Home sweet home


    Depending on how they escape the scavengers, you might want
    to throw in a sentinel attack that might (or might not) destroy this
    scavenger community. But the players should have understood
    that there are lots of scavenger communities all around. They
    should understand that these people could form a possible
    danger to Zion, they hate Zion and they might attack it.
    Stuff for other adventures.
    Back home the players can tell the authorities in Zion about the
    scavengers. Depending on how this first meeting went, they
    might take precautions on the security of Zion, or they might look
    for a way to help these poor creatures.
    Even though the players didnt rescue Bobby, they are still
    rewarded because they brought valuable information about
    these people.

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