Time to Harvest follow up scenarios: Blood Moon

[Sasori]

I finished off the TtH campaign a couple weeks ago, and was looking through my collection of adventures to see what one shots I could run this week. Most of the one shots I found had either Mi-Go or Shub-Niggurath at the heart, so I discounted them as to similar to the campaign. Then I came across Blood Moon in Strange Aeons. This scenario was written in 1995, but set in 2015. Initially, I was about to discount it, as obviously that date no longer works as a futuristic setting (not something I enjoy much anyway), but then I read through the blurb at the start, and it takes the starting point of the adventure to be that exploration of the moon has been happening since the 1920s, after the events of the "Bad Moon Rising" scenario.

Then I thought, what if instead of making this the starting point for moon exploration, the events of the Time to Harvest campaign was the kicker for moon exploration, either by FOC (which then becomes the fore-runner for NASA?), or by the American Government alone. 

Has anyone ran this adventure? If so, do they have any comments on it?

Yes, it is another Mi-Go scenario, but with the twist that this time they have to work with the Mi-Go to contain the monster.

I'll go through the adventure as written, note any modifications that I make, then I'll post them here.

Edited March 8, 2017 by Sasori

[Sasori]

The first comment I would make, is that the adventure takes the shuttle, not a gate, and why would this be so, with the adventure saying that gates transform humans to survive on the other side. The first answer to that is that the transformation has been shown to be unstable, and mutations that occur lead to long term damage (hinted at in the scenario), so gates are fine to transport items, including oxygen (hence the ability to build a moon base), but the safest way for humans to travel is still by shuttle. This also makes it much cheaper to get to the moon, as you only need to take enough supplies for a one way trip.

Edited March 8, 2017 by Sasori

[Sasori]

Secondly, The use of Jarvis as a Mi-Go agent is still a possibility. Of course, he will be in a different body, and the Investigators will not know of him either, but it could be fun for the players. His powers may also have increased. e.g. at the end of the last game, I had given him a kind of telepathy, so he could communicate with them from his jar, so as to further spread the fear and confusion.

[Sasori]

Redid the pregens for the Blood Moon scenario for 7th ed in the modern Investigator sheets. Also did a male and female version for each character. Here are the male ones.

Blood Moon-C Wren - Male.pdf

Blood Moon-Cpt Weymouth - Male.pdf

Blood Moon-Dr Hart - Male.pdf

Blood Moon-Dr Van Brackendorf - Male.pdf

Blood Moon-Lt Wing - Male.pdf

Blood Moon-Mjr Harnst - Male.pdf

Edited March 8, 2017 by Sasori

[Sasori]

Now the female versions of the same pregens.

 

Blood Moon-C Wren - Female.pdf

Blood Moon-Cpt Weymouth - Female.pdf

Blood Moon-Dr Hart - Female.pdf

Blood Moon-Dr Van Brackendorf - Female.pdf

Blood Moon-Lt Wing - Female.pdf

Blood Moon-Mjr Harnst - Female.pdf

[Sasori]

Federated Oils and Chemical for the new age.

I though about how FOC would put the information it gained through the Time to harvest campaign, as well as previously with Abelard's researches, to good economic use, and how the company would look in the modern age. Please feel free to run with this and let me know what you think.

The company is now part of The FOC group plc. The FOC group consists of:

FOC Explorations. An oil and gas exploration company. Specializing in the sourcing of new energy sources. Of course, the company does not limit itself to fossil fuels, and has a booming alternative energy wing which works not only on clean energy but also on energy sources that have been based on Mi-Go tech recovered by the company over the years. FOC explorations may just as easily send a group off to the Himalayas looking for Mi-Go bases, as into the middle east or the North Sea to search for oil. This is also the wing of the company that has been researching the gate technology found during the Cobb's Corner incident. This technology has been kept under the strictest of confidence, due to it's unreliability.

FOC Industrial Gas and Chemicals. Traditional company that still runs as the original FOC did, supplying industry with it's chemical and gas needs.

FOC Healthcare. Supplier of medical gas and training to hospitals.

FOC Refrigeration. FOC managed to reverse engineer the Mi-Go mist generators, and put this tech to use in the refrigeration sector. Not only have they made much more efficient refrigeration devices, but they have also moved into supercooling technology and research.

The Abelard Institute. The Abelard institute is one of the foremost private research funding bodies in the world. they not only fund initiatives jointly with NASA and SETI, but also have a number of funding competitions for all major fields of scientific and engineering research.

AB Electric. Not an electricity company as the name might suggest, but a company that made it's name in the building of electric cars, and generators in the 1960s. The company also has an arms wing, where they have managed to reverse-engineer the Mi-Go Lightning guns for human use. Therefore, the lightning gun, or electrical gun, has gone through many iterations over the last few decades. What state this technology is currently in rests with the keeper.

Of course, most of this is background to the adventure, as I'm not yet sure how I'm going to link FOC with NASA and the UN directly yet, but it's likely going to be through the tech the Investigators have access to (not that tech will save them). I may put it in Von Brackendorf's background that he works for FOC, and not NASA. One hard link to FOC in the adventure will be the Investigators coming up against FOC marked crates and supplies for the original moon adventure.This will be instead of seeing references to the Bad Moon Rising adventure, as is mentioned in the Blood Moon scenario.

 

 

Edited March 8, 2017 by Sasori
added more detail

[Bazil]

After ending TtH i use FOC in my current Delta Green game, But with little changes. First i swithc it`s name to World Oil and Chemicals WOC, second i make it split in Official part commercially sucsessful and cover ops, keep on crusading to get more knowlage at any cost like MJ12. Who take a great role as shadow player in government activities. And thanks for your propositions about structure development. 

[Sasori]

I guess cover ops of that kind could be funded by the Abelard Institute, or FOC Explorations.