[HOE] Urban Renewal & Hell or High Water (Spoilers)

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In a message dated 7/19/00 8:48:25 PM Pacific Daylight Time, 
hoe-owner@gamerz.net writes:

> That really vague. I was hoping for something like Urban Renewal is 
>  About.... The PC's will  be facing off against .... The main Goal is.....  
>  It takes place in....

  Urban Renewal (from what I remember from Iron Oasis) is about the fight 
against a Junker (who is also hoarding ghost rock from the mines), who is 
trying to establish a Junker-run government in Junkyard with help from a 
mercenary army that he has been sneaking in.
  It also will reveal what happened to the Librarian who wrote Iron Oasis 
(y'know, the former football player).  I imagine he was captured by the 
mercs, although if he's alive or dead, I couldn't tell ya.
  How's that?

>  I plan on running it but I don't want to put my PC's somewhere were they 
>  won't be able to get to the adventure with a million little side quests.  
I 
>  still haven't run Hell or High Water since I can't think of anyway to get 
my 
>  characters that far east(and its not that great of an adventure either).

  Personally, I like Hell or High Water (which I just finally was able to 
fine two weeks ago), and I plan on running it to my PC's.  It works out 
perfectly, because one of my players is a Syker (named Clyde "Bear" Brown) 
who was born in Shreveport, Louisiana, went to Banshee, and hasn't been back 
to Louisiana since he landed back on earth 13 years ago.  The thing is, he 
really wants to find out what happened to his family, or if any of them are 
still alive.  I plan on having him get a little flash of the future (he's a 
Syker with Night Terrors!  He gets flashes of the future all the time!), and 
how this reptilian looking guy (The leader of the scavs on the riverboat, Big 
Al, I think he was called) will end up killing his brother, if Bear doesn't 
stop him.  Now, the thing that that really jumped out at me as I was reading 
the adventure was that the villian was named Big Al.  
  Well, one of Bear's brothers was named Alan.  
  Oh yeah, baby.  
  Bear gets to drag his buddies along to Louisiana to save his brother, he'll 
get in that first fight with them, there will be a cry of "Clyde!" from the 
riverboat just a second before the cannon explodes, so Bear will have reason 
to believe that possibly his brother is on the boat, while he and the posse 
hightail it into the town where he will be stunned to find that the owner of 
the tavern is his older sister who always treated him and his younger 
siblings very poorly (Hey, the player came up with this, not me).    
  As things go on in the adventure, he'll either decide to aid the town (and 
with it, his hated sister) because he is a good person at heart, or let them 
die.  Probably not gonna happen.  In the end, though...  It would be 
especially poigniant if Bear killed Big Al before realizing that it was his 
own mutated brother...

  So, I've definitely got a reason for the players to go to Louisiana...


  - The Worm Ouroboros