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The job seems simple enough, take a smallload of legal cargo and some passengersfrom Hera to Greenleaf. For a Crew justtrying to keep flying, this easy milk run is away to make some coin and not have tolook over their shoulder while they aredoing it. That’s how the job starts, butthings on the Rim are never as easy as theyseem and the Crew soon find themselvesenmeshed in a series of increasingly deadlyevents where murder is only the firstproblem they encounter.
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Inner Demons is a tale of ordinary folkfaced with an extraordinary situation and ispresented in three acts of two scenes each.Act one consists of
This is Where the War Was Lost
and
Gettin’ out of the World
. Acttwo leads to
They’re not Stories
and
ARuttin’ Murder Mystery
with the final actconcluding with
It’s the
Gorram Law
and
Them As Gazed Into the Abyss Return.
Inner Demons is meant for GreenhornCrews that have gained some experience.Veteran or Big Damn Hero level Crews canuse this adventure, but the GM will have toincrease the skills of the NPCs as well asincrease the task difficulties in order toprovide a better challenge.
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As the adventure begins, the playercharacters (PCs) are aboard their ship thatdescends into Hera’s atmosphere. In theship’s cargo bay, half a ton of spices and sixtons of iron ore await collection while threepassengers want to disembark. Althoughthe 4-day trip from Beaumonde has beenan uneventful, not to say boring, one, anyPC who opposed the Alliance’s imperialisthegemony and joined the Browncoats’ fightfor freedom will not be looking forward tovisiting the largely agricultural worldbecause the Battle of Serenity Valley wasfought here. To complete the Browncoats’ misery, the PCs are about to dock atSerenity Views’ spaceport.After the ship touches down, the airlockopens, the ramp comes down, thepassengers leave and a short while later,the cargo is collected. As the PCs finally pileout and Hera scrunches under their feet,you, the Game Master (GM), should readthe following passage out loud orparaphrase it.
Serenity View is a small town that islocated out of the infamous SerenityValley which is still ravaged by the firestorm that swept through it more thanseven years ago. On the opposite sideof the rocky valley, over half a millionsmall and identical tombstones call tomind that a vast number of men andwomen, Alliance and Browncoats alike,
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