MISSIOn REPORT: 001

In the Pale Moonlight

BY aNDREW E.C. GASKA & E.L.THOMAS
 MISSION REPORT: 001
In the Pale Moonlight

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IN THE PaLE MOONLIGHT
TIMELINE TAG:
POST-JUDGMENT DAY (circa 2020-2030s)
Making a last stand under the light of a full moon,
the Player Characters (PCs) are diverted to locate
a downed Tech-Com stealth craft that crashed in
Terminator territory. The vehicle is actually a lunar
transport controlled by an enigmatic Resistance
group with a time-bending agenda. The PCs must
do whatever it takes to keep the stealth craft from
falling into Skynet’s metal clutches.
INTRODUCTION
Designed for 3-6 players, this mission is the start
of the monthly online Tech-Com: Mission Reports
campaign and will span many parts. It can act as
a follow-up to a scenario that’s gone bad or as a
divergence from a mission already in progress. It
can also be played on its own.
GETTING THERE
This mission begins “in media res”—in the middle
of the action. You can either start here with new
characters or use this to get your preexisting
PCs out of a tight spot when they are being
overrun by Terminators. If that’s the case, replace
the Triple Zeros mentioned in the Teaser below
with whatever your PCs are facing at the time.
Regardless, the odds are stacked in favor of
metal.
TEASER: SHIT
MEETS FAN
It’s red eyes and plasma bolts everywhere. You’re
surrounded by a dozen Triple Zeros with an equal
number of 700 Series Endoskeletons in their wake
(core rulebook, pages 152 and 165). Illuminated
by a full moon and with only a shallow crater for
cover, you are in for what looks to be your last
firefight. The best you can do for the Resistance is
to take as many Terminators as possible with you
when you cash out.
Allow combat to go for a few rounds, making
things look hopeless. A Hunter-Killer Aerial Mk
8 (core rulebook, page 148) swoops overhead,
targeting the PCs with a spotlight. When it looks
like it’s the end, read the following to them:
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The Terminators just stop. Red eyes and sensor
globes blink rapidly as if they’re receiving some
signal—then they all turn in unison and march
North. The HK Aerial peels off in the same
direction. There is a trail of fire in the sky above—
and it looks like it’s going to crash several klicks
away. All local Skynet forces are headed that way.
Just as you think someone up there is looking out
for you, your comms start beeping in code…
MISSION BRIEFING
Once the action of the Teaser has died down, the
PCs will be contacted by Tech-Comm Mission
Control (TCMC) via coded message. Have a PC
make a Difficulty 4 Computer (KNOW) Skill Test
to translate the encrypted orders and have them
read the following to the other PCs:
AUTHENTIFICATION: TANGO-
CHARLIE-MIKE-CHARLIE-
ALPHA-TANGO-THREE-STAR-
THREE
PASS PHRASE: HUNGRY LIKE
THE WOLF
>>CODE ACCEPTED<<
ATTENTION: *[INSERT PC-
SQUAD NAME HERE]*
ABORT CURRENT OBJECTIVE.
NEW MISSION OBJECTIVES
FOLLOW>>
>>RESISTANCE STEALTHCRAFT
DOWNED IN VICINITY.
EVAC SURVIVORS. RETRIEVE
BLACK BOX AND SURVIVING
PERSONNEL.
KEEP ASSETS FROM METAL
HANDS. DESTROY AS
NEEDED.<<
>> COMPLETE MISSION AT ALL
COSTS.<<
The trajectory of the plane’s trail across the sky
indicates its probable crash site. If they scramble,
the PCs can head the ‘Nators off at the pass.
Suspicious PCs may want to verify their orders
first. Anyone rolling a Difficulty 5 Lore-Resistance
(KNOW) Skill Test will confirm the message is
legit—but it’s been transmitted on a different
wavelength than those reserved for the TCMC.
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SCENE 1: HIGH OR LOW

The PCs have two options for getting to the crash
site before Skynet’s main forces—the High Road
and the Low Road. Read them the following:
The fastest way to the crash site is the so-called
High Road—a long hump through the wasteland.
You’ll be climbing over and around obstacles,
all while trying to avoid the searchlights of any
HK that happens to fly overhead. The alternative
is all but unknown to the machines—a series
of winding sewers, storm drains and buried but
mostly intact buildings. Some tunnels require
crawling and most are as stable as a two-legged
stool, but hey—probably no ‘Nators, right?
ROAD TO HELL TABLE
If taking the Low Road, PCs must make six rolls
using the Low Road column. If choosing the High
Road, they must roll four times and reference the
High Road column. Keep track of how many rolls
the PCs have to make on this table. No matter
which road the PCs choose, every roll here adds
one to the total on Scene 2’s Time Matters Table
(page 4).

ROLL LOW ROAD (ROLL 6 TIMES) HIGH ROAD (ROLL 4 TIMES)

MAKING GOOD TIME: Reduce the number ALL CLEAR - FOR NOW: Reduce the
8-10
of rolls the PCs have left on this table by one. number of rolls left on this table by one.
A LOT OF OPEN GROUND: All PCs must succeed
MAN, THAT’S TIGHT: All PCs must
on a Difficulty 8 Endurance (STR) Skill Test to
succeed at a Difficulty 8 Athletics
keep putting one foot in front of the other. Failure
6-7 (DEX) Skill Test to traverse this narrow
means the group must find cover and catch their
passage quickly—or add one more roll
breath to avoid being spotted. Add one more
on this table before reaching Scene 2.
roll on this table before reaching Scene 2.
UNSTABLE: All PCs in the area must roll
a Difficulty 5 Athletics (DEX) Skill Test to SEARCHLIGHT SWEEP: All PCs must individually
work their way through this loose terrain. succeed at a Difficulty 8 Stealth (DEX) Skill Test
4-5 Failure triggers a PARTIAL CAVE IN (see to slip by. If any PC fails, the team must hunker
1 on this table). This adds 1 additional down and wait till the HK passes—adding one
roll on this table before they can reach more roll on this table before reaching Scene 2.
Scene 2 due to slowed progress.
FUCK, WE’RE LOST: The PCs must succeed
IT’S A PARADE: Six HK-Tanks are rolling in. The
at a Difficulty 8 Survival (COOL) Skill Test,
PCs must succeed at a Difficulty 8 Tactics (CONC)
or three more rolls on this table will be
Skill Test or two more rolls on this table will be
required before they reach Scene 2. This
required before they reach Scene 2. This test can
test can be made as an Emphasizing
be made as an Emphasizing Awesome Teamwork
2-3 Awesome Teamwork Test (core rulebook
Test (core rulebook page 56). Every success
page 56). Every success on this Skill Test
on this Skill Test will decrease the number of
will decrease the number of additional rolls
additional rolls on this table by 1. If the PCs can
on this table by 1. If the PCs can reduce the
reduce the number of rolls to 0 or less, this will
number of rolls to 0 or less, this will count
count s if they had rolled ALL CLEAR - FOR NOW.
as if they had rolled MAKING GOOD TIME.
PARTIAL CAVE IN: All PCs must succeed DEEP CRATER: All PCs must succeed at a Difficulty
1 at a Difficulty 13 Survival (COOL) Skill 5 Climbing (STR) Skill Test. If any fail, add one
Test or suffer 1d10-4 damage (min 1). more roll on this table before reaching Scene 2.

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SCENE 2: LOST AND FOUND
The PCs make it to the crash site—though the
time it took to get there could hinder the mission.
Read them the following:
Silhouetted by the moonlight, the skeletal shapes
of Terminators march on the horizon. Only a
few stray Triple Zeros are on-site thus far. The
terrain before you is disturbed and scorched as if
something crashed through here—but there is no
plane in sight.
Have the PCs roll a Difficulty 11 Detect (CONC)
Skill Test. If anyone succeeds, a faint shimmering
catches their eye—something large lies hidden
right in front of them. A faint glowing occasionally
unfolds in the nothingness—but only for a few
seconds. It’s the stealth craft—and it might as
well be a UFO. If they see it, read the PCs the
following:
Looking at the stealth craft is like trying to
decipher a goddamn magic eye poster from the
‘90s—concentrate hard enough and you’ll see it.
Its mirrored-black hull flickers and shimmers in the
pale moonlight, the word ALAMO blazoned across
its side. This lump of misshapen spheres, support
girders and bell engines is no plane—it looks like
some kind of spacecraft!
WHY DON’T I GET TO SEE THE SPACESHIP?
Any PC who fails the Skill Test will find the ship
anyway—by walking into it and clonking their
head on a support beam.
THE BLIND LEADING THE BLIND: The Triple
Zeros haven’t found the wreck when the
PCs arrive. Their boss—a T-808 dubbed
Showstopper (page 9)—is about to take control
of the scene. Consult the Time Matters Table
to see how many Terminators the PCs need
to evade to get across the field and inside the
craft.
PRIORITY ALERT: ALL GROUP
NA-12-C FORCES.
CONVERGE AT REFERENCE
POINT DELTA-7.
STANDARD RECOVERY PROTOCOL
1KM CLEARANCE RADIUS.
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TIME MATTERS TABLE
The PCs need to get past these ‘Nators if they
want to enter the stealth craft and achieve their
objective. They may want to make a distraction to
draw them off somehow, or, most likely, attempt to
sneak past them. In Scene 1, you were instructed
to keep track of the number of rolls made on the
Road to Hell Tables. These totals determine the
difficulty of getting to the downed mystery craft
and the number of Terminators currently on-
site. If your PCs get here later, more Terminators
have beat them to the punch. If there are more
Terminators on-site, the PCs’ Stealth (DEX) Skill
Test is more difficult.
If the PCs can make an Emphasizing Risk
Teamwork Skill Test, then Terminators will not
detect their infiltration. If the PCs manage to
fuck it up and are exposed, they will have to face
the number of Terminators that are listed in the
corresponding T-000 column.
DIRECTOR’S NOTE: This is why time matters.
Using the table below, if there are four PCs, and
they made it here in four rolls, there are only two
metal bastards to avoid. Therefore, the Difficulty of
the Stealth (DEX) Skill Test of sneaking past them
is low— only a 5. If your PCs dick around too long
and made it here in nine rolls, there are six T-000s
to sneak past. They must now succeed at a
Difficulty 11 Stealth (DEX) Skill Test. If they fuck up
that Stealth roll, they have half a dozen chrome-
plated cocksuckers to deal with.
ROAD STEALTH
T-000S
ROLLS DIFFICULTY
4 or less 5 1 for every 2 PCs
5-7 8 1 for every PC
8 or more 11 3 for every 2 PCs
TWO WAYS IN
Any PC that made an exceptional success to see
the craft will be able to find the Level 5 hatch.
Otherwise, the PCs will have to follow the faint
glow pouring out of a tear in the hull. The hole is
big enough to squeeze through and leads to Level
4, Scene 3 (page 5).

SCENE 3: NOT OF THIS WORLD
As most of the craft’s exterior is cloaked by its
Shroud System (See Active Camoflague, page
6), the PCs can’t tell how big the Alamo is from
outside. The 49-meter-tall craft’s main sphere has
five levels, all detailed below. Once the PCs are
inside, read them the following:
The stealth craft appears bigger on the inside
than it does on the outside. It’s dark, quiet, and
ominous in here. The Alamo is nearly laying on
its side—the walls and floors are oriented wrong
and junk is piled everywhere. Low-powered
emergency lights fade on and off as if a nine-year-
old is playing with a dimmer switch, making it
hard to focus.
LEVEL 5—ACCESS TUBE
This main airlock connects to an anti-grav tube
that takes you to each level of the ship. Hatches
between levels are closed, but a Difficulty 5
Technical: Mechanical (CONC) Skill Test will open
them manually. The gravity in the tube is null
unless specified otherwise.
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LEVEL 4—STAGING
There are a dozen lockers here containing EVA
suits and plasma weapons. If allowed, the PCs
can load up on weapons and supplies here. A rent
in the hull caused by an escape module ejection
malfunction allows for human-sized entry/egress.
Three parachutes are missing from a rack of six.
LEVEL 3—BARRACKS
Harnessed wall cots, microwaves, food
processors, and enclosed shower stalls fill the
skewed area. A very-human survivor is here—
the ship’s mechanic—Private P.B. “Skippy”
Granat, his legs crushed under a fallen support
beam. Delirious, he mumbles what seems to
be nonsense about how glad he is that the PCs
survived—and how he knew they would save him.
Fading in and out, he can at the least help the
PCs figure out how to make any needed repairs.
LEVEL 2—OPERATIONS:
Full of soot, ash and billowing black smoke,
Operations was the victim of a devastating
oxygen fire. Everything is weightless here—an
anti-grav engine malfunction has gravity out
of whack. Three charred and unrecognizable
floating corpses bob and twirl within this burnt
and blackened level. The following systems can
be accessed here, but cannot be repaired without
first consulting the 8-Bit Terminal on Level 1:
WHISPER ENGINES: Ship repairs must be made
here to bypass the missing thruster arrays
and activate the ship’s whisper-quiet anti-grav
engines. Unlike the primitive 8-Bit computer
used to control them, these engines are a
technology far in advance of anything the PCs
have come across.
Repairing them will require successful Difficulty
11 Skill Tests in both Technical: Electronics
(CONC) and Technical: Mechanical (CONC).
The repairs are complete when 10 Hit Points
worth of damage are restored. Luckily, the ship
has a Repair Kit on every Level (core rulebook,
page 121). If Skippy is treated and coherent, he
can assist in the repairs (see his bio on page 6).
SHROUD SYSTEM: Repairs made here will
allow the ship to restore its full cloak. Once
power is restored with a Difficulty 8 Technical:
Electronics (CONC) Skill Test, the Shroud
System simply needs to be reset.
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LEVEL 1—COMMAND: and visual spectrum sensors. Only a faint

This listing level is the control center for the shimmering is detectable by human—but not
Alamo’s systems. electronic—eyes. Malfunctioning, the system
can be repaired on Level 2 (see Shroud
COMMAND CHAIR, NAV, AND THRUSTER System).
STATIONS: With the right code, or a Difficulty
8 Computer (KNOW) Skill Test, all controls can BLACK BOX: This recorder is stored under
be accessed from the reclining observation the 8-Bit Terminal. Unfortunately, its release
command chair. The craft is piloted from here mechanism was jammed in the crash. A
with assistance from the adjacent navigation Difficulty 8 Technical: Mechanical (CONC) Skill
and thruster control stations. Test is needed to extract the Black Box without
damaging the housing. The data recorded
COMMS: If the PCs want to send Tech-Com a on the Black Box is encrypted but can be
coded request for extraction, the Comms Array deciphered in future Mission Reports.
is functioning. Unfortunately, the system’s
circuit board is fried. It can be repaired with a PRIVATE P.B. “SKIPPY” GRANAT
Difficulty 11 Technical: Mechanical (CONC) Skill TECH-COM ENGINEER—TDC SPECIAL DIVISION
Test.
STR DEX KNOW CONC
8-BIT TERMINAL: This cartridge-driven, low-
2 2 2 3
tech system is designed to prevent a remote
takeover. Data can be pulled up here, indicating CHA COOL FATE INITIATIVE
that—as suspected—the Alamo is no stealth 1 1 1/0 +5
plane. Every success rolled on a Difficulty 8
HIT WILL
Computer (KNOW) Skill Test will advise the CLOSING RUSHING
POINTS POWER
hacker of one of the following:
60 n/a 2 5
> ALAMO: Attached to a Resistance group
called the TDC, the craft is a Moon-to-Earth SKILLS
lander operating out of a lunar base called
ALICE. When they were hit by an HK-SAT (core Acrobatics: 1 Computer: 2
rulebook, page 151), some of the crew were Demolitions: 2 Detect: 2
killed in Operations. A few others managed to
Drive: Pilot: 2 Language: Russian 1
eject and are MIA.
Lock Pick: Manual: 2 Medical: 2
> TECH READOUT: These readouts confirm the
Alamo is bigger than expected. 49 meters tall Pistol: 2 Rifle: 2
when upright on its landing gear, the craft is a Support Weapons: 2 Technical: Electrical: 2
series of spheres arranged on a latticework of
supports and grafted to a huge booster array Technical: Mech: 2
of bell engines and anti-grav generators. The EQUIPMENT
five-story tall main sphere the PCs are in is the
only habitable area—the six smaller spheres Uniform (PV 2, Resistance 6/12)
are for cargo and fuel storage. The craft is in
SPECIAL RULES
bad shape. Too far gone to achieve orbit, the
Alamo can still fly if specific emergency repairs Skippy is badly injured,
are executed on Level 2 (see Whisper Engines). but a Difficulty 11 Medical
> ACTIVE CAMOUFLAGE: The Alamo’s ghost- ASSISTANCE (KNOW) Skill Test will allow
like appearance is the result of its Shroud him to assist with a +1
System. Developed on Moonbase ALICE, this bonus using any Skill in
active cloak uses a combination of an infrared- which he has 2 ranks.
absorptive polymer coating with special metal If asked, Skippy knows the
alloy refractive panels composed of polarized USEFUL INTEL Alamo’s command codes
metalenses. An electromagnetic charge pulsed and where the black box is.
through these metamaterials masks the craft
from all echolocation (RADAR, LIDAR, etc.)

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SCENE 4: YOU SHaLL NOT PaSS

With the Terminators coming in full force, the “MUSTACHETE”
PCs have hard choices to make. The machines T-600 SERIES 600 HEAVY COMBAT UNIT
want the TDC’s stealth ship, its Black Box and its
crew—so they aren’t going in with guns blazing. STR DEX KNOW CONC
They’re here to retrieve and capture, not kill. This 6 2 3 5
gives the PCs a distinct advantage in the coming
CHA COOL FATE INITIATIVE
siege—they have a chance to survive.
1 7 0 +7
HERE THEY COME TaBLE
HIT WILL
Roll or pick from this table three times to CLOSING RUSHING
POINTS POWER
determine the Terminator siege on the Alamo. Add
55 n/a 2 5
more attacks if the PCs aren’t working towards an
escape. SKILLS
ROLL THE THREAT (ROLL 3 TIMES) Detect: 2 Intimidation: 4
Melee Weapons: 3 Pistols: 2
CALDRON KERFUFFLE: T-R80 C-Bat
(core rulebook page 177) scouts have Stealth: 3 Technical: Electrical: 3
infiltrated the Alamo to recon the EQUIPMENT
situation. If any PC appears vulnerable,
9-10 Machete (treat as a sword)
they will attack. Otherwise, they will
quietly sabotage repairs and attempt SPECIAL RULES
to tap into the ship’s computer to
download its files. STANDARD PV 7, Resistance 15.
SHOCK AND AWE: HK-Tanks bombard MODEL T-600 See Corebook page 161.
the sky above the Alamo with exploding Mustachete’s preferred
7-8 shells and a crisscross of plasma form of attack is to chop a
beams. PCs must make a Rating 6 Fear PC’s fucking arm off, leaving
Test (see core rulebook, page 85).
FOR THE CHOP them both unable to hold
HULL BURN: Using an HK-Heat Ray a weapon and goddamned
(page 10), six T-700 Endoskeletons are depressed on a lonely
cutting through the hull on Level 1. They saturday night. Bastard.
6 will burn through in 2D10 rounds—
then switch the ray to crowd control REMEMBER THE aLaMO
mode, bombarding the entire level in an If they can hold off the enemy long enough, they
attempt to capture the PCs. can fix the comms, call for help and wait for
SHOOT TO WOUND: Three T-500s reinforcements to arrive—or they can patch up
(core rulebook, page 153) search the the Alamo and get their own asses the fuck out of
4-5 Alamo to shoot, wound and withdraw. there. Also, they can blow the Alamo to fuck and
Showstopper will then enter to finish the back.
job. (see 1-800-URE-FKED, page 8). THE WAITING GAME: The PCs will need to
MUSTACHETE: A mustached, machete- defend their position while they wait for
wielding, rubber-faced T-600 (page 161) backup—but calling for help might not have
has entered the Alamo, ready to engage the result they expect. TCMC will confirm
1-3 extraction is imminent. When reinforcements
in hand-to-hand combat. Its mission is
to drag a PC out and imprison them. If are about to arrive, the PCs will receive a
successful, it will rinse and repeat. private scrambled burst comm message from
a friend at HQ—three A10 Warthog Bombers
have been sent to obliterate the craft. No one is
getting rescued. One way or another, the PCs
will need to jet ( See the Time To Die Table.)

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FUCK UP AND AWAY: The Whisper Engines on
Level 2 will need to be fixed before the stealth
craft can blast off and escape (page 5). This will
get the Alamo lifting into the air, albeit listing
badly. She ain’t making it into space, but she
might just limp along long enough to get the
PCs home.
Skynet’s forces have a chance to make a
single round of attacks before they lose the
Alamo and are left to fire blindly into the night
sky. Evading these attacks requires a Difficulty
11 Drive: Piloting (CONC) Skill Test with a +3
bonus if the Shroud System has been repaired.
If the Skill Test fails, the Alamo will be shot
down in moments. Getting this fucked up
jalopy all the way back to base will require
Difficulty 14 Drive: Piloting (CONC) Skill Test.
Failure means they crashland before they get
all the way home. See the Epilogue (page 9) for
possible consequences.
BLOW IT ALL TO HELL: The PCs can hack the
8-Bit Terminal on Level 1 and cause a cascade
overload in the anti-grav reactor. This will
require a Difficulty 8 Computer (KNOW) Skill
Test. They can also jury rig the surviving fuel
tanks to flood the control center, then set it all
to blow with a Difficulty 8 Demolitions (CONC)
Skill Test. When the computer starts spouting
gibberish or the PCs are ready to strike the
match, use the Time to Die Table below.
NO LOLLYGAGGING: The PCs may not
have their shit together. If they hold off the
Terminators without planning any other action,
they are doing it wrong and taking too long.
The machines will cut their losses, destroy the
Alamo and sort through the wreckage.
Unless the PCs are captured or Fuck Up and
Away, the Alamo’s days are numbered. To escape
this dumpster fire, consult—you guessed it—the
Time To Die Table.
TIME TO DIE TABLE
Whelp, death is coming. It’s time to get the fuck
out of dodge, now isn’t it. Time’s running out—so
should you. The PCs have limited time to get
themselves and/or the Black Box out of the ship
before it blows up due to reasons. This is handled
by rolling on the table below. If the PCs haven’t
found an exit before making four rolls on this
table, the ‘splosions begin. If any PC is idiot-
enough to still be in the ship at the time, hasta la
vista, baby. If they are on the ground and hoofing
it, they still have a chance of surviving.
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ROLL OBSTACLE
BOWLING FOR ZEROS: You’re out—
but you’ve plowed headfirst into a half
dozen Triple Zeros milling about the main
airlock. You each must make a successful
Difficulty 8 Athletics (DEX) Skill Test to
9-10
glide out the craft and through the mass
of machines before they can react.
Any one of you who fails, trips—losing
initiative as the T-000s target you. Go to
‘Nator Nest (page 9).
THE NO-ESCAPE HATCH: You’ve run
right into a stuck emergency airlock!
Succeed at a Difficulty 8 Technical:
Mechanical (CONC) Skill Test to pop the
7-8 emergency seals and blow the hatch. If
you fail, you’re forced to roll again to find
another route. If you succeed, you’re out!
It’s just a short leap to the ground—and
right into the ‘Nator Nest (page 9).
FALL FAIL: Anti-grav malfunction!
Succeed a Difficulty 8 Athletics (DEX) Skill
Test or suffer 1d10 falling damage. It’s
5-6
not all bad news, however—falling here
reveals a rent in the ship’s hull—you’re
out! Go to the ‘Nator’s Nest (page 9).
TURNED AROUND: Anti-grav can be
confusing when you are in a rush. Like a
drowning swimmer who can’t tell which
2-4
way is up, you went the stupid way.
You’re no closer to escape. What are you
waiting for? Roll again, already!
1-800-URE-FKED: Good job, heroes—
You’ve made it to the next deck and run
right into the boss. The 800 Series called
Showstopper isn’t expecting humans
to charge it. You automatically gain the
initiative—so you can run or attack.
1 If you run, roll again. Armed only with a
Stun Gun (core rulebook, page 127), the
sadistic T-808 will pursue you out of the
stealth craft and into the night.
If you attack, Showstopper will attempt to
cripple and collect you all. Each combat
round here counts as another roll.
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“SHOWSTOPPER” TIME'S UP
T-808 PROBATIONARY TEST UNIT To get out of the blast radius PCs must score two
STR DEX KNOW CONC successes on a Difficulty 8 Athletics (DEX) Skill
Test. If they fail, then they will have to pay 1 Hope
6 3 5 5 Point or face the music. Regardless of whether
CHA COOL FATE INITIATIVE the Alamo is destroyed by the PCs or a Tech-
Com bombing run, the explosion will deal 3D10
3 7 0 +10
damage. Any PC hit by the blast can double their
HIT WILL PV when resisting the damage (core rulebook,
CLOSING RUSHING
POINTS POWER page 75).
60 n/a 2 5 All but 1D10+2 Triple 000s will be knocked out
by the blast. The surviving machines will be
SKILLS damaged—all their Attributes and Hit Points are
Detect: 2 Drive: Car: 2 at half capacity (with a minimum of 1, of course).
Interrogate: 4 Intimidation: 4 The PCs just might make it out of this yet.
Medical: 3 Melee Weapons: 2
Pistols: 2 Stealth: 2
EPILOGUE
Tactics: 2 Technical: Electrical: 3 The PCs are either dead, captured, headed home,
or a combination thereof. For any PC who didn’t
EQUIPMENT make it, it’s not the end—they wake up in the
Stun Gun , Plastic ties wilderness with no memory of how they got there.
They are now Theta Hybrid subconscious spies
SPECIAL RULES working for Skynet (core rulebook, page 164).
HYPERALLOY If they’ve escaped and saved the Black Box,
CHASSIS WITH PV 4, Resistance 12. copies of the files it contained, Skippy, or any
LIVING SKIN combination thereof, they have succeeded.
DEDICATED > COLLATERAL DAMAGE: If they did fly back on
SOFTWARE See core rulebook page 173. the Alamo, the PCs will have to deal with any
PACKAGE Terminators that are still be on board cos if one
gets into the base, the base is fucked.
'NATOR NEST > SKIP THE LINE: Skippy will be whisked away
As the PCs escape the Alamo, they will find into surgery and kept from the PCs. If anyone
themselves surrounded by a platoon of some asks about him, they’ll be told he died.
forty T-000s. If the PCs tear out of the ship, the > THE BLACK BOX: The files within are
T-000s will have to recalibrate, giving the PCs somewhat damaged and will take time to
the initiative. The PCs can stop to fight, but it will decipher. The box is quickly spirited away.
be a losing battle. If they have stopped to stand
The PCs will be visited by Captain Wisher of
their ground, the PCs risk being caught up in the
Tech-Com’s special TDC division—the Time
coming explosion as well.
Displacement Commandos. Read them the
D10 Triple Zeros will attempt to get a bead on following:
them (roll for initiative). Luckily, there are so many
Terminators present that they cannot fire without “Whelp, you lot made a fine mess out of things. I
hitting each other—which they will do unless bet you can guess who the new janitors are going
Showstopper is present to stop the show. Any to be. Hike up your rubber pants, grab your slop-
failed attack by a T-000 misses a PC and hits one mop, and get ready to wade knee-deep into a shit
of the other attacking Zeros instead, giving the storm—You just volunteered for the TDC.”
PCs another advantage.

TO BE CONTINUED...

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SKYNET Arsenal Update

HK-HEAT RAY SERIES R AUTONOMOUS DIRECTED

CYBERDYNE SYSTEMS SERIES R ENERGY DETERRENT AND
AUTONOMOUS THERMAL BREACHING THERMAL BORE VEHICLE
BIOLOGICAL DETERRENT VEHICLE STR DEX KNOW CONC
A six-wheeled, turbine-cooled thermal electron- n/a 2 2 5
tunneling device and active biological deterrent
CHA COOL FATE INITIATIVE
system, the Series R HK is designed to breach
Resistance bases and force compliance through 0 7 0 +7
the application of intense pain. The HK-Heat Ray’s HIT WILL
front wheel-dependent suspension system gives MOVEMENT
POINTS POWER
it enhanced maneuverability on rough terrain. As
150 n/a 20
a tunneling vehicle, this robotic thermal bore uses
superheated plasma and ionized electrons to burn
SKILLS
a two-to-six meter diameter hole through rock,
metal, and nearly any other material. If directed Detect: 2 Drive: Self:1
against living beings, the HK-Heat Ray will Intimidate: 3 Support Weapons: 3
incinerate anyone within its path. Proximity to the
ray’s focus is a factor in mitigating damage. EQUIPMENT
Developed by Cyberdyne Systems under P-60 Plasma Cutter, Water Cannon,
contract for the US military, the HK-Heat Ray Z -7 Area Denial System
was originally envisioned as a crowd control
device for perimeter security and area denial. It SPECIAL RULES
fires non-lethal, invisible electromagnetic waves ARMOR PV 14, Resistance 30.
that penetrate living flesh by less than half a
Wheels (2) Immobilized.
millimeter—just deep enough to fire up someone’s WEAK SPOT
Cooling Fan (4) Detonation
nerve ending in excruciating pain without causing
any lasting damage. Any targeted living-flesh 4m length, 2.0m
DIMENSIONS
humans, animals, or cyborgs will experience an width, 3m height
intense burning sensation while under attack by OPTIONAL
Variants replacing
the active deterrent. WEAPONS
the P-60 with a P-2
PBWs or Quad P-40s
TECH-COM AFTER ACTION REPORT: The CONSTRUCTION
have been seen.
HK-Heat Ray is used to tunnel into underground
Resistance bases to capture, rather than kill. P-60 PLASMA CUTTER
Getting hit by these microwaves is like dunking SKILL Support Weapons
your body in scalding water—the pain is
crippling, you can’t stand, let alone get away. DMG
MIN
AD WEIGHT
DMG
Why would the Terminators want a non-lethal
1d10+1 2 1 8
crowd control weapon? Simple—they want
undamaged human tissue for perfecting their ROF RECOIL RANGE CLIP
skin jobs. T-700 flesh is flawed—it grows necrotic 1 0 100m 15 or 200
relatively fast. Skynet’s flesh farms were
looking for new ways to regenerate flesh and SPECIAL RULES
needed a large sampling of the surviving human
population to experiment on. Terminators use Every round the P-60 continuously
these things to round us up for the labor camps fires its damage increases by
and flesh farms. You might think you’re lucky SLOW BURN 1d10+1 and its AD increases by
when you get hit with one of these non-lethal 1. Once it hits 6d10+6 damage
heat rays—the truth is you’re better off dead. (AD 6) it becomes constant.

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