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INTRODUCTION
Welcome to the 'Mini-Adventure'. You had a chance
to glimpse a piece of thts action in the 'Combat' chapter,
under the 'Big Combat Mega-Eaxmple'. The rest of the
story is here. This is a cut-down, down-sized, complete
Theatrix Setting and Episode, with none of the frills, and
none of the fancy stuff. The Mini-Adventure is meant to be
used as a one-shot introduction to Theatrix, with the Main
Cast characters already provided for you on the following
pages. We've found that this Episode is best run with a
fairly realistic, almost gritty feel, while allowing both the
Main Cast, and the Matn Villain (his Colonelship, our Main
Man, #1, Iron Clad Daddy), to operate on a slightly more
heroic scale. Certainly, the Colonel should be given this
leeway, if not the Main Cast. The Colonel must be, for the
duration of this Episode, the bane of your Actors' exist­
ence; almost prescient in his ability to show up at the
wrong moment, fanatical in his refusal to give up while the
Main Cast remains alive, and unstopable short of giving
into the Blackmail.
Did we say 8/ackmain I'm afraid we did. You see
the Colonel can not die unless each of the Main Cast
makes a direct attack against him, while spending a Plot
Point into doing so. Until this happens, the Colonel will
come back, time and again, to haunt our heroes. Let this
be just our little secret.
SETTING
The year is 1935, four years before Hitler will begin
his goose-step across Europe with the taking of Poland.
However, dark plans of conquest are already afoot. The
world's free democracies, although politically hamstrung,
are not idly awaiting the German Bitzkrieg. A joint secret
service has been formed, recruited from the best that
each nation has to offer. Their mission is to sabatoge
- Jennie Jerome Churchill
Germany's growing military might, in order to give the
free-world a fighting chance, once open war becomes
inevitable. The men and women of this secret service
operate without general political sanction, often within
enemy territory, and always with the knowledge that
should they be captured, their home countries will dis­
avow any knowledge of their activities. The Main Cast of
this Episode is made of such men and women as these.
ADVENTURE SUMMARY
A group of agents (our heroes) are sent in to rescue
the renowned German rocket physicist, and anti-war
pacifist, Proffesor Albert Schlessig. Dr. Schlessig is being
held captive, and forced to work for the Nazi war effort. Dr.
Schlessig has risked his life to get a message through to
the Allied cause. He wants transportation out of Germany.
The Main Cast is sent in to get him, and they start with no
knowledge of the Oberzepplin.
The Main cast enter the research base, only to
discover that it's being shut down. The rocket project has
been a success, and some of the 'timed-bombs' have
allready been delivered to the Oberzepplin Base. The
heroes rescue Proffesor Schlessig, who tells them of the
mad Nazi plans, and they all head off to destroy the
OberZepplin. The heroes reach the mountaintop
OberZeppelin Base, discover the Colonel's plans to at­
tack Warsaw with this new airship, and his deadly 'timed­
bombs', and act in the best interest of the free world by
destroying everything in sight.
SCALING
We've foregone the process of Scaling in this mini­
adventure for the sake of brevity. All Traits here, with the
exception of those possesed by the Colonel, are on a
'normal human' Scale. Really strong guys are, well, really
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