I started working on one of the quests - "Fragged" - for the first Refuge RPG adventure, In the Cold Light of Day. A moderately short quest, it takes quite a bit of influence from Fallout: New Vegas's "I Put a Spell on You" and concerns the machinations of a captain at the Koch Military Base near Edgehill, the starting town on the adventure's first planet, Telren. The following is the preliminary sketch of the first half of the quest. Obviously, spoilers abound.
There are set to be about six sidequests in each of the three major sections of ICLD - one on Telren, one on Solari and one on Caal – each with their own medium-length "story quest" that ties the three locations together. These first six are "Haus of Gill Repute," "Hunting the Hunters," "Mister 880", "Fragged", "Return to Sender" and "Bootlegger". Several are mutually exclusive, but all have consequences that affect parts of the main story as time goes on.
This is the city of Edgehill, a run-down, godforsaken town near the Tennerine Desert on Telren. Home to a MOB supporting military operations in the Calaine Mountains to the east against the Tennerine Independence Army - a bloody war that's been being fought for almost a decade -, Edgehill is otherwise almost devoid of law and order. The local IFS Police office is overworked and understaffed, despite the attempts of the previously idealistic young sheriff attempting to dispell thirty years of corruption under the leadership of the previous sheriff.
Black market shops operate openly, most notably The Black Mark, operated by a man known only as Wagner, and violent street gangs rule the rest of town. The Third Street Hunters, most notable of these, are armed and defended by Cecil Gill, a criminal lawyer who forms one half of Solomon & Gill, Attorneys at Law and owner of the Gun Haus.
Edgehill is, in the words of a veneable Jedi Master, a wretched hive of scum and villany, with intrigue and betrayal lurking at every corner.
In the Cold Light of Day: Edgehill will be released for free alongside the Refuge Role-Playing Game Quick Start Guide as soon as possible.
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