So -- one of your informants comes to you one morning and says one of the other girls she works with in the camps along the sea wall has gone missing. They're both homeless, so -- her words, not yours -- "nobody else is gonna give a fuck." She really wants you to help, but what's one more missing homeless girl to a Blade Runner, of all things?
You try to let her down easy, but she's not taking no for an answer. And when it clicks for her that you don't intend to help, well... that's when she says it, the one little sentence tossed into a china cabinet like a stick of lit dynamite:
"Niander Wallace -- she disappeared after she started going around telling people Niander Wallace got her pregnant."
Hell. You figure you gotta tell someone, but stuff like this still isn't your purview so it's still not your problem. That assumption was your first mistake.
Wouldn't you know it, but the next morning you and a few of your RDU partners find yourself sitting in the Deputy Chief's office with some sorta Wallace Corp exec who's telling you a new story now -- the very same homeless girl was snatched exiting Wallace Corp headquarters by known members of the Replicant Underground Resistance. Now this mess, missing girl and all? Now it's definitely your purview (you fucking wise-ass).
Find the kidnappers -- oh, and find the girl "if you can," the exec had added as an obvious afterthought -- and help them find an early retirement. Get going, Blade Runner... the streets of Los Angeles don't wait.
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Yes, I am giving this module I created another shot. Those involved in the first attempt have priority, cap is 4 players.
Free League's Blade Runner: the Role Playing Game is set in 2037, ten years before the event of Blade Runner 2047. You play a Blade Runner, a detective executioner given the mandate to find and kill unregistered replicants in a bid to keep the streets of Los Angeles safe. A dangerous game for soft, visceral human beings, helped now by their brand-new Nexus 9 replicant partners: special LAPD issue, hot off the Wallace Corp assembly line. Choose to be an experienced human Blade Runner with years of the job under your belt, or a newer, tougher, but more naive Nexus Blade Runner -- purpose-built but searching for meaning in your existence.
Mechanics are based on collecting contested successes off dice pools that scale (from d6 to d12) based your skill and attribute rating, a mechanic observed in other Free League games. Combat is deadly and cinematic, especially with critical dice for certain weapon types allowing for bombastic damage and one-shot, one-kill opportunities. The game follows a time-line based case investigation structure that works in shifts, but beyond that structure -- how and what direction to take the case is solely up to the players' imaginations. Beginners welcome!
You'll need a free Roll20 (although I am currently testing out Alchemy RPG which I quite like for this sort of game) and to join the Terrifying Tabletop Discord server if you haven't already. Based on my last game, and short(er) session times, I expect this game to last around 8 sessions -- we will play every other Wednesday. Any questions, please reach out to me on Discord at #afarmfreshidiot or via the general channel in the Terrifying Tabletop server.
