We Will Remember Them

Details

Pages: 16

Author(s): Paul Fricker

Artist(s): Ian Hodgson, Scott Purdy

Setting: World War II, Norway (1942)

Appears in: World War Cthulhu: Europe Ablaze

Summary

Paul Fricker presents a mission to sabotage a power plant in Norway, inspired by the real SOE Operation Musketoon. This is only the beginning, as the team is diverted to investigate a Norwegian scientist's unwholesome experiments with alien technology, and what the agents discover will leave them changed forever.

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At the start of the game the investigators are returning to consciousness in the back of a crashed truck. They will already have completed their first mission and are en route to the their secondary objective, a secret research facility. The first part of the scenario is then played out through a series of flashbacks as the game looks back to the investigators' training, briefing, sea crossing and attempted demolition of the power station, before the second part of the scenario resumes at the research facility.

The first part of this scenario sees a small group of SOE agents dispatched to Norway, ostensibly to put the Mo i Rana power station out of action. Officially, the agents are then to make their own way out of Norway and in to Sweden, and from there, back to the United Kingdom. The agents are also tasked with the more secret mission to extract a fringe scientist working in the locality of the power plant.

In the second part of the scenario, the investigators find German soldiers at the research facility and must decide how to proceed. Terrible truths lie in the facility: the scientists have extra-terrestrial help. Worse than that is what the investigators discover about themselves.

It is possible that they will survive to participate in future scenarios, but they will hold a dark secret where their human hearts used to be. (An option is presented at the end of the scenario which presents an alternative fate for the investigators.)

References

Player Handouts: Assorted maps, illustrations, and documents.

Locations: Norway; power station (primary objective0 and research facility (secret secondary objective)

Creatures: Aliens, Rogue Test Subjects, Researchers, German Soldiers

Tomes and Artifacts: Research Notes, Scientific Apparatus, Alien Medical Devices

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• Inspired by the real SOE Operation Musketoon.

Keeper Comments

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• According to one reviewer: "Only problem, its loss rate will certainly be 100%, and some players do not like to throw their character right after creating it. That said, the author foresees survival solutions (not very convincing if you don't want to sabotage the scenario, but hey, they are there)."