TEXT: THE CHAMELEON ECLECTIC WORLDWIDE WEB GAME ARCHIVE
  IDENTIFICATION
  FRIEND OR FOE
  An Assignment for
  Millennium’s End
  A long-distance caller hires a BlackEagle cell to protect an unknowing teenager from a possible
  death threat.  The teen’s father’s work for the Colombian military makes him a target for retalia-
  tion by FARC, the Colombian insurgency.  The threat is real, but FARC’s not the only one gun-
  ning for the kid.  The identity of the mysterious client may hold the key to unraveling this com-
  plex, fast-paced assignment.
  Adventure Designed and Written by Charles Ryan
  This adventure originally appeared  in White Wolf magazine in 1992.  It has been reformatted for download but it is otherwise
  unchanged from how it appeared in original publication.  This document is being made available strictly for personal use.  This
  reformatted document has not been sanctioned, endorsed, or approved by Charles Ryan, Chameleon Eclectic Entertainment, Inc.,
  Hero Games, or White Wolf Magazine.  No infringement on the copyrights of these individuals or  entities is intended.
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  IDENTIFICATION
  FRIEND OR FOE
   
  A long-distance caller hires a BlackEagle cell to protect an unknowing teen-
  ager from a possible death threat.  The teen’s father’s work for the Colom-
  bian military makes him a target for retaliation by FARC, the Colombian
  insurgency.  The threat is real, but FARC’s not the only one gunning for the
  kid.  The identity of the mysterious client may hold the key to unraveling this
  complex, fast-paced assignment.
  THE ASSIGNMENT
  Raleigh is waiting for you as you enter the conference room.  As always, the
  Senior Cell Leader is casual and relaxed, his loafered feet propped on the
  large table.  But there’s something missing:  the client.  Raleigh is alone in
  the room.
  “G’day, chums,” he says as you file in.  “Glad you all could make it on
  such short notice.”  As you sit down, he leans back and hits play on the CD
  player behind him.  “This is a recording of a phone conversation I had this
  morning,” he explains as he scans it forward a bit.
  “Let me give you our situation,” an unfamiliar voice begins.  It sounds a
  little fuzzy, as though recorded over a bad long-distance line.  “We’ve had
  some threats made against our company recently.  The callers threatened to
  kill several of our employees, although they have only mentioned one by
  name.  I’ve hired a BlackEagle cell here in Seattle to protect the individual
  and his family, but his son is flying to Miami today to attend the National
  Science Fair Exhibition.  He’ll be there for four days, and I’d like you to keep
  an eye on him.  Neither the boy, nor his family know about the threats, and we
  don’t want to alarm them, so your people can’t contact the boy directly.  The
  kid’s name is Kevin Doggerty.”
  Raleigh’s voice comes on.  “Have you got any idea why these threats
  were made?  What did the caller say?”
  “Nothing specific, just that they would kill employees, starting with
  Doggerty.  I think – I think the caller was mad because Armitage makes
  weapons systems for Colombia.  I think the caller was from FARC.”
  “Well, I’ll be honest with you.  Protecting someone without his knowl-
   
  
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  edge is a tricky proposition, and FARC has a pretty solid organization here in
  Miami.  I can’t tell you whether or not we’ll take the job until I talk with some
  of the cells—”
  “Well, hopefully it’s just a hoax, but we can’t take chances.  Are there
  cells available?”
  “Yes.”
  “I’ll forward a $10,000 retainer.  If you take it, the job pays $50,000
  total.  Kevin’s flight arrives there at 3:15.  Call me if you take the job, and
  leave a message if I’m not in—”
  Raleigh pauses the recording.  “The rest is just business,” he says.  “That
  was a man named Simon Phillips of Armitage Software Systems in Seattle.  I
  talked to Bob Flemming at our office out there, and confirmed that the same
  guy hired a cell to protect Ken Doggerty, the father.  Phillips sent some hard
  copy including a picture of the kid, his hotel, and flight information, and an
  itinerary for this science fair thing.  Looks like a straight shot, and the price is
  right.  You all up to it?”
  Eyes in the Sky
  In the summer of 1998, political opposi-
  tion to American activity in Colombia
  forced the discontinuation of most mili-
  tary aid, including American AWACS
  (Airborne Warning and Command Sys-
  tem) flights.  The AWACS radar planes
  kept tabs on all air traffic in Colombia,
  preventing FARC from developing effec-
  tive air combat or attack capability.
  FARC’s air-defense systems were be-
  coming quite sophisticated in late 1998,
  and with the cessation of AWACS flights
  FARC stepped up its use of ground at-
  tack helicopters and even imported high-
  end fighter/bombers.  But in November,
  the U.S. approved the Federal Colom-
  bian purchase of two U.S.-made AWACS
  planes.  The aircraft were delivered in
  March and the first began flying last
  week, with mixed Colombian and Ameri-
  can crews.  Results were immediate: two
  FARC airstrips were identified and de-
  stroyed, and attack-helicopter flights all
  but ceased in contested areas.  All of this
  information has been well covered in the
  international media and is pretty com-
  mon knowledge among informed opera-
  tives.  Feed this information to the play-
  ers surreptitiously, however, or well in
  advance of running the adventure, be-
  cause its impact on this assignment
  should not be immediately obvious.
  THE REAL SCOOP
  A couple of months ago, the system administrator at the FARC political of-
  fice in Miami noticed some unaccounted-for activity on the office subnet.  A
  decent hacker herself, she managed over the course of several weeks to trace
  the interloper to a GenNet account in Seattle belonging to a K. Doggerty.
  She informed her seniors, who investigated the account’s owner.  The infor-
  mation accessed by the hacker was sensitive, and FARC was ready to exact
  revenge on an apparent spy.  But what the investigators learned about the
  hacker soon changed their plans.
  The account belonged to Ken Doggerty, a programmer with the software
  company Armitage Systems.  It was Armitage’s software that coordinated
  tracking and communication equipment aboard U.S. AWACS aircraft.  It so
  happened that two months earlier, Alberto Visconte, a corrupt official in the
  Colombian Defense Ministry who frequently sold information to FARC, had
  made an exceptional offer: he had arranged for a flaw to be written into the
  system code for the two AWACS destined for Colombia.  Essentially, the
  aircraft had a blind spot; if they received a particular IFF (Identification Friend
  or Foe) transponder code, they would ignore the signal, leaving the transmit-
  ting aircraft off their radar screens.  That aircraft could then travel without
  being detected by the central element of the Colombian air defense system.
  Although this blind spot would not give FARC aircraft total freedom, it might
  let FARC fighters to get close enough to the AWACS planes to shoot them
  down.  All that was needed were the IFF codes, which Visconte offered to
  provide for a price.
  But Visconte balked at the last minute, afraid of being caught in a grow-
  ing Defense Ministry investigation.  Now, however, FARC had an alternative
  – a skilled hacker named Ken Doggerty who worked at the company that
  produced the faulty control software.  Although FARC did not know who
  rigged the blind spot, they figured that Doggerty could find out, so they made
  him an offer that he couldn’t refuse: get them the IFF codes and all would be
  forgiven.  They wouldn’t even have to kill him, or his fifteen-year-old son.
  But the FARC investigators had made one mistake.  Ken Doggerty wasn’t
  the hacker; it was Kevin, his son.  And since the blackmail threat was sent
  electronically to the K. Doggerty address, it was Kevin, not his father who
  
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  read it.
  Kevin is a bright kid, an experienced hacker with a long history of elec-
  tronic breaking and entering.  FARC didn’t scare him, and he sure wasn’t
  about to tell his dad what he had been up to.  So he answered the threat,
  letting FARC think they were dealing with his father, and promised to deliver
  if given some time.  Kevin formulated a plan: he would find the IFF codes on
  the Armitage subnet, then hand them over to FARC as promised.  But he
  would also tip off the Federal Colombians while on a trip to Miami that he
  was about to make anyway.  That way, the IFF codes wouldn’t help FARC,
  because the Colombians could fix the AWACS blind spot.  But because the
  tip to the Federales would be secret and anonymous, FARC would never
  know that it was his fault.
  The last communication he received from the FARC blackmailers put
  everything on the line.  “Mr. Doggerty,” it read, “we are giving you four days
  to come through for us.  And don’t worry about your son; we’ll keep an eye
  on him in Miami.”  Kevin called the BlackEagle offices in Miami and Se-
  attle, and using a speech processor to mask his youthful voice, hired cells to
  covertly protect him and his father.  Payment was provided by a number of
  corporate sponsors, thanks again to Kevin’s hacking skills.
  But Kevin’s skills are not perfect, and there is one thing he doesn’t know.
  A corrupt and paranoid programmer at Armitage, the very one who sabo-
  taged the AWACS code, noticed Kevin’s activities on his account and real-
  ized that his work had been discovered.  Unlike the FARC investigators in
  Miami, he was able to discover Kevin’s identity.  Fearful of being caught, he
  warned Visconte, giving him Kevin’s name and telling him that Kevin was
  headed for Miami.
  Kevin’s plan is to contact Federal Colombian officials shortly after he
  arrives in Miami.  He doesn’t want to give the IFF codes to FARC until he
  knows that the Federales have them.  But he also doesn’t want FARC to
  suspect that he is double-crossing them; his life and that of his father, who
  has no idea that any of this is going on, hang in the balance.  He’s hired the
  operatives as a precaution, but he is assuming that FARC will be watching
  him, so he doesn’t want to be seen with the operatives.
  Kevin is right, but that doesn’t mean he is safe.  Visconte has hired a
  couple of cocaine cowboys to kill Kevin in Miami.  He doesn’t know that
  Kevin is planning to give the codes to both sides, but he does know that he is
  facing the death sentence should he be caught, and Kevin holds the key.
  FARC and the
  Colombian Civil War
  Colombia has faced insurgency from
  FARC and a number of other organi-
  zations for almost three decades.  But
  in 1995, FARC was absorbed by the
  Medellin Cartel and began to fight a
  well-financed conventional war.  In
  1999, FARC controls almost a third of
  Colombia.  American aid to the Fed-
  eral government has been sporadic, as
  the political climate at home has not
  favored military adventurism.  But al-
  though FARC is worldwide considered
  a criminal organization rather than a
  political insurgency, it is well financed,
  and without outside support, the Fed-
  eral forces may well lose all or most
  of Colombia.
  FARC has offices in a number of
  countries, using them to maintain po-
  litical liaisons, deal with the interna-
  tional media, and purchase the arms
  that keep it afloat.  Despite American
  activity in Colombia, the FARC office
  in Miami is totally legal, although not
  popular.  FARC officials and employ-
  ees face threats and attacks on a
  weekly basis, but they carry out their
  jobs nonetheless.  There are fourteen
  employees at the FARC office.
  Questioning FARC officials will
  be fruitless; most of the office person-
  nel know nothing about the Doggerty
  affair, and those who do won’t talk.
  The GM will have to field any attempt
  to infiltrate the office, keeping in mind
  that that the security is quite good.
  Hacking the office subnet is another
  story, however.  FARC’s GenNet ad-
  dress is in the directory, and a Com-
  puter Ops/Security roll at -30 will get
  a hacker past the mailbox and into the
  subnet’s restricted areas.  With enough
  searching – use a Computer Ops/Civil
  Systems roll to see how long it takes –
  the operatives will find a file contain-
  ing all of the blackmail correspon-
  dence sent to the K. Doggerty account.
  More information on FARC and
  the Colombian civil war can be found
  in the Millennium’s End rulebook and
  the 1999 Datasource (also see the Mi-
  ami Sourcebook and The Medellin
  Agent).
  If the operatives take the assignment, they’ll only have a few hours before
  Kevin’s flight arrives.  Raleigh will call Phillips, leaving a voice-mail mes-
  sage that the job is a go.  Any preparations the operatives care to make before
  Kevin’s arrival will have to be made quickly.
  Throughout most of the events outlined below, one or more groups will
  be watching Kevin.  All of these watchers – the operatives, FARC’s thugs,
  Visconte’s assassins, and the Colombian government representative – will be
  undercover most of the time.  Unless otherwise noted, follow this procedure
  for every scene:
  Have each player involved make a Hiding/Shadowing roll, modified to
  the conditions at the scene.  If anyone fails, make a Perception roll for each
  group of NPCs also in the area.  If that roll is made, the NPCs have noticed
  one or all of the operatives and may change their behavior to observe them or
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  stay out of the way.  Once that is decided, have the players make a Perception
  roll, at a base -20 if they aren’t deliberately looking or a +20 if they are, plus
  any other modifiers that apply.  If they succeed, they notice one or more of
  the NPCs in the area.
  If the FARC thugs become aware of the operatives, they will hang back a
  bit to try to learn who they are and why they, too, are watching Kevin.  This
  will make them harder to notice; change the operatives’ Perception modifi-
  ers to -30 and +10.  On the other hand, the FARC men’s distance from their
  target will make them easier to derail or steer away from Kevin.
  Thursday
  Kevin’s flight arrives on time.  He’s easy to identify walking down the ramp
  – a tall, lanky kid with unkempt hair, a pimply face and a laptop.  Any opera-
  tives at the airport should make their Perception and Hiding rolls described
  above; Vasquez, a FARC man, is present as well.  Kevin will notice anyone
  who fails the Hiding roll by more than 20.  He will try not to react since he’s
  not supposed to know they are there, but an additional Perception roll will
  tell the operatives that Kevin has spotted them.
  Kevin collects his suitcases and a large trunk from the baggage carousel,
  then takes a taxi to his hotel – the Regal, in Miami Beach’s Art Deco district.
  While he doesn’t act with the ease of a seasoned world traveler, he handles
  himself pretty well for a fifteen-year-old traveling on his own.  Once checked
  in, he retires to his third-floor room for a couple of hours.  Operatives suc-
  cessfully making their Perception rolls will notice two men (the FARC thugs)
  watching the hotel from the lobby, Collins Park, or across Collins Avenue.
  One of them, Vasquez, might be recognized from the airport.
  About 6:00 in the evening, Kevin comes downstairs to have dinner in the
  hotel restaurant.  About halfway through his meal, he gets up and places a
  brief call from the phone booth in the lobby.  Watchers making a successful
  Perception roll will notice that he pulls some sort of object out of his pocket
  and seems to be holding it near his mouth as he speaks.  Operatives getting
  close enough may see that it is an electronic device about the size of a mini-
  cassette recorder, but if Kevin notices anyone watching him, he’ll turn his
  back and hastily conclude.  Once finished with the call, Kevin returns to his
  dinner, then heads upstairs for an exciting evening of cable TV.  One of the
  FARC thugs stays in the vicinity of the hotel all night.
  Kevin’s call was to the Colombian consulate in Miami, made from a pay
  phone for fear that his home or even hotel room might be bugged.  He in-
  formed the consulate desk officer that he has important information concern-
  ing Colombian air defenses, and told him about the drop he plans for the next
  day.  He didn’t leave his name.
  Friday
  The National Science Fair
  The National Science Fair is the culmi-
  nation of a nationwide high-school sci-
  ence competition.  Hundreds of teenag-
  ers from around the country have come
  to display their award-winning science
  projects.  The fair is being held in the
  Miami Beach Exhibition Center, about
  two blocks from the Regal Hotel, and
  includes displays on cutting-edge tech-
  nology and seminars by several impor-
  tant scientists as well as about 200 stu-
  dent science projects.
  Kevin’s project has to do with ho-
  lographic data-storage.  It’s an impres-
  sive display, with a computer and home-
  made holographic drive among other
  things, and it actually contributes a few
  new ideas to the field, although no break-
  throughs (Engineering/Electrical at –20
  to accurately assess the importance of
  Kevin’s work).  The operatives may be
  tempted to believe that the various watch-
  ers and assassins are after Kevin’s sci-
  entific discoveries.  Let them.
  The operatives were given a copy
  of the Science Fair brochure and itiner-
  ary.  Here is an abbreviated version:
  Friday:
  14:00-19:00 exhibitor set up
  Saturday: 08:00-10:00 exhibitor set up
  10:00-18:00 public display,
  talks, and seminars
  Sunday: 10:00-16:00 public display
  13:00-14:00 finalist
  presentations
  14:30-15:00 awards
  presentations
  16:00-18:00 tear-down
  The operatives will know from the Science Fair itinerary that things don’t
  really start until Saturday, although exhibitors can set up Friday afternoon.
  Kevin doesn’t get himself out of bed until almost noon.  He then plays around
  on one of his computers for a while before taking a shower.  At around 1:00,
  he sets out from the hotel in search of lunch, with Vasquez and LaPas in tow.
  About two blocks from the hotel Visconte’s assassins go for Kevin.  A
  man and a woman in a red Ferrari convertible pull suddenly out of a side-
  street, cutting across the busy Collins Avenue traffic and squealing to a halt
  
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  alongside Kevin.  The man stands in the passenger seat and levels a pistol at
  the astonished teenager, squeezing off four quick shots.  But the car’s sudden
  stop throws him off balance, and all four shots miss their mark.  Kevin turns
  and ducks quickly into the shop behind him.
  What happens next depends on the operatives’ actions; the equally sur-
  prised FARC men will make no move.  With no intervention, Lawry will hop
  out of the car and pursue Kevin through the shop, out a side door, and down
  to the beach, where he will kill him, then be picked up by his partner.  If the
  operatives hesitate but pursue, Glitter will fire upon them.  She and Lawry
  will then try to break it off and escape.  If the operatives act before Lawry can
  start after Kevin, the assassins will simply drive away, with a few parting
  shots.  Whatever the case, Lawry and Glitter will not press a fight in the face
  of powerful resistance, and the GM should endeavor to keep one or both
  alive for the final scene.
  If the operatives do not recover Kevin, he will return to the hotel in a
  couple of hours, conspicuously cautious.  He will flash a knowing and re-
  lieved look at any BlackEagle operative he recognizes, and then head up-
  stairs.  But if approached by the operatives at any time, he will keep up the
  pretense of innocence, trying to disassociate himself from direct contact that
  might be observed by FARC.
  At about 4:00, Kevin collects a hotel porter to give him a hand with his
  gear, and starts out on the two-block walk to the Exhibition Center.  Before
  leaving the hotel, he glances about to insure his covert security team is on
  hand, which any operative making a Perception roll will notice.  Once he gets
  to the center, Kevin checks in at the crowded registration desk, gets a cart on
  which to pile his gear, and releases the hotel porter.  He heads off into the
  hall, moseying along between displays, most of which are almost assembled.
  He pauses frequently to look, occasionally talking to the other exhibitors
  about their projects.  At one table he has a lengthy discussion, talking for
  almost fifteen minutes and showing off quite a bit of his own work before
  moving on.  While all this is going on, a careful observer will notice that not
  only are LaPas and Vasquez nearby, but there is also another mysterious His-
  panic man loitering in the vicinity (Perception at -10).
  As Kevin pulls away, a strange incident occurs.  The kid to whom was
  talking holds up a manila envelope, calling out, “Hey!  You forgot some-
  thing!”  Kevin seems to ignore him, but the mysterious Latin man steps for-
  ward, mumbles something, takes the envelope, and walks quickly away.  How
  much of this the operatives take in depends on the result of yet another Per-
  ception roll, modified for the operatives’ point of view.  Kevin moves on to
  his table and begins nervously setting up his display; he will deny any knowl-
  edge of the envelope if asked.  The mysterious man heads out through the
  lobby and towards Collins Avenue.  LaPas follows him.
  After setting up for a couple of hours, Kevin heads back to the hotel.
  The entire time, he keeps glancing around every few minutes, just to make
  sure his protectors are still around.  He doesn’t interact with anyone else at
  the Exhibition Center, and eats dinner in his room when he gets back to the
  hotel.
  Saturday
  Background Checks:
  Kevin, Ken, and Armitage
  At some point in the adventure, the op-
  eratives are probably going to want to
  do some background checking on Kevin,
  his father, or Armitage, their apparent
  client.  The best way to deal with such
  an eventuality will depend on how the
  operatives go about their checks.
  If the operatives attempt to contact
  Armitage through the number that Kevin
  (posing as Phillips) left, they will reach
  Kevin’s computer phone mail system,
  which will identify itself as Armitage and
  request that they leave a message.  The
  next time Kevin checks his mail, he will
  return the operative’s call using his voice
  processor, posing as Phillips, and an-
  swering questions as best he can while
  maintaining his ruse.  Operatives speak-
  ing with him may make a Perception (if
  they do not suspect) or Diplomacy/Pry-
  ing (if they do) roll to notice that some-
  thing about Phillips and his story is not
  right.  If the operatives try to reach
  Phillips by calling Armitage direct, they
  will be told he is out of town on busi-
  ness; the real Phillips actually is.  No-
  body else knows anything about death
  threats or BlackEagle assignments.
  Operatives looking into Kevin’s fa-
  ther will learn that Ken Doggerty is a
  mid-level programmer and Kevin’s only
  immediate family.  He makes $64,000 a
  year and owns the small house he and
  Kevin live in.  He was not involved in
  the AWACS system software project.
  Contacting Doggerty will only alarm
  him; he knows nothing about any of what
  is going on.  If the operatives let him
  know that his son is in danger, he will
  head for Miami posthaste.
  There’s not a lot available on Kevin.
  Although he’s bright, Kevin’s grades are
  average.  He has few extra-curricular in-
  volvements and no police record.  An
  operative making a Computer Ops/Net-
  working roll may find the K. Doggerty
  account – and may, like FARC, assume
  it belongs to his dad, although another
  Computer Ops/Networking roll at -20
  will reveal that all transactions with that
  account are being forwarded to Kevin’s
  hotel room.  A Computer Ops/Security
  (con’t. next page)
  The incident at the exhibition hall was a rather amateurish drop attempt.  The
  manila envelope, which wasn’t supposed to be noticed by the other kid, con-
  tained the IFF codes and information on the corrupted AWACS software for
  
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  roll at -50 will get a hacker onto Kevin’s
  system; from there the operative can find
  several dozen gigabytes worth of fasci-
  nating material, including all of the cor-
  respondence with FARC, the IFF codes
  and AWACS information, the records of
  the account transfers by which the op-
  eratives were paid, and evidence of un-
  related hacking.
  the Colombians.  The man who picked it up was Major Fernando Marquez, a
  consular official.  From the Exhibition Center, Marquez headed for his car,
  not pausing to read the envelope’s contents.  But Kevin’s bungle, a result of
  watching too many bad spy movies, tipped FARC to his attempts to double-
  cross them, and Marquez was intercepted.  Only the intervention of his driver/
  bodyguard saved his life, and the envelope was lost; stage this scene if the
  operatives follow Marquez.  Now FARC thinks that Ken Doggerty is using
  his son to double-cross them, and, with the codes in hand, they’re ready to
  carry out their threat.  Meanwhile, Marquez still doesn’t have the codes, or
  even really know what this is all about.  He does, however, know what Kevin
  looks like and where to find him.
  Shortly after Kevin arrives at the Exhibition Center Saturday morning,
  Marquez approaches him.  Kevin, not wanting to be seen with this man,
  reacts desperately, but does not run.  If the operatives don’t intervene, Marquez
  will calm Kevin, explaining his loss of the envelope.  If they do get in his
  way, he will assume they are Kevin’s bodyguards and impress upon them the
  importance of his speaking with Kevin, without giving details.
  This situation is ripe with possibility, especially if the operatives are on
  edge.  But Marquez is persuasive, and despite some tension, should be able
  to get through without anybody drawing a weapon.  At this point Kevin’s
  involvement in more than the science fair will become unavoidably obvious.
  When Kevin hears that FARC knows he tried to pass the codes, any attempt
  at a ruse will be superfluous.  He and Marquez agree to head back to the hotel
  to get the codes from Kevin’s laptop; his computer at the exhibition center is
  not on the net.  The FARC men are nowhere to be seen, and Marquez urges
  speed.  Kevin orders the operatives to ride shotgun.
  Nothing happens on the way to the hotel.  The FARC thugs are in Kevin’s
  room, stealing his computer.  As the operatives enter the hotel lobby, they run
  point blank into the thugs coming out of the elevator (or a stairwell, if the
  operatives come in by a rear entrance) with Kevin’s laptop in hand.  The
  FARC men won’t hesitate; their job is to retrieve and conceal the codes, and
  if possible, kill Kevin.  Doing both in a busy hotel lobby doesn’t bother them
  at all.
  Once the firefight is over, Kevin plugs his laptop into the GenNet jack at
  the registration desk and sends the codes to Marquez’s account at the consu-
  late.  This break in the action may lull the players into thinking the assign-
  ment is over.  In the few moments before the police arrive, Kevin will answer
  as best he can any questions they have about his role in the events or about
  the identity of Marquez and the FARC men.  Marquez doesn’t really know
  what’s going on either, so he asks, “If you didn’t sabotage the software, and
  FARC didn’t either, someone else must be involved.  Why haven’t we heard
  from them?”
  Just then Lowry and Glitter screech to a halt in front of the hotel firing at
  Kevin through the glass of the lobby doors with automatic weapons.  Both
  hop out of the car to pursue their target through the hotel.  They are used to
  drive-by shootings and don’t have much grasp of more sophisticated tactics,
  but unless the operatives posted a lookout, they should have the advantage of
  surprise.  This time, they will press the fight, not quitting until they or Kevin
  are dead.
  The Regal
  The northernmost building in Miami
  Beach’s historic Art Deco district, the
  Regal is a small but luxurious hotel that
  still retains much of its 1930s splendor.
  The Art Deco district was revitalized in
  the early eighties, and most of the hotels
  were restored.  But the depression and
  malaise of the nineties have taken their
  toll, and many have fallen into disrepair
  again.  But the Regal, sitting on the beach
  only two blocks from the Exhibition
  Center, does good business year round
  and remains in pretty good shape.  The
  seven-story hotel has ninety-two rooms
  and suites.
  Kevin’s room is 312, near the beach
  end of the L-shaped building and facing
  into its courtyard and pool.  It’s a simple
  room, with a queen-size bed and the typi-
  cal assortment of hotel-room furniture,
  all in the art deco style.  When Kevin
  arrives, one of the first things he does is
  plug his laptop into the GenNet jack, so
  any correspondence addressed to the K.
  Doggerty account goes there.  His com-
  puter, and the account, will be up for the
  length of his stay in Miami.
  There are additional rooms available
  at the Regal.  The closest to Kevin’s are
  313 (a two-room suite) and 302.  Nei-
  ther of the rooms directly above or be-
  low are free, but there are rooms on most
  of the other floors.  Use the Small Hotel
  on pages 66 and 67 of the GMs Com-
  panion for floorplans of the Regal Ho-
  tel.
  
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  Aftermath
  The fight with Visconte’s assassins shouldn’t take long, and the police, al-
  ready called after the first firefight, will arrive within a minute.  The opera-
  tives and Kevin won’t be charged unless bystander casualties were heavy,
  but police business and the press will keep them busy for several hours.
  Marquez has diplomatic immunity and enough connections to keep his in-
  volvement out of the public eye.
  Kevin will leave Sunday morning, not bothering to stay through the sci-
  ence fair judging.  The shootings, a minor footnote in Miami’s violent in-
  volvement in the Colombian war, won’t even make the national news.  The
  contract will be paid in full within a week, and FARC will leave Kevin and
  his father alone, for the time being.
  The Miami Beach
  Convention Center
  Miami Beach has an enormous Exhibi-
  tion and Convention Center, located just
  on the edge of the Art Deco district and
  only a couple of blocks from the beach.
  The expansive, post-modern building has
  well over a million square feet of exhi-
  bition space, of which the National Sci-
  ence Fair is using about a quarter.  The
  rest of the center is unoccupied during
  this adventure.
  The Science Fair occupies the east-
  ern and northern lobbies, several adjoin-
  ing conference rooms, and a single huge
  exhibition floor.  Only the eastern lobby
  entrances are open; the northern lobby
  doors are locked, as the lobby space is
  being used for high-technology displays.
  Armed guards are present in both lobby
  spaces and at the entrances to the main
  exhibition floor.
  Floorplans for the Convention Cen-
  ter can be found online at:
  http://www.ci.miami-beach.fl.us/
  newcity/culture/convfpln.html
  THE PLAYERS
  Kevin Doggerty
  Kevin is a precocious teenager; a brilliant hacker, a budding electrical engi-
  neer, and a skilled conniver.  Unfortunately, his opinion of his skills exceeds
  even their actual level.  This arrogance has won him few friends at school,
  but has never gotten him into this sort of trouble before.  Kevin sees the
  operatives as little more than hired thugs – his hired thugs, countering those
  sent after him by FARC.  This attitude will become apparent if the operatives
  interact with him for any length of time.  Attitude aside, Kevin will stick to
  his innocence story up to the last minute, claiming that he knows nothing
  about the attackers or the operatives.
  Kevin is a tall but thin young man with an unkempt look and a propensity
  for faded T-shirts.  He is not strong, but fairly agile and a quick thinker.
  Kevin Doggerty
  15 year-old male, 185cm, 60kg, Blonde hair, brown eyes, light skin.
  Int
  83
  Sen
  30
  Acting
  42
  46
  Agl
  52
  Cor
  48
  Con
  21
  67
  Con
  41
  Str
  38
  Computer Ops
  62
  70
  Per
  34
  App
  40
  Networks
  31
  101
  Bra
  70
  Wil
  62
  Security
  28
  98
  Diplomacy
  44
  49
  Perception
  34
  Lying
  22
  71
  Base Speed
  16
  Unarmed H-t-H
  20
  25
  Damage Rating
  2
  Dodge
  10
  35
  Mass Factor
  1.1
  Punch
  8
  33
  Weapon
  Roll
  DF/DD
  Dam. Type
  Punch
  33
  2
  Impact
  FARC Goons
  Kevin is watched throughout most of this adventure by Marco Vasquez and
  Eduardo LaPas, employees of the FARC political office in Miami.  Vasquez
  and LaPas have been ordered to keep tabs on Kevin and kill him if given the
  word.  They are both skilled in physical surveillance and the ways of the gun,
  and have no compunction about offing Kevin or anyone else who gets in the
  way.  Nevertheless, at least at the start of the assignment they don’t suspect
  Kevin at all, and have no clue who the operatives are or why they too would
  be after the kid.  They communicate with each other and the FARC office by
  mobile phone.  Both will avoid confrontations with the operatives, and resist
  
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  questioning if cornered.
  Vasquez is a tall man with a long, somber face, dark hair, and a mous-
  tache.  LaPas is built like a fireplug, with close-cropped dark hair and a pug
  nose.  As if unable to shield their drug-lord-hit-men image, they both wear
  dark suits, ties, and sunglasses.
  Marco Vasquez
  32 year-old male, 187cm, 78kg, Black hair and moustache, brown eyes, tan skin.
  Int
  38
  Sen
  52
  Aim
  44
  49
  Agl
  48
  Cor
  50
  Autofire
  19
  68
  Con
  44
  Str
  54
  Smallarm
  22
  71
  Per
  36
  App
  46
  Hiding
  48
  53
  Bra
  52
  Wil
  52
  Shadowing
  24
  77
  Unarmed H-t-H
  34
  39
  Perception
  49
  Dodge
  10
  49
  Base Speed
  15
  Punch
  16
  55
  Damage Rating
  3
  Mass Factor
  0.9
  Carries a MAC M11 (32 rnds hollowpoint) and an extra magazine.  Wears a Class II+
  concealable ballistic vest.
  Weapon
  Roll
  DF/DD
  Dam. Type
  M11
  88
  18
  Hyd. Shock
  (auto)
  85
  18
  Hyd. Shock
  Punch
  55
  3
  Impact
  Eduardo LaPas
  27 year-old male, 168cm, 95kg, Black hair, brown eyes, tan skin.
  Int
  48
  Sen
  44
  Aim
  40
  45
  Agl
  54
  Cor
  42
  Autofire
  10
  55
  Con
  62
  Str
  68
  Smallarm
  20
  65
  Per
  56
  App
  40
  Hiding
  42
  46
  Bra
  40
  Wil
  50
  Shadowing
  21
  67
  Unarmed H-t-H
  60
  66
  Perception
  45
  Dodge
  25
  91
  Base Speed
  16
  Grapple
  20
  86
  Damage Rating
  4
  Punch
  30
  96
  Mass Factor
  0.8
  Drive
  48
  53
  Auto
  24
  77
  Carries a Beretta 93R (20 rnds hollowpoint) and two extra magazines.  Wears a
  Class II+ concealable ballistic vest.
  Weapon
  Roll
  DF/DD
  Dam. Type
  Beretta 93R
  82
  20
  Hyd. Shock
  (auto)
  72
  20
  Hyd. Shock
  Punch
  96
  4
  Impact
  Visconte’s Assassins
  Martin Lawry and Chick Glitter are a pair of cocaine cowboys hired by
  Visconte to kill Kevin.  Local drug runners, Lawry and Glitter are a flashy
  pair who like to show off their ill-gotten gains, strutting along the trendy
  streets of Miami and Miami Beach in expensive clothes, jewelry and a bright
  red Ferrari 348.  They are never far from their guns, which come out at the
  drop of a hat.  But the pair are more smoke than substance and won’t hang
  around for a sustained firefight.  If captured, they will talk, but know nothing
  about why they were hired.  Their employer is in Colombia; they were con-
  tacted by phone.
  Lawry is a handsome young man with tan skin and light brown hair.
  Glitter is a striking blonde who wears a lot of leather.  Neither goes anywhere
  
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  without the other, a weapon, a lot of glitz, and an attitude.  Not surprisingly,
  they have a reputation in Miami’s underworld – one that might make them
  familiar to the operatives – and information on them is easy to come by.
  They are highly mobile, however, and hard to track down.  More information
  on Lawry and Glitter can be found on pages 120-121 of the GMs Compan-
  ion.
  Martin Lawry
  24 year-old male, 182cm, 74kg, Dark blonde hair, brown eyes, tan skin.
  Int
  46
  Sen
  54
  Aim
  38
  44
  Agl
  62
  Cor
  50
  Autofire
  16
  60
  Con
  48
  Str
  52
  Longarm
  15
  59
  Per
  46
  App
  62
  Smallarm
  17
  61
  Bra
  52
  Wil
  48
  Kata
  32
  38
  Karate
  16
  54
  Perception
  49
  Unarmed H-t-H
  52
  57
  Base Speed
  20
  Dodge
  20
  77
  Damage Rating
  3
  Punch
  26
  83
  Mass Factor
  1.0
  Carries a Beretta 84F (13 rnds hollowpoint) and two extra magazines and/or an
  AKM (30 rnds ball) and an extra magazine.  Wears a Class II+ concealable ballistic
  vest.
  Weapon
  Roll
  DF/DD
  Dam. Type
  Beretta 84F
  76
  18
  Hyd. Shock
  AKM
  85
  19
  Hyd. Shock
  (auto)
  86
  19
  Hyd. Shock
  Punch
  83
  3
  Impact
  Chick Glitter
  25 year-old female, 163cm, 52kg, Blonde hair, blue eyes, tan skin.
  Int
  40
  Sen
  48
  Aim
  56
  61
  Agl
  51
  Cor
  50
  Autofire
  28
  89
  Con
  47
  Str
  41
  Smallarm
  20
  81
  Per
  52
  App
  72
  Drive
  52
  57
  Bra
  60
  Wil
  42
  Auto
  26
  83
  Perception
  42
  Base Speed
  16
  Damage Rating
  3
  Mass Factor
  1.3
  Carries a Mini-Uzi (20 rnds ball) and three extra magazines.  Drives a Ferrari
  348tb custom convertible.
  Weapon
  Roll
  DF/DD
  Dam. Type
  Mini-Uzi
  100
  17
  Hyd. Shock
  (auto)
  108
  17
  Hyd. Shock
  Fernando Marquez
  Major Fernando Marquez is the Federal Colombian military liaison in Mi-
  ami.  Since he is a coordinator for special and covert operations in the Co-
  lombian civil war, the operatives may well have met him before, or at least
  heard about him around the office.  Marquez has been part of the Defense
  Ministry investigation that frightened Visconte, so when a mysterious caller
  offered information on air defense leaks, he jumped at the opportunity.  A
  solid character, Marquez will be willing to help protect Kevin and work with
  the operatives, so long as he gets his information.
  Marquez is a short, handsome man with black hair and a small mous-
  
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  tache.  He is friendly and easy-going, and a skilled combatant.  More infor-
  mation on Marquez and his activities can be found in the 1999 Datasource.
  Fernando Marquez
  36 year-old male, 170cm, 70kg, Black hair and moustache, brown eyes, tan skin.
  Int
  55
  Sen
  55
  Aim
  44
  49
  Agl
  47
  Cor
  62
  Smallarm
  15
  64
  Con
  55
  Str
  41
  Diplomacy
  50
  56
  Per
  52
  App
  43
  Coercion
  25
  81
  Bra
  63
  Wil
  66
  Lying
  20
  76
  Unarmed H-t-H
  36
  41
  Perception
  46
  Dodge
  14
  55
  Base Speed
  15
  Punch
  18
  59
  Damage Rating
  3
  Mass Factor
  1.0
  Carries a Browning Hi-Power (13 rnds hollowpoint) and an extra magazine.  Wears a
  Class II ballistic raincoat.
  Weapon
  Roll
  DF/DD
  Dam. Type
  Hi-Power
  86
  20
  Hyd. Shock
  Punch
  59
  3
  Impact
  
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