TEXT: THE NIGHT THAT HOPE DIED 
  A Christmas Themed Necessary Evil Savage Tale 
  Background: 
  The V'sori have successfully conquered the Earth. Very few are powerful enough to oppose their occupying forces to 
  free humanity. Many of the world's villains have been gathered by Dr. Destruction to resist the occupation and 
  inspire others to join the fight against the alien overlords. 
  Up until last year, most people had completely lost hope and have become "good citizens" of the V'sori empire. Few 
  noticed that their neighbors were disappearing, while the numbers of drones grew. Few realized that the Earth 
  wasn't merely being conquered, its residents were being "altered." No one was fighting back. It's hard to be inspired 
  by news of Dr. Destruction's recent terrorist assault against the local television network. 
  That all changed last year on Christmas morning. Children across the world received Christmas presents for the first 
  time since the V'sori invasion. The V'sori had come to expect a few underground Christmas celebrants, but they were 
  not prepared when all the world's children received gifts...gifts that included cards reading "Merry Christmas to All! 
  S. Claus." 
  As news spread of the magical gift giving -- gift giving that had evaded V'sori surveillance, many of the people of the 
  world began to experience a new emotion. They began to Hope. Here was someone, or potentially someone, who 
  could evade/outsmart the V'sori who hadn't historically been bent on global domination. 
  The V'sori had to stop this S. Claus at all costs. And so began Operation Toybreaker. If the V'sori could capture this 
  Claus, and transform him into a Super Drone, they could ensure that the toys delivered from here on out contained 
  appropriate "citizen conditioning messages." They could take this figure of hope and transform him into a figure of 
  domination. 
  Two weeks ago, while battling Omegans at a site where the frozen bodies of WWII heroes had been located, V'sori 
  radar picked up an odd signature -- it appeared to be a flying reindeer. They followed the signature to its final 
  destination and the location of Santa's Village had become revealed. It took the V'sori seven days to overcome 
  Santa's defenses and capture this bastion of hope. It took another five days to convert all of his remaining elves into 
  drones and to reprogram Santa's Toy Soldier Defense Androids. It will take two days for the V'sori to convert Santa 
  into a complicit drone. 
   
  The Adventure: 
  Dr. Destruction has intercepted a broadcast outlining the V'sori's capture of S. Claus and their plans to convert him 
  into a Drone. Dr. Destruction desperately wants to use Omegans to rescue the figure of hope as Santa would make 
  an amazing gun runner for the Omegan underground, but he knows that Omegans are unlikely to rescue this 
  saccharine sweet icon without some deception. 
  His plan is simple. Convey to an Omegan cell that the V'sori have captured the worlds "Last Figure of Hope" a person 
  capable of supplying the criminal underground with a steady supply of weapons. The person has technology that can 
  evade V'sori communications satellites and can make large simultaneous deliveries. 
  (At this point, most players will get what's going on, but their villain PCs should remain clueless). 
  The villains are sent to rescue this individual who is being held in a specially built temporary prison facility on Baffin 
  Island in Nunavut, Canada. Once at the location the PCs will face 2 encounters. 
  The first encounter is an outdoor battle against the converted remnants of Claus's cohorts. The PCs should face 1 Toy 
  Soldier and 2 Elves per PC. 
  After the PCs finish this battle, they will wander through what remains of Santa's Village. Don't hold back on the 
  description. There should be dead elves everywhere, as well as dead snowmen, and the carcasses of Santa's 
  
  Reindeer. Play up the V'sori cruelty. Feel free to have another small skirmish here, or roleplay moments where the 
  PCs find Santa's list only to find out that they were indeed supposed to receive that Atari 2600 for their 10th 
  birthday...or some other humorous moment. 
  Upon completing the visit to Santa's village the PCs will approach a specially designed prison containing 1 K'tharen 
  Warrior per 2 PCs and 2 Drones per PC, as well as the unconscious body of Claus. Claus's body is encased in a 
  DuraSilicon Container (Toughness 15) where robotic devices are slowly converting him into a Super Drone. 
  Once the PCs arrive at the prison, they will have 15 rounds to defeat everyone and free Claus before he is converted. 
  Use the Toughness statistics in the initial Jail Break for the Claus prison, but modify the map to contain only one cell. 
  If the PCs rescue Claus, they save Christmas and have recruited the world's most efficient weapons smuggler to the 
  resistance. 
   
   
  Mind-Controlled Elf 
  Race: Elf 
  Agility: d8 Smarts: d6 Spirit: d6 
  Strength: d6 Vigor: d6 (d12+2 on drugs) 
  Pace: 8 (d10 to run) Parry: 5 
  Toughness: 6 (11 on drugs) (2) 
  Charisma: 0 
  Skills 
  Fighting d6 Repair d10 Notice d8 Stealth d8 Shooting d8 Throwing d6 
  Marksman 
  +2 to ranged attack if Elf does not move. 
  Pain-Killers 
  If the elves have eaten their cookies or egg-nog, they fight fearlessly (+2 vs. fear checks) and feel no pain (+2 to 
  recover from shaken, and can take two wounds instead of one before going down). Because of the unsafe levels of 
  drugs in the cookies, the elves must make vigor checks at -6 when the drugs wear off 1d4 minutes after consuming. 
  They take 6 levels of fatigue (death) on a failed roll. 
  Gear 
  Gay Apparel Kevlar Vest (+4 armor vs. bullets, negates 4 AP, covers torso) 
  Candy Cane-shaped Vibro-Knife Damage: Str+d6 Heavy Weapon, AP 2 
  Pop-Gun (Disguised .50 Cal Rifle) Range: 30/60/120 Damage: 2d10 
  RoF: 1, Ammo: 7 (Hero-killer Rounds), AP 2 
  3 Presents (Disguised Grenades) Range: 5/10/20 
  Damage: 3d6 Medium Burst Template 
  Notes: The V’sori have given the elves Christmas Cookies and Egg-Nog laced with vigor-enhancing combat drugs, un-
  safe levels of pain killers and other mind-altering substances. Since they V’sori don’t care if the elves die, they have 
  put near-lethal dosages into the cookies, and instructed the elves to eat the cookies if they are attacked. 
  
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