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I need help. I have a wonderful story arc going with my group but I'm having a hard time filling in the blanks. Let me give you some details and maybe you can help me flesh it out. 
Setting:
d20 Modern
Sourcebooks:
d20 Modern
Blood and Relics
QuickShots: Charlie (using organizations from within)
PCs:
Emma - Female scholarly character
Jack - Male ex-military
Eric - Sci-fi author
Neal - Doctor
The PCs work for Department 7 and are based out of Boston. They have been tasked to research certain "oddities" that are occurring throughout the US. These oddities have to do with either a) paranormal phenomena or b) "creatures" slipping through the cracks between our dimension and others.
Their handler is one Ms Fellows, as outlined in the Urban Arcana book, a no-nonsense, business oriented person.
The campaign begins with Emma getting a call to meet her boss, Anne, in a fast food restaurant late at night. They end up not meeting her but rather seeing kobolds for the first time. They visit Anne's office and find a scrap of paper Anne had hinted at in her e-mail to Emma. It was the symbol of the Knights Templar.
The PCs become members of Department 7 because they know "the truth" about what is out there. After working a few more missions, they are tasked to report to the Los Angeles field office to help rescue Anne from an organization in which she is working undercover but has failed to check in as she regularly does. Up until this point, the PCs only contact with Department 7 has been Ms Fellows. She has been very professional, to the point of being called a "cold hearted female dog."
Anyway, the PCs go to rescue Anne and get their butts handed to them. They barely escape with their lives and without Anne. The PCs go back to Department 7 and are told, by Ms Fellows, they need to drive across the country, back to Boston, and await further instructions. Along the way a bunch of strange things happen. In the end, the PCs are approached by a woman who claims that Emma is a Daughter of the True Eve.
Ok… Now here's the backstory:
The Children of the True Eve are an organization that traces its roots back to the original Eve. The Eve everyone thinks of when they think "Adam and Eve" was not the True Eve. She was actually the third woman created for Adam. While the CotTE are not officially recognized by the Vatican, they fight for good and battle against evil in any form.
Ms Fellows is actually a member of the Scions of Cain, an organization bent on revenge against mankind because of the expulsion of Cain from the Garden of Eden. While their reasoning might be strange, they are extremely efficient and vengeful in purpose. Ms Fellows has been making life hard for the PCs when possible. She recommended sending the PCs in to rescue Anne even though she knew they were not up to the task.
The reason Anne was kidnapped in the first place was because she found out 2 things. 1) The Knights Templar were not responsible for the Spanish Inquisition as rumored by history. The Scions of Cain actually used it as an excuse for mass murder. 2) Emma is a Daughter of the True Eve. Her "parents" are, in reality, her adoptive parents. Her real parents were killed by the Scions and Emma was successfully hidden away.
Anne is eventually "rescued" by a group of Department 7 mercs who are actually Scions of Cain under the employ of Ms Fellows. She is taken to a location I would like to flesh out more to give the PCs something else to do.
So here's where I'm stuck as to what to do next. I mean, I have some adventures I could use but I'm not sure if I should just say "Emma, we will contact you when we have more information and instructions with what to do next" and have her do something else now. I don't want the PC to be the sole focal point of the campaign, so I'm also trying to come up with other ideas for the other PCs.
Does anyone have any advice as to what I could do next or things just to add to the campaign? As always, any and all suggestions are appreciated!
Setting:
d20 Modern
Sourcebooks:
d20 Modern
Blood and Relics
QuickShots: Charlie (using organizations from within)
PCs:
Emma - Female scholarly character
Jack - Male ex-military
Eric - Sci-fi author
Neal - Doctor
The PCs work for Department 7 and are based out of Boston. They have been tasked to research certain "oddities" that are occurring throughout the US. These oddities have to do with either a) paranormal phenomena or b) "creatures" slipping through the cracks between our dimension and others.
Their handler is one Ms Fellows, as outlined in the Urban Arcana book, a no-nonsense, business oriented person.
The campaign begins with Emma getting a call to meet her boss, Anne, in a fast food restaurant late at night. They end up not meeting her but rather seeing kobolds for the first time. They visit Anne's office and find a scrap of paper Anne had hinted at in her e-mail to Emma. It was the symbol of the Knights Templar.
The PCs become members of Department 7 because they know "the truth" about what is out there. After working a few more missions, they are tasked to report to the Los Angeles field office to help rescue Anne from an organization in which she is working undercover but has failed to check in as she regularly does. Up until this point, the PCs only contact with Department 7 has been Ms Fellows. She has been very professional, to the point of being called a "cold hearted female dog."
Anyway, the PCs go to rescue Anne and get their butts handed to them. They barely escape with their lives and without Anne. The PCs go back to Department 7 and are told, by Ms Fellows, they need to drive across the country, back to Boston, and await further instructions. Along the way a bunch of strange things happen. In the end, the PCs are approached by a woman who claims that Emma is a Daughter of the True Eve.
Ok… Now here's the backstory:
The Children of the True Eve are an organization that traces its roots back to the original Eve. The Eve everyone thinks of when they think "Adam and Eve" was not the True Eve. She was actually the third woman created for Adam. While the CotTE are not officially recognized by the Vatican, they fight for good and battle against evil in any form.
Ms Fellows is actually a member of the Scions of Cain, an organization bent on revenge against mankind because of the expulsion of Cain from the Garden of Eden. While their reasoning might be strange, they are extremely efficient and vengeful in purpose. Ms Fellows has been making life hard for the PCs when possible. She recommended sending the PCs in to rescue Anne even though she knew they were not up to the task.
The reason Anne was kidnapped in the first place was because she found out 2 things. 1) The Knights Templar were not responsible for the Spanish Inquisition as rumored by history. The Scions of Cain actually used it as an excuse for mass murder. 2) Emma is a Daughter of the True Eve. Her "parents" are, in reality, her adoptive parents. Her real parents were killed by the Scions and Emma was successfully hidden away.
Anne is eventually "rescued" by a group of Department 7 mercs who are actually Scions of Cain under the employ of Ms Fellows. She is taken to a location I would like to flesh out more to give the PCs something else to do.
So here's where I'm stuck as to what to do next. I mean, I have some adventures I could use but I'm not sure if I should just say "Emma, we will contact you when we have more information and instructions with what to do next" and have her do something else now. I don't want the PC to be the sole focal point of the campaign, so I'm also trying to come up with other ideas for the other PCs.
Does anyone have any advice as to what I could do next or things just to add to the campaign? As always, any and all suggestions are appreciated!
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