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Message: <blockquote data-quote="chatdemon" data-source="post: 794601" data-attributes="member: 228">My two cents:I'd suggest not having the bloody scientist dude be a complete stranger. Instead, I might make him a long time regular of the coffee shop, the kind of guy you see always sitting in the same booth/chair/whatever, reading the newspaper and chatting with the other regulars. He never seems to talk about himself though, and noone is sure where he lives or if he has family. Since he's generally friendly, a regular customer, and never makes trouble (or a mess, a good thing in the eyes of food service workers, trust me <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />  ), the PCs are probably inclined to like him, or at least stick up for him if some thugs come busting in to rough him up.This gives you two options, depending on how the fight turns out when he gives the vial to the PCs, saying something like 'my  god, what have we done?':1. If he survives, he'll probably be grateful to the PCs and give them whatever info on Umbrella corp you decide they should know at this point. Remember, and remind the players, that just because he may be a top scientist or developer, he might not have the whole big picture of their plans, a lot of scientists and researchers tend to be oblivious to what's going on outside their cubicle or lab room. One would assume he's now discovered some bit of nefarious evidence that suggests what Umbrella is using the chemicals he helps develop for evil and gotten an Oppenheimer syndrome (you know, mr. 'I have become death, detroyer of worlds'. Hell, have your NPC quote Oppenheimer to stress the severity of Umbrella's plot), thus attempting to recruit the PCs into helping him stop the evil plan.2. If he dies, the PCs have a more realistic and believable motive to investigate and bring his killers to justice. If this was just some random thugs chasing a random scientist into their shop, they might be inclined to just clean up the mess and leave the rest to the cops, who I suspect are being paid off by Umbrella anyway. If, however, one of their people has been killed, they have motivation to get upset when the police fail to do anything and go searching for answers and justice on their own.</blockquote>

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