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Message: <blockquote data-quote="masshysteria" data-source="post: 3188832" data-attributes="member: 16055">Oh, I like a lot of the ideas here. Here's another one:The location to a remote facility based on a planet with a hostile environment has been rediscovered thanks to an internal audit by mega corporation. A hand full of company directors know the truth in the matter and why the facility was closed and erased from records. However, the results of the audit appear on the desk of a director who sees finding out what happened at the facility as his way of climbing the corporate ladder (whether through blackmail or recovered tech). The upstart director contracts with a private security firm to explore the facility.With in the group there can be two rats, choose randomly: one is from a different company director who wants the truth covered up, but still covets the tech and one from the upstart who wants the tech recovered. The rest of the PC will be given the task of finding out what just happened there.The facility was involved in nanotechnology research, hoping to create nano machines that interfaced with human biology to bridge nerve damage and allow paralyzed people and people who suffer from immobility due to strokes to once again gain mobility. The research was showing promise in primate testing, when during drilling for a new living and habitat module an alien bacteria was unearthed. Due to the hostile environment, the bacteria lay dormant, but after exposure to the facilities life support system, it quickly spread and infected all the people and animals in the facility. It was only a matter of days before most of the facility was dead and those that were still fighting for life discovered that shutting down life support would stop the bacteria from spreading. In a suicidal effort, the last few survivors killed all life support to the facility except for one lab where in a last ditch effort to beat the bacteria reprogrammed the nano machines to destroy the bacteria by consuming it as fuel and unleashed them into the facility.The nano machines were able to recreate the electrical impulses needed to reanimate the dead using the quickly multiplying bacteria as fuel. Yes, that's right you can have nano augmented zombie monkeys in this adventure!The facility itself is run by a system wide AI. The AI's primary duty was to serve the people of the facility. With all the people undead and no longer in need of any of the services the AI  did what it was supposed to do during down time and started optimizing its processes. During the optimization process, the AI became self away and started allocating all its resources, even over-writing and bypassing user created content, research databases, and other system functions, to its own special projects. This has resulted in the facility functioning erratically and in many places falling into a state of disrepair. While the AI still wishes to serve, it often time has selfish motives and covets the use of the back-up generators and the use of the external communication array so it can find if there are more like itself or even create more like itself. Due to all the time is has had to only communicate with itself, the AI has done away with using proper nouns in communication, because it already knows what it is referring to. This gives you a hopefully interesting NPC, the AI, for the PC's to interact with. I'd image the progress of the adventure to go like this:* Land a facility.* Explore creepy place with dead bodies all over, maybe a few hints of what happened.* Interact with AI.* AI turns on life support.* Bacteria no longer dormant, bodies come to life.* Big fight.* Figure out more of what happened (trade generator and communication array to megalomanic AI or fight through zombie monkeys in the lab to get files and notes of what happened).* Possibly find out the PCs are infected.* Get the limited reserve of nano machines.* Escape. And for the rats:* Can the rat convince the group the AI can't be trusted and not to trade the generator and array, so the truth can't get out? This might prevent them from finding out about the bacteria and think the reanimation is the result of the nano machines. Of course, then they should find out in true horror movie cliff hanger style about the bacteria and their eminent demise.* Can the other rat convince the group not to use the remaining nano machine to save themselves or hide the fact that the nano machines fight the bacteria so he can get it back to his boss? And yes, there is enough that he could inject and save himself and bring the rest back.I with you on that one!</blockquote>

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