SOLO MODULES

What This Book Is

Four solo modules for Operator Tactics. Each one is a complete operation built on the OT Solo Rules. You need the Solo Rules and the Core Book. Everything else is in here.

1 · What This Is

You are a freelance hunter on contract to the Bureau of Anomalous Field Observations. You track aberrant specimens. You get paid by the kill, the capture, or the data. BAFO gives you a handler, an intel package, and a location. They do not give you the full picture. They never do.

This module generates standalone hunts for a single operator. Each hunt is a one-shot: roll up the contract, build the terrain, deploy the specimen, play. No campaign required. Chain hunts into an ongoing career if you want persistent stakes, but every contract stands alone.

You need the OT Solo Rules (SITREP oracle, Enemy AI Protocol, Five-Zone Method, Heat Track) and the Core Rules for combat resolution. This module replaces the standard Mission Builder with hunt-specific generators.

This is not an exploration sandbox. It is a hunt. Something is out there. You find it before it finds you, or you don't. The terrain is hostile. The specimen is worse. The other hunters are worst of all.

2 · The Hunt Generator

Roll the contract. Read the briefing. Set the table. Hunt.

Run through Steps 1–7 in order. Each step produces one element. By the end, you have a complete scenario on an index card.

Step 1: Contract Type

Roll D6. This is what BAFO is paying you for.

3 · The Specimen

Roll D10 for type. Then D6 for combat tier. Then D8 for aberrant ability. Every specimen gets all three.

Specimen Type (D10)

Combat Tier (D6)

Aberrant Ability (D8)

4 · Hunt Environment

Roll D8 for region, D6 for terrain complication. These set the Five-Zone layout.

Region (D8)

Terrain Complication (D6)

5 · The Competition

Roll D8. You are not the only one hunting. Sometimes the competition is more dangerous than the specimen.

6 · Hunt Complication

Roll D10. Something is wrong with the contract. Something is always wrong with the contract.

7 · Your Handler

Roll D6. Your handler is your lifeline to BAFO. Or your leash. Depends on the day.

8 · Deployment

Set up the table using the Five-Zone Method from OT Solo Rules.

Specimen Placement. Starts in the Objective Zone. SITREP (Even): Yes = Unaware (patrolling). No = Alert (it knows you're coming).

Patrol Tokens. Place 3 tokens across Approach and Objective zones per Solo Rules.

Heat Level. If chaining hunts, carry Heat forward. Otherwise start at Heat 0.

9 · Encounter Resolution

The specimen does not follow the Enemy AI Protocol as written. It follows something older.

Specimen Target Priority

1. Operator who damaged it this round.
2. Gene-forged operator (senses template resonance). If multiple, closest.
3. Operator carrying Lumicite equipment or samples.
4. Closest in LoS.
5. Tie: moves toward Lumicite installation if present. Otherwise D6.

Aberrant Action Priority

1. Use aberrant ability if available and conditions met.
2. Fight if in contact (base-to-base or within 1").
3. Ranged attack if target in LoS and specimen has ranged capability (Type-7, Type-9, Lumicite Entity).
4. Close distance to priority target using fastest route.
5. If wounded (any MW): SITREP (Even). Yes = flees toward nearest cover or installation. No = fights to death.

Exploiting Weakness. After 3 consecutive hits absorbed by armor, you identify a structural gap. Next hit ignores 1 AR. Counter resets on a miss or target change.

Specimen Alert States

Competition Behavior

Competition activates during the Threat Phase after the specimen. Standard Enemy AI Protocol with these adjustments:

Target Priority. Competition prioritizes the specimen first, you second. Exception: Rogue BAFO Cell and The Collector prioritize you if you're between them and the specimen.

Engagement Rules. Competition will not engage you unless: (a) you attack them first, (b) you're between them and the specimen, or (c) only one of you can claim the kill and they rolled higher on a SITREP (Even) check.

Kill Steal. If competition removes the specimen, your contract fails. Payout drops to zero. Heat +1. Handler has opinions.

Hunt Movement

Zone Crossing. 1 action per zone. Difficult terrain costs 2 actions (or 1 action at half distance). Carrying a contained specimen: TACT 4+ to cross a zone boundary in one action. Fail and you stop at the boundary.

Tempo Push. Spend 1 Tempo after a failed movement check. You move half a zone. Next activation, crossing the remaining half costs 1 action with no check.

First Contact. When you first engage the specimen in combat, earn 1 Tempo. Automatic.

Sprint. Spend 2 actions to cross 2 zones. No encumbrance penalty on the first zone. Standard check on the second. Unavailable if carrying a specimen.

Desperate Run. When the mission has shifted to extraction and the contract is blown, movement checks drop to 3+. You're not being careful anymore.

10 · Hunt Events

The terrain talks. The specimen listens. You should too.

Roll D8 at the start of Round 3 and Round 6.

11 · Contract Payout

BAFO pays for results. What counts as a result depends on who you ask.

Payout Tiers

Payout Modifiers

Between Hunts

If chaining hunts into a career, resolve between-mission steps from OT Solo Rules:

Recovery. Each operator with MW rolls GUTS 4+. Success: recovered. Fail: persists.

Heat Adjustment. Clean kill, no alarm: Heat −1. Alarm triggered: Heat +1. Failed contract: Heat +2.

Field Requisition. Spend payout on equipment from the tier you earned.

After-Action Event. Roll D8 on the After-Action Events table from Solo Rules.

Battlefield Evolution. Check triggers. If any operator qualifies, apply one Evolution.

BAFO Standing. Track cumulative results. Every 3 successful contracts: BAFO offers a priority contract (start at Priority payout minimum). Every 3 failed contracts: BAFO stops calling. Career over.

12 · Specimen Field Guide

Know what you're hunting. Or it won't matter what you brought.

13 · Quick Reference: Hunt Setup

Index card. Seven lines. If it doesn't fit, the hunt isn't defined yet.

Example Hunt Card

Set the table. Five zones. Place the specimen in the Objective Zone. Place juveniles adjacent. Place the freelance solo's entry point at the opposite map edge. Roll priority. Hunt.

14 · Campaign Overview

A disavowed PMC squad intercepts a distress signal from a burned intelligence asset and discovers the signal was bait, the asset is real, and the people who set the trap are the same ones who burned your team.

Three scenarios. Each one changes based on what happened in the last. Play them in order.

15 · Campaign Rules

Three rules apply across all scenarios.

Intel Markers. Small tokens placed during setup. Move into contact with the marker (base-to-base, or within 1" if either model uses a separate base), spend 1 action, roll on the scenario's Intel Table. Remove the marker. Each result is unique per scenario: reroll duplicates.

Event Phase. At the end of each turn (after the Threat Phase), draw one card from the scenario's Event Deck. Apply the result immediately. If the deck runs out, the scenario enters Endgame. See each scenario for specifics.

Campaign Tokens. Earned from scenario outcomes. Track them between missions. They unlock options, change setups, and close or open doors in later scenarios.

16 · Scenario 1: The Relay Station

Mission Brief

Primary Objective: Reach the transmitter room and recover the signal source.

Secondary Objective: Collect at least 3 Intel Markers before entering the transmitter room.

Clock: 8 turns. At Turn 8, the signal cuts out. Transmitter room locks down. Mission over.

Table Setup

2' × 2' surface. Relay station compound: 3–4 small buildings in an L-shape, northeast quadrant. Rocky terrain and scrub across the rest. One dirt road runs diagonally from southwest to compound entrance. The transmitter room is the farthest building from the entrance. Mark it.

Intel Markers (6): 1 inside each of 3 buildings (not the transmitter room), 1 at compound entrance gate, 1 along the road 8″ from southwest edge, 1 in rocky terrain midway between road and compound.

Deployment

Your squad deploys within 3″ of the southwest corner.

Enemy Setup

Motivation: Protecting Something (the relay station; they defend to the end).

Special Rules

Signal Decay. The transmitter room is locked. OPINT 4+ (Tech, 1 action) to open, or use the Access Code from Intel to open automatically.

Jammed Comms. Radios don't work inside the compound. No Field Read bonuses from operators outside the compound to those inside. Clears when the Commander is neutralized.

Darkness. No power at the station. LoS inside buildings limited to 6″ unless an operator spends 1 action activating a light source. Lit areas attract attention: any enemy within 12″ with LoS to light upgrades one Alert State.

Event Deck

Ace through 8 of one red suit. Shuffle. Draw one per Event Phase.

Endgame: If the deck runs out before the transmitter room is breached, the signal dies. Room seals permanently. Partial Victory only.

Intel Table (D20)

Climax Variable: Transmitter Room

Fires when the first operator crosses the threshold. Roll D6 (unless Comms Intercept locked the result).

Mission Clocks

Salvage Table (D6)

Outcome

17 · Scenario 2: The Convoy

Mission Brief

Primary Objective: Stop the convoy and recover the Asset (alive) or the Asset's data package from the cargo truck.

Secondary Objective: Disable or destroy the lead vehicle before it reaches the north table edge.

Clock: 6 turns. Convoy enters from south on Turn 1, moves north. Any vehicle that exits the north edge is lost.

Table Setup

2' × 2', oriented north-south. Dirt road from south to north, curving once through center. River parallel on the east side, crossable only at the collapsed bridge (center; rough terrain, MOBI 4+ on foot). Tree cover on both sides. One elevated position (rocky outcrop) in the northwest quadrant.

Intel Markers (4): 1 at collapsed bridge, 1 in west tree cover, 1 at elevated position, 1 east of river near south edge.

Deployment

Standard: Within 3″ of the west table edge, anywhere along its length.

With Campaign Token (Asset Warning): Deploy within 3″ of any edge except south.

With Campaign Token (Dead Drop): One operator deploys hidden at the collapsed bridge. Not placed until they act. Automatically Stealthed.

Convoy Rules

Three vehicles. Each moves 8″ per turn along the road from south edge on Turn 1. The convoy does not stop unless forced.

Forcing a stop: Vehicle takes damage equal to Durability, road is blocked by debris or destroyed vehicle, or OPINT 5+ hack on lead vehicle (Tech, 1 action, LoS, one attempt per turn).

Dismounting. When stopped or destroyed, surviving occupants dismount within 2″. Alert. Enemy AI Protocol.

The Asset. If truck is stopped, operator in contact (base-to-base, or within 1" if either model uses a separate base) spends 1 action to extract. Asset moves at MOBI 3″, non-combatant.

Convoy Escort

2 Soldiers on motorcycles flanking 4″ ahead and behind. MOBI 10″. Alert. Keyword: Flanker. Dismount and engage nearest operator if any attack hits the convoy.

Scenario 1 Partial Victory or Defeat: Add 1 Veteran in the lead SUV. Keyword: Hardened.

Heat 3+: Add 1 Autonomous Platform (drone) circling 12″ above. SHOOT Good, OPINT Good. Spots operators without cover; all convoy enemies gain +1 SHOOT against spotted operator for the turn.

Special Rules

Ambush Window. Turn 1 only, before convoy movement: free Group Activation (all operators within 3″ of each other move, then all take a second action). After this, normal turn sequence begins.

With Campaign Token (Convoy Route): Convoy reaches the bridge at the start of Turn 3. Plan accordingly.

Collapsed Bridge. Vehicles crossing move at half speed (4″) for 1 turn. While on the bridge, all SHOOT against the vehicle gains +1.

Event Deck

Ace through 6 of one black suit. Shuffle.

Intel Table (D20)

Climax Variable: The Cargo Truck

Fires when the first operator reaches contact with the cargo truck (base-to-base, or within 1" if either model uses a separate base).

Mission Clocks

Salvage Table (D6)

Outcome

18 · Scenario 3: The Bunker

Mission Brief

Primary Objective: Reach the command room (lowest level) and recover proof of who ordered the burn notice on your squad.

Secondary Objective (varies by Campaign Tokens):

• With Burn Notice: Identify the officer who signed the order. OPINT 4+ in the command room.
• With Captured Officer: Use the officer to bypass security. Opens all locked doors. But enemies who see him go Alert immediately.
• With Asset Confirmed Alive + Asset present: Asset knows the layout. All Intel Markers revealed at setup.
• With none of the above: Standard objective only.

Clock: 10 turns. At Turn 10, cleanup team arrives. All exits seal. Every model takes 1 MW per turn from gas until extraction or death.

Table Setup

2' × 2' representing the bunker interior. Three levels connected by a central stairwell. Use a stacked map or separate play areas. Moving between levels costs 1 full movement action.

Intel Markers (6): 1 at security checkpoint (L1), 1 in barracks (L2), 1 in server room (L2), 1 in armory (L2), 1 in holding cells (L3), 1 in comms center (L3).

Deployment

Within 3″ of the generator shed entrance (Level 1).

With Campaign Token (Dead Drop) unused in Scenario 2: One operator deploys hidden at ventilation shaft on Level 2. Stealthed.

Enemy Setup

Motivation: Roll D8 on Enemy Motivation table. With Campaign Token (Burn Notice): override to Protecting Something.

Special Rules

Sealed Doors. Locked between sections on L2 and L3. OPINT 4+ (Tech, 1 action), Breach charge (Breacher, 1 action, automatic, triggers Alert for all enemies on that level), or Captured Officer (opens silently).

Power Grid. Destroy the generator (2 FW, 1 action to attack). Bunker goes dark: all LoS limited to 6″. Camera system goes offline permanently. Emergency lighting on L3 restores normal LoS after 2 turns.

Evidence Destruction. Commander starts destroying evidence on Turn 7. Each turn from Turn 7: SITREP (Even). Yes = 1 piece destroyed. After 3 destroyed, primary objective is impossible. Partial Victory max.

With Campaign Token (Insider Intel): You know about the Turn 7 deadline from the start.

Event Deck

Ace through 10 of one suit. Shuffle.

Intel Table (D20)

Climax Variable: The Command Room

Fires when the first operator breaches the command room door.

Mission Clocks

Salvage Table (D6)

Outcome

19 · Campaign Token Reference

Track these between scenarios. Each token changes something in the next mission.

20 · Campaign Overview

A gene-forged operator running a ghost op hunts the son of the man whose detonation killed their partner. They discover that the son's surrender plan is more dangerous than his death.

Three scenarios. Each one shifts based on what happened before. Play them in order. The campaign rewards restraint and information gathering, not the kill. The ending where you and Tomas walk out together requires the most work, the most tokens, the most managed pressure. Walking out together costs more than shooting does.

Campaign Rules

Ghost Op. Your operator is running unauthorized. No command support, no evac guarantee. Heat does not reset between scenarios. Every action has memory.

Campaign Tokens. Earned from scenario outcomes. Track between missions. They alter setups, unlock options, and change what is possible in the final confrontation.

The Backstory

21 · The Ghost Marker

One token. Your operator's psychological pressure made visible. The moment of hesitation that started all of this.

Setup. Place the Ghost Marker face-down at the start of each scenario.

Flip it face-up when:

• Your operator fails a GUTS check.
• Your operator is reduced to 1 FW for the first time in a scenario.
• Your operator kills a civilian or non-combatant for any reason.

While face-up: −1 to all GUTS checks.

Flip it face-down: Once per scenario, spend 1 action in stillness (no enemies in LoS, not in contact with any enemy). This represents the decision to keep moving.

22 · The Three Operators

Choose one. Play the full campaign with that operator. Each runs the same scenarios but arrives with different history, different gear, and different mechanical relationships to the Ghost Marker.

23 · Scenario 1: Last Known Address

Mission Brief

Primary: Reach the fifth-floor communications room and recover transmitting equipment or stored data before Tomas's network scrubs it.

Secondary: Locate and extract embedded contact WREN alive.

Clock: 7 turns. Turn 8: backup power fails, all comms equipment wipes automatically.

Table Setup

2' × 2' representing the upper four floors of a drowned building. Four zones:

Intel Markers (5): Water access point (1 action to retrieve, submerged), corridor near cables, first residential room, outside comms door, hidden NW corner debris (face-down, reveal within 3″).

Enemy Setup

Special Rules

The Specialist's Wipe. Prioritizes wiping over self-preservation. Does not activate under Enemy AI until directly threatened (LoS within 8″) or Enforcer is neutralized. Will destroy equipment rather than let it be captured (opposed OPINT roll).

Wet Approach. First 2 turns: GUTS checks at −1. Clears Turn 3 or earlier with 1 action at a heat source (residential wing, discoverable via Intel).

WREN's Condition (D6):

• 1–2: Compromised. Turned. Raises alarm immediately, all enemies upgrade Alert. Not recoverable. Heat +1.
• 3–4: Injured. 1 FW, MOBI 3″. Provides one Intel Table roll (result 4–12) before extraction.
• 5–6: Intact. Joins as temporary ally (Grunt profile, OPINT Ord, SHOOT Ord). Reveals one face-down Intel Marker without moving to it.

Event Deck (Ace–7, red suit)

Intel Table (D20)

Climax Variable: Communications Room (D6)

Mission Clocks

Salvage Table (D6)

Outcome

24 · Scenario 2: Open City

Mission Brief

Primary: Intercept the courier and prevent the activation key from reaching Tomas.

Secondary: Locate Tomas's position without being seen (no alerts triggered within LoS when Tomas is spotted).

Clock: 8 turns. Turn 9: courier reaches the meet point, package activates.

Table Setup

2' × 2' dense urban market. Five zones:

Intel Markers (5): 2 in Market Grid, 1 at Souk entrance, 1 on Walkway, 1 in side alley near Tomas's point (only if Tomas Route token held).

Enemy Setup

Special Rules

Tomas Savar. Appears Turn 4, northwest corner. Non-combatant. If within 8″ and no enemies in LoS: GUTS 4+ to hold position and observe (Secondary met). Fail: Ghost Marker flips face-up, must act (move toward, take shot, or resist again GUTS 4+). Engaging Tomas in Sc.2 has consequences in Sc.3.

The Crowd. Civilians block LoS, treat as difficult terrain (2″ per 1″). Weapon discharge near civilians (within 3″): crowd scatter (D3 civilians as scatter markers, models contacted lose 1 action). Heat +1 per discharge in crowd proximity.

Vasori. With Vasori Contact token, flip coin. Heads: arrives Turn 3, south edge, with 2 operatives (Soldiers). Can share intel (spend 1 Campaign Token, receive Intel Table roll 10–15). Will not help kill Tomas. Tails: her team is already on table (2 operatives in Souk, Alert).

Event Deck (Ace–8, black suit)

Intel Table (D20)

Climax Variable: Courier Intercept (D6)

Mission Clocks

Salvage Table (D6)

Outcome

25 · Scenario 3: Fear None

Mission Brief

Primary: Reach Tomas Savar and prevent the exposure package from activating, by any means you choose.

No stated secondary objective. Your operator will discover one.

Clock: 10 turns. Turn 11: if package not deactivated, Tomas not secured, and blocking agent not exposed, the package activates.

Table Setup

2' × 2' low-rise compound on the edge of the Saharan Oasis. Four zones:

Intel Markers (4): 1 at perimeter wall near east structure, 1 inside east structure (package data), 1 outside central building, 1 on roof (face-down).

Enemy Setup

With Campaign Token (Blocking Agent): Add 1 Coalition Operative (Commando profile, your stats reduced by one tier each, AR 2, 4 FW / 2 MW, Keyword: Hardened). Arrives south edge Turn 5. Hostile to your operator. Here to ensure Tomas does not leave alive and talking.

Special Rules

The Package Terminal. In contact (base-to-base, or within 1" if either model uses a separate base), 1 action. Three options:

• Destroy (FIGHT 3+): Terminal gone. If Tomas has secondary transmitter (SITREP Even), destroying the terminal is not enough.
• Disable (OPINT 4+): Suspended for 1 scenario. Buys time. Does not solve the problem.
• Reroute (OPINT 5+, requires Drenna Fragment B token): Reroute to Coalition oversight node instead of public. Data becomes accountability, not a weapon. The third option no one briefed. Requires knowing what Kael actually built.

The Ghost Marker's Final Cost. When you have Tomas in your sights (inner room, in contact, weapon drawn):

• Ghost Marker face-up: GUTS 5+ to choose any option other than firing. Fail = you fire.
• Ghost Marker face-down: All options available. No roll required.

Vasori. With Vasori Contact token: arrives south edge Turn 6 with one operative. Not hostile. If contacted before reaching Tomas, she has an authorized surrender mechanism. Needs your operator to clear a path. She will not let Tomas die.

Event Deck (Ace–10, red suit)

Intel Table (D20)

Climax Variable: Tomas Savar

Fires when your operator enters the inner room. Roll D6, modified by:

• +1 for each: Surrender History, Tomas Communication, Tomas Profile tokens.
• −1 if Ghost Marker face-up.   Max 6, min 1.

Mission Clocks

Salvage Table (D6)

26 · NPC Roster

27 · Campaign Outcomes

Between Scenarios

Signal Fragment Resolution. With 3+ Signal Fragment tokens at any Between Missions point: resolve Kael's full transmission. Set Ghost Marker aside for 1 scenario.

The Vasori Option. With Vasori Contact token: OPINT 4+ between scenarios. Success: trade 1 Campaign Token for 1 Intel Table roll (result 10–15) from the upcoming scenario.

Heat Management. Ghost ops don't grant standard cooldown. Spend 2 MP between scenarios to reduce Heat by 1. Only route.

Campaign Overview

This is a solo campaign sandbox. You are Kael Dragomir, a retired EO brown bear operator who has returned to the NAF coastal settlement where he grew up. Your powers are fading. Your son doesn't know you. The woman you left hasn't forgiven you. Your oldest friend gave you a badge and a job because nobody else would.

You are the law in Salter's Landing. One officer. One road. Twelve hundred people who survived Prometheus and kept going because they didn't leave.

This supplement gives you everything you need to play: a character sheet, a settlement that generates trouble, tables that produce law enforcement calls and complications from your past life, NPCs who want things from you, and a campaign structure that keeps pressure building whether you act or not.

You will need: the Operator Tactics core rules, a D6, and a willingness to stay.

Long-Term Goal. Earn the right to stay. This isn't a mechanical threshold. It's a narrative one. You'll know when the campaign reaches it, because the settlement will either accept you or it won't, and the decision will feel earned.

Immediate Goal. Survive your first month as Salter's Landing's second law enforcement officer without the settlement, the EO, or your own body forcing you out.

What This Game Is Not. This is not a power fantasy about a gene-forged soldier cleaning up a small town. It is a story about a man holding on to one thing while everything else slips.

Your Character

Kael Dragomir -- Retired EO Tempest Rider, Bear Stock

Attributes

Wound Track

Flesh Wounds: 0 / 3  •  Mortal Wounds: 0 / 1 (Out of Action on second MW)

Gear

Issued: Settlement security sidearm (Light Pistol, +0, range 12″), security comm unit, badge, flashlight, first aid kit (1 use, clears 1 FW), flex-cuffs (6).

Personal: Toolbox (doubles as melee weapon in desperation, +0 FIGHT), work clothes, sling for right arm (worn intermittently), duffel bag with twenty-three years of nothing in it.

Edge & Tempo

Edge Token: 1 per mission (reroll any D6).

Tempo Tokens: Earned normally per core rules. Kael's class-specific spend: 1 Tempo to ignore one Drift effect for a single roll.

Gene-Forged Drift

Kael's bear template is degrading. This is not a mechanic that activates once. It is a pressure that runs through the entire campaign.

Drift Effects

Salter's Landing

Settlement Tags

Signature Image. A bear in a sling, carrying a toolbox down a salt-bleached road, toward a house where someone left the porch light on.

The Under-System

The desalination plant is on drought clock. Fourteen years past its rated service life. The county budget covers maintenance but not replacement. Every dry season, water allocation tightens. Every wet season, the pipes corrode a little more. When the plant fails, Salter's Landing has seventy-two hours of reserve water. After that, the settlement either gets emergency county supply or it empties.

When the System Strains

Water rationing hits the school first (reduced sanitation), then agriculture (crop loss), then the clinic (no sterilization capacity). Residents with means leave for county centers. Residents without means stay and get angry. Tom's radio starts carrying calls he can't answer.

Day/Night Split

Day Authority: Tom Vesik (primary), Kael Dragomir (patrol/response). Day Economy: Salvage crews out. Agriculture. School in session. Transit shuttle runs twice. Day Risk: Mundane law enforcement -- domestic disputes, petty theft, salvage rights arguments.

Night Authority: Kael Dragomir (sole officer on duty after 2000). Night Economy: The Lantern serves drinks. Coastal route runs dark cargo sometimes. Teenagers gather at the old processing plant. Night Risk: Smuggling. Trespass in the industrial zone. The sounds from south of town that Tom doesn't talk about.

Districts

Salter's Landing is small enough that "districts" is generous. But these five zones have distinct character, and each generates different encounters.

Story Engines

Five ongoing pressures that generate scenes automatically. They run whether Kael acts on them or not. Each one produces encounters, complications, and decisions.

Engine 1: The Drift

Kael's body is failing. The drift clock advances. His template degrades. Every physical confrontation is a question: can he still do this? Every week that passes is a week closer to baseline. There is no cure. There is only management and the question of what he's worth when the bear is gone.

Generates: Medical crises. Moments where Kael can't do what he used to. Decisions about whether to Surge and pay the cost. The slow, grinding question of identity when the thing that made you special is leaving.

Engine 2: Luka's Inheritance

Luka is manifesting gene-forged traits. His grip strength is increasing. He's breaking things. He's scared. Maren doesn't know yet, or she knows and isn't saying. The NAF has screening protocols for gene-forged expression in minors. If it's reported, Luka gets pulled into a system Kael knows from the inside.

Generates: School incidents. Luka doing something he can't explain. Maren's suspicion. The NAF screening question. Kael's choice: tell Maren, train Luka secretly, report it, or pretend it isn't happening.

Engine 3: Community Trust

Salter's Landing hasn't decided about Kael. Some residents are glad he's back. Some think he lost the right to be here when he left. Every call he takes, every interaction, every visible moment on the main road is a data point.

Community Trust Tracker

Track three categories. Each starts at NEUTRAL.

Each category moves one step in either direction (Hostile / Cold / Neutral / Warm / Trusted) based on Kael's actions. When all three are Cold or Hostile, the council votes on whether to keep him. When all three are Warm or Trusted, Kael has earned the right to stay.

Monthly Council Review (1d6)

Engine 4: The EO's Interest

The Eurasian Oligarchy didn't let Kael walk away cleanly. Colonel Ostrovsky wants him back for brand management. Major Kask wants liability contained. The Tempest Riders' PR division wants to control the narrative. And somewhere in the EO apparatus, someone is tracking Kael's drift data because a drifting bear in an NAF settlement is either an asset or a problem, and they haven't decided which.

Generates: The EO Complication table. Visits from Major Kask. Communications from Ostrovsky. Offers that are also threats. The question of whether Kael's presence in Salter's Landing is a retirement or a deployment the EO hasn't acknowledged.

Engine 5: Kon Marek's Shadow

Kon walked south. The EO wants him in containment. Kael told them he'd handle it. He can't. He's baseline now. But Kon's presence -- the memory of him, the sound-etched marks in the industrial zone, the lullaby hummed at the edge of hearing -- is a weight on the settlement. Kon may be gone. Kon may be watching.

Generates: The road south. Sounds in the industrial zone. Sightings that may or may not be real. The EO's pressure to produce Kon. The question of what Kael owes a man whose family he killed.

EO Complication Table (1d6)

Roll when a Past Life Intrusion is triggered, or when Engine 4 activates.

Settlement Stress Clock

The settlement itself is under pressure. Track this separately from the story engines.

Settlement Clocks at a Glance

Salvage & Scrounge Table (D6)

Roll when Kael searches the industrial zone, investigates a trespass call, or spends a downtime action on patrol.

The Law Enforcement Loop

This is the core gameplay engine. Each in-game day, Kael works a shift. Each shift generates calls. Calls produce encounters. Encounters produce consequences. Consequences feed the story engines.

Day Shift Calls (2d6)

Night Shift Calls (2d6)

Transit Arrival Table (1d6)

Stranger Table (1d6)

Night Patrol Table (1d6)

Rumor Table (1d6)

Roll when Kael spends time at the Lantern, talks to Bela, or works a shift that involves talking to residents.

NPC Profiles

Core NPCs

Secondary NPCs

Relationship Tracker

Relationship statuses: Hostile / Cold / Wary / Neutral / Warm / Trusted / Bonded.

At Bonded: NPC becomes a permanent ally. Acts on Kael's behalf without being asked. Will also be targeted by anyone who wants to hurt Kael.

At Hostile: NPC actively works against Kael. Not violently (probably). But they talk. They vote. They close doors.

Mission Seeds

Structured scenarios that can trigger from table results, story engine advancement, or player choice. Each one has an objective, a clock, and a complication.

Downtime Actions

Between shifts, Kael can take one downtime action. Each produces a benefit and a potential cost.

Quick Reference