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NIGHT’S BLACK AGENTS
THE DUBAI RECKONING
JOHN ADAMUS
WITH
GARETH RYDER-HANRAHAN
night’'s black agents - The Dubai Reckoning
Publisher:
Cathriona Tobin
Author:
john adamus
Additional writing and development:
Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan
story design:
kenneth hite
Layout:
Cathriona tobin
Layout template:
Chris Huth
Art Direction:
cathriona tobin
Cover Artist:
Pat Loboyko
Interior Artist:
miguel santos
cartography:
simon rogers, cathriona tobin
Overland and area map data originated in Mapbox
GUMSHOE System:
Robin D Laws
Playtesters:
Pete Butler, Linda McNair, Bill Moran, Mike Mullig, Jamie Stefko, Paul Stefko, John Adamus, Craig Spear, Dale Georg, Mollie
Carson-Vollath, Andy Vann, Mike Varga, Simon Stroud, Aaron Cattle, Matt Radings, Peter Tracy, Peter Macejka
©2016 Pelgrane Press Ltd. All rights reserved.
Night’s Black Agents
is a trademark of Pelgrane Press Ltd. Pelgrane Press is co-owned by
Simon Rogers and Cathriona Tobin.
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subsections
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THE DUBAI RECKONING
eyes only briefing
Dark Projects
The Spine
Entry Vectors
Directly
Outside Leads
Switching Cities
4
4
5
5
5
5
6
6
Chase & Capture
11
Hazards & Encounters Going to
the Airport
11
Hazards & Encounters Around
the Tunnel
12
Katherine Altone, the Particulars
12
Playing Katherine
12
Room 222
The Helipad Run
17
18
Owen Altone & the Conspiracy
Goons
18
AgraWealth Security Goon 18
On the Helipad
19
Hot Times in the Burj Al Arab 19
Meeting Eddie Joyner
New Rockford, North Dakota:
Quick and Dirty
The Information
The Poisoning
The Sniper
Aftermath
6
7
7
7
7
8
Interrogation
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12
12
13
13
Revelations
,
What s on the Video?
Katherine’ s Choice
The Fracture
Sneaking On Board
Meeting Mr. Darvell
Tooling up
20
20
20
20
The Flight to Dubai
Trouble in the Skies
After The Attack
13
13
14
LIfe In Death
21
Engaging The Operative
The Operative
8
8
Executive Sanction
Rent-A-Sheikh
The Burj Al Arab
Security Goon
Entering the Hotel
What Just Happened?
14
15
16
16
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17
Dubai, United Arab Emirates:
Quick and dirty
15
Getting In
21
Research Farm Locations
22
Finding Altone
22
The Experiment
22
Mutant Vampire Leopard Thing
23
AgriWealth Norfolk
The Old Research Lab
Katherine's Movements
9
9
9
HOSTILE TAKEOVER
Things That Go Boom
Sneaky Disruptions
Things That Get Messy
Added Dangers
23
23
23
23
24
The Norfolk Situation
Finding Katherine
The Altone Home
The Computers
Corporate Email Hackery
10
10
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10
The Reckoning
DUBAI MAP
24
25
What The Butler Saw
17
the dubai
reckoning
night's black agents - the zalozhniy quartet
This is a globe-spanning scenario
focusing on corporate malfeasance and
Conspiracy ladder-climbing, instead of
facing down supernatural horrors. This
scenario is well suited as a change of pace
from a run-and-gun–against-monsters
or as part of a
mirror
campaign, or
anytime the Agents seek to develop
elements within the Conspyramid.
It also works as a starting scenario
for
Night’s Black Agents,
giving the
Agents an initial line of investigation to
follow into the heart of the Conspiracy.
If the Agents play their cards right,
they could even end up with their own
spy inside the Conspiracy — either
Katherine Altone (p. 12), Owen
Altone (p. 12), or Mr. Darvell
44
(p. 20) might become a recurring
character in your campaign, feeding
the Agents information and clues.
The
Double Tap
supplement includes
rules for a Conspyramid collapsing
and conspiring against itself, which is
exactly what’s happening here.
eyes only briefing
AgraWealth is an agrichemical research
and development company — working
on new pesticides, genetically modified
organisms, new farming techniques, and
similar projects. It’s got a lot of investor
cash sloshing around, mostly from the
Middle East: one of AgraWealth’s big
projects is working on ways to develop
plants that can survive droughts and high
temperatures.
It’s also a Conspiracy front.The default
assumption is that AgraWealth is working
on some sinister scheme, as described in
the
Dark Projects
sidebar. Some alternative
possibilities:
AgraWealth means nothing to the
Conspiracy — it’s just a convenient
financial vessel to be sucked dry.
Over the next few years, all that
investor cash will get shuffled away
and spent on mercenaries, or bribes,
or mysterious archaeological digs in
Cappadocia. AgraWealth’s extravagant
promises about feeding the world
will come up empty, and the husk
of the company, drained dry of all
its money, will be discarded by the
financial vampires of the Conspiracy.
AgraWealth is an infection vector
for the Conspiracy. For example,
the government of the United Arab
Emirates is concerned about food
security (especially after the Arab
Spring riots); AgraWealth promises
to solve that problem — giving
the vampires access to the highest
echelons of the Emirati government.
Vampires take the long view. They’re
going to live forever, and want
to secure their own food supply.
AgraWealth’s brief is to develop a
food source that can feed people
after
the Conspiracy pulls off its
endgame. If the vampires intend to
trigger a global thermonuclear war
that shrouds the world in eternal
twilight and lets them walk abroad
by day, then they’ve got AgraWealth
working on mycoprotein-based
food substitutes and hydroponics.
If the vampires are the product
of a genetically modified virus
themselves, then they might
have AgraWealth working on a
foodstuff that alters the blood
chemistry of everyone who eats it,
making it easier for the vampires
to digest the blood of victims.
AgraWealth is a generally useful
front for Conspiracy activities
— it is a secretive company with
lots of private security, operates
in multiple countries, and has a
legitimate reason for moving large
amounts of materiel. These boxes of
earth aren’t vampire coffins, oh no,
they’re soil samples. And that private
army is to protect our researchers
from those anti-GMO loons. The
company itself is legitimate, but it’s
riddled with Conspiracy minions.
Katherine Altone
is a vice president
of AgraWealth, and is next in line for the
company’s CFO position. She’s shrewd
and manipulative, a key asset for the
Conspiracy, able to launder and shuffle
illicit funds through research grants and
patents. Her husband is
Owen Altone,
former sports broadcaster turned stock
market whiz.
A whistleblower at AgraWealth,
Eddie Joyner,
plans to release
evidence of financial misconduct with
hints of Conspiracy involvement, but

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