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I designed this module to run using the seven pre-generated characters to be found on the Official Heroes of Hellenback section of this site
. If you're not running a full roster, DayStar and Dreamer are the two least expendable to the plot.
With the exception of Dreamer (m), Deathwish (f), and Butterfly (f), I used gender-neutral names for the PCs and allow my players to decide how they want to play it. However, when you're writing out a long text like this, using s/he and his/her gets rather awkward. So, for the sake of this write-up, I am going to arbitrarily refer to Facet, DayStar and Chris as male and Frostbite as female.
The PC's are at their HQ, doing between-adventure stuff. Chris and Deathwish may be present, or you can use the alternate backgrounds for them (listed later in this section). A government rep (or someone who at least seems to be a government rep) calls with a report that there have been a handful of disappearances over the last two weeks. The missing persons are all between the ages of eleven and sixteen. The local police have written off most of the cases as runaways, but then, they don't know that the missing persons are also all latent paranormals. They're bringing this to the PCs because of the paranormal angle.
There's no apparent connection between the kids themselves - they all attend public school and come from different areas of the city and surrounding suburbs. The one real lead is that each of the kids' schools had been visited by a educational "Science is Fun" program shortly before the disappearances. The program has several lecturers on staff, but in each of these cases the lecturer was a Mr. Johann Kristofic. He has a presentation scheduled for three days from now and does not answer his phone.
Scene 0a: Background for Chris Craven
Ms. Genevieve Fitt has hired Chris to find her missing daughter, Elaine. Elaine has run off twice before for a couple of days at a time and both the police and Mr. Fitt expect her to turn up on her own sometime soon. Ms. Fitt is worried, though. It's been over week, and she's worried that this time is different. She came to him because she doesn't think the police or her husband are taking her fears seriously.
When Chris goes through Elaine's room, he finds some shreds of what looks like plastic sheeting. When he touches it, he gets a flash vision of a teenaged girl anxiously shredding a layer of the stuff off of her skin. It looks like the girl is some kind of developing paranormal.
Scene 0a: Background for Deathwish
One of Deathwish's street contacts quits showing up.