The British Experimental Rocket Group Campaign

On Monday 12th of May 2014 at 8pm (ish) my new British Experimental Rocket Group campaign using the Dagger RPG system by Brave Halfling Publishing Started.


My group made up of members of my LARP and RPG group Seaxe & Sorcery consisted of four players, each playing a member of a BERG Investigation team. The team was as follows:


Rob -  Dr Tobias Cubic - Engineer (Team Leader)
Paul - Dr James Rock - Behavioural Psychologist
Dave - DI Gareth Turner
Ryan - Professor Felix Junior




The Party where given the following brief:




Brief:

On Friday 25^th of March John Childes a builder and owner of Childes Engineering was coming to the end of a project to re-enforce the roof of Spellbrook Church is Essex. As they moved into the North east corner of the church the scaffolding gave as the floor beneath it fell through. No one was hurt and soon the debris was cleared away to reveal a small but deep hole. It was soon revealed by the builders and the local fire brigade that there was an unknown basement to the church. Even odder in that basement was a set of stairs which led up to a doorway which let to nowhere.

Since then the local council and county council have had engineers inspect the area as well as archaeological experts. It has been revealed that the cave, stairs and door way where built using a classical style however the stone was 2000 years older than the original church which had been built on this site. Even stranger the stone gave of a low level of radiation and a small electrical charge not enough to cause harm but enough for equipment to show that the background count was less than that given off by the arch.

Once the room was cleaned up it also seemed that once a disk about 2 metres wide once sat upon the wall at the bottom of the stairs. The disk whatever it was is now missing. Further examination of the area showed that there were no other subterranean buildings present. What was odd was that a quill from the 18^th Century had been dropped in this very room there was also a hooded lantern with a burnt out oil jar in it. Both items had showed little sign of decomposition which indicated the chamber had been fairly dry and air tight. How they came to be in the chamber was unknown.

The floor was pieced together by local forensic lab funded by the churches insurance company only to reveal that the floor had not had any secret doors or trap doors built in it and also that there was no reason for the floor to so weak. It has been proved that the stone however is younger than the rest of the church floor been made of stone brought in from Cornwall in about 1782-3 whereas the rest of the floor was put in in 1666 and came from wales? Since the discovery mobile phone calls and wireless communications which had never been reliable in the area have been almost impossible.

You have now been called in by your boss and told that you have been hired by the government to investigate matters further one of the old primary school halls (a new school was built two years ago) and the old heads office and staffroom has been given over to the BERG for the duration of the investigation. Your job is to find out as much as possible about this cave/ cellar and the doorway. The Village Council is not keen on you been there however the county council and Essex Police and Fire Brigade are and you can call on their limited resources for help if necessary. For the most part your bosses would prefer you to keep this as in house as possible.

 
They where given the following set of hand outs, of the old village school that they where going to be using as a forward HQ, the Church and the room which was revealed below the church in the accident.


A list of support personnel was given to them and a list of relevant NPC's. The investigation was about to begin.


Spellbrook is a real village in England, however to fit into my campaign I moved it to Essex near the villages of Riddlers Hamlet and Hobbes Cross. I also introduced a slightly more sinister and competent "Vicar of Dibly" Style council which runs the three villages.


It is my intention to write up each game session and share with people how this adventure went. As I go I hope to improve my Blog and learn how to up load pictures and the hand-outs from the adventure.