Overview

Old Business

AX.GHW.14.04 - A Starter Adventure

Overview

Premise: A woman was murdered three years ago. Her killer walked free, built an empire, and is about to break ground on a luxury development. She has come back to finish what the legal system wouldn't. In two days, she will be in front of two hundred cameras. The party's job is to understand what she wants, decide whether she's right, and find a way to end this that doesn't tear the Veil open in front of a live press corps.

Primary Plot: Revelation (5-3), Interrogator: the evidence. Seeker: the party. Problem: what happened to Connie Reyes, and whether the party can give her what she's owed before she takes it herself.

Secondary Plot Hook: Clock (5-4), Two days until the Harmon Tower groundbreaking ceremony. The Revenant will be there. The party's choices between now and then determine what that looks like.

Party Level: 9D generation package (Regional, standard)

Session Length: 2–3 sessions

Organizations Featured: The Network (entry point), Bureau of Unusual Affairs (peripheral, may be present), Grimoire Compact (research resource), Sovereign Circle (background only, hooks for future play)

Setting: Contemporary American city, a downtown law office, a hospital, an abandoned suburban property, a corporate office park, and an open-air construction site

Tone: Investigative horror with moral weight. This is not a combat adventure. The central question is whether a murdered woman can get justice, and whether the party is willing to do the work to make that happen. The Revenant is not the antagonist. The antagonist is a living man who has spent three years making sure accountability never arrived.

What this adventure introduces: - The Revenant as a category: purposeful, unkillable by conventional means, not a predator - The three-clue structure in practice across a multi-thread investigation - Veil pressure as a clock, one catastrophic event at the end if the party fails to move - Mediumship as investigation tool, not just combat support - The difference between supernatural resolution and legal/institutional resolution, and why the party needs both

Time estimate: 2–3 sessions, 3–4 hours each.