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-===== Play Test Module =====
-====== Echoes Below ======
-A short ODDS RPG playtest adventure.
-Genre: Space Adventure
-Theme: Exploration, tension, tactical combat
-Length: 1–2 sessions
-Players investigate a derelict underground research facility on a remote colony world.
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-===== Adventure Hook =====
-A mining outpost on planet Kestrel-9 has gone silent.
-Orbital scans show power fluctuations beneath the surface.
-The corporation (or patron) hires the party to:
-  * Investigate the underground lab
-  * Recover research data
-  * Retrieve valuable prototype tech
-  * Determine what happened
-Reward:
-  Wealth increase OR 500 credits equivalent
-  Plus salvage rights
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-===== Planet Overview =====
-Kestrel-9 is:
-  * Thin atmosphere
-  * Jagged rock formations
-  * Frequent electrical storms
-  * Low-level seismic instability
-Surface threats:
-  * Electrical storm bursts
-  * Unstable rock shelves
-  * Abandoned mining drones
-Access to the lab is through a collapsed mining tunnel.
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-===== Lab Overview =====
-The underground facility consists of:
-. Entry Tunnel
-. Security Checkpoint
-. Research Wing
-. Containment Block
-. Power Core Chamber
-The lab was researching alien bio-tech discovered during mining operations.
-Something escaped containment.
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-===== Area 1 – Entry Tunnel =====
-Dim emergency lighting.
-Scorch marks on walls.
-Discarded mining equipment.
-Challenge:
-  Clear debris (TN 12 Might)
-  OR bypass through side shaft (TN 15 Agility)
-Failure:
-  Minor collapse – 2d10 damage (Agility TN 12 halves)
-Clue:
-  Log tablet mentions “Subject Gamma breach.”
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-===== Area 2 – Security Checkpoint =====
-Blast doors partially sealed.
-Options:
-  Hack control panel (Extended Task Goal 3)
-  Force doors (TN 18 Might)
-  Cut power reroute (TN 15 Engineering)
-Random Event (roll 1d6):
-–2 Motion sensors activate automated turret
-–4 Nothing happens
-–6 Strange movement in vents
-Automated Turret (Standard)
-Health 14
-Attack +5
-Damage 2d10+1
-Defense TN 13
-Armor 1
-Ability: Suppressive Fire (-2 to next attack roll if hit)
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-===== Area 3 – Research Wing =====
-Broken glass.
-Containment pods shattered.
-Bio-fluid stains.
-Encounter (choose one):
-Alien Parasite (Elite)
-Health 22
-Attack +7
-Damage 2d10+2
-Defense TN 14
-Armor 2
-Abilities: Regenerate, Terrify
-OR
-Corporate Retrieval Team (2 Standards)
-Health 14 each
-Attack +5
-Damage 2d10+1
-Defense TN 13
-Armor 1
-Ability: Coordinated (+2 when adjacent)
-Loot:
-  Prototype energy weapon (2d10+2, ignores 1 Armor)
-  Research data core (valuable)
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-===== Area 4 – Containment Block =====
-Cold.
-Lights flicker.
-Containment chamber breached from inside.
-Environmental hazard:
-  Radiation leak (TN 15 Might or lose 2d10 Resolve)
-Inside:
-  Evidence of forced extraction.
-  Something large was moved.
-Clue:
-  Power readings spike below.
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-===== Area 5 – Power Core Chamber =====
-Massive generator hum.
-Alien organic structure fused with reactor.
-Boss Encounter:
-Hybrid Entity (Boss)
-Health 38
-Attack +9
-Damage 2d10+3
-Defense TN 15
-Armor 3
-Abilities:
-  Regenerate (5 per round)
-  Terrify (1/scene)
-  Cleave
-Phase at 50%:
-  Reactor destabilizes (everyone rolls TN 15 Agility or take 2d10)
-Victory Options:
-  * Destroy creature
-  * Shut down reactor (Extended Task Goal 5 during combat)
-  * Seal chamber and escape
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-===== Random Encounters (Optional During Exploration) =====
-Roll 1d6 between areas:
-Seismic tremor – debris fall (TN 12 Agility)
-Drone reactivates (Minion stats)
-Strange whisper over comms (Resolve TN 12)
-Environmental fire burst
-Rival scavenger team arrives
-Nothing… but something watches
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-===== Rewards =====
-Major Success:
-  Wealth +1 (temporary or permanent)
-  Unique tech asset
-  Faction reputation boost
-Partial Success:
-  Data recovered
-  Creature escaped
-Failure:
-  Facility collapses
-  Creature reaches surface colony
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-===== Expansion Hooks =====
-The alien organism was not native.
-Coordinates found in data logs.
-Corporate cover-up begins.
-Rival faction wants the tech.
-This lab was only one of many.