"Delicious Destruction"
Foreign Element playtest notes
Key Players:
Smithson Family Products - "serving the
human family with sustainable nutritious
products for over 200 years" - a food
stuff/processor targeting colonies and
long distance spacecraft
Smithson spent a tremendous amount of
money investing in the development of
Perses Alpha Four, home to the CACPD
Research Division 617.
Cheese Alternative Compound
Production Division (CACPD) - creates
and invents new edible products to be
marketed to the populace. Smithson
desires products to be borderline
addictive - hopes cheese alternative
infiltrates all intergalactic markets.
Research budget in the trillions.
Popular maker of Chez Snacks Ultimate.
Famous spokesman is an RX Team type,
a war hero.
The Mission
Perses Alpha Four lost contact
immediately the day of the Great
Blackout - in the 3 years since, Global
Com has received a handful of
emergency signals, indecipherable
except for one word - "enrichment".
The RX teams contact is Arthur Phule, a
lifer within the Smithson corporation. He
has an allergy to cheese which is why he
works in this particular division. Only lets
the heroes know that CACPD research
department on Alpha Four was working
on a new cheese alternative that was
thought to be completely safe. He
believes it was corporate sabotage from
Smithson's rival, Razor Foods. Arthur is
going to tag along on the mission - there
is no way to avoid this.
Razor Foods - See the information in the
main rulebook. Razors reputation makes
it likely it might be involved.
What is really going on?
The Great Blackout was caused by the
merging of alternate universes. The
chaos that happened was a result of
these two universes smashed together -
thus anything literally become possible.
However, the universes are being merged
by a complicated process begun by a
sinister scientific organization known as
the Theorists. The Theorists have
developed devices that allow them to
send members from one universe to the
next - they have been scoping out the FE
universe and are making their entrance,
introducing chaotic bubbles of terror
wherever they go. Each planet might
have a member hiding somewhere,
maybe in disguise.
On Perses Alpha Four
Its a barren world, fairly small with
bubble terraforms that provide living
quarters and research facilities for
Smithson Family staff. Boring life. Some
extensive tunnels built to connect the
living areas - 5 total pods.
Landing
Orbit is likely uneventful.
Heroes will meet "Cargo" - a facilities
manager, covered head to toe in orange
dust with a sort of cheesy flavor. (On
further investigation, the cheese has
welded to his skin permanently.) He fills
them in on the situation. On the day of
the event, the barren world of Alpha Four
suffered a blackout. Light from the nearby
sun distinguished, not even like an
eclipse. Meteor storms from all directions.
Power failures. Pod 4 reported seeing
living creatures in its subterranean levels.
The planet had no signs of life before this
event. One of the cheese alternative
product production units went offline then
began spewing output into the ventilation
systems, covering everyone with cheese
dust.
Throughout the pods, there are many
dad, layered in cheesy destruction.
Since then, remaining residents have
been fighting against each other in chaos
for supplies - some have become
addicted to the cheese product - others
have gone missing while traversing the
tunnels below.
Satellites also must have been destroyed
in the storm, cutting off communications
from company mainframes.
To restore order, the RX team will have to
shut down the cheese product dispenser
unit. Its protected by the most loyal,
hardened cheese-addicted mutants, a
horde of large size and relentless fury.
Here could be a conflict - the unit might
be producing a product that is perfect to
market to the masses. Maybe Arthur
demands a sample and orders them not
to do it, even though people will die.
More bad news - creatures from an
alternate universe, subterranean
inhabitants of primitive intelligence (seven
legged cave ponies), have taken over the
caves and find the cheese product highly
allergic, sending them into fits of
uncontrollable rage. They seek to trample
opponents, but otherwise, tend to be
quite docile.
Could the heroes play the two hordes off
against each other? Could the heroes
manage to befriend the strange alien
creatures and use the tunnels to get to
the cheese dispenser? Or do they try to
blow it all up?
Arthur the Trickster
It also turns out - Arthur is not who he
says he is. He is actually a highly trained
agent for Razor Foods. During the chaos,
he may attempt to gain access to the
secret formula for Smithsons prized
research. Do the heroes protect him or
stop him?
The Theorist
The theorist is hiding out, having donned
the robes of a technician. He may seek
out the RX team for protection. He may
also clash with Arthur, who figures
something is strange about this survivor.
Meanwhile, the Theorist equips a small
robot to infiltrate the RX teams ship,
hoping to use its engines to open a follow
up cosmic tunnel to allow a Theorist
strike team to arrive on the planet and
claim it for its own.
If they succeed, the heroes may have to
battle the Theorist and his strike team.
Alternate Resolution
The heroes might want to overload the
cheese dispenser - which promptly
explodes, with the heroes hopefully riding
the cheese wave into space, turning the
whole planet into nothing more than a
giant ball of cheeselike beauty.