Twilight: 2000 Campaign

June 9, 2000

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June 9, 2000

Date: Friday, June 9, 2000
Location/Hex: Radom
Weather/Conditions: Clear

1. Shift I: Midnight – 06:00 (Night)

  • Location: Radom
  • PC Actions:
    • Archer: [Recon] - Prison seems locked down… silent.
    • Mik: [Rest]
    • Stanislaw: [Keep Watch]
    • Pedro: [Rest] - Gains a psychosis

2. Shift II: 06:00 – 12:00 (Morning)

  • Location: Radom
  • PC Actions:
    • Archer: [Rest]
    • Mik: [Interrogate] - Failed. Shot Zofia in both knees
    • Stanislaw: [Rest]
    • Pedro: [Scrounge] - Fails and takes two stress

3. Shift III: 12:00 – 18:00 (Day)

  • Location: Radom
  • PC Actions:
    • Archer: [Overwatch]
    • Mik: [Overwatch]
    • Stanislaw: [Repair APC] — recovered the crashed APC outside the Prison wall; ~40 min into repairs, not yet running.
    • Pedro: [Overwatch]
  • Encounters/Events:
    • Three men scope the ground from the Prison wall through the afternoon, then descend on a rope ladder. One reaches the building the APC crashed into (Pedro’s post); one holds the wall-top with an AKM; one watches the yard inside.
    • All three dropped by coordinated fire from Mik, Archer, and Pedro.
    • Gunfire stirs commotion inside the Prison — men reacting, the place coming awake.
    • Over the firefight that follows, the party sights four combatants — three along the top of the wall, one peering from the opened gate — and cannot tell one from another. One scouts the parapet and is shot down by Mik; Pedro makes clear the gate is no safe path out.
    • Two more work forward under cover and open up on Mik, incapacitating him — internal bleeding.
    • Stanislaw finishes the APC repair and radios Mik to report it done — only static answers. The dead channel breaks him; he locks up under stress for several rounds.
    • Pedro suffers a psychotic break and climbs the dead climbers’ abandoned rope ladder onto the wall to get at the operative who’d dropped behind cover there; he snaps out of it after engaging the man, who flees back into the guard tower.
    • Stanislaw pulls himself together, drives the running APC out between the downed Mik and the wall, and shields him from fire. (Previous session ended here — cliffhanger; resolution below played out the following session.)
    • Archer’s machine gun stayed silent through the entire exchange — no fire from his position.
    • Stanislaw performs first aid in the APC’s cover and gets Mik back up — pressure on the wound, one free hand, a firing position off the hull.
    • Archer’s silence explained: operatives had slipped out of the Prison’s north side, knocked Archer unconscious without a shot heard, and turned his machine gun on the APC. Pedro, still on the parapet, climbs down onto the APC and slides inside as the gun opens up. Mik drops the gunner from his position at the hull.
    • As Stanislaw moves to check on Archer, a second operative fires on him — the unmistakable report of an M16 (an American weapon). The shooter is never seen.
    • Archer found unconscious beside the dead operative — alive, no memory of his attacker.
    • The party loads the wounded and breaks contact under fire, falling back to the cottage. The second operative is never accounted for.

4. Shift IV: 18:00 – Midnight (Evening)

  • Location: Radom
  • PC Actions:
    • Archer: [Keep Watch] — recovered consciousness; no memory of his attacker.
    • Mik: [Stabilizing Crit] — critically injured (internal bleeding); the others work to keep him stable.
    • Stanislaw: [Stabilizing Crit] — treating Mik.
    • Pedro: [Stabilizing Crit] — treating Mik.

Logistics & Status Check

Vehicle Status

  • APC: repaired and running; used to shield the downed Mik, then carried the party back to the cottage.
  • Captured KGB jeep on hand. Two PM (Makarov) pistols, 5 clips of 9×18mm, plus an AKM off the dead climbers.

Group Condition (End of Day)

  • Archer: Knocked unconscious by unknown operatives who turned his machine gun on the party; recovered, no memory of his attacker.
  • Mik: Critical — internal bleeding; revived by Stanislaw’s first aid mid-fight, stabilized through the evening but not out of danger.
  • Stanislaw: Functional; got the APC running, shielded Mik, revived him, and drew M16 fire going for Archer.
  • Pedro: Came through a psychotic break during a charge on the wall; heavy accumulated stress.

Intel & Narrative

  • NPC Status:
    • Zofia: still the party’s prisoner, tied up at the cottage; shot through both knees during Mik’s failed interrogation. Refused to talk — composure cracked at the end, but gave up nothing.
    • Birger: MIA, presumed in Russian custody — still holds the Soviet decryption device that pairs with the drive.
    • Three Prison climbers: dead at the foot of the wall.
    • Unknown operatives: slipped from the Prison’s north side, KO’d Archer, turned his MG on the party. One dead by Mik’s hand; the second — carrying an M16 (American weapon) — escaped, unaccounted for.
  • Current Objective:
    • Keep Mik alive through the night.
    • Break contact from Radom before the roused Prison — or whoever carries that M16 — comes looking.
    • Recover the drive’s decryption device (with Birger) — the only way to read the still-encrypted disk.

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