Amber Zone - Fixing Aces and Eights

Last Updated 13 November 2003.

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2001 #300

Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 13:54:17 +1000
From: David Jaques-Watson
Subject: Aces and Eights

Dear Folks -

Loren wrote:
>>>ObTrav: What sort of unit and service knicknames abound in the Third
>>>Imperium?
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>>The Unified Armies of the Imperium are known as the "Black Sun
>>Brotherhood."
>
>1188th Lift Infantry (no longer in existence) was known as the "Aces and
>Eights"

One thing I never understood about this (otherwise great) scenario: if the intelligence officer devised the plot to hide the money, why on earth does he have to call the card-carrier in? Why doesn't he himself know the location of the money??
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#300

Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 05:20:48 -0000
From: "Larsen E. Whipsnade"
Subject: Re: [TML] Aces and Eights

From: david.d.jaques-watson@centrelink.gov.au
"One thing I never understood about this (otherwise great) scenario: if the intelligence officer devised the plot to hide the money, why on earth does he have to call the card-carrier in? Why doesn't he himself know the location of the money??"

Mr. Jaques-Watson,

Let me start by saying I've only run this particular adventure once, and the PCs handled it completely differently than I had envisioned. Just like the current thread talks about.

When setting up the details, I naturally assumed (I know, I know, assuming is bad) that the officer in question needs to know "precisely" (down to the centimeter) where the money cache is, because it happens to be in a location where he'll get ONE chance to dig it up.

The map the cards create isn't of some wilderness area out in East Boondockia. Instead, the map is more like a building's blueprint or the schematic of a compound. Remember, the 1188th had to hide the money quickly after the NBC attack. They were most likely in barracks on a base somewhere.

So instead of burying it east of the third tree from the left in some olive grove, the money might be under a parade ground, or an obstacle course, or in the basement of a barracks. The party retrieving it would most likely have to sneak in somewhere, measure and dig carefully, then sneak back out.

Also, there are plenty of methods in cryptology in which someone can encrypt a message without knowing the content.

Sincerely,
Larsen


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