After traveling across the wasteland, the team comes across an old, empty research facility. The doors are locked, but can be cracked. Strangely, the place seems be abandoned, yet the power is still on. After exploring and looking around the facility, the team stumbles across a group of children that appear to be working in a large server room. What in the world is going on?

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<aside> 🤖 The children are actually robots who were created a long time ago to function as caretakers of the facility, and the technology it’s housing—an entire metaverse that Pandora created dubbed Project Eden.

Project Eden was Pandora’s failed attempt at creating their own metaverse. While techinically Pandora handled the financing of the project, it was a research group named PSYONIC that handled the actual creation of the digital world. The research facility is actually PSYONIC’s old home base of sorts.

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Things to Learn:

  1. The research facility belonged to an organization called PSYONIC, who was particularly interested in studying human emotion and how it could be translated into Gemini code and used as a power source, among other things.
  2. Someone the robots refer to as ”the Master” created them, and tasked them with looking after the facility, as well as maintaining Eden.
  3. The robot kids are the ones who sent the encrypted message, as they know all about ATB and believe they can help. They believe that something or someone has gained access to Eden, and compromised the metaverse.
  4. The original technology for Eden is based off the research of none other than Dr. Delavigne. It’s unclear how involved he was, or if perhaps his research was stolen.

Map

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Rooms

  1. Entrance
  2. Clearance Room
    1. Where PSYONIC employees would sign in and enter the facility. There's a wall of large monitors and keyboards, and a scanner pad near the door. The door is locked. Can do an arcana check to try to open the door.
      1. Nat 1 - The door doesn’t open and the alarm system is triggered
      2. 2-7 - The door opens a little bit, then stops
      3. 8-19 The door opens all the way
      4. Nat 20 - The door opens a voice says “Welcome Doctor”
  3. Vehicle Room
    1. A room full of old-looking snow vehicles. They look like they haven’t been used in a long time.
      1. Any roll to try to get the vehicles working fails, except on a Nat 20
  4. Conference Room
    1. A conference table with chairs and a big screen. PCs can do an investigation check.
      1. Nat 1 - They don’t find anything
      2. 2-10 - Find lots of meeting logs, including time stamps, some names, transcripts
      3. 11-19 - Find meeting logs and what looks to be name of some Pandora Corp execs as attendees of the meetings
      4. Nat 20 - Find logs, names, and mention of Dr. Delavigne