In Too Deep
An adventure for Millennium s End By Roger Stenning and Andrew Gardner
© 1994-1998, all rights reserved
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IMPOSSIBLE SCENARIOS GROUP
IMPOSSIBLE SCENARIOS GROUP
In Too Deep
In Too Deep
An adventure for Millennium s End
An adventure for Millennium s End
Written by Roger Stenning and Andrew Gardner
Written by Roger Stenning and Andrew Gardner
The operatives are just going on holiday, after a
gruelling four months of training the bodyguard team of
an African nation s President. Two weeks of hiking
around Europe looks about right, and they re going to
walk over the Netherlands and Denmark.
But first, they have to get there&
E-mail: roger@the-isg.co.uk
© 1994-1999, Roger Stenning and Andrew Gardner All rights reserved. This
document is available as freeware , barring any appropriate delivery costs, on the
understanding that it is not used in any profit-making venture.
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An adventure for Millennium s End By Roger Stenning and Andrew Gardner
© 1994-1998, all rights reserved
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Preface&
This adventure first saw the light of day at Games Fair 1994, where it was run
as part of the Merc:2000 tournament. Since no good adventure really dies, it s
been dusted off, scanned (the original Word Perfect 5.1 files were lost,
dammit), and updated for Millennium s End. We hope you enjoy it!
Setting up&
Referees running this adventure should, really, have a damned good working
knowledge of the Channel Tunnel and its systems and procedures, which are
detailed (to a certain extent) in the text of this adventure. Thus, prior to
running this adventure, you should read and re-read the adventure, until you
are completely satisfied that you know how the events are to unfold about the
characters, and can react appropriately to whatever they attempt to do (or
not& ).
You will require only the Millennium s End v2.0 rules book ( M.E. Rules )
and the Millennium s End Ultra Modern Firearms ( UMF ) supplement, in
order to run this adventure, but we recommend that you have an additional
book to hand, the Millennium s End Referee s Companion. This book will,
we assure you, make your job a heck of a lot easier!
You will also require pencils, pens, paper (to write/scribble/doodle upon), and
a set of dice, as noted in the main rules book.
Have fun!
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An adventure for Millennium s End By Roger Stenning and Andrew Gardner
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The tunnel&
The Channel tunnel is an incredible feat of engineering; It is a 45 km long
triple bore tunnel, consisting of two 7.6 metre diameter running tunnels, and a
single 4.8 metre diameter service tunnel. Contrary to popular belief, the tunnel
is neither straight, nor laid atop the sea bed of the English Channel, nor
smoothly curved below the English Channel.
To ensure the maximum resistance to the ingress of water, the tunnel has
been built into a geologically sound layer of material called Chalk Marl, which
lies about 22 to 45 metres below the surface of the sea bed of the English
Channel.
Due to the way that the area around the English Channel was formed many
thousands of years ago, there are faults in the ground, which means that the
chalk marl experiences many changes of vertical and horizontal path in the
ground between the Castle Hill tunnel entrance in England, and the
Beussingue entrance in France, a few Km south of Calais.
Spaced along the length of all three tunnels are 'Piston Relief Ducts',
approximately once every 250 metres,
and 'Cross Passages', about every 375 metres.
The piston relief ducts are to equalise the air pressure between the running
tunnels where the trains run at an average speed of 104 kph, thus causing
incredible build-ups of air pressure in front of the trains, unless relieved
regularly; the piston relief ducts perform this function. These have centrally
hinged flaps to prevent smoke from one tunnel intruding on another in the
event of fire.
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At five points in the tunnel (At the Shakespeare Cliff UK Land Operations site,
the Sangatte French Land Operations site, the UK and French crossover
points (points where the trains may cross over to the other tunnel, such as
when maintenance is being performed on the normal running tunnel), and,
finally, at the deepest point in the tunnel) there are pumping stations,
designed to remove any water seepage/rain drainage, and other liquids (such
as leaking petrol from vehicles carried in the vehicle shuttles) back up to the
surface, at either end of the tunnel. There are also, at these points, equipment
rooms and motor rooms, where the pumps and ancillary equipment are
stored.
The equipment rooms are short sections of service tunnel-like construction,
4.8 metres in diameter, running between both running tunnels at these points.
There is one each side of the service tunnel (total of TWO equipment rooms
at each of the three points).
The cross passages lead to the service tunnel, via inwardly hinged doors
(hinged to open INTO the cross passages, from the running tunnels).
In each access passage, there is an emergency telephone, a fire extinguisher
alcove at waist height ( containing two C02 fire extinguishers), and a cable-
linked CCTV camera, linked to the control rooms at both ends of the tunnel.
The access passages at the pumping station positions also have additional
sets of doors for the equipment and pump rooms, which open INTO the
access passages.
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The opening of any of the access passage doors lights a tell-tale warning light
on the mimic panel in both control rooms relating to the door(s) opened, and
automatically activates the CCTV camera at that point, to allow the controllers
on duty to see what is happening there . The controllers are then able to act
appropriately as the situation demands.
Each running tunnel has a series of cables and pipes running along its length
The biggest of these are a pair of cold water pipes, at about two atmospheres
of pressure, designed to circulate chilled water along the course of the running
tunnels to keep the tunnel (as in all deep tunnels, temperatures rise without
direct action being taken to counteract this rise). The water is pumped and
chilled from the UK and French operations sites at Shakespeare Cliff and
Sangatte.
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There is also a third, smaller bore, water pipe in each running tunnel; this is a
fire main, and runs at about three atmospheres pressure at all times. Every
100 metres or so, a feeder pipe leads to a 50-metre roll of fire hose, with an
on/off variable jet nozzle attached.
At points every 500 metres, there are valves which cut the flow, and joint the
'down' pipe with the 'up' pipe, allowing the flow to continue uninterrupted.
These valves would be used in the event that a section of pipe needed to be
replaced. Valves at either end of the faulty section would be turned off, cutting
the water supply to that section of pipe, and the offending section replaced,
the valves being turned on again afterwards . Such valve switching would
have to be simultaneous with the other valve, or back pressures of
monumental size would cause damage to the pumps at the Operations sites.
The other cables in the running tunnels are power, communications, and
lighting. The power cables are overhead pickup wires to power the tractor
units on the trains. These run at 25kVAC (twenty-five thousand volts,
Alternating Current) in each of the two cables.
The communications cables, of which there are three, run Euro Tunnel Radio
(in the FM band for car stereo radios to listen to up-to-date traffic and rail
conditions on either side of the tunnel, and it's approach and departure
routes), the Tunnel digital data monitoring system (a system designed to
monitor tunnel temperatures, water ingress, air contamination, and such like,
run from the five pumping stations by remote sensor into the cables ) , and the
command communications channel, linking all the trains with the control
centres at both TML terminals (Folkestone in Kent, and Coqelles, near
Calais). The two radio cables are connected at pre-determined distances to
antennas; for Euro Tunnel Radio, these are approximately 1km apart; they are
only able to transmit, not receive. For the Command Communications
Channel (C3), at gaps of about five hundred metres. The frequencies used
are out of phase with each other so as to not interfere with good reception on
either channel; the C3 antennas are able to transmit and receive.
The lighting cable runs to florescent lighting strips in sealed casings (if petrol
fumes escape from vehicles on the trains, the lights will not cause an
explosion due to sparking). The lights have battery backups, which will last for
36 hours before a recharge is required . This cable also powers the green
emergency exit lights above each cross passage door, and green emergency
exit arrows pointing to the nearest cross passage door along the running
tunnel wall nearest the service tunnel (Facing the direction of train travel, it's
normally on the right).
There is also a twin bore 30cm drainage pipe linked to the five pumping
stations; this carries water and other liquids to the next pumping station down
the tunnel, where the liquid is sent to the next pumping station up the tunnel,
and then to surface drains. The central pumping station (at the tunnel mid-
point) sends this waste to the UK side of the tunnel.
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In the service tunnel, there is a mass of cable trunking running the length of
the ceiling.
This trunking carries service tunnel lighting cables (in a similar manner to the
running tunnels, but without the green arrow lights or exit signs), the CCTV
cables to the surface, an alternative communications line (with antennae),
regular feeds to floor height recessed power tool power sockets (running at
the 110 volts AC 40 Hz European power standard) every 50 metres, and at
the emergency telephone communications landline from each cross passage
telephone point.
Along both sides of this trunking, there are two massive drainage pipes
leading away from the lower levels of pumping stations towards the surface.
On the southern side there is also a smaller bore fire main pipe, under about
three atmospheres of pressure.
In the floor of the service tunnel, recessed about 1cm deep and hidden from
casual view is a service vehicle guidance wire; if a tunnel service vehicle is
run down the tunnel, and the driver wants to concentrate on something other
than driving the battery powered car, he can set it to 'autodrive', and it'll follow
the guidance wire until the auto-drive is shut off and the human driver takes
over again.
These tunnel service vehicles are 1.5 metres wide, built by Mercedes-Benz,
and can carry eight men plus around 100 kilos of cargo, such as tools and
other equipment. If larger equipment or repair materials were required, a
freight shuttle with the needed materials would be sent down the running
tunnel, and the two crossovers used to divert trains to the unaffected tunnel,
until the required repairs were complete.
Also running along the cabling duct in the service tunnel is a forced-air
circulation system, a sort of crude air-conditioning system, designed to
circulate clean (if not entirely fresh) air at slight overpressure to the service
tunnel. This is at about 1.1 atmospheres pressure, and is designed to ensure
that in the even of fire in a running tunnel, the act of opening a cross passage
door will stop smoke from entering the service tunnel, due to the air pressure
difference between the running tunnels (low pressure of 1 atmosphere) and
the service tunnel (high pressure of 1.1 atmospheres).
The final cable is the tell-tale warning system, which lights a warning light
when a cross-passage door is opened, relevant to that door, as mentioned
previously in this text.
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TRAIN FACILITIES&
Each Vehicle Shuttle comprises 30 carriages, comprised as below.
A: 2 x Electrically powered Locomotives, using the overhead
Catenary power cables.
B: 2 x Single-deck vehicle loading/unloading carriages.
C: 2 x Double-deck vehicle loading/unloading carriages.
D: 12 x Single-deck vehicle shuttle carriages.
E: 12 x Double-deck vehicle shuttle carriages.
These are connected together in the order below:
A01-B01-D01-D02-D03-D04-D05-D06-D07-D08-D09-D10-D11-D12-B02-C01-
E01-E02-E03-E04-E05-E06-E07-E08-E09-E10-E11-E12-C02-A02.
As the train is intended to be hooked together for long periods of time,
disconnecting carriages is a problem due to accessibility of the requisite
connectors; therefore, at certain carriages, there are group disconnectors.
These are at the connections between carriages A01/B01/D01, D03/4, D06/7,
D09/10, D12/B02/C01/E01, E03/E04, E06/E07, E09/E10, and E12/C02/A02.
Each double-deck vehicle loader has, in addition to loading and unloading
ramps, areas set aside for motorcycles to park, with a small cabin at one end
for the cyclists to sit whilst the train is transiting the tunnel. This cabin has a
toilet and limited freshening facilities.
Additionally, passage is possible between carriages, and every third carriage
in the double-deck carriages, has toilet and limited freshening facilities; these
carriages are carriages E02, E05, E08 and E11.
The single deck carriages are intended for coaches, and it is presumed that
they will, being long-distance vehicles, carry their own toilet facilities, so no
provision has been made for these carriages to have separate toilet facilities
built-in.
For security, each carriage also has CCTV coverage, linked to both
Locomotives . These show the operator a pretty clear view of all the carriage
spaces, and cycle through the carriages, for all areas except toilets, at the rate
of around ten seconds per carriage, in random order, but which CAN be
controlled from the locomotive if required, through the use of a separate
dedicated keyboard. All train crew are trained in its use.
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In each carriage there are two emergency 'communication cords' per deck
which, if pulled, will remotely activate the brakes of the whole train, bringing it
to a halt: In such an event, the driver has no control over whether the train
stops or not - it WILL stop. These 'cords' are actually break-glass-and-PULL-
HARD levers; a statutory warning notice in the major European Languages,
plus Arabic, Chinese, and Japanese, cautions users of the handle that if the
use of the cord is not in an emergency, there is a hefty (at LEAST Å10,000
Sterling) fine due, in addition to any damage costs caused by the use of the
handle.
The terrorists' preparation&
The terrorists of the IFM have done their preparation well; they have infiltrated
an entire working gang into the tunnels' maintenance staff, and have arranged
for the entire gang to be at the pumping station at the mid-point of the tunnel
where the train will be rail-jacked. An emergency red light will ensure that the
train is stopped in the right place for their needs and if that doesn't work, there
are automatic mechanisms for the detection of these emergency signals that
will ensure the halt of any train that is driven by a driver who fails to see the
red light. Either way, the train will stop, comparatively suddenly and roughly
(no derailing will occur).
As the tunnel itself is 45km long, and the train normally spends 26 or so
minutes traversing it, the terrorists have about 13 minutes until the train
reaches the mid-point of the tunnel. As the train must slow to stop at the mid-
point of the tunnel, and takes about 30 seconds to slow to a complete stop,
the terrorists have about 12 and a half minutes before they have to stop the
train.
The terrorists' plan of action&
The characters (And, I hope, the players!) will not be expecting trouble on the
shuttle; after all, Euro Tunnel boast about all their security precautions, and
that the French and British Customs are always on the lookout for suspected
or known terrorists. Problem is, as stated above, there are ALWAYS ways
around such security. It just takes ONE gap in the 'fence' to let the fox get
amongst the chickens - and this is just what's happened.
The IFM have extraordinary patience when it comes to preparing their
outrages; this outrage is set to be the biggest yet. Over the course of the last
two years, they have infiltrated eight men into the Shakespeare Cliff
operations site, as tunnel maintenance workers.
In the last nine months, this particular bunch of villains have been transporting
small loads of MRE rations, cooking equipment, water purification equipment,
explosives, guns, ammunition, and other bits and pieces of terrorist
paraphernalia, to a secure place in the tunnel, near the mid-point pumping
station. They hid these pieces of equipment, and are now set to recover them
as soon as the railjacking starts.
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The first team of terrorists comprises seven men and women. They are to be
treated as Veteran level NPCs . Their prime task is to secure Viscount Blake,
and the trains' exits once the train has been stopped.
The second team (the infiltrated working gang), 7 of which are to be treated as
Experienced NPCs, board the train, and carry out the securing of the rest of
the train, its passengers and crew. The plan calls for the train to stop at the
mid-point of the tunnel by use of the emergency engineering stop light that the
other team are due to activate. If, by a certain time, the train does not stop, or
the passengers somehow cause the terrorists trouble, the emergency cord will
be pulled, and the train stopped.
At the same time as the terrorists stop the train, a wide-band radio-jammer will
be activated, to jam all channels in use in the tunnel, with the exception of the
channel that the terrorists two-way radios are set to. Once the train has
stopped, the terrorists on board the train will jump off on the service tunnel
side of the train, and cover-off at shielded locations to cover the exits on the
service tunnel side of the train, to prevent any of the other passengers on the
train disembarking. If any try, they will be shot and killed by these terrorists.
If the characters do not wish to wait for this, then they must act NOW, as it is
one of the most vital times for the terrorists; the train is only partially secured,
there is mass confusion in the body of the train, as every passenger wants to
know why the train has stopped, and unless an iron hand or clear leadership
is shown, pandemonium will occur.
If the characters fail to act now, they must wait until well into the hijacking,
when the terrorists start to kill the other hostages, one every half hour (and
there are 728 passengers - not quite a full load. Euro Tunnel predict that each
train may carry up to 800 passengers at peak capacity).
There are, therefore, enough hostages to last 15 days at that rate. Food, for
the terrorists, is not a problem - they have 18 days of American MRE rations,
and plenty of cooking equipment in the vehicles that they boarded the train
with. Likewise, defensive equipment is in the vehicles, too. this is listed later in
the adventure, but is quite enough.
Whilst all the above is occurring, the other team will be splitting up into four
teams of two. The first two will board the locomotive, and kill (read "murder")
the driver; they will then disable the front locomotive be removing the drive
key.
At the same time, two more will disconnect the rear locomotive unit, and move
it back up the tunnel by fifty metres. they will disable it there by removing the
drive key.
The third duo will be emplacing M14A1 anti-tank mines 60 metres up and
down the track from the train, and ten metres nearer, will emplace M18A1
Anti-personnel Claymore mines, with Infra-red seeker/detonator units.
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These will detect body heat out to fifty metres, and detonate if they see
anything of human size or larger; the seeker units are programmed to ignore
vehicles - that's what the AT mines are for. They will have already emplaced
the service tunnel Claymores and AT mines before the train was stopped.
The fourth duo will place a Claymore mine on the roof of the carriages at each
end of the newly-created fifty metre gap between the locomotive and carriage
at the rear of the train. These Claymores will face INTO the gap, angled to
cover the entire area. Once this is done, a can of bright yellow spray paint will
be used to paint the walkways between the two carriages, but not the railway
track well.
On the first area sprayed yellow, the maintenance walkway to the side of the
gap, a thick bed of fuller's earth granules covered by Lime powder will be
placed. Curtains on poles will be supplied to provide cover for this area, which
is to be used by the passengers - sorry, hostages - for their toilet functions.
The curtains are for the terrorists as well as the hostages modesty - there's no
way they will want to loose their appetite for a meal just because a hostage is
having a trip to the toilet; Hence, curtains!
On the evacuation walkway (the other area sprayed yellow), four large drums
of clean drinking water with taps at the side near the bottom of the drums, and
a large supply of expanded polystyrene cups (2000 of them) will be placed at
the midpoint of the walkway between the locomotive and the rest of the train,
with taps to the containers facing into the gap. Once all the above is complete,
the terrorists NOT covering the train exits will board the train from the front,
and herd the newly-acquired hostages into the fifty-metre gap between the
locomotive and the rest of the train. The train crew will then be separated from
the rest of the passengers and held at gunpoint until the Viscount is brought
along.
To coax all three men out of the armoured limousine that they are travelling in,
a two-kilogram block of Semtex will be stuck to the side window nearest the
viscount, detonators attached, and a warning that unless they come out within
30 seconds, they'll be blown to bits along with their vehicle. Once out of the
car, the driver and Policeman will be killed (murdered) - one round in each
man's head. The viscount will be bundled into the gap with the other
hostages.
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Once with the other hostages, the remaining train crew will be killed
(murdered) by sub-machine gun fire, following a small piece of redundant
rhetoric by the fifteenth terrorist, O'Donnaghue, (shouted in a thick Belfastian
brogue) as follows:
"PAY ATTENTION! All of you are now hostages of the International
Freedom Movement, held pending the release of our colleagues held in
the British Prisoner of War camp called Octagon. I'll tell you what you
will or won't be allowed to do in a moment, but right now there's more
pressing business: The crew of this train, having been found guilty by
this revolutionary committee of crimes against the People, are
summarily sentenced to death. The sentence'll be executed now".
The train crew, men and women, will be murdered as above. After the gunfire,
silence. Until he speaks again.
"LISTEN UP! You're in the firing line of antipersonnel mines called
Claymores. Some of you might have heard of them. They work very
well. If you give us ANY trouble at all, we'll use them on you.
"The thinner walkway over there, (he points) is your new toilet. The
curtains are to be used. There won't be any smell, we've provided you
with fuller's earth and lime. Cover your stuff with the shovel in each
area, and we'll get along real good. If you fail to cover the stuff, I'll kill
four of you right there and then. The drums, (he points again) here
are full of drinking water. Use them whenever you like - they've got to
last you three days, and that all of it. Don't waste it. It's all you're
getting.
"RULES! Follow them, and we'll get along really well. Ignore 'em an'
we'll kill you.
"DO NOT climb onto the areas painted yellow. If you do, we'll fire the
Claymores.
"DO NOT answer back at us. We'll kill you.
"DO NOT go to the toilet without clearing it with one of us. We'll kill you
if you don't.
Got all that? Tough - I'm not saying it again".
With that, O'Donnaghue will leave the gap-side walkway, and the terrorists will
start the IFM set routine detailed at the end of this scenario.
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O'Donnaghue is the most powerful terrorist, and reeks of ruthless authority.
He is to be treated as a High-End Grunt (see page 157 of the M.E. Rules, use
the last but one - Male, 185 cm). His full name is Liam Sean O'Donnaghue,
and is virtually unknown to most security agencies . He has but one real snag.
This snag is William Murray, the ex-Royal Marine; Murray knows of him;
during a special duties tour in Europe, the marine was placed on an
observation mission, and saw O'Donnaghue and another terrorist casing a
police station just hours before an attack on it; 0'Donnaghue was never
arrested, as there was insufficient evidence to link him with the crime.
Murray was none to pleased with this. It'll take a little while before he realises
who this man is, but all the while before he remembers, he'll have a nagging
feeling at the back of his head that "I've seen this flamin' loony before, an' he's
full o' trouble". As O'Donnaghue never actually saw Murray, he will not
recognise him, or anyone else on the train come to that, except his own
people, and Viscount Blake.
O Donnaghue - portrait of a psychopath&
Liam Sean O'Donnaghue is not really a committed political terrorist. All he
cares for, really, is getting away to carry out his next atrocity, to allow him to
kill and maim more innocent people. The wagon of the IFM is therefore a flag
of violent convenience to him. To this end, the plot to die in a terrible
explosion is just a pack of lies - he wants to carry on maiming and killing. He
loves the media attention his gang gets, but goes to extreme pains to ensure
his anonymity (behaving like the notorious 1970's terrorist Carlos The Jackal
in his hatred of cameras), so as to ensure his continued murderous habits. He
will wear a ski mask at all times when dealing with the hostages or the outside
world.
He's now twenty-eight years old, and from age 14, has been involved in
terrorist movements, moving up from a watch-boy warning illegal terrorist
meetings when the security forces are moving around), to organising terrorist
attacks from a safe house, and carrying those attacks out in Europe. He's
never been caught , although he's had a few tight scrapes.
At age 18, the IFM suffered from a particularly effective informer, who
implicated him in the bombing of a police station (the observation mission that
Murray saw him on) . Tipped off just before the net to catch him tightened, his
flight from capture sent him to France, and the French Foreign Legion. As no
reliable photos of him existed at that time, he got away with it, and spent five
years in the Legion as a Paratrooper (demolitions specialist).
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He liked killing even before he joined the Legion, but his love of extreme
violence is directly due to his enlistment in the Legion; in Chad, where he
excelled in explosive killing, he grew to love the sound of his own handiwork
(so much so, that his fellow troops began to call him 'Bang-Bang Bradey'). He
volunteered for so many last-chance missions, that when his enlistment came
up for renewal, he had to remind himself of why he'd gone to the Legion in the
first place, and decline the renewal. He went back to the IFM, as a legitimate
French national.
For the last five years, he's renewed his old republican contacts, explained his
absence (with proof and engagement/discharge papers), and risen to
command the IFM; The members of IFM are considered expendable to him,
and in any case, due to his obsession about his face, none of them can
identify him anyway as they've never seen his face (as he's been VERY
careful to keep it covered when he's been with them).
O'Donnague's getaway plan...
As stated above, O'Donnaghue has absolutely NO intention of getting killed
for a cause; to protect his anonymity, he's wearing a ski mask at all times
when not alone. To ensure that his voice is not recognised, he's using a hard
Belfast accent.
Since he can also speak fluent French with a Parisian accent, and, having
spent his full five-year contract in the French Foreign Legion, possesses a
genuine French Nationals Passport (in the name of Shamus Bradey), listing
him as a French Soldier, not a Legionnaire, if things go wrong, he ll whip off
his ski mask, don a spare set of slightly soiled clothing, change his
appearance slightly, to reflect a dishevelled appearance, and mingle with any
surviving hostages, and attempt to evade capture.
If things go as planned, he ll pose as one of the (inevitable) survivors, and do
the same thing. From his point of view, it ll be flawless, as no-one not even
his fellow terrorists will ever have knowingly seen his face.
The other terrorists portraits of politically murderous maniacs&
The other fourteen terrorists are of a different outlook; the combination of
violence and dedication to a cause is almost akin to the membership of the
Islamic WIJ in their belief in their cause , who will not allow personal risk sway
them from their intended action(s). The IFM, helped along by O Donnaghue,
are a force to be reckoned with due to this dedication.
O Donnaghue has set their minds to an almost brainwashed level of
dedication; this is deliberate on his part in a moment, any one of these
people can be discarded to further his own ends. Remember this about
O Donnaghue: He d sell his own maternal great-grandmother if it would help
him cause more suffering and loss of life. The man has absolutely NO morals
at all. Not a one.
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However, while his accomplices may have few moral scruples, at the end of
the day, if they are shown that their leader has no (or no measurable) political
bent, they could, if it were carefully done, be turned against each other, thus
allowing the team of vacationing BE/BE operatives to prevent the intended
massacre.
The timetable of scheduled events (shown below), gives a better idea of the
intended outcome of the IFM (for IFM , read O Donnaghue ). It also gives
you, the referee, a clearer picture of what is happening at any given time, to
aid you in assessing the PCs progress (or lack of it!) in escaping and/or
countering this terrorist attack&
One last thing&
The movies Die Hard and Die Hard 2 are (comparative) cakewalks if this
adventure is run correctly& !
Time-table of (Scheduled) events&
DAY ONE
07:25 Working gang (IFM Team Two) leaves Shakespeare cliff
operations site for tunnel mid-point.
08:25 Shuttle Train loads passengers and their vehicles, including IFM
Team One.
08:28 IFM team 2 reaches mid-point of tunnel, and begins to set up,
cutting the warning light wires to the running tunnel doors and
the CCTV camera cables.
08:40 Shuttle Train leaves Folkestone TML terminal.
08:50 Shuttle Train enters Castle Hill portal of the tunnel.
08:51 Previous Shuttle passes midpoint and IFM Team Two.
08:52 IFM Team two sets up an emergency red stop light, and
connects it to the local signalling relay; they begin to remove tell-
tale warning light cables from the access passage tunnels at the
mid-point.
08:58 IFM T2 now fully deployed; defensive sensors and weapons
emplaced. The terrorists wait for the train.
09:03 IFM T2 activates radio jammer. Shuttle Train hits red light -
brakes deploy. Train screeches to a rough and sudden stop -
right on target. IFM T1 leaves train, and sets up arcs of fire to
deny passengers any way off the train. Several are murdered
(shot dead) as they attempt to leave the train anyway: no-one
attempts to disembark after these examples are made.
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09:03 Two Team 2 personnel enter the front locomotive, and kill the
driver. They lock the cabin off from the rest of the train, and
remove the drive key from the console, and disembark. At the
same time, a specially trained two-man team is separating the
rear locomotive unit from the train, and moving it up-tunnel
(towards England) by fifty metres; they remove the drive key
from the console, and lock the locomotive up before
disembarking. Meanwhile, four personnel from team two are
placing M14A1 anti-tank and M18A1 anti-personnel (Claymore)
mines forty and fifty meters to the front and rear of the train
respectively, facing away from the train.
09:24 IFM T2 regroups, enters front of train via the locomotive, and
begins to pacify the train. Passengers are herded into the gap
between the rear locomotive and the rest of the train. Viscount
Blake, his driver, and his Guard, have two terrorist guards
placed either side of the car, to prevent escape. They will be
dealt with later.
09:55 All passengers (bar the Viscount, his driver, and his bodyguard)
and train crew now held under Claymore threat in the gap
between the trains.
10:00 Viscount Blake, his driver, and the Royalty Protection Police
Officer, are forced to abandon the refuge of their armoured
vehicle by dint of being shown a 2Kg block of Plastic Explosive
being fixed to the Viscount's passenger window, and the threat
of it being detonated if they fail to surrender themselves. The
Policeman is killed (murdered) immediately. Viscount Blake and
his driver are bundled off to the gap between the trains where
the rest of the passengers and crew remain.
10:15 The train crew (men and women ) are summarily murdered, to
remove any focus points for leadership that they might have
shown to other passengers. Water, and a latrine line of Lime
(segregated, for modesty) are provided to stop the passengers
using the train's toilet facilities.
10:40 IFM contacts both control centres, and demands for the freeing
of the 3 IFM members held at Octagon High Security Prison in
Farnborough are made. Threats as to the disposal of the
hostages and the tunnel are made - and then mention is made
about Viscount Blake. From now on, all comms are cut, bar the
emergency line in the service tunnel, checked once per hour by
a terrorist. It is not answered at any other time.
10:55 The Kent Police seal off the tunnel at the UK end. The CRS riot
Police in France seal off the French end. All traffic through the
tunnel is ceased. Special military units are called in, "just in
case".
11:25 The French turn over management of the situation to the British,
in view of the fact that British Royalty is on board the train. The
British Prime Minister informs the Queen of the situation
personally. Royal Marines Contingency Plan 'Dyno-Rod 2' is
activated as a reserve measure. The waiting game starts.
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11:30 The train is now 'pacified'. Over the next three hours, the
terrorists will rig the tunnel to implode on a command-wire
method. The remaining terrorists will guard the hostages in
shifts of four personnel. 12:00 From this point, the IFM will now
run to a set routine; this is set out at the end of this schedule of
events. 14:30 Tunnel now rigged to explode as above. The
explosives team gets some rest. The next hostage watch team
changeover will be at 18:00 hours, then every six hours
thereafter.
DAY TWO&
21:00 First civilian hostage murdered. The murder is transmitted via
CCTV to the control room from one of the cameras leading up
from the rear of the train in the service tunnel. All murders will
be televised on CCTV. 21:30 Second civilian hostage murdered.
Another civilian will be murdered every half hour from now on,
irrespective of race, colour, or creed, at least until the train is
blown up...
22:00 Operation Dyno-Rod 2 ordered to be run using Royal Marines
from the Special Boat Squadron. Operation to commence at
05:00 the next morning.
DAY THREE
05:00 Royal Marines from the SBS embark upon Operation Dyno-Rod
2. They enter from the English end of the Service tunnel.
16:00 The SBS get to within about 1000 meters of the train before
setting off Claymore explosive mines hidden in the pipe work
above them. All but the rear-guard are killed. All those on the
train hear is a muffled double bang. The terrorists look please
with themselves.
18:00 The operation is abandoned for more preparation. There won't
be enough time left, although the SBS don't know this.
19:00 The off-duty terrorists add command wire booby-trap lines to the
defensive Claymores, designed to trigger the emplaced plastic
explosives if the Claymore(s) are fired. O'Donnaghue plays the
video camera tape to one of the active CCTV cameras (masking
his face as he does so), and informs the command centre not to
undertake another anti-terrorist operation, and the next screw-up
will result in the detonation "of all these nice li'l ol' blocks o'
Semtex. This here's about 100 kilos of it. I've got another 900
kilos of it, OK? Don't be forgetting the Viscount, now."
19:30 The UK government consult with the Queen. The PM then
consults with all leaders of Political Parties in Britain.
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23:00 The PM informs O'Donnaghue that should the explosives in the
tunnel be detonated, the three prisoners in Octagon will be
convicted of complicity in high treason (accomplices in the act of
the murder of a member of the Royal Family), and will be
summarily executed (- the first to be executed in over 50 years in
the UK).
23:59 The terrorists decision is now up to YOU, the referee. Based
upon the players actions to date, you have three options.
" Set the hostages free, surrender (not, really, in the IFM's
dictionary).
" Blow up the train - end of scenario - not to mention the PCs!
" Give the PCs a few hours to try their luck, and then blow up
the train (unless they succeed in over-powering the
terrorists).
Any way you do it, milk this adventure for all the tension you can. A few
movies on the subject can always be found in good video libraries, but one,
"The Taking of Pelham 123", is a good film to start with. It's even based on a
New York Subway train in America, and has a few good ideas sewn into it for
good measure. Happy hunting!!
The IFM set routine for the train-jacking&
Firstly, use the Cheap Thugs NPCs for the remainder of the terrorists (Page
156, M.E. Rules). Use a mixture of males and females. International terrorism
knows no sexual divides!
" Four terrorists will man the gap between the trains, guns cocked and
safeties applied. Two men cover off each of the anti-passenger Claymore
mines, one covers the latrines, the other covering the service-tunnel- side
passageway, for would be escapees. All are ordered to shoot to kill any
would-be escapee. These are rotated every six hours.
" One terrorist will man the electronic surveillance sensors, rotated every
six hours.
" Two terrorists will be on roving patrol, rotated every six hours.
" Remaining seven terrorists sleeping/resting up/eating, for six hours.
" The remaining terrorist, O'Donnaghue, will be doing as he pleases, either
terrifying the hostages (your choice as to how he does this. There are
certainly PLENTY of choices as to how he does this. Remember, the man
has NO morals or ethics), playing with the sensors, or sleeping or eating,
as he (or rather, you) sees fit.
NB: Remember that at all times, the terrorists are in short-range radio contact,
via their headset VOX operated radios (VOX: Voice-Operated receive/transmit
(RX/TX)).
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Defensive sensors and weapons the IFM have
deployed&
In the running tunnel of the stopped train, facing both France and
England:
" 40 metres up-tunnel from train, M18A1 Claymore AP mine with Infra-red
sensor/detonator, primed to detonate if a heat source (such as a body)
approached nearer than 50 metres from up-tunnel to the mine.
" 50 meters up-tunnel from train, M14A1 Anti-tank mines, two, positioned to
deny access to armoured vehicles from up-tunnel. Anti-handling devices
ARE enabled.
In the service tunnel:
" Hidden in the cable trunking, two M18A1 Claymores, with IR sensor
detonators, downwards facing, 25 metres up from the first cross passage
nearest the train.
" Hidden behind each cross passage door, on the running tunnel side, one
M18A1 Claymore, wire primed, to detonate if the door is opened (one, the
central door, is command detonated, to allow access to the emergency
telephone in the cross passage).
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Bibliography&
You would be surprised at the amount of material that s available to the public
on the Channel Tunnel&
Pretty much, most of the technical information for the weapons and equipment
come from the Millennium s End game source books. Where they have not
given the information we required, a certain amount of judicious guesswork
was used.
Should you wish to research the tunnel yourself, a sourcebook we found,
printed by the British Library, available in good libraries, give bibliographical
information references to over three hundred different articles, books and
media items; It's quite an invaluable work, and made our job a lot easier.
The technical information on the tunnel came from two sources; the Euro
Tunnel consortium, by way of their published material, and the ICE/ISF
technical papers on the tunnel from the convention in 1989.
The Material from Euro Tunnel was obtained from their exhibition centre in
Folkestone, England. The engineering data from a public library in Bromley,
Kent, England.
Weapons:
Glock 20 Page 34, UMF.
H&K MP5/10 Page 65 UMF.
Ares FMG Page 59, UMF.
Semtex plastic explosives Use C4 as a guide, pages 114/182, M.E. Rules
M18A1 and M14A1 AP and AT mines - Pages 114/182, M.E. Rules.
The Infra-Red detonators for the Claymore (M18A1) mines assumed data
based on similar systems used to activate simple burglar alarms; a little
electronics ability would be all that's needed to modify the firing requirements
for a Claymore mine.
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Research on the Euro Tunnel:
Euro Tunnel Information Papers (September 1993)
Channel Tunnel Group Limited, London, 1992.
Euro Tunnel Publication Number E448 28/09/93
A collection of press releases that Euro Tunnel have developed into a
media pack. 13 papers overall in the pack when we obtained it, in
September 1993; covers such things as methods for curbing Rabies
crossing the channel; to the model train Iayout at the Euro Tunnel
Exhibition Centre at Folkestone. Lots of useful information, although
you might have to read carefully to find what you're Iooking for.
The Channel Tunnel - A 21
Century Transport system (1993 edition)
Channel Tunnel Group Limited, London, 1990.
Euro Tunnel Publication Number E254(1993)
The 'official line' on the tunnel from Euro Tunnel.
Again, obtained from the Euro Tunnel Exhibition Centre in Folkestone,
England. This small booklet gives a lot of good and accurate
information about the tunnel itself, and additional information on the
trains, the mix of rolling stock used, the various facilities they offer, and
a wealth of other useful information. Some of this information was used
to provide a realistic backdrop to this scenario.
THE CHANNEL TUNNEL
Societe des Ingenieurs et Scientifiques de France Institute of Civil Engineers
ISBN 0 7277 1546 1
ICE, London, and ISF, Paris, 1989.
Obtained during a visit to a public Library, this book details several
technical papers, reprinted from a conference organised by the ISF and
ICE held between 20 and 22 September 1989, relating to the design,
construction and planning that went into the channel tunnel. Much of
the work in paper 7 (Chighton & Leblonde) is used in this scenario.
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