1 TODO Summary

An IINA story.

Midgard exists as a world out of timelines, though with its own irrational timetravel trickery they usually makes no sense. It has four quadrants, named after the seasons. Each quadrant has a contact to help break into the middle where the mad scientist has escaped to.

The city has a wall around it with four magical portal doors. The north door goes to the troll under the Aurora Bridge in Seattle, Earth 2062ish. The south door goes to the same spot in 2262. Jumping over the wall will leave the city but not send the traveller through a portal.

The middle of the city has a tall tower, the tallest point in view. No mountains to see past the walls. But from the walls one can see the icy mountains in the distance.

Unless otherwise noted, assume folks of midgard are orkish or trolls and they speak a pidgin of primarily of Orkish, French, and some Troll. The average adult height reaches a mighty two meters.

The PCs should come to Midgard after having openned Little Prince's MacGuffin. Midgard will have somewhat recently/locally invented m-paper but also suffer from an invasion of bodysnatching trolls (BST) from an alternate timeline working for the Mad Scientist.

Most buildings in the city have masonry construction, with an average height of four stories each.

2 Dramatis Personae

2.1 Daifin Group

2.1.1 Mad Scientist

Resides at the tower in the middle of the city. Once per long rest can use a modified verison of magic missle that uses necrotic damage. Dead switch is an acid shower. Regeneration as a small mutant to escape the area.

1. Drops

   • A cure of AARS.

2.2 Paper Inc

2.2.1 Bendis the Accountant

A death mage summoner who has moved down the socio-economic hierarchy of life into underemployment.

Claims to have cast the summoning spell that brought the party to Midgard.

Has really good hearing.

2.3 Contacts

2.3.1 TODO Bare Knuck

2.3.2 TODO Bowthat

2.3.3 Garra

Owner of the Underette Flea Market LLC. Originally from Underette. If the party has met, then Garra will remember.

1. Equipment

   • 2042 MP99
   • AI with low battery

2.3.4 TODO Derf

2.3.5 Tibby the Tailor

Half troll half elf. Can't go outside during the day else turns to stone, temporarily.

2.4 Sheriff's Office

2.4.1 Sheriff Stanley

Not an ork, not a troll. Very short elf. Technomancer.

Has found a way to hack m-paper to not only bamf, but also to track nearby bamfs.

2.5 Varikset Outcasts

2.5.1 Clare the Chimney Sweeper

A sentient crow who leads a group of lower-class citizens of crows in a city of orks and trolls.

2.6 Bodysnatching Trolls

They slime their victims and create a complete copy, usually also with memories and some or most equipment as long as they keep the form. Changing back to their natural form takes an action in combat. They must wait 24 hours and have a long rest after changing back to their original form before they can copy someone again. They do not change back after losing consciousness or death.

Victims of the copying tend to get slimed and typically suffer disadvantage on all skill checks, attacks, and saves for a temporary duration. Time is 10 turns divided by the CON save and then floored (rolling a dirty 10 and the next turn the victim has disadvantage, but rolling an 11 or greater saves).

Attacking or specifically shooting them in the head deals double damage. They leak a greasy oil and also sometimes slime their victims in the process of copying them.

3 Treasure

3.1 M-Paper

A relatively common techno-magical paper in Midgard, invented by Daifin in March of 2064. Some users (MadSc, Bendis, and the Sheriff) have hacked it to use as a transporter, but most of the time folks use it to cast spells they do not know without the possibility of a ThrowException side effect.

Adding m-paper to Little Prince's MacGuffin case will allow the user to bamf their vehicle (or storage container) to a location of their choice from a given selection.

3.2 TODO The Magic Dice

3.3 TODO The Magic Flute

3.4 The Magic Stick

1d6 fire damage in a stick about the same size as a recorder, the musical instrument. These have 4 charges that reset every midnight, local time. If the user rolls a failure on the Attempt, they suffer disadvantage due to fire pain for the next minute. Multiple failures just reset the start of the minute.

3.5 TODO The Magic Cloth

3.6 The Life of Mister Interesting

Not necessarily part of this module, but related by context:

XJammer left behind an encrypted diary of information. These are the more interesting details.

Easily unlock XJammer's book using a piece of m-paper. It has a documents that detail:

• A plot to assassinate Agent Smithereens by Daifin.
• The likelihood that the Mad Scientist probably has the cure for AARS.
• Chief Tony had a contact in Alaska. "I'll followup on this person later…"
• Big Cheese and Big Mac grew up together.

"If yer reading this, I probably died. No big deal if I have: Just plug in the M-paper chip hidden in the back of this book to an extra comlink."

The back of the book (if paper or electronic format) has a page or print off of a small chip that looks like it will fit nicely into a comlink. Doing so will activate the matrix-ghost version of XJammer.

4 Locations

4.1 Summer Square aka the G-Square

The buildings around the outside of the square, anti-clockwise from the south:

The Warehouse

House of Worship

Appartments East

Appartments West

Paper Inc

A subsidy of Daifin.

Appartments South

In the middle of the square:

Public Market

The Obelisk

4.2 Jormundgand Tower aka The Tower

• Made of a highly non-reflective material.
• Equivalent of around 20 stories high.
• Has a connection to the matrix but only if physically inside the building. Has a magical firewall to shield the as-is signal from the outside of the building, unless someone sets up a bridge.
• The top floor has electricity.
• The rest of the building has natural gas and magical lighting.

5 Tables

5.1 Quadrants

6 Maps

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