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A Reckoning of Wraiths
Episode VII of Star Wars: Dawn of Defiance
GARY ASTLEFORD
Design
Gary Astleford
Editing
Ray Vallese
A Reckoning of Wraiths is the seventh adventure in the Dawn of
Defiance campaign, which will take heroes from 1st level all the way
through 20th level in a continuous storyline designed to give players and
Gamemasters a complete Star Wars Roleplaying Game Saga Edition
experience. In this adventure, the heroes are in hiding on Coruscant,
wanted by the Empire for their recent actions against the Inquisitorius
(as detailed in the previous adventure, The Core of Corruption). When the
heroes are sent to find a Sarlacc Project designer who survived the
destruction of the Imeici Spire, they learn—the hard way—that the
Empire does not like to be crossed. The heroes should advance to 15th
level by the conclusion of the adventure.
Typesetting
Ray Vallese, Gary M. Sarli
Production
Chad Laske, Matt Burke
Cartography
Corey Macourek
Art on p. 12
Elizabeth McLaren
Lucas Licensing Editors
Leland Chee, Frank Parisi
Design Manager
Christopher Perkins
Director of RPG R&D
Bill Slavicsek
What is Dawn of
Defiance?
Dawn of Defiance is the name given to a series of 10 linked adventures
that Gamemasters can use to create an entire campaign for their players.
Set in the months after the events of Revenge of the Sith, the
adventures in the Dawn of Defiance campaign are designed to provide
players and GMs with the iconic Star Wars Roleplaying Game experience,
set against the backdrop of the tyranny of the Galactic Empire. The
Dawn of Defiance campaign takes the heroes all the way from 1st level
up to 20th level and features an ongoing storyline that progresses over
the course of the campaign. Each adventure can also be played
individually and should provide the heroes with ample challenges to gain
two levels per adventure. Gamemasters should feel free to use the Dawn
of Defiance adventures either as an entire campaign or as fillers for their
own home campaigns.
If you are a Gamemaster wishing to run the campaign, read the
GM’s Primer, which summarizes the overall plot of the campaign and the
events of each adventure. The GM’s Primer is available at the Star Wars
Roleplaying Game Web site (
www.wizards.com/starwars
). The site also
features other articles related to the Dawn of Defiance campaign,
including the official campaign standards and an FAQ.
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Campaign Update
A Reckoning of Wraiths begins mere days after the end of the previous
adventure, The Core of Corruption. The heroes remain on Coruscant,
safely entrenched with the loyalists in their safehouse. The details of the
Sarlacc Project are now in the hands of Captain Verana aboard the
Resurgence, and the loyalists are trying to decide what to do next.
The heroes haven’t had much time to get comfortable. The majority
of the loyalists are normal folks who do not agree with the Emperor’s
politics and have decided to do something about it. They aren’t trained
combatants, for the most part, though one or two of the loyalist guards
might have some experience in law enforcement (as local police, bounty
hunters, or the like).
Tensions in the safehouse are high, especially now that the heroes—
who are wanted by the Empire—are here. Every caller that comes to the
door is examined, and every speeder that passes by on the street is
suspect. Despite the worry, the loyalist hosts are congenial and, in some
cases, fawn over the heroes. After all, the heroes are nearly legendary
due to their prior exploits, and they’ve recently stood up to the
Inquisitorius and walked away victorious.
This is a good opportunity for roleplaying between the heroes and
the people who look up to them. Allow the heroes to make friends, share
meals, and form friendships with the loyalists. Demonstrate that these
people are good and represent everything that the Empire stands
against. Give the heroes a reason to care. Later, when the loyalists meet
their fate, it will make their deaths more meaningful and reinforce the
true evil of their enemies.
Summary
A Reckoning of Wraiths opens in the loyalist safehouse on Coruscant,
where the heroes wait for the heat from their recent activities against
the Inquisitorius to cool down. Within a day of their arrival at the
safehouse, Admiral Varth contacts them via a pirated Holonet signal.
Against the odds, one of the captive Sarlacc Project designers, an Incom
weapons technician named Pavel Trenol, survived the destruction of the
Imeici Spire. Seeking asylum, Trenol contacted the loyalists. He is
currently laying low in a hotel in Coruscant’s lower levels.
Varth instructs the heroes to contact Trenol at his hotel and
provides them with a poor quality holo of the technician. They venture
into Coruscant’s seedy underbelly, encountering some of its most bestial
denizens. When they arrive at the hotel, the heroes find only an empty
room registered in the technician’s name. Brief investigations lead them
to a cantina, where they are ambushed by thugs on the Imperial payroll.
With nothing more to go on, the heroes return to the safehouse. But
while they were gone, Imperial troops descended on the hideout and
killed or captured the loyalists. The troops also try to put an end to the
heroes, who retreat to the landing pad where their ship is located.
Unfortunately, it has been impounded and is guarded by an AT-AT.
If the heroes escape Coruscant, they are best served by returning to
the Resurgence at the appointed rendezvous. But when they emerge
from hyperspace, they find the Resurgence under attack by a large
Imperial force. Captain Verana calls for help, leading the heroes to dock
with the Resurgence—which has been boarded by stormtroopers—to
rescue as many crew as they can. But they can do little when they
discover that Inquisitor Valin Draco has captured Jedi Master Denia.
Once off the Resurgence, the heroes are contacted by Admiral Varth,
who is again in full Imperial regalia. He only pretended to defect in an
attempt to root out insurgents and now demands that the heroes
surrender. Instead, the heroes jump into hyperspace and find their way
back to Senator Organa.
Encounters
The encounters "Ogre Ambush" and "A Line of Prisoners" can be used in
the order presented. However, if you want to mix things up a bit, these
encounters can occur in any order within their chapters. For instance,
"Ogre Ambush" takes place as the heroes make their way to the Invisible
Hand cantina. But you can spring the encounter after the heroes leave
the cantina or as they enter the Gnawer’s Roost, or you can combine it
with another encounter.
Opening Crawl
If you wish to have an opening crawl before the adventure, consider
using the boxed text below.
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STAR WARS: DAWN OF DEFIANCE
Episode VII
A RECKONING OF WRAITHS
With the taste of victory still sweet upon their tongues, the heroes find refuge
on Coruscant with loyalists. Following the destruction of the Inquisitors’ tower,
the Empire is searching for the culprits with extreme prejudice.
Just as there seems to be a lull in the action, word comes that
one of the captive designers of the Sarlacc Project has survived,
and is seeking asylum with the loyalists . . .
Part 1: Depths of the City
Coruscant is a planet of vast contrasts. The wealthiest of the galaxy’s
citizens live in the sparkling spires that rise into the atmosphere like
titanium needles, while the poorest eke out painful lives in polluted
permacrete warrens. In between these two extremes is a dwindling
middle class, which is often preyed upon by the denizens of both the
heights and the depths of Coruscant.
The safehouse that currently serves as a refuge for the heroes is
within one of these tiny middle-class zones. It is a small domicile unit in
a sprawling, enclosed apartment block. Security is minimal, consisting of
door locks and a roving guard armed with a stun pistol. The loyalists
have made the best of what they have available, connecting three
apartments with concealed doorways (successful DC 15 Perception
check to notice them when closed). A map of the safehouse appears on
page 23 (as part of a later encounter).
One apartment is used as a living area/barracks, and this is where
the heroes are put up for the night. Its three bedrooms are small, each
offering few amenities outside of cots with military-grade blankets. The
second, center apartment is where the loyalists meet to discuss politics,
plan actions, and learn skills that aren’t typically taught in school. The
three bedrooms here have been converted into a workshop, a computer
room (with a small Holonet transceiver), and an infirmary. The workshop
is also an armory of sorts, stocked with a number of small arms and
explosives.
Unlike the other two apartments, the last unit appears to be a
sparsely furnished habitation with little or nothing out of place. It’s used
for meetings with individuals who aren’t members of the loyalist cell,
and for entertaining guests. A loyalist couple live there as husband and
wife, working their day jobs and acting like good Imperial citizens.
Heroes interested in gaining access to the loyalists' small selection
of supplies are allowed to do so, but the loyalists discourage them from
taking too much. After all, they’ve spent months collecting this gear to
further their agenda, and though they’ve seen only limited action so far,
it is only a matter of time before they experience their baptism of fire.
Presently, the armory contains the following items:
•
2 blaster carbines
•
4 blaster pistols
•
2 hold-out blasters
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3 sporting blaster pistols
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1 blaster rifle with standard targeting scope
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4 energy cells
•
24 power packs
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12 frag grenades
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6 ion grenades
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6 stun grenades
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1 missile launcher
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1 missile launcher magazine
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4 thermal detonators
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3 explosive charges
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2 kg detonite
•
20 timers
The loyalist infirmary includes the following medical supplies:
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2 medical kits
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10 medpacs
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1 surgery kit
The workshop has a number of tools and basic technical supplies for
making ad hoc repairs and modifications to equipment:
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6 rolls of mesh tape
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1 power recharger
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1 security kit
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2 tool kits
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5 utility belts
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Miscellaneous tools, spanners, and other implements
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For mundane noncombat equipment, the loyalists have little to offer.
What they do have includes the following items:
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10 short-range comlinks
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2 long-range comlinks
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1 pocket scrambler
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2 datapads
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1 portable computer
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2 electrobinoculars
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8 glow rods
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2 audiorecorders
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1 holorecorder
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1 sensor pack
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10 breath masks
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3 field kits
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10 liquid cable dispensers
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24 ration packs
After the heroes have had time to get to know their hosts (and it
seems like a good point in the game to get the action moving again),
they are called into the computer room, where a message from Admiral
Varth awaits them. The message is as follows:
“Excellent work. You’ve done quite a job exposing the Sarlacc
Project, and you’ve exceeded my expectations. By now, the
Inquisitorius is running around like a swarm of angry Dantari fire
ants. You’ve made quite an impression on them, and I doubt they’ll
underestimate you again. I know that I won’t.
“As much as we’d like to see you off-planet and out of danger,
there is still a need for you to remain on Coruscant for a short while
longer. Pavel Trenol, who had been forced to work as a designer for
the Sarlacc Project, has contacted us seeking asylum. Prior to being
pressed into duty by the Empire, Trenol was a weapons technician
for Incom. In exchange for help, he’s promised to tell us everything
he knows about the offensive capability of the Sarlacc Project.
(continued)
In addition to weapons, the loyalists possess some personal armor:
•
6 blast helmets and vests
•
2 combat jumpsuits
(continued)
“It’s only a matter of time before the Empire realizes that
Trenol’s body is not among the dead, and they’ll go looking for him.
You should leave immediately and rendezvous with him. I’m
providing a current holographic representation of Trenol with this
transmission. He’s currently staying in a flophouse in one of
Coruscant’s sublevels—an area known as the Gnawer’s Roost. It’s a
bad part of town, so stay on your toes. On the plus side, Imperial
security tends to avoid the place, as they’re none too popular in that
region.
“Good luck. I will await your signal when you return, and then
we’ll see about getting you back to the Resurgence for some much-
deserved downtime.”
The Gnawer’s
Roost
Trenol's flophouse is deep in the heart of the Gnawer’s Roost, a dark,
shadowy place permeated by foul smells and even fouler residents.
Imperial law enforcement has no presence in Gnawer’s Roost, and the
only rule is that might makes right. While in the area, the heroes might
be approached by any number of seedy characters looking to make a
deal or score a few credits. Parties who are obviously armed or combat
capable are left alone.
The flophouse is inside a grimy permacrete structure with a
flickering holographic display out front that advertises hourly rates.
Seven tough-looking youths, each sporting similar garb and colors, loiter
outside the hotel, hungrily eying anyone who passes. Like the rest of the
locale’s denizens, they do not accost anyone who appears to be well-
armed. Heroes who maintain a nonthreatening or benign countenance
are verbally abused in the hopes that they will display some weakness. If
combat breaks out, use the thug statistics (page 284 of the Saga Edition
Core Rulebook) for the street gangsters.
The door into the hotel enters directly into a lobby cluttered by all
manner of garbage and junk. An abused 3PO droid, his corroded gray
skin covered in graffiti and grime, resides behind a scarred and stained
counter. Anyone peering behind the counter sees that the droid,
designated 0T-3PO, is actually chained to the floor to prevent its theft,
its escape, or both. (For more details on the droid, see the sidebar on
page 6.)
When the heroes enter the flophouse, read the following aloud:
A quick check reveals that the flophouse is nearby, in a region
known colloquially as the Gnawer’s Roost. It's one of the nastiest
neighborhoods in the area, a pit of depravity that is frequented by the
worst that Coruscant’s underbelly has to offer: violent street gangs,
spice dealers, smugglers, cutthroats, thieves, and other villains.
Though the loyalists are willing to help the heroes, they aren’t
seasoned enough to venture into the Gnawer’s Roost. The best they can
do is offer the heroes support upon their return.
The heroes can make their way into the lower levels of Coruscant by
a number of methods. Taxis are the most common, though most taxi
pilots charge a hazardous route fee if asked to descend into the
Gnawer’s Roost. Unless you have other plans (see Auxiliary Challenge,
below), the drive into the slums is uneventful.
Auxiliary Challenge: It is possible to keep the heroes on their toes by
mentioning the presence of law enforcement units in the area as they
proceed to their destination. Alternatively, you can confront them with a
security checkpoint manned by Imperial stormtroopers. Such checkpoints
are common on Coruscant, and it takes a combination of careful
navigation and street smarts to avoid having to pass through one.
The majority of the taxi pilots who the heroes might hire are law-
abiding citizens with indifferent attitudes. Such pilots find it suspicious
if the heroes request that they avoid Imperial checkpoints. If the pilot’s
attitude remains indifferent, he attempts to avoid checkpoints, but this
doubles his fee. If the heroes can improve the pilot’s attitude to friendly,
he makes an effort to avoid checkpoints but won’t do anything overt to
get himself into trouble. A helpful pilot does anything to help the heroes
out, including running through a checkpoint.
Conversely, a pilot whose attitude is reduced to unfriendly stops his
taxi and demands that the heroes get out. If the pilot’s attitude becomes
hostile, he heads for the nearest checkpoint and turns the heroes over to
the Empire.
Checkpoints, especially in this area, are simple affairs staffed by a
detachment of six stormtroopers, two heavy stormtroopers, and a single
Imperial officer. The heroes are wanted as a result of their recent
exploits, and if a group matching their description passes through a
checkpoint, the Imperials attempt to arrest them.
For details on running this encounter, see “Imperial Checkpoint” on
page 13.
The interior of the flophouse’s lobby is no cleaner or promising than
its exterior. Every surface seems filthy, from the torn chairs leaning
up against the grimy walls to the thin metal counter covered in
flimsy paper, old garbage, and empty food packets. Behind the
counter stands a 3PO droid, his gray exterior patched with rust and
corrosion. One of his eyes glows dully in the lobby’s dim light, while
the other is dark and unseeing.
“Ah, hello,” the droid pipes up in forced cordiality as you enter.
“How may I be of assistance?”
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Development: The 3PO unit gladly tells the heroes where to find
Pavel Trenol’s room—for a price. Much of the droid’s behavioral
programming has been modified or removed, an unhappy result of
existing in such a wicked part of Coruscant. The droid answers initial
inquiries in an official tone, stating, “The requested information is
confidential, as per the clause of our establishment’s rental agreement.
However, for a small fee, payable in standard credits, the clause can be
waived.”
Heroes can pay a bribe of 50 credits for the information, or they can
attempt a DC 11 Persuasion check to improve the droid’s attitude or
intimidate him into revealing what they want to know. Heroes can also
access the hotel’s computer to determine the location of Trenol’s room:
unit 5212, five floors down. The fifth sublevel is accessible by a rickety
turbolift or a perpetually moist and gloomy stairwell.
Room 5212’s door is constructed of thin alloy and covered in a
peeling wood veneer. Using the chime or knocking at the door results in
no answer. Heroes who succeed at a DC 15 Listen check can hear what
sounds like a holovid unit playing. Forcing the door requires a key
(available from 0T-3PO for an additional fee of 100 credits), a DC 15
Mechanics check to bypass the lock, or a DC 25 Strength check to break
down the door.
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