Mission in Mash Mashel
Mission in Mash Mashel( Swedish: Uppdrag i Mos Mosel) was the first adventure released to the first version of Mutant. Questioning it's importance is not allowed. Let us start, shall we?
You have all seen a poster saying that you should contact Nicholas fon Rinj for a dangerous but well-paid mission. You all meet at his palace in the trade district. It is a magnificent building made of white stone and with black pillars around it. Inside, you get greeted by a servant of his. The servant leads you to him.
"Godday!
My name is Nicholas fon Rinj and I am one of the wealthiest traders. One of my suppliers is named Varg and lives in Mash Mashel, a small village in the northern Cyllmauntens. The deliveries stopped two weeks ago and I haven't heard from him since. I sent an Inspektaré Jerry Kokky but I haven't heard anything from him either. Your mission, if you accept it, will be to find the hindrance and... remove, shall we say? Remove it from the trading. And find also out what happened to Kokky! You get 50 Iron for it. After it is finished. Well, do you accept?"
Fon Rijn's uneasiness is justified. Varg is dead. The whole village is paralyzed in fear after the horrible events that has happened that last months. Villagers have disappeared for about a week and then suddenly come back. But they have changed - cold and emotionless copies of their former selves. A Slaughter Tree has secretly been eating and copying the villagers. The people who disappear get captured by the lils at night and fed to the tree. The tree is rooted in Biobunker VII. Varg suspected that the answer could be found in the mayor's safe, but got detected and shot at while trying to investigate it. However, the lil didn't manage to capture Varg, who is severly wounded. There is nobody in Varg's house. The two bodyguards got killed in an ambush the same night and their corpses lay in the basement. The police, who are lils, have sealed off the house to prevent anybody to get in there. The police also caught Kokky, who is starving in a prison cell. If the players tell their true intentions, the lils will closely observe. They are just waiting for a good time to ambush them.
The PCs get to the village with a ferry. Nothing dangerously important happens during the trip.
Mash Mashel is a village built by a river. Varg sometimes used it to ship heavy finds.
The mayor got a map to the biobunker on himself. Biobunker VII is in the frobidden zone. It is two days walking to get to the zone and three days from there to get to the bunker.