Modern (Mo) - GM Kit: Ash on Glass#

Use this kit when you want to start a modern 4671 campaign quickly and still have it feel sharp, political, and human.

Session Zero Questions#

Ask questions that tie the players to the systems hurting the city.

• What camera watches your front door, and who do you think really owns the feed?
• Why did you choose Emberline, UC, Nybell's agencies, or none of them?
• Which rich district do you hate on sight, and why?
• What would you destroy to protect a witness?
• Who do you know that vanished into a clinic, contract job, or "wellness program" and never came back the same?

Core Clocks#

• Surveillance Net (6): how close the state is to seeing everything important
• Emberline Escalation (4): how far sabotage is pushing the city toward retaliation
• UC Quiet Routes (4): how long mercy corridors can stay open
• Follower Reach (4): how deeply the hidden cult is embedding itself in clinics, retreats, and executive care
• AI Threshold (4): how close predictive systems are to becoming something worse
• Ark Program (4): how near elite continuity planning is to becoming public fact

High-Value NPCs#

• Aaron (Directorate): algorithmic myth made political
• Kael Ember: Emberline pragmatist who has stopped believing clean hands are possible
• Ezible: UC organizer whose kindness feels unreasonable until it works
• Dr. Mara Sen: ethicist, leaker, and reluctant witness
• The Auditor: senior Follower chaplain in corporate dress, more rumor than priest until the rite begins
• Vale Krell: Internal Harmony chief and professional sanitizer of reality
• Azure Regent: serene recruiter for something larger than humanity
• Eri Voss: journalist whose feed keeps vanishing because it keeps being right

Set-Pieces#

1. Nybell canal tower
2. Quiet Route 7
3. relic synthesis lab
4. boardroom siege
5. Ascension annex
6. drone nest
7. civic square under riot lights
8. inland worker blocks

Encounters (d8)#

1. checkpoint sweep
2. camera outage at the wrong time
3. Emberline contact asks for help
4. UC clinic needs cover
5. Followers running "training" in a corporate shell
6. AI test site behaving too intelligently
7. black van with no plates and too much authority
8. rumor of a Being visit that may not be a rumor

Mission Arcs#

• Blackout: cut power, extract the prisoner, and leave before the city seals itself around you
• Quiet Routes: move families through a city that keeps deciding some people are not worth saving
• Follow the Scars: expose a corporate rite and choose whether to burn the structure or use it
• Ghost in the Wisp: teach, chain, or betray an intelligence that may already understand mercy better than its creators
• First Contact: negotiate with the Azure presence before somebody richer decides to buy the future

Rewards and Legacy#

• UC Beacon (LS): once per scene, ping a safehouse or relief chain
• Anonymized (LS): the first camera check each session fails to identify you cleanly
• Quiet Ledger (LS): once per mission, treat one financial or ownership clue as actionable proof

Quick Stat Templates#

• Riot Trooper: DEF 15, HP 22, Soak 1, Baton +6 (d8+2), Taser
• Quad-Drone: DEF 14, HP 10, SMG +6 (d8), Overwatch
• Emberline Operative: DEF 15, HP 18, SMG +7, Ghost Cloak
• Follower Chaplain: DEF 13, HP 18, Ritual Blast +6 (2d6), Fear