0093 – The Great Escape – Part V – Weilun (Scene I – Checkpoint)

0830 07 AUG 2000, Weilun, Poland

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Since most of the kids are already onboard, the team will load up the sick boy and continue through the checkpoint. The guards are probably just happy traffic is moving again and were not really motivated to stop anyone in the first place.

So, the team has a bunch of kids onboard and are now rolling through Weilun. This would be a good time for Wally to question the kids about their friend.

[GME: Do the kids know if others are sick? - Chaos Rank 6 – Likely (85%)- 22% - Yes]

The 22 also results in a random event. We can get to that in a bit. Now for a second question:

[GME: Do the kids know if others are being treated? - Chaos Rank 6 – Likely (85%)- 80% - Yes]

So the kids know about the treatment situation. We know that not everyone is being treated and can assume that the kids now impart this information.

[GME: Do the kids know if there are medical supplies available? - Chaos Rank 6 – 50/50 (65%)- 63% - Yes]

So the kids are a wealth of information. There are medical supplies but not everyone is being treated. Less than ideal situation. Now about that random event.

When you roll on the fate chart and the roll is some form of doubles, 11, 22, etc. and that single digit number (1, 2) is less than the current Chaos Rank (6 in our case) there is a random event. A rolls on the charts gives us the event focus (Move toward a thread), an Action (inspect) and a subject (Anger).

The GME says the following about threads:

Threads are the goals that player characters are going after. These are the unresolved missions that the players are trying to solve. There could be more than one thread in an adventure, some big and important while others of less consequence.

We have the main thread being the rescue of the POWs. We can now open a new thread, this one about helping those affected by Cholera in the town. Alternatively we also have the secondary mission or thread concerning crippling the enemy logistical infrastructure. I would prefer to open a new thread. Marshall can introduce it.

Wally jabbered away a long time with the kids, his face becoming more solemn the longer the discussion went on. When he was finished he related to us what the kids had told him. Everyone got angry then.

There was a cholera outbreak in the city. The town council were giving out passes to be treated by the Soviet docs that they have received from the local commander. If you could pay the price, that is. The kid in the back was an orphan now and he couldn’t pay. The kids offered to show us one of the “aid stations”.

Now we have something to keep us busy for a while.