Boat Trip! Eye of the Eagle, the Adventure for Native American Nations, Vol. 2, for Shadowrun (1st Edition). Part 1.
Introduction
Stop me if you’ve heard this...
The runners are on the tail of a Toxic Shaman in the Native American Nations, with stolen technology and the assistance of a terrorist organization, with the goal of inducing death and strife. Along the way, the team is subject to ambush after ambush in lands where they must stand out like sore thumbs.
Yes, this is the plot to both NAN adventures.
Despite that, Eye of the Eagle ends up being more like previous published adventures than Peacekeeper, primarily in its non-linearity.
It’s more of a directed acyclic graph, if we want to get technical. Which I do.
And like some of the great old modules like Queen Euphoria, the runners end up participating in a bullet-heavy dramatic finale where they get to Do The Right Thing for once.
Plus there’s a hot eagle shapeshifter.
A Timothy Bradstreet at that...
Part 1
The runners are hired by the aforementioned hot eagle shapeshifter to stop a grave threat to the lands and living beings of the Tsimshian Nation. They are given a few nuggets of clues – the name of a deceased contact David Tom, that he died in the town of Kemano, the threat comes from a Haida group – and a literal nugget of gold for payment.
Hard to slot this on the credstick.
The team has a straightforward mission – provided they can get into Tsimshian. Now, supposing you run the same set of players through this module has you did through Peacekeeper, they recall what happened when they tried to cross into Salish-Shidhe Council territory en route to another nation, and might be reticent to take the 17 hour long overland route again.
(and of course, the GM knows that the very next scene is, of course, them getting ambushed as they enter Kemano, but no reason to spoil surprise)
Air travel would also be ill-suited – Tsimshian doesn’t much in the way of airports and finding a landing place for a helicopter would be tricky in the Coast Mountain range that is their destination. Of course, maybe they have access to a panzer, but then if they had such a pricey piece of equipment, there are more lucrative missions than Sexy Eagle Lady Murder Mystery.
So…
IT IS MOTHER FRAGGING BOAT TIME
Seattle connects to the Pacific Ocean. Tsimshian is on the Pacific Ocean. Kemano is 718 km from Seattle as the feathered serpent flies, but with all of the intricate navigating up the coast, let’s round up to 1000 km. The Marine Technologies “Dolphin II” Motor Yacht costs 50,000 ¥, seats ten, and has a range of 3500 km, meaning that they could feasibly make it there and back on a single tank of fuel. They need to sneak into the country anyway, and so why not throw the border guards for a loop?
