CS Disavowed Game Info 2020

[Daniel]

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SAVAGE RIFTS PRESENTS



THE COALITION STATES DISAVOWED

Game Master: Lars (Dan)

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CS Disavowed.

“Desperate times require desperate measures. War has nothing to do with morality or justice. It’s all about winning or dying. We cannot bind our hands with high ideals, even our own, or worry about the laws of renegade nations or the rights of alien people. We must fight fire with fire. And you are the match.” – Col. Lyboc addressing a Disavowed Cell team.

Setting Rules

• Game Style: Sandbox/Coalition States members or contract "Mercenaries". ☨
• SWADE Rules.
• Campaign Power Level: Heroes of Humanity, start as Novice Characters (Seasoned obviously if M.A.R.S.) with bonus +1 Advance on top of the PbP Advance at creation and the extra HJ roll.
• HJ Rolls: +1 Heroes Journey roll at creation.
• FG Rolls: Standard
• Adventure Cards: No
• EP Allowed: Yes.
• Gear note: Purchase non CS gear in character creation. ✪
• Character Restrictions: Yes. ☨

☨ I won’t flat out forbid magic users. (Edit we have a Shifter now so won't need another Shifter or probably any more Mages) But not having one could lead to fun finding ways to travel across dimensions without one. I’ve a NPC Shifter I can use when needed. Non CS Characters, Spellcasters and D-Bee’s are possible to play in the game. Although I’m looking for mostly CS Characters that are part of a Disavowed team of operatives going on missions across the globe and beyond. Psychic Characters are easy to mix into the CS. D-Bee’s might be hired/contracted into the team but might find it a challenge working inside CS cities or territories. Maybe you are a CS mutant animal. Dog. Cat. Bear. Whatever. Magic uses the same challenge would exist. I’m open to a diverse group but if non human or magic appeals to you chat me up first. Thank you. Vanguard mages are pro CS and manage to carefully make their way around the CS. Read more on Vanguard below.

✪ As far as Coalition gear, everyone who is CS will be issued CS gear. Including weapons, Dead Boy Armor etc when they need it. Otherwise the team is supposed to be attempting to not look like CS members. While in briefing at a CS base you might be in uniform but otherwise you are essentially undercover agents of the CS.

Disclaimer: Even though the disavowed have members that are diabolical and often insane I intend to GM a game of rogues not psychopaths. Trust me I love dark gritty antiheroes but I don’t need rape and undue evil from the Players. Probably didn’t need to say it but I did. You are disavowed and trying to protect the CS, her citizens and good people across the globe using measures normal CS soldiers can’t use. Character views might be a little harsh vs non humans but the more you work alongside non humans and magic users the more open you might become.

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Links to disavowed stories and Hangouts

CS Disavowed Video Trailer


Join us on Hangouts


Brouhaha Novella. Want to read a story with Disavowed in it? The Prelude in this story has disavowed members conducting a mission in it. Free & posted here on the SR site.


DTRPG the Rifter 71-72. Published Disavowed story.

What exactly is the Disavowed?

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What is the Disavowed?

The Disavowed are so Top Secret that their existence is known only to a handful of the Coalition States’ most elite, top echelon, with Joseph Prosek II the mastermind behind the Disavowed operation, and Colonel Lyboc its shadowy face.



The disavowed are a mystery, an impossibility, an urban legend that is occasionally spoken of in hushed tones by dead boys out on the isolation of the frontier who may have seen too much, or officers hidden away behind closed doors. When they are mentioned, the discussion usually ends with the conclusion that their existence is simply impossible. It would never be allowed. Not by Emperor Prosek. Not by anyone within the CS. Their very existence is antithetical to the politics and attitudes of the coalition states.

If they existed their existence could never be revealed to the Coalition High Command let alone to the general population at large. Willing to go to any lengths to punish the enemies of mankind, the disavowed or soldiers and patriots your sacrifice or chance for a normal life, to live in the shadows and perform acts of both heroism and savagery that will never see the light of day.

In the field, the disavowed use any and all means necessary to complete their missions. Usually outgunned, always outnumbered, they must be ruthless, silent and efficient. They are recruited in secret, most disavowed agents are believed dead, never able to return to their old lives or loved ones.

Operation Wayfarer is the codename for the coalitions top-secret efforts to use the Rifts as to access distant parts of the globe and even alien worlds to protect the CS. While the coalition state does not have any magic users working for in any official capacity they do have rift control study group scientists that has study Rifts, and know where they can be expected to appear, and are willing to risk sending small units through on missions that often end up as one way trips.

The Wayfarer program does secretly employ magic users, by force or coercion, or occasional Vanguard pro-CS Shifters etc. even non humans are often used, secretly, and in the dark.

Reprisal teams, usually taking some sort of name (example Reaper Cell), become different cells that seek out and destroy, across dimensional portals and earth those that have harmed the CS. When dimensional Raiders, magic smugglers, mystic resistance movements and otherworldly aliens become a noticeable problem, reprisal teams are sent in to limit their mobility, prepare ambushes at unexpected locations and kill or capture these insurgence before they can strike the CS. Often reprisal teams are sent to exact revenge and ensure that dimensional Raiders cannot return to harm the CS or humanity.

Cell team members are given a lot of leeway in what tactics, weapons and armor they use. Since the CS doesn’t want the teams found out about, most often they use non CS gear.

Teams specialize in strike missions, containment operations, destabilizing enemy forces, outreach missions on earth and across the Megaverse, reconnaissance operations, and reprisal operations. Missions can occur anywhere from Atlantis, the Federation of Magic, Mexico, Russia, or even father, Phase World, Hades or Duvall, and across the Megaverse.

Comprised of mostly CS members, agents and mercenaries such as Juicers, Borgs, Headhunters, Psi Stalkers, Mystics and the rare mage work to kept the CS and Earth safe.

Colonel Douglas Hunter runs the majority of the Wayfarer operations under Joseph Prosek II, General Hall, Colonel Lyboc and a few other officers.

The Vanguard

The birth of the Vanguard. Their origin dates back to around 6 P.A. Project Vanguard- so named because they were the first to study magic in the name of science for the CS - they were among the most steadfast loyalist and human supremists from within the budding coalition states at the time. During the Bloody Campaign of 12 P.A. The Vanguard defended the CS from Federation of Magic. The FoM was decades old, but in 12 P.A. It had become a super power in North America and the CS and FoM butted heads. The CS came out on top but the FoM wasn’t destroyed. Around 13 P.A. The CS decision that magic was too dangerous led to the Vanguard being given a choice. Submit to reconditioning at the hands of psychics who would reshape their minds erasing their knowledge of magic or leave Chi Town. Over the years the Vanguard has slipped into mystery and legends. Today’s CS soldiers would not believe the CS ever has mages in its service.

In 110 P.A. The Vanguard still secretly serves the CS from the shadows.

Vanguard as Player Characters:

The Following Character Classes are a possibility to play. Conjurer. Line Walker. Mystic. Translocator (Shifter) Waylarer (Battle Magus).

I’d like to keep the Player Group to mostly human CS soldier types, CS Psychics, and just one or maybe two magic users from the Vanguard. If no one picks a mage it’s fine. I have a NPC Translocator to use if needed for the game. Playing a Vanguard will have challenges when inside CS areas.

Magic users might be passed off as RCSG scientists but in general... Dog Boys and Psi Stalkers are not dumb. Granted a lot of the time we will be out on missions pretending to not be CS. It’s also possible to set up a base of operations in the burbs instead of within Chi Town.

[Daniel]

GM: Lars
So far the CS Disavowed looks like...

• Jon (Pender) - Sweety Pie: Psi Stalker Delphi Juicer
• Rob (Ndreare) - Vanguard Translocator (Shifter)
• Nathanial (Sgt 86Delta) - Psi Ghost Nega Psychic
• Steven (Hans) - Klanker: CS Heavy Combat Cyborg
• (Kesslen/Hunter)
• Max

You Coalition Soldiers are welcomed aboard. *salute*

PS: you are not locked in on the above characters. They are just the most recent things I have heard you say you were going with.

[Hunter]

I'd be interested in joining if there's space.

[Daniel]

There is space. Yes. Welcome aboard. I’ll add you to the list in above post.

@Hunter

[Daniel]

Pick a Cell Team Name.

Your team is the fourth team assembled to date. While the world of the disavowed is secretive and exclusive, even within the Coalition intelligence community, there is one team of which there are a few rumors about. Whispered words of deeds so miraculous they boarder on the unbelievable. Shadow Cell is rumored to be the first team, comprised of CS vets and ex-military that have paved the way for the Wayfarer Program. On occasion your team of operatives may encounter Jon Saunders (ex-CS Special Forces and the first agent of the Wayfarer program). Saunders runs Shadow Cell and often trains other cell team members of the Disavowed. Another team within the Wayfarer Program is known as Reaper Cell. Reaper Cell is run by ex-ISS Spectre Major Keif. Rumor is Spectre Cell stopped a nuclear bomb from recently being blown up inside Chi Town. Keif's team in on assignment in Atlantis (well on their way there) and he is assisting in creating a new Cell team (The Player Characters team). When we open the game you will all have just been recruited into the program. Major Keif will say something like: "Welcome to the Wayfarer Program, ________ Cell."


The Disavowed Program is called the Wayfarer Program, within the Wayfarer Program there are Special Forces operatives and Cell teams. Operatives are often used to set up things, an example: Shadow Cell is headed to Atlantis. Special Forces operatives have acquired a CS Sub, the Blackfish, and are escorting the Cell team on their trip to Atlantis. Likewise SF operatives are already on the beach in Atlantis and have a hover vehicle and some weapons prepared for the Cell to use upon their arrival. The SF operatives will dig in on the beach and await the time Shadow Cell needs an extraction.

What dark shadowy disavow-like team name should we call your Cell Team?

Shadow and Reaper are taken.

[Pender Lumkiss]

Bakers X

[Daniel]

After a Hangouts conversation

Baker’s Eight Cell Team

Just referred to as Baker’s Eight.

So named as the Officer in charge of the team (paper pushers who doesn’t generally hit the field) is Captain Baker. He coordinates things in the background for the team.

[Ndreare]

Maybe Bakers Dozen?

There may be less than 13 of us, but that does not take away from the fact that we are unlucky.

[Daniel]

Baker's Dozen can work too. Keep the enemy wondering where the rest of your team is.

"I only count eight, where are the others?"

[Daniel]

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Some OOC info on your group. In character you will learn the following over time.


The Disavowed

• Overseen by Joseph Prosek II (son of the Emperor) and Colonel Lyboc

Wayfarer Program

• Major General Kenneth Hill
• Brigadier General Kate Millstone
• Colonel Douglas Hunter

Cell Team Leaders

• Major Saunders: Shadow Cell
• Major Keif: Spectre Cell
• Captain Baker: Baker's Dozen Cell
• Another unknown Captain for the fourth cell team: unknown call sign

Baker’s Dozen Cell

Some joker in CS Intelligence thought it was funny to set up a front house in the Chi Town burbs as a Donuts and Bakery Shop for the newest Cell team referred to as Baker’s Dozen. The safe house and base of operations in the burbs is called Danny's Donuts & Bake Goods. From within the shop two D-Bee's; an old human man and a human woman (Capt. Danielle Baker) run a bakery. Located in the back room and basement is the secret hideout of the Cell Team. Often the team meets inside Chi Town, but after getting set up and started, most meetings will happen in the shop in the burbs as a jumping point for Special Operations. It’s a safer place for the team Translocator (Shifter) to meet too.

Shop workers:

• Captain Danny Baker

Special Forces (disavowed Agent & CS Special Forces) Captain Danielle Agnes Baker. A 32 year old Special Forces officer now assigned to the Wayfarer Program. She runs her own cell team (Baker's Dozen) out of a Chi Town burbs bakery. Generally she does not go on missions. She assigns missions that are handed down from higher up and keeps track of paperwork.

• Bob "Bug Eyes" Thompson a Quickflex male married to Loretta and an actual baker. Middle aged and mild mannered.
• Loretta Thompson a Psi Stalker female married to Bug Eyes and an actual baker. Middle aged and flirty but true to her man.
• Garrett Grimes (Human male, 70, former CS SF Commando) an actual baker and retired from the CS, tells people he was a cook in the Army.

As far as the Players know only Baker knows about what the secret basement is used for and you all being a Cell team. The Thompson’s and Grimes all think you guys are part of a local black market squad that hangs out and plays cards in the basement while eating donuts. Only the old man, Grimes, thinks differently. He figures you are CS Intelligence or ISS undercover cops maybe, but won’t voice his thoughts. They are friendly to you and keep out of your business. Your team won’t be around too much anyway as you will be out on Operations.

[Pender Lumkiss]

Baker’s dozen is sort of interesting too. Beyond the where are the others it could be fun to flesh out some NPCs that are tangentially there.

Like, “Oh you guys remember when Baker Nine, went all high and mighty in that bar last week? Going on and on about how the D-bees were going to inherit the earth unless we smoked them?”

[Hunter]

Awesome, I'll see what I need to change on Hunter's sheet to match the CG for this game.

[Daniel]

Awesome, I'll see what I need to change on Hunter's sheet to match the CG for this game.

Looks like you’d just need to alter the Setting Rules from what was used in High Commands setting to mine. So mostly HJ, F&G and setting rules. The basic flavor or your Gunslinger Dog Boy would remain the same.

[Hunter]

Ehh the H&J rules as I just double checked actually didn't change anything, I have 3 standard d20 rolls under your rules or his, so I don't need to actually change that one. The FG however -does- need to change, as well as possibly the number of advances (I need to look that over still)

EDIT: I will have to redo some of the gear though since that was a semi custom thing + I don't recall what some of values were. The modified rifle was from me redeeming an EP reward.

[Hunter]

Ok, everything should be altered where need be. (Not counting my sig)

[Daniel]

You should be able to post now. Permissions set.

Thus far:

• Jon (Pender) - Sweety Pie: Psi Stalker Delphi Juicer
• Rob (Ndreare) - Richards: Vanguard Translocator (Shifter)
• Nathanial (Sgt 86Delta) - Psi Ghost Nega Psychic
• Steven (Hans) - Klanker: CS Heavy Combat Cyborg
• Name? (Kesslen) Hunter: CS Gunslinger Dog Boy
• Max (Alecto) - Juno!: Something CS Commando (from Golden Age shhhhhhh no one knows)

[Richards]

My character is almost ready. I still do not have a background (I need to finish some reading to see if I need in to incorporate stuff into it).

[Daniel]

No worries. Don’t feel overwhelmed by the material I sent you. Mostly it’s just reference material.

Vanguard 1st
CS 2nd
Team 3rd

Is what the Vanguard tells you. Your opinions may change over time. Slowly or right away.

A Vanguard Translocator is a Shifter. Pro-CS.

[Pender Lumkiss]

go go go

[Daniel]

https://savagerifts.com/sr/viewtopic.php?f=298&t=5055

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[Ndreare]

Background populated. Character completed.

Please review for approval
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