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The Fall

of Solace

“In this galaxy, nothing is more leeting than the illusion of peace.”

SHEDDING LIGHT

In this adventure for r Ogue t rader , the Explorers delve deep

into the ancient secrets of Solace. Solace was colonised by the

Imperium in the inal hours of the Angevin Crusade to unite

the Calixis Sector, but its secrets wind perilously back into

times forgotten by all but the most ancient. There have always

been dark tales in Solace’s mines about the things that dwell

beneath the world’s parched surface, but there have also been

whispers of fortunes beyond the comprehension of any mortal.

These whispers have spread far and wide and have reached

the ears of a daring Rogue Trader, a warrior-privateer who

braves the dangers of the unknown in the name of incalculable

wealth and glory. Now, an avid group of Explorers journey

to Solace, delving deep into an ancient chasm that contains

strange relics of forgotten aeons. But when a cataclysm rocks

the world of Solace, the Explorers ind themselves facing a

terrible threat that is not pleased about its rude awakening.

–Ancient Imperial Aphorism

O riginally written for use at Gen Con Indy 2013,

S alvaging S Olace is a scenario for O nly W ar . It is

one of four linked scenarios that concern the fate of

the Imperial world of Solace. While each adventure stands on

its own as a complete module suitable for immediate play, a

group that plays all four adventures will spot the connections

between the events as they transpire around the hive world

of Solace. This section includes a brief summary of each

adventure to help the Game Master keep track of how they

overlap if intending to run more than one of them.

SALVAGING SOLACE

In this adventure, S alvaging S Olace , the players take on

the roles of Imperial Guard troopers faced with a mounting

series of catastrophes in the hive city of Solace. When an

unknown voidship strikes the world of Solace, the surface

shakes and the brave men and women of the Cadian 99th

must gird themselves for battle once again in this adventure

for O nly W ar . Having just suffered losses campaigning in the

Spinward Front, the Cadian 99th is caught on the outskirts of

the catastrophe in the midst of a training exercise. In addition

to the devastation the crash wrought, the impact has sent

waves of mutants surging up from the underhive, and so the

troopers must step forth into the breach to restore order.

Unfortunately, this is only the start of the Player

Characters’ troubles. As they struggle to bring Hive Solace

under control, still more crises loom over them. The troopers

must go above and beyond their normal duties to have a

chance of survival. With the lives of everyone on the planet—

including their own—resting on their actions, the PCs are

the last line of defence against the coming catastrophe.

BINDING CONTRACTS

B inding c OntractS is an adventure for B lack c ruSade that

follows a group of Heretics as they pursue the prophecy of the

Many-Eyed, a dread oracle of Chaos. The Ruinous Powers have

whispered to her that Solace will end in ire when a star descends

from the sky. They murmur that the terror and confusion this

event brings about must be properly dedicated to the Chaos Gods.

Before this portent appears, the Heretics must iniltrate

Solace and rally the wretched mutants that live beneath the

hive. Then, once the star burns bright in the sky, they must

lead their newly assembled army up one of Hive Solace’s

spires, where they can cast down a rival sorcerer and take

control of his ritual to summon a Daemon of unfathomable

power to the Materium. If they succeed, the Heretics will have

struck a blow against the Imperium within the Calixis Sector

and won vast glory for themselves. If they fail, however, the

unholy ritual could be their doom.

FALLING STAR

After centuries lost in the Warp, the Ardent Crown has returned

in a degrading orbit around the world of Solace. This vessel

vanished carrying a number of important relics, and in this

d eathWatch adventure, a Kill-team has been assembled to

board the derelict as it drifts toward the world of Solace,

secure the sacred artefacts, and extract from the voidship.

However, the Battle-Brothers are not alone in their ambitions

aboard the Ardent Crown . An Eldar Farseer also has designs for

a particular relic, and leads an elite team of her allies in her

quest to take it back. And while the Eldar are powerful and

duplicitous foes, something even more terrible lurks aboard the

Ardent Crown , stirring after aeons of cold slumber as footsteps

fall once again on the long-abandoned decks. The Battle-

Brothers of the Deathwatch must face these enemies, cast them

down in the name of the Emperor, and escape the Ardent Crown

before it plummets to its demise. The fate of the sector and the

honour of the Deathwatch alike hang in the balance.

TYING IT ALL TOGETHER

B inding c OntractS , F alling S tar , and S hedding l ight

each include a full adventure, premade characters, and the

proiles for any NPCs unique to the adventure, much in the

same way as S alvaging S Olace . Each is designed to be run

with the system for which it was written and requires a copy

of the appropriate Core Rulebook to play.

Using all four of these adventures, a GM can create a

cohesive event that tells the story of the Fall of Solace .

Because these adventures were originally written for use at

a convention, each one includes certain notes on the time

that should be devoted to given sections. If the GM wishes

to run one of these adventures in a typical four to six hour

convention timeslot, these notes can be useful; if the GM

is not under any time restrictions, however, he should feel

free to pace the adventure as he sees it based on the

group and other circumstances.

Salvaging

Solace

“When you ight the enemies of humanity, you can’t always rout your

foes and stride triumphantly across their corpses. Sometimes you just

have to set your mind on not losing, no matter the cost, for one more

day. Sometimes that has to be enough.”

Adventure

Summary

“The enemies of humanity descend on us from all sides. This could be

the fall of Solace. Or it could be its inest hour! Soldiers, follow me, and

we’ll ind out if this is Solace’s end or the start of a new saga of glory!”

–Corporal Etheni of the Castus Levy

T he Guardsmen of the Cadian 99th Mechanised Infantry,

–Private Mercito Grant

O riginally written for Gen Con Indy 2013, S alvaging

Eighth Battalion, are having a profoundly bad day. Of

course, so are all of the other residents of Hive Solace,

which is in the midst of being aflicted by disaster after

world-shaking disaster. What should be a relatively low-effort

assignment for the Eighth Battalion turns into an unmitigated

disaster when a crashing Imperial cruiser (illed with Tyranids)

strikes the hive. A small army of heretics and Chaos mutants,

who have foreseen this event and wish to exploit the catastrophe

in a powerful ritual, provides a further layer of opposition for

the redoubtable troopers of the Cadian 99th.

The adventure begins as another grinding day of running

a new batch of troopers through a simple training exercise.

These recruits, newly raised from the world of Solace and

merged into the veteran Cadian 99th by an errant stroke

on a Deparmento Munitorum form, have kept the Player

Characters busy with such exercises for the last several weeks.

The relative calm ends abruptly when a tremendous explosion

of a cruiser striking the hive hurls the PCs from their feet

S Olace is a scenario for O nly W ar . Game Masters

must have a copy of the O nly W ar Core Rulebook

in order to run the adventure. This adventure was originally

designed for Player Characters with 1,000 additional xp

(beyond starting xp), but some of the foes within can provide

a challenge for even the most tested veterans. Players can use

the premade characters found on pages 18–3 2 or create their

own PCs as described in the O nly W ar Core Rulebook.

Because it was written as a convention scenario, S alvaging

S Olace has notes about the time allotment for certain events.

These notes have been left in for the convenience of any GM

who wishes to run S alvaging S Olace in a typical 4–5 hour

convention timeslot, but any GM who is not pressed for time

should feel free to amend (or ignore) these suggestions

about time allotment and the pacing of encounters to

best accommodate his particular group and schedule.

Adventure

Background

and immediately cuts out the power. The Player Characters

and their allies have a few moments to scramble in darkness

and ruin as they try to help the injured and achieve a state of

controlled calm and relative normalcy.

The irst complications occur once communications are

restored. Initially, the Player Characters are tasked with

establishing a perimeter against the rabble spilling forth from

the underhive. This means not only restoring the chain of

command, but also getting any civilians in the region calmed

and under control. However, a rampaging force of chaos

mutants offers a swift challenge to their perimeter and inlicts

further damage upon the unit and its allies.

Sadly, the rug is soon pulled out from under them between

waves of the mutant attack. The recruits—former soldiers of the

Castus Levy—are drawn off to help evacuate Hive Solace. The

cruiser’s engines are rapidly dying, and their inal scream will be

an explosion that reduces Hive Solace to a vast pool of bubbling

slag. The surviving members of the Cadian 99th are assigned

a last-ditch effort to travel into the ruined warship, ind the

engines, and shut them down before they can enter meltdown.

Along the way, the PCs make the unpleasant discovery that the

cruiser is illed with Tyranids. These foul xenos are seemingly

the cause of the crash, and infest the twisted corridors of the

vessel in horrifying numbers. As is their nature, the Tyranids

spill forth in a wave of ravenous jaws and chattering teeth,

seeking to devour any and all biomass that they happen upon.

The Player Characters must survive

these trials to reach the core and

then shut it down, or the world

of Solace is certainly doomed.

“For its valorous service in the Spinward Front, the 49th Company

is assigned a provisional reprieve from patrols and the honour of

initiating the prospective recruits from the Castus Levy.”

–Colonel Arkat of the Cadian 99th

T he 49th Company of the Cadian 99th Mechanised

Infantry were recently recalled from the Spinward

Front. The company had suffered serious casualties

during particularly brutal ighting against an Ork assault.

More than 70 per cent of the soldiers sustained incapacitating

or lethal wounds. The Deparmento Munitorum responded to

these losses by merging the regiment with the 19th Solace

Castus Guard. Unfortunately, due to an errant stroke of an

autoquill on the part of a clerk, this regiment did not exist

yet. Thus, the Cadian 99th found itself rerouted to Solace to

integrate the new recruits into its own forces.

Meanwhile, a new threat was emerging in the Solace system

of the Calixis Sector. Even as doom approached, the planet’s

citizens remained utterly oblivious to its danger. Decades

earlier, a choir of Astropaths had prophesied a xenos-spurred

disaster for Solace. The sector’s oficials largely ignored the

warning. That vessel—the Ardent Crown —emerged from the

Warp as prophesied and, hours later, its course changed.

Unfortunately, that alteration in trajectory was just enough so

that the vessel now travels directly toward Solace.

Worse yet, the seemingly abandoned Imperial craft has

been internally transformed. It no longer plays host to the

descendants of human survivors. Instead, its sole passengers

are the Tyranids that have haunted its corridors for centuries.

As the massive vessel lacks power and communications, its

shift in direction toward the planet has gone unnoticed.

Routine systems noted its course as being innocuous when it

irst emerged into the system. They have not recognised the

change in direction, and so it plunges toward the world of

Solace, blind and deaf in the emptiness of space.

As the adventure begins, the Player Characters are

completely unaware of the incoming threat. The

Tyranids, in contrast, have begun preparations for a

major assault, their eldritch senses detecting the imminent

arrival. These foul xenos have awakened from their slumber, and

they hunger to swallow up the entire world of Solace.

The Ardent Crown is on a direct course to strike the hive

where the Player Characters are training. There is nothing

they can do to be aware of the impending threat. Even if they

somehow had knowledge of the danger, there is little they

could do to avoid it. Not only is the doomed vessel certain to

cause unspeakable damage when it crashes into an Imperial

hive, but it carries a savage army of Tyranids bent entirely on

the consumption of all biomass on Solace.

At the same time, a violent riot has erupted within Hive

Solace, the twisted denizens of the underhive rising up

from the depths as the falling star descends. They see it

as an omen—the harbinger of the will of wicked gods.

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