Illegitimate Sun

Use unconventional troops to create massive losses in the Xiticix ranks.

Possible Shock Troops:

• Golems – regenerates every 24 hours
• Tectonic Entities – generates temporary bodies, so the entity itself is reusable
• Vampires – captured vampires could be teleported into hives, killing two monsters with one battle
• Last Call Juicers – giving Juicers the ability to gain a noble death and inclusion in a lasting monument

Adventure Plot Points:

• Recruit Juicers from known mercenary towns
• Deliver Summoned / Created Monsters to the Hives

Unleashing the most destructive spells in Rifts – Elemental Magic – to mess up the Xiticix in a Wrath-of-God Style.

Spells:

• Earthquake
• River of Lava
• Tornado
• (Possible Flooding Spell – Xiticix can’t swim)

Adventure Plot Points

• Test Elemental Affects on Live & Dead Xiticix
• Recruit High Level Elementalists for the Campaign
• Aid Techno-Wizards in Constructing Hybrid Devices for Use in the Field
• Possibly Capture the Sphere of the Elements from the Tolkeen War Zone
• Wreak Unholy Havok

Books Needed

• Rifts Conversion Book

Through observation and stomache content autopsies, Xiticix fungus food source is discovered.

Once the information becomes widespread, a Tolkeen survivor mentions a spell known to top mages that could destroy the fungus.

Party is selected to travel to Tolkeen War Zone and hunt a copy of the spell and any other magic artifacts that might come across their path.

Adventure Plot Points:

• Capture of well-fed Xiticix and delivery to Forensic Pathologists / Necromancer
• Travel to Tolkeen
• Random encounters with Coalition / Tolkeen Insurgents / Leftover Surprises (booby traps, summoned demons, etc)
• Person with knowledge of the spell demands safe passage for himself and survivors
• Learning of Spell
• Spell Necessitates being cast deep in the bowels of Xiticix Hive – maybe multiple times

Books Needed:

• Tolkeen War Books 1, 6, & Aftermath

Characters:

Settings:

NPCs:

• Garth Schroeder – Forensic Pathologists / Necromancer

Adventure Ideas:

• Genocide Alternative – Psymbiotes
• Genocide Technique – Blight of Ages
• Genocide Technique – Elemental Fury
• Genocide Technique – Shock Troops

Books Needed:

• Main Book
• Conversion Book 1
• Book of Magic
• Xiticix Wars
• Psyscape – Psymbiotes
• Russian Magic – Necromancer

Psymbiotes – found in Psyscape book – kidnap and bond with NPC.

Their plan is to get close to a key official in Lazlo and plead their case.

Let them infect a hive’s main personnel and use them as hosts / shock troops against the Splugorth enslaving their homes. i.e. Give us the Xiticix as host bodies and we’ll take them off-world and out of your hair.

Adventure plot points:

• Rescue kidnapped NPC
• Prevent the forced bonding of a Lazlo official
• Discover the plight of Psymbiotes
• Argue for / against Psymbiote plan
• Lead raid to capture test Psymbiote-hosts in the Xiticix
• Lead raid to implant Psymbiote in Xiticix Queen
• Open Rift to evacuate bonded Xiticix

Books Needed:

• Psyscape