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red packet rumble
is is a short
Feng Shui 2
demo scenario for up to six players and one Gamemaster. It should take about two
hours to play, and consists of only two major ghts. e
Feng Shui 2
rules are not included, but cheat sheets are
provided for easy reference at the table.
what's going on?
A decorated police o cer and member of the
Special Duties Unit
— Hong Kong’s elite paramilitary tactical
force — is getting married to a wealthy young entertainment and media producer.
ey’re both high pro le gures, and their families are equally high pro le. is makes them ideal targets for
some of Hong Kong’s
Triads,
who could see the opportunity to take out so many VIPs as too good to ignore.
e groom’s family is making a priceless gift to the bride’s father – half of an
ancient mystical amulet
that, if
united with its other half, could command catastrophic levels of chi.
e other half is in the hands of the
Eaters of the Lotus,
a faction of sorcerers from AD 690 who seek to make
it whole. To do so, the Lotus-Eaters plan to ride the coattails of a Triad attack at the wedding ceremony and
steal the amulet away in all of the chaos.
before you begin
Put the 12 archetypes out on the table for your players to look over and have them choose one to play:
Big Bruiser, Everyday Hero, Full Metal Nutball, Gene Freak, Karate Cop, Killer, Magic Cop, Martial
Artist, Maverick Cop, Private Investigator, Scrappy Kid, Sorcerer
Give a quick rundown of the following important game elements:
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e core mechanic of the game:
Basic Stats (Attack, Damage, Toughness, Fortune, Speed, etc)
Action Value + Swerve (d6 – d6) – Di culty = Outcome
Rolling double sixes, or boxcars
Fortune points
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Weapons and Wound Point track
Schticks
Exploding dice
Stunts
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introducing the story
Give the players the following rundown:
You are Chi Warriors, heroes belonging to one of several secret factions that battle across time and other dimensions
for the fate of the world. Your faction, the Dragons, have fought gang bosses, ancient sorcerers, scheming warlords,
and cyborg monkeys from the future. Your base of operations is Hong Kong, where the Chi War continues to rage, and
you never know from week to week who’s going to make a play for mastery over feng shui — and who needs an epic
smackdown in response.
In between all of the gun battles, sorcery duels, and post-apocalyptic car chases, it’s nice to take a break and celebrate with
friends. at’s why you’re all here on a sunny afternoon in Victoria Park, surrounded by water features, ower gardens,
trellises with vines, and banquet tables. It’s a wedding, and the bride is dressed to the nines in a traditional red gown.
Her name is Rose Muk, an o cer in Hong Kong’s Special Duties Unit, and she’s a crack police paramilitary expert. Her
husband-to-be, Leon Yan, is the rising star of Hong Kong’s largest media conglomerate. He’s just as striking in his black
tuxedo. With so many cops, businessmen, and other celebrities here, it would be foolish to stage an attack. Wouldn’t it?
Have the players introduce their characters.
ey
should just give their name, the archetype, and a little
avorful background information so that the group
can get a sense of who they are and what they can do.
As each player introduces their character, have them
say whom in the wedding party they are here to see,
and what connection they have to either Rose Muk’s
family, Leon Yan’s family, or both. Why do they want
everything to go okay? Are they seated in readiness
for the next speaker, browsing the richly-appointed
banquet tables, or hiding in the bushes?
In
Feng Shui 2,
players usually come up with a
melodramatic hook that ties them into the story. For
this demo, the questions provided above serve the
same basic purpose. Make sure you make notes about
what those answers are.
wedding is being crashed by the Golden Seas Group
Triad, who are doing the grunt work here in Hong
Kong for the Eaters of the Lotus. Inside the red
packet is half of an ancient magical amulet. It doesn’t
matter if this never comes up at all in the ght – in
fact, it shouldn’t, since it’s part of the connective tissue
between- ght-scenes story later.
Get straight to the action
by saying that as soon
as the bride’s aunt or second cousin or some such
relation wraps up her twenty minute speech about the
importance of following your dreams and becoming a
police o cer, the sound of automatic ri es unloading
hundreds of bullets interrupts everything.
Jet-Set Sheng (featured foe):
A brutal enforcer or
“Red Pole” of the Golden Seas Group Triad
e attacking group includes:
fight i:
something
borrowed,
black, AND blue
In this act, the heroes show
up to a wedding only to have
the whole event crashed by
a bunch of Triad gangsters
armed to the teeth.
is
scene shows o
how
ghts work in
Feng Shui 2,
including making Attack
Checks, using stunts to do
cool things, and dealing with two di erent kinds of
opponent: mooks and featured foes.
en move straight to the rst ght!
Tony Ma (featured foe):
A “49er” or soldier in the
Golden Seas Group Triad, right hand to “Jet-Set”
Sheng
Wings Chu, Eighty-Eight Leung (featured foes):
Additional 49ers (add Wings if there are ve players,
both Wings & Eighty-Eight if there are six)
Blue Lanterns:
Assorted mooks in cheap business
suits carrying Glocks. ere are three of these for
every player.
Rose Muk (supporting character):
e bride, an
o cer in the HKPD’s Special Duties Unit AKA e
Flying Tigers;
Leon Yan (supporting character):
e groom, the
son of a wealthy media magnate who has inherited it
all and rising to the top
set-up
e location
of this scene is a park along the slope of
Mount Victoria. Flower gardens, willow trees, water
features, a pavilion, lots of banners and gold statues
and so forth. It’s a banquet, so there are tables and
seats, caterers, and lots of food.
e majority of the wedding attendants aren’t going
to be directly involved in this ght and serve instead
as useful background elements for stunts.
Melodrama
Look over your notes about PC connections and
relations to the wedding party and guests. As GM,
you’re going to try to exploit those as much as possible
during the ght.
Since the non-combatant supporting characters
don’t act on speci c shots the way the PCs and other
GMCs do, use them to dial up the tension when
players roll boxcars on their dice. Include guests
falling down, cowering behind tables, pleading for
help, running away from the park, and so forth in
between descriptions of enemy attacks.
Traditional Chinese weddings
take place over the
space of an entire day at multiple locations, but for
the purposes of this adventure the exchange of gifts
is happening here, in front of a fairly large crowd of
cops, media executives, and their families, all dressed
up and looking fancy, and very hungry (they’ve been
waiting for several hours already.)
Several hours earlier,
the groom’s family, who has a
sizeable art collection, gave the bride’s family a red
packet (a red paper envelope with characters in gold
stamped on it, usually containing cash). Rose made a
big show of accepting it, and supposedly still holds
onto it. is is important because it’s the reason the
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Fight Fight Fight!
It’s Rose’s job in this ght to get innocent family
members and other wedding guests to safety. She
pulls a machine pistol from somewhere under her
gown and yells orders at a bunch of cops, who proceed
to engage with the Triads. Because this isn’t the Rose
Muk & Hong Kong PD Action Hour, however, the
PCs are the ones taking care of the actual gangsters.
foes
Jet-Set Sheng
Triad Red Pole
Guns
DEF
Tou
Speed
13
13
6
6
ere are many police o cers and even some folks
from Rose’s unit in the crowd, doing their own not-
as-cool stu in the background against mooks that
the PCs don’t have to worry about. All of that is color,
something you and the players can invoke for context
with stunts but nothing that needs additional dice or
GMCs.
Have the players each roll initiative —A single d6 plus
their Speed. is establishes the rst shot each player
acts on. Show them the shot counter and explain
how it works, and that most actions take 3 shots. Put
tokens for each PC on the shot counter. Don’t worry
about explaining what happens on the 2nd and 1st
shot until somebody reaches that point.
Weapon:
Norinco Type M1911 pistol (10/3/4)
Skills:
Intimidation 13, Leadership 15
Ablative Lackey:
If at least one mook is up, as an
interrupt after Jet-Set takes Wound Points, he
takes 0 Wound Points and 1 mook goes down.
Inspire Loyalty:
When Jet-Set goes down, all
featured foes make an interrupt attack against a
hero of their choice at a shot cost of 0.
Tony Ma
Loyal Lieutenant
Guns
DEF
Tou
Speed
13
11
5
6
For the bad guys, here’s a convenient pre-generated
list of the initiative rolls for four sequences. Put
tokens for all these characters on the shot counter.
e mooks all act on the same shot. Heroes who share
a shot with a foe always act rst.
Weapon:
Walther P-5 Compact pistol (10/1/4)
Skills:
Gambling 13, Leadership 13
Shouted Orders:
As an interrupt when a mook hits
a hero, Tony may spend 1 shot to add 4 Damage
to the mook’s hit.
Wings Chu, Eighty-Eight Leung
Golden Seas Group 49ers
Guns
DEF
Tou
Speed
Foe
Tony Ma
Rose Muk
1
14
10
11
Sequence
2
14
9
10
3
11
11
8
4
12
8
12
12
12
5
5
Leon Yan
Eighty-Eight Leung
Wings Chu
Triad Gangsters
“Jet-Set” Sheng
Weapon:
Punch (7), Glock 18 (10/1/3)
Skills:
Gambling 12
6
6
8
9
9
9
11
8
10
8
9
10
11
7
7
11
Blue Lantern Gangsters
Suits, Shades, Sidearms
attack
DEF
Speed
8
Damage:
10 (Glock 17)
13
5
Rose
takes turns just like the PCs, but she spends
almost all of her actions either creating a boost for the
PCs or hustling people away from the ght. Her last
shot is taken up by grabbing Leon Yan and running,
too. e goal is to get her out of the scene before the
scene ends i.e. she Cheeses It.
Leon
isn’t likely to attack anyone, and sticks by Rose
as he knows she’s way more badass than he is. But you
never know. Like Rose, the goal is to get him out of
the scene before it ends.
Rose Muk
Bride with a Gun
Guns
DEF
Tou
Speed
14
12
5
8
3
Weapon:
H&K MP7 (12/5/1)
Skills:
Deceit 13, Driving 13, Intimidation 13,
Leadership 13
Resistances:
Notice 10, Will 10
Furious Wrath:
If Rose’s last attack missed, her
current one gains +1 Attack and +3 Damage. Not
cumulative.
Don’t Turn Your Back:
Add +2 to Rose’s Attack if
she has not been attacked since she last attacked.
Leon Yan
Groom Tycoon
Martial Arts
DEF
Tou
Speed
12
12*
5
5
Rose and Leon are Gone:
In the chaos of the
aftermath, the bride and her groom have vanished.
With them is the red packet, which until now hasn’t
meant anything to the PCs. Go straight to Connective
Tissue for what happens next.
* +2 Defense for rst attack on Leon; +1 Defense for
second attack on Leon
Weapon:
Punch (7)
Skills:
Gambling 15, Info/Media 13
Things That Can
Happen During the Fight
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Somebody is thrown into a table full of food
Chairs broken over the head
Pavilion poles give way and canvas roof collapses
If one or more of the PCs explicitly set out to keep
an eye on these two the whole time, that makes this
a little more complicated. e best solution to that
is to say that in all of the post- ght mop-up chaos,
those PCs were distracted or asked to talk to a cop or
medical teams, and it was in that moment that they
lost them.
Somebody’s head is shoved under the water of a
pond full of sh
Statue breaks as somebody is thrown against it or
shatters as gun re blows it apart
connective
tissue:
run from the
altar
is next section deals with how to connect the rst
ght to the second. It shouldn’t take you more than
15 minutes.
Somebody slides along a table, knocking over table
arrangements, end with platter of food ying into
opponent’s face
Pot of hot tea thrown into opponent’s face
Caterers scream and yell at heroes for ruining their
banquet arrangement
here's the deal
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e Eaters of the Lotus have captured Rose and
Leon and taken them through a portal to the
Netherworld.
Dozens of red packets lled with cash go ying,
sending wedding guests scrambling to pick them up
mop-up
If the PCs take out all of the featured foes:
e
mooks give up or run o . Hong Kong’s Anti-Triad
Police unit shows up, armed with assault ri es and
lots of police SUVs. Of course, almost all of the
Golden Seas Group featured foes get let o due to
Ascended in uence, but that’s ne (but then might
go missing once the Ascended realize they were being
used by the Eaters of the Lotus, but that’s for another
adventure perhaps.)
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e portal is located at the Golden Seas Group’s
primary base of operations, a nightclub down in
Victoria’s Wan Chai district, only a couple of miles
away from the park.
investigation
e PCs realize Rose and Leon are nowhere to be
found and set out to track them down.
e players can o er any solutions they like to track
down Rose and Leon:
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Characters with Police or Detective might use
those skills to track down the Triad base.
e Killer’s Gangland Politics Info Skill could do
likewise.
e HKPD say that Rose didn’t check in, Leon’s
not answering his cellphone, their families are
quite worried, and so forth.
If the PCs are taken out by the Triads:
e HK cops
show up and the Triads take o , eeing into the trees.
e cops patch the PCs back up with plenty of EMT
services.
If one or more of the PCs are cops:
e HKPD
doesn’t give them any trouble. e also get access to
police information about the Golden Seas Group,
obviously.
If none of the PCs are cops:
ey might need to
make a Deceit check (Di culty 7) to explain why
they’re there and to make sure nobody confuses them
with the Triads.
Once the group’s decided on a course of action, move
them to the next ght.
e Magic Cop or Sorcerer might try to track
them down with magic or enhanced senses, or
something along those lines.
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fight ii:
honeymoon in
(not actually)
hell
In this ght, the heroes have
tracked Rose Muk and Leon
to the Golden Seas Group’s
nightclub base of operations.
After in ltrating it, or busting
down doors, or just walking
right in, they learn that the
base is empty of gangsters
and the only thing here is a
swirling portal of light.
socket at the base of an enormous pillar of stone
engraved with phoenix and dragon symbology.
A bunch of other sorcerers oat around, cackling and
laughing. Two big, burly demons, one that looks like
half-man and half-frog and another that looks half-man
and half-tiger, lurk in the vicinity of the bamboo cage.
“But rst,” screeches the sorcerer. “Get rid of these
distractions.” He points at the possessed Golden Seas
Group mooks; a oating sorcerer uses his magic to send
them ying over the edge of the temple and to their doom.
“And now for the sacri ce of true love!” He points at Rose
and Leon. e two demons start growling and croaking…
e good news is that nothing’s actually going to happen
if the sorcerers place the two halves together in the carved
pillar, because they aren’t pure of heart. But that doesn’t
mean they won’t try to work dark magic with the Amulet
and it doesn’t mean the heroes can’t kick their butts. And
of course the heroes also need to save Rose and Leon, or at
least let them out so they can save themselves.
It’s a portal to the Netherworld. is is a place outside
of time and space, a strange and surreal dimension
that looks for the most part like hundreds of miles of
underground tunnels and vast caverns where chunks
of other times and places have been translocated. With
e ort, many Chi Warriors can alter the fabric of the
Netherworld to manipulate its physical form, creating
new places and chambers and locations. at’s outside
the scope of the adventure, but you can summarize how
weird and full of SFX the Netherworld is so that the
players get the gist of it.
is scene has a huge special e ects budget right out
of any classic wuxia sorcery action movie. Go all out
describing magical stunts and freaky things done by the
sorcerers when they ght the heroes.
Once again, have the players roll their Initiative Checks:
d6 + Speed. Place their counters on the shot counter and
organize the various foes (and Rose Muk and Leon Yan)
into their starting shots, also.
For the most part this is going to be another knockdown
drag-out ght, only this time it’s in a creepy Netherworld
temple against chi-hurling re-balling toxic poison-
wielding sorcerers instead of Triads. All the heroes need
to do is take them all out; if the heroes grab the other half
of the Amulet from Demon-Jaw Jang, so much the better!
e
bamboo cage
can be smashed open with a Di culty
10 Strength Check. Alternately, somebody can try a
stunt in concert with an Attack Check. Leon and Rose
are also bound with ropes, but getting out of those only
takes 3 shots once they’re free of the cage. ey can jump
in and help out once the heroes have liberated them.
set-up
A small contingent of eunuch sorcerers and their
demonic servants have prepared a bolt-hole in the
Netherworld not far from the other side of the portal.
It looks like a mountain-top temple or sanctuary:
hundreds of small carved idols and pillars supporting big
stone slabs, arches, wooden buildings with sloped roofs,
and so on. Instead of the sky, there’s the hideous purple
vault of the chamber in which this place was created. It’s
always a sort of smoky dark atmosphere punctuated with
sorcerous lights and hazy fog, as if the heroes had shown
up at a nightclub (so that’s ironic). Weird moans and
screeches occasionally rise up from below the temple’s
cli side location.
A bunch of possessed Golden Seas Triad gangsters
(they look like the guys from the last ght but their
eyes are glowing) have dragged Rose and Leon to this
weird temple and dropped them into a big bamboo
cage right out front. eir leader, the eunuch sorcerer
Demon-Jaw Jang, stands around gloating. In one hand
he holds up the red packet.
“Now that I have this, I can nally reunite the Phoenix-
Dragon Amulet and rule the world!” e other half of
the amulet is in its “rightful” place in a sort of carved
foes
Demon-Jaw Jang:
An ancient sorcerer, brimming
with power, though he’s not as mighty as he was. He’s
a boss character, not merely a featured foe, so he’s
pretty tough.
Pervasive Tiger:
is is a supernatural creature with
the head of a tiger and covered in stripes.
Bellowing Frog:
A supernatural creature, this one
a corpulent toad-headed fellow with a frighteningly
wide mouth.
Eunuch Sorcerers:
Although they are legitimately
sorcerers, these are still mooks and for that reason
are much easier to deal with than Demon-Eyes or
Demon-Jaw. ere are 2 of these for every player.
If you don’t have a full table of players, you can drop
Bellowing Frog or even both Bellowing Frog and
Pervasive Tiger, especially if the heroes didn’t bring
Rose and/or Leon.
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