Black site location (spoilers)

[Broccolihead]

I'm wondering where the adventure explicitly gives the location of the black site to the players. There are two NPCs that can point them in the right direction, but that assumes the players let them live, which is a dangerous assumption.

My guesses:

No name gives them a few miles worth of snow they can check out, and Avigdis is able to give them the location. I'm assuming I just have the players cinematically defeat her and she stays alive to tell

[Robofallgames]

I think in regards to the NPC

Spoiler:

You can say she has the coordinates on her datapad if she isn't captured alive.

Outside of the NPCs, it does state that they can use the transmitters to triangulate the source of the signal with a DC 32 Computer check at each transmitter.

[Yako Zenko]

The simplest solution. for the key NPC. Give them resolve points. so they stabilize. (NPCs usually just die, cus no RP)... Unless the party has REALLY embraced the dark side, at least one of them should decide tieing them up and interrogating, rather than killing a now defenseless person, is the better choice. (Especially since unlike most NPCs, this one had resolve points to not be dead.)

[Akumamajin]

I am playing through the AP right now, and me and my mates are having a lot of fun. One of my player decided to be a Steward, and is heavily trying to get the Stewards involved, instantly forwarding all new information to them.

This made some parts a bit tricky, but we all managed to keep things halfway believable. Like why the Stewards aren´t using their pull to take down the App ect. I explained that going against a big corporation is always tricky and accusations like this need to stand on stable ground, least the Stewards get suit left and right.

so, after all this, let me come to the point. When the players raided the HQ of Eclipse Innocations, I explained to them, that the map with all the pins showed all the positions where signal boosters could be placed. The whole thing depended on on certain techno-magical equations, which they found in the last computer in the Eclipse HQ. Depending on which place they chose for their blackside would influence which locations they would use for the signal boosters.

In the game, my players visited the three correct places, maybe lead there by their mysterious connection to the shadow plane, but in the background of the game world, all the other locations would be raided by other teams of Stewardsl. With the three booster locations laid bare, the Stewards could calculate the likely location of the black site and point the players in that direction. On the way to their ship they were ambushed by Avigdis and her Drows, and so everything worked out without sounding too game-y and everyone was happy.