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    THE WITCH

    A MIXTAPE MYSTERY FROM THE LANCASHIRE LOOP

    There's a new type of technology being tested on the farms in the area. It's not popular
    and many protestors have set up camp near by. Some grown ups say the lead protestor is a
    witch! Can you solve the mystery of magic vs science?

    by MILLIE LAVELLE

    This product was created under license. Tales from the Loop and its logo, are trademarks of Fria Ligan AB.

    This work contains material that is copyright Fria Ligan AB and/or other authors. Such material is used with permission under the Community Content Agreement for Free League Workshop.

    All other original material in this work is copyright 2020 by Millie Lavelle and published under the Community Content Agreement for Free League Workshop.
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    THE WITCH national joke of the ministry.


    She’s used stealth tech to make the agribot testing fail,
    “I was working in the barn, but I knew there were only four spoil crops, milk and so on. Each time she leaves a “witch
    sacks of grain. When I turned around there were five. I knew sign” at the farm, typically big and obvious, but also in
    something was wrong, so I stabbed it with my pitchfork! She places out of sight, a deception on her part to make the
    leaped out at me, bleeding, and ran away!” whole charade look real. Meg has a growing number of
    An account of the Fyle Witch, 1698 “hippies and weirdos” who believe she is doing witch-
    craft, and they’re spreading these lies.
    THERE’S A NEW STYLE of agribot being tested out at some of While there are a growing number of folks who
    the farms in the area. It’s brought some protestors with believe that Meg is actually a witch, she has a number
    it. They are campaigning for “real organic farming”, and of “coven members” who know the truth and have been
    don’t like the removal of people from the workforce. They given their own stealth suit.
    believe that the robots are taking people’s jobs and that the If Meg isn’t stopped she’s going to escalate her
    foods produced on agribot farms won’t be as well cared “witchcraft” to actually destroying property and hurting
    for and also that this “neglect” will mean the food is not as people. All while the rest of her “coven” get sicker from
    nutritious as those on “organic” farms. the suit’s radiation and eventually die.
    One particular protestor Meg Hilton has been
    threatening the agribot farms with witchcraft to stop the
    technology and return farms to the “old ways.” She has a
    growing number of followers and there are at least two STORY HOOKS
    farms thinking of stopping the work. Though for most
    farms involved removal of the MAFF subsidiary would ■ One of the Kids' old-
    mean they have to close their family business. er siblings, or their
    The protest camp is out in the countryside, full of babysitter has joined
    hippies, anarchists and other weird folk. The police are the “hippy camp” and be-
    on the verge of drawing in the local Ministry of Defence lieves that Meg is really
    Police to help disperse them, as the land around the loop a witch. They may eventu-
    is technically government property. ally become a Coven mem-
    It's turning The Loop into a national joke, science be- ber.
    ing stopped by old magic. It’s “witches versus the MAFF”
    ■ The agribots are be-
    and the management of The Loop facility are reaching the
    end of their patience.
    ing used at the family’s
    farm, and the kids see Meg
    break stealth.
    THE TRUTH ■ Meg sneaks close to the
    Meg Hilton does have a vendetta against the farms using kids hideout, and they
    the agribots, and indeed the MAFF, but she’s not using spot the invisible move-
    witchcraft, it’s just technology most folk haven’t seen yet. ment of the stealth tech
    After her father left working at The Loop facility, as it pushes grass /
    Meg became angry, and continued her father's projects plants out the way.
    at home. Meg has actually developed a number of stealth
    technologies and along with a few selected protesters
    she is employing them in a campaign of terror against
    MAFF. While she doesn't really care about how the
    farms go about their business, this is her best opportuni-
    ty to cause an injury and insult to the MAFF and make a

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    THE COUNTDOWN is less lethal. Meg’s frequent visits to her father’s lab in
    her youth means, while not resistant, she has a higher
    1. Meg “curses” a local farm and uses her stealth suit to tolerance for the radiation than most, and that’s good
    make it come true. A local journalist publishes a story enough for her.
    about this and names Meg as the Fyle Witch. If Meg isn’t stopped or convinced that her vendetta is
    2. The authorities investigate the “hippy camp” but noth- wrong, she will go on to sabotage more MAFF and Loop
    ing can be done as there’s no proof of bad deeds. projects. Although she may eventually succumb to the
    3. Meg’s suit malfunctions and a farm worker sees her radiation her stealth suit creates.
    appear from out of nowhere and run into the nearby If MAFF were to get their hands on Meg’s variation
    woods. of the suits they may seek out Meg to work on them
    4. Meg makes several more stealth suits, and hold a cere- further, she’s clearly inherited her father’s genius. Meg
    mony to induct more teenagers into her “Coven” might see this as the recognition her father deserved, or
    5. One of the teenagers in the coven collapses in town use it to sabotage the Loop and MAFF from within.
    and is sent to hospital. It is radiation poisoning.
    6. On a mission to make another “curse” come true, one
    of the teenagers is spotted and attacked by a farm
    worker. The teenager escapes but Meg won’t let them THINGS FROM THE FLOOD
    leave the “Hippy Camp” to get medical attention in
    case they tell everyone the truth. Things from the Flood is the older sibling to Tales
    7. Meg and the remaining members of “The Coven” burn from the Loop,in this setting players are teenagers instead
    down the barn and destroy the crops maintained by of younger kids, and death is a real possibility.
    the agri bots. This mystery could easily be adapted to be part of
    8. Meg uses the stealth suits to sabotage the brakes on Things from the Flood. These alternative mystery hooks
    the car of “The MAFF Man” who is working with may help you get your Teens into trouble;
    the farm, his car crashes on the country lanes and the
    agribot program is finally shelved. ■ One of the Teens is part of the “Hippy Camp” and
    could be selected to join Meg’s coven
    ■ The Teens know Meg from the Engineering club at
    MEG HILTON school and can’t believe she’s involved with witchcraft.
    ■ As one of the Teens know Meg, a grown up appeals
    Meg Hilton is the daughter of a scientist, Dr James to the Teens to go reason with Meg before the police
    Hilton who worked at the Lancashire Loop. Dr Hilton go back to the “Hippy Camp” and try to break up the
    was developing stealth suits, but the technology pro- camp and arrest her.
    duced too many harmful side effects for it to be used
    more than once per person.
    Dr Hilton’s work was deemed next to useless by the
    Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Fisheries (MAFF) and
    he spiraled into drink and depression. The project was
    cancelled and then her father became even more with-
    drawn, finally Meg’s parents divorced. Meg blamed the
    MAFF for the break up of her family and the breakdown
    of her father.
    While Meg has managed to make the stealth suits
    more robust, she hasn’t changed that these suits will
    eventually cause the wearers to suffer radiation poison-
    ing and die. She has just lessened the effect to a level that

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    OTHER TRACKS
    THE LANCASHIRE LOOP Track One - The Bhargast (Pay What You Want)
    https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/311493/The-
    The Lancashire Loop is a "hometown hack" for the Bhargast--A-Tales-from-the-Loop-mystery
    North West UK, but this mystery can be set in anwhere. Track Two - The Boggart
    The mystery is based on some of the folklore from the https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/312495/
    area. The-Boggart--A-Tales-from-the-Loop-mystery

    The Lancashire Loop Mix Tape is 8 short mysteries


    based around the area, and were each written to each be THANKS
    played in a 3 - 5 hour session, including charater creation.
    They're great for introduction games or to be ran at a con- Thank you to Graham and Mike for proof reading and
    vention. They can also be worked together to form a Mys- editing.
    tery Landscape for longer play.
    The final thanks go to the folks who helped support
    If you play this mystery with your friends, I’d love to me in writing this via the Role to Hit Patreon
    know. You can find me via Twitter @MillieTheGM

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