Search for the Lost Hatzk Naar Treasure (working title)

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jedion357
June 30, 2021 - 11:03am
Martin Borman, Hitler's Banker, is believed to have hid gold and diamonds at the end of the war to finance Nazi operations post war. A curious piece of sheet music that was his has strange notations on it and hand written words that look like lyrics but aren't. Its believed that this is a treasure map to an estimated 50 million dollar treasure. 

https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/583885/Hitler-Nazi-gold-diamonds-stash-found-violin-maker
I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers!
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jedion357
June 30, 2021 - 11:26am
I my plan is to use the sheet music for Wagner's "Also Spake Zarthrusta" or the 2001 movie iconic theme music as it is public domain. I've found on copy of the sheet music that is one sheet not two and I plan to write in "lyrics/not lyrics" clues they will effectively identify 4 star systems and if you draw lines between those star system they create an X centered on White Light system. this will be the system that has the treasure. 
I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers!

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jedion357
June 30, 2021 - 11:38am
Lyrics:

Plot the path from Bovine's Beast Warren to Cassidine's Claim

Bovine Beast Warren is Minotaur and the city of Maze- Cassidine's Claim refers to Deco system 

Let Kr'zz'ck point the way to dragon spire

Dragon spire refers to Mount Spire on Lossend. Kr'zz'ck is the only clue I've purely made up and he will be a vrusk tied to Kdikkit in Madderly's star 

draw lines from these system and the x marks the spot on White light

I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers!

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jedion357
June 30, 2021 - 2:06pm
More Clues:

"Triumps trove awaits the rise of Naar

Until Then let Hell Freeze over

690 million km"

Triumps Trove refers to the hidden treasure ship- perhaps one with Triump in its name 

Until then let hell freeze over refers to the fact that the ship was landed on a moon of a gas giant in the White light system. This moon has cryo volcanos- or ice volcanoes. and the ship is "down wind of one so its been slowly covered with layers of ice in the decades since the ship was left in the shadow of one such volcano. check wikipedia for details of cryo volcanoes on moons of gas giants in our solar system. 

690 million km refers to the orbit of the gas giant but I probably will encode this in some way 

Also a clue to the gas giant might be a molecular diagram for a complext molecule that is known to be found in the atmosphere of this gas giant. that leads you to the gas giant. examining the moons and learning that one has cryo volcanoes should trigger with l"let Hell Freeze over" 

Then its going to take orbital scan with lidar or energy sensors. - despite the fact that the ship is covered in ice the atomic drive will be on low power setting and this should be able to be seen from space with energy sensors if someone was looking for something under the ice. 

tail first ship landing ship will be an unusual ice formation. PCs will have to cut into it laser power torch (engineers tool) then its a deck by deck search. 

if the players realize that the clue of Triumps Trove points to a pirate ship called the Triumph they may have researched the ship and or its class. this might aid in knowing how or where to cut ont he ice spire that they will be confronted with. 

I also might force them to out fit this expedition with food and equipment, power supplies. rend a ship etc. 
Perhaps a Romulus or Remus class runabout might be rentable at Clarion station. or they might hire a small freighter as well as rent a runabout. 

and finally a rich treasure shouldnt be just for the taking so then the ship must have defenses.- robots and something in a freeze field/stasis field/ storage class berth that can get loose and challenge them. 

And if the players have not been careful during role play then pirates might show up more sooner than later looking to claim the treasure. 

there should be multiple dangers on this ship. 
perhaps traps, robots, and whats in the stasis field. 

finally I had a recent brainstorm of having the landed ship directly over a hatch going to a secret hidden base deep in the ice. for more fun and pirate games. Not commited to this. Exploring the ship might be enough. 

I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers!

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LordEntrails
July 1, 2021 - 11:52am
Interesting. But why White Light? I would thinka  priate would want an otu of the way place, preferably a system without charted jump routes. That would greatly reduce the number of people who could go looking for it, plus add a whole section of risk jumping to the adventure.

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jedion357
July 2, 2021 - 10:54am
LordEntrails wrote:
Interesting. But why White Light? I would thinka  priate would want an otu of the way place, preferably a system without charted jump routes. That would greatly reduce the number of people who could go looking for it, plus add a whole section of risk jumping to the adventure.

Well number one you need 4 star systems that you can draw lines between and have an X marks the spot on a fifth system. thats number. and just fortuitously these 5 systems do that. 

This system needs to be somewhere between Dramune and the system where Naar was capture- white light fits that as well. 

Sure the Royal Marines are present and maybe this is why Hatzk Naar didnt raid Clarion (that we know of) according to cannon. It also might be the reason that White Light has been overlooked by treasure hunters. They assumed that since Naar didint raid there that he didn't operate there. 

But lets say he did operate here and that he did hide a ship here. 

I Would be hard pressed to come up with another 5 system X marks the spot. And I'd have to write 4 more new clues for the fake lyrics. With the ones I have now, 3 out of 4 are rooted in established Frontier lore/history and are potentially able to be unravelled by the players (although one is rather obscure). It would be a challenge to do the same with new star systems . 

I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers!