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AN INTRODUCTORY

DEATHWATCH ADVENTURE

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Credits

Lead Developer

Ross Watson

Production Manager

Gabe Laulunen

Written by

Owen Barnes

FFG Lead Game Designer

Corey Konieczka

Editing

Dylan Owen

FFG Lead Game Producer

Michael Hurley

Graphic Design

Kevin Childress

Publisher

Christian T. Petersen

Additional Graphic Design

Mark Raynor

G a m e s W o r k s h o p

Cover Art

Matt Bradbury

Licensing Manager

Owen Rees

Interior Art

Matt Bradbury, Igor Kieryluk, Anton Kokarev, Karl

Kopinski, Winona Nelson, and Karl Richardson

Head of Licensing

Paul Lyons

Head of Intellectual Property

Alan Merrett

Art Direction

Zoë Robinson

Special Thanks to the Playtesters

“Curious Pastimes” Paul Tucker with Colin Brook, Edd

Duggan, Liam Eyers, Alexander Lampson, and James

Littlewood

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Oblivion’s Edge

“I have seen oblivion’s long curved talons and leathery wings; I

have seen it in the soulless eyes of a million ravening beasts and the

keening wail of a predator that shall never be sated. And now I see

its shadow falling upon this world...”

–Syndalla, Throne Agent of the Ordo Xenos

Tyranid invasion of a world. Trapped on the surface as

the air ills with alien spores and bio-spawned horrors

drop from the sky to devour everything in their path, there

is nowhere to run and nowhere to hide. Though a valiant

defence or a formidable fortress may buy you a few hours more

of life, once begun, a Tyranid invasion becomes as inevitable

as the tide, rising slowly but surely to engulf a world and

pick it clean of all life. It is a tragic helplessness that hundreds

of worlds before Avalos have endured, and hundreds more

will endure after, as the Great Devourer darkens skies and

extinguishes all hope of salvation in a cloud of marauding

bio-constructs and deadly toxins.

This is the horror that faces the Battle-Brothers trapped on

Avalos in the aftermath of the Lordsholm uprising. Without

means of rescue and without the knowledge that help is on

the way, they must prepare themselves for the worst. As the

glory of their victory over the Broodlord and his nest fades,

they must face the realisation that it was a success that came

too little too late, and that the fate of Avalos and its millions

of citizens was sealed even before the Kill-team’s boots hit

the ground. Now, as Hive Fleet Dagon approaches and its

fearsome living ships descend on the helpless world, the

Battle-Brothers can only ready once more for battle and hope

to sell their lives well in the name of the Emperor.

noteS For the GM

The following section gives the GM an overview of the

adventure and details important foes and notable allies.

In addition to the GM’s brieing presented here, there are

numerous ‘GM Guidance’ sidebars throughout the adventure

itself. These sidebars provide the GM with tips, advice, and

general guidance on how to deal with aspects of the rules, the

actions of the players, and the development of the plot.

GettinG Started

To run this adventure, one person needs to take on the role

of the Game Master, and 2-4 players take on the roles of the

Battle-Brothers (note that if the players number less than 4,

the GM should reduce the number of enemies that the Kill-

team encounters by 1/2, rounding up). You will also need

at least two ten-sided dice (1d10). This adventure is a direct

follow-on from F i n a l S a n c t i o n , picking up the action just a

few days after its conclusion. While it is recommended that

players play through F i n a l S a n c t i o n irst, it is not absolutely

necessary; if the GM wants, he can run this adventure as a

stand-alone scenario. o b l i v i o n ’ S e D g e has also been designed

so that all the rules and background information needed to

run it can be found in F i n a l S a n c t i o n , along with a selection

of pre-generated characters.

F i n a l S a n c t i o n can be downloaded from the Fantasy

Flight Games website at www.FantasyFlightGames.com.

A n O v e r v i e w O f t h e A d v e n t u r e

o b l i v i o n ’ S e D g e follows the Battle-Brothers’ escape from

Lordsholm during the horror of the Tyranid invasion of

Avalos and their efforts to strike back against the alien terror

intent on stripping the world of all life.

d e A t h w A t c h r u l e b O O k

While this adventure is designed so that it can be used

without a copy of the D e a t h w a t c h Rulebook, there are

a few occasions where the GM can expand or embellish

encounters if he has a copy of the D e a t h w a t c h core

rules. Where these instances occur, notes are provided

in the text to guide the GM.

T here are few things as utterly terrifying as a full-scale

The adventure begins four days after the Battle-Brothers’

confrontation with the Broodlord and the inal hours of

the Lordsholm uprising. The city lies in ruins and most of

its population are either dead or have led the city for the

relative safety of the outer provinces. Ragtag bands of rebels

still plague the remaining Planetary Defence Force (PDF), but

are no longer a real threat to Imperial control of the city.

Having caught their breath and had time to take stock of the

situation, the Battle-Brothers are at Thorsholt manor in the

company of Syndalla, the Temple Assassin, and any of their

other allies that remain alive. They will be either formulating

a way off-world or waiting for help to arrive.

It is at this point that the true Tyranid invasion begins.

From the Battle-Brothers’ vantage point, they see the sky

begin to darken as a mighty hive ship descends into low orbit

disgorging millions of spores. As day turns to red-night and

the air becomes thick with raining bio-matter, the PCs receive

a garbled vox communication from near orbit and are given

reason to hope that this might not be the end after all. Arriving

at the eleventh hour, Fleet Captain Cobb, commander of the

112th Calixian Expeditionary Battle Group, and his task

force of four Imperial cruisers and a dozen escorts have taken

up position on the side of Avalos furthest from the hive leet.

Having received the call for help from the PCs, his group

was the nearest that could be dispatched. Unwilling as yet to

engage (his force is heavily outnumbered by the Tyranids),

the Fleet Captain can, however, aid the PCs by getting the

Kill-team off-world and into orbit.

With the Tyranids descending on the city in an unstoppable

tide of death, the Battle-Brothers must reach the spaceport

(the only remaining landing zone) and get off-world. They

may also have to escort to safety the surviving Imperial

functionaries and other important personages still seeking

shelter in the manor. However they plan their escape, it will

involve crossing the city, possibly using some of the remaining

PDF vehicles, and cutting a path through the Tyranid hordes

which pour down old streets and fall from the sky above.

Remaining rebels may also prove a problem as they try and

ind a clear route across a city that has already been fought

over once before. Once the PCs reach the spaceport, a new

challenge presents itself as they must clear a landing zone for

their extraction and then hold out until their rescue arrives by

fortifying an area against the Tyranid advance across the city.

With luck and a judicious application of irepower, the

Kill-team will hopefully make its escape and be lifted by

Valkyrie to a waiting shuttle to the south, which will then

take the Battle-Brothers into orbit from where the true horror

of the invasion can be seen. Hundreds of Tyranid vessels

cluster in low orbit, crowded around a massive hive ship as it

spills spores and bio-matter into the atmosphere, turning the

blue world a dark and sickly red. After passing close to the

swarm, the shuttle will ly around to the far side of the planet,

where, sheltered from the Tyranids, the Imperial battle group

waits. The PCs will then be taken aboard the Emperor’s Wrath

and into the presence of Fleet Captain Cobb and his master

tactician Hadros to formulate a plan to defeat the invasion.

There will be a number of ways in which the Kill-team, in

alliance with the Fleet Captain and his vessels, will be able to

strike back at the Tyranids, including direct intervention on

the planet’s surface or hit and run attacks against the outermost

hive leet vessels. However, to truly destroy the hive leet and

bring an end to the invasion, the PCs will need to take out

the hive ship or somehow destroy its ability to control the rest

of the swarm. In fact, this is the only instance in which Cobb

will commit to a frontal assault on the hive leet—if he can

deploy the Kill-team onto the hive ship and have them sever

its hive mind link, he will then order an assault against the

remaining Tyranid vessels during the confusion.

Boarding and disabling a hive ship (especially one as

large as the one assaulting Avalos) is no easy feat, even for

the Battle-Brothers. To help them, Cobb will offer them

command of a company of Storm Troopers, the best men he

has, though to a man they will not be expected to return.

Once the Battle-Brothers manage to board the hive ship, they

will then have to work their way through one of the most

hostile environments imaginable in an almost blind search for

the vessel’s central cortex and its hive mind conduit. If they

can reach this point alive, and if they manage to succeed in

their task, then they will have crippled the hive ship’s ability

to command the Tyranid leet through the hive mind, giving

Fleet Captain Cobb and his cruisers a ighting chance against

a confused and disorganised foe.

The adventure comes to a conclusion with the Kill-team

escaping the hive ship’s death throes, once again racing

against time before the bio-ship becomes their tomb. At the

same time, more Imperial aid inally arrives as a Space Marine

battle barge thunders out of the Warp to join the fray—it may

send a Thunderhawk to pick up the PCs if they need it. With

the arrival of more Deathwatch and the destruction of the hive

ship, the Tyranid invasion will be thwarted. However, Avalos

lies in ruins and will be plagued for decades to come by the

remnants of Tyranid organisms and fanatical rebels. For now,

the Battle-Brothers will be able to take a well deserved rest

and ponder on the greater implications of Hive Fleet Dagon’s

arrival on Avalos and just who or what might have inluenced

its course...

Deathwatch Kill-team, doubtless the Imperium’s most valuable

asset in the system. He realises, however, that his work here

is not done, and if he can ind a way to reliably engage the

hive leet with a reasonable degree of success, he will take it.

Currently, however, the hive leet greatly outnumbers his own

battle group, and even the combined irepower of his two

ships of the line would not stand long against the massive

Tyranid hive ship at the centre of the swarm.

When the Battle-Brothers inally meet Cobb, they will need

to overcome his caution and rigid adherence to procedure

if they are to succeed in the destruction of the hive leet.

This situation is made more interesting by the fact that Cobb

has no command over the Kill-team, nor do they have any

authority over him. However, both are ostensibly supposed

to work together for the interests of the Imperium—interests

that currently seem to focus on saving what can be saved

from Avalos and hopefully crushing the hive leet. The GM

should make the Battle-Brothers work to gain Cobb’s trust,

and they will have to both respect his station as well as come

up with decent plans of attack if they are to complete their

own mission and win glory for the Deathwatch.

A l l i e s A n d A n t A g O n i s t s

Throughout the adventure the players will face a multitude

of fearsome foes and a much smaller number of helpful allies.

This section covers all of the pertinent NPCs who make

an appearance in o b l i v i o n ’ S e D g e , including their rules

proiles and any other important background information

or additional rules. The adventure also includes a number

of NPCs and enemies from F i n a l S a n c t i o n , most notably

Syndalla, Planetary Governor Thorsholt, Genestealers, and

the Broodlord. Proiles and other information on these NPCs

can be found on pages 28-29 of F i n a l S a n c t i o n .

M A s t e r t A c t i c i A n h A d r O s

“To kill something you must irst understand its ways and study its

patterns and movements. Thus, when the time comes to strike, you will

best know where to sink in your blade.”

f l e e t c A p t A i n A r A s t c O b b

“Caution is as noble a virtue as valour when facing the unknown.

Only a fool throws away his strength when, had he waited, he would

have been able to strike but once and meet success.”

Fleet Captain Cobb’s primary advisor is Master Tactician

Hadros, an Imperial Navy adept of the Tactica Imperialis.

Quiet and softly spoken, Hadros is likely to be present

whenever Cobb meets with the Battle-Brothers, offering his

counsel and wisdom on plans and matters regarding the hive

leet and its likely actions and reactions. Ironically, Hadros

is often the voice of risk and recklessness, urging Cobb to

take chances if he deems a high probability of tactical or

strategic success, and generally trying to overcome Cobb’s

natural cautiousness. In this way the GM can use Hadros as

an ally for the PCs, helping them to reine and develop any

plans of attack they might have as well as smoothing relations

between them and Cobb.

The other key purpose of having Hadros on hand is to

give the players access to knowledge their character would

not have, notably information on the hive leet, the world of

Avalos, and the capabilities of the Imperial battle group. The

GM can use Hadros to throw in hints or guide the actions of

the Kill-team, or to help them in coming up with effective

strategies. The GM should remember that Hadros is not all

knowing, and it is worth maintaining a level of mystery

around the Tyranids. For example, while Hadros will know

that the hive ship directs the hive leet, he has a limited idea

of just what the Battle-Brothers might encounter once they

board it.

Arast Cobb is Fleet Captain of the 112th Calixian

Expeditionary Battle Group, which comprises of his lagship

the Emperor’s Wrath (a Mars Class battle cruiser), the Blade

of Drusus (a Tyrant Class cruiser), two Dauntless Class light

cruisers (the Saint of Scintilla and the Divine Crusade ), and a

dozen light escort vessels. Tasked with patrolling the regions

around the Well of Night, Cobb and his battle group were the

closest Imperial forces to receive the Kill-team’s astropathic

communiqué, and the only ones able to respond with any

amount of swiftness. Much like the Battle-Brothers, however,

Cobb was unprepared for the scale of the Tyranid incursion

in the Avalos system—Naval Intelligence assured him that no

signiicant tendrils of Hive Fleet Dagon were anywhere near

this region of space. Cobb is now in the unenviable position

of being able to possibly halt the invasion, but quite likely at

the cost of many of his ships.

Cobb is by nature a cautious man. Old and worn by over

a century of service to the Imperial Navy, he has risen to

his current position by following protocol and protecting the

valuable assets under his command. While a younger or more

reckless captain might have immediately launched an assault

on the hive leet attacking Avalos, Cobb has chosen to hang

back and wait for more information or a more advantageous

time to attack. He has made steps to complete what he sees

as arguably his real reason for being here, the recovery of the

Hadros provides a great roleplaying opportunity for

the Kill-team; his adherence to the Tactica Imperialis

may please an Ultramarine, whilst a Space Wolf may

grow impatient with that same methodical approach.

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