Reconquer Olawa

The Mayor of Olawa has a problem. According to Olawa's pre-war town charter, which is still officially in effect, he is in charge. But he knows that this is not actually the case. Before the war, he owned a bar that was often frequented by Soviet officers, and it was for this reason he was recruited as a spy by the German intelligence officer operating in the town, the woman who operates under the cover name of Urszula Kalisz. When the war came, Ursula used her influence to get Lucjan elected Mayor. She controls him by threatening to expose him as a foreign intelligence agent. Lucjan doesn't like this, and he wants this state of affairs to end, but he is not imaginative enough to think of any alternatives other than killing Ursula. He will propose to any adventurers who gain admittance to Olawa that he will pay them in order to assassinate Ursula. He will pay them 1000 shells - he has been amassing a stash over a year for this purpose - plus whatever they can find in her shop.

Urszula lives above the machine shop where she works. At any given time she will have three mercenaries hanging around the place as bodyguards. They are former German Bundeswehr soldiers. She has eight workers at the shop during the day, and two at night, who will be armed with wrenches and knives, although they are unlikely to fight except in self-defense. Urzsula herself is usually armed.

If the PCs overcome the shop's inhabitants they will be able to loot eleven vehicle spare parts, 45 gallons of ethanol and 36 shells kept as petty cash. Finding Urszula's personal stash in the apartment above the shop will be harder - it requires two successes on a RECON roll, taking one stretch per attempt. The stash holds 300 shells, one encumbrance unit of plastic explosives, a long-range transmitter (useless due to lack of receivers, but can be scrapped for two electronic spare parts), a codebook (useless, but incriminating) and, most crucially of all, a German passport in the name of Bernadette Kohl, which Urszula kept in the hope that one day German forces would reach the town.

Unless the PCs somehow managed to avoid making any noise, town militia and soldiers will arrive at the scene in D3 stretches. If the PCs are known or strongly suspected to have killed Urszula, Olawa will become Hostile to them. They had best have made arrangements with Lucjan to get their payment without entering the town again - he will keep any bargain he made, but will not go out of his way to bring the shells to the PCs.

Possible Further Developments


 * The Company of the Goat may attack Olawa if they realise some of the soldiers have left - they would rely on a lightning attack to overwhelm the town before the militia can assemble.
 * If the PCs surrender to the militia, they may be able to convince Olawa's impromptu citizen's court that Urszula was a spy and they were justified in killing her.