Homebrew: Dangerous Game

The following is a Fanon adventure based on the blurb from Terra Incognita: Tangaroa.
== The Blurb ==
Winter sports are popular on Tangaroa (possibly because they can be practiced throughout the year). The PCs are hired to transport a team of athletes to the sector's Winter Games. When they arrive, however, they learn that last Games' champion, Michael Garcia, has disappeared... and his wife, Eve Garcia, has been found dead in their home, shot with a 3mm needler. Garcia's rifle is also missing.
Churchwarden Aaron Cruz (see Locals heading, above) forbids any travelers from leaving the planet until Mr. Garcia is found. While Ben Ross is eager to take Michael Garcia's place, he can't join the games while under suspicion--he is one of the suspects, after all.
Now the manhunt is on--did Michael kill his wife, perhaps under the influence of this year's unseasonal sporing season, or is there something bigger going on? Perhaps an assassin framed him for the murder and he ran for the hills in a panic... or perhaps the strange voices told Michael a horrific secret about Eve, falsely or not... 
== Outline ==
=== Guiding Bits ===
* Genre: "Grounded" sci-fi, focusing primarily on inter-character drama
* Setting: A mountain town full of loosely-psionic working folk lead by a church of spore-inspired theo-mysticism. 
=== Overall Structure ===
* The Setup: Delivering athletes to a quaint mountain town for the Winter Games
* Twist: Someone's murdered Eve, wife of one of the contestants, and her husband has disappeared into the wilderness
** Lock: No one can leave the planet until the case is solved
** Ethical Lock: There's a murderer on the loose, and/or some dire strangeness is involved
* Twist: It's unclear who killed Eve, or why
* Twist: Catching up with Michael, and after some confrontation, he claims Eve was replaced by a synth after she went on a long haitus to another planet
**KEY INFO: Synths have some weirdly specific traits, like all having the same nervous tic, and a almost physical aversion to a common but avoidable substance, like orange juice.
*PCs check out the morgue(?), and interview the medical examiner, who says that Eve was completely human
*TWIST: The examiner has the same nervous tic that Eve supposedly had
*TWIST: He's been the medical examiner for years in this town, could he really be a synth, or is this just a tic?
*The PCs tail the examiner to a diner (or simply meet him there) causing him to freak out when seeing orange juice. If the PCs push, he'll try to run(?) or do something rash that causes the Sheriff (or some other supporting cast) to take him in for questioning
*Sheriff seems to know a little more than she lets on about this synth business and seems all too willing to help the PCs if it means finding out more about people-doubles and potential kidnappings. Sheriff brings in Med Examiner on a count of impersonation/identity theft (or whatever that term would be).
*Sheriff and PCs ask Med Examiner questions in one of those interrogation rooms.
*Things learned from the interview/interrogation:
**MedEx has been in town for three years. Barely knew the Michael and Eve couple. Was just the town doctor's assistant. He's always been a synth, but synths aren't welcome in Tangaroa, and he wanted the medical job.
**A mysterious group called The Outfit greased some palms and helped him get the job and cover his identity, but he owed them a favor, and simply hoped he'd never get the call.
**Unfortunately, he did. The instructions were simple: "Write this on your report. Eve is a human, Michael is a nut."
*While this clears up some things with the Sheriff, Michael may still be at large (if he got away), and the case must continue into The Outfit. 
*(tba)
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