Picnic

The adventure is a puzzle solving one. Briefly: an Infinity team discovered Picnic and has been studding it for half a year. After several months of careful information gathering, the local IT team has decided its time to start investigating artifacts and the zones more directly (for example, to perform localized mana-level tests). The team obtains an artifact considered harmless by the locals for study; however, the artifact turns out to react to something related to the IW team not known to the locals (for example, a presence of a psionic or a mage). This results in the local team being trapped in a stasis/time dilation sphere.
After the Picnic team fails to make scheduled contact, the players team is tasked with a search & rescue mission. This will involve locating the Picnic team, not falling into the stasis/time dillation bubble, optionally rescuing some but not ALL of the members to get further information (for example, the stasis/time dillation field can get progressively stronger near the center, allowing a rescue of the Patrolmen further away from it), figuring out that another device is needed to deactivate the field, and obtaining it. Suggested subplots involve establishing contacts with Zone stalker and scientific communities, and choosing a way to obtain the device. Considering the Infinity funds, the players probably will not have to go into the Zone (which is close to a suicide for those unfamiliar with it), but don't let the players solve everything with $. The device may be rare, the first obtained can be a fake/faulty one, figuring out how to operate it can be a logic puzzle (for example they may need another psionic/mage, and hints - available from a local academic expert, needing to be located and found - that the devices need to touch one another in order to deactivate), and the only place to obtain the device in a reasonable amount of time can be happen to be an illegal auction on a yacht somewhere in Pacific - and the auction can be interrupted by a UN raid :)
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