Red on Red (Mission 1)

Altitude: 25,000 ft | Airspeed: 150 knots | DZ HADES in T-minus 90 seconds

The C-130 bucks violently as a rogue updraft slams into the fuselage, rattling teeth and equipment alike. Red jump lights flicker against the cargo bay’s ribbed metal walls, casting long shadows over your team. The loadmaster braces himself against the bulkhead, his voice cutting through the engine’s drone over the intercom:

"30 seconds to green light! Check static lines—last chance to puke, ladies!"

Outside the open ramp, the night is a black void. No moon. No stars. Just the occasional flicker of distant lightning stitching the clouds like artillery fire. The storm wasn’t on the intel brief, but intel’s never met the Acarai Mountains. The jungle below doesn’t care about weather reports.

You adjust your oxygen mask, feel the weight of your rig, and run the checklist one last time:

Altimeter – Check.
AAD – Armed.
Weapons – Locked and taped.
Drop zone – Somewhere in that inkblot of jungle

The loadmaster slaps your shoulder, his grin visible even through his visor. The light snaps green.

"GO! GO! GO!"

TOUCHDOWN – DZ HADES

The jungle swallows you whole.

Your boots hit the ground with a muffled thud—not the clean dirt of a drop zone, but the spongy, rotting detritus of the Acarai rainforest. The air is thick with the stench of wet earth and decay, the canopy above still shuddering from your chute’s disruption. Around you, the forest breathes: the skitter of insects, the distant screech of a howler monkey, the relentless drip of condensation from leaves as broad as a man’s chest.

Moonlight barely penetrates the triple-layered canopy, reducing the world to shades of charcoal and ink. Your NVGs paint everything in ghostly green—vines like nooses, buttress roots like skeletal fingers, and the occasional glint of eyeshine from creatures watching from the dark.

I think your Wild Die is incorrect btw, it should always be a d6 unless you have the master edge from the list of legendary edges, and only for the trait you're an expert in.