[UA] Parsons

[Stuart Anderson]

Eric Brennan wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Stuart Anderson" <stuartanderson at qwest.net>
>
> >     If anyone's used Parsons in a scenario before, let me
> > know. I'd like to get someone else's spin on him.
> > --Stu
>
>     I was running a UA/ConX/Delta Green hybrid which centered around Jack
> Parsons.  Parsons and his buddy L. Ron Hubbard (the guy who did the
> Moonchild summoning with him) did manage to summon /something/.  The
> "Scarlet Woman/" Moonchild was a female demon/Great Old One based liberally
> on Lilith, Shub-Niggurath, etc...basically every negative female stereotype
> I could come up with, rolled into a fleshy womb cavity beneath the desert.
>     I didn't get very far into the campaign before some key members of that
> group left for college/whatever and we switched to Fading Suns, but the
> desert in question was supposed to tie into Manson and "The Family," which
> then tied into the Process Church, the Zodiac Killer (original flavor, not
> the New York poser), and an occult hit squad not unlike the Fate.
>     All of the Manson stuff dovetails nicely into an Ellroy-esque "Black
> Hollywood" style campaign with Polanski and Tate (under pseudonymity if
> you're squeamish) working some black magic with kids along with a coterie of
> Hollywood stars and bigwigs (apparently, some say that was Manson's defense
> until he started pretending to be a loon...that Polanski had been molesting
> kids.  Given Manson's background, that might've been a reason to kill the
> whole lot of them.)

I'm not squeamish. When the gang's done with the _The Harlem Globetrotters Must
Die_ segment of the backstory, they're going to be moving into the _Get Dan
Fogelburg!_ segment, which includes references to Neil Young and his
acquaintance, Manson. If I went to go back to the 30s, we could get some good
Hoover Dam/ Mulholland/ Chinatown stuff going. I always thought the irrigation
of LA had the taint on it. That would flow into the Black Dahlia, which could
set up the Parsons gig, which occurs in Pasadena, into the High School
Inquisition (which could be anywhere), into the California Reagan years, into
Black Hollywood, into the national Reagen years, and into the present day. Holy
crap. Holy crap crap crap. Get me a pencil. I love you guys.
--Stu



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