[UA] The Paranoid Ascends

[Stuart Anderson]

Gareth Hanrahan wrote:

> > I want the mystic changes and the artifact to be more disturbing than
> > advantageous, although they shouldn't be terrible handicaps either.
>
> Ok. The mystic artifact created is The Truth - the piece of evidence that
> makes the conspiracy real. The thing about the Truth is, (a) it changes form
> to match what people expect it to be, and (b) it starting warping things so
> that the conspiracy its current owner fears becomes real.
>
> So, Sy-Fer (who's terrified that the NSA are watching everyone through the
> internet) finds a briefcase containing the Truth. He opens it, and it's a
> computer disk containing the hidden net protocols used by Upper Echelon, the
> ultra-secret NSA branch. While Sy-Fer holds the Truth, the NSA will start
> monitoring emails, tracking people through the net etc. The longer he's
> looking at the Truth, the more real the situation described by the Truth
> becomes.
> Then Bob (who fears the Gnomes of Zurich) kills Sy-Fer. He looks for the
> Truth, and finds not a disk, but a series of swiss bank account numbers and
> transactions proving that a secret cabal of bankers run the planet. The
> longer he has the truth, the more megalomaniac Swiss bankers band together
> to plot world domination. The NSA goes back to normal.

So which twisted bastard found it in the gutter in the form of the Hello Kitty
vibrator?
--Stu


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