[UA] Connected - Campaign Notes

[Daniel R. Lackey]

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> Ok, it's probably just 'cos I spent half the night watching Buffy videos,
> but Kirkland could have a big "welcome to the Hellmouth" sign on it. It's
> all very reminiscent of Sunnydale. Then again, you're going for a lighter
> feel, so you can probably handle the Buffy quotes that are sure to sneak
in.
> (And there's a rant for another day. Although at this point I'm spending
> more time trying to kick the WWF quotes out of my poor L5R campaign).....

Don't watch Buffy so I wouldn't recognize a quote from the show unless
someone points out that they're using one.  WWF references are more likely.

Abel: So who do you think killed Barron?
TNI Goob: Well, my gut feeling tells me that it's...
Abel: IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT YOU THINK!

> OK. You've got a host of little Occult groups and bits of wierdness,
without
> any central reason for them to be around. This is a good thing. Run with
> your Connected theme. Let synchronicity run riot. Have *every* character
> connected in some fashion. Let a PC find out that the Avatar of the
Torturer
> they tangled with last week is also his family dentist. If a PC is a
> university student, their roommate is a member of one of the bands and a
> golem is their landlord.

That's a given.

> The reason for all this cosmic synchronicity is that Kirkland's some sort
> of mystical nexus, and it's where Il Comte is gonna ascend. Hmm. I just
> reread some stuff on Rennes Le Chateau. Have a look for a book called the
> Holy Place, which claims to have found some bloody gigantic temple
structure
> in France (all six of these hills are exactly six miles apart, and these
> four villages are at 90 degrees to the Median line of Atlantis). Create
> something like that for Kirkland, let the players work out that this place
> is Cosmically Significant.

I like this idea.  I'm thinking maybe le Comte knows the month and day that
he'll ascend, but not the year.  He comes to Kirkland every year on the
retroactive anniversary of his ascension, trying to figure out where it'll
happen and why.

-- DRL

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