[UA] The mysterious case

[Greg Stolze]

>>
>> I haven't really decided what's in the case and was looking for some
>> ideas. I think I want the three Mexicans to be "good guys" in some way.
>>
>> Shower me with ideas... =)
>>
>
>The case can't be opened.  That's all it does.  Everytime someone tries to
>open it, something happens; the code doesn't work, the lockpicks break, the
>plastic explosives fail to detonate because teh detonator battery is flat...

Oh, man, that's pretty sweet.  You meant it as a magick artifact, right?  A
briefcase that can only be opened by its proper owner, and which weaves
coincidence to keep itself closed.  The question is, who owns it?

I'd be inclined to have a mundane explanation: The Mysterious Case contains
several kilos of pure, snowy cocaine, remitted to a fleshworker in return
for curing the deadly illness of a South American drug kingpin. (Or,
perhaps it's a noncash payment to a Plutomancer for services rendered.)  If
it enters the occult underground, it won't just harm people by hitting the
street: It will also change the delicate balance of power in the OU, by
providing a huge influx of cash to the magus and her faction.

But... here's the caveat.  The kingpin isn't supposed to provide product to
anyone outside his vertically integrated supply chain.  So he's cheated:
The coke is dusted with a virulent mold he got from a fleeing South African
biological weapons expert.  It doesn't work immediately, but if you snort
this coke, within a week you'll get something similar to spongiform
encephaly.  (Incidentally, cooking the coke into crack kills the mold, but
its spores might still take up residence in the case if it gets wet, and
eventually spread...)  So not only do you get a power imbalance in the OU,
and gang warfare because someone's horning in on the local coke cash, you
ALSO get the CDC involved and panic over this weird illness that turns your
brain into soup.

-G.

If the reinstatement of capital punishment was clearly doing nothing to
reduce the number of murders in those states permitting it, it certainly
appeared to be cutting down on the number of confessions.
        -Dr. Douglas Ubelaker

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