[UA] Bi3P question

[John Scott]

At 21:27 25/07/01 +0000, you wrote:
>In case any player that has NOT played Bill in Three Persons, the intro 
>scenario from the core book, should be reading this, I insert spoiler space.
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>Nixon
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>Reagan
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>Bush, Sr.
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>Clinton
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>I read it again, and say: Jesus! I didn't remember it was *that* good! 
>It's definitely going to be one of the games I'm going to run at the local 
>RPG con (along with Jailbreak and FtH). There are going to be a lot of 
>questions to which I don't know the answers ("WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT ALL 
>ABOUT?!"), but mostly, I don't mind. But in case the players don't screw 
>up, could someone please help me describe the crash prior to the trailer 
>park scene: even if there's only one car, it blows up. That I can 
>understand as something that the cosmos makes up, but *what caused the 
>crash*? Dozing off?

 From p213

"There was only one driver that night, and he spun out into a ditch because 
he fell asleep at the wheel, fleeing a broken home and the promise of a 
broken life to come"

That's the description of the crash 5 years ago when Bill split.  If 
there's only one car left just before the trailer park segment, then it 
could be in the ditch, or bounced off a traffic sign, or whatever.  And in 
the best Hollywood tradition, fuel dripping from a ruptured line onto a hot 
piece of metal causes the explosion.

On the other hand, if the players have gone through the same scene 4 times, 
and have jumped from a crossroads to a supermarket holdup to a crossroads 
to a torture of a child molester to the crossroads again, I'd _really_ be 
surprised if they're asking "But why did the sole car blow up?"

Or maybe I'm just being idealistic?

Enjoy the con.

John


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