[UA] OT Dead Letters (was Edible clay? (Doug Stalker, don't read this)

[James O'Rance]

Doug Stalker, don't read this if you can help it - just in case.




Matthew Rowan Norwood <matt at intermute.com> said:

 >>>Postal investigators... another awesome job for UA PCs. Call the
campaign "Dead Letter Office".<<<

I have a font on my computer called "Dead Letter Office." It seems to be a 
collection of those stamps that they mark mailed letters with (name slips my 
mind right now; I am such a ding-aling).


I seem to feel something of an implied threat in a letter that can't be 
read. I intend to use such a thing in the first session of a (non-UA, but 
UAish) Risen chronicle that I'm about to begin.

The characters will find themselves in a mysterious house in London's inner 
west, with no memory of how they got there or anything that happened since 
they died. The house will be empty of inhabitants, barring a scary Turkish 
man who will vanish soon after they see him and a corpse that appears to be 
transforming into an angel.

Different rooms will trigger strange emotional states in the characters, 
tailored to them (one has Flashbacks, which shold be fun).

I'll probably make a handout for the letter (using the Alphabet of the Magi 
font, for the fontophiles) and put it in a sealed envelope. Anybody got any 
other ideas about how to make a letter seem significant, mysterious, and 
creepy? I like letters, and I may just make them a thematic motif for 
weirdness.


Cheers,

James O’Rance
“Divine being creates petting zoo. It gets out of hand.”
- The Bible (summarised by John W. Mangrum)

http://www.dragonlance.com/taladas
http://www.geocities.com/dragon-dreamer/




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