[UA] Dissemination idea

[Timothy Toner]

Did something very similar with a Vampire game I ran.  Chicago's a little
overwhelming, esp. for those new to the game.  So over the summer (we
started playing right before school let out the year before, and they were
hooked big-time) I put together my own version of Chicago by Night, and
mailed it to them, explaining to them that they found this on their doorstep
soon after waking up one morning.  It had a breakdown of most of the major
players.  Soon after we started, they ran into a rather obscure character
referred to in someone's history.  One of the players pulled out the packet,
and started to flip through it, reading the pertinent section aloud.  The
character wrinkled his nose in disgust and walked away.  The Cammies who
were listening in on the group now descended, wondering where they'd got
such sensitive materials from.  All but one of the players were horrified to
discover that the hand-out actually existed in-game, and that furthermore
possession of it constituted a violation of the Masquerade (since it
expounds on the role of the Prince, etc.)  It took them a little while
longer to discover that the author wasn't exactly objective (even outright
lying at times), and almost six gaming sessions to figure out that everyone
had subtle tweaks in their individual hand-outs.  And then when they
discovered the author...the fit really hit the shan.


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