[UA] paranoia

[Sonja Pieper]

Hi,

you might remember this lurker here for the campaign
she runs. My oh so cute 'reallife' players .......

I finally started the campaign a couple of weeks ago
after doing the Bill Toge scenario with two different
sets of players in January .... (not to forget that my
bill toge was one of the players and whenever something
weird happens now they keep repeating: "Oh no it's that
Rolland Veres again!")

I gave the players preludes and campaign introductions
via mail which were designed to draw them in and
intrigue them .... get them away from the normal
life ... etc. the action starts they get freaked
I give them more weird information ... they get freaked
more - they start getting paranoid - they are roleplayers!
What endless possibilities when all your characters
are roleplayers. Roleplayers have all kinds of 
half-knowledge and can never be sure they are right.
Roleplayers are paranoid .... they get scared easily
because they remember the adventure when .... etc.
They get scared more because they thought it was
all "Just A Game" *evillaughterinthebackground* 
..... and not to forget they have all kinds of weird
ideas about the 'Unnatural' and have absolutely no
idea what is real and what not. I should really 
let them meet some kind of Vampire or Ctuluoid monster.

But no more details of the campaign. Since it is
reallife they thought: "Hey do a little research
... we know she did research on the web too we
might just find out what she is planning."

Now they seem to have had a tape recorder running
during the sessions or something so they could
remember every scrap of information I gave them.
One of them made a HUGE HUGE mind map of just
about everything (but hahahaha he missed a few
things!!!! important things too!) and put it up
on the web .... he tried to connect it all while
the others researched some of the weirder information
they had pieces of an invocation ritual in
sumerian, names of gods and demons from egypt to
wherever. Crowley & Cthulu. They start reading
books on black magic ... 

I really cannot believe the effort they put into that.
I gave them three scraps of badly badly burned paper
which contain a prophecy ... they transcribed them
letter by letter in hope of finding out more ....

When they found out who exactly Ereshkigal was in
ancient Sumeria .... you should have heard them
screaming ..... (I keep asking them to tell me
if they ever want to stop playing if it gets too
much but they seem to have lots of fun getting
scared!)

Best of all: I decided the ritual was all for naught
and just a show to conceal what really happened.
I just have to decide what exactly. One possibility is a
high ranking avatar of the pilgrim? Another is plain
old normal: a kidnapping (I kept everything open
for that and will probably do exactly that).

Any ideas? What would you do with such absolutely
paranoid players?

Ciao
Sonja
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