[UA] A little help?
Mark Kiel
markkiel at hotmail.com
Thu Jan 24 19:46:54 PST 2002
About two years ago I took a group through their initial UA campaign. It
included BTi3P, Joy and Sorrow, Pinfeathers, Exhaustion, etc. They wound up
a team for Able and the TNI. In the middle of the campaign I threw in a
non-UA related session. For some reason it wound up being the most defining
moment for the campaign. Quite simply, the ratty Honda they were driving
across country in (they were laying low) broke down and a couple of hicks
picked them up in their truck. While driving them to the Service Station
the guys mention their kids a couple of times. After some time passes,
and after they drop a few ominous innuendos, the hicks get aggressive and
attack the women in the party. This results in melee, and some serious
damage to the party members (physically and psychologically
). The group
wonders what these monsters might have done to the kids and decided to
check out the guys home. (Their driver license was in the glove
compartment.) The place was an absolute calamity of horrors. Run down,
filthy, dangerous, with lots of unexplained weirdness. (Violent baboons in
cages, a weird/icky nest in the living room, it just went on and on
)
When all is said and done, the group was attacked by a rapid dog, the little
girl they met outside the house stabbed one of the PCs and it eventually
dawned on the players that the children might have actually been the ones
who did something horrible to the adults.
The campaign eventually continued on in a cannon fashion, but the players
continued to reference the one particular session. About 12 sessions later,
the game stagnated and we took a hiatus. Last week we returned to it and
the players really moved and shook and changed their fortunes considerably
(thanks in part to some seriously gutsy bargaining at the Swap Meet
). One
of the characters said that he wanted to go back and revisit some places and
things that went bad the first time around. The freaky house out in the
country was at the top of his list.
If they do indeed return to it I would like it to be as memorable the second
time around
And completely different.
Any suggestions?
Thanks,
M.
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