[UA] One Shot

[Tim Bisaillon]

My place has become a dead zone. No gamers in sight, the good weather is 
here and that is understandable. It's time to make some changes, while I was 
sitting here one cold spring evening, there was a slight rap rapping on the 
window cill.

As I looked up, I could see the face of an old gaming buddy of mine, he was 
in town to visit his folks and dropped by to chat over old times. Besides, 
he said he wanted a quick gaming fix as well. Since he said it's been a long 
long time since he played.

He didn't want to spend half the night creating a new character, so I 
brought out a quick and easy system. Unknown Armies. Less than 10 minutes he 
had a character done, and we where on our way. He played just an average 
joe, not an adepted and I started it off with him receiving a call at 2am in 
the morning from his daughter to be picked up from a house party.

It was raining as he went to his car, he hoped in and then pulled out of the 
drive way. He was heading to the vicinity where the party was held. He 
realised he was being followed. The radio was playing some strange tune and 
then whammo... a brilliant flash of light and his car died. As he looked 
around he noticed that the power was out all over.

In the distance he could hear wailing cries, but he thought it was the wind. 
He tried his cell phone, it was no good. He heard a voice saying if he can 
make it to his daughter's destination within the hour than all will be back 
to normal. If not, he would suffer the consequences. The voice told him that 
he had to the count of 333 before the chase began and that's when it started 
counting.

The chase was a bizarre surreal one, involving undead, a pornomancer and a 
necronmancer warring for control of the city. Our reluctant hero made his 
way and he was scared as hell, to see what was around the corner.

The gaming event was intensfied by the background music i had running, a 
mixture of classical, swing and some house. It enhanced the gaming session.

Considering I was making this up as I went along, this all fell into a nice 
hook at the end of the adventure. He discovered that the whole thing was not 
a dream, but an offshoot of a reality that was created just for him. His 
fear was "Something bad happening to his daughter".




tjb

[13][333]That Unknown Armies Show - The gang discovers that all magick is 
not good magick.


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