[UA] my game/experiment 2

[uneasy at magnaspeed.net]

My experiment is running a game with 3 people without telling them what 
game they are playing.

This was the focal point of the first scenario. There's this kindly old 
automaton who is a lifelike recreation of his creator and a mechomancer 
himself. He's been tinkering away in an abandoned farmhouse in the woods 
for 60 years, and he's forgotten he's not real. Everyone has to wind 
themselves up on their windmill every few days, right?

And he misses his sister, about the last thing remembers. The sad thing is 
that it's really his creator's sister that he misses, and she's dead (I 
think). Since he can't remember or think of anything else to do, he's been 
trying to find her the only way he knows how, by building a contraption to 
call her. Unfortunately, that has in effect been blasting a homing beacon 
into the occult world, and all kinds of nasty people have been trying to 
find out where that dang "noise" is coming from.

Would the nice players reach the kindly old automaton before the nasty 
people? Nope. They were unlucky finding clues so they were a bit late. Some 
nasty TSOGers had the old "man" at gunpoint when they got there. When they 
saw the gun, they suddenly realized they were all nerdy types with no 
fighting skills at all. I didn't know what they would do, but in retrospect 
they did just the right thing and cowered in the bushes while the bad guys 
led the old man off and drove away with him. They don't even know the 
combat rules yet, but at least they assumed the game is real enough that 
guns are dangerous.

That's just some of it, but the gist of it. It didn't quite go like I 
thought. I thought they might end up talking to the automaton. They did 
witness some magick going on, so they haven't called the cops yet. I think 
they feel guilty that they letting the old man get kidnapped. They talked 
about getting or hiring some guns and going after him.

AL
uneasy at magnaspeed.net


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