[UA] Plot help

Charles Stanley charlesks at attbi.com
Sat Mar 8 15:43:04 PST 2003


On Sat, 8 Mar 2003 12:57:47, Richard A Ranallo <toadpooka at juno.com> wrote:

> I'm working on a one-shot game that might eventually spin off into a
> campaign, and I thought I might need a little help on wrapping the whole
> thing up neatly.  The premise is that the PCs all knew each other in high
> school (though not necessarily very well).  It's now 3-5 years after
> they've graduated, and for various reasons, they're all back in their old
> hometown together (a fictional suburb of Chicago).  Most likely, they all
> end up leaving same boring party at the same time, and find a small
> leather bag full of $1000 bills, adding up to around fifteen million
> dollars.  The bills aren't marked, and don't have sequential serial
> numbers; they seem untraceable.  Given that the characters will all be
> hurting for money in some way, they're going to try to keep the cash for
> their own.  For a day, they get to play Adventures in Moneylaundering,
> since none of the characters will have any good criminal connections.
> 
> The next day, the first time someone checks on the money, they think
> they've been robbed.  The bag is ripped open and bills are scattered all
> over the floor.  But, looking closer, the character sees that the money
> is all in $500 bills, and there are twice as many of them, still with
> un-sequential serial numbers.  The next day, the money's multiplied to
> $100 bills, and so on, until eventually, it will all turn into pennies
> and, most likely, suffocate anyone who's unfortunate enough to be in the
> same room at the same time.
> 
> What I have worked out so far is that the money is a side-effect of a big
> magickal effect, performed by a local plutomancer years and years ago. 
> The group is going to have to confront that effect somehow in order to
> get the money to go away.  By the time the money turns to $100s and $50s,
> the characters are going to be more concerned with getting rid of the
> stuff than spending it.  The bills are all dated for the year that the
> effect took place (even the $1000s and $500s, which haven't been in
> circulation since 1969).  None of the characters are adepts, though one
> is a self-styled "supernatual investigator" (loosely baesd on Dib form
> Invader Zim), who's close to figuring out The Truth (or something like
> it).  That, and everyone in the group knows one Adept (Johnny Sunshine,
> pizza delivery specialist and entropomancer), but he's gone missing and
> is presumed dead.
> 
> What I don't know is what this big effect should have been, and how the
> characters can undo it.  I'm sure I can think of something on my own, but
> there's no harm in a little idea mining.
> 
>>From Whom It May Concern,
> Rich Ranallo

My fiancee suggested that this is a side effect of an unholy alliance 
between Mayor Richard Daley and the Republican Party, as they disrupted the 
Democratic National Convention in 1968.  For extra points, tie in Bobby 
Kennedy's assassination, Dr. Martin Luther King's assassination, and the 
eventual fall of Nixon.

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