[UA] working for the clown in the fry court

Daniel Butler commercenary at blueyonder.co.uk
Sat Sep 6 16:53:15 PDT 2003


If it's small scale why are they all avatars? Should a street-level crew be
packing that much mystical mojo?


----- Original Message -----
From: "Chad Eagleton" <ceagleto at yahoo.com>
To: "ua" <ua at lists.uchicago.edu>
Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2003 5:08 PM
Subject: [UA] working for the clown in the fry court


>
> Gang,
>
> So, I've been running a Makk game for a couple of
> months now...the crew is based in an restuarant
> situated just off the highway in a small town in
> Georgia, a hop skip and jump away from Atlanta. the
> crew consists of:
>
>      *Hans Frei, aka "The Frei Daddy", late 30s been
> working for the clown for years and eating there even
> longer (obvious from his size). He's shift manager and
> is currently saving up the dough to purchase "his"
> restuarant. He's an avatar for the True King.
>      *Brian Hasselhof (no relation to David) is 18
> years old, no plans for college, lives with his mother
> after his father skipped out years ago. The Frei Daddy
> acts as a father figure. He's obsessed with collecting
> random records. He's an avatar for the Hunter.
>       *Maurice (I can't remember his last name since
> when playing he's always like, "Call me Maurice. Just
> Maurice." He's a street performer/puppettear and
> avatar for the Messenger.
>       *Tucker Yates, recently divorced, newly moved to
> Georgia, iconomancer for Elvis.
>
>      So far, the games have been on a pretty small
> scale. Things dealing with their restuarant, so
> individual centered story-arcs (like Brian trying to
> figure out how he was going to fix the bullet holes in
> his mother's car before he had to pick her up from
> work.) But what I've been building up to is this. The
> players really seem to have taken an interest in the
> dropping charges and following the customer to see
> what happens. They've really become invested in some
> of the regulars, like Claire who works at the gas
> station across the street who Maurice finally asked on
> a date after some manuevering from the Frei Daddy
> (god, that's so Aaron Spelling sounding). One of the
> customers the seem to have taken an interest in is
> this guy who comes in a lot and buys a lot of food.
> He's a good guy but it seems like he's a litle down on
> his luck (they've been trying to figure out how to
> give him some money and no have him know it's them).
> Anyways, what I've been leaning toward is him finally
> showing up at the restuarant with his wife, who's
> pregnant, and the one who's been devouring all those
> damn charges. She's going to go into labor there at
> the restuarant...
>
> I know there is going to be something weird with the
> kid...I know I want him to be kidnapped (maybe right
> after she gives birth?)...but what's up with the kid?
> who kidnapped him? and why?
>
>
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