[UA] Speak of The Devil

Tim Bisaillon knightbane at hotmail.com
Sun Sep 7 05:53:18 PDT 2003


>From: "Daniel Butler" <commercenary at blueyonder.co.uk>
> > ObUA: Perhaps a mechanomancer is making baby automatons to sell to
> > childless couples.  However, what happens when the children never age?
> > What happens when the authorities investigate?  They'll never believe
> > that the made them; they'll be looking for where they came from.  What
> > happens when a clumsy mother drops the child and gears fall out?
>
>Have you seen A.I.?
>
>That said though, this is entirely UA. Imagine, if you would, a mother
>dropping her baby, the child screams but the scream becomes a rattle,
>becomes a horrid gridning whine. Camera shifts back, a dolls pull-string
>voice box is coming out of it's mouth. Fade to black.

I did something along this line awhile back in which the character didn't 
know that he was a automaton until the last adventure. To him events would 
happen that would make him think of something, he thought he was becoming an 
avatar of the running man. But, the joke was on him. When he found out that 
he was not who he thought he was.

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