[UA] Sleeper "Cirle of Friends"

[Brian Covey]

True story which could be useful to you with some tweaking:

Couple years ago, a copy of "It's a Wonderful Life" mysteriously showed 
up at my house after a party. My roommates and I were a little 
mystified, and checked in with pretty much everyone that had been 
there. Nobody claimed it, and for months, it just sat around the house.

Finally, when the house broke up and we all moved, the tape got dropped 
into a local charity box. Nobody thinks about it for months. Finally, 
the word comes out, to dawning horror, that the tape was in fact 
chock-full of hardcore porn that had been left there as a practical 
joke. Karmic justice, I calls it, but to this day, I feel bad about the 
christmas somebody had...

In any case - inflict this on your PCs as part of the dawning weirdness 
- some whacked-out nutjob breaks in ala T2, demanding the 3/2/1 
generation copy of the Naked Goddess tape they just sent off, and they 
won't take no for an answer...

bwc


On Tuesday, Mar 23, 2004, at 15:48 US/Pacific, James O'Rance wrote:

> Possible spoiler for "The Butterfly Effect" within this post.
>
> I'm starting a UA group this Friday, with people who haven't played a 
> lot of it before. I thought that it would be good to start with 
> street-level characters, get them clued-in over a few scenarios, and 
> move them to global-level types for the start of To Go.
>
> The group premise is a Circle of Friends - people who all knew one 
> another and were friends as children/teens, and have kinda kept in 
> touch over the years. The PCs will be reunited through Bi3P, and 
> discover that they have some strangeness in common ("Why do we all 
> have an unknown key on our keyrings? Hey, you get blackouts too?").
>
> Due to the weirdness of Bi3P, the PCs are now able to discover the 
> weirdness in -their- lives. They all have a key to a house in LA (a 
> key they'd never -noticed- before) which contains a small bit of 
> military and espionage hardware. They realise that $500 is deposited 
> into their bank accounts each month, and don't know why. Etc, etc - 
> any suggestions of other cool inconsistencies are appreciated!
>
> The parents of the PCs were in a Sleeper cabal, and used 
> mind-alteration magic to create the next generation of "sleeper" 
> Sleepers. Whenever all the PCs had blackouts in their past, it was 
> because their "sleeper" personalities had been activated and they'd 
> gotten together to deal with some threat.
>
> The Comte has effectively suborned them into his service during Bi3P, 
> putting an end to the blackouts. Additionally, the paradoxes of that 
> scenario can now bleed into the PCs' lives. If the PCs attempt to 
> "remember" the blackout periods, they will be mentally transported to 
> that time, and be able to act on their current knowledge. This allows 
> me to run flashback scenarios (such as Fly to Heaven). This is where 
> I'm drawing from "The Butterfly Effect," but without such blatant 
> time-alteration.
>
> It is hoped that the PCs will discover their nature, and become 
> players in the OU. Whether they choose to continue working for the 
> Sleepers or become freelance is up to them.
>
> Thoughts? Any potential problems spring to mind?
>
> --
> james o'rance
> http://www.livejournal.com/~sim_james
>
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