[UA] What about Bill?

[ghoul]

> I've just run Bill in Three Persons as a kick-off for
> my campaign, and as a result, I've got two Bills and
> copies of two the PCs running about. I've got some
> ideas for how to use them, but I'm curious what other
> people have done with the duplicates in their games.
> Stories? Suggestions?
    In my game duplicates were exact copies of characters. They had same
past, same skills and same memories. They considered themselves to be the
same people as characters. But in the reality there was a place only for
one. So reality started removing unnecesary copies.
    PC characters started fading from reality. At first their photos and
signatures started to fade. People, even relatives were forgeting about them
very quickly. After some time people would totaly forget about them just
after conversation, no records about them would survive longer than few
seconds, etc. After that even their interaction with the world started to
fade - people they've killed would become alive without memories about
beeing killed or even meeting PC's, broken or moved things would get back to
their place, PC's would temporary loose their memory  and sense of identity
(high-level isolation check)...
    The main idea was that reality "decided", that duplicates were "more
correct" versions of the characters, as after the events during "Bill in
three persons" PC's changed their lifestyles radically and were not
following their obsessions and passions. There were two ways for PCs to stop
this "fading" - either follow their obsessions more closely than the
duplicates, compete with them in some way and overcome them, or to become
another persons - to change their obsessions (not an easy thing - one of the
PC's managed that after insanity, clinical death and becoming an adept). Of
course, at first they had to find this out.
    I was careful enough not to allow PC's to meet their copies until fading
had progressed far enough - so even after one of the players killed his
duplicate, he was back alive in few hours.

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Justas 'ghoul' Staniulis