[UA] UA Campaign Needing Ideas ...

[Saul]

Okay, this isn't much of a plot idea, but I thought I'd throw it your way
anyhow: my cousin's high school had a bunch of empty, bare-brick,
dirt-floored rooms/tunnels under it, basically a big network of these gloomy
identical rooms, so similar that you could get disoriented in them. There
was a door into them (which a student stole a key to), but they served no
apparent purpose. Kids used to go down there to have sex/take drugs/you name
it, and I believe they even got some furniture and stuff in there and hung
around down there, skipping classes. These rooms could have a million and
one uses in a UA game: a secret meeting place, a way into an Otherspace,
somewhere for someone scary to hide out, a place where corpses have been
dumped etc etc.

Hope that helps.

Saul

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Josh Macleod" <alcar at 333.org>
To: <ua at lists.unknown-armies.com>
Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2004 8:17 PM
Subject: [UA] UA Campaign Needing Ideas ...


> Hello,
>
> I'm planning a (hopefully long term) UA campaign, street level. It's set
in the town of Millhaven, Neb, pop. 2588 or so. (Small, dying town.) The PCs
are either students at the school or teachers or workers there. For some
reason, high school + Occult Underground seemeed too delicious to pass up.
I'm planning to make this a low-magick campaign (emphasis more on the avatar
aspect of the OU + tenebrae, demons, insane humans...). I'm hoiping to being
with weird, but not necessarily occult things - and go from there.
>
> So far, the PCs include the janitor of the school (actually a biologist
fleeing war crimes in another country, 33 years old); a goth outcast
telepath who is convinced he's half alien and has pure black eyes and was
raised by a weird "local witch" foster mother who died from a heart attack
recently; a military brat; and (tentatively) a confused young man being
possessed by one of the Loa.
>
> None of the PCs are adepts or avatars in any normal sense, though one kid
at the school is a body bag, but not using magick consciously and there is
one cliomancer in the town. (I'm also considering a chronomancer from way
back when the town was founded, but not sure how to make such a school,
besides maybe taking years off the lives of his decendants so they tend to
die young and altering time would lead to insanity since you remember what
really happened (and also that timeline continuing....) Not sure about the
taboo, though.). There was a rural version of an urbanomancer there, but he
died prior to the campaign beginning.
>
> I unfortunately have no real plot ideas as present. I was considering
Buffyverse turned UA, but decided it wouldn't work too well (not and be
serious). There will be a couple of drug-runers on the run from the mob, one
of whom has a hommulcus as a servant (and doesn't believe in magick...), the
other of whom learned a ritual once (The John Law one from LG&M). They're
uberparanoid, and the cliomancer is going to think they're Sleepers.
> There is also an Agent of the Room of Discarded Dreams in town to vision
hir grandparents to make sure they're rasing the grandchildren shi is the
aunt of right ... or else.
> But those are both magick-based, mostly, and I'm looking for plot ideas
that are weird, can be construed as magikal, but aren't. Any suggestions
welcome, ditto for insanity to do in high school. :)
>
> - Alcar
>
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